Tag: Portrait
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Beatris Burgoin’s Water Protectors, with Footnotes, part #143
Water protectors are activists, organizers, and cultural workers focused on the defense of the world’s water and water systems. The water protector name, analysis and style of activism arose from Indigenous communities in North America during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at the Standing Rock Reservation, which began with an encampment on LaDonna Brave Bull Allard’s…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Easam Darawshi’s Expressive Portrait #2, with Footnotes, #63
Essam Darawshi was born in Nazareth in 1984. He studied Physiotherapy at the Faculty of Medicine at Genoa University, Italy. In 2010, Easam enrolled in the Academy of Arts at the University of Genoa where he began his journey as an artist, driven by his passion, focusing on the Arabic Calligraphy as a form of contemporary…
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Wladislaw Czachorski, THE BOUQUET 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #35
Wladislaw Czachorski, 1850-1911, POLISH THE BOUQUET, c. 1903 Oil on canvas 36.5 by 24cm., 14½ by 9½in. Private collection Władysław Czachórski (22 September 1850 in Lublin – 13 January 1911 in Munich) was a Polish painter in the Academic style. In 1866 Czachorski attended the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He then spent one year…
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Cheryl Wilson, Medusa 01 Contemporary Interpretations, Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion, with footnotes #6
Cheryl Wilson, United States Medusa Acrylic, Ink, Gesso, Airbrush and Paper on Canvas 16 H x 20 W x 0.8 in Private collection In Greek mythology Medusa was a monster, a Gorgon, generally described as a winged human female with a hideous face and living venomous snakes in place of hair. Gazers on her face would turn…
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01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #30
Pat Dumez, Netherlands Le regard de ma mère/ The look of my mother Acrylic on Canvas. 23.6 H x 31.5 W x 0.8 in Private collection Pat Dumez: My painting? it is the expression of feelings through portraits of women that we can recognize. In the shortcut fleeting gesture, emotional memories, in light of our fast lives. A…
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01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #25
Giovanni Boldini, (1842–1931) Luisa Casati, (1881-1957), c. 1908 Oil on canvas Private collection Over the centuries, many powerful monarchs, eccentric aristocrats and fabulously wealthy burghers have commissioned portraits of themselves, arrayed in all their finery, standing, life-size and full-length. This prestigious format was primarily reserved for monarchs and members of the aristocracy. It was not until…
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09 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #14
Youssef Nabil, B. 1972, EGYPTIAN PORTRAIT OF JANNANE AL ANI Hand-coloured gelatin silver print 38 by 25cm.; 15 by 9 7/8 in. Private collection Jananne Al-Ani was born in Kirkuk, Iraq in 1966. She studied Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art and graduated with an MA in Photography from the Royal College…
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