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What the Dickens Ever Happened To Perugini?
Italian-born English painter of the Romantic and Victorian era, Charles Edward Perugini was born in Naples, Italy, on 1 September, 1839, as Carlo Perugini. The family migrated to England when Perugini was six years of age. By the age of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, nostalgia, OilPainting, Paintings, Performing Art
Tagged Romanticism, Victorian artists
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A Broken Picture of the Life of Bouguereau
French academic painter, William-Adolphe Bouguereau was born in La Rochelle, France, on 30 November 1825, into a family of wine and olive oil merchants. The family moved to Saint-Martin-de-Ré in 1832. At the age of twelve, Bouguereau went to Mortagne-sur-Gironde … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Erotic Art, Gallery Art, OilPainting, Oriental Art, Paintings, Performing Art, Tapestry, Watercolours
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All the World’s a Stage in a Mid-Century Trans-Continental Age
[Svetlana Beriosova photographed by Hans Wild (1957)] Lithuanian-British prima ballerina Svetlana Nikolayevna Beriosova was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, on 24 September 1932. Svetlana Beriosova was the daughter of Nicolas Beriosoff, a Lithuanian ballet master of ethnic Russian descent, who immigrated … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Performing Art, photographic art
Tagged #Ballet, classical ballet, Igor Stravinsky, Royal Ballet, Sadler's Wells
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I Don’t Work, I Don’t Do Anything, But I Am Indispensable
“I Don’t Work, I Don’t Do Anything, But I am Indispensable“, is how Russian art critic, patron, and ballet impresario, Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, described himself. Sergei Diaghilev was born on 19 March, 1872, in Selishchi. His mother died soon after … Continue reading
How to assume an Azuma pose
Azuma Tokuho in her dressing room at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The Kabuki make-up contrasts oddly with the prints on the wall and the cigarettes on the table. [Photographer: John Baker]. The Azuma Kabuki Dancers and Musicians performed … Continue reading
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Some Tender Fender Stories
[Fender Stratocaster electric guitar designed 1954 made 1957 wood metal and plastic MoMA | Leo Fender (American 1909-1991), George Fullerton (American 1923-2009) and Freddie Tavares (American 1913-199)]. The Stratocaster (“Strat”) electric guitar was designed by Leo Fender, a self-taught electrician, … Continue reading
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Tagged Fender guitar, Stratocaster
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Luna Park | Just for Fun
The Carousel at Melbourne’s Luna Park (formally known as PTC#30) is the 30th carousel machine made by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company (PTC) in Pennsylvania, USA and was built in 1913. Like a giant puzzle, the huge carousel complete with cast … Continue reading
Posted in nostalgia, Performing Art
Tagged carousels, fun parks, Luna Park, Philadelphia Toboggan Company
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow Bluebirds Fly…
Australia Fair, performed on the 73-key Belgian built Verbeeck Concert Street Organ. ‘Australia Fair’ is the name of this beautiful street organ made by Johnny Verbeeck, built from the Verbeeck’s Organ Works (Est 1884), in the city of Antwerp, Belgium. … Continue reading
Suggett | I’m Going Down the Corridor via an Ex-Goods Repository
Colin Suggett (Born 1945 in Warrnambool) is a mixed media artist who manipulates perceptions of reality with his miniaturized mixed-media models and tableaux that epitomize and parody contemporary technology and its intrusion into modern culture. Working since the 197os, Suggett … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Gallery Art, Performing Art
Tagged Animations, Corridor, Ex Goods Repository, Fictitious Realities, Going Down, Kinetic art
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There is Nothing Finer Than the Chimes of the Clinaman
[Featured – Clinamen (2013) MDF floor, PVC liner, water pump, heating device, porcelain bowls, water]. Paula Cooper Gallery New York and Galerie Xippas, Paris. This installation is generously supported at the NGV by the Loti and Victor Smorgon Fund. Céleste Boursier-Mougenot … Continue reading
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Rucker’s Musical Ruckus
[Two-manual harpsichord by Andreas Ruckers, Antwerp (ca 1628) inscribed Joannes Ruckers] The Ruckers family were harpsichord and virginal makers from Antwerp in the 16th and 17th Centuries. Their influence stretched well into the 18th C and to the harpsichord revival … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Collectibles, DecorativeArts, Gallery Art, Paintings, Performing Art
Tagged Antwerp, Couchet family, Guild of St. Luke, harpsichord, piano, Ruckers family, virginal
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Did Benois’ Part Create a Surge in Diaghilev’s Balletic Art?
The above portraiture is of Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929) illustrated by Alexandre Benois over a proscenium arch from which the showman from Petruschka draws the curtains to reveal a scene from Le Pavillion d’Armide, with Petruschka hiding in the corner. Russian … Continue reading
Jane Avril | She Was Paris by Night
Parisian born French can-can dancer, singer and actress Jane Avril was born Jeanne Beaudon in Belleville, on 9th June 1868. Her mother was a courtesan and her absent father, was an Italian aristocrat. Abused as a child, she ran away … Continue reading
The Divine Sarah: The most famous actress the world has ever known
Portrait of French stage and early film actress Sarah Bernhardt in her role as the Queen in Victor Hugo’s “Ruy Blas” (1879), by artist George Clairin (1843-1919). Over her full and fascinating career, Sarah’s close friends included several artists, such … Continue reading
From East to West – I’ve Goatcher Covered
Philip W. Goatcher was born on the 23rd November 1851, in London; the son of a scene painter. He left school in his early teens to work as a law clerk at Lincoln’s Inn. In his spare time he would visit … Continue reading
Posted in Artists A-Z, DecorativeArts, Illustrations, Paintings, Performing Art, Textiles
Tagged #Kalgoorlie, #Melbourne, #Victoria, #WesternAustralia, Bay of Naples, Block Arcade, Boulder, gold rush, goldrush towns, J. C. Williamson, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Philip Goatcher, Sadler's Wells Theatre, theatre backdrop curtains, theatre design
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