Tag: Zaidan
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Allan Douglas Davidson, Model posing 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 34
Allan Douglas Davidson, R.B.A., R.O.I., R.M.S. (1873–1932) was an English painter who predominantly worked in oils and specialized in female nudes. He was born in London on 14 May 1873. His father was the historical painter Thomas Davidson (1842–1919). Allan studied art at the Royal Academy Schools in London, where he won a medal and the Armitage…
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Edward Aubrey Hunt; Shipping in a heavy swell 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #146
Edward Aubrey Hunt, 1855 – 1922, was born at Weymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Educated at Weymouth, Boston, Mass. and entered the architectural firm of Emerson & Fehmer but decided to take art as a career and admitted to L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and studied in there for five years. He returned to London in 1878…
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DELACROIX EUGÈNE; Odaliske with feline 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 62
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. As a painter and muralist, Delacroix’s use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the…
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Ron Hicks; The Discussion 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #54
Ron Hicks ( Columbus , 1965 ) was born in Columbus, Ohio, and is one of four children of a truck driver. He spent his childhood in the quiet and friendly Park Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado where the family moved when Ron, and his twin brother Don, were two years old. From an early age…
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Youssef Nabil, B. 1972, JANNANE AL ANI, c. 2006 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #53
Jananne Al-Ani (born 1966) is an Irish-Iraqi artist, born in Kirkuk, Iraq in 1966 to an Iraqi father and Irish mother. She studied Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art and graduated with an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art in 1997. Working with photography, film and video, Al-Ani has an…
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Edward William Cooke; Sunset on the Lagune of Venice 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #67
The Venetian Lagoon (Łaguna de Venesia) is an enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea, in northern Italy, in which the city of Venice is situated. The Lagoon of Venice is the most important survivor of a system of estuarine lagoons that in Roman times extended from Ravenna north to Trieste. In the sixth century, the Lagoon…
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Edouard Verschaffelt; A FAMILY SCENE IN KABYLIA 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, 61
Edouard Verschaffelt was a Belgian orientalist painter born in Ghent in 1874 and died in Bou Saâda in 1955. He was deeply rooted in Algeria. He produced paintings of the roots and passion of this Algerian reality, so abused by orientalist exoticism. Edouard Verschaffelt took a contrary view of academic, colonial Orientalism. A pupil of the Antwerp…
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Montague Dawson, The Q. 9. Mary B. Mitchell 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #170
The Mary B Mitchell was a British and later an Irish schooner, affectionately known as Mary B.. She was a pleasure craft, a war hero, a working schooner, a film star and a transporter of essential cargoes in dangerous waters. Built in 1892 she carried slate from Wales. In 1912 she was acquired by Lord Penrhyn…
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Meftah Raouf; AMOUR- حب – LOVE 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 30
Meftah Raouf. His love for calligraphy art and discovering art styles built his wealth and transmit it through his work. His calligraphy is the fruit of this wealth that raises questions. His calligraphy is unique and combined to other artistic techniques; they touch the heart and catch the eye of the public. Thanks to a perfect…
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Igor Semeko, Hug 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 53 – With Footnotes
Igor Semeko was born in Belarus in 1961, and he studied at the Minsk School of Art from 1976 until 1980. He continued his art studies in the Academy of Art Republic Belarus, until 1986. Semeko specializes in decorative and applied arts in oil, and his works are characterized by rich textures and colors. He…
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WILLIAM HENRY CLAPP, THE ARTIST AND HIS MODEL 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 33
William Henry Clapp is one of the monarchs of Canadian Impressionism. Indifferent as an artist to the emotional elements implicit in everyday experience, he extolled landscapes and the human figure – specifically the nude. In painting these works, he observed the phenomena of light on the generative forces of the organic world. The body is…
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Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek, A MERCHANTMAN OFF VEERE 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #219
Veere is a municipality in the southwestern Netherlands, in the region of Walcheren in the province of Zeeland. Wolfert Van Borssele established a ferry and ferry house there in 1281. In the same year Wolfert also built the castle Sandenburg on one of the dikes he had built. On 12 November 1282, Count Floris V. thereupon…
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Paul Renard, Paris Street Scene 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 59 – With Footnotes
Paul Renard (French, 1941-1997) remained faithful his entire life to painting the soft scenes that he saw around him as a boy of the bustling sidewalks of Paris. He applied his sensitive and consuming fascination, with seeking to capture the beauty of French city life and country rivers on canvas as he saw them right up…
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Ezio Ricci; Old Couple 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 52 – With Footnotes
Ezio Ricci, (Lucca 1885 – 1968), was born in Lucca, a pupil at the local Istituto di Belle Arti, Ezio Ricci showed an early talent for real life painting. In 1916 he was appointed professor of the decorative arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Perugia, where he spent seven years working hard but…
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Jamil Naqsh, Al-Haqq/ Truth 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 29
Jamil Naqsh, (25 December 1939 – 16 May 2019) was a British Pakistani painter who lived a reclusive life in London from 2012 until his death. He briefly studied at National College of Arts but left before obtaining a degree. His work has been described as idealized and sensual. Jamil Naqsh was born in Kairana, British…
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ERWIN OLAF, MILAN HOTEL 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 32
These photographs by Irwin feature models posing sometimes elegantly, provocatively or demurely in replica hotel guest rooms across the world with subtle differences such as a discarded shoe or a lit message on an answer phone. Particularly influenced by the early 1960’s, the décor and lighting make reference to this era and are further underscored…
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Edouard Verschaffelt; Family scene, spinners 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 60
Edouard Verschaffelt was a Belgian orientalist painter born in Ghent in 1874 and died in Bou Saâda in 1955. He was deeply rooted in Algeria. He produced paintings of the roots and passion of this Algerian reality, so abused by orientalist exoticism. Edouard Verschaffelt took a contrary view of academic, colonial Orientalism. A pupil of the Antwerp…
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Bernardo Canal, THE GRAND CANAL 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with footnotes. #65
The Grand Canal in Venice, Italy forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city. Public transport is provided by water buses and private water taxis, and many tourists explore the canal by gondola. One end of the canal leads into the lagoon near the Santa Lucia railway station and the other end leads into…
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