Tag: Fine Art
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Lev Tchistovsky, Reclining Nude 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 74
Lev Tchistovsky (1902-1969) was a Russian figurative painter specialised in feminine nudes. He first trained at the Fine Art School in Saint-Petersbourg, where he was a pupil of Savinsky and Eberling. Laureate of his school, he left USSR in 1925 and took classes at the Fine Arts School in Roma and after in Florence. He met…
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Jiang Nan, Untitled 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 73
Jiang Nan: Born in 1977 in China’s Jiangsu Province, Lu Xinjian began weaving himself into the art world through the outlet of design, earning a degree from the Computer Graphic Design Department of Nanjing Arts Institute in China in 2000, and holding a teaching position at the College of Arts and Design at Yeungnam University…
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Léon Cauvy, MARKET IN ALGERIA 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, #52
Léon Cauvy (12 January 1874, Montpellier – 3 January 1933, Algiers) was a French Orientalist painter. He began his studies in 1890 at the local School of Fine Arts; winning several awards for his sketches and ink wash paintings, although his interests soon turned to decorative work. Later, he went to Paris and spent some…
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Isidre Nonell i Monturiol, Consuelo 02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, meet Isidre Nonell i Monturiol, with Footnotes. #85
Consuelo ( Barcelona , 1888 – Barcelona, 1905 ) was a model of Gypsy ethnic group that had a close relationship with Isidre Nonell . The painter repeatedly portrayed her between 1901 and 1905, until she died tragically at seventeen. In the middle of the year 1900, Isidre Nonell returned from Paris to Barcelona. In a shared…
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10 Works, Today, April 2nd, is Saints Margaret Clitherow’s Day, With Footnotes – #90
Margaret Clitherow was born in 1556. Her father was a respected businessman. He died when Margaret was fourteen. She married John Clitherow, a wealthy butcher and a chamberlain of the city, in 1571 and bore him three children. The family lived in The Shambles… Please follow link for full post
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10 Works, Today, April 1st, is Saint Mary of Egypt’s Day, With Footnotes – #89
Mary of Egypt (is revered as the patron saint of penitents, most particularly in the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Churches, and Oriental Orthodox Churches. Saint Mary, also known as Maria Aegyptiaca, was born somewhere in the Province of Egypt, and at the age of twelve she ran away from her parents to the city of Alexandria.…
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Charles Henri Gaston Dagnac-Rivière, ARAB WOMEN BY THE OASIS 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, #51
Charles Henri Gaston Dagnac-Rivière was born in Paris on May 1, 1864 died in Moret sur Loing on January 14, 1945. -Ecole Française A pupil of Jules Lefèvre, Gustave Boulanger and Benjamin Constant, he began in 1885 at the Salon des Artistes Français, of which he was named Sociétaire in 1898. Honorable mention at the Universal…
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Kimberly Dow; Unfastened, 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 63 – With Footnotes
Kimberly Dow (Dow Kimberly) – American contemporary artist, born in 1968, in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. She started to draw in childhood. What started as a simple hobby, eventually turned into a real passion. Today Kimberly writes professionally and exhibited his realistic paintings at various galleries in the United States over the last 20 years. the…
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06 Works, Today, March 31st, is Righteous Joseph’s Day, With Footnotes – #89
Righteous Joseph the Handsome was a son of the Old Testament patriarch Jacob, and died in about the year 1700 before the Birth of Christ. His brothers by birth were jealous of him, because the father loved him more than the other brothers, and they feared him, since he told them about his dreams, foretelling his…
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Jamil Naqsh, Al-Haqq/ Truth 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #15
Jamil Naqsh, (25 December 1939 – 16 May 2019) was a British Pakistani painter who lived a reclusive life in London from 2012 until his death. He briefly studied at National College of Arts but left before obtaining a degree. His work has been described as idealized and sensual. Jamil Naqsh was born in Kairana, British…
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Melinda Matyas, Room without a view 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 71
Melinda Matyas’ work is based on the contemplation of the “hidden”, the “less visible”, searching the fragmentation and disintegration of the subject where the color and texture become the binding element. In her work the figurative representation breaks up, the forms are slightly falling apart giving free hand to the less visible to emerge, this way…
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Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Self-portrait in a Straw Hat 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #41
Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (Marie Élisabeth Louise; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Madame Lebrun, was a prominent French painter. Her artistic style is generally considered part of the aftermath of Rococo, while she often adopts a neoclassical style. Vigée Le Brun cannot be considered a pure Neoclassicist, however, in that…
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Russell James; Ten New Angels 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 70
Russell James (born 1962 in Perth) is a fashion, celebrity and beauty photographer. Russell was born in Western Australia and spent much of his childhood moving from city to city due to his working class father. After dropping out of school at age 14, Russell got his first job working in a factory that made trashcans.…
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