Tag: Zaidan
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JOE NORRIS, FOUR SCHOONERS AT ANCHOR 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #209
Joe Norris was born in 1924 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The family moved to Lower Prospect when Joe was seven years old. Much of his childhood was characterized by sickness, in particular pleurisy. This kept him away from school a great deal of the time. Being confined, he took up painting to keep himself occupied. Later…
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Georges Clairin, FANTASIA 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 71
Fantasia is a traditional exhibition of horsemanship in the Maghreb, performed during cultural festivals and to close Maghrebi wedding celebrations. “Fantasia” is an imported name, the actual traditional term used is lab el baroud. The performance consists of a group of horse riders, all wearing traditional clothes, who charge along a straight path at the same…
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SANYU; Five Nudes 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 151
The first time Sanyu encountered the exotic and strange world of nude sketching was in the 1920s at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. For the average Chinese person at that time, it must have been hard to accept that depictions of naked woman should be anything but a form of glorified pornography, even though…
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Georges Washington, FORDING THE WADI 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 70
Wadi is the Arabic term traditionally referring to a valley. In some instances, it may refer to a dry riverbed that contains water only when heavy rain occurs. George Washington, born 15 September 1827 in Marseille and died November 19, 1901 in Douarnenez, was a French Orientalist painter. Like most aspiring artists, the young Georges Washington moved…
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Paul Hitter, The Pit 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #63
Paul Hitter, (b. 1977) is from Bucharest Romania, Paul studied in Munich at the prestigious Akademie der Bildenden Kunste. While completing his studies, he was showcasing his art with famous musicians like Gogol Bordello, Taraf de Hajdouks, Rona Hartner and Fanfare Vagabondu. This form of exhibiting his art with music, brought him instant international recognition. Now…
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Johnny Popkess, Coast Guard 01 Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #147
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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BINOY VARGHESE, Untitled 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #125
Born in 1966 in Kerala, Binoy Varghese is a National Diploma holder in Fine Arts from R.L.V. College, Thripunithura. He worked as artist-in-residence at Madhavan Nair Foundation India in Kochi, at Cholamandal Artists’ Village in Chennai, Kanoria Art Centre in Ahmedabad, Apparao Galleries in New Delhi and then at the Banff Centre for Arts in Canada and…
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Jonas Lie, Sailboats 01 Work, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #145
Jonas Lie (April 29, 1880 – January 18, 1940), was born in Norway, and lived there until the death of his father at the age of twelve. He was sent to live with his uncle in Paris, a distinguished poet and novelist with the same name, but reunited with his mother, an American woman from…
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Antonio María Fabrés y Costa, A GIFT FOR THE FAVOURITE 01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 69
Antoni Maria Fabrés i Costa (Spanish: Antonio Maria Fabrés y Costa; 1854–1938), also known as Antoni Fabrés, was a famous Catalan sculptor and painter during the turn of the 20th century. It is said that he inherited his artistic skills, as his father was a draughtsman and his uncle a silversmith. He started studying at…
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Fried Pal, Untitled, (Can Can Dancers) 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 63 – With Footnotes
The can-can is a high-energy, physically demanding dance that became a popular music hall dance in the 1840s, continuing in popularity in French cabaret to this day. Originally danced by both sexes, it is now traditionally associated with a chorus line of female dancers. The main features of the dance are the vigorous manipulation of…
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Effat Nagui, UNTITLED (GIRL WITH HER GOAT) 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 39
Effat Nagy (5 April 1905 – 4 October 1994) was an Egyptian artist who has a museum in Cairo devoted to her and her husband’s works. The museum is called Museum of Saad El-Khadem and Effat Nagy Effat Mousa Nagy was born in the Mediterranean port of Alexandria in 1905. She was fascinated by culture, she…
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Michael Zeno Diemer, TALL SHIP OFF CRETE 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #218
Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. Crete and a number of surrounding islands and islets constitute the region of Crete. It was once the centre of the Minoan civilisation (c.…
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Arthur David McCormick, The Return of the Pirates 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #217
Arthur David McCormick FRGS (Coleraine 14 October 1860 – 1943) was a notable British illustrator and painter of landscapes, historical scenes, naval subjects, and genre scenes. McCormick was born in Ulster and, after education at local schools, went to London. McCormick was educated at the Royal College of Art in 1883–1886. He worked for The English…
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Abraham Walkowitz, Isadora Duncan 03 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Isadora Duncan, with Footnotes. #60
Angela Isadora Duncan (May 26, 1877 or May 27, 1878 – September 14, 1927) was an American and French dancer who performed to acclaim throughout Europe. Born in California, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50, when her scarf became entangled in the…
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Raphael von Ambros, TOBACCO SELLER, CAIRO 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 68
Von Ambros depicts a busy tobacco stall outside a coffee shop in the streets of Cairo. On the left, two young men roll cigarettes which have been neatly hung by the merchant on his stall. On the right, a customer samples a cigarette, pondering a purchase. Above the stall on a shelf stand five glass…
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Peter Clapham Sheppard, DRY DOCK 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #208
Peter Clapham Sheppard ARCA OSA (1882-1965) Born in Toronto on October 21, 1882, Peter C. Sheppard would go on to study at the Ontario Collage of Art where, like many of the finest artists of his generation, he received an artistic education from George Reid, John William Beatty, and William Cruickshank. He had a very successful career…
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C.I. GIBBONS, ORIOLE, AILEEN AND ZELMA 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #206
In 1861 the Prince of Wales was asked by members of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club (R.C.Y.C.) if he would donate a cup to commemorate his visit to Toronto the previous year. He agreed and so began the annual Prince of Wales Cup Race on Lake Ontario. During the 1880s the Aileen and Oriole –…
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Ştefan Câlţia, Princess 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, A Princess, with Footnotes. #61
Ștefan Câlția (born May 15, 1942) is a contemporary Romanian painter. Born in Brașov, he attended the arts and music high school in Timișoara from 1959 to 1963. He then graduated in 1970 from the Nicolae Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest. Since the 1970s, Câlția has held exhibitions in Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, and…
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Léon Belly, GAZELLE HUNT IN EGYPT 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 67
Belly travelled to Egypt three times, in 1850, 1856, and 1857. The Gazelle Hunt was most likely worked up from sketches Belly made in 1856 during his excursion into the Sinai desert with fellow painters Narcisse Berchère and Jean-Léon Gérôme. More on this painting Léon Auguste Adolphe Belly (1827–1877) was a French landscape painter. He was born at…
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Bernardo Cavallino, Saint John the Evangelist 01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 172
Saint John the Apostle, also called Saint John the Evangelist or Saint John the Divine (flourished 1st century ce), in Christian tradition, the author of three letters, the Fourth Gospel, and the Revelation to John in the New Testament. He played a leading role in the early church at Jerusalem. John was the son of Zebedee, a Galilean fisherman, and Salome. John and his brother James were among the…
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