Tag: writing
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01 Photograph – Marine Art, Kasia Derwinska’s Melancholy has the scent of sea, With Footnotes, #323
On sale for C$1,095 in May 2025 Kasia Derwinska “Photography is my way of communicating with the world. In my work, I talk about own experiences, thoughts, doubts, fears and hopes trying to reflect my own life’s path. In addition to my experiences, my creations are inspired by night dreams as since childhood I remember most…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Alphonse Legros’ Femmes en Prière/ Women at prayer – with footnotes #201
This work portrays a group of mainly young women, seated or kneeling to pray, in a dimly lit austere French church. The women are all dressed in black with primarily white caps. One cannot conceive anything more gently touching than this grand and pensive scheme, where all is on the same lofty level – sentiment,…
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Jean Veber’s Dynamis, with footnotes #237
Dynamis is one of Veber’s most striking works: Industry, embodied by a demonic woman, takes visible pleasure in crushing the workers who serve her… Jean Veber (13 February 1864 – 28 November 1928) was a French caricaturist and painter. Jean Veber was born in Paris in 1864. Trained as a painter, he became an illustrator when his…
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01 Work, Interpretations of Olympian deities, Jacob de Backer’s Paris Being Admitted to the Bedchamber of Helen, with footnotes #38
Helen was the daughter of Zeus and Leda, and considered in Greek myth to be the most beautiful woman in the world. She was married to Menelaus, King of Sparta. When the Trojan prince Paris abducted Helen and carried her off to the city of Troy, the Greeks responded by mounting an attack on the city,…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Harry Morley’s A Wayside Madonna, with Footnotes – #53
A small group of women stand behind the foreground sitter, their silent attitudes seeming to turn in judgement against her. The gate to her village beyond is shut, symbolising the refusal of passage to the mother (Madonna) to her home; Palestine! Harry Morley was born in Leicester, England on 5 April 1881 and studied architecture at…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Kent Monkman’s Welcoming the Newcomers, with Footnotes
The truism that (art) history is written by the victors has a particular relevance to the narratives and images created during the heyday of European colonial empires in the Americas. Sculptures and paintings made from the beginning of contact through to the twentieth century show Indigenous North Americans as figures who are destined to fade…
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1 Painting, Camille Hilaire’s The clown Auguste on the track, with footnotes
For sale for 1850 € in Nov 2024 The Auguste clown character-type is often an anarchist, a joker, or a fool. He is clever and has much lower status than the whiteface. Classically the whiteface character instructs the Auguste character to perform his bidding. The Auguste has a hard time performing a given task, which…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, Amelia Goddard’s The orange sellers, with footnotes, #96
Sold for £16,575 in June 2022Amelie Goddard was born in Christchurch, Hampshire, close to the New Forest in southern England but lived most of her life within the boundaries of the national park. Both Amelia and her elder sister Eliza (b. 1840) became artists and travelled to France to further their studies when Amelia was still…
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