The Hand of God was one of Milles' last works before his death. A small man is standing on a large hand. He is looking upwards and his body is tense, with fingers splayed. The man is balancing on the index finger and thumb of the large hand, a feat that seems difficult enough in itself, but his exertion is of another nature. He is gazing with rapt attention at something in the sky, as though he were receiving a message or taking part in a dialogue. Carl Milles worked on The Hand of God from 1949-1953. This was one of three major commissions he received in the 1950s and completed before his death in 1955. The original was made for the Swedish city of Eskilstuna, and today it can also be seen in other places around the world, for instance in Tokyo, Melbourne and Beijing.
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The Hand of God | MillesGården, Stockholm
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Fallen angels | Jack Vettriano, 1951
Luci soffuse, ombre morbide, figure romantiche e piene di tensione sessuale contengono il mistero narrativo delle opere del pittore Scozzese Jack Hoggan, noto come Jack Vettriano, uno degli artisti di maggior successo dell'era moderna. I soggetti di Vettriano sono prevalentemente donne in atteggiamenti seducenti o in compagnia di uomini maturi. In tutte le sue opere domina un carattere umano che interagisce con una sensualità minacciosa. Oggi è il pittore vivente più venduto e riprodotto nel mondo. Si calcola che siano stati venduti tre milioni di poster e stampe dei suoi quadri. E sono proprio i soggetti evocativi di un mondo antico e di sentimenti che oggi sembrano perduti, l'eleganza, il romanticismo, l'erotismo raffinato, a determinare il suo successo.
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My Fair Lady ~ Karen Dupré | VideoArt
La pittrice Americana, artista auto-didatta, Karen Dupréè nata in California e ha iniziato a dipingere all’età di 9 anni. Le sue prime opere avevano per oggetto la raffigurazione dei cavalli che si è poi estesa alle figure, ai paesaggi e alle nature morte. La Dupréè dotata della particolare abilità di ricreare un gioco di luce sia nella natura che manufatti che dipinge. Ispirandosi ai pittori del IXX secolo che sfidarono i riferimenti ideali dell’arte, la Dupré tenta un approccio simile attraverso i suoi innumerevoli stili.
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Paint The Future | Andrew Judd 1958 ~ Canadian painter
Born in Toronto Canada, Andrew Judd, Canadian painter and illustrator, graduated from the Ontario College of art in 1979. Since then he has lived in Hamilton, Montreal, Toronto and Vienna working as an Art Director, illustrator and painter. Along with lecturing at art colleges, art clubs and associations, Andrew also holds workshops and teaches privately. Andrew's Illustrations are used around the world by advertising design and marketing companies.
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Paper fashion dresses | Futuristic style
Paper clothing, in the form of women's dresses and other clothes made from disposable cellulose fabric, was a short-lived fashion novelty item in the 1960s United States. Individual paper and papier-mâché clothes and accessories (especially masquerade costumes) were used as early as the 19th century. But mass-produced paper fashion was invented by the American Scott Paper Company in 1966 as a marketing stunt.
Zoe Bradley
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America's Rodin | Malvina Hoffman ~ American sculptor
One of America's foremost sculptors, Malvina Hoffman [1885-1966] studied with the great French sculptor Auguste Rodin from 1910 until his death in 1917 and is recognized by some as "America's Rodin". Hoffman is perhaps best known for her monumental bronze series, "The Races of Mankind", commissioned in 1930 by Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. Hoffman first won acclaim for her bronze sculpture of Russian dancers Anna Pavlova and Mikhail Mordkin and also studied under two other sculptors, Gutzon Borgium of Mount Rushmore fame and Herbert Adams.
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Les Saisons Russes - Glazounov ballet Op.67 | Malvina Hoffman
Il talento scultoreo della Malvina Hoffman divenne particolarmente famoso con le sue rappresentazioni della leggendaria ballerina russa Anna Pavlova 1881-1931. L'ispirazione della Hoffman per creare questi pannelli nacque dopo aver assistito ad una performance dei ballerini russi Anna Pavlova e Mikhail Mordkin nel balletto 'Baccanale Autunnale' Op. 67 di Alexander Glazunov a Londra. Dopo il ritorno a Parigi, la Hoffman convinse il suo mentore di permetterle di lavorare sulla serie, piuttosto che concentrarsi sulle commissioni ritratto più ordinarie.
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Robert Zeller | American Figurative painter
Rob Zeller, American painter, was born and grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. Although he has resided in New York City for 13 years, the surrealistic and Catholic Baroque quality of his birthplace permeates his art to this day. He received a BFA from the Boston Museum School and Tufts University, and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. He studied with Jacob Collins at the Water Street Atelier.
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Rosso Fiorentino | Italian Mannerist painter
Italian painter and decorator, Rosso Fiorentino 1494-1540, original name Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, was an exponent of the expressive style that is often called early, or Florentine Mannerism, and one of the founders of the Fontainebleau school.
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Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema | Dutch-born British Classicist painter
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Leeuwarden [1836-1912] è stato un pittore Olandese di nascita ma attivo nell'Inghilterra di epoca Vittoriana. Artista dell'epoca del decadentismo, è conosciuto per i suoi ritratti di scene di vita nell'antichità - particolarmente quelle ambientate all'epoca pompeiana, sempre caratterizzate da romantico languore e raffinata indolenza, oltre che permeati da ricorrenti motivi floreali.
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Oleg Babkin [Олег Бабкин] 1965 | Retrò style ladies
Oleg Babkin [Олег Бабкин] is a professional Russian photographer, born in Nizhny Tagil, Russia. The talented photo artist Oleg Babkin makes his beautiful models come to life in the frame, turning every story into history. His incredible portrait gallery is a hymn of female pure beauty. Most photographs are untitled, so quotes about beautiful women would be a good choice to sign the stunning female portraits.
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Reflections of a Dream | Fabian Perez, 1967
In 2009 Fabian Perez was named the official artist of the 10th annual Latin Grammy Awards. In 2010 Perez was selected to paint the 2010 Winter Olympics. Growing up in Argentina, Fabian Perez, Argentine painter, developed a fondness for art through his parents, who possessed strong creative sides but were never professional artists. His mother drew, and it rubbed off on Perez, who excelled in art classes and painted murals on the walls of his school at his teachers' requests.
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Male Painting | Fabian Perez, 1967
Growing up in Argentina, Fabian Perez - Argentine painter, developed a fondness for art through his parents, who possessed strong creative sides but were never professional artists. His mother drew, and it rubbed off on Perez, who excelled in art classes and painted murals on the walls of his school at his teachers' requests.
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Rémi LaBarre, 1977 | Canadian Figurative painter
In 1977, in Thetford Mines, Rémi LaBarre, Canadian painter, gets a first glance of the world. In his childhoold, he draws, often, on paperboards and paper. One day, a friend who paints suggests testing this medium. He thus gets some brushes, a few colors and his first painting will dry throughout the days of September 1994. Since then, several paintings, whether portraits or still life, all tales told.
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Iris Scott | Painting with fingers / hands
Finger / hand painting is now fine art at the hands of 28 year old American painter Iris Scott. Scott creates vibrant paintings with a unique, stylistic Finger painting process, using surgical gloves and placing the oil paint directly on her hands. Rapidly applying thick oil color with several points of contact rather than one Scott can be classified as a modern Impressionist..with a twist. Her inspiration is found on the road as her composition-hunting continues to take her abroad. Recently back from Thailand, Iris is now finished making her newest collection of 10+ Thai originals (released March 16). Her next trip, Nicaragua, which she leaves for on March 17, holds the promise of new inspiration. Six weeks later when Iris returns to Washington she will dive yet again into a new body of work about Central America.
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Dorian Florez 1960 | Colombian painter | Paternity
Dorian Florez is an artist from Colombia. He was born in Caldas Antioquia. He studied clinical psychology in University of Paris in the period 1982-1988. At the same time, he was attending School of Fine Arts in Nantes (France) from 1983-1985. He had many other studies attended many workshops to strengthen his skills. Actually, his talents skills are shining since his birth. Dorian Florez attracted our attention by his amazing techniques in his creations. Also we felt the warm sensations evolving from his paintings covering us. It seems that his study of psychology added to his knowledge of human interiors which was reflected in his art works. Also you can notice that Dorian understands women to a remarkable degree. This is reflected in many of his creations.
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The Three Tenors
I Tre Tenori [The Three Tenors] è il nome della formazione dei cantanti lirici: Josep Carreras i Coll [spagnolo, 1946], José Plácido Domingo Embil [spagnolo, 1941] e Luciano Pavarotti [italiano, 1935-2007], che hanno tenuto concerti negli anni '90 e nei primi anni 2000, portando la musica classica tra la gente e nelle piazze, fuori dai soliti ambienti accademici.
Fabian Perez, 1967 | The Three Tenors
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Silver dancers | Guido Argentini, 1966
Guido Argentini, Italian photographer, was born in Florence, Italy. He studied Medicine for three years at the university of Florence. At 23 he decided to turn his passion for photography into a profession and started to shoot fashion and beauty. Since 1990 he has lived in the USA, in Los Angeles. His work has been published by some of the leading magazines in the world such as "MarieClaire", "Men'sHealth", "Panorama", "Playboy", "Vogue", "Max", "Maxim" and many others. His latest book, "Reflections" was published in 2007. A vast collection of photographs of women looking at themselves in mirrors: a sort of unconscious research about the woman who studies herself, falls in love, and gets lost in her own image.
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Franz Von Stuck | Symbolist/Expressionist painter | The Secession Movement
Franz Von Stuck [1863-1928], pittore tedesco e scultore, nasce nel 1863 a Tettenweis, in Baviera. Frequenta la scuola di Arte applicata di Monaco, dove è allievo di Ferdinand Barth. Si iscrive poi all'Accademia di Monaco. Dal 1887-1892 collabora alla rivista “Fliegende Blätter” e dal 1896-1901 alla rivista “Jugend”.
Il bacio della Sfinge, 1895
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Allegoria della Primavera
Ad ogni incontro con la primavera
non so star quieta - sorge il desiderio
antico, un ansia mista ad attesa,
una promessa di bellezzaed è una gara di tutto il mio essere
con qualcosa che in essa si nasconde.
Quando la primavera svanisce, v'è il rimorso
di non averla guardata abbastanza...Emily Dickinson [1830-1886]
Cesar Philipp [1859-..]
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