Tag: Orientalist
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, Frederick Arthur Bridgman’s WAITING FOR ORDERS, with footnotes, #85
Frederick Arthur Bridgman (November 10, 1847 – 1928) was an American artist, born in Tuskegee, Alabama. The son of a physician, Bridgman would become one of the United States’ most well-known and well-regarded painters and become known as one of the world’s most talented “Orientalist” painters. He began as a draughtsman in New York City, for…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Art, Eugène Péchaubès’ Fantasia, with footnotes, #83
Fantasia is a traditional exhibition of horsemanship in the Maghreb performed during cultural festivals and to close Maghrebi wedding celebrations. “Fantasia” is an imported name, the actual traditional term used is lab el baroud. The performance consists of a group of horse riders, all wearing traditional clothes, who charge along a straight path at the same…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, Edwin Lord Weeks’ A cup of coffee, with footnotes, 82
Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – 1903) was an American artist. Weeks was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1849. His parents were affluent spice and tea merchants from Newton, a suburb of Boston, and as such they were able to finance their son’s youthful interest in painting and travelling. As a young man Weeks visited the Florida Keys…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, Maurice Bouviolle’s MARKET DAY IN GHARDAÏA, with footnotes, #81
Ghardaïa is the capital city of Ghardaïa Province, Algeria. It is a major centre of date production and the manufacture of rugs and cloths. Divided into three walled sectors, it is a fortified town. The name of Ghardaïa has its origins in a female saint named Daïa who lived in a cave (ghār) in the area before it…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, Henri Adrien Tanoux, with footnotes, 80
Henri Adrien Tanoux ( Marseille , 18 October as as 1865 – Paris , 1923 ) was a French painter. He dedicated himself to landscapes , nudes and oriental scenes .He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris where he was a pupil of Léon Bonnat . He exhibited his works regularly at the Paris Salon…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, # 67, Adam Styka, Washerwomen at Biskra
Biskra, also called (after 1981) Beskra, town, northeastern Algeria, on the northern edge of the Sahara. It is the centre of the Zab (Ziban) group of oases south of a wide, open depression between the Aurès Massif and the Tell Atlas Mountains. More on BiskraAdam Styka , born April 7, 1890 and died September 23, 1959 in Doylestown…
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Georges Louis Poilleux-Saint-Ange, The Escape, 01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, #61
George Louis Poilleux Saint-Ange was a French painter born June 20, 1853 in Paris and died in 1911 at the age of 58 years.He was a member of the French School and student of Isidore Pils , being influenced by his style. Poilleux Sant’Angelo is oriented on military painting , the history of painting and…
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Jean-Léon Gérôme, RIDERS CROSSING THE DESERT 01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, #61
Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits and other subjects, bringing the Academic painting tradition to an artistic climax. He is considered one of the most important painters from…
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Victor Pierre Huguet, AT THE WADI 01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, #60
Wadi is the Arabic term referring to a valley, ravine, or channel that is dry except in the rainy season. Victor Pierre Huguet, born Lude the 1 st May 1835 and died in Paris August 16, 1902, was a French, landscape and genre painter.. He was a pupil of Emile Loubon in Marseille and received advice from Fromentin in…
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Eugène Fromentin, WINDSTORM 01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, #59
Esparto, halfah grass, or esparto grass, is a fiber produced from two species of perennial grasses of north Africa and southern Europe. It is used for crafts, such as cords, basketry, and espadrilles. Stipa tenacissima and Lygeum spartum are the species used to produce esparto. More on Esparto Eugène Fromentin (October 24, 1820 – August 27, 1876) was…
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Circle of August Theodor Schoefft; Crossing the Tigris 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, #58
The Tigris is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of southeastern Turkey through Iraq and empties into the Persian Gulf. August Theodor Schoefft (Hungarian, 1809-1888) was the son of a local portrait painter August Theodor Schoefft, born to German parents who…
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Victor-Pierre Huguet, SETTLEMENT AT DAWN 01 Painting by Orientalist Artist Nathaniel Sichel , with footnotes, 57
Victor Pierre Huguet , born Lude the 1 st May 1835 and died in Paris August 16, 1902, was a French, landscape and genre painter.. He was a pupil of Emile Loubon in Marseille and received advice from Fromentin in Paris. In 1852, aged 17, he traveled to Egypt, then to Crimea where he accompanied Durand-Brager before…
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Victor-Pierre Huguet, CAVALIERS ON A PATH 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, #56
Victor Pierre Huguet , born Lude the 1 st May 1835 and died in Paris August 16, 1902, was a French, landscape and genre painter.. He was a pupil of Emile Loubon in Marseille and received advice from Fromentin in Paris. In 1852, aged 17, he traveled to Egypt, then to Crimea where he accompanied Durand-Brager before…
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Nathaniel Sichel; Portrait of an Egyptian Woman 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, #55
Nathaniel Sichel’s artistic career began at the Royal Academy of Art in Munich, where he was trained in the academic tradition by Julius Schrader. He continued his studies in Paris at the École des Beaux arts where he won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1864 with a painting entitled Joseph explains the dreams of the…
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Ethel Carrick, A Market in Kairouan, 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, #55
Kairouan (also spelled Kairwan), is the capital of the Kairouan Governorate in Tunisia. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The city was founded by the Umayyads around 670. In the period of Caliph Mu’awiya (reigned 661–680), it became an important centre for Sunni Islamic scholarship and Quranic learning, and thus attracting a large number of…
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Adolf Schreyer, ARAB HORSEMAN 01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 54
Adolf Schreyer (July 9, 1828 Frankfurt-am-Main – July 29, 1899 Kronberg im Taunus) was a German painter, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He studied art, first at the Städel Institute in his native town, and then at Stuttgart and Munich. He painted many of his favourite subjects in his travels in the East. He first…
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Lalla Essaydi; Harem Revisited 01 Painting by Orientalist Artist Lalla Essaydi, with footnotes, #53
Moroccan born photographer Lalla Essaydi explores Arab female identity by hand-painting Arabic calligraphy in henna on different surfaces such as female bodies, fabric and walls. Through her compositions, Essaydi references nineteenth century Orientalist style and rejects traditional objectified representations of Arab women. The artist critiques French painters such as Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Eugène Delacroix who often painted…
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Auguste Pinchart, MATERNITÉ TUNISIENNE/ TUNISIAN MOTHERHOOD 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, #53
Emile Auguste Pinchart was a French painter of portraits and genre and followed the tradition of an idealised vision of life during La Belle Epoque, in the style of Tissot and his followers. His light and natural palette reflects a sentiment of delightful charm. A pupil of Gerome, he exhibited at the Salon de Paris, obtaining…
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Léon Cauvy, MARKET IN ALGERIA 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, #52
Léon Cauvy (12 January 1874, Montpellier – 3 January 1933, Algiers) was a French Orientalist painter. He began his studies in 1890 at the local School of Fine Arts; winning several awards for his sketches and ink wash paintings, although his interests soon turned to decorative work. Later, he went to Paris and spent some…
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Charles Henri Gaston Dagnac-Rivière, ARAB WOMEN BY THE OASIS 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, #51
Charles Henri Gaston Dagnac-Rivière was born in Paris on May 1, 1864 died in Moret sur Loing on January 14, 1945. -Ecole Française A pupil of Jules Lefèvre, Gustave Boulanger and Benjamin Constant, he began in 1885 at the Salon des Artistes Français, of which he was named Sociétaire in 1898. Honorable mention at the Universal…
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