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Dreaming of a perfumed and singing garden
The floral paintings are from the Villa Di Livia in Roma, Italy. The yellow dress is a Alexander McQueen’s creation.
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The French Riviera in painting
The view of maritime pines, The blue of the sky and the sea, Fill my heart with joy. Sweet childhood memories ; Reminiscence of the past.
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The American painter Will Cotton
Will Cotton (born in 1965) is an American painter whose favourite subjects are sugar (candies, pastries…) and female nudes. Besides painting (oil on linen), he draws and sculpts. He creates surrealistic landscapes teeming with candies and pastries.
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The American vintage artist and illustrator Edna Crompton
Edna Crompton (1882-1952) was an American artist and illustrator from the “Golden Age of illustration“. She painted with oil on canvas, portraits of women. Mainly in the 1920s, her oil paintings were used as covers in American magazines like The Saturday Evening Post, Redbook magazine, The modern Priscilla and Metropolitan. Besides, she also created art calendars for…
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A whirlwind of colours
I used the painting “Nataraja” realised by the British Op art artist Bridget Riley in 1993 :
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The painting “Lady Lavery” by Sir John Lavery
The Irish painter John Lavery (1856-1941) made a portrait of his wife Lady Lavery in 1922. It is a delicate, charming and graceful paint. The warm light emanating from Lady Lavery is somptuous and contrasts with the dark background. The lady is very elegant with a steamy dress. The transparence and movement of the dress…
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In front of a beautiful house
Parosh dress. I used as background a beautiful Raoul Dufy’s painting named “La grille” (“The grid”).
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The French painter Raoul Dufy
Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) was a French painter, illustrator and designer . He admired the works of Van Gogh, Gauguin and Impressionist painters. He wasn’t really a Fauvist painter : he only adhered to the Fauve movement during three years until 1909. Besides, he produced fabric designs for the fashion designer Paul Poiret. His paintings are…
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Portrait of a young North African woman
In 1874, the Belgium orientalist painter Jean-François Portaels (1818-1895) realised this portrait. Source : http://art-magique.blogspot.fr/2011/05/jean-francois-portaels-1818-1895.html
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Salomé
The painting “Salomé” was realised by Paul Antoine de la Boulaye in 1909. Salome is the daughter of Herodiade and Herod the Great (Herod I). She inspired painters like Gustave Moreau and Paul Antoine de la Boulaye. She is often represented dancing in front of her stepfather Herod Antipas to charm him. She is also…
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The Beethoven frieze by Gustav Klimt
The Beethoven frieze by Gustav Klimt is a 34 metres mural painting representing an interpretation of the “Ninth Symphony” by Ludwig Van Beethoven. It is composed of three successive scenes : – The torments of Humanity (disease, madness, death, lust, excess and fornication). – The prayers of the Humanity to the Hero, incarnation of the…
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“The music” by Gustav Klimt, 1895
Gustav Klimt made in 1895 this graceful painting to decorate the Palais Dumba in Vienna, Austria. “The music” can be admired at the Neue Pinakothek museum in Munich, Germany. For more information : http://www.pinakothek.de/en/gustav-klimt
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“Portrait of a young lady in a red dress” by Eduard Friedrich Leybold
The German painter Eduard Friedrich Leybold realised this portrait in 1824. The complete title is : “Portrait of a young lady, three-quarter length, in a red dress with an embroidered shawl, standing in a landscape”. Picture source : http://pinterest.com/ For more information : http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/eduard-friedrich-leybold-potrait-of-a-young-5523841-details.aspx Enregistrer