Tag: France
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LOUIS VAN DER POL, Paris Bar Scene 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 54 – With Footnotes
Louis Van Der Pol (Dutch, 1896-1982) was active in the 20th Century and lived in Holland. He was known for his large format elaborate romantic portrait paintings and city street scenes. He traveled to France often to pick up inspiration from the air of the artist scene. This piece is a fine example of his cityscape…
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Victor Guerrier, YOUNG WOMAN AT THE FLOWER MARKET 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 54 – With Footnotes
The young elegant lady in three-quarter portrait on the waterfront of the Seine in Paris in front of the flower market. She wears a fashionable, black and gray dress, a wide-brimmed black hat with a white, over-the-shoulder cloth and her hands are hidden in a fur muff, on the edge of a small fresh bouquet…
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Antoine Blanchard, Le Moulin Rouge à Montmartre 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 53 – With Footnotes
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…
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Eugène Atget, Boulevard de Bonne Nouvelle 01 Photograph, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 42 – With Footnotes
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…
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Elisée Maclet, Rue de la belle étoile 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 52 – With Footnotes
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…
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Elisee Maclet, Le Moulin de la Galette 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 51 - With Footnotes
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…
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Philippe Vignal, A SIRÈNE 01 Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian deities, with footnotes #18
According to Greek myths, sirens were powerful and erotic creatures, and many unsuspecting sailors would fall prey to their seductive beauty. The common belief was that they would devour sailors after their ships would crash into the rocks, as most men couldn’t resist the temptation of their sweet melodies and angelic faces. More on The Fisherman and…
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French School, Eiffel Tower, Paris 01 Paintings, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 50 – With Footnotes
The Eiffel Tower is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Constructed from 1887–1889 as the entrance to the 1889 World’s Fair, it was initially criticised by some of France’s leading artists and intellectuals for its…
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Claude Verlinde, Maisons-Alfort, 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 49 – With Footnotes
Maisons-Alfort is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is famous as the location of the National Veterinary School of Alfort. The Fort de Charenton, constructed between 1841 and 1845, has since 1959 housed the Commandement des Écoles de la Gendarmerie Nationale. Originally, Maisons-Alfort was called simply Maisons. The name Maisons comes from…
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French School Early 20th century, Parisian street view under rain 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 48 – With Footnotes
School of Paris refers to the French and émigré artists who worked in Paris in the first half of the 20th century. The School of Paris was not a single art movement or institution, but refers to the importance of Paris as a center of Western art in the early decades of the 20th century. Between 1900…
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Charles Levier, Paris 1 02 Paintings, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 46 – With Footnotes
Charles Levier, French (1920 – 2003), was born in 1920 of a French father and American mother in Corsica. He held a fascination with color and form that led him, at age seventeen, to the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs for private studies. World War II came along and Levier served in the French…
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Michael Rozenvain was born in Kiev, in the Ukraine in 1963. He currently lives in Toronto. After having studied at the art school of Kiev, he pursued his artistic studies at the Academy of Applied Arts in Lvov. Rozenvain has participated in many collective and solo exhibitions. Rozenvain is also very active in the creation of fresco paintings…
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Charles Cobelle, View of Paris 8 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 44 – With Footnotes
Charles Cobelle, born Carl Edelman (1902–1994) was a modern French master of painting, lithography and a fine muralist, who was born in Alsace-Lorraine, France. He is considered the last link to the great tradition of the Open Line School of Paris. Cobelle received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from the University of Munich and continued his…
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Elena vitaliy Vasilievy; Prism of life 02 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 11
“Creation is the birth of something, and something cannot come from nothing. When someone creates something: a painting, a poem, a photograph, the creativity comes from an idea, from a feeling, from emotion, or from a combination of ideas, feelings and emotions that are somehow ‘reborn’ from all our experiences and perspectives.” More on this photograph…
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Pierre BONNARD, Women at the window 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 43 – With Footnotes
Pierre Bonnard (3 October 1867 — 23 January 1947) was a French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis. Bonnard preferred to work from memory, using drawings as a reference, and his paintings are often characterized by a dreamlike quality. The intimate domestic scenes, for…
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Detlev Nitschke, A STROLL ALONG THE BOULEVARD 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 42 – With Footnotes
Detlev Nitschke (German, born 1935) is a German artist known for his picturesque scenes developed from plein-air painting into designs for calendars and maps. His work is heavily influenced by both the American Impressionists and his travels throughout Europe and Russia. Born in 1935 in Berlin, Germany, Nitschke studied lithography at Meisterschule Fur Druck & Graphik,…
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Claudio Missagia, Summer is coming 02 Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #141
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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01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 44 – With Footnotes
Thomas Saliot: “I live in Morocco, France and Spain where i paint simple iconic images from the net or my life, like big oil sketches. I have been painting professionally for over thirty years. Sort of a child of Hopper, figurative and Pop art, i love colors, provocation and big canvas. Thomas Saliot was born in…
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Pierre Bonnard, AU CAFE, 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 40 – With Footnotes
Pierre Bonnard, (French, 1867–1947) Title:AU CAFE, c. 1900Oil on Panel29.2 x 29.8 cm. (11.5 x 11.7 in.)Private collection Pierre Bonnard (3 October 1867 — 23 January 1947) was a French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis. Bonnard preferred to work from memory, using drawings…
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Eugene Segal, Large Café Scene 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 39 – With Footnotes
Eugene Segal was influenced by the works of artists such as Rembrandt, Velasces, Van Deik, France Hals and fellow countrymen Vrubel and Serov. Segal paints with a pallet knife, directly on canvas. Born in 1967 Russia, Segal made the decision to become an artist at the early age of five, and never wavered from his dream. …
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