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James Salt was a British painter born in 1850, who spent most of his career painting various fantasy scenes around Venice, imbuing them with a rather dream-like quality. This kind of painting is known as a capriccio, which combines real world scenes with imagined elements. Views: 0
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Centuries-old Persian carpets, paintings added to national heritage list
January 19th, 2021 
Awake Goy TEHRAN – A total of 25 handmade rugs and carpets along with three oil paintings have been added to Iran’s cultural heritage list. “Variety in texture, colors and patterns as the characteristics of these [handwoven] carpets, which date back to the 10th century AH, the 13th century AH, and the 14th century AH,” said Parham […]
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No Comments »Paintings by Wilhelm Trautschold
January 14th, 2021 Awake Goy Wilhelm Trautschold (1815 – 1877) was a German painter and printmaker. He trained at the Berlin Akademie der Kunste and in Dusseldorf. Trautschold established a reputation as a prolific portrait painter, although he also produced genre pieces and animal paintings. In 1851 he went to Italy, visiting Rome and Florence before returning to Germany. After […]
Eduard von Grützner’s Paintings of Fat, Drunk Monks
December 20th, 2020 Awake Goy From ArtNet: Eduard von Grützner (1846 – 1925) was a German painter best known for his genre scenes of the theater and of monks consuming beer in rowdy groups. I don’t like the subject matter, but appreciate the skill and how we can get a picture of these “holy” drunkards. Not all of these images […]
The Outstanding Medievalist Paintings of Emil Lauffer
October 3rd, 2020 Awake Goy Emil Johann Lauffer’s Self-Portrait (1853) from the book ‘Deutsche Arbeit’, Volume 8, page 777 (1909) It seems that Emil Lauffer was not a prolific painter judging by the number of his works which have survived to this day. In spite of this issue I have decided to create a gallery with the most relevant artworks […]
The Colors of the Wind: Hidden Messages of the Chumash Cave Paintings
September 5th, 2020 Awake Goy Take a moment, and close your eyes. Breathe deeply, and inhale the salt of the air and feel the light brush of low-hanging tree branches caressing your face. Feel the rocky ground beneath your toes, prickly but comforting, as you follow the path you’ve walked thousands of times. Step into the darkness of the nearest […]
With provocative paintings, young artist channels pandemic lockdown angst
August 28th, 2020 Awake Goy In a series of daring paintings, Ana Light, a young Jewish artist from California, captures the coronavirus zeitgeist with her four portrayals of semi-nude young women engaged in behaviors unmistakably identifiable with the COVID-19 pandemic, laying bare the anxiety and ennui of a generation unsure of its future. Light, 20, created the works this summer […]
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August 28th, 2020 Awake Goy In a series of daring paintings, Ana Light, a young Jewish artist from California, captures the coronavirus zeitgeist with her four portrayals of semi-nude young women engaged in behaviors unmistakably identifiable with the COVID-19 pandemic, laying bare the anxiety and ennui of a generation unsure of its future. Light, 20, created the works this summer […]
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August 28th, 2020 Awake Goy In a series of daring paintings, Ana Light, a young Jewish artist from California, captures the coronavirus zeitgeist with her four portrayals of semi-nude young women engaged in behaviors unmistakably identifiable with the COVID-19 pandemic, laying bare the anxiety and ennui of a generation unsure of its future. Light, 20, created the works this summer […]
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August 28th, 2020 Awake Goy In a series of daring paintings, Ana Light, a young Jewish artist from California, captures the coronavirus zeitgeist with her four portrayals of semi-nude young women engaged in behaviors unmistakably identifiable with the COVID-19 pandemic, laying bare the anxiety and ennui of a generation unsure of its future. Light, 20, created the works this summer […]
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August 28th, 2020 Awake Goy In a series of daring paintings, Ana Light, a young Jewish artist from California, captures the coronavirus zeitgeist with her four portrayals of semi-nude young women engaged in behaviors unmistakably identifiable with the COVID-19 pandemic, laying bare the anxiety and ennui of a generation unsure of its future. Light, 20, created the works this summer […]
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August 28th, 2020 Awake Goy In a series of daring paintings, Ana Light, a young Jewish artist from California, captures the coronavirus zeitgeist with her four portrayals of semi-nude young women engaged in behaviors unmistakably identifiable with the COVID-19 pandemic, laying bare the anxiety and ennui of a generation unsure of its future. Light, 20, created the works this summer […]
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August 28th, 2020 Awake Goy In a series of daring paintings, Ana Light, a young Jewish artist from California, captures the coronavirus zeitgeist with her four portrayals of semi-nude young women engaged in behaviors unmistakably identifiable with the COVID-19 pandemic, laying bare the anxiety and ennui of a generation unsure of its future. Light, 20, created the works this summer […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: artist, channels, lockdown, paintings, pandemic, provocative, young No Comments »Arthur Wasse’s Romantic Paintings
August 5th, 2020 Awake Goy 
Here’s a short bio from AskArt: Arthur Wasse was born in Manchester and moved to Germany in 1875, where he attended the Munich School and learned under the great masters Carl Theodor von Piloty (1826-1886) and Wilhelm von Diez (1839-1907). Since 1895, the painter established in Rothenburg and regularly commuted between England and Germany. His […]
Alfred Pollentine’s Paintings of Venice
July 31st, 2020 Awake Goy Alfred Pollentine was a British painter of English and Italian landscapes, but his career was defined by magnificent views of Venice. While his first paintings captured British landscapes and coastal views, he discovered the lucrative market for Venetian scenes early in his career and grew to specialize in these. A subject well-covered by other artists […]
“Primitive” Paintings by Naturalist Anna Ancher
May 30th, 2018 Awake Goy Anna Ancher (1859 – 1935) is one of Denmark’s most celebrated pictorial artists, but she is relatively unknown internationally. She was born in the small fishing village of Skagen, where an artist colony came to form, though she was the only artist born there. Her style, which was not always highly detailed and polished like academic […]
Paintings of Peasants by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky
May 28th, 2018 Awake Goy From Faces of Ancient Europe Nikolay Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky (Russian: Никола́й Петро́вич Богда́нов-Бе́льский; 1868–1945) was a Russian painter. Bogdanov-Belsky was born in the village of Shitiki in Smolensk Governorate in 1868. He studied art at the Semyon Rachinsky fine art school, icon-painting at the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra in 1883, modern painting at the Moscow School of Painting, […]
History and Genre Paintings by Fyodor Bronnikov
May 20th, 2018 Awake Goy Fyodor Bronnikov (1827 – 1902) was a Russian painter who was first taught by his father, a decorative painter. After his father died, Fyodor traveled to Saint Petersburg at age 16 to try to matriculate at the Imperial Academy of Arts. He was rejected, so he became an apprentice in the shop or a woodcutter, […]
Popular Salon Paintings by Naturalist Émile Friant
May 18th, 2018 Awake Goy Émile Friant (1863 – 1932) was a French artist, born in the eastern part of France, but forced to flee to Nancy at an early age by the advance of Prussian soldiers. Although he was born to parents of modest means, he was lucky to have “second parents” who helped fund his training. Due to […]
Charles Meynier’s Historical and Mythological Paintings
May 8th, 2018 Awake Goy Charles Meynier (1762 – 1832) was a French painter and collector of artwork. His father had wanted him to become a tailor, but he showed a proclivity for the arts from an early age; he started with drawing and engraving, but soon wished to pursue painting. His career was somewhat interrupted by the French Revolution, […]
