Tag: Fine Art
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13 Works, Today, January 24th is artist Vasily Ivanovich Surikov’s day, his story, illustrated #024
Vasily Ivanovich Surikov (24 January 1848–19 March 1916) was a Russian Realist history painter. Many of his works have become familiar to the general public through their use as illustrations. He was born to an old Cossack family, descending from Don Cossacks that had settled in Siberia. His father was a Collegiate Registrar, a civil…
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30 Works, Today, January 23th is artist Édouard Manet’s day, his story, illustrated #023
Édouard Manet (23 January 1832–30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was born in Paris, to an affluent and well-connected family. His uncle, Edmond Fournier, encouraged him to pursue painting and took young Manet to the Louvre. In 1845, at the advice of his uncle, Manet enrolled in a special course of drawing ……
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21 Works, Today, January 22th is artist Nicolas Lancret ‘s day, his story, illustrated #022
Nicolas Lancret (22 January 1690–14 September 1743) was a French painter. Born in Paris, he was a brilliant depicter of light comedy which reflected the tastes and manners of French society under the Regent, the Duke of Orleans… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, # 67, Adam Styka, Washerwomen at Biskra
Biskra, also called (after 1981) Beskra, town, northeastern Algeria, on the northern edge of the Sahara. It is the centre of the Zab (Ziban) group of oases south of a wide, open depression between the Aurès Massif and the Tell Atlas Mountains. More on BiskraAdam Styka , born April 7, 1890 and died September 23, 1959 in Doylestown…
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16 Works, Today, January 20th is artist Adriaen van der Werff ‘s day, his story, illustrated #020
Adriaen van der Werff (21 January 1659–12 November 1722) was an accomplished Dutch painter of portraits and erotic, devotional and mythological scenes. His brother, Pieter van der Werff (1661–1722), was his principal pupil and assistant… Please follow link for full post
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15 Works, Today, January 19th is artist Paul Cézanne’s day, his story, illustrated #019
Paul Cézanne (19 January 1839–22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century… Please follow link for full post
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16 Works, Today, January 18th is artist Gustaf Oscar Dalström’s day, his story, illustrated #018
Gustaf Dalstrom (1893–1971) was an American artist and muralist. From 1927, he served as president of the Chicago Society of Artists. During the Great Depression he contributed several mural paintings to public schools and post offices through the Treasury Department Section of Painting and Sculpture… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 74
The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is an avenue in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, running between the Place de la Concorde and the Place Charles de Gaulle, where the Arc de Triomphe is located. It is known for its theatres, cafés, and luxury shops, for the annual Bastille Day military parade, and as the finish of the…
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08 Works, Today, January 17th is Pieter van Bloemen’s day, his story, illustrated #017
Pieter van Bloemen, also known as Standaart (bapt. 17 January 1657–6 March 1720), was a Flemish painter. He was a gifted landscape and animal painter and was very successful with his compositions depicting equestrian, animal and market scenes. Please follow link for full post
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14 Works, Today, January 16th is Eugène Anatole Carrière’s day, his story, illustrated #016
Eugène Anatole Carrière (16 January 1849–27 March 1906) was a French Symbolist artist of the Fin de siècle period. His paintings are best known for their brown monochrome palette. He was a close friend of the sculptor Rodin and his work influenced Picasso. Some see traces of Carrière’s monochrome style in Picasso’s Blue Period… Please…
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19 Works, Today, January 15th is Giovanni Segantini’s day, his story, illustrated #015
Giovanni Segantini (15 January 1858–28 September 1899) was one of the most famous artists in Europe in the late 19th century. He was an Italian painter known for his large pastoral landscapes of the Alps. Giovanni was born at Arco in Trentino, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. During the first seven years of his life, his…
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10 Works, Today, January 12th is Jean Béraud’s day, his story, illustrated #012
Jan van Goyen, Goyen also spelled Goijen, in full Jan Josephszoon van Goyen, (born January 13, 1596, Leiden, Netherlands — died April 27, 1656, The Hague) was a Dutch landscape painter. Like many Dutch painters of his time, Jan van Goyen studied art in the town of Haarlem. At age 35, he established a permanent studio at…
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10 Works, Today, January 12th is Jean Béraud’s day, his story, illustrated #012
Jean Béraud (January 12, 1849 — October 4, 1935) was a French painter renowned for his numerous paintings depicting the life of Paris, and the nightlife of Paris society. Pictures of the Champs Elysees, cafés, Montmartre and the banks of the Seine are precisely detailed illustrations of everyday Parisian life during the “Belle Époque”. He also painted…
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12 Works, Today, January 11th is Domenico Ghirlandaio’s day, his story, illustrated #011
Domenico Ghirlandaio (2 June 1448–11 January 1494), was the eldest of eight children. He was at first apprenticed to his father, who was a goldsmith. Domenico made portraits of the passers-by and visitors to his father’s shop. He was eventually apprenticed in Florence to Andrea del Verrocchio. He maintained a close association with other Florentine…
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10 Works, Today, January 10th is Lydie Arickx’s day, her story, illustrated #010
Lydie Arickx, (born 10 January 1954) is a French artist. After studying at the School of Graphic Arts (FASE) under Roland Topor from 1974 to 1978, she gave her first solo exhibition in 1979 at the Jean Briance Gallery, with pastel and oil paintings. By the early 1980s, she participated in international events such as…
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11 Works, Today, January 9th is Albert Baertsoen’s day, his story illustrated #009
Albert Baertsoen (9 January 1866–9 June 1922) was a Belgian painter, pastellist and graphic artist; born in Ghent. Belgium was the most industrialized nations in 19th century Europe, and Ghent was a city known for its textile mills. Please follow link for full post
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19 Works, Today, January 8th is Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s day, his story illustrated #008
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA (8 January 1836–25 June 1912), was born in the village of Dronryp in the north of the Netherlands. The Tadema family moved in 1838 to the nearby city of Leeuwarden. His father died when Lourens was four, leaving his mother with five children… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #39; Alaa Ismail, Untitled
Iraqi born Alaa Ismail (1974) started practicing the art of calligraphy from a young age. He studied various artistic disciplines at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Baghdad, including decorative arts, Islamic architecture, glass painting and Islamic Art, graduating in 2003. Currently living in Damascus, Syria, Ismail has taught and lead many projects looking…
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