Tag: footnotes
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Igor Semeko, Hug 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 53 – With Footnotes
Igor Semeko was born in Belarus in 1961, and he studied at the Minsk School of Art from 1976 until 1980. He continued his art studies in the Academy of Art Republic Belarus, until 1986. Semeko specializes in decorative and applied arts in oil, and his works are characterized by rich textures and colors. He…
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WILLIAM HENRY CLAPP, THE ARTIST AND HIS MODEL 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 33
William Henry Clapp is one of the monarchs of Canadian Impressionism. Indifferent as an artist to the emotional elements implicit in everyday experience, he extolled landscapes and the human figure – specifically the nude. In painting these works, he observed the phenomena of light on the generative forces of the organic world. The body is…
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Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek, A MERCHANTMAN OFF VEERE 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #219
Veere is a municipality in the southwestern Netherlands, in the region of Walcheren in the province of Zeeland. Wolfert Van Borssele established a ferry and ferry house there in 1281. In the same year Wolfert also built the castle Sandenburg on one of the dikes he had built. On 12 November 1282, Count Floris V. thereupon…
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Paul Renard, Paris Street Scene 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 59 – With Footnotes
Paul Renard (French, 1941-1997) remained faithful his entire life to painting the soft scenes that he saw around him as a boy of the bustling sidewalks of Paris. He applied his sensitive and consuming fascination, with seeking to capture the beauty of French city life and country rivers on canvas as he saw them right up…
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Ezio Ricci; Old Couple 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 52 – With Footnotes
Ezio Ricci, (Lucca 1885 – 1968), was born in Lucca, a pupil at the local Istituto di Belle Arti, Ezio Ricci showed an early talent for real life painting. In 1916 he was appointed professor of the decorative arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Perugia, where he spent seven years working hard but…
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Jamil Naqsh, Al-Haqq/ Truth 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 29
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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ERWIN OLAF, MILAN HOTEL 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 32
These photographs by Irwin feature models posing sometimes elegantly, provocatively or demurely in replica hotel guest rooms across the world with subtle differences such as a discarded shoe or a lit message on an answer phone. Particularly influenced by the early 1960’s, the décor and lighting make reference to this era and are further underscored…
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Edouard Verschaffelt; Family scene, spinners 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 60
Edouard Verschaffelt was a Belgian orientalist painter born in Ghent in 1874 and died in Bou Saâda in 1955. He was deeply rooted in Algeria. He produced paintings of the roots and passion of this Algerian reality, so abused by orientalist exoticism. Edouard Verschaffelt took a contrary view of academic, colonial Orientalism. A pupil of the Antwerp…
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Bernardo Canal, THE GRAND CANAL 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with footnotes. #65
The Grand Canal in Venice, Italy forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city. Public transport is provided by water buses and private water taxis, and many tourists explore the canal by gondola. One end of the canal leads into the lagoon near the Santa Lucia railway station and the other end leads into…
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Charles Napier Hemy, The Shrimper’s Return 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #169
Small-scale local fishery for shrimp and prawns has existed for centuries and continues to form a large proportion of the world’s shrimp fisheries. Trawling increased in scale with the introduction of otter boards, which use the flow of water to hold the trawling net open, and the introduction of steam-powered vessels, replacing the earlier sail-powered…
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Alfred “di” Cesare; Ultraviolet 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 30
Alfred Di Cesare was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1910. At fourteen he suffered an injury playing football and spent two months in a hospital on bed rest, it was during this time that he began to sketch pencil portraits of the doctors. His family doctor encouraged Di Cesare’s father to enroll his son in the…
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Marià Fortuny, The Odalisque 01 Works & Movie, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 29
An odalisque (Turkish: Odalık) was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan. An odalık was not a concubine of the harem, but a maid, although it was possible that she could become one. An odalık was ranked at the bottom of the…
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St. Catherine 01 Ivory Carvings, from Bible stories! 17th Century. With Footnote, # 16
Circa 1600s ivory relief carving depicting the beheading of St. Catherine. Broken wheel in the background. Atypical depiction shows a small boy holding the ropes that bind Catherine’s wrists. More on this relief Saint Catherine of Alexandria is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands…
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Simon de Vos, The Visitation 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 119
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,…
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Gabrielle Bakker, Leda 01 Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian deities, with footnotes #15
Leda, in Greek legend, usually believed to be the daughter of Thestius, king of Aetolia, and wife of Tyndareus, king of Lacedaemon. She was also believed to have been the mother (by Zeus, who had approached and seduced her in the form of a swan) of the other twin, Pollux, and of Helen, both of…
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