Tag: Zaidan
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Greg Gorman’s Sisters, with footnotes # 138
Greg Gorman, born in Kansas City in the US in 1949. Gorman is an American portrait photographer of Hollywood celebrities. His work has been seen in national magazine features and covers, including Esquire, GQ, Interview, Life, Vogue, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Time, Vanity Fair, and the London Sunday Times. Although he studied photojournalism in college, his…
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09 works, Today, August 28th, is Moses the Black’s day, his story illustrated #240
Moses the Black (330–405), also known as Abba Moses the Robber, the Ethiopian , and the Strong, was an ascetic monk and priest in Egypt in the fourth century AD, and a notable Desert Father. According to stories about him, he converted from a life of crime to one of asceticism. Moses was a servant of…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Hossein Kazemi’s Tar Player, with Footnotes, #46
A Tar is an Iranian long-necked string instrument, waisted lute family instrument, used by many cultures. This is in accordance with a practice common in Persian-speaking areas of distinguishing lutes on the basis of the number of strings originally employed. More on a TarA leading and pioneer Iranian Modern artist, Hossein Kazemi moved away from the…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Gabrielle Renard with Footnotes. #132
Between 1907 and 1911, Renoir painted several canvases that depict Gabrielle Renard, the principal model and muse of his late years, loosely clad in a semi-transparent white chemise that falls open to reveal her ample form. In the present canvas, Gabrielle is seated at a small mirrored dressing table, languorously adjusting a scarf in her hair;…
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8 Works by Louis Icart, Honoré Daumier, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, , Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall, with footnotes
Louis Icart Laurent Justin , born in 1888 in Toulouse and died in 1950 in Paris , is a painter, engraver and illustrator. Impressed by its designer, his aunt made the move to Paris: she showed his work to the House Valmont, milliner to the Belle Époque . Louis Icart was then introduced in the illustration media for…
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01 Painting – Marine Art, Sir Frank Brangwyn’s THE LAST FIGHT OF THE REVENGE, with Footnotes
The Battle of Flores was a naval engagement of the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585 fought off the Island of Flores between an English fleet of 22 ships under Lord Thomas Howard and a Spanish fleet of 53 ships under Alonso de Bazán. Sent to the Azores to capture the annual Spanish treasure convoy, when a stronger…
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01 Sculpture, Olympian deities, Scipione Tadolini’s GREEK SLAVE, with footnotes
About the sculpture. This elegantly conceived figure of a Greek Slave is one of Scipione Tadolini’s defining masterpieces. Tadolini was the eldest son and inheritor of Antonio Canova’s principal studio assistant, Adamo Tadolini, and, like his father, he rapidly emerged as one of the leading sculptors in Rome during his lifetime. The superbly carved and…
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19 Works, Aug 19th. is Gerbrand van den Eeckhout’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #196
The Adoration of the Magi (anglicized from the Matthean Vulgate Latin section title: A Magis adoratur) is the name traditionally given to the subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, lay before him gifts of…
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11 Classic Works of Art by the Old Masters, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #21
SS La Bretagne was an ocean liner that sailed for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT) from her launch in 1886 to 1912, sailing primarily in transatlantic service on the North Atlantic. Sold to Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique in 1912, she sailed for that company under her original name and, later, as SS Alesia on France–South…
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08 Mosaic , Olympian deities, Roman wall painting from Pompeii, with footnotes, #10
Eros brought by Peïtho to Venus; Anteros laughs at him because he is being punished for having chosen the wrong target. In Greek mythology, Peitho is the goddess who personifies persuasion and seduction. Her Roman equivalent is Suada or Suadela. She is the goddess of charming speech. She is typically presented as an important companion…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Circle of Hans von Aachen’s The Last Supper, with Footnotes – 188
It is interesting for me is the artist’s blatant incorporating Mary Magdalene alongside Jesus. The Last Supper is the final meal that, in the Gospel accounts, Jesus shared with his Apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion. The Last Supper provides the scriptural basis for the Eucharist, also known as “Holy Communion” or “The Lord’s Supper”. The…
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01 Religious Icon, A saint flagellating himself and holding a crucifix, with footnotes #15
Ivory, carved in relief. Representation of a saint flagellating himself and holding a crucifix. In the lower area depiction of a skull (Memento-Mori). Several cherubim appear in the upper area. More on this relief The Flagellation, in a Christian context, refers to an episode in the Passion of Christ prior to Jesus’ crucifixion. The practice of mortification…
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09 works, Today, August 15th, is the Dormition of the Virgin Mary day, her story illustrated #227
Jacques Joseph Tissot (15 October 1836–8 August 1902), Anglicized as James Tissot, was a French painter and illustrator. He was a successful painter of Paris society before moving to London in 1871. He became famous as a genre painter of fashionably dressed women shown in various scenes of everyday life. He also painted scenes and…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Román Ribera Cirera’s Leaving the ball, with footnotes, Part 76
The present painting typifies Ribera’s work of this period, with the elegantly dressed women being directed towards their cab after having attended a formal occasion. Here, Ribera focuses the viewer on his highly skilled rendering of the central figures’ clothing and their sumptuous fabrics and fur. Although his later work took on a more social…
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01 Painting – Marine Art, Gustave Buchet’s Study of boats, with Footnotes, #328
Gustave Buchet, (1888 – 1963) belongs to a generation of Swiss artists drawn to the Parisian avant-garde movements and interested in Cubism in the early years of the 20th century. Born in 1888 in Étoy, Buchet founds Le Falot group in Geneva in 1915 with several other artists. These artists are looking to resist the influence…
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05 Paintings, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 17 – With Footnotes
Gabriel Spat, 1890–1967 was born in Kishinev, Russia, now Chisinau, Moldova. He was active in France from 1919 to 1942 and in the USA from 1942. Spat studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Geneva, as well as in Paris, at the Académie Colarossi and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. After World War I,…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Tamara de Lempicka’s Portrait de Marjorie Ferry, with Footnotes. #143
Portrait de Marjorie Ferry was painted in 1932 in the artist’s studio on rue Méchain in Paris. Marjorie Ferry, a well-known British chanteuse performing in Paris, is the quintessence of Jazz Age glamour, coolly seductive and unmistakably modern. In fact, there is something of the ocean liner about her streamlined, metallic glossiness. Standing by the…
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