Tag: Paintings
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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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3 Works, Art and the Egyptian Women – 138-161 AD
The woman’s oval face, large eyes, and slightly open lips give the portrait considerable presence. Venus rings on her neck call attention to her youthful plump beauty. The hairstyle is typical for the period of the Emperor Hadrian, except for the corkscrew locks around the forehead, which may be a regional style. More on this…
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11 Works by Canadian Artists – GARTHE, LISMER, GIBBONS, PRATT, MASSON, NORRIS, WIELAND, BROWNELL, HEPPARD, RROBERTS, CLAPP, with footnotes
“A Modernist, William Henry Clapp is one of the monarchs of Canadian Impressionism. Indifferent as an artist to the emotional elements implicit in everyday experience, he extolled landscapes and the human figure — specifically the nude. In painting these works, he observed the phenomena of light on the generative forces of the organic world. The body is…
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14 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists of the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, #10
Jean Marie Constantin Joseph “Jan” van Beers (27 March 1852–17 November 1927) was a Belgian painter and illustrator, the son of the poet Jan van Beers. They are sometimes referred to as Jan van Beers the elder and Jan van Beers the younger. In 1884, Jan Van Beers produced the pen-and-ink sketches for the edition…
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01 Photograph, Tales of Mermaids, Ashlyn Orion’s The black mermaid, with Footnotes, #17
A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent. Roberto Manetta is a traveling freelance photographer, Film and digital photography, since…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, FOLLOWER OF BERNARDINO LUINI’s MADONNA AND CHILD, With Footnotes – 190
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 amorous game, Louis Anquetin’s La Femme à la berthe rouge, Part 63 – With Footnotes
The spontaneous gesture gives this painting its energy and power. Through his mastery of oil painting, Anquetin emphasizes his volumes and endows his figures with a rare materiality. The canvas mattness, obtained with a blotter to absorb the shine of the medium, reinforces the dimensionality of the composition. More on this painting Louis Anquetin (26 January…
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01 Paintings by Orientalist Artists, Abiodun Olaku’s THE CHARGE, with footnotes, #98
Abiodun Olaku’s talent can be traced to his early days at Baptist Academy, Lagos, between 1970 and 1975. He enthusiastically participated in his school’s syllabus, which encouraged arts and crafts, through a retinue of qualified, committed and motivating teachers in the arts department. This, undoubtedly, left an indelible impression on his psyche, and it was…
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02 Paintings of the Canals of Venice by Wendy Sharpe, with footnotes. #95
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…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Tito Lessi’s THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE. Part 62 – With Footnotes
Tito Lessi (1858 – 1917) was born in Florence, then became a resident of Paris. He studied at the Florentine Academy of Fine Arts under Enrico Pollastrini and Antonio Ciseri. Lessi painted a watercolor titled: L’ anticamera del Papa. Charles Sedelmeyer invited him to Paris, where he painted small canvases: The Testament; Le lever du Dauphine;…
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01 Marine Fotograph – Miss Aniela’s SHE SHOAL, with Footnotes, #329
Shot 40ft deep underwater in the Caribbean Sea of the Cayman Islands. Miss Aniela delivers a vision of part reality and part fantasy. In an unprecedented diving feat for model Coral Tomascik, who later transposed into a dress of 20,000 computer-created silverside fish becomes a surreal and otherworldly spectacle. More on this photograph The noun shoal…
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Louis Anquetin’s FEMMES À LEUR TOILETTE, #244
Louis Anquetin (26 January 1861 – 19 August 1932) was a French painter; born in Étrépagny, France and educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen. In 1882 he came to Paris and began studying art at Léon Bonnat’s studio, where he met Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The two artists later moved to the studio of Fernand…
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