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Max Ernst | Terre Écossaise, 1935

"Terre Écossaise" was painted by German painter, sculptor, graphic artist and poet Max Ernst (1891-1976) in 1935.
He had served in an artillery division of the German army during world war one. This experience was deeply traumatic.
Ernst used Freuds dream theories as a way of dealing with his trauma.
This exploration of the unconscious was expressed through his art.


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Boris Indrikov (Russian, 1969)


Boris Indrikov was born in in Leningrad, Russia. He graduated from the Art School as graphic designer. He worked for the Scientific Journal of Chemistry as illustrator.
In 1994 he started his career as independent painter. Boris Indrikov is a member of the International Federation of Artists of UNESCO.
His creativity is mainly expressed in a mystical realism, not seldom inspired by Eastern cultures. With an unbelievable feeling for the rythm of lines, he could have been a costume designer as well.
Most of his works are monochrome in earth colors. His works can be found in collections in Russia, Holland, Germany, France and the USA.

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Didier Delamonica (French, 1950)


Delamonica born in Lille, in the north of France. His studies include "Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Industries Textiles", commencing with two careers working adjacent during several years, comprising publicite / advertising and painting. He abandoned the the first one. Now, he presents his work in ...numerous galleries all over France.
The works of Delamonica are including a number of private collections in USA and Canada, and in Europe.

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Lionel Walden - Hawaiian Fisherman, 1924

Lionel Walden - Hawaiian Fisherman, 1924
Lionel Walden - Alexander III Bridge, Paris
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Lionel Walden - I Docks di Cardiff, 1894

Musée d'Orsay, Parigi

Lionel Walden (1861-1933) was an American painter active in Hawaii, Cornwall and France.
He was born in Norwich, Connecticut in 1861. He first became interested in art in Minnesota, where the family moved when his father became rector of an Episcopal Church there. As a young man, Walden moved to Paris where he studied painting with Carolus-Duran. In around 1893-97, Walden was in England, living in Falmouth. Paintings of Cardiff in Wales are in museums in Cardiff and Paris. Walden received medals from the Paris Salon and was made a Knight of the French Legion of Honor. He visited Hawaii in 1911 and several times thereafter. Walden died in Chantilly, France in 1933.
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Claude Monet - The River Epte


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Claude Monet - Camille Monet à la fenêtre, 1872


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Berthe Morisot | Dahlias, 1876


La maggior parte dei dipinti della Morisot include scene domestiche di famiglia, bambini, donne e fiori, raffiguranti com'era la vita delle donne alla fine del XIX secolo.
Invece di ritrarre lo spazio pubblico e la società, Morisot preferiva scene private ed intime.
Ciò riflette le restrizioni culturali della sua classe e del suo genere in quel momento.
Come la sua collega impressionista Mary Cassatt, si è concentrata sulla vita domestica e sui ritratti in cui poteva usare la famiglia e gli amici personali come modelli, tra cui sua figlia Julie e sua sorella Edma.

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Eric Fortune (American illustrator)


Eric Fortune is an illustrator and gallery artist based out of Columbus, Ohio. He received his BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design where he was honored with the Outstanding Senior Award upon graduation.
His work continued to garner acclaim with the acceptance into such prestigious annual competitions as The Society of Illustrators NY and LA as well as Spectrum and others.
He was the Artist Guest of Honor for ConGlomeration and was awarded the Jack Gaughan Award for Best Emerging Artist of 2009. Lyrical, haunting, yet poignant at the same time, Eric Fortune’s paintings make lasting impressions.

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Frants Diderik Bøe - Norwegian Still Life painter



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Boris Dubrov (Russian, 1979)

Boris Dubrov was born in St. Petersburg. At the age of five he surprised his parents by his unique art abilities. So, they decided to take him to the Art school where he got necessary knowledge of painting and graphics which he later developed on a professional level.

In 1994 Boris entered the Art-Restoring Lyce...um "Kupchino" where while studying he got interested in surrealisme. The Administration of this Lyceum arranged the first exhibition of his works in the field of surrealisme.


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Penleigh Boyd - Woodcutter’s Cottage


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Nikolai Dubovskoy - Silence, 1890


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Edward Hopper | Room in Brooklyn, 1932

"Room in Brooklyn" è una delle numerose opere d'arte di Hopper che raffigurano un individuo che guarda fuori dalla finestra la città.
In questo dipinto, una donna è seduta su una sedia a dondolo accanto a una pittoresca finestra del suo appartamento, guardando il paesaggio urbano di Brooklyn.
Hopper ha cercato di catturare la condizione umana in una città moderna e mostrare l'effetto della modernità che spesso può portare all'isolamento e alla solitudine.

Edward Hopper | Room in Brooklyn, 1932 | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Alice Pike Barney - Dream Book



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Ettore Aldo Del Vigo (Swiss, 1952)


Ettore Aldo Del Vigo è nato a Basilea in Svizzera. Dopo aver conseguito il diploma di di grafica editoriale in una tipografia specializzata in libri e cataloghi d' arte dove ha modo tra gli altri di conoscere Max Ernst uno dei padri del surrealismo si trasferisce in Sardegna dove entra in contatto con vari artisti locali partecipa a numerosi concorsi e collettive d' arte.
Nel 79 allestisce con successo la sua prima personale cui fanno seguito altre esposizioni, nel 2000 esegue una serie di dipinti per la chiesa di S. Paolo Apostolo in Sassari tra cui la Pala dell'Altare e nel 2004 l'Ambasciata Italiana a Londra gli commissiona una serie di opere da installare nella sala da ricevimento. Attualmente vive e lavora a Sassari.

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William Whitaker | Drawing


The only son of an artist father, William Whitaker grew up in the special world of the working artist. He had access to the finest art materials and was painting in watercolor and oil at the age of six.
His fondest early memories are of the sights sounds and smells of the art studio. He has been a professional artist since 1965, during which time he has conducted workshops and been a university art professor.
He continues to work with one or two advanced student artists for fun. He paints about three or four hours every day ands spends the rest of the time trying not to ruin any good work he's done.

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Robert Doesburg, 1945


- "Sono nato a Rotterdam nei Paesi Bassi.
Dipingo per tutta la vita, ma a tempo pieno dal 1995.
La mia specialità è lo stile quadrato.
Ho sviluppato questo stile da solo.
Lavorare in questo stile mi dà tutte le opportunità di utilizzare molti più colori, mostrando effetti sorprendenti ed immagini scintillanti, indipendentemente dal soggetto".

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Arturo Ferrari | Via San Bernardino in Milano, 1912

Arturo Ferrari (Milan, 1861-1932) was an Italian painter.
Initiated into artistic studies by his father Cesare, an associate of Luigi Scrosati, and the painter Mosè Bianchi from Lodi, Arturo Ferrari completed his training at the Brera Academy under the guidance of Giuseppe Bertini from 1877-1884 while working in the studio of Gerolamo Induno at the same time.
He made his debut at the Esposizione di Belle Arti di Brera in 1879 with a view of the interior of Milan Cathedral, thus inaugurating the repertoire of Milanese perspective views that was to be a constant feature of his vast production of oil paintings and watercolours.


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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | The Lovers, 1875


The resting couple of lovers amidst nature in The Lovers painting is rendered dynamically by quickly alternating colourful spots that imitate the trembling atmospheric light.
The way the two figures are modelled are specific for Renoir: the actress Henriette Henriot and the painter Pierre Frank-Lamy.
Renoir held a special position among impressionists, mostly landscape painters, because he frequently focused on figural topics. | Source: © National Gallery Prague

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Louis de Trinquesse - After the Soirée, 1774

Louis de Trinquesse [ca.1746-1800] was a French painter. He was a student at the Académie Royale from 1758 to at least 1770 and worked both as a portrait painter and a Genre painter. His portraits are usually gentle and uncomplicated likenesses painted in pastel colours, for example the Young Girl (1777; Paris, Louvre). When dealing with older male sitters, however, his style could be grander and more sober, as in the portrait of the Abbé Gentil (1783; Bagnols-sur-Cèze, Musées Bagnols-sur-Cèze) and the Portrait of an Architect (formerly identified as Jacques-Denis Antoine; 1780; private collection), the most ambitious of Trinquesse's known works, showing the architect as if measuring a drawing.
Trinquesse's Genre paintings are in the gallant and bourgeois tradition of Frédéric Schall and Louis-Joseph Watteau de Lille, depicting scenes of love and dalliance in parks and gardens, for example the Offering to Venus (1786; Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts) and the Declaration of Love (1786; private collection). Such works are thoroughly artificial, with a smooth porcelain-like finish; they demonstrate the painter's enjoyment of the depiction of rich materials.
Trinquesse was well known among contemporary collectors for his very assured drawings, mostly in red chalk, many of which depict young artists at work, such as the Drawing Class (Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts). He failed twice to become an Academician and exhibited instead at the Salon de la Correspondance organized by Pahin de la Blancherie.
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Gioia Cordovani - Portrait painter


Gioia Cordovani is an talented Italian painter born in Tanzania. Lives and works in Rome. Since the 80s and up to 2006 she worked as a fashion designer and costume designer. Cordovani like to dig souls characters, leaving the viewer task to find the source through which the inner world of the woman comes out: look, shadow, light, or any other part of her image. The artist expresses himself through mixed techniques, more often, on the basis of acrylic.
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Leopold Schmutzler - La vendangeuse


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Bartholomeus van der Helst - The Musician, 1662


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Adolph von Menzel | Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim in Concert, 1854


Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel (8 December 1815 - 9 February 1905) was a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings, and paintings.
Along with Caspar David Friedrich, he is considered one of the two most prominent German painters of the 19th century, and was the most successful artist of his era in Germany.
First known as Adolph Menzel, he was knighted in 1898 and changed his name to Adolph von Menzel.
His popularity in his native country, owing especially to his history paintings, was such that few of his major paintings left Germany, as many were quickly acquired by museums in Berlin.

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Robert Kemm - The Artist's Model

Robert Kemm was a British painter who lived in London from 1837 until 1895. He was considered a Romantic painter of Genre scenes, especially Andalusia landscapes and figures. This artwork called "Admiring the Painting" was painted in oil and is a highly staged piece of work.
The room setting could easily be the artists studio, with the easel, palette and assortment of props. In the 19th century Orientalist themes were very popular and Robert Klemm might have used a local model and dressed her up in garments from the Orient.
Artists would often bring home souvenirs from their travels to use later as props in paintings and to add visual interest to the setting.
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Alphons Spring - Violin Player, c. 1890


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Constance Marie Charpentier - Melancholy, 1801

Constance Marie Charpentier (born 1767 Paris, France - 3 August 1849 France) was a French painter. She specialized in genre scenes and portraits, mainly of children and women. She was also known as Constance Marie Bondelu.
Records of Charpentier's training are unclear, but she might have studied with numerous artists. She is typically believed to have studied with the acclaimed French painter Jacques-Louis David, but may also have been a pupil of François Gérard, Pierre Bouillon, Louis Lafitte, and either Johann Georg Wille or his son, Pierre-Alexandre Wille.
In 1788 she received a 'Prix d'Encouragement'. From 1795 to 1819 she exhibited approximately thirty painting at various Salons, winning a gold medal in 1814 at the Paris Salon and a silver medal in 1821 at the Salon at Douai.
It is believed that some of Charpentier's works were incorrectly attributed to her teacher, David. The well-known painting Young Woman Drawing (1801) was incorrectly attributed first to David, then to Charpentier, and is now believed to be the work of Marie-Denise Villers. Based on surviving, positively identified works by Charpentier, she is considered one of the finest portrait painters of her era.
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Andreas Achenbach - Fisher Couple on the Beach, 1910


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Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun - Allegory of the Genius of Alexander


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Andreas Achenbach - Fischmarkt in Ostende

Andreas Achenbach [1815-1910] was a German landscape painter, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting and born in Kassel. He began his art education in 1827 in Düsseldorf under Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow at the Düsseldorf Academy of Painting. He studied at St Petersburg and travelled in Italy, Holland and Scandinavia. In his early work he followed the pseudo-idealism of the German romantic school, but on removing to Munich in 1835, the stronger influence of Louis Gurlitt turned his talent into new channels, and he became the founder of the German realistic school.
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Boris Kustodiev | Pittore accademico

Boris Michajlovič Kustodiev / Борис Михайлович Кустодиев (Astrachan', 7 marzo 1878 - Leningrado, 28 maggio 1927) è stato un pittore e scenografo Russo.

Gioventù

Boris Kustodiev nacque ad Astrachan', nella famiglia di un professore di filosofia, storia della letteratura e logica presso il locale seminario teologico.
Suo padre morì giovane, ed il peso del mantenimento della famiglia ricadde sulle spalle della madre.
La famiglia Kustodiev affittò una piccola ala della casa di un ricco mercante.


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Joshua Burbank - Mixed media on wood panel


Originally from California, Joshua Burbank graduated from San Francisco art school in the year 2000. As an apprentice he worked under the noted sculptor Al Farrow, whose artwork adorns the cover of 2013 David Bowie single The Stars. He has exhibited once with The Outsiders, at 2013's solo exhibition.
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Sandro Botticelli | Madonna of the Pomegranate, 1487

The Madonna of the Pomegranate was painted in circa 1487 with tempera on a wood panel by Sandro Botticelli.
It is now in the Uffizi in Florence.
Sandro Botticelli was a leading Italian Renaissance artist from Florence, Italy.
The Madonna (art) uses the circular format, better known as a tondo, which focuses the attention on the main characters, the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus, who are surrounded symmetrically by angels on each side.


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Sandro Botticelli - The Virgin and Child with a Pomegranate



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Hugo Salmson - Something in the air


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Albrecht Dürer | The Madonna with the Iris, 1500-10


The Virgin Mary breastfeeds the infant Christ in a walled garden surrounded by flowers.
God the Father, a small figure radiating light, appears in the sky above.
The image of the Virgin and Christ Child in a garden was derived from the poetic imagery of the Song of Solomon, a book of the Old Testament.
In it, a woman is described as a lily and a rose as well as an enclosed garden (which, when associated with Mary, came to symbolise her virginity).

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Ambrogio Alciati | The kiss, 1917

The Italian Ambrogio Alciati (1878-1929) was a well-known portrait painter at the beginning of the 20th century, who mainly found his clients among the wealthy Milanese bourgeoisie.
He owed his popularity to his talent to get through to the character of those portrayed.
This gift led in his free work - especially female figures and genre pieces - to the expression of deeply felt human emotions such as passion and emotion.


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Antonio Ambrogio Alciati | Convegno, 1918 | Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania

Nato a Vercelli nel 1878, Antonio Ambrogio Alciati (1878-1929) si trasferisce con la madre e la sorella nel 1879 a Milano per frequentare l’Accademia di Brera, dove riceve gli insegnamenti di Vespasiano Bignami, Giuseppe Mentessi e Cesare Tallone.
Quest’ultimo lo aiuta a perfezionarsi nel ritratto, introducendolo fra la ricca borghesia milanese.
Tra il 1902 e il 1910 esegue una serie di quadri d’ispirazione romantica e familiare, ma si dedica anche alla decorazione di chiese e ville lombarde, mentre nel secondo decennio del secolo il suo stile si evolve abbandonando le tonalità sfumate e la gamma spenta che rasenta il monocromo, per acquistare gradatamente un maggior vigore costruttivo e un vivace cromatismo.


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Odilon Redon - Still Life

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George Henry Boughton | A spring idyll, 1901


George Henry Boughton RA** (December 4, 1833 - January 19, 1905) was an Anglo-American landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer.

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Emma Ekwall [1838-1925]


Emma Ekwall-Scheutz was the first Swedish woman - painter, received the Royal Medal. She was born on January 18, 1838. After graduating from the Academy of Painting, where she studied from 1865-1870, lived for a time in Munich and Leipzig. She painted mostly portraits of their children, floral still lifes and genre scenes. She died in 1925 in Stockholm.
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Paul Gauguin - Seated breton girl, 1889


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La Cappella di Giotto

La Cappella intitolata a Santa Maria della Carità, affrescata tra il 1303-1305 da Giotto su incarico di Enrico degli Scrovegni costituisce uno dei massimi capolavori dell'arte occidentale.
La narrazione ricopre interamente le pareti con le storie della Vergine e di Cristo, mentre nella controfacciata è dipinto il grandioso Giudizio Universale, con il quale si conclude la vicenda della salvazione umana.
L'edificio era originariamente collegato al palazzo di famiglia, fatto erigere dopo il 1300, seguendo il tracciato ellittico dei resti dell'arena romana.
Da quando, nel 1880, la Cappella è stata acquisita dalla città di Padova, gli affreschi sono stati continuamente oggetto di particolari attenzioni e, nell'Ottocento e nel Novecento, sono stati compiuti svariati interventi conservativi.