Tarsila thompson biography of donald

Tarsila do Amaral was born on September 1st, 1886, in the town of Capivari, in the interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. She was the daughter of José Estanislau do Amaral and Lydia Dias de Aguiar do Amaral. Tarsila’s father was a wealthy landowner, and she spent her childhood on her father’s farms. Later she studied at Colégio Sion, a convent school in São Paulo, and then in Barcelona, Spain, where she produced her first painting Sagrado Coração de Jesus (Sacred Heart of Jesus) in 1904. Upon returning to Brazil, Tarsila married André Teixeira Pinto, and gave birth to her only child, Dulce.

A few years later, Tarsila separated from André and started her studies in art. In 1918, Tarsila learned sculpture under Zadig, followed by lessons in drawing and painting in the studio of Pedro Alexandrino, where she met the painter Anita Malfatti. In 1920, Tarsila left to study under Émile Renard and at the Académie Julien in Paris, where she stayed until June 1922.

Tarsila learned about

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A few words of explanation are needed bygd way of preface to this little book. More than twenty years ago, being often appealed to by friends for my judgment on Anglo-Israelism, or to answer questions which were addressed to me on this subject, I finally, after making myself acquainted with the positions and arguments by which the theory is supported, drew up a statement in the form of “A Letter to an Inquirer.” This “Letter,” somewhat amplified, was printed in the form of an appendix in my book, “The Ancient Scriptures and the Modern Jew,” whence by special request it was subsequently reprinted in pamphlet form under the title, “Anglo-Israelism, and the True History of the Ten Lost Tribes”—a separate edition of it having also been published in America. This pamphlet is now out of print, and, being appealed to by prominent Christian friends to bring out a new edition, I felt constrained before doing

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List of paintings by Amrita Sher-Gil

This is a list of paintings by Hungarian-born Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941).^[1] Over 60 of her paintings, of which most were portraits and self-portraits, were created between 1930 and 1932 in Hungary and France.^[2] 19 were self-portraits painted in europe between 1930 and 1934, and two, including one in a blue sari, were later completed in India.^[3] Several of her paintings were of nudes; some of herself and others based on models of which most were female.^[4]

1929-1933

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In her early years, Sher-Gil was a frequent visitor to Zebegény, in Hungary.^[5] There she painted a church in 1932, and would several years later paint other views of the village including Winter and the Merry Cemetery.^[5] The early 1930s were also the years she worked at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, painted mostly family and colleagues, and won awards at the annual competitions for p