Tag: Fine Art
-
William-Adolphe Bouguereau; he Visitation 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Paintings from the Bible by the Old Masters, 5e
The Visitation. Mary visits her relative Elizabeth; they are both pregnant. Mary is pregnant with Jesus and Elizabeth is pregnant with John the Baptist. Elizabeth was in the sixth month before Mary came. Mary stayed three months, and most scholars hold she stayed for the birth of John. The apparition of the angel, mentioned in Matthew,…
-
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Annunciation 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Paintings from the Bible by the Old Masters, 5d
The Annunciation. The archangel Gabriel was sent by God’ to Mary. Gabriel announced to her that she was to give birth to a son, Jesus, who ‘will be great, and will be called Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David, and he will be king over…
-
David Bailey; John and Yoko, 1971 01 Photograph, The amorous game, Part 56 – With Footnotes
Yoko Ono Lennon, (born February 18, 1933, Tokyo, Japan), Japanese artist and musician who was an influential practitioner of conceptual and performance art in the 1960s and who became internationally famous as the wife and artistic partner of musician John Lennon. More on John and Yoko David Royston Bailey, CBE (2 January 1938) is an English fashion and…
-
Katarina Radenkovic, Paris 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 62 – With Footnotes
“I spent some time in Paris. The most charming is cafes on the streets of Paris”. Katarina Radenkovicis was born 06.April 1972. in Serbia. She is a graduate civil engineer , artist and the student of ITAcademy, direction of Design and Multimedia . Her works decorate homes around the world. The greatest pleasure for me…
-
Jurij Frey; Bathers at night 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 38
The German artist Jurij Frey has developed a realist style of painting whose blocks of colour and contrasts of light nevertheless allow us to make out all of the inner complexity. Inspired by a universal subject, man and his condition, the painter and trained illustrator proceeds with touches that he applies with lively, irregular gestures, always…
-
Hosni Radwan; Church of Nativity, Bethlehem 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 33
The Church of the Nativity, also Basilica of the Nativity is a basilica located in Bethlehem in the Palestinian West Bank. The grotto it contains holds a prominent religious significance to Christians of various denominations as the birthplace of Jesus. The grotto is the oldest site continuously used as a place of worship in Christianity,…
-
Walter G. Ratterman, A Romany Night 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 55 – With Footnotes
Walter G. Ratterman (1887-1944) was a twentieth-century American genre painter and illustrator. In the 1920s, he had lived and painted in New York, where the majority of his artworks and illustrations were published. He subsequently moved and lived in Woodstock, New York from the 1930s. Ratterman’s artwork was published in various American books and periodicals between…
-
Jean Louis Forain, UNE NUIT CHEZ MAXIM’S 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 61 – With Footnotes
Maxim’s is a restaurant in Paris, France, located at No. 3 rue Royale in the 8th arrondissement. It is known for its Art Nouveau interior decor. Maxim’s was regarded as the most famous restaurant in the world. Maxim’s was founded as a bistro in 1893 by Maxime Gaillard, formerly a waiter. It became one of the…
-
Romualdo Locatelli, Risveglio/Awakening 01 Works The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 37
For Locatelli there are no problems beyond the beauty of the abundance of life. One will find no depth and metaphysical ideas in his work. In a spontaneous manner he reveals the beauty of the body and nature. Here there is no sadness and sorrow that are shown, but their opposite, the beauty and happiness…
-
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Pieta 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Paintings from the Bible by the Old Masters, 5f
The Pietà, 1876, provides a very unique depiction of this most famous of imagery. The weeping Mary cloaked in a robe of black is mourning the death of her son whom she holds to her chest. The dead body of Jesus limply hangs in her arms while eight weeping angels surround them. The angels are clad…
-
Domenico Puligo; Saint Mary Magdalene holding an ointment vessel 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 127
Mary Magdalene was a Jewish woman who, according to texts included in the New Testament, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers. She is said to have witnessed Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. Based on texts of the early Christian era in the third century, it seems that her status as an “apostle” rivals even Peter’s.…
-
Mahdi Almasi; Allah 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 32
Mahdi Almasi, poet and painter, was born in west of Iran and grew up in the ancient city of Hamedan. Almasi has always been artistically inclined, even from an early age that he gravitated toward art and beauty and involved in almost every aspect of creative art – Persian calligraphy, design, photography, sculpture – before…
-
Léon Zeytline, Champagne with a bitter taste 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 54 – With Footnotes
Leon Zeytline, (1885 -1962), was a Russian painter who moved from Moscow to the capital of France at the beginning of the 20th century. He started depicting daily life of Paris during the 1920’s, illustrating the numerous and famous squares and boulevards, such as the “Boulevard de l’Opéra” and “Les Champs Elysées”. His work is…
-
Léon Zeytline; The boulevard de Bonne-Nouvelle 01 Painting, Streets of Paris – With Footnotes
The Théâtre du Gymnase or Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell, is a theatre in Paris. Inaugurated on 23 December 1820 by Delestre-Poirson, the théâtre du Gymnase came to serve as a training-theatre for students of the conservatoire. In 1824 the theatre was granted the title of théâtre de Madame. Closed for renovation in 1830, the theatre…
-
Leo Putz, WALDESRUHE (FOREST CALM) 01 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 36
Painted in Gauting circa 1925 after the artist’s return from exile in the Netherlands during the First World War, this painting exemplifies Putz’s freely painted compositions of nudes and bathers by the water’s edge. The setting for this and so many of Putz’s paintings was the lake country around Schloss Hartmannsberg, where the artist and…
-
Frederick Arthur Bridgman, YOUNG WOMAN IN A WHITE TURBAN 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 65
Frederick Arthur Bridgman (November 10, 1847 – 1928) was an American artist, born in Tuskegee, Alabama. The son of a physician, Bridgman would become one of the United States’ most well-known and well-regarded painters and become known as one of the world’s most talented “Orientalist” painters. He began as a draughtsman in New York City, for…
-
Felix Labisse, Nu Assis dans les Dunes 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 35
Félix Labisse (March 9, 1905 – January 27, 1982) was a French Surrealist painter, illustrator, and designer. He divided his time between Paris and the Belgian coast from 1927. In Ostend he met James Ensor, who influenced his work. Beginning in 1931 he designed for the theater. His paintings depict fantastical hybrid creatures, and are often…
-
Said Elatab; Arab Woman 01 Painting MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 31
Said Elatab, Arab American painter & photographer who considers himself the epileptic painter, always risking his life to work the best shots. Said has painted while experiencing vision loss and head-banging pain from his epilepsy. Elatab, in art history aspires to be like the great Princes in the world of Painting. One would be Vincent Van…
-
Narayan Shridhar Bendre; Braiding Hair 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #57
Narayan Shridhar Bendre (21 August 1910 – 19 February 1992) (N. S. Bendre) was a 20th-century Indian artist; was born in Indore. He had undergone his early art education in the State Art School, Indore. Thereafter, he obtained his Government Diploma in Art from Bombay in 1933. As he was an enthusiastic traveler he visited many…
-
David Manzur Londoño; LA SERENATA 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 53 – With Footnotes
David Manzur Londoño (born December 14, 1929) is a Colombian painter. His subjects include still lifes, mounted knights, and saints. Manzur was born in Neira, Caldas, Colombia. His father, Salomón Manzur, was a Lebanese businessman; his mother, Cecilia Londoño Botero, was Colombian. He spent his childhood and adolescence in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, in the Canary Islands,…
Zaidan Gallery 