Naomi Samuel, Author at סגולה

Portrait of a People | Lonely at the Top

Naomi Samuel Vladimir Lenin in SmolnyOil on canvas190 x 287 cm1930New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Isaak Izrailevich Brodsky1884-1939 Socialist RealismThisgenre generally refers to the formallyrealistic, thematically artificial style of painting emerging in Russiafollowing the Communist Revolution...

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Issue 56 | March 2021

Portrait of a People | A Critical Eye

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Portrait of Émile Zola Paris, 1868Oil on canvas146.5 x 114 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Édouard Manet1832–1883 Realism and Impressionism French journalist and art critic Émile Zola’s famous exposé of Captain Alfred Dreyfus’ innocence wasn’t...

19th century

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Impressionism

Issue 52 | April 2020

Paris

Portrait of a People | Westward Ho!

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Courtesy of the Library of Congress Rio Grande (Colorado River)Oil on canvas51 x 76 cmColorado, 1853Kahn Collection, Oakland Museum of California Solomon Nunes Carvalho1815–1897 Solomon Nunes Carvalho was one of the first American-born...

Issue 55 | December 2020

Portrait of a People | The Art of Weaving

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Knotted CarpetDessau, 1929Bauhaus Archive, Berlin Otti Berger1898–1944 Otti Berger was one of the most influential women to study and teach at the Bauhaus school. Born in the Austro-Hungarian village of Zmajevac (today in...

Issue 60 | February 2022

Women

Portrait of a People | A Dream Finally Come True

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel The LashGouache25 x 17.5 cmTbilisi, 1939Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi Shalom Koboshvili1876–1941 Historic Realism Solomon (Shalom) Koboshvili was born to a poor Jewish family in Akhaltsikhe, Georgia. Hoping to raise a scholar, his parents...

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Issue 61 | May 2022

Portrait of a People | A Fleeting Guest

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Jewish Wedding in MoroccoOil on canvas140 x 105 cmParis, 1839Louvres Museum, Paris Eugène Delacroix1798–1863 OrientalismRomantic Western depictions of everyday life in the Near East, beginning largely with Napoleon’s conquest of Egypt and the...

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Issue 59 | November 2021

Portrait of a People | Shadowlight

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Bezalel SchoolA fusion of Oriental artand Meir Gur Arieh (Gorodetsky)1891-1951 HoraPapercut, illustration for The Pioneers (He-halutzim) by Moshe NarkisJerusalem, 1925 Meir Gur Arieh (Gorodetsky) was born in White Russia in 1891, arriving with...

Bezalel School

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Issue 63 | December 2022

Jerusalem

Pre-state of Israel

Zionism

Portrait of a People | Window to the Sabbath

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Sabbath Rest, Samuel Hirszenberg, Warsaw, 1894 | Courtesy of Ben Uri Gallery, London Sabbath Afternoon London, 1910–1177.5 X 77.5 cmOil on canvasBen Uri Gallery, London Alfred (Aaron) Wolmark1877–1961 Post-ImpressionismA primarily French movement that rejected...

20th century

Art

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Issue 66 | September 2023

United Kingdom

Portrait of a People | Rite of Passage

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Bar Mitzvah Oil on canvas35 x 45 cmParis, 1865 Jacques Émile Édouard Brandon1831-1897 ImpressionismAn artistic movement going beyond classic representation to convey emotional impressions created in the artist by light and movement Jacques...

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Issue 68 | March 2024

Portrait of a People | Everyday Miracles

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Abraham, Sarah, and the AngelOil on wood58 X 71 cmBelgium, 1520Louvre, Paris Jan Provoost1465-1529 Northern RenaissanceNorthern European movement influenced by the Italian Renaissance as well as humanism, Protestantism, and religious warfare. Realism and...

Art

Belgium

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Issue 74 | October 2025

Medieval Period

Portrait of a People | Tower of Power

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel The Tower of BabelOil on wood panel114 x 155 cmBrussels, 1563Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Pieter Bruegel the Elder1525-1569 Northern RenaissanceA 16th-century movement in which artists north of the Alps adopted and adapted the techniques...

Naomi Samuel

Portrait of a People | Lonely at the Top

Portrait of a People | A Critical Eye

Portrait of a People | Westward Ho!

Portrait of a People | The Art of Weaving

Portrait of a People | A Dream Finally Come True

Portrait of a People | A Fleeting Guest

Portrait of a People | Shadowlight

Portrait of a People | Window to the Sabbath

Portrait of a People | Rite of Passage

Portrait of a People | Everyday Miracles

Portrait of a People | Tower of Power

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