Painter Sisters

Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi 

Mother and Child,  1890

Mother's Concern, 1891

The Bath. 1887

Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi ( 1861 – 1919) was a Finnish painter, best known for her realist works and portraits. Danielson-Gambogi was part of the first generation of Finnish women artists who received professional education in art, the so-called "painter sisters' generation". The group also included Helene Schjerfbeck(1862–1946).

Helene Schjerfbeck, 1915

My women artists collection

Families in art

Las meninas (The Maids of Honor) 1656

Diego Velazquez (1599-1660)

My Velazquez collection

 Las meninas (The Maids of Honor)is Velázquez’s most famous painting. Painted at the end of the artist’s career, Las meninas depicts the infant Margarita, daughter of King Philip IV and heir to the Spanish throne, surrounded by her ladies-in-waiting. Velázquez incorporates a self-portrait into the piece; he can be seen at his canvas in the left-corner of the painting.

Family Portrait of Miseroni Family, Detail, 1653

Karel Škréta (1610-1674
The National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.:
My Škréta collection  

Karel Škréta was a Czech portrait painter who worked in the Baroque style.

A Family, 1989
Fernando Botero (1932-) Colombia
My Botero collection

Fernando Botero Angulo (born 19 April 1932) is a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor. Born in Medellín, his signature style, also known as "Boterismo", depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political criticism or humor, depending on the piece. He is considered the most recognized and quoted living artist from Latin America, and his art can be found in highly visible places around the world, such as Park Avenue in New York City and the Champs-Élysées in Paris.

Music

A Concert 1887

Otto Haslund (1842-1917) 

My collection

Otto Haslund was a Danish painter. 

He is remembered in particular for his paintings of animals and children.

  Bo Diddley, 1963

Sir Peter Thomas Blake (1932 )
My collection

Peter Blake is a contemporary British artist known for his association with the Pop Art movement. He is perhaps best known for creating the album cover for The Beatles’s Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967. In 2002 he was knighted at Buckingham Palace for his services to art.

The troubadour (1954)

Juan Ismael (1907-1981) Fuerteventura- Gran Canaria

Museum of Contemporary Art Eduardo Westerdahl (Macew) collection

Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife

Museum of Contemporary Art on the left.

Children in art

Franziska Hedwig Wussin, 13 years old, 1716

Jan Kupecký (1667 –1740) 

The National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

My postcard collection - Baroque painting in Bohemia

Jan Kupecký (Johann Kupetzky) was a Czech and Slovak portrait painter during the baroque.

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 Girl with a Pearl Earring

Johannes Vermeer (1632 – 1675)

travel time 5 days

distance travelled 1,466 km

sent by Gerrie from Ommen

Johannes Vermeer  was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, and frequently used very expensive pigments. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work. Girl with a Pearl Earring considered a Vermeer masterpiece In 2006, the Dutch public selected it as the most beautiful painting in the Netherlands.

 Girl with Pigtails, 1918, Amedeo Modigliani.

Daughter. Jose Venturelli (1924-1988) Chile

Portraits of Men

Petr Brandl (1668-1735) 

Portrait of a Mining Official , about 1728 

The National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

My postcard collection - Baroque painting in Bohemia

Petr Brandl was one of the main representatives of the Baroque in Bohemia.

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 Rembrandt (1606-1669)

Portrait of an old man, 1654

travel time 20 days

distance travelled 1,183 km

sent by Irina from Moscow

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was  one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish: 1577 - 1640)

Head of a Franciscan Friar Circa 1615

 Rubens, Paintings from the Hermitage Collection

 Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist. He is considered the most influential artist of Flemish Baroque tradition.

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Orest Kiprensky. (1782-1836)

Portrait of Alexander Pushkin.  1827

travel time 10 days

distance travelled 2,369 km

sent by Anastasia from Chelyabinsk

Orest Adamovich Kiprensky was a leading Russian portraitist in the Age of Romanticism. His most familiar work is probably his portrait of Alexander Pushkin (1827), which prompted the poet to remark that "the mirror flatters me".

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The Huanghe River (part#1)
Li Zijian (1954-) China
travel time 17 days
distance travelled 8,018 km
sent by Emily from Taipei

Salvador Dali

 The Elephants, c.1948

Shirley Temple, 

The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster 

of the Cinema in Her Time. !939

Fried Eggs on a Plate Without the Plate. 1932
From my "Salvador Dali  30 postcards" book

"Dali's Moustache" 1954
Photo Philippe Halsman

Kalevala's Day- Finnish Culture Day

Kalevala Day is celebrated in Finland on the 28th of February, in honour of the day on which the Old Kalevala’s foreword was dated by Elias Lönnrot (February 28, 1835). Kalevala Day is an official flag-raising day in Finland, and simultaneously the Day of Finnish culture.

Akseli Gallen-Kallela's Kalevala art  

Aino-Mynth, 1891, triptych
Left -hand panel: Väinämöinen courting Aino

Väinämöinen is the central character of The Kalevala, a shamanistic hero with a magical power of song and music.Väinämöinen created and plays the kantele, a Finnish stringed instrument that resembles and is played like a zither. One of his potential brides, Joukahainen's sister Aino, drowns herself instead of marrying him.

The Forging of the Sampo, 1893

Sampo or Sammas was a magical artifact of indeterminate type constructed by Ilmarinen that brought riches and good fortune to its holder. 

Joukahainen's Revenge 1897

Joukahainen is the rival of the main character, Väinämöinen. After losing a singing contest, he pledges his sister Aino to Väinämöinen, but she drowns herself rather than marry him. Joukahainen, still envious of Väinämöinen, then shoots the stag of his rival from under him.

Lemminkäinen's Mother, 1897

Lemminkäinen, a handsome, arrogant and reckless ladies-man.

 He shares a very close relationship with his mother, who revives him after he has been drowned in the river of Tuonela while pursuing the object of his romantic desires. 

The Kalevala is regarded as the national epic of Karelia and Finland and is one of the most significant works of Finnish literature. The Kalevala was instrumental in the development of the Finnish national identity, the intensification of Finland's language strife and the growing sense of nationality. 

Work

Logger, Romania
Winter Logging with the Oxen, Bucovina

From Anca

Goat shepherd, Greece

My collection

Gardener, Japan

Patently raking patterns in the rock garden of Ryoan- ji Temple, Kyoto

From Mayumi

Fable dreams

 Snow Deer. by Kiti Neuvonen

Archaic Dreams by Mirja Nuutinen

Endangered

Karhu / Brown bear / Ursus arctos

Finland is home to more than 1,700 bears ( Luke 2016), though they are only seldom seen, since they are shy of people. Several wildlife tour operators run excursions out into the forests of Eastern Finland where you can stay overnight in a hide and watch and photograph wild bears who come to feed on fishy or meaty scraps put out to attract them.

 Ilves / Lynx /  Lynx lynx

These beautiful big cats have become more common  (over 2,600 Luke 2016 ) in Finland’s forests in recent years, though they are hard to spot, as their excellent senses of sight, smell and hearing enable them to keep well away from humans.

 Liito-orava / Siberian flying squirrel / Pteromys volans

The Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) is an Old World flying squirrel with a range from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific coast in the east. It is the only species of flying squirrel found in Europe. It is considered vulnerable within the European Union where it is found only in Finland, Estonia and Latvia.

Merikotka / White tailed eagle  / Haliaeetus albicilla

Thanks to the efforts of Finnish nature conservationists, majestic white-tailed eagles have returned from the brink of extinction, and today they are a common sight soaring over the waters and islands of Finland’s beautiful Baltic archipelagoes.

Mustakurkku-uikku /  Horned grebe / Podiceps auritus

The horned grebe is an attractive, little grebe. It is a migratory bird and returning to Finland in mid-April. It is a protected species under the European Union bird directive and a vulnerable species according to Finland's threat classification system.

Denmark

 Copenhagen Amager Square, shopping street

 Amager Square, today part of the Strøget pedestrian zone, is often described as the most central square in central Copenhagen. It is also one of the oldest, taking its name from the Amager farmers who in the Middle Ages came into town to sell their produce at the site.

Sent by Elysaveta in Kiev, Ukraine

 North Zealand - Danish Riviera by Martin Schwartz

Martin Schwartz (born in 1974) is a contemporary Danish illustrator and graphic designer located in Copenhagen, Denmark. His series of city prints pay tribute to the variety of buildings that can be found in every city. 

Sent by Thomas in Copenhagen

The Royal Family, Denmark

 Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik,  Crown Prince Frederik and crown Princess Mary.

Cats in art

 

Max Raffler  (1902 - 1988 ) Cats

Max Raffler was a German visual artist. His work has been shown widely and published in a number of books in Germany, and he remains one of that country’s most well known naive painters.  His subjects were often images of the rural countryside, and religious pictures that were encouraged by a local priest and shown in the church. Other images include self-portraits and paintings of cats, as well as illustrations of children’s stories.

 Julius Adam (1852-1914)  Kitten Carriage, 

Cat painting was very popular during the 19th century. I think Julius liked cats and was quite talented capturing them in action. 

Martin Leman  ( 1934) " Her Mistress Voice " 

  Martin Leman has been best known for his exquisite paintings of cats. He is one of the most popular contemporary British artists. Leman has been described as 'the most sophisticated of 'naïve' British artists, but unlike many so-called naïve or primitive painters, he had a thorough artistic training.

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen  "Le Chat Noir" ("The Black Cat")

"Le Chat Noir" ("The Black Cat") was a Parisian, bohemian night club in the late 1800s. Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen painted this poster as an advertisement for Le Chat Noir.

Menorca

Minorca or Menorca is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to Spain. Its name derives from its size, contrasting it with nearby Majorca.

Ciutadella de Minorca or simply Ciutadella is a town and a municipality in the western end of Minorca..It is one of the two primary cities in the island, along with Maó. Ciutadella is a very attractive city, with a charming port, and old quarter, which is a delight to explore.

The port is both a fishing and leisure.
From me to me:)

Menorca Biosphere Reserve, UNESCO,  Spain

The main characteristic of the Menorca Biosphere Reserve is the diversity characteristic of nearly all Mediterranean island ecosystems. The most notable habitats are the gullies, caves, wetlands made up of ponds, lagoons and marshes, dune systems, coasts and islets. Some 220 species of birds, and 1000 species of plants (60 of which are endemic) have been recorded.

Fedoskino art

Russian lacquered boxes, miniature painted works of art that developed from icon painting in the 18th century, abound in depictions of folklore, fairy tales, costumes and traditions. There are four distinct styles, represented by four schools of Russian lacquer art, which are named for the villages of their creation, Fedoskino, Palekh, Mystera, and Kholui.

The village of Fedoskino  located not far from Moscow on the banks of the Ucha River, is the oldest of the four art centers of Russian lacquer miniature painting on papier-mâché, which has been practiced there since 1795.

V.D.Antonov

Spinners

Box detail, 1970s

V.D.Antonov

Russian Winter, Casket detail, 1970s 

The theme of troyka (the three horses) riding was very popular in 19th Century's Boxes. A troyka rushing through the snow field and sledge riding is a popular theme that has become an emblem of the Fedoskino craft. 

 The style of Fedoskino painting is largely realistic in composition and detail. 

Yu. V. Karapayev

Song of the North

Box, 1972

 I.I. Strakhov

Autumn

Smal box, 1973