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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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Maurice Utrillo, MONTMARTRE, MOULIN À LA GALETTE 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 55 – With Footnotes
The Moulin de la Galette is a windmill and associated businesses situated near the top of the district of Montmartre in Paris. Since the 17th century the windmill has been known for more than just its milling capabilities. Nineteenth-century owners and millers, the Debray family, made a brown bread, galette, which became popular and thus the…
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Othman Khuzaim; Untitled 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 23
Othman Khuzaim الفنان عثمان الخزيم (Saudi) is one of the prominent names of the first generations of Saudi artists who participated in the establishment of the visual art procession including Al-Saleem, Al-Ridawi, Nabila Al Bassam and Safia Bin Zaqer. He is a graduate of the Institute of art Education for Teachers in Riyadh and holds a…
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Pino Daeni; Purity Embellished 01 Works & Movie, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 26
Pino Daeni (November 8, 1939 – May 25, 2010) was an Italian-American book illustrator and artist. He is known for his style of feminine, romantic women and strong men painted with loose but accurate brushwork. Considered one of the highest paid book illustrators of his time, he created over 3,000 book covers, movie posters and magazine…
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Mary Stubberfield; Camara de lobos 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #163
Fishing boats at the harbour of Camara de Lobos near Funchal in Madeira, where Winston Churchill painted. Câmara de Lobos; literally, Portuguese chamber of the sealions, is a municipality, parish and town in the south-central coast of the island of Madeira, Portugal. The location of the modern town is believed to be the original landing point…
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Stéphanie Gevrey; ATHENA 01 Contemporary Interpretation, Olympian deities, with footnotes #14
Athena, often given the epithet Pallas, is the goddess of wisdom, craft, and war in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Athena is known for her calm temperament, as she moves slowly to anger. She is noted to have only fought for just reasons, and would not fight without a purpose. Athena is portrayed as an astute…
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Stéphanie Gevrey, Hera 01 Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian deities, with footnotes #13
Hera is the goddess of women, marriage, family, and childbirth in ancient Greek religion and myth, one of the Twelve Olympians and the sister-wife of Zeus. She is the daughter of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. Hera rules over Mount Olympus as queen of the gods. A matronly figure, Hera served as both the patroness and…
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Kasia Derwinska, Imagination is the only escape 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #191
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 of them and I believe that…
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Bolognese School, RINALDO AND ARMIDA 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 169
Armida is a fictional character created by the Italian late Renaissance poet Torquato Tasso. She is a Saracen sorceress. In his epic Gerusalemme liberata, Rinaldo is a fierce and determined warrior who is also honorable and handsome. Armida has been sent to stop the Christians from completing their mission and is about to murder the sleeping…
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Martein Peeters, Nudes 01 Works & Movie, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 25
Martein Peeters (1969) works as a painter in Amsterdam. As a thirteen year old Peeters discovered oil paint. Inspired by the works of Van der Weyden, Eyck and Willink, he started making very detailed large paintings. Peeters continued his journey as a painter at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, known for its traditional…
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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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Inji Efflatoun, FELOUKAS ON THE NILE 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 23
A felucca is a traditional wooden sailing boat used in protected waters of the Red Sea and eastern Mediterranean, in Egypt and Sudan (particularly along the Nile), including Malta and Tunisia, and also in Iraq. Its rig consists of one or two lateen sails. The crew consists of two or three people. Despite the availability of motorboats…
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Gen Paul, PLACE DU TERTRE 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 54 – With Footnotes
Gen Paul, 1895 – 1975 PLACE DU TERTRE Oil on canvas 25 1/2 by 31 3/4 in., 64.8 by 80.7 cm Private collection The Place du Tertre is a square in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. Only a few streets away from Montmartre’s Basilica of the Sacré Cœur and the Lapin Agile, it is near the…
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Apollonio Domenichini, Fondamenta Nuove 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #59
The Fondamente Nove or Nuove (New Foundations) form a long series of quays forming the northern limit of the city of Venice and located on the horses of the sestieri of Cannaregio and Castello. Approximately one kilometer long, the Nove Fondamente were made in the XVI th. century after the burial of the lagoon band between the Canale…
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Jean-François Arrigoni Neri, LES CHAMELIERS/ THE CAMEL RIDERS 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 55
Jean-François Arrigoni Neri , born in Paris on March 28 , 1937 and died the November 23 , 2014 is a French painter , illustrator , engraver and lithographer. In 1951, at the age of 14, he entered the Estienne 2 School from where he graduated in 1955 with the Prix Cortot d’Engraving. After working for ten years…
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John Charles Allcot, The Pamir in Sydney Harbour 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #127
Pamir, a four-masted barque, was one of the famous Flying P-Liner sailing ships of the German shipping company F. Laeisz. She was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn, in 1949. By 1957, she had been outmoded by modern bulk carriers and could not operate at a profit. Her shipping consortium’s inability to…
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William Lentz Weiss, Boston Harbor Scene 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #189
Boston Harbor is a natural harbor and estuary of Massachusetts Bay, and is located adjacent to the city of Boston, Massachusetts. It is home to the Port of Boston, a major shipping facility in the northeastern United States. Since its discovery to Europeans by John Smith in 1614, Boston Harbor has been an important port in…
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