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Category Archives: OilPainting
Picasso’s Last Words | Drink to Me, Drink to My Health
World renowned Spanish painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramicist, and stage designer Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, (Pablo Picasso) was born on 25 October, 1881 but spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists … Continue reading
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Get Your Togs Off | Swimsuits Are Optional
Paul Serusier – In 1888, while a student at the Academie Julian in Paris, Serusier visited the Breton village of Pont-Aven, where he met the influential painter Paul Gauguin. The young Serusier adopted with enthusiasm many of Gauguin’s revolutionary ideas, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bathers, Swimmers
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The Presentation, Sir Lancelot and the Wise Virgins
English artist and illustrator Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872 – 1945) was born in Upper Norwood, Surrey. The late Victorian period produced a fine school of artist-illustrators of whom Fortescue-Brickdale was one of the best. She illustrated many books and also painted … Continue reading
O’Brien’s Sacred Music of Colour
Australian artist Justin Maurice O’Brien was born in Hurstville, New South Wales in 1917 and studied art under Edward Smith. O’Brien is best known for his colourful and exuberant depictions of religious themes inspired by his biblical knowledge and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian artists, Byzantine art, Justin O'Brien, Sacred Music of Colour
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Compare the Pair #21 | Goya’s Empress in New Clothes
Son of a Basque, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was born on March 30, 1746 in Fuendetodos, Aragón, Spain. Goya is known as a Spanish romantic painter and print-maker and regarded as the last of the Old Masters and … Continue reading
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Tagged Goya, Prado Museum Madrid, Spanish art, Spanish artists, The Clothed Maja, The Nude Maja
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Pierre Bonnard | Le Nabi le trés japonard
French painter, illustrator, and print-maker Pierre Bonnard was born in Fontenay-aux-Roses, Hauts-de-Seine on 3 October 1867. Bonnard showed a talent for drawing and water colours, as well as caricatures. He painted frequently in the gardens of his parent’s country home … Continue reading
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Master Hans | The Cameraman at the Court of the Tudor King
German artist and print-maker Hans Holbein the Younger, was born c. 1497 in Augsburg, Germany. He is called “the Younger” to distinguish him from his father, Hans Holbein the Elder; an accomplished painter of the Late Gothic school. Holbein the … Continue reading
I’m Your Venus | I’m Your Fire | At Your Desire
The work: Venus and Anchises. Venus (Greek: Aphrodite), was the Roman goddess of beauty and love and considered as either sprung from the foam of the sea, or the daughter of Jupiter and Dione. Her husband was Vulcan but she … Continue reading
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What’s green and pink and hangs on the wall?
[Above image: Entitled 3: We all have a dream of a place we belong. (2013) synthetic polymer paint, marble dust and gold leaf on canvas and wood. Yvonne Pettengell Bequest, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)]. Australian artist Tomislav Nikolic was … Continue reading
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The Archer and the Shamisen Player | Waiting for the Rickshaw
Painter and etcher Mortimer Menpes was born in Port Adelaide, South Australia in 1855. Menpes studied art at the School of Design, Adelaide. He went to London at the age of 19 and became a pupil and close friend of … Continue reading
The Lesson by Sant is Sure to Enchant
[James Sant (1820-1916) The Lesson oil on canvas 89 cm Royal Academy] British portrait painter and Royal Academy member James Sant (1820–1916) was born in Croydon, Surrey. His main tutors were John Varley and Augustus Wall Callcott. Sant was elected … Continue reading
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Tagged Lewis Carroll, Royal Academy artists, Royal Academy of Arts, Tate Gallery
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Anchor’s Aweigh | On a Ship With Vernet
[Seaport by Moonlight (La nuit un port de mer au clair de lune) Musee du Louvre, Paris] French landscape and seascape artist Claude-Joseph Vernet was born in Avignon, France on 14 August, 1714. At the age of 14, Vernet worked … Continue reading
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The Raft of the Medusa and Two Naked Men
[Images: Nude Warrior with a Spear, Man Naked to the Waist, and The Raft of the Medusa] French artist and lithographer Jean-Louis Andre Theodore Géricault (26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824) was born in Rouen, France. Géricault was one … Continue reading
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Franz Marc | Degenerate Artist
All eight images above were painted over a three year period and form a part of a menagerie of animal artworks from cows, cats, horses, a fox, a little blue horse, a monkey, a dog lying in the snow and … Continue reading
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Tagged #Cubism, Degenerate Art, Degenerate Artists, futurism, German Expressionism
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On Today | Wednesday December 12 1979
Japanese artist On Kawara (December 24, 1932 – July 10, 2014) was a Japanese conceptual artist who lived in New York City from 1965. Kawara belonged to a broadly international generation of conceptual artists that began to emerge in the … Continue reading
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Tagged conceptual art, conceptual artists
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