Tag: Paintings
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Dia Azzawi’s Portrait of the Non Existent Bird, with Footnotes, #43
Born in Baghdad in 1939, Dia Azzawi started his artistic career in 1964, after graduating from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad and completing a degree in archaeology from Baghdad University in 1962. In 1969, Azzawi (with Rafa Nasiri, Mohammad Muhriddin, Ismail Fattah, Hachem al-Samarchi and Saleh al Jumaie) formed the New Vision group…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with footnotes. #84
Rhoda Holmes Nicholls (March 28, 1854 – September 7, 1930) was an English-American watercolor and oil painter, born in Coventry, England. She studied art in England and Italy, and her work was viewed and praised at the time by the queens of both countries. A body of work was created in South Africa by Nicholls…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! By Mertim Gokalp. With Footnotes – #44
The Sacrifice of the Model is a contemporary re-take of Caravaggio’s Entombment of the Christ, has been selected into the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2015 and has been exhibited in the Juniper Hall in Paddington The model used in The Sacrifice of the Model, being held/worshiped by a bunch of renowned, Archibald Award finalist…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, by Andreas Gleich, with footnotes # 102
Close-up/nude shot of a woman wearing only a hat on her head. This hat is best suited for breaking light and creating shadows.Andreas Gleich; “At the age of 12, my parents gave me a simple Agfa camera with built-in lens for Christmas. I have been photographing since that time. In the 1980s I worked as…
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02 Works, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Kaye Miller-Dewing’s Defence of Jerusalem. With Footnotes – #43
“My fascination with history, especially The Crusades, inspires my art: this is my way of travelling back in time. I try to imbue my work with an intensity and passion, hoping to touch the viewer at a deep level. I love to create art with a narrative, and an intrigue, and am thrilled when viewers…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, Pieter Coecke van Aelst’s Adoration of the Magi. With Footnotes – 146
Numerous repetitions of the present work exist with the primary version being the central panel of a triptych listed by Georges Marlier as by the ‘Master of the Musée de L’Assistance Publique’, named after the institution in Brussels where it is housed The Adoration of the Magi (anglicized from the Matthean Vulgate Latin section title:…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem’s Monk and Nun, Part 66 – With Footnotes
According to legend a nun was accused of having become pregnant. To verify this a monk had to squeeze her breast and if it produced milk she was guilty. But instead of milk she produced wine — the reason for the wine glass on the table. Instead of proving the nun’s guilt the miracle was…
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01 Work, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part #81
The Boulevard Marguerite-de-Rochechouart is a street in Paris, France, situated at the foot of Montmartre and to its south. Like the neighbouring street, it is named after Marguerite de Rochechouart de Montpipeau (1665–1727), abbess of Montmartre. It is a result of the 1864 merging of the boulevards and chemins de ronde which followed the interior and…
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13 Works, February 15th. is artist Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #046
Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge (15 February 1831–13 June 1 June 1894) was a Russian realist painter and an early Russian symbolist. He was famous for his works on historical and religious subjects. Nikolai Ge was born to a Russian noble family of French origin. His grandfather who was a French nobleman immigrated to the Russian Empire…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, Susanna and the old men. With Footnotes – #145
A fair Hebrew wife named Susanna was falsely accused by lecherous voyeurs. As she bathes in her garden, having sent her attendants away, two lustful elders secretly observe the lovely Susanna. When she makes her way back to her house, they accost her, threatening to claim that she was meeting a young man in the…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Carol Jerrems’ Vale Street, with footnotes # 153
A quintessential image of the 1970s, ‘Vale Street’ has lost none of its capacity to enchant and disturb in the intervening years. In one sense it can be read as a sociological document; in another as a wholly subjective work of art. Like the mediumistic spirit-photographs of the nineteenth century, Jerrems’s photo seems to disclose…
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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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19 Works, The Art Of The Nude by Norman Lindsay, with footnotes # 241
Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879–21 November 1969) was an Australian artist, etcher, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist, scale modeller, and an accomplished amateur boxer… Please follow link for full post
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10 Works, February 12th. is artist Adolphe Yvon’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #043
Adolphe Yvon (1817–1893) was a French painter known for his paintings of the Napoleonic Wars. Yvon studied under Paul Delaroche, rose to fame during the Second Empire, then finished his career as a teacher. Shortly after the end of the Crimean War in September 1855, Yvon was commissioned by the French government to paint a…
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01 Work, Marine Art, Anton Otto Fischer’s CLIPPER SHIP, With Footnotes, #309
Anton Otto Fischer (February 23, 1882 — March 26, 1962) was born in Munich, Germany but orphaned as a boy, Fischer ran away to sea at 16 and spent eight years on a variety of sailing ships. In New York, he stayed to apply for American citizenship and to teach seamanship.” He later served as a hand…
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16 Works, February 7th. is artist Henry Fuseli’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #038
The painting depicts the pivotal moment in Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth (act 1, scene 3) when the protagonist encounters a demonic trio of witches who foretell his fate. Fuseli revels in the play’s ominous mood, tripling the motif of hooded head, extended hand, and sealed lips of the mannish figures, whose appearance is taken directly from…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Louis Magre’s Banks of the Seine, Part #79
Louis Magre was born in Paris in 1955. As a teenager, he studied drawing and architecture, which he gradually gave up to concentrate solely on drawing. He currently lives in Provence, an area which fascinates him and which he loves to admire and paint. At the beginning of his career, he drew nudes and portraits…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 4rd, is Saint Joseph of Leonessa’s Day, With Footnotes – 34
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696 – 1770. Born into a wealthy and noble family in Venice, Giambattista Tiepolo was recognized by contemporaries throughout Europe as the greatest painter of large-scale decorative frescoes in the 1700s. He was admired for having brought fresco painting to new heights of technical virtuosity, illumination, and dramatic effect. Tiepolo possessed an imagination…
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18 Works, Today, February 4th. is artist Alexander Antonovich Rizzoni’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #035
Alexander Antonovich Rizzoni, or Alessandro Rizzoni (4 February 1836, in Riga — 29 April 1902, in Rome) was a Russian painter of portraits and genre scenes; mostly on Catholic themes. He was born to an Italian family of artisans. He received his first lessons from his brother Pavel (1822–1913), who was also an artist. In 1852, he…
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