Naomi Samuel, Author at סגולה

Portrait of a People | Painting from Life

Naomi Samuel Self-PortraitMilan, 1690121 X 95 cmOil on canvasMuseum of Fine Arts, Budapest Salomon Adler1630-1709 BaroqueOrnate, mainly 17th-century style of European architecture, art, and music, encouraged by the Catholic church in...

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Issue 45 | November 2018

Portrait of a People | On Stage

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Eunuch’s Costume for the Ballet ScheherazadeParis, 191027 X 43 cmGouache and graphite with gold accentsMetropolitan Museum of Art New York Léon Bakst1866-1924 Art NouveauAn international style of art, design, and architecture popular...

Issue 71 | December 2024

Portrait of a People | Lions on Canvas

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Daniel in the Lions’ DenOil on canvas, 98 x 152 cmLondon, 1872National Museums, Liverpool Briton Rivière1840-1920RomanticismAn artistic movement aiming to represent everyday life as is London-born Briton Rivière is renowned for his...

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Issue 70 | September 2024

United Kingdom

Portrait of a People | How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song?

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Jews Mourning in ExileOil on canvas163 x 133 cmDusseldorf, 1832Wallraf-Richartz Museum,Cologne, Germany Eduard Bendemann1811-1889 RomanticismA reaction to the rationalism of the Enlightenment, this late-18th-century movement in literature, philosophy, and art emphasized the subjective,...

Portrait of a People | Mother of Art Therapy

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Interrrogation IPrague, 1934-38120 X 180 cmOil on woodJewish Museum, Prague Friedl Dicher-Brandeis1898-1944 Deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1942 with a fifty-kilo weight limit, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis filled her...

Issue 64 | March 2023

Women

Cahrlotte Salomon|When her mother insinuated that she wanted to become an angel

Drawing for Dear Life

Naomi Samuel

Charlotte “Lotte” Salomon was born just over a century ago to a wealthy Berlin family. Her father, a surgeon, pioneered mammography. Her mother committed suicide when Lotte was only nine, though the cause of death...

Art|Holocaust|WWII

Make Art, Not War

Naomi Samuel

Painting as Oxygen Churchill's painting of Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, 1921, oil on canvas, Private collection, London Churchill Heritage Ltd Best known as the British prime minister who defeated Hitler, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill is famed for his...

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Painter of Jerusalem

Naomi Samuel

Ludwig Blum Often an artist is more popular with the public than with critics and peers. Ludwig Blum was one such. Born in Moravia (now the Czech Republic) to an Orthodox Jewish family, young Blum...

Independence Day|Jerusalem Day

The Surrealist Artist Victor Brauner (1903–1966) Created Paris

Victor Brauner – Inspired by Cards

Naomi Samuel

Jewish Juggler Victor Brauner was an iconic Romanian Jewish painter and sculptor. As a young artist, he was expelled from the School of Fine Arts in Bucharest, where his work was considered scandalous. Brauner embraced...

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Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz (1916) Artist: Amedeo Clemente Modigliani

Amedeo Modigliani – Jewish Expressionism

Naomi Samuel

The Art of Friendship Amedeo Clemente Modigliani’s tragically short life began in Livorno, Italy. A Sephardic Jew, he descended from the famous 17th-century philosopher Benito (Baruch) Spinoza. Undoubtedly one of finest painters of the modern era (and my...

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Charlotte Rothschild – First Jewish Female Artist

Naomi Samuel

Anselm and Charlotte von Rothschild Self-portrait with her husband, two of their children, and their nanny Frankfurt, 1838, oil on canvas Private collection, London Charlotte von Rothschild (1807-1859), affectionately known to her family as Chilly,...

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Naomi Samuel

Portrait of a People | Painting from Life

Portrait of a People | On Stage

Portrait of a People | Lions on Canvas

Portrait of a People | How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song?

Portrait of a People | Mother of Art Therapy

Drawing for Dear Life

Make Art, Not War

Painter of Jerusalem

Victor Brauner – Inspired by Cards

Amedeo Modigliani – Jewish Expressionism

Charlotte Rothschild – First Jewish Female Artist

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