Tag: Zaidan
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01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Pegah Samaie’s Defiance, with Footnotes. #161
Pegah Samaie is an American-Iranian artist who was born and grew up in Tehran, Iran. Pegah’s art moves through the shadow of her past life. She uses art as a tool to face the experiences she and other women have encountered in a culture dominated by patriarchal governments and households. Her early experiences in Iran changed…
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16 Works, Today, February 10th. is artist Francesco Hayez’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #041
An odalisque was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan. In western usage, the term came to mean the harem concubine, and refers to the eroticized artistic genre in which a woman is represented mostly or completely nude in a reclining position,…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Follower of Angelica Kauffmann’s Holy Family – with footnotes #193
Angelica Kauffmann, in full Maria Anna Catharina Angelica Kauffmann, (born Oct. 30, 1741, Chur, Switz.—died Nov. 5, 1807, Rome, Papal States [Italy]), painter in the early Neoclassical style who is best known for her decorative wall paintings for residences designed by Robert Adam. Her early paintings were influenced by the French Rococo works of Henri…
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02 Works , RELIGIOUS ART, Archangel Eliel and Ángeles Arcabucero – with footnotes #194
The Cusco School or Cuzco School, was a Roman Catholic artistic tradition based in Cusco, Peru (the former capital of the Inca Empire) during the Colonial period, in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. It was not limited to Cusco only, but spread to other cities in the Andes, as well as to present day…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Georges Rochegrosse’s IDLE MOMENTS, with footnotes
Georges Antoine Rochegrosse (2 August 1859 – 7 November 1938) was a French historical and decorative painter. He was born in Versailles and studied in Paris with Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger. His themes are generally historical, and he treated them on a colossal scale and in an emotional naturalistic style, with a…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, Moretto da Brescia’s The Entombment – with footnotes #193
Moretto’s last major work, this altarpiece was commissioned by the Brescian confraternity known as the Disciplina di San Giovanni Evangelista for their oratory adjacent to the church of the same name. It hung on the upper story of the building which, as was typical in the city, was divided so that men and women could…
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01 photograph, The amorous game, Helmut Newton’s Rich Girl, With Footnotes, #81
Frequently depicting nude subjects in high heels, Newton instead hones in on the shoes themselves in the present work from Private Property Suite II. Beginning an exploration of what high heels represent in society, he investigates the way class presents itself through footwear. Newton later went on to photograph x-rays of feet in high heels…
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01 Work, Interpretations of Hellenic and Roman legends. Salvator Rosa’s Interpretation of The Dream of Aeneas, with footnotes #190
In Book VIII of Virgil’s Aeneid, the Trojan hero Aeneas has landed in Latium, exhausted from the brewing hostilities with the local Rutili and their leader Turnus. “This way and that he turns his anxious mind; thinks, and rejects the counsel he designed; explores himself in vain, and gives no rest to his distracted heart.”…
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20 Works – February 5, 146 BC Punic Wars ended; as did the power of the great Hannibal Barca, with footnotes
The Battle of Zama in the summer of 202 BC marked the end of the power of the great Hannibal Barca. With its greatest son, also Carthage should be at a virtual end. True, it should limp on for some time, but with its defeat at the end of the Second Punic War it no…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice; Martin Rico y Ortega’s Venetian Canal on a Sunny Afternoon, with footnotes. #106
Martín Rico y Ortega (12 November 1833, El Escorial – 13 April 1908, Venice, Italy) was a Spanish painter of landscapes and cityscapes. Rico was one of the most important artists of the second half of the nineteenth century in his native country, and enjoyed wide international recognition. Rico was born in Madrid and received his…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Ender’s Danger inflammable, with Footnotes. #160
Mixed media: torn posters and a stencil made with a spray can mounted on canvas. During his interventions on the walls, Ender collects posters. Most often, he uses the reverse side of these posters, which thus keep the imprint of the previous poster. These are broken down into more or less large pieces, like an…
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01 Marine Painting – Charles Edward Dixon’s The lady, She’s a Liner, with Footnotes, #356
Charles Edward Dixon (8 December 1872 – 12 September 1934) was a British maritime painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, whose work was highly successful and regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy. Several of his paintings are held by the National Maritime Museum and he was a regular contributing artist to magazines and…
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01 Painting, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, Shakir Hassan Al-Said’s UNTITLED (TOWN), with Footnotes – #5E
Shakir Hassan Al Said (1925–2004), an Iraqi painter, sculptor and writer, is considered one of Iraq’s most innovative and influential artists. Born in Samawa, Al Said lived, worked and died in Bagdad. In 1948 he received a degree in social science from the Higher Institute of Teachers in Baghdad and in 1954 a diploma in…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Guillaume Seignac’s Odalisque, with footnotes, #115
An odalisque was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan. In western usage, the term came to mean the harem concubine, and refers to the eroticized artistic genre in which a woman is represented mostly or completely nude in a reclining position,…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Ellen von Unwerth’s Bye Bye Paris, Part #82
Ellen von Unwerth (born 17 January 1954) is a German photographer and director, specializing in erotic femininity. She worked as a fashion model for ten years before becoming a photographer, and now makes fashion, editorial, and advertising photographs. In a 2018 interview with Harper’s Bazaar, she explained her feminist approach to photography: “The women in my…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Louai Kayyali’s Then What, with Footnotes, #66
In Kayyali’s work eleven figures (seven women, two boys and one man) are crowded together as though walking in unison. With most of their gazes turned away from the viewer, they are lost in the suggested horror of their surroundings as several peer up at an invisible, looming force. In the center of the canvas…
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