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Édouard Manet: "Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity"


⦁ There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.
⦁ No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.
⦁ Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

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Frank Duveneck (1848-1919) Siesta


Frank Duveneck (October 9, 1848 - January 3, 1919) was born in Covington, Kentucky, outside of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1848. He received his formal training in Munich at the Bavarian Royal Academy during the early 1870s, and established his own school there in 1878. The following year, Lizzie Boott and her father Francis, both expatriate artists from Boston, were among Duveneck’s students. Through the early 1880s Duveneck courted Miss Boott, who lived with her father at the Villa Castellani in Bellosguardo, outside of Florence.
He also traveled extensively during this period, from Munich to Florence, England and possibly the United States.
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Édouard Manet (1832-1883) 295 artworks ⁽³⁾


⦁    Color is a matter of taste and sensitivity.
⦁    Every time I paint, I throw myself into the water
⦁    in order to learn how to swim.
⦁    I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.
⦁    Black is not a color.
⦁    There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.
⦁    There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more or less crooked nose and an irregular mouth.

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Camille Corot (1796-1875) | Lo stile

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Corot è una delle figure più significative della pittura di paesaggio. Le sue opere, infatti, attingono a piene mani dalla tradizione neoclassica e, al contempo, anticipano le innovazioni en plein air dell'Impressionismo.
Claude Monet, nel 1897, avrebbe detto di lui: «Qui c'è un solo grande maestro: Corot. Non siamo nulla nei suoi confronti, nulla».
Né il suo contributo nella pittura di figura è meno importante: Edgar Degas, altro noto pittore impressionista, preferiva le sue figure rispetto ai suoi paesaggi, e in tal senso Corot esercitò un'influenza che traspare persino nelle tele di Pablo Picasso. Nella sua vita eseguì più di tremila dipinti ed era considerato dai contemporanei come uno dei massimi paesaggisti mai esistiti, a lato di nomi illustri come Claude Lorrain, John Constable e J. M. W. Turner.

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot 1796-1875 | French realist/impressionist painter

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Padovanino, Alessandro Varotari | The Archangel Michael


Padovanino or Varotari Alessandro Leone (4 April 1588 - 20 July 1649), also commonly known as Il Padovanino, was an Italian painter** of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque** Venetian school, best known for having mentored Pietro Liberi, Giulio Carpioni, and Bartolommeo Scaligero.
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William Bouguereau | The Water Girl, 1885


Title: The Water Girl, or Young Girl Going to the Spring;
Date: 1885;
Medium: Oil on canvas;
Dimensions: 63 1/8 x 28 7/8 in;
Current location: Dahesh Museum of Art.

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Viktor Sheleg (Russian, 1962)

Viktor Sheleg was born in Lomonosov, near Saint-Petersberg, Russia. His family moved to Latvia when he was three.
Viktor has been drawing since early childhood and started painting at the age of twelve. Self-taught, his creativity is based on his personal worldview, which earned him a solid reputation of an independent artist.
Sheleg developed his style and aesthetic preference in a country isolated from the rest of the world and known for its climate of conformity.
The artist himself says that his work is inspired by chaos and that his painting is guided by emotions and energy. He lives and works in Riga, Latvia.


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Édouard Manet (1832-1883) 295 artworks ⁽²⁾


Édouard Manet's public career lasted from 1861, the year of his first participation in the Salon, until his death in 1883.
His extant works, as catalogued in 1975 by Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, comprise 430 oil paintings, 89 pastels, and more than 400 works on paper.
Although harshly condemned by critics who decried its lack of conventional finish, Manet's work had admirers from the beginning.
One was Émile Zola, who wrote in 1867:
"We are not accustomed to seeing such simple and direct translations of reality. Then, as I said, there is such a surprisingly elegant awkwardness ... it is a truly charming experience to contemplate this luminous and serious painting which interprets nature with a gentle brutality".
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Édouard Manet (1832-1883) 295 artworks ⁽¹⁾


Édouard Manet (23 January 1832 - 30 April 1883) was a French painter**. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism**.
Born into an upper-class household with strong political connections, Manet rejected the future originally envisioned for him, and became engrossed in the world of painting.

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Georges Rochegrosse (1859-1938) | Life and paintings


Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse è stato un pittore Orientalista Francese🎨.
Studiò pittura con Alfred Dehodencq e poi entrò nell'Académie Julian, negli atelier di Jules Joseph Lefebvre🎨 e Gustave Boulanger, passando infine all'École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Partecipò, senza successo, ai Prix de Rome del 1880 e del 1881, ed al Salon del 1882, dove fu premiato. L'anno dopo ottiene una borsa per effettuare un viaggio di studi.
Illustrò anche diverse edizioni letterarie: l' "Odissea", il "Satyricon", l'"Orestea" di Eschilo, "L'uomo che ride" ed "I miserabili" di Victor Hugo, l’"Akëdysseril di Villiers" de l'Isle-Adam, le Princesses di Théodore de Banville, il Salammbô e l’"Hérodias" di Gustave Flaubert ed ancora Charles Baudelaire, Théophile Gautier ed Anatole France.

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Nina Reznichenko (Ukrainian, 1973)


Nina Reznichenko graduated from Vyzhnytsia College of Applied Arts.
She is a member of the Ukrainian National Society of Artists and member of International association of Artists' Art without Borders.
Her works are in private collections in many countries.

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John Atkinson Grimshaw | Victorian-era painter | 124 artworks ⁽³⁾


This is part 3 of 4-part post on the works of English** Victorian-era painter John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893), considered one of the most renowned painters of the Victorian era, as well as one of the best and most accomplished nightscape, and townscape, artists of all time.
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John Atkinson Grimshaw | Victorian-era painter | 124 artworks ⁽²⁾


John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 - 13 October 1893) was an English** Victorian-era artist known for his breathtaking city night-scenes and landscapes.
His early paintings were signed "JAG", "J. A. Grimshaw", or "John Atkinson Grimshaw**", though he finally settled on "Atkinson Grimshaw".

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John Atkinson Grimshaw | Victorian-era painter | 124 artworks ⁽¹⁾


John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 - 13 October 1893) is considered one of the most renowned painters of the Victorian era, as well as one of the best and most accomplished nightscape, and townscape, artists of all time.
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Herbert Schmalz (1856-1935)

Herbert Gustave Schmalz (1856-1935) che si è nominato Herbert Gustave Carmichael nel 1918, era un pittore Inglese. È annoverato tra i Preraffaelliti.
Schmalz è nato in Inghilterra come figlio di un padre tedesco e madre inglese. Ha ricevuto una formazione convenzionale in pittura, prima alla South Kensington Art School e successivamente alla Royal Academy of Arts, dove ha studiato con Frank Dicksee, Stanhope Forbes ed Arthur Hacker. Ha perfezionato i suoi studi ad Anversa presso la Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
Dopo il suo ritorno a Londra si è fatto un nome come pittore di storia, con uno stile influenzato dai preraffaelliti e dall'orientalismo. Nel 1884 espose con successo la sua pittura Too Late alla Royal Academy.


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Peder Severin Krøyer | Pittore di Skagen

Peder Severin Krøyer (1851-1909) è stato un pittore impressionista Norvegese naturalizzato Danese, uno dei più amati artisti della confraternita dei Pittori di Skagen, i quali rappresentano un movimento artistico, osservato verso la fine del XIX secolo nel comune danese di Skagen.
I principali esponenti furono Michael ed Anna Ancher, e soprattutto Peter Severin Krøyer.
Non lontani dall'impressionismo, formavano un circolo e raccolsero molte delle opere in un'esposizione permanente da loro ideata, lo Skagens Museum.
Tra il 1877-1881, Krøjer fece molti viaggi di studio e di lavoro, incontrando varie correnti pittoriche e conoscendo molti artisti tra cui gli impressionisti Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir e il loro anticipatore Edouard Manet.


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Graciela Rodo Boulanger, 1935

Graciela Rodo, nata a La Paz, è una pittrice Boliviana. È nota per le sue opere d'arte con rappresentazioni stilizzate di bambini.
L'amore per l'arte lo ha ereditato da sua madre, una concertista, e da suo padre, un uomo d'affari e conoscitore d'arte.
Ha studiato musica e arte per tutta l'infanzia, tenendo il suo primo recital di pianoforte all'età di 15 anni e le sue prime mostre d'arte a Vienna e Salisburgo all'età di 18 anni. la devozione necessaria a entrambe le sue passioni.


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Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) | Ottava pagina


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Van Gogh in Holland | Landscapes


"I can very well do without God both in my life and in my paintings, but I cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life - the power to create" Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo.

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Van Gogh in Paris, 1886-1888 | Figures | Portraits

  • If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
  • Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
  • Occasionally, in times of worry, I’ve longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no - just let me be myself - and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.
  • I’ll start with small things.
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Van Gogh in Paris, 1886-1888 | Landscapes ⁽²⁾


  • There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even-the French air clears up the brain and does good-a world of good.
  • An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
  • The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
  • If ... boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
  • To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace.
  • I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
  • A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Van Gogh