Bessie Davidson

**Bessie Ellen Davidson** (22 ga Mayu 1879 - 22 ga Fabrairu 1965) mai zane ce 'yar ƙasar Australiya wadda aka sani da kyawawan shimfidar wurare da kuma cikin gida.

## Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi
An haifi Bessie Ellen Davidson a ranar 22 ga Mayu 1879 a Arewacin Adelaide, Kudancin Australia, ga dangin asalin Scotland da Ingilishi. Ita ce ta biyu ta David Davidson, wanda ke cikin masana'antar hakar ma'adinai, da Ellen Johnson Davidson . [1] Kakanta William Gowan mai zane ne, kuma kakarta Frances Gowan mai zanen hoto ce. Ta yi karatu a Makarantar Ci gaba ta 'yan mata (wanda ke da karfi mai karfi), kuma ta yi karatun fasaha tare da mai zane Rose McPherson (wanda aka fi sani da Margaret Preston). Ta fara nunawa tare da Kungiyar Fasaha ta Kudancin Australia tun farkon 1901; a wannan lokacin, aikinta ya nuna tasirin Preston a sarari.[1]

A shekara ta 1904, bayan mutuwar mahaifiyarta, ta tafi Turai don nazarin fasaha tare da Preston. Sun kwashe 'yan watanni na farko a Munich, inda Davidson ya yi karatu a takaice a Künstlerinner Verein, kafin ya koma Paris. A can ta yi karatu a Académie de la Grande Chaumière, a karkashin René-Xavier Prinet, inda ta sadu kuma ta fara abota da matar Philippe Besnard ta gaba, Germaine Desgranges. Ta kuma dauki darussan tare da Raphael Collin, Richard Miller, da Gustave Courtois. Shekara guda bayan isowarta Faransa, tana nunawa a Salon de la Société des Artistes Français, kuma shekara bayan haka a Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. A shekara ta 1922 za ta zama mace ta farko ta Australiya da aka zaba a matsayin memba na Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, kuma daga baya za ta zama sakatarenta. Ta kasance memba na kafa Salon des Tuileries, inda za ta nuna kusan kowace shekara tsakanin 1923 da 1951.

## Ayyuka
Da ya dawo Ostiraliya a 1907, Davidson ya yi hayar ɗakin karatu tare da Preston kuma ya ci gaba da zanen da nunawa na shekaru da yawa. A cikin 1908, National Gallery na Kudancin Australia ta sayi hotonta na mai tukwane Gladys Reynell . A shekara ta 1910, ta koma Paris kuma ta kafa bita a Monparnasse a kan titin Boissonade kusa da Raymond Legueult kuma a fadin titin daga mai zane na Dutch Conrad Kickert. Ta zama mahaifiyar 'yar Kickert da kuma 'yar Philippe Besnard. Ta sami wasu abokai da yawa a cikin zane-zane na Paris, gami da mai zane Anders Osterlind.

Davidson ya yi tafiya zuwa Ostiraliya don ziyartar dangi a shekara ta 1914 kuma yana can lokacin da Yaƙin Duniya na ya fara. Ta koma Faransa nan da nan, inda ta shiga Red Cross ta Faransa kuma ta yi aiki a asibitocin soja daban-daban. A lokacin yakin, ta sadu da matar da za ta zama abokiyarta na shekaru ashirin masu zuwa, Marguerite Leroy (d. 1938), wanda sunansa "Dauphine".

Lokacin bayan yakin tsakanin 1918 da 1920 ya ga Davidson yana samar da shiru, na kusa, zane-zane masu ban sha'awa - galibi ciki, har yanzu rayuwa, da hotuna - a cikin sautuna. Halin ta ya samo asali ne a cikin jagorancin da ya fi karfi a cikin 1920s da 1930s, tare da wadata, mai ƙarfi, sau da yawa launuka masu ban mamaki da aka shimfiɗa tare da wuka. A wannan lokacin aikinta ya sayar da kyau kuma masu sukar sun karɓa sosai. Ta yi tafiya a Turai, Rasha, da Maroko tana yin zane-zane na waje wanda ta yi amfani da shi azaman tushen zane-zane daga baya da aka samar a cikin ɗakinsa. Yankunan ta sanannu ne saboda ingancin haske da kuma yanayin yanayi.

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