Tag: Woman
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Otto Dix; Sailor and girl 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 51 – With Footnotes
Otto Dix, (born December 2, 1891, Untermhaus, Thuringia, Germany—died July 25, 1969, Singen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany), German painter and engraver who mixed compassion and Expressionist despair to create works harshly critical of society. He was associated and exhibited with the Neue Sachlichkeit group of painters. Son of a railway worker, Dix was apprenticed to a decorative…
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Richard Rothwell, Portrait of Mary Shelley 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #46
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her…
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Johnny Popkess, Holiday Romance 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 51 – With Footnotes
Johnny Popkess was born in London, “I spent much of my early life in various fairly remote parts of Africa, developing a fondness for beauty in its most natural state – as things really are, rather than as they are often made to appear. I moved to the heart of Paris, within a stone’s throw of…
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Juarez Machado, Tango 02 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 50 – With Footnotes
Juarez Machado was born in 1941 in the city of Joinville, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He studied at the School of Art in the state of Paranâ, in the city of Curitiba, and participated actively in its artistic movement. In 1966 he took up residence in Rio de Janeiro, intensifying his activities. In…
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John Opie, Mary Wollstonecraft 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #45
Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children’s book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792),…
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Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Self-portrait 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #42
Stylistically, Vigée Le Brun avoided both the lightness of Late Rococo and the artifice of Neo-Classicism, countering both with a modulated naturalism. She became an artist against great odds, as did any woman in late-18th-century Paris, and aided by the patronage of Marie Antoinette, went on to thrive in a nine-lives, astutely managed sort of…
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Sunday, February 25, 2018 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #21
Abel Dominique Boye, 1864-1934, FRENCH LA ROUSSE/ The redhead Oil on canvas 39 3/8 by 29 in., 100 by 73.5 cm Private collection Abel-Dominique Boyé (6 May 1864–1934) was a French painter. He was decorated with the Legion of Honor. His principal works include: Nymph of Diana (bronze medal, 1888); Pit Sawyer (Agen, 1889); Twilight (1891); Sunday in Seville (1893); and…
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04 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., Diane de Poitiers, with Footnotes. #40
Salvador Dalí ‘Diane de Poitiers’, 114/250 Hand-colored drypoint etching 40 x 50 cm Private collection Diane de Poitiers (3 September 1499 – 25 April 1566) was a French noblewoman and a prominent courtier at the courts of king Francis I and his son, King Henry II of France. She became notorious as King Henry’s chief mistress and in this…
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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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Ralph Hedley, Jack ashore, old Whitby 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 49 – With Footnotes
Whitby is a town in North Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, northeastern England. It is situated at the mouth of the River Esk on the North Sea. Ralph Hedley (31 December 1848 – 14 June 1913) was a realist painter, woodcarver and illustrator, best known for his paintings portraying scenes of everyday life in the North East…
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Sir James Jebusa Shannon, The Flower Girl 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #44
Sir James Jebusa Shannon, RA, RBA, RHA (British, 1862-1923) The Flower Girl, c. 1900 Oil paint on canvas 838 x 660 mm Tate The Flower Girl; painted while the artist and his family were on holiday at Eastbourne in 1900. The woman was a flower girl whom they met regularly every morning on their way down…
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Sir James Jebusa Shannon, Contemplation 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #43
Sir James Jebusa Shannon RA (1862–1923), Anglo-American artist, was born in Auburn, New York, and at the age of eight was taken by his parents to Canada. When he was sixteen, he went to England, where he studied at South Kensington, and after three years won the gold medal for figure painting. His portrait of…
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Marco Cornini, Untitled 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 51 – With Footnotes
The artist of desire, essentially, is Marco Cornini (Milan, 1966). Graduated in sculpture at Brera, his hands have almost exclusively modeled female figures for thirty years. In terracotta colored with acrylics, of medium size. Slim young women, long hair, all rather similar to each other, always very little dressed, sitting or half-lying, isolated in space, in a waiting position. Softly (very…
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Badri Narayan, Untitled 02 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 52 – With Footnotes
Badri Narayan (22 July 1929, Secunderabad, India – 23 September 2013, Bangalore) was an artist, illustrator, author and story-teller. Narayan began painting with no formal training, and his first public showing was in 1949, followed by a solo show in 1954. He had over 50 solo shows and his work is in several collections, including the…
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Jurij Frey, Seated 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 50 – With Footnotes
The German artist Jurij Frey has developed a realist style of painting whose blocks of colour and contrasts of light nevertheless allow us to make out all of the inner complexity. Inspired by a universal subject, man and his condition, the painter and trained illustrator proceeds with touches that he applies with lively, irregular gestures, always…
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Zhanna Kondratenko, Twain 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 49 – With Footnotes
Zhanna Kondratenko: “Art has been rooted in my mind since early childhood. And since that time painting has become the special tool of learning, not only external world, but also the inner one. I believe we can find beauty and inspiration even in any trifle. I am interested in art with all its genres and…
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Francis William Topham, A Zouave relating his adventures, 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 46 – With Footnotes
The Zouaves were a class of light infantry regiments of the French Army serving between 1830 and 1962 and linked to French North Africa, as well as some units of other countries modelled upon them. The zouaves, along with the indigenous Tirailleurs Algeriens, were among the most decorated units of the French Army. More on the Zouave Francis…
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Jules Worms, Rendezvous 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 45 – With Footnotes
Jules Worms was born into a family of Parisian shopkeepers in the early years of the July Monarchy, a period in French history that is characterized by the cultivation of a thriving comic tradition in the visual arts. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, beginning in 1849 under Jean-Baptiste-Adolf Lafrosse, and made his debut at…
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Jack Vettriano, SURRENDER 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 44 – With Footnotes
Jack Vettriano, OBE (né Jack Hoggan, born 17 November 1951), is a Scottish painter. His 1992 painting, The Singing Butler, became a best-selling image in Britain. Jack Vettriano grew up in the industrial seaside town of Methil, Fife. He was raised in poverty, and lived with his mother, father and older brother in a spartan miner’s…
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Theodor Grust, Profile of a Woman, 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #38
Theodor Grust (1859-1919) was a German genre and porcelain painter from the Saxon town Meissen. Grust studied at the Academy in Dresden as a pupil of Theodor Grosse. Later he went to Munich. The artist travelled to Belgium and to the Netherlands before he settled down in his hometown Meissen. Grust worked there in the famous…
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