Tag: Woman
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Ivan Pili’s Peoples of the world: Berber with Footnotes. #117
Berber people are indigenous to North Africa occupying regions stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. They speak the Berber language belonging to the Afroasiatic family. There are about 25-30 million Berber speakers in North Africa today with the majority found in Libya, Algeria, and Morocco. The majority of the population in North Africa…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Robert Philipp’s Theatre #2, with Footnotes. #116
Robert Philipp (February 2, 1895 – November 22, 1981) was an American painter influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and known for his nudes, still lifes, and portraits of attractive women and Hollywood stars. Noted art critic Henry McBride called Philipp one of America’s top six painters of his generation. He was an instructor of painting at…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY. Charles Levier’s Jeunes Filles, with Footnotes. #115
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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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Antoine Malliarakis Mayo’s Femme et masque, with Footnotes. #115
Antoine Malliarakis Mayo, was born in 1905 in Egypt, the son of a Greek engineer and a French mother. Although he kept a Greek passport throughout his life, he was culturally French and lived in France for half of his life after leaving Egypt. He came to France to study architecture but started frequenting artistic circles in…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, by Gaetano Bellei, Part 63 – With Footnotes
Gaetano Bellei was an Italian Academic Painter who was born in 1857. He later died in 1922 in the same city. He enhanced his artistic talent by learning art from Adeodato Malatesta and Comrade of John Muzzioli. When he was 24 year old, he won the Retired Potetti due which he was able to visit…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, John Melville Kelly’s Mokihana, with Footnotes. #112
John Melville Kelly (1879–1962) was an American painter and printmaker. He was born in Oakland, California in 1879. He studied art at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (now the San Francisco Art Institute), the Partington Art School (San Francisco) and with Eric Spencer Macky (1880–1958). Kelly worked for fourteen years as an illustrator for the…
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1 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Manolo Valdés’ Odalisque with white and orange face, with Footnotes. #153
Manolo Valdés (born March 8, 1942) is a Spanish artist residing in New York, working in paint, sculpture, and mixed media. He introduced to Spain a form of expression that combined political and social obligations with humor and irony. Manolo Valdés was born in Valencia on March 8, 1942. He entered the Escuela de Bellas Artes…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Flemish School’s Helena Fourment, with Footnotes. #111
Helena Fourment or Hélène Fourment (11 April 1614 – 15 July 1673) was the second wife of Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens. She was the subject of a few portraits by Rubens, and also modeled for other religious and mythological paintings. Helena was the youngest child of Daniël I Fourment, a wealthy Antwerp silk and carpet…
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02 Pictures of The amorous game by Michel Comte and Antoine Verglas, Part 6 – With Footnotes
Helena Christensen (born 25 December 1968) is a Danish fashion model and photographer. She is a former Victoria’s Secret Angel and beauty queen. Christensen has also served as creative director for Nylon magazine, designed clothing, and supported funding for breast cancer organizations and other charities. Helena was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, as the eldest of…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Adam Styka’s THE LOVERS, Part 77 – With Footnotes
Adam Styka , born April 7, 1890 and died September 23, 1959 in Doylestown (Pennsylvania) , was born in Poland in 1890. He completed his formal education at the French Academy of Fine Arts, and painted closely under the tutelage of his father, Jan Styka. Each year Adam exhibited his paintings in the Paris’ Salon de Paris,…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, DOROTHEA LANGE’s Migrant Mother , with Footnotes. #110
Florence Owens Thompson was born Florence Leona Christie on September 1, 1903, in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Both her parents were Cherokee. The family lived on a small farm in Indian Territory outside of Tahlequah. Seventeen-year-old Florence married Cleo Owens, a 23-year-old farmer’s son from Stone County, Missouri, on February 14, 1921. They soon had their first…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Édouard Manet’s Berthe Morisot, with Footnotes. #109
Berthe Morisot was the first lady of Impressionism, she first exhibited in the Salon de Refuse in 1864 set up by Napoleon 3 to show work rejected by the Academy. Berthe and her sister Edma trained together, they visited the Louvre to study, for three years they studied with their tutor Guichard. Undervalued for over a century,…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, William Gale’s Captured Runaway, with Footnotes. #108
The Captured Runaway shows a female slave or indentured servant held captive by a male bounty-hunter. Her expression of fear and distress, with eyes upturned seemingly in hope of spiritual salvation, speaks of her fear of the cruel punishment that will await her when she is returned to the household or plantation estate from which she…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Auguste Rodin’s TWO WOMEN EMBRACING, Part 65 – With Footnotes
The subject of Sapphic loves is very frequent in Rodin’s drawings, which often uses several models simultaneously. The impetuosity and the accuracy of the movement had to be captured instantly and then transferred to a new sheet, the artist used to trace his drawing on the first draft in order to achieve a new, refined…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Chris von Wangenheim’s SUSAN SARANDON, with Footnotes. #107
In the late 70s to early 80s, Chris von Wangenheim loved all the trappings of the punk scene-the tattoos, leather motorcycle jackets, and wildly colored hair-and incorporated them into his high-fashion work such as the image with Susan Sarandon for the Crawdaddy Magazine cover of May 1978 issue.The cover featured the tagline “Wild Dreams Wicked…
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01 Painting, The amorous game,Gunilla Mann’s Dancing couple – With Footnotes
Gunilla Mann, born in 1947 in Gothenburg , is a Swedish painter, artist, graphic artist and sculptor. Mann grew up in Majorna and Masthugget in Gothenburg. She studied at Handicraft Society School from 1962 to 1967 and at Hovedskou painting school from 1968 to 1972. Mann now divides her time between Österlen and Södermalm in Stockholm…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Virginia Castillo’s Island women; with Footnotes. #106
Virginia Castillo was born in La Ceiba, but brought up in Roatan. Her paintings are inspired by the surroundings she grew up in, the colorful Caribbean setting as well as a strict church dominated society. A self taught artist, Virgie began painting as a young girl, but it wasn’t till the early 80s when she seriously…
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14 works by Louis Icart, with footnotes
Louis Icart Laurent Justin , born in 1888 in Toulouse and died in 1950 in Paris , is a painter, engraver and illustrator. Impressed by its designer, his aunt made the move to Paris: she showed his work to the House Valmont, milliner to the Belle Époque . Louis Icart was then introduced in the illustration media for…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Hendrik Kerstens’, VEIL, with Footnotes. #105
A veil is an article of clothing or hanging cloth that is intended to cover some part of the head or face, or an object of some significance. Veiling has a long history in European, Asian, and African societies. The practice has been prominent in different forms in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The practice of veiling…
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09 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, La Malinche, Mexico’s Eve, with Footnotes. #188
Marina or Malintzin (c. 1500 — c. 1529), or more popularly known as La Malinche Malinche. She has been known as the mother of Mexico, and even Mexico’s Eve (the son she had with Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés was likely the first mestizo person, of European and indigenous Amerindian heritage), yet her name is also associated with…
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