Tag: Fine Art
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David Bromley, Tania 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 80
David Bromley, (born 1960). David Bromley’s artworks have two clear focal points – the Boys Own adventure project and the Female Nude series. Born in Sheffield, England, in 1960, Bromley came to Australia in 1964. He began his career in Adelaide as a potter, but eventually turned to painting. He takes inspiration from childhood books, popular…
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Hassan Hajjaj, Saida, 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #88
An example of Moroccan-born photographer Hassan Hajjaj’s pop art sourced from the souks and alleyways of modern day Morocco, ‘Saida’ represents this idiosyncratic artist’s continuing fascination with notions of identity and representation. Appropriating and re-contextualising traditional ‘Orientalist’ views of women, Hajjaj playfully subverts the tropes and clichés of the Islamic world. More on this work Hassan…
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Cercle of Paul Bril; Saint Anthony Abbot before his field of crops 01 Work, Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 126
Saint Anthony or Antony (251–356) was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint. He is distinguished from other saints named Anthony by various epithets: Anthony the Great, Anthony of Egypt, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, and Anthony of Thebes. For his importance among the Desert Fathers…
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MAHMOUD SAID, PIRAEUS AT DAWN 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #20
Mahmoud Said, 1897-1964, EGYPTIAN. Born into a wealthy Alexandrian family, Mahmoud Said first studied jurisprudence at the French School of Law in Cairo in the 1910s. During his studies, he became interested in painting, and joined the studios of Italian painters Amelia Casonato da Forno and Arturo Zanieri, before travelling to France to study in Paris,…
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Helmut Newton, They Come 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 79
Helmut Newton was born on October 31, 1920, in Berlin, Germany. He attended the American School in Berlin. From an early age, Newton developed a keen obsession with photography, purchasing his very first camera aged 12. Four years later, Newton was to turn his back on mainstream education, taking an apprenticeship with renowned German photographer, Elsle…
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05 Works, Today, April 18th, is Eleutherius and Antia’s day, With Footnotes – #104
Eleutherius was born in Rome, where his father was an imperial proconsul. His mother Anthia heard the Gospel from the Apostle Paul and was baptized by him… Please follow link for full post
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10 Works, Today, April 17th, is Pope Alexander I of Alexandria’s day, With Footnotes – #103
Alexander I of Alexandria, 19th Pope of Alexandria & Patriarch of the See of St. Mark. During his patriarchate, he dealt with a number of issues facing the Church in that day. These included the dating of Easter, the actions of Meletius of Lycopolis, and the issue of greatest substance, Arianism… Please follow link…
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John Baldessari; Untitled 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 78
John Anthony Baldessari, (born June 17, 1931, National City, California, U.S.), American artist whose work in altered and adjusted photographic imagery and video were central to the development of conceptual art in the United States. Baldessari received a B.A. at San Diego State College (SDSC; now San Diego State University) in 1953 and attended the University…
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04 Works, Today, April 16th, is Mary Brant’s day, With Footnotes – #102
Mary Brant, (born 1736?—died April 16, 1796, Kingston, Ontario [Canada]), Native American leader, an influential and effective Iroquois ally to Great Britain in the American Revolution and later a founder of Kingston, Ontario. Brant was of the Mohawk tribe, the daughter of a sachem (chief). Sometime in the late 1750s she came to the attention…
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Lalla Essaydi; Harem Revisited 01 Painting by Orientalist Artist Lalla Essaydi, with footnotes, #53
Moroccan born photographer Lalla Essaydi explores Arab female identity by hand-painting Arabic calligraphy in henna on different surfaces such as female bodies, fabric and walls. Through her compositions, Essaydi references nineteenth century Orientalist style and rejects traditional objectified representations of Arab women. The artist critiques French painters such as Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Eugène Delacroix who often painted…
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Alvin Booth; Untitled (Female Nude), New York City, 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 77
Alvin Booth is a New York based artist, originally from Hull, England.His work revels both in the intrinsic beauty of the human form, and in the mutations of that beauty. Using the body’s malleability and gravity as a palate, Booth creates a landscape that is at times attractively familiar and at times seductively surreal.Booth’s photographs use…
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Antoine Malliarakis Mayo, L’INDISCRET/ INDISCREET 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #19
Antoine Malliarakis Mayo, was born in 1905 in Egypt, the son of a Greek engineer and a French mother. Although he kept a Greek passport throughout his life, he was culturally French and lived in France for half of his life after leaving Egypt. He came to France to study architecture but started frequenting artistic circles in…
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Jean Dufy, PARIS, MONTMARTRE 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Part 68 – With Footnotes
With its cobbled streets, stunning Basilica, artists, bistros … Montmartre is full of charm! Perched on the top of a small hill in the 18th arrondissement, the most famous Parisian district has lost none of its village atmosphere that appealed so much to the artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. A real melting pot of art…
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Edwin Longsden Long, Egyptian Beauty 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Egyptian Beauty, with Footnotes. #88
Long visited Cairo in 1875 during an extensive trip to Egypt and Syria which began in 1874. This was a turning point in his career when he began to paint scenes of Babylonian and Egyptian history rather than his earlier Spanish subject. Edwin Longsden Long RA (12 July 1829 – 15 May 1891) was an English…
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