Giovanni Boldini: Drawings & Paintings (Annotated) E-Book

Raya Yotova

• Herausgeber: Publisher s13381
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Giovanni Boldini was an artist who can hardly be attributed to any kind of school, genre, or even artistic movement in art. He was an Italian origin but most of his life and career as an artist was spent in Paris where he emerged as a brilliant master of the portraiture. Most of his models were beautiful women from the higher society. Having received tremendous glory and prominence in his lifetime, Boldini was called by the press as "an unsurpassed master of brush and improvisation" because of his style of quick and inspirational drawing.

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Giovanni Boldini

Drawings & Paintings (Annotated)

Annotated by Raya Yotova

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Copyright © 2018 Annotations by Raya Yotova

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Foreword

Paintings & Drawings

Foreword

Giovanni Boldini was an artist who can hardly be attributed to any kind of school, genre, or even artistic movement in art.

He was an Italian origin but most of his life and career as an artist was spent in Paris where he emerged as a brilliant master of the portraiture. Most of his models were beautiful women from the higher society. Having received tremendous glory and prominence in his lifetime, Boldini was called by the press as "an unsurpassed master of brush and improvisation" because of his style of quick and inspirational drawing.

He was a native of the Italian city of Ferrara, born in a family of an artist. His father created paintings of religious themes. Even in child's years Boldini has been prepared for a career as a painter and graduated from a school of arts, then the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.

Here Boldini entered the friendly circle of other great Italian artists who called themselves Macchiaioli and was the Italian equivalent of the French Impressionists. These artists confessed to the spontaneity and impressive reflection of what they saw and their influence can be seen in the early landscapes and watercolors of young Giovanni Boldini.

After Florence, the artist went to live and work in London where he created a reputation as an excellent master of portraits. He began to receive and draw orders for portraits of members of the higher society and the aristocracy.

In the early 1870's he moved to live and work in Paris. Here he started and became a friend of the French artist Edgar Degas, whose style also had great influence on Boldini. Boldini became the most prominent and famous portrait artist in Paris, due to his elegant, inspired and brilliant style.

In 1889 he was awarded the Order of the Légion d'honneur. Bellini's glory as an unsurpassed portrait master crossed the borders of Europe, and at the end of the 19th century, he organized his exhibition in New York, which was greeted with great interest and success.

By the end of her life, Bellini had received many portraits orders from all over Europe and the United States but remained permanently in Paris.

Paintings & Drawings

An Elegant Lady, 1871, Oil on panel 20 x 13.5 cm *

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Teasing the Parrot, 1872-73, Oil on canvas, 46.2 × 32.8 cm

The Hammock, 1872-74, Oil on canvas *

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