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It was in the year 1795 that the name Alba first appears in Goya's life. The Duchess of Alba, 1795 Oil on canvas, PC, Madrid On the 9th of june 1796 the Duke of Alba died in Seville and the Duchess spent her period of mourning on her country estate at...
Spa ni sh title: Dios la perdone: Y era su madre English: God forgive her- It was her Mother The girl left home very young. Her apprenticeship was gotten at Cadiz and then she went to Madrid.Here she won a lottery prize. She goes for a walk along the...
- Tal para Qual - People argue whether man or woman is worse by nature. The vice of one as well as the other is the result of bad upbringing. Where Men are perverted, women are the same. The young Lady in this etching is no better than the fop talking...
Spa nish titel: Esta Vmd pues, Como digo ... eh! Cuidado! si nò ... The Uniform, sign of the dignity of a commander, and the baton of command, makes this blockhead imagine himself a Superior being. He misuses his office to annoy everyone who knows him....
Artist: Peter August Böckstiegel 1889-1951 Die Mutter ( The Mother ) c. 1915 Peter August Böckstiegel Born is Westphalia in 1889, Böckstiegel moved to Dresden in 1913 to pursue his studies at the academy. Back from the war in 1919 he became a founding...
Random words and phrases Days go by MMaxi10 Spring is here and the birds are starting to celebrate natureTime for me to get my camera and start taking snaps of the city as it changes from gray into a bright greenWeekend RestCook maybe some carne de vinho...
Hermann Max Pechstein, Selfbildnis mit Tod 1920-21 German Expressionism 1915-1925 The second generation. Hermann Max Pechstein began his artistic career as an apprentice to a decorative painter from Zwickau. In 1903, he enrolled in the Dresden Academy....
Max Pechstein Max Hermann Pechstein (December 31, 1881 - June 29, 1955), was a German expressionist painter and printmaker, born in Zwickau. Early contact with the art of Vincent Van Gogh stimulated his development toward expressionism. After studying...
Will Küpper, Nach Dem Krieg ( After The War ) 1919 and Will Küpper, Streichhòlzer ( Matches, Matches ), 1919 Some of the most Compelling posters were distributed by the anti-Bolshevik groups. They used Images of gorillas and vultures depicted in Gaudy,...
The Expressionism movement in Germany embraces stylistic phenomena as disparate as the first abstract watercolors painted by Wassily Kandinsky around 1910 and the almost realist social driticism of the art of the Weimar period.One has only to think of...
Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz (July 8, 1867 – April 22, 1945) was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate,...
Conrad Felixmuller Felixmuller left Dresden after joining the Communist party in 1919. In 1920 rather than use his recently won Saxon State Prize for it's intended purpose, travel to Rome, he visited the Ruhr District and studied the life of the coal...
Original name "Selbstbildnis als Soldat" Otto Dix (December 2, 1891 - July 25, 1969) was a German expressionist and anti-war painter and a veteran of the First World War. His most famous paintings were a (1928) triptych Metropolis and Trench Warfare (1932)....
Metropolis, Georg Grosz ( 1893-1959 ) An Urban Landscape like Metropolis or Explosions almost seems to explode before the viewer's eyes: the city becomes a teeming inferno with leering figures rushing wildly from place to place. Bathed in a red light,...
Paralytic Child Walking on All Fours (from Muybridge), 1961Francis Bacon In Paralytic Child Walking on All Fours (from Muybridge), a naked body on hands and feet is finding its way around a bare space. Human or animal? The ambiguity creates tension and...
Francis Bacon once said: " I think it's the slight remove from fact, which returns me onto the fact more violently.Through the photographic image I find myself beginning to wander into the image and unlock what I think of as its reality more than I can...
In 1953 Bacon produced Not only "The End of the Line" but also more Studies from Velàzquez' portrait of Innocent X and the Series of 8 paintings entitled Studies for a Portrait.In Bacon's first solo exhibition in New York, the Durlacher Brothers gallery...
" Vincent van Gogh is one of my great heroes," said Francis Bacon " He is one of the great geniuses of painting." in Vincent van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, Bacon found a precept for realist painting which he adopted as his own:"[...] to make...
Two studies for a Portrait of george Dyer, 1968 " After all, I've had a very unfortunate life,, because all the people I've been really fond of have died. And you don't stop thinking about them; time doesn't heal. But you concentrate on something which...
The English artist Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was one of the most powerful and original figure painters in contemporary art, particularly noted for the obsessive intensity of his work. Francis Bacon (a collateral descendant of the great Elizabethan statesman...
Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953) (Des Moines) Completed, and delivered to the Beaux-Arts gallery in February 1953, of Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953), Bacon said "I wanted to paint a head as if folded...
Untitled ( Pope ), 1950 " I have deliberately tried to twist myself, but I have not gone far enough.My paintings are, if you like, a record of this distortion. [...] I attempt to recreate a particular experience with a greater poignancy in the desire...
Crucifixion, 1933 " I think one of the things is that, if you are going to be a painter, you have got to decide that you are not going to be afraid of making a fool of yourself.I think another thing is to be able to find subjects which really absorb you...
The organic forms and black contours in Elegy reminds us of paintings by Joan Mirò and also works by de Kooning's friend Arshile Gorky.The painting was first shown in 1943.At the exposition Twentieth Century Paintings in gallery Bignou in New York, were...
Dutch-born American painter who was one of the leading exponents of Abstract Expressionism, particularly the form known as Action painting . During the 1930s and '40s de Kooning worked simultaneously in figurative and abstract modes, but by about 1945...
