Tag: footnotes
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Federico Zandomeneghi, THE MODEL RESTING IN THE STUDIO 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 48
Federico Zandomeneghi (June 2, 1841 – December 31, 1917) was an Italian Impressionist painter, born in Venice. As a young man, he enrolling in 1856 first in the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, and then in the Academy of Fine Arts of Milan. In 1859, to avoid conscription into the Austrian army, he flees Venice. The next year in he…
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Jan MC Asselbergs, YOUNG WOMAN IN A KIMONO 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 47
Jan MC Asselbergs, 1937 – 2015 YOUNG WOMAN IN A KIMONO Oil on canvas. 100.5 x 70 cm. Private collection In front of a screen painted with green leaves standing a young woman with brown hair in back view. She has slightly turned her head and is about to strip her Japanese silk kimono printed…
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Matthias Stom, The Adoration of the Magi 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 171
The Adoration of the Magi (anglicized from the Matthean Vulgate Latin section title: A Magis adoratur) is the name traditionally given to the subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, lay before him gifts of gold,…
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MARIAN MARCEL, Les frôleuses 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 46
Les frôleuses; Provocative woman; seductive. Marcel Mariën (April 29, 1920 in Antwerp – September 19, 1993 in Brussels) was a Belgian surrealist (later Situationist), poet, essayist, photographer, collagist, filmmaker, and maker of objects. Mariën was one of the most intriguing and elusive figures in the Belgian wing of the Surrealist movement. He was not only an artist, but…
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Vilhelm Karl Ferdinand Arnesen, Royal Danish Navy 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #204
Wilhem Karl Ferdinand Arnesen (Danish, 1865-1948). Arnesen’s father was a skipper and a builder of model ships developing Arnesen’s interest for maritime at a very young age. Later when Arnesen was educated at the Academy of Arts he was given the highly esteemed honour to accompany the Danish Royal family on their many travels abroad. Arnesen…
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Hassan Sharif, GARDEN 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 37
Hassan Sharif (1951-2016) made a vital contribution to conceptual art and experimental practice in the Middle East through 40 years of performance, installation, drawing, painting and assemblage. Prior to leaving the UAE to study in London in 1979, Sharif gained attention for his cartoons published in the UAE press – ironic, outspoken critiques of the rapid…
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HERMAN PEKEL, Paris Evening 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 59 – With Footnotes
“The tactile quality of impasto oil paint, its smell, the feel, had me addicted when only twelve years old. Forty years later, the addiction has grown into an obsession. The subject for me, personally is less consequential than the simple matter of applying paint to canvas. As long as the shapes within the picture plane…
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Jean Dufy, Montmartre 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 66 – With Footnotes
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The basilica is located at the summit of the butte Montmartre, the highest point in the city. Sacré-Cœur is a double monument, political and cultural, both a national penance for the defeat of…
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Norman Alfred William Lindsay, Woman Enchanting Man 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 52 – With Footnotes
Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) was an Australian artist, etcher, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist, scale modeller, and an accomplished amateur boxer. In 1895, Lindsay moved to Melbourne to work on a local magazine with his older brother Lionel. In 1901, he and Lionel, his older brother, joined the staff of the Sydney…
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Safwan Dahoul, UNTITLED 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 36
Safwan Dahoul, born in 1961 in Hama, Syria, Dahoul was initially trained by leading modernists at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Damascus before travelling to Belgium, where he earned a doctorate from the Higher Institute of Plastic Arts in Mons. Upon returning to Syria, he began teaching at the Faculty of Fine Arts…
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Jean Dufy, Aerial view of Paris 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 65 – With Footnotes
Jean Dufy (b Le Havre, France, 1888; d La Boissière, 1964) French Painter. Following his service in the military, from 1910-1912, Jean Dufy relocated to Paris. Inspired by the work of Braque and Picasso, Dufy created watercolors that expressed a heightened understanding of color and light. In the mid-1920s, Jean Dufy became captivated by the music…
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Claudio Missagia, Umbrellas 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #205
Claudio Missagia was born in 1959 Italy. Claudio works with acrylique and plaster on canvas to produce large-scale paintings defined by a dream atmosphere. Exploring representations of chandeliers, lamps, cups and landscape scenes, Claudio plays with composition, utilising a moody colour palette to create a dream dimension to his work. He abandoned his career in business…
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Vilhelm Karl Ferdinand Arnesen: Leaving Copenhagen 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #203
Wilhem Karl Ferdinand Arnesen (Danish, 1865-1948). Arnesen’s father was a skipper and a builder of model ships developing Arnesen’s interest for maritime at a very young age. Later when Arnesen was educated at the Academy of Arts he was given the highly esteemed honour to accompany the Danish Royal family on their many travels abroad. Arnesen…
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Maximilien Luce, NU ASSIS/ SITTING NUDE 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 43
Maximilien Luce (13 March 1858 – 6 February 1941) was a prolific French Neo-impressionist artist, known for his paintings, illustrations, engravings, and graphic art, and also for his anarchist activism. Starting as an engraver, he then concentrated on painting, first as an Impressionist, then as a Pointillist, and finally returning to Impressionism. In 1872, the fourteen-year-old…
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Francesco da Ponte, Banishment from paradise 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 177
The banishment from paradise, or the fall of man, or the fall, is a term used in Christianity to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience. Although not named in the Bible, the doctrine of the fall comes from a biblical…
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Madonna of the Roses 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Paintings from the Bible by the Old Masters, 5k
In her apparition at Guadeloupe, the Madonna made use of roses as a sign of her presence and even arranged them with her own hands in the tilma of Juan Diego. At La Salette she wore a profusion of roses in three garlands and had tiny roses around the rim of her slippers. She brought…
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Charles Haigh Wood; Mending the sail 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #214
Charles Haigh-Wood, (British, 1856-1927) was a genre painter, who lived in London, Bury and Taplow, Buckinghamshire. Haigh-Wood’s enchanting visions of romance, with attractive girls and pretty dresses are some of the most endearing and popular of all images. His patrons adored them, a successful businessman of Haigh-Wood’s day with any pretension to artistic taste had to…
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Kees van Dongen, NUDE STANDING ON GREEN BACKGROUND AND PINK 01 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 42
Cornelis Theodorus Maria ‘Kees’ van Dongen (26 January 1877 – 28 May 1968) was a Dutch-French painter and one of the Fauves at the controversial 1905 Salon d’Automne exhibition. He gained a reputation for his sensuous, at times garish, portraits. Kees van Dongen was born in Delfshaven, a borough of Rotterdam. He was the second of…
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Walter Langhammer, Untitled (Indian Woman with Amphora) 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #59
An amphora is a type of container of a characteristic shape and size, descending from at least as early as the Neolithic Period. Amphorae were used in vast numbers for the transport and storage of various products, both liquid and dry, but mostly for wine. More on amphora Walter Langhammer, 1905 – 1977, went to India before World War 2,…
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Robert G. Harris, LOVERS ON THE BEACH, 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 51 – With Footnotes
Robert George Harris was born September 9, 1911 in Kansas City, Missouri. Harris studied at the Kansas City Art Institute since the age of fourteen. In 1933 he left Kansas City and drove a motorcycle all the way to New York City. He opened an art studio in New Rochelle at 560 Main Street. His…
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