Tag: footnotes
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01 Painting – Marine Art, Gustave Buchet’s Study of boats, with Footnotes, #328
Gustave Buchet, (1888 – 1963) belongs to a generation of Swiss artists drawn to the Parisian avant-garde movements and interested in Cubism in the early years of the 20th century. Born in 1888 in Étoy, Buchet founds Le Falot group in Geneva in 1915 with several other artists. These artists are looking to resist the influence…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Tamara de Lempicka’s Portrait de Marjorie Ferry, with Footnotes. #143
Portrait de Marjorie Ferry was painted in 1932 in the artist’s studio on rue Méchain in Paris. Marjorie Ferry, a well-known British chanteuse performing in Paris, is the quintessence of Jazz Age glamour, coolly seductive and unmistakably modern. In fact, there is something of the ocean liner about her streamlined, metallic glossiness. Standing by the…
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02 Orientalist Paintings, Hugh Joseph Ward’s Desert Madness, with footnotes, #99
Hugh Joseph Ward (March 8, 1909 — February 7, 1945), is primarily known for the “Spicy” cover art he did for pulp magazines. His paintings for these covers almost always portrayed a beautiful woman (often modeled by his lovely wife Viola) fleeing for her life from a thug or some fiendish monster or another, sometimes in little…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Kees van Dongen’s Femme au turban/ Woman in turban, with Footnotes. #144
Kees van Dongen, (born Jan. 26, 1877, Delfshaven, Neth.—died May 28, 1968, Monte Carlo, Monaco), Dutch-born French painter and printmaker who was one of the leading Fauvists and was particularly renowned for his stylized, sensuously rendered portraits of women. Van Dongen attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam, Neth., and he moved to…
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02 Paintings, Streets of Paris, Louis Anquetin’s L’Intérieur de chez Bruant: le Mirliton, with footnotes, #83
L’Intérieur de chez Bruant: le Mirliton is not only a large-scale group portrait representing many of the artist’s illustrious friends, but also a portrait of their preferred gathering place, Le Mirliton, the vivacious establishment opened in 1885 in what had been the second location of the Chat Noir. The cabarets, cafés and dance halls of…
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02 Paintings of the Canals of Venice by Elizabeth Elkin, with footnotes. #98
Elizabeth Elkin is a renowned professional artist with an international reputation and over thirty years of experience. The true innovation of her work lies in the power of her vibrant colors, her museum quality works of expressionist art. Elizabeth has exhibited her work both locally and internationally for many years. Her works have also been featured…
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01 Painting, Olympian deities, Louis Welden Hawkins’ Muse Erato on a Deserted Beach, with footnotes # 44
In Greek mythology, Erato is one of the Greek Muses. The name would mean “desired” or “lovely”, if derived from the same root as Eros, as Apollonius of Rhodes playfully suggested in the invocation to Erato that begins Book III of his Argonautica. Erato is the Muse of love poetry. In the Orphic hymn to the Muses,…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, DORA L. WILSON’s Nude with Pomegranates, with footnotes # 132
Dora Lynnell Wilson (31 August 1883–21 November 1946) was a British-born Australian artist, Wilson was educated at Somerset School and Methodist Ladies’ College in Melbourne. From 1901–1906 she studied at the National Gallery. Wilson was best known for her etchings, pastels and oils of still lifes and nudes. Her work was praised for her ‘strong…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Dean Cornwell’s Revenge, with footnotes, #103
Dean Cornwell, born in 1862, was an American artist who was best known as a muralist and for his famous illustrations in national magazines including Harper’s Bazaar, Redbook and Cosmopolitan. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and as a child observed his civil engineer father do industrial drawings, which led to his interest in art.…
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13 Classic Works, Art and the Egyptian Woman, with Footnotes
Wilhelm Kotarbiński (born 30 November 1848, Nieborów; died 4 September 1921, Kiev) was a Polish Symbolist painter of historical and fantastical subjects who spent most of his working life in Ukraine. He began his studies at the Warsaw School of Art from 1867 to 1871. Afterward, he enrolled at the University of Warsaw, urged on…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Marcos Grigorian’s Nude Woman, with footnotes # 131
Marcos Grigorian (December 5, 1925 – August 27, 2007) was a notable Iranian-Armenian artist and a pioneer of Iranian modern art. Grigorian and his Armenian family immigrated to Iran from Russia in 1930. He studied at the Kamāl-al-Molk Art School in Tehran from 1948 to 1950. After graduating he moved to Rome, where he received a…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Brian Kewley’s Piazza San Marco, with footnotes. #96
Piazza San Marco or St. Mark’s Square is the main public square in Venice. The Piazza is located in front of the great Byzantine church known as Basilica di San Marco. This Piazza is surrounded by shops, caffè’s and palazzi on three sides. According to local legend Napoleon called the Piazza San Marco “the drawing room of…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Ghasem Hajizadeh’s Yesterday-Today, with Footnotes, #45
Yesterday-Today is an enigmatic work that is representative of the artist’s signature style. One of the most sought after artists within Tehran’s high society since the late 1960s and early 1970s, Hajizadeh is known for his compositions that bring together his memories of the past with his inspirations from the contemporary popular culture. Throughout his…
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01 Marine Photograph – Kasia Derwinska’s Melancholy has the scent of sea, With Footnotes, #330
Melancholy: The only sounds were the distant, melancholy cries of the sea. Kasia Derwinska “Photography is my way of communicating with the world. In my work, I talk about own experiences, thoughts, doubts, fears and hopes trying to reflect my own life’s path. In addition to my experiences, my creations are inspired by night dreams as…
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01 Work – Painting from Norse mythology, Edward Robert Hughes’ DREAM IDYLL (A VALKYRIE), with footnotes – #7
In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (from Old Norse valkyrja “chooser of the slain”) is one of a host of female figures who choose those who may die in battle and those who may live. Selecting among half of those who die in battle, the valkyries bring their chosen to the afterlife hall of the slain, Valhalla, ruled…
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01 Paintings, Olympian deities, Prague School’s Venus, Bacchus and Cupid, with footnotes # 43
Venus and Love/ Venus and Cupid. Different tales exist about the origin of Venus and Cupid. Some say that Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, had a love affair with Mars, the god of war. Out of this relationship, Cupid was born. Cupid has attributes from both of his parents. Like his mother he is considered…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Jules Pascin’s Waiting for the prodigal son, with Footnotes – #54
The Parable of the Prodigal Son is one of the parables of Jesus Christ, which he shares it with his disciples, the Pharisees and others. In the story, a father has two sons. The younger son asks for his inheritance and after wasting his fortune, becomes destitute. He returns home with the intention of begging his…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Tom Wesselmann’s an american portrait, with footnotes # 128
Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004) was one of the leading American Pop artists of the 1960s. Departing from Abstract Expressionism, he explored classical representations of the nude, still life, and landscape, while incorporating everyday objects and advertising ephemera. Wesselmann was drafted into the US Army in 1952, two years into the Korean War. During his military service, he…
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