Tag: Skin
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01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 98; Henry Strater, Happy Birthday Adam
Henry Strater came of age in the Lost Generation after the first World War. He attended Princeton. He later went to Paris in the 1920s to study at the Academy Grande Chaumiere and with Edouard Vuillard.Strater was a versatile painter and his portraits, watercolors and other realistic works are or have been displayed at the Philadelphia Museum…
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Au lit: Le baiser. 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 60 – With Footnotes
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), also known as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant and provocative images of the modern,…
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VERA ROCKLINE, NUDE WITH NECKLACE; 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 97
Véra Rockline (1896 – 4 April 1934) was a Russian post-impressionist painter. Rockline started her career in Moscow, studying in the studio of Ilya Mashkov, who considered her one of his most brilliant students. In 1918 she became an apprentice at Aleksandra Ekster’s studio in Kiev, Ukraine. Ekster, who personally knew Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire…
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Gustav Klimt; The Kiss; 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 59 – With Footnotes
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d’art. Klimt’s primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In…
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Théodore Chassériau, Two half-naked women, 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 140
Théodore Chassériau (September 20, 1819 – October 8, 1856) was a French Romantic painter noted for his portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, and Orientalist images inspired by his travels to Algeria.Chassériau was born in El Limón, Samaná, in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic). In December 1820 the family left…
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Lawrence Alma Tadema, A Foregone Conclusion, c. 1885, 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 58 – With Footnotes
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA (8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912) was a Dutch painter of special British denizenship. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. A classical-subject painter, he became famous for his depictions…
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Helmut Newton, Charlotte Rampling at the Hotel Nord Pinus, 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 96
Tessa Charlotte Rampling OBE (born 5 February 1946) is an English actress, model and singer, known for her work in European arthouse films in English, French, and Italian. An icon of the Swinging Sixties, she began her career as a model and later became a fashion icon and muse.She was cast in the role of Meredith…
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Francesco Hayez, The Kiss, 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 61 – With Footnotes
Francesco Hayez (10 February 1791 – 21 December 1882) was an Italian painter, the leading artist of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories and exceptionally fine portraits.Hayez came from a relatively poor family from Venice. He was brought up by his mother’s sister, who had married a well-off shipowner and…
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Adrien LeMayeur, Women with parasols 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 143
Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur de Merpres (9 February 1880 – 31 May 1958) was a Belgian painter from Brussels who lived the last part of his life in Bali. Le Mayeur came to Bali at Singaraja in 1932. He then stayed in Denpasar and was fascinated by what remained then of Balinese culture, including the Balinese people’s…
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Richard D’Amore, NUDE ON EAGLE, 01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 145
Richard D’Amore dedicated more than thirty years to fine art photography, distinguishing himself as a master printer. In 1970, D’Amore relocated to France with his brother to work and study. During this time, he taught photography at Camberwell College of Art in London. D’Amore’s work was featured in fine publications. Upon returning to the United States in the late 1970s, Mr. D’Amore continued…
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JOHN BRATBY,PAT IN THE BATH 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 95
John Randall Bratby RA (19 July 1928 – 20 July 1992) was an English painter who founded the kitchen sink realism style of art that was influential in the late 1950s. He made portraits of his family and celebrities. His works were seen in television and film. Bratby was also a writer. John Bratby was born…
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Richard D’Amore, Untitled 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 71
Richard D’Amore dedicated more than thirty years to fine art photography, distinguishing himself as a master printer. In 1970, D’Amore relocated to France with his brother to work and study. During this time, he taught photography at Camberwell College of Art in London. D’Amore’s work was featured in fine publications. Upon returning to the United States in the late 1970s, Mr. D’Amore continued…
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Nana SR T; GOLD SPARKLE (V) 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 94
“I created this GOLD SPARKLE series inspired by movement, the power and beauty of transition, and reminiscing on the aesthetics of Art Deco which I adore. I have always had a great passion for the body as an instrument and very much enjoy capturing it in various ways with my camera” Nana Nana SR T was born…
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Richard Larter, Jean #1 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 93
Richard Larter (19 May 1929 – 25 July 2014) was an Australian painter, often identified as one of Australia’s few highly recognizable pop artists. Larter also frequently painted in a Pointillist style. He took advantage of unusual techniques with painting: using a syringe filled with paint to create his early works, and juxtaposing multiple images on…
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Tom Ouellette, Seated Nude II 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 92
Tom Ouellette was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1954. With the aid of a National Merit Scholarship he attended Harvard University, and graduated in 1978. In 1982, after completing drawing courses, he decided to pursue a career in painting and entered The Art Institute of Boston, graduating with honors in 1985. Ouellette moved to New…
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Charles Knight, SEATED FEMALE NUDE 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 91
Charles Knight, ROI VPRWS (1901-1990), a Sussex landscape painter, channelled the tradition of English watercolour painting in order to produce his own original contribution. As a result, he became a pillar of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours. His father, employed by a firm of Brighton publishers, was a keen naturalist and artist, and…
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Hedi Schick, A Seated Female Nude, with an Attendant 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 90
Hedi (Hedwig) Schick (1906 Vienna – 1999 London) was in her younger years strongly influenced by Oskar Kokoschka and Otto Dix. She studied at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts), from which she graduated in the early 1930s (her name could be found among those of professional applied artists in the address book of Vienna…
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Rebecca Leveille, Emoticon “;)” 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 55 – With Footnotes
Rebecca Guay is an artist known early in her career as an illustrator, commissioned for work. Guay received a degree in Illustration from the Pratt Institute in New York City in 1992. She subsequently turned primarily toward gallery work, opening her first solo exhibition in 2013. After 2011,Guaye began focusing primarily on large scale gallery work…
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Paul Delvaux, The Two Friends 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 89
Paul Delvaux (23 September 1897 – 20 July 1994) was a Belgian painter famous for his paintings of female nudes. He was influenced by the works of Giorgio de Chirico, and was also briefly associated with surrealism. The young Delvaux took music lessons, studied Greek and Latin, and absorbed the fiction of Jules Verne and the…
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Female nude in front of fireplace 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 87
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, original name Karl Schmidt, (born December 1, 1884, Rottluff, near Chemnitz, Germany—died August 9, 1976, West Berlin [now Berlin]), German painter and printmaker, noted for his Expressionist landscapes and nudes. In 1905 Schmidt-Rottluff began to study architecture in Dresden, Germany, where he and his friends formed the organization of Expressionist artists known as…
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