Tag: History
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Louai Kayyali’s UNTITLED (LADY), with Footnotes, #61
Louay Kayali, (1934–1978) was a Syrian modern artist. Kayali was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1934 and studied art in the Accademia di Belle Arti after having studied at the Al-Tajhiz School where his work was first exhibited in 1952. He met Syrian artist Wahbi Al-Hariri there and the two would share a friendship for the…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, George Elmer Browne’s The Slave Market, with footnotes, #93
Two nude figures draw the eye of both the depicted crowd and the viewer, as they stand in sharp contrast to their surroundings and hint at influences of classical sculpture. The dramatic sky owes perhaps to the work of John Constable with a strong impression of three-dimensional volume and tonal hues. Combining the suggestion of…
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01 Photograph – Marine Art, Kasia Derwinska’s Overseas, smell of the northern wind, with Footnotes, #324
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 since childhood I remember most of them and I believe that…
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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists, Ayman Baalbaki’s Anonymous, with Footnotes, #56
Ayman Baalbaki (born in 1975 in Adaisseh, Lebanon) is a Lebanese painter. He studied at the Lebanese University and at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris. His large-scale expressionist portraits of fighters made him one of the most popular young Arab artists. Born the year the civil war started in Lebanon, Ayman…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, The Master of the Legend of St. Ursula’s MADONNA AND CHILD, with Footnotes – #85
The Madonna and Child or The Virgin and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word Madonna means “My Lady” in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition in many parts of the…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Matthew James Collins’ Allegory: Persephone, with footnotes #125
Persephone (aka Kore) was the Greek goddess of vegetation, especially grain, and the wife of Hades, with whom she rules the Underworld. An important element of the Eleusinian Mysteries and the Thesmophoria festival, the goddess was worshipped throughout the Greek world and frequently appeared in all forms of Greek art. More on PersephoneMatthew James Collins was born in…
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01 Work – Painting from Norse mythology, Edward Robert Hughes’ Valkyrie’s Vigil, with footnotes – #6
Usually depicted as warlike and strong, the Pre-Raphaelite-influenced works of Frederick Sandys and Edward Robert Hughes shows them in a more delicate, feminine light. Hughes’ Valkyrie is contemplative. Her face is sorrowful and the misty blue overtones of the painting create a supernatural atmosphere. It is a beautiful yet somber work that indicates she does…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Ilin Stanislav’s Eve, With Footnotes – #53
Eve is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, she was the first woman. In Islamic tradition, Eve is known as Adam’s wife and the first woman although she is not specifically named in the Quran. According to the second chapter of Genesis,…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Vincent van Gogh’s A Pair of Lovers , Part 66 – With Footnotes
Painted in March 1888, the month after van Gogh arrived in Arles, the present work is an intimate depiction of two lovers walking along the bank of a river. It once formed the central motif of a larger composition depicting a pair of lovers walking along a canal path towards the Pont de Réginelle, known…
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01 Painting, Olympian deities, Walter Crane’s Pegasus, with footnotes # 41
Pegasus, in Greek mythology, a winged horse that sprang from the blood of the Gorgon Medusa as she was beheaded by the hero Perseus. With Athena’s (or Poseidon’s) help, another Greek hero, Bellerophon, captured Pegasus and rode him first in his fight with the Chimera and later while he was taking vengeance on Stheneboea (Anteia),…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Edouard Manet’s Au père Lathuille, 1879 , Part 66 – With Footnotes
Chez le Père Lathuille (At the Père Lathuille Restaurant) is an 1879 oil-on-canvas painting by Édouard Manet. In the background is the proprietor. Manet also painted a portrait of his daughter. Père Lathuille’s cabaret, and later restaurant, was situated in the Batignolles quarter, on the site now occupied by a cinema at 7 Avenue de Clichy,…
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02 Works , RELIGIOUS ART, Feliks Michal Wygrzywalski’s Mohammedan paradise – with footnotes #196
The Koran has for its subject matter death, resurrection, judgment, paradise, and hell. The joys of paradise are designed to satisfy fundamental desires in man. All who die for the cause of their religion go to paradise. This Mohammedan paradise is made delightful by beautiful black- eyed maidens (houris) not made of common clay. They…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Michele Tosini’s PIETÀ WITH TWO ANGELS, with Footnotes – 182
The Pietà is a subject in Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus, most often found in sculpture. As such, it is a particular form of the Lamentation of Christ, a scene from the Passion of Christ found in cycles of the Life of Christ. When Christ and the Virgin are…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Breakspeare William Arthur’s The Gypsy Girl, with Footnotes. #122
William Arthur Breakspeare (19 January 1856 – 8 May 1914) was an artist from Birmingham, England, the son of John Breakspeare, a flower painter working in the Birmingham japanning trade. Breakspeare lived in Edgbaston, Birmingham until the age of 22. He was apprenticed to the japanners, Halbeard and Wellings, as a decorator. In 1877, he moved…
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01 Painting – Marine Art, Romola Templeman’s Cruising (Ship of Fools), with Footnotes, #322
Ship of Fools. When an eclectic group of passengers boards a cruise ship bound for prewar Germany, they form a microcosm of 1930s society. One passenger, a mysterious countess, is headed for a German prison camp. The charming Dr. Schumann harbors a debilitating heart condition. Then there’s American divorcée Mary Treadwell, who vainly attempts to…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Lorna Selim’s Baghdadiyat, with Footnotes, #57
Lorna Selim received a scholarship to study at the Slade School of Fine Arts, London, where she received a diploma in painting and design in 1948. The following year she received an Art Teachers’ Diploma (ATD) from the London University Institute of Education. From 1949–50 she taught art at the Tapton House Grammar School, Chesterfield, England.…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Anne-Christine Roda’s Lola, with footnotes # 121
Anne-Christine Roda creates portraits that can be qualified as hyperrealistic, thus close to a photographic approach, while revealing with a singular acuity, by the material for example, the profound being of the one who poses. Her favourite subjects: portraits and nudes and sometimes scenes of life. She is not satisfied by just rendering the appearance of…
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01 Painting, Olympian deities, Sir William Russell Flint’s Judgement of Paris, with footnotes # 42
The Judgement of Paris was a contest between the three most beautiful goddesses of Olympos–Aphrodite, Hera and Athena–for the prize of a golden apple addressed “To the Fairest.” The story began with the wedding of Peleus and Thetis which all the gods had been invited to attend except for Eris, goddess of discord. When Eris appeared…
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