Tag: footnotes

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in Art of the Nude

Kim Hyun-Jung has made her mark on the Korean art scene by painting outside the lines of how women are traditionally perceived in a rapidly-transforming South Korean society. Kim’s work, which combines the use of paint and paper, is an ongoing series of portraits she refers to as Nae Sung Nyo which is a form of…

Marco Cornini, Untitled 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 51 – With Footnotes

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in amorous game

The artist of desire, essentially, is Marco Cornini (Milan, 1966). Graduated in sculpture at Brera, his hands have almost exclusively modeled female figures for thirty years. In terracotta colored with acrylics, of medium size. Slim young women, long hair, all rather similar to each other, always very little dressed, sitting or half-lying, isolated in space, in a waiting position. Softly (very…

Inji Efflatoun, In the Woman’s Prison 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 18

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Inji Aflatoun (1924–1989) was an Egyptian painter and activist in the women’s movement. She was a “leading spokesman for the Marxist-progressive-nationalist-feminist spokeswoman in the late 1940s and 1950s”, as well as a “pioneer of modern Egyptian art” and “one of the important Egyptian visual artists” During school, Aflatoun liked to paint and her parents encouraged her.…

Antoine Blanchard, Le Moulin Rouge à Montmartre 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 53 – With Footnotes

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in Paris

Moulin Rouge, (French for “Red Mill”) is a cabaret in Paris. The original house, which burned down in 1915, was co-founded in 1889 by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia. Close to Montmartre in the Paris district of Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy in the 18th arrondissement, it is marked by the…

Badri Narayan, Untitled 02 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 52 – With Footnotes

Jun 17, 2019

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in amorous game

Badri Narayan (22 July 1929, Secunderabad, India – 23 September 2013, Bangalore) was an artist, illustrator, author and story-teller. Narayan began painting with no formal training, and his first public showing was in 1949, followed by a solo show in 1954. He had over 50 solo shows and his work is in several collections, including the…

Nabil Anani, Vision 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 17

Jun 17, 2019

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Nabil Anani (b.1943, Latroun, Palestine) is one of the most prominent Palestinian artists working today. He is considered by many as a key founder of the contemporary Palestinian art movement. On graduating in Fine Art from Alexandra University, Egypt [in 1969], Anani returned to his native Palestine and began a fruitful career as an artist and…

Eugène Atget, Boulevard de Bonne Nouvelle 01 Photograph, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 42 – With Footnotes

Jun 17, 2019

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in Paris

This boulevard saw its construction prescribed in 1676. It was built and named after the church Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle. The execution of the alignments approved by the royal decree of May 15, 1832 resulted in the removal of the impasse of the Message Boards. The Rue Basse Porte Saint-Denis. Part of rue Basse Porte Saint-Denis were absorbed…

06 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Patti Hansen, with footnotes # 20

Jun 15, 2019

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in Art of the Nude

Patricia “Patti” Hansen (born March 17, 1956) is an American model and actress. She was discovered by photographer Peter Gert at age 14. After Gert took Hansen to a party hosted by Wilhelmina Cooper, former model and owner of the Wilhelmina Models, Cooper signed the teen to her agency. Hansen soon moved to Manhattan, enrolled at…

Wassily Kandinsky, RAPALLO: GRAUER TAG 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #174

Jun 13, 2019

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in Marine Artr

Rapallo is a municipality in the Metropolitan City of Genoa, located in the Liguria region of northern Italy. Rapallo has been known for its climate that made it over the years the winter residence of preference for most of the affluent Italians living in the North West of Italy. Its proximity to the coast makes for…

Dino Valls, PASSIO, The Passion 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 27

Jun 13, 2019

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in Religious Art

I am not sure what Dino Valls intended by calling his painting “PASSIO”, but it reminds me of the Old Masters interpretations of Saints, and the olive branch shown would symbolize the description given the passion of Saint Olivia. I hope that this does not prejudice this beautiful work! Saint Olivia of Palermo (Palermo, 448 – Tunis,…

Zena Holloway, Rolling in the Deep 01 Photograph, Tales of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 9

Jun 13, 2019

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in Mythology,

“Far, far from land, where the waters are as blue as the petals of the cornflower and as clear as glass, there, where no anchor can reach the bottom, live the mer-people.” ~ The Little Mermaid, by Hans Christian Andersen Zena Holloway (born 1973 in Bahrain) is an underwater photographic artist living in London. Her work…

John William Waterhouse, Saint Cecilia, c. 1895 01 Works RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 154

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in Religious Art

Saint Cecilia is the patroness of musicians. It is written that as the musicians played at her wedding she “sang in her heart to the Lord”. She is one of seven women, excluding the Blessed Virgin, commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass. According to the story, despite her vow of virginity, she was…

Sliman Mansour, A Family Without a Shadow, c. 2018 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 16

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The overwhelming significance of the physicality of Jerusalem as a national symbol permeates many of the artworks. The iconic representation of the Dome of the Rock comes to the fore as some artists celebrate the city Born in 1947, Birzeit, Palestine, Sliman Mansour studied fine art at the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem. He has held…

Elisée Maclet, Rue de la belle étoile 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 52 – With Footnotes

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in Paris

Jules-Émile Élisée Maclet is famous for his Paris street scenes, much in the tradition that Utrillo would soon follow. Born in Lihons-en-Santerre, Picardie (April 12, 1881), the artist began his career while still a choirboy. He moved to Montmartre in 1906, after his mother’s death, where he began painting the Montmartre landscape, anticipating the themes that…

Pavlos SAMIOS, Fishermen in a boat 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #173

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in Marine Artr

Pavlos Samios (born 1948) is a Greek painter and professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Samios was born on October 28, 1948 in Athens, Greece. As a teenager he worked at Dionysios Karoussos icon-painting studio and at the same time he attended drawing lessons under Panos Sarafianos so that he could pass the exams…

HOSNI RADWAN, Jerusalem #3, c. 2018 51 YEARS OF OCCUPATION 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 15

Jun 9, 2019

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The overwhelming significance of the physicality of Jerusalem as a national symbol permeates many of the artworks. The iconic representation of the Dome of the Rock comes to the fore as some artists celebrate the city via exceptionally colourful works Hosni Radwan was born in Baghdad in 1955. He studied fine arts at the University of…

Jurij Frey, Seated 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 50 – With Footnotes

Jun 9, 2019

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in amorous game

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…

Elisee Maclet, Le Moulin de la Galette 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 51 - With Footnotes

Jun 9, 2019

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in Paris

The Moulin de la Galette is a windmill and associated businesses situated near the top of the district of Montmartre in Paris. Since the 17th century the windmill has been known for more than just its milling capabilities. Nineteenth-century owners and millers, the Debray family, made a brown bread, galette, which became popular and thus the…

Zena Assi, Ricochets 1 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 14

Jun 8, 2019

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