Salvatore Postiglione | Pittore di genere della Belle Époque

Salvatore Postiglione (Napoli, 1861-1906) è stato uno dei pittori Napoletani più dotati nel periodo storico coincidente con la Belle Époque.

Salvatore Postiglione, nato a Napoli il 20 dicembre 1861, apparteneva ad una famiglia di artisti.

Fratello di Luca Postiglione, anch'egli pittore, Salvatore apprese i primi rudimenti dal padre Luigi - pittore di quadri religiosi che lo lasciò prematuramente orfano - e dallo zio Raffaele, valente disegnatore, studioso delle opere di Raffaello Sanzio e professore all'Accademia di belle arti di Napoli, dove Salvatore frequentò anche le lezioni di Domenico Morelli.

Ippolito Caffi, tra Venezia e l’Oriente

Arte e vita di Ippolito Caffi

Dai bagliori delle vedute al clamore delle battaglie.

Sarà a Roma, dove giunge nel 1832 - abbandonato il "soffocante" ambiente dell’Accademia di Venezia che frequentava dal ’27 - che Caffi imbocca definitivamente la strada del vedutismo raggiungendo ben presto un’autonomia creativa che lo porta a rapido e sicuro successo.

Yarek Godfrey | Figurative painter

Yarek Godfrey (real name Jaroslaw Pawel Nowicki, 1957-2014) was a Polish artist of French, British and Austrian origins.

Godfrey received numerous awards for his work: The Gold Medal of the XXXVIII Salon of Young Artists, Grand Palais, Paris, 1987; Grand Prix of the XXVI International Salon of Art Côte d'Azur, Cannes, 1990.

He presented his works at numerous group and solo exhibitions, primarily in the United States and France, but also in Belgium, Monaco and Italy.

Pavel Mitkov, 1977 | Romance in Paris

Pavel Mitkov is a contemporary Bulgarian painter who was born in Sofia, is treated as one of best selling living painters in the country.

Extremely talented, his philosophy of life pertains to wisdom unusual for his young age.

The paintings of Pavel Mitkov reflect not only his natural artistic talent, but also his passion for painting.

Tamara de Lempicka | The Baroness with a Brush

Born Maria Gorska in Warsaw, Poland (then a sovereign state of Russia), Tamara de Łempicka (1898-1980) has come to be recognized both by her epithet, "Baroness with a Brush", and as icon of the Roaring Twenties.

As the daughter of wealthy parents, she was sent to Lausanne, Switzerland, to attend boarding school as a child - an experience she despised.

During the summer of one of her final years in Lausanne, however, her grandmother took her on a tour of Italy, where she first witnessed the work of Old Masters, an encounter that would ultimately inspire her life-long passion for art.

Galleria Ny Carslberg Glyptotek

Appassionato di storia ed arte, Carl Jacobsen (1842–1914) riuscì a mettere insieme una straordinaria collezione di opere e manufatti grazie agli ingenti profitti del suo birrificio.

Questa collezione, donata alle amministrazioni pubbliche nel 1888, rappresenta il nucleo originario dell’attuale museo.

Una decina d’anni dopo Jacobsen fece poi un’altra cospicua donazione di reperti antichi e la galleria si ampliò ulteriormente, continuando poi ad espandersi negli anni successivi.

Ada Breedveld, 1944 | Naïve painter

Ada Breedveld was born in The Netherlands, in Dordrecht and brought up in Rotterdam.

She has lived and worked in Amsterdam since 1983.

Ada is a self-taught artist. Since childhood, it has been her lifelong aspiration to become an artist.

Perseverance paid off and her work is now recognized in the world of Art Naïf.

Paul Cézanne: "Esiste una sola maestra: la Natura!"

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), così come gli altri pittori vissuti durante gli ultimi decenni dell'Ottocento, all'inizio della sua carriera non esitò a far riferimento alla rivoluzione impressionista.

Gli alfieri dell'Impressionismo - pensiamo a Monet e al primo Renoir - per ritrarre la realtà in maniera più realistica, si affidavano ai fenomeni percettivi della luce e del colore, rapportandosi a quello che volevano dipingere in maniera soggettiva, ovvero basandosi esclusivamente sull'impressione fuggevolissima e irripetibile suscitata nei loro sensi.

William Turner | Il pittore della luce

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) è stato un pittore ed incisore Inglese.

Appartenente al movimento romantico, si può dire che il suo stile abbia posto le basi per la nascita dell'Impressionismo.

Nonostante ai suoi tempi fosse visto come una figura controversa, attualmente è considerato l'artista che ha elevato l'arte della pittura paesaggistica ad un livello tale da poter competere con la maggiormente considerata pittura storica.

Anche se è diventato famoso per le sue opere ad olio, Turner è anche stato uno dei più grandi maestri britannici nella realizzazione di paesaggi all'acquerello.

È conosciuto con il soprannome di Il pittore della luce.

Alberto Pancorbo | A Master of Surrealism and Romantic Realism

Born in the city of Soria (Spain), Pancorbo begins to paint from a very early age in his native city. At the age of 18 he transferred to the city of Barcelona with the ultimate goal to dedicate himself only to painting.

In 1980 he became an exclusive artist of Sala Gaudi (Barcelona), which exposed his paintings for the first time in the international fair of art of Basiela (Swiss).

Ashraf Abdel Mohsen, 1964 | Artista / architetto futurista

Il Prof Dr. Ashraf Abdel Mohsen è un artista ed un architetto futuristico che ha fondato la CUBE Consultants, uno studio di architettura con sede in Egitto, nel 1990.

Oltre a dirigere la sua azienda, Abdel Mohsen è anche professore di architettura all'Università di Ain Shams.

Tra le più importanti realizzazioni sarebbero lo sviluppo del National Theatre, Khufu Avenue e la piazza, il Fustat Open Museum, la Nuova Capitale Amministrativa ed infine Città di Tutera.

Ivan Slavinsky (Russian painter, 1968)

Ivan Slavinsky is a contemporary artist born in Leningrad, Russia.

As a son to an art historian mother and a well-known Leningrad painter-Dmitry Oboznenko, it could be said that Ivan was destined to be an artist from an early age.

In his own words: "I was about 5 years when I felt tired of making the same old stuff.

I noticed a nice picture on the wall a reproduction of Raphael and decided to make a copy of it".

Georges Rochegrosse | Pittore accademico orientalista

Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse (1859-1938) è stato un pittore ed illustratore 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.

George Hendrik Breitner | L'impressionista di Amsterdam

George Hendrik Breitner (Rotterdam, 1857 - Amsterdam, 1923) è stato un pittore Olandese.

Allievo di August Allebé, George Breitner fu un pittore di dichiarata impostazione impressionista.

Le sue opere, a detta di alcuni storici, avrebbero influenzato sia la pittura di Vincent van Gogh che quella di Piet Mondrian.

Jenaro Pérez de Villaamil | Romantic / Orientalist painter

Jenaro Pérez de Villaamil y d'Huguet (1807-1854) was a Spanish painter in the Romantic style who specialized in landscapes with figures and architectural scenes.

He often inflated the scale of the buildings relative to the figures to make them more impressive.

He was born in Ferrol, Galicia.

In 1812, he was enrolled at the military academy in Santiago de Compostela, where he assisted his father, who was a professor there.

Ousmane Sow | L'Auguste Rodin del Senegal

Ousmane Sow (Dakar, 1935-2016) è stato un artista Senegalese, operante a Dakar.

Ousmane Sow è considerato uno dei più importanti e noti artisti senegalesi.

Nel 1999, l'esposizione delle sue opere, tra le quali la serie Little Big Horn, sul Pont des Arts di Parigi è visitata da tre milioni di persone, e lo consacra tra il grande pubblico.

Michael & Inessa Garmash

Le opere impressionistiche dei Garmash dimostrano la loro padronanza della figura e la loro capacità di tradurre la sensualità.

L'incredibile talento dei Garmash è pari solo alle loro storie d'amore ed alla loro carriera.

Sia Michael che Inessa Garmash sono nati in Russia, dove hanno studiato arte.

Precocissimo, Michael Garmash ha iniziato a dipingere all'età di tre anni.

Chopin | Prelude in E minor, Op 28, No. 4

The Prelude Op. 28, No. 4 by Frédéric Chopin is one of the 24 Chopin preludes.

By Chopin's request, this piece was played at his funeral, along with Mozart's Requiem.

The piece is only a page long and uses a descending melody line.

The melody starts with the dominant B and works its way to the tonic E, but halfway through the piece the descending line is interrupted and the melody starts over again.

Only in the last bars does the melody dissolve in the tonic and go through a chord progression to the soothing and satisfying.

Ryo Shiotani (塩谷 亮), 1975

Il pittore pluripremiato Giapponese Ryo Shiotani ha acquisito le tecniche classiche della pittura occidentale e le ha trasformate nella base delle sue opere.

Quando dipinge figure femminili o nature morte, la sua creatività parte dalla ricerca di oggetti che sente vicini al suo io a grandezza naturale, per poi trovare in essi la realtà.

Dopo la laurea alla Musashino Art University, Ryo Shiotani ha trascorso un anno di studio a Firenze con una borsa di studio dell'Agenzia per gli Affari Culturali, dove ha avuto l'opportunità di copiare e studiare le opere di Leonardo da Vinci.

Vittorio Corcos | I sogni della Belle Époque

Vittorio Matteo Corcos (1859-1933) naque a Livorno da una modesta famiglia ebraica. Studia qui con il pittore Giuseppe Baldini, poi all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze con Enrico Pollastrini (1875-78) e, grazie a una borsa del Comune di Livorno, a Napoli con Domenico Morelli (1878).

Dal 1880, per 6 anni, è a Parigi, dove presto firma un lungo contratto con la famosa galleria Goupil e frequenta prima il pugliese Giuseppe de Nittis, poi lo studio del ritrattista Léon Bonnat.

Paul Seignac | Niente ciliegie per te..

Il pittore Francese Paul Seignac (1826-1904) si specializzò in dipinti di genere che raffiguravano bambini, vita rurale e scene di vita quotidiana.

Nato a Bordeaux nel 1826, Seignac divenne allievo di Édouard Picot (1786-1868) a Parigi.

Molte delle opere di Seignac raffigurano bambini in ruoli teneri, a volte birichini, a volte intenti a giochi innocenti.

Paul Gustav Fischer | Belle Époque painter

Paul Gustav Fischer (1860-1934) was a Danish painter known for his naturalistic depictions of city life in Scandinavia and Europe.

Paul Fischer studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen.

His early works depicted city life and intricate relationships between its inhabitants.

As he became increasingly well-travelled he painted cities in Scandinavia, France and Italy.

David Garrett | Smile (Charlie Chaplin song) 🌹

In the final scene of Modern Times, Charlie and the gamine set off down the road to a new life.

When they get up off the grass verge to go, he pauses and points to the corners of his mouth, indicating that she should smile.

"Smile" has become a popular standard since its original use in Charlie Chaplin's film and has been recorded by numerous artists.

"Smile" is a song based on the theme song used in the soundtrack for Charlie Chaplin's 1936 film Modern Times.

Peter Demetz, 1969 | Hyperrealistic wood sculptor

Peter Demetz is best known for his incredibly realistic hand-carved sculptures of people, caught in contemplative, in-between moments.

His installations push beyond the framework of daily life, capturing the simple gestures and unique poses of his subject.

Peter Demetz was born in Bolzano-Italy and lives and works in Ortisei (BZ).

Coppélia, The Girl with the enamel eyes

Dr. Coppélius is a doctor who has made a life-size dancing doll.

It is so lifelike that Franz, a village youth, becomes infatuated with it and sets aside his heart's true desire, Swanhilda.

She shows him his folly by dressing as the doll, pretending to make it come to life and ultimately saving him from an untimely end at the hands of the inventor.

Edgar Degas | Woman Ironing, 1876-1887

Women at work provided inspiration for Degas.

In addition to ballet dancers and cabaret singers, he also painted milliners and dressmakers, laundresses and ironers-such as the young woman here.

Writer Edmond de Goncourt described a visit to Degas' studio when the artist showed him "washerwomen and still more washerwomen...."

Degas was interested in their movements and postures, the patterns and rhythms of their work.

Degas, de Goncourt continued, had gone about "speaking their language, explaining to us technically the downward pressing and circular strokes of the iron, etc...."

Edgar Degas | Woman Ironing, 1876-1887 | National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Fritz Kreisler | Love's Joy

Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen (Old Viennese Dances) is a set of three short pieces for violin and piano composed by Austrian-American violinist and composer Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962).

Kreisler wrote a number of pieces for the violin, including solos for encores, such as "Liebesleid" and "Liebesfreud".

Marc Chagall | La Danse

Paul Verlaine | The Art of Poetry, 1882

A French poet of the 19th century, Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) is known for his major role in the symbolist movement and for his lyrical and melancholic poetry.

The Art of Poetry / Art poétique, dedicated to Charles Morice and published by the publisher Léon Vanier, in 1882, in the literary and artistic review Paris moderne, then in 1884 in the collection Jadis et Naguère - is one of his most famous works and serves as a true manifesto of his artistic vision.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard | Young Girl Reading, 1776 | National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Claude Debussy, "Clair de lune" and Paul Verlaine

"Suite bergamasque" is a piano suite by Claude Debussy.

He began composing it around 1890, at the age of 28, but significantly revised it just before its 1905 publication.

The popularity of the third movement, Clair de lune, has made it one of the composer's most famous works for piano, as well as one of the most famous musical pieces of all time.

Moonlight by Harald Slott-Møller (1864-1937)

Richard Strauss and Nietzsche: "Also Sprach Zarathustra"

Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 is a tone poem by German composer Richard Strauss, composed in 1896 and inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's 1883-1885 philosophical work of the same name.

Strauss conducted its first performance on 27 November 1896 in Frankfurt.

A typical performance lasts roughly 33 minutes.

The initial fanfare - titled "Sunrise" in the composer's programme notes - became well known after its use in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Eumir Deodato's jazz-funk hit version won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.

The Strauss monument in Vienna

Johannes Vermeer | View of Delft, 1660-61

"Ever since I saw the View of Delft in the museum in The Hague, I have known that I had seen the most beautiful painting in the world" - Marcel Proust.

View of Delft (Dutch: Zicht op Delft) is an oil painting by Johannes Vermeer (Dutch painter, 1632-1675), painted c. 1659-1661.

The painting of the Dutch artist's hometown is among his best known.

It is one of three known paintings of Delft by Vermeer, along with The Little Street and the lost painting House Standing in Delft, and his only cityscape.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Joie de vivre

"To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty!

There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them" - Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Hugo Salmson | Something in the air

Hugo Fredrik Salmson (1843-1894) was a Swedish painter, known for figures and genre scenes.

Salmson was born in Stockholm, Sweden.

He was the son of Fredrik Ludvig Salmson, a wholesaler, and his wife Maria Perlberg. He initially studied business, but soon decided on an artistic career.

In 1862, he began his studies at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts where he was trained by Johan Christoffer Boklund.

William Henry Gore | Pittore romantico

William Henry Gore RI (1857–1942) è stato un pittore ed acquerellista inglese vissuto tra la fine dell'epoca vittoriana e l'inizio del XX secolo.

È noto per i suoi paesaggi rurali del Berkshire, sua terra natale, e per i suoi piccoli dipinti di genere, raffiguranti bambini ed animali.

Gore si collocava nella tradizione del tardo Romanticismo e Naturalismo vittoriano, fioriti nel periodo a cavallo tra l'inizio del XX secolo, ma che rapidamente divennero fuori moda all'indomani della Grande Guerra e dei successivi cambiamenti sociali e politici.

Salvatore Quasimodo | Estate / Summer

Cicale, sorelle, nel sole

con voi mi nascondo

nel folto dei pioppi

e aspetto le stelle.

Peder Severin Krøyer | Summer Evening at Skagen Beach, The Artist and his Wife, 1899

Vincent van Gogh | Garden with Courting Couples, 1887

Van Gogh called this sunny park scene 'the painting of the garden with lovers'.

Couples in love are strolling under the young chestnut trees and sitting along the winding paths.

He used a free variation on the technique of the Pointillists.

Essential Facts:

Title: Garden with Courting Couples: Square Saint-Pierre

Date: Paris, May 1887

Artist: Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 75.0 cm x 113.0 cm

Current location: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

Václav Brožík | Pittore accademico

Václav Brožík (1851-1901) è stato uno storico dell'arte, considerato il più grande pittore accademico Ceco.

Nel 1896 divenne il primo, e finora unico artista Ceco, a diventare membro dell'Académie des Beaux-Arts.

Václav Brožík studiò dal 1868 presso l'Accademia di Belle Arti di Praga sotto Emil Lauffer.

Nel 1871 si trasferì per poter proseguire i suoi studi all'Accademia di Dresda e dal 1873 all'Accademia di Monaco di Baviera, dove fu influenzato in particolare da Carl Theodor von Piloty.

Frederick Morgan ROI | Genre painter

Frederick Morgan ROI (1847-1927) is known mostly for his romantic and sentimental paintings of children in the same style as his contemporary Arthur John Elsley.

His paintings achieved great popularity in his lifetime and were widely published.

He exhibited with the Royal Academy and was a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI).

Morgan's paintings are exhibited at many art galleries and museums including the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and the Russell-Cotes Museum in Bournemouth.

His Turn Next was used to advertise Pears' Soap and is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight.

Elli Michler | Ti auguro Tempo

Non ti auguro un dono qualsiasi,

ti auguro soltanto quello che i più non hanno.

Ti auguro tempo, per divertirti e per ridere;

se lo impiegherai bene potrai ricavarne qualcosa.

Anton Dieffenbach | Pittore di genere

Anton Heinrich Dieffenbach (1831-1914) è stato un pittore paesaggista e di genere Tedesco, noto per i suoi ritratti di bambini.

Si trasferì a Strasburgo con i suoi genitori nel 1840 e prese lezioni da un artista locale di nome Charles Duhamel.

Grazie alla raccomandazione di Duhamel, poté recarsi a Parigi e studiare con lo scultore James Pradier.

Fabio Cipolla | Orientalist painter

Fabio Cipolla (1852-1935) was a distinguished Italian painter of genre scenes and "costume paintings".

He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and his works were published in various periodicals.

He made his first appearance at the exhibitions in Milan in 1879 and in Turin in 1880, and in the following years he developed the adoption of a mannered narrative realism on genre subjects.

Fabio Cipolla lived and worked in Rome all his life.

Konstantin Sterkhov, 1968

Konstantin Sterkhov è un artista, docente ed autore di fama internazionale, nato in Russia.

In qualità di rinomato acquerellista, gli è stato concesso un visto Global Talent per il Regno Unito.

Sterkhov è autore di sei libri della collana "Masters of Watercolor", cinque manuali didattici sulla tecnica dell'acquerello e gli almanacchi "Planet of Watercolor".

È richiesto in tutto il mondo come espositore, autore, docente e membro della giuria.

Nikolai Belsky | Genre painter

Russian painter Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky (1868-1945) painted mostly genre paintings, especially of the education of peasant children, portraits, and impressionistic landscapes studies.

Bogdanov was born in the village of Shitiki in Smolensk Governorate in 1868, then he added to his surname "Belsky" in accordance with the name of the Uyezd where he was born.

He studied at the elementary school where his teacher was Sergey Rachinsky, then studied icon-painting at the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra in 1883, modern painting at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1884 to 1889, and at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg from 1894 to 1895.

Adolf von Becker | Something for the Cat, 1882

Adolf von Becker (1831-1909) was a Finnish genre painter and art professor of German descent, one of the first Finnish artists to study in Paris, who taught many of the young artists of the Golden Age of Finnish Art.

Becker was born in Helsinki, where he began his artistic studies at the newly founded Finnish Art Society Drawing School; he also studied law.

In 1853, he completed his law degree and became a trainee at the Court of Appeals in Turku.

Adolf von Becker | Something for the Cat, 1882 | Paris Salon, 1882 | Finnish National Gallery

Tomaso Albinoni | Oboe concerto in D minor op. 9

"Oboe Concerto in D minor" has long been regarded as one of the finest concertos composed for the instrument.

Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (1671-1751) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era.

His output includes operas, concertos, sonatas for one to six instruments, sinfonias, and solo cantatas.

While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is known today for his instrumental music, especially his concertos.

Samuel Scott | London, a view of the Thames and Old Westminster Bridge looking towards Westminster Abbey

Vincenzo Migliaro | Mercato del pesce a Porta Capuana, 1893

Vincenzo Migliaro (1858-1938) was an Italian painter born in Naples.

After learning the art of wood carving at courses held by the Società Centrale Operaia Napoletana and working in the studio of Stanislao Lista, Migliaro enrolled in 1875 at the Naples Institute of Fine Arts, where his masters included Domenico Morelli.

Eugenia Gapchinska, 1974 | Lisa and her Dreams

Evgeniya Hennadiyivna Haptschynska, internationally known as Eugenia Gapchinska / Євгенія Гапчинська, was born on November 15, 1974 in Kharkiv.

She is the fifth child in the family. At the age of five, she went to school.

At the age of 13, she became a student at Kharkiv Art College.

Graduate of the Institute of Industrial Arts in Kharkiv, Eugenia Gapchinska is doing her internship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg (Germany).

Hugues Merle | The Forgotten, 1850

Hugues Merle (1822–1881) has long been associated with his friend and possible rival, William Bouguereau (1825-1905).

Merle was just two years older than Bouguereau, and their thematic and artistic concerns and meticulous degree of finish resulted in comparison from critics and collectors alike.

Merle began exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1847 and went on to become to teacher of Elizabeth Gardner Bouguereau, Bouguereau's wife and a talented painter in her own right.

Hugues Merle | The Forgotten, 1850 | Sotheby's

Francesco Lojacono | Marina palermitana

Francesco Lojacono (Palermo, 1838-1915) è stato un pittore Italiano, considerato il più importante paesaggista dell'Ottocento siciliano.

Fu tra i primi pittori ad utilizzare la fotografia come riferimento per realizzare le sue opere.

Lojacono fu iniziato alla pittura dal padre Luigi, pittore a sua volta. Fu poi allievo di Salvatore Lo Forte.

Nel 1856, a 18 anni, si trasferì a Napoli, dove affinò le sue doti frequentando diversi pittori viaggiatori e soprattutto entrando nella scuola dei fratelli Giuseppe e Filippo Palizzi.

Carlotta Edwards | Le Cygne

Carlotta Edwards (1894-1977) era figlia dell'artista Francese Ferdinand Pourrier.

Studiò alla St. John's Wood Art School e si specializzò in soggetti di danza classica, assistendo alle prove per realizzare schizzi per i suoi dipinti.

Espose alla Royal Society of Portrait Painters ed al Salon di Parigi.

Le sue scene di balletto un tempo adornavano le camere da letto di bambine (e grandi) in tutta l'Inghilterra ma erano molto popolari in Australia e Nuova Zelanda.