Tag: Paintings
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Tom Wesselmann, Study for Nude Lithograph, 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 15
Initially a cartoonist for men’s magazines, Tom Wesselmann reduced the classical female nude to her essential components: lips, nips and pubes. His Venuses have tan lines. Cigarettes dangle from their rocket-red mouths. Their crisp outlines resonate with the immediacy of a neon sign. Like the nudes of Titian, Velasquez, or Rubens, Wesselmann’s mid-century modern nudes…
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Henry Scott, The clipper ship Ben Nevis 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #165
The Ben Nevis was an iron fullrigged ship built in 1868 by Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow. Dimensions 218’0″×34’6″×21’0″ and 1109 GRT, 1061 NRT and 999 tons under deck. The forecastle was 36 feet long and the poop 46 feet. The Ben Nevis, built in 1868, was one of the new clippers at the time which were much…
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Mona Trad Dabaji, L’attente/ The wait 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 11
Mona Trad Dabaji graduated from the American University of Beirut, just after the outbreak of the civil war in Lebanon. She lives and works in Beirut where she has been teaching painting since 1993. The artist has exhibited in Lebanon, France, Jordan, the United States and the United Arab Emirates. Beirut, The Phantom City, a Beirut…
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Harutyun Khachatryan, The Game 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 38 – With Footnotes
Harutyun Khachatryan ( born 9 January 1955) is an Armenian film director, script writer, director of photography, film producer, General director of the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival, Meritorious Artist of the Republic of Armenia and voting Member of European Film Academy since 2006. Khachatryan was born in Akhalkalak (Georgian SSR, now Georgia). 1981 he…
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Edouard Cortès, PLACE SAINT-MICHEL 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 47 – With Footnotes
The Place Saint-Michel is a public square in the Latin Quarter of Paris, France. It lies on the left bank of the river Seine facing the Île de la Cité, to which it is linked by the Pont Saint-Michel. The northern end of the Place Saint-Michel, the end closer to the river, is on the left-bank…
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Tom Wesselmann, LONG DELAYED NUDE 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 14
Tom Wesselmann, 1931 – 2004 LONG DELAYED NUDE, dated 1967-75 Oil on shaped canvas 172 x 258 cm; 67 3/4 x 101 9/16 in. Private property Initially a cartoonist for men’s magazines, Tom Wesselmann reduced the classical female nude to her essential components: lips, nips and pubes. His Venuses have tan lines. Cigarettes dangle from…
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Giuseppe Da Pozzo, Venezia 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #55
Giuseppe Da Pozzo, (1844-1919) was born of in Maranzanis di Comeglians , in Carnia. In 1863 he moved to Venice to attend the courses of the Fine Arts Academy, completing the with the attendance of the School of painting of the nude (1866-1867). In the seventies he began to participate in major Italian exhibitions with paintings…
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Granville Redmond, Seascape 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #162
Granville Seymour Redmond was born March 9, 1871 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died May 24, 1935 in Los Angeles, California. Redmond’s family migrated from the East Coast to San Jose, California about 1874. As a result of becoming totally deaf at the age of two-and-one-half due to scarlet fever, he attended the California School for…
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Hans Zatzka, Woodland nymphs 01 Paintings, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes #40
A nymph in Greek mythology and in Latin mythology is a minor female nature deity typically associated with a particular location or landform. Different from other goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as divine spirits who animate nature, and are usually depicted as beautiful, young nubile maidens who love to dance and sing; their amorous freedom…
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Girolamo Viscardi, SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST 01 Carving, 15 & 16th Century Carvings & Sculpture from the Bible!; With Footnotes – 8a
John the Baptist (sometimes called John in the Wilderness; also referred to as the Angel of the Desert) was the subject of at least eight paintings by the Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). The story of John the Baptist is told in the Gospels. John was the cousin of Jesus, and his calling…
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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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Martha Walter, Beach Scene 03 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #161
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Ruth Mulvie, Into the Blue 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #160
“One of the themes I often visit in my work is the seaside. This painting in particular was made after a visit to the beautiful Mediterranean island of Corsica with my mother. I love watching figures on the beach, the assorted shapes and sizes of the human form, a simple clear backdrop, and the striking…
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Henry A Martin, USS LANCASTER, 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #190
The first USS Lancaster was a screw sloop-of-war in the United States Navy during the American Civil War through the Spanish–American War. The first Lancaster was laid down by the Philadelphia Navy Yard in December 1857; launched 20 October 1858; sponsored by Miss Harriet Lane, niece and official hostess of President James Buchanan; and commissioned 12…
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John Charles Allcot, The Pamir in Sydney Harbour 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #127
Pamir, a four-masted barque, was one of the famous Flying P-Liner sailing ships of the German shipping company F. Laeisz. She was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn, in 1949. By 1957, she had been outmoded by modern bulk carriers and could not operate at a profit. Her shipping consortium’s inability to…