Tag: Woman
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Kimberly Dow; Unfastened, 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 63 – With Footnotes
Kimberly Dow (Dow Kimberly) – American contemporary artist, born in 1968, in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. She started to draw in childhood. What started as a simple hobby, eventually turned into a real passion. Today Kimberly writes professionally and exhibited his realistic paintings at various galleries in the United States over the last 20 years. the…
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Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Self-portrait in a Straw Hat 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #41
Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (Marie Élisabeth Louise; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Madame Lebrun, was a prominent French painter. Her artistic style is generally considered part of the aftermath of Rococo, while she often adopts a neoclassical style. Vigée Le Brun cannot be considered a pure Neoclassicist, however, in that…
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Tamineh Monzavi; Brides of Mokhber al-Dowleh, 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #84
“The brides of Mokhber al-Dowleh”, is named after an old Teheran district Tahmineh Monzavi is an Iranian photographer. Her works have been exhibited in museums in several countries, and published by international art magazines and books. She received the Sheed Award in 2011. Monzavi received a bachelor’s degree in photography from Azad Art & Architecture University…
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GARRY SHEAD, THE MEASURING ARTIST 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 61 – With Footnotes
Garry Shead is an Australian artist and filmmaker. Shead trained at the National Art School, Sydney between 1961 and 1962. He originally worked in media, as an editor of publications related to Oz Magazine and as a scenic artist and film editor for the ABC during the 1960’s. Shead has exhibited in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and…
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Jules Frédéric Ballavoine, Portrait of Gypsy 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY with Footnotes. #84
The Gypsy, or Romani, colloquially known as Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally itinerant, living mostly in Europe and the Americas. The Romani originate from the northern Indian subcontinent,from the Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab regions of modern-day India. More on the Gypsy Julles Frederick Ballavoine, American, 1855 – 1901, was born in Paris in 1855 and died in 1901.…
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Renato Guttuso, Marta Marzotto 02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, meet Marta Marzotto, with Footnotes. #83
Marta Marzotto , born Marta Vacondio ( Albinea , 24 February 1931 – Milan , 29 July 2016 ), was a model , stylist and Italian socialite, and also an actress. Her mother was a signalwoman on a toll road and worked in the textile industry. Her father was a railway worker. As a girl…
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Paula Bronstein; wo women taking a selfie 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #82
wo women were photographed taking a selfie on the Talo Kapo beach in Pattani, Thailand, on June 5th, during Eid al-Fitr festivities. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan, a month of fasting, prayer, and reflection for Muslims. Artsy Magazine Paula Bronstein is a photojournalist who entered the profession in 1982 in Providence, Rhode Island. She is…
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Alex Katz, Vivien 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #81
Alex Katz, (born July 24, 1927, New York, U.S.), American figurative painter known for his large-scale simplified images of family and friends. Katz created iconic paintings documenting the American scene and later the American landscape through understated but monumental glimpses of the vernacular world. After returning from a period in the navy in 1946, he…
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Nico Jungman, Stefi Geyer 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #80
Stefi Geyer (June 28, 1888 in Budapest – December 11, 1956 in Zürich) was a Hungarian violinist who was considered one of the leading violinists of her generation. Born in 1888 in Budapest, the daughter of a police doctor who played the violin himself. When she was 5 years old she started playing the violin, with…
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Neil Boyle, Your Place or Mine 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 60 – With Footnotes
Born in Alberta, Canada, Neil Boyle (1931-2006) received formal art training in Alberta at the Banff School of Fine Arts, Canada, and the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles in the 1950s before teaching art for several years at the California Art Institute in Thousand Oaks, California. Over the next decade, Boyle provided story illustrations for…
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Jozef Danyi, Mumie 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #79
Mummy, body embalmed, naturally preserved, or treated for burial with preservatives after the manner of the ancient Egyptians. The process varied from age to age in Egypt, but it always involved removing the internal organs (though in a late period they were replaced after treatment), treating the body with resin, and wrapping it in linen bandages.…
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Giuseppe Aureli, Peasants in Harvest on Country Road 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 59 – With Footnotes
Giuseppe Aureli (December 5, 1858 in Rome – 1929) was an Italian painter and watercolourist. His work is noted for its historical subject matter, portraits of Italian noble families as well as genre paintings and local scenes, especially work with Oriental themes. Giuseppe Aureli was born in Rome in 1858. He received his early art…
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Alfred Stieglitz, Portrait of Marie Rapp 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #78
Marie Rapp was Alfred Stieglitz’s secretary at his 291 Gallery, and a lifelong friend. She not only helped run the gallery but assisted with the publication of Camera Work. He photographed her many times. A close friend and confidante, she was an excellent subject, her natural grace and beauty resulting in a touching image. More on this…
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Boris Georgiev, Haydarabad Princess Nilufar 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #77
Princess Begum Sahiba Niloufer Khanum Sultana Farhat of Hyderabad (4 January 1916 – 12 June 1989) was one of the last princesses of the Ottoman Empire. She was married to the second son of the last Nizam of Hyderabad in India. Niloufer was born at the Göztepe Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, at a time when her…
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Mosè Bianchi, Common lady 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #76
Mosè Bianchi ( Monza , 1840-1904) was an Italian painter and printmaker. Bianchi’s family moved from Monza to Milan and he enrolled at the Brera Academy . Having interrupted his studies to serve in the second war of independence, he returned to attend the school directed by Giuseppe Bertini . The award of a grant in…
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Robert Alexander Hillingford; The Tired Warrior 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 57 – With Footnotes
Robert Alexander Hillingford (28 January 1828 – 1904) was an English painter. He specialized in historical pictures, often battle scenes. He was born in London on 28 January 1828, and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf for five years beginning in 1841. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He then traveled to Munich, Rome,…
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Edouard Boubat, Lella, Bretagne 02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #75
Édouard Boubat (13 September, 1923–died Paris 30 June 1999) was a French photojournalist and art photographer. Boubat was born in Montmartre, Paris. He studied typography and graphic arts at the École Estienne and worked for a printing company before becoming a photographer. In 1943 he was subjected to service du travail obligatoire, forced labour of French…
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Gerard van Kuijl, A shepherd and shepherdess 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 56 – With Footnotes
Gerard van Kuijl or Kuijll (1604, Gorinchem – 1673, Gorinchem), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He is known for religious and genre works in the style of Caravaggio. Gerard left for Italy in 1627 or 1628. He joined the Bentvueghels with the nickname Stijgbeugel. In Italy he was a pupil of fellow Bentvueghel Jean…
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Jirí Kolár; Four portraits 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #74
Jiří Kolář (24 September 1914, Protivín – 11 August 2002, Prague) was a Czech poet, writer, painter and translator. His work included both literary and visual art. Kolář was born in Protivín on September 29, 1914 in a working-class environment. He trained early in life as a cabinet maker. He later changed trades several times, working…
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Peter Blake; M is for Marilyn Monroe 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #73
Marilyn Monroe, original name Norma Jeane Mortenson, later called Norma Jeane Baker, Jeane sometimes spelled Jean, (born June 1, 1926, Los Angeles, California, U.S.—died August 5, 1962, Los Angeles), American actress who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s. Her mother was frequently confined in an…
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