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- A Dash of Ash | Up in a Flash
- To Market, To Market, To Buy a Fat Pig
- Why do these remind me of the ICPOTA man with his newspaper cap?
- Some Scenics by Phoenix | The Street Artist
- From Hot Winds to Hayricks, its a Garden Idyll
- How Many Kinds of Sweet Flowers Grow In an English Country Garden?
- Adam and Eve or Suzanne and André?
- I Don’t Know About You But … I Decline Myself
- Is the Scalpel Mightier Than the Pen?
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Category Archives: Artists A-Z
To Market, To Market, To Buy a Fat Pig
[Featured images by Bartolomeo Passerotti | Two Market Stalls: The Fish Stall and The Butcher Stall (both oil on canvas 112cm x 152cm).] Italian artist of the Mannerist period Bartolomeo Passerotti, was born in Bologna in 1529. He traveled to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Gallery Art, Paintings
Tagged Italian art, Italian artists;, Mannerist period, Market stalls
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From Hot Winds to Hayricks, its a Garden Idyll
[Mrs. Conder (Portrait of Stella)], [Garden Idyll (ca.1906) 65.2 cm x 75.5 cm], [Hot Wind (1881) oil on board 29 cm x 75 cm] and [Hayricks in Giverny oil on canvas]. English-born painter, lithographer and designer Charles Edward Conder was … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Erotic Art, Gallery Art, Paintings
Tagged aestheticism, Australian artists, Heidelberg School of art
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How Many Kinds of Sweet Flowers Grow In an English Country Garden?
[Peter Abraham – ‘Sunday Teaparty’ Duke of Wellington Art Gallery, Mosman, Sydney, NSW.] Born in Queensland in 1926, Peter Abraham studied at the Brisbane Technical College in Queensland and later at the National Gallery School, Melbourne, Victoria. Abraham became a … Continue reading
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Adam and Eve or Suzanne and André?
[Adam and Eve (1909) Oil on canvas (162 cm x 131 cm)] Suzanne Valadon (23 September 1865 – 7 April 1938) was a French artists’ model and painter born Marie-Clémentine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, in France. She was also the mother … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Erotic Art, Gallery Art, Paintings
Tagged Adam and Eve, Andre Utter, Edgar Degas, Maurice Utrillo, Puvis de Chavannes, Renoir, Steinlen, Toulouse-Lautrec
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I Don’t Know About You But … I Decline Myself
[‘I Decline Myself: ABNbookwork” Cottles Bridge, Vic. ThisTooPress, (2009).] Lyn Ashby was born in 1953. Ashby has a PhD (Studio-based, arts research) from Monash University in Melbourne, the London College of Communication (Master of Arts, Typo/Graphic Studies), the Victorian College … Continue reading
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Hey, Flick That Chip Off Your Shoulder
[“Flick That Chip off Your shoulder” street art mural by Indonesian artist Eko Nugroho in Hosier Lane and “Dilema Generasai #2″, oil & synthetic polymer paint on fiberglass steel, at National Gallery of Victoria]. Eko Nugroho (b. 1977 in Jogyakarta, … Continue reading
Tea for Two and Two for Tea
Peter Philippi was born in 1866 in Trier. He studied between 1885-1902 at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Art. Between 1895 – 1902 Philippi was taught at the Academy by Professor Eduard von Gebhardt. Upon completion of his studies, Philippi … Continue reading
Posted in Artists A-Z, Gallery Art, OilPainting, Paintings
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Compare the Pair #20 | Every Picture Tells A Story
Original Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-August Renoir. Other, modern day representation and replication of the event by unknown photographer recreating image for The Age Good Weekend prize. Pierre-August Renoir’s (1841-1919) Luncheon of the Boating Party stands as a … Continue reading
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A Swine Young Family
“The Young Family” (silicone, acrylic, human hair, leather and timber) by Patricia Piccinini. (Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria.) “The Young Family” features an aged, sow-like mother laying on her side with a litter of suckling pups; as an archetypal maternal scene. … Continue reading
Compare the Pair #19 | This is Wild Man
Australian sculptor Ronald “Ron” Mueck (born 1958, in Melbourne) grew up in the family business of puppetry and doll-making. After spending time working in the family industry, Mueck turned to sculpture. He first came to public attention with his sculpture … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Gallery Art, Sculpture, Street Artists A-Z, StreetArt, StreetArtists
Tagged #Melbourne, Hyperrealism, Oksep, Ron Mueck, street art, street artists, Wild Man
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The Art of UNICEF Never Gives Up
[Above: Nicolas Fimbari – The Procession – Italy] The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) provides emergency food and healthcare to children and women in countries that have been devastated by war or other significant emergencies. UNICEF was created by … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Cards, GreetingCards, Illustrations
Tagged #Christmas, Greeting cards, Unicef, worldwide charities
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Un-Ironed T-Shirt | I’ve Got One of These Too
[Greg Warburton Self-portrait in Da Vinci T-shirt (2003) acrylic and charcoal and conte on paper on timber 180 x 120 cm.] Greg Warburton (born 1952), trained at Hornsby Technical College and Alexander Mackie College in the 1970s. From 1974 to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Gallery Art, StillLife
Tagged Archibald finalists, Australian artists, Da Vinci, Greg Warburton
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Like A Bridge Over Ponded Waters, I Will Lily You Down
Claude Monet is the original artist of the great masterpiece painting Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lillies (1899) oil on canvas 90 cm x 100 cm (Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris) Born Oscar-Claude Monet in France, on 14 November 1840, Monet … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, OilPainting, Paintings, StreetArt, Watercolours
Tagged Banksy, Claude Monet, Giverney, Monet's waterlillies, Sally Swain
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I Can’t Quite Get the Hang of It
[Elizabeth Newman: Untitled (2013) cotton thread on canvas] Elizabeth Newman was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1962 and studied at the Victorian College of the Arts in the 1980s. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions and more than twenty … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Gallery Art, Textiles
Tagged Art, creativity, Op-art, spontoneity
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