Tag: footnotes
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Richard Prince, GIRLFRIEND 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 27
Richard Prince (born 1949) is an American painter and photographer. In the mid-1970s, Prince made drawings and painterly collages that he has since disowned. He began copying other photographers’ work in 1977. His image, Untitled (Cowboy), a rephotographing of a photograph by Sam Abell and appropriated from a cigarette advertisement, was the first rephotograph to be…
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PELEG FRANKLIN BROWNELL, BONAVENTURE ISLAND 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #207
Though Peleg Franklin Brownell found his favourite sketching grounds close to his home in Ottawa, he also explored and created works set in the areas of the Lower St. Lawrence, the Little Saguenay River and the Gaspé Peninsula. Brownell’s works exhibit great technical ability. His landscapes, which arise out of vigourously applied brushstrokes, are thoughtfully…
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John Lowrie Morrison, PUFFER ON THE CRINAN CANAL 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #198
The Clyde puffer is a type of small coal-fired and single-masted cargo ship, built mainly on the Forth and Clyde canal, and which provided a vital supply link around the west coast and Hebrides of Scotland. Characteristically these boats had bluff bows, crew’s quarters with table and cooking stove in the focsle, and a single mast…
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Robert Peake, Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Pope 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #49
The black thread depicted here, which normally links the heart and the hands, looks to be broken and may possibly be an allusion to a death and would fit with the traditional identification of the sitter being Elizabeth Watson, who was an heiress at this date. The depiction of her long hair hanging loosely down,…
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Louis-Théodore Devilly, THE SKIRMISH 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists , with footnotes, 57
Louis Theodore Devilly (born in Metz the 28 October 1818 and died in Nancy the 24 December 1886 ) was a French painter of the xix th century . Member of the School of Metz , he moved to Nancy in 1871 , after the annexation . He is the author of paintings of romantic inspiration,…
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Franz von Stuck, DOMINO 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #48
As masquerades flourished in eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe, Domino was probably the most common mask of all. Typical of the Venetian Carnival, it consisted of a black mask covering only the eyes and was sometimes worn with a cloak over the dress. Shown here held by the model! More on this painting Franz Stuck (February…
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Hermenegildo Anglada-Camarasa, Gypsy approach 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #47
By the nineteenth century, Spain had embraced Gypsy myth and lore. The Romantics were in awe of the gypsies for their otherworldliness and seeming ability to commune with nature, while the following generation of artists and writers, driven by patriotism in the wake of Spain’s colonial losses, venerated the gypsy as the quintessential icon of…
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John La Farge, FISHING PARTY 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #18g
On October 5, 1890, in the second month of their fifteen month voyage to the South Seas, John La Farge and his friend Henry Adams arrived off Samoa. They spent most of their time on the island of Upolu, where they stayed in a guest house in the village of Vaiala and accompanied many excursions…
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Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, Saint Nicholas
An icon painted in two registers. Greece, c. 1744. Heavy Softwood single panel. Egg tempera on gesso (gypsum), Konturritzungen, partially gilded. In the upper frame a full figure enthroned Christ flanked by the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist. The underlying three selected saints: St. Athanasius, St. Nicholas and St. Charalampi…. The upper frame is dated ‘1744’ ‘…
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Wade Reynolds; Nude 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 20
Wade Reynolds (born Charles Elwood Reynolds; June 5, 1929 – October 3, 2011) was a self-taught realist painter, Reynolds was best known for his figurative paintings often classified as California School of Light. Reynolds was born in Jasper, New York, in 1929. He began his professional art career in New York City where he was hired…
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Sergey Makhov, All ahead 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #199 – With Footnotes
Sergey Makhov. “I was born in 1959 in a small town near Tver. In 1984 I graduated from the Art college named after Venetsianov. Since then I am painter and I do my best trying to retranslate the beauty of the world and human being. My works are presented in many art collections. I get…
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Eugène Galien-Laloue, Flower market Place de la Madeleine 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 57 – With Footnotes
The Boulevard de la Madeleine is one of the four ‘grands boulevards’ of Paris, France, a chain of roads running east-west that includes the boulevard de la Madeleine, the boulevard des Capucines, the boulevard des Italiens and the boulevard Montmartre. The boulevard is named after the nearby Église de la Madeleine. More on Place de la Madeleine Eugène…
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Abed Abdi, B. 1942, PALESTINIAN 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 26
Palestinian art history is largely characterized by fragmentation, both in style and content, which is a result of ongoing wars and displacement of people. Despite historical ruptures in time and space, artists have flourished in a multitude of voices and places to create a vibrant Palestinian art scene. The featured works by Abed Abdi re…
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Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña, Departure of Diana to the hunt 01 Painting, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes #39
In Roman mythology, Diana was the goddess of the hunt, the moon and nature being associated with wild animals and woodland, and having the power to talk to and control animals. She was eventually equated with the Greek goddess Artemis, though she had an independent origin in Italy. Diana was worshipped in ancient Roman religion and is…
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Virginie Demont-Breton, FISHERMAN’S WIFE COMING TO BATH HER CHILDREN 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #194
Virginie Élodie Marie Thérèse Demont-Breton (26 July 1859, Courrières – 10 January 1935, Paris) was a French painter. Her artistic career got off to an early start due to her having family ties with painters. By the age of twenty, she was exhibiting at the Salon where she received an Honorable Mentions and, four years later,…
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Egon Schiele, TRIESTE FISHING BOAT 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #195
Trieste is a city and a seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of Italian territory lying between the Adriatic Sea and Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city. It is also located near Croatia. Egon Schiele (German: 12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was…
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Andrzej Wroński; Return 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #196
Andrzej Wronski, born in Chrzanow in 1942. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1968.. Involved in painting, graphics. His works were displayed at both individual and group exhibitions, e.g. Art Studio Lines in Austria (1975), Galsbruck Gallery, Switzerland (1976), Grote Gallery, Belgium (1977), Home Art Gallery, USA (1979). He created…
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Josh Keyes; Siren 01 Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian deities, with footnotes #17
Portland-based artist Josh Keyes (previously) paints hyperrealistic depictions of what he perceives the world might look like after the fall of humans. Animals such as sharks, tigers, and bulls remain as the final witnesses to the aftermath of human destruction—observing blazing fires, investigating displaced commercial objects, and swimming amongst melted ice caps. More on this painting…
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Eric Geidl, Black Medusa 01 Work, Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian deities, with footnotes #20
In Greek mythology Medusa was a monster, a Gorgon, generally described as a winged human female with a hideous face and living venomous snakes in place of hair. Gazers on her face would turn to stone. She lived and died on an island named Sarpedon, somewhere near Cisthene. The 2nd-century BCE novelist Dionysios Skytobrachion puts her…
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