Édouard Manet: "I need to work to feel well"

⦁ 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.

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.

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

• "Color is a matter of taste and sensitivity".

• "Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.".

• "I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies".

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.

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.

William Bouguereau | The Water Girl, 1885

One of Bouguereau’s favorite motifs was the idealized peasant girl dreamily engaged in rustic activities.

The innocence and simple grace of this subject (cleaner than her real-life counterparts would have been) epitomize the sentimental, non-threatening peasant archetype especially preferred by Bouguereau’s upper-class and American patrons.

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.

Édouard Manet and Paris

Édouard Manet (1832-1883) depicted many scenes of the streets of Paris in his works.

The Rue Mosnier Decked with Flags depicts red, white, and blue pennants covering buildings on either side of the street; another painting of the same title features a one-legged man walking with crutches.

Again depicting the same street, but this time in a different context, is Rue Mosnier with Pavers, in which men repair the roadway while people and horses move past.

The Railway, widely known as The Gare Saint-Lazare, was painted in 1873.

Édouard Manet e l'Impressionismo

Édouard Manet (1832-1883) viene giustamente inserito nella genealogia dell'Impressionismo.

Egli, infatti, fu l'artefice di una pittura priva di forti variazioni chiaroscurali, e più sensibile al contrasto e alle armonie fra i colori piuttosto che alla definizione dei volumi: queste peculiarità, se da un lato furono accolte molto freddamente da molti, dall'altro giocarono un ruolo fondamentale nell'affermazione della pittura impressionista, animata da artisti come Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, Cézanne, Bazille ed altri.

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.

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.

For other works by Grimshaw see:

• John Atkinson Grimshaw | Victorian-era painter | 124 artworks ⁽¹⁾
• John Atkinson Grimshaw | Victorian-era painter | 124 artworks ⁽²⁾
• John Atkinson Grimshaw | Victorian-era painter | 124 artworks ⁽⁴⁾

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sandro Botticelli, Florence and the Medici

Botticelli (1445-1510) became associated by historians with the Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, a movement historians would later characterize as a "golden age".

The Medici family were effective rulers of Florence, which was nominally a republic, throughout Botticelli's lifetime up to 1494, when the main branch were expelled.

Lorenzo il Magnifico became the head of the family in 1469, just around the time Botticelli started his own workshop.

He was a great patron of both the visual and literary arts, and encouraged and financed the humanist and Neoplatonist circle from which much of the character of Botticelli's mythological painting seems to come.

Botticelli, il maestro dimenticato

Dopo la sua morte, la reputazione di Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) fu eclissata più a lungo e più a fondo di quella di qualsiasi altro grande artista europeo.

I suoi dipinti rimasero nelle chiese e nelle ville per le quali erano stati creati, ed i suoi affreschi nella Cappella Sistina furono messi in ombra da quelli di Michelangelo.

Vi sono alcune menzioni di dipinti e della loro collocazione in fonti risalenti ai decenni successivi alla sua morte.

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.