Tag: FLIRTATION
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Wilhelm Heinrich Schlesinger’s Spanish Farmers. Part 64 – With Footnotes
Henri-Guillaume Schlesinger, originally Wilhelm Heinrich Schlesinger (6 August 1814, Frankfurt am Main – 21 February 1893, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French portrait and genre painter of German birth. He was especially known for his lively and sensitive depictions of young women. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and was originally active in that…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, by Gaetano Bellei, Part 63 – With Footnotes
Gaetano Bellei was an Italian Academic Painter who was born in 1857. He later died in 1922 in the same city. He enhanced his artistic talent by learning art from Adeodato Malatesta and Comrade of John Muzzioli. When he was 24 year old, he won the Retired Potetti due which he was able to visit…
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02 Pictures of The amorous game by Michel Comte and Antoine Verglas, Part 6 – With Footnotes
Helena Christensen (born 25 December 1968) is a Danish fashion model and photographer. She is a former Victoria’s Secret Angel and beauty queen. Christensen has also served as creative director for Nylon magazine, designed clothing, and supported funding for breast cancer organizations and other charities. Helena was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, as the eldest of…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Adam Styka’s THE LOVERS, Part 77 – With Footnotes
Adam Styka , born April 7, 1890 and died September 23, 1959 in Doylestown (Pennsylvania) , was born in Poland in 1890. He completed his formal education at the French Academy of Fine Arts, and painted closely under the tutelage of his father, Jan Styka. Each year Adam exhibited his paintings in the Paris’ Salon de Paris,…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Gerard ter Borch the Younger’s Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier, Part 42 – With Footnotes
Ter Borch was an astute observer of social behavior as well as the physical environment. In this intimate courtship scene, fine fabrics, silver objects, wood, paper, light, and shadows all reveal their distinctive qualities. The woman strums a theorbo and the man appears to sing, a duet that resonates with the heartstrings. More on this painting…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Auguste Rodin’s TWO WOMEN EMBRACING, Part 65 – With Footnotes
The subject of Sapphic loves is very frequent in Rodin’s drawings, which often uses several models simultaneously. The impetuosity and the accuracy of the movement had to be captured instantly and then transferred to a new sheet, the artist used to trace his drawing on the first draft in order to achieve a new, refined…
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01 Painting, The amorous game,Gunilla Mann’s Dancing couple – With Footnotes
Gunilla Mann, born in 1947 in Gothenburg , is a Swedish painter, artist, graphic artist and sculptor. Mann grew up in Majorna and Masthugget in Gothenburg. She studied at Handicraft Society School from 1962 to 1967 and at Hovedskou painting school from 1968 to 1972. Mann now divides her time between Österlen and Södermalm in Stockholm…
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01 Painting, of The amorous game, Filippo Indoni’s The distracted shepherd – With Footnotes #3A
Filippo Indoni, Italian (1800 – 1884). In a reaction against the frivolous and unrealistic images of early 19th century Romanticism, artists turned to less glamorous aspects of life and society in search of a direct experience. By 1850, they had formed a relatively cohesive movement that battled for popularity with Romanticism, a far more widespread…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem’s Monk and Nun, Part 66 – With Footnotes
According to legend a nun was accused of having become pregnant. To verify this a monk had to squeeze her breast and if it produced milk she was guilty. But instead of milk she produced wine — the reason for the wine glass on the table. Instead of proving the nun’s guilt the miracle was…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 78 – With Footnotes
Sir Anthony van Dyck, ( 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England, after enjoying great success in Italy and Flanders. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that…
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Au lit: Le baiser. 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 60 – With Footnotes
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), also known as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant and provocative images of the modern,…
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Gustav Klimt; The Kiss; 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 59 – With Footnotes
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d’art. Klimt’s primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In…
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Lawrence Alma Tadema, A Foregone Conclusion, c. 1885, 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 58 – With Footnotes
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA (8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912) was a Dutch painter of special British denizenship. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. A classical-subject painter, he became famous for his depictions…
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Helmut Newton, Charlotte Rampling at the Hotel Nord Pinus, 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 96
Tessa Charlotte Rampling OBE (born 5 February 1946) is an English actress, model and singer, known for her work in European arthouse films in English, French, and Italian. An icon of the Swinging Sixties, she began her career as a model and later became a fashion icon and muse.She was cast in the role of Meredith…
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Francesco Hayez, The Kiss, 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 61 – With Footnotes
Francesco Hayez (10 February 1791 – 21 December 1882) was an Italian painter, the leading artist of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories and exceptionally fine portraits.Hayez came from a relatively poor family from Venice. He was brought up by his mother’s sister, who had married a well-off shipowner and…
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Rebecca Leveille, Emoticon “;)” 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 55 – With Footnotes
Rebecca Guay is an artist known early in her career as an illustrator, commissioned for work. Guay received a degree in Illustration from the Pratt Institute in New York City in 1992. She subsequently turned primarily toward gallery work, opening her first solo exhibition in 2013. After 2011,Guaye began focusing primarily on large scale gallery work…
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Rebecca Leveille, Give Me Pretty Things 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 55 – With Footnotes
Rebecca Guay is an artist known early in her career as an illustrator, commissioned for work. Guay received a degree in Illustration from the Pratt Institute in New York City in 1992. She subsequently turned primarily toward gallery work, opening her first solo exhibition in 2013. After 2011,Guaye began focusing primarily on large scale gallery work…
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István Cene gál, Forbidden love III 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 53 – With Footnotes
István Cene gál was born in 1969 in Salgótarján, Hungary. He studied artistic drawing under the guidance of first Ödön Iványi, then Péter Földi. He also studied art history in a course led by Professor Dr. Lajos Végvári at the Association of Art in Miskolc. He got his degree at the College Department of the…
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Eugen de Blaas, The courtship, 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 52 – With Footnotes
Eugene de Blaas, (24 July 1843 – 10 February 1932), was an Italian painter in the school known as Academic Classicism. He was born at Albano, near Rome, to Austrian parents. His father Karl, also a painter, was his teacher. The family moved to Venice when Karl became Professor at the Academy of Venice. He…
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Lavinia Fontana, Mars and Venus 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 64 – With Footnotes
In a bedroom a man and a young woman pose as Mars and Venus. She is completely naked and looks back: she stares at us and hands us a narcissus flower. He has only his helmet on his head and a drape covers his private parts: he looks at her and, almost frightened, puts his…
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