Dominic Davison, 1972

Dominic Davison è nato a Londra ed ora vive nel Buckinghamshire, nel Regno Unito, dove trae ispirazione per le sue scene idilliache e romantiche.

Si è specializzato nell'arte della creazione digitale e pubblica i suoi lavori su diverse testate specializzate.

L'aspetto tridimensionale dei suoi lavori richiama soggetti specifici, principalmente i cottage, inseriti in un mondo che sembra reale nonostante sia dipinto su una superficie con tecnica bidimensionale.

Ha creato arte per molti anni e in questo periodo ha costruito una fedele base di fan, che ora si estende in tutto il mondo.

Prima di entrare in MGL ha lavorato come artista freelance, pubblicando il suo lavoro su riviste come "3D Artist" e "Advanced Photoshop".

Carlo Salomoni, 1956 | Surrealist Painter / Illustrator

Carlo Salomoni is an Italian artist🎨 born in Ferrara, Italy. He is a graduate from the medical faculty with a degree in general surgery, but in 1992 decides to leave the medical activity and becomes a professional artist.

Carlo started his artist career producing art objects (small sculptures and decoration of pottery vases), some of them exposed in galleries in Ferrara and Bologna Italy. He also realized replicas of famous painters in different epoch times and styles from the year 600 to 900.

Juan Muñoz | Storyteller sculptor

Juan Muñoz (1953-2001)was a Spanish sculptor, working primarily in paper maché, resin and bronze.

He was also interested in the auditory arts and created compositions for the radio. He was a self-described "storyteller".

In 2000, Muñoz was awarded Spain's major Premio Nacional de Bellas Artes in recognition of his work; he died shortly after, in 2001.

His first exhibition was in 1984 in the Fernando Vijande gallery of Madrid. Since then, his works have been frequently exhibited in Europe and other parts of the world.

Ben Hammond, 1977 | Figurative sculptor

Ben Hammond was raised in the rural town of Pingree, Idaho, where his love for art was nurtured from the time he was a small boy.

He studied art at Ricks College graduating with a degree in Illustration.

While at college, he found himself dedicating more and more of his time to sculpting. He also gained a great appreciation for traditional art and decided to devote his time to sculpting the human figure. His passion for the beauty of the human figure is exemplified in his art.

Gustave Courbet | Quotes / Aforismi

• "Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it".
• "La bellezza, come la verità, è relativa al tempo in cui si vive ed all'individuo che può afferrarla".
• "Fine art is knowledge made visible".
• "L'arte è la conoscenza resa visibile".
• "I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients".
• "Non sono uno che è nato sotto la custodia della saggezza; Sono uno che ama i tempi antichi e intenso nella ricerca della sacra conoscenza degli antichi".

James McNeill Whistler | Nocturne: Blue and Gold, St Mark's, Venice, 1880

Nocturne: Blue and Gold, St Mark's, Venice is an 1880 painting by James Abbot McNeill Whistler (American Tonalist painter, 1834-1903), now in the National Museum of Wale.

Following his bankruptcy in 1879, Whistler spent a year in Venice where he concentrated on etchings and pastels.

Only three oil paintings, produced largely from memory in the evenings, survive from this visit.

Gustave Courbet | Jo, La Belle Irlandaise, 1866

Gustave Courbet | Jo, the Beautiful Irishwoman | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The "beautiful Irishwoman" depicted in this painting is Joanna Hiffernan (born 1842/43), mistress and model of the artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)🎨, and perhaps subsequently Courbet’s lover.

Although dated 1866, the picture was likely undertaken in 1865, when the two men painted together at the French seaside resort of Trouville; Courbet wrote of "the beauty of a superb redhead whose portrait I have begun".

He would paint three repetitions with minor variations. | © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pierre Auguste Renoir | Woman playing a guitar, 1897

Woman Playing a Guitar / "Femme jouant de la guitare"/"Joueuse de guitare ou La Guitariste" is an 1897 painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, which bought it in 1901.

The work was one of the first paintings acquired by Paul Durand-Ruel.

Renoir painted several paintings of guitar-players and borrowing classical motifs - here, he is influenced by Camille Corot, Titian and Rubens.

Marc Chagall (1887-1985) | Flowers and lovers

• "You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do with out flowers".
• "Potresti chiederti per ore cosa significano i fiori, ma per me sono la vita stessa, in tutto il suo felice splendore. Non potevamo fare a meno dei fiori".
• "Art is the increasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding".
• "L'arte è lo sforzo incessante di competere con la bellezza dei fiori - e non riuscirci mai".

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | L'Église à Essoyes, 1890

The great impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir🎨 lived in the charming little village of Essoyes, in the Aube department of Champagne-Ardennes (in north-central France) from 1896-1907.

The village, hometown of his wife Aline and model and governess of his children Gabrielle Renard, is represented in many of his paintings.

Marc Chagall | Music and Colour

• "Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul".
• "Mozart non ha mai composto nulla, mai! Ha copiato ciò che è stato scritto sulla sua anima".
• "Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration".
• "Il colore è tutto. Quando il colore è giusto, anche la forma è giusta. Il colore è tutto, il colore è vibrazione come la musica; tutto è vibrazione".

Francis Picabia | Paysages

Francis Picabia, born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia (1879-1953), was a French avant-garde painter, poet and typographist.

After experimenting with Impressionism and Pointillism, Picabia became associated with Cubism.

His highly abstract planar compositions were colourful and rich in contrasts.

He was one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France.

He was later briefly associated with Surrealism, but would soon turn his back on the art establishment.

Marc Chagall (1887-1985) | Les Amoureux

"When you did catch a glimpse of his eyes, they were as blue as if they’d fallen straight out of the sky. They were strange eyes.. ..long, almond-shaped.. ..and each seemed to sail along by itself, like a little boat"!

- Quote of Bella Chagall - her description of their first encounter in Vitebsk, 1909.

Michele Lehmann, 1940 | Abstract painter

Michele Lehmann was born in Switzerland but moved to Mijas in southern Spain over 30 years ago.

After arriving there, Michele opened an art gallery as an outlet for local artists.

Although not an artist herself she began sketching to pass the time.

It began with a sketch of an old woman in black who passed the gallery every day.

She moved too fast for Michele to draw so the image captured her from behind.

Gari Melchers (1860-1932) | Naturalist painter

Julius Garibaldi Melchers was an American artist🎨. He was one of the leading American proponents of naturalism. He won a 1932 Gold medal🎨 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

The son of German-born American sculptor Julius Theodore Melchers, Gari Melchers was a native of Detroit, Michigan, who at seventeen studied art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under von Gebhardt and is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Virginia Woolf | Quotes about Women

• "As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking".

• "Finché pensa ad un uomo, nessuno si oppone ad una donna che pensa".

• "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size".

• "Per tutti questi secoli le donne hanno svolto la funzione di specchi, dotati della magica e deliziosa proprietà di riflettere la figura dell’uomo a grandezza doppia del naturale".

Dame Laura Knight (British Impressionist painter, 1877-1970) | A girl reading

Gyuri Lohmuller, 1962: "L'emozione è Arte"

Nato a Gataia, in Romania e pittore autodidatta, con mostre in Austria, Germania, Francia ed Ungheria, Gyuri Lohmuller preferisce i temi surrealisti.

I suoi dipinti riflettono le sue emozioni più profonde.

"L'emozione", dice, "è Arte".

Virginia Woolf | Quotes

• • "I wish you’d find the exit out of my head".

• "Io scriverei poesie d'amore anche sulle parti di te che tu non sopporti".

• "My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child-wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry".

• "Se il mio cervello, distratto da un'ansia o da altra causa, deve distogliersi dalla carta bianca, è come un bimbo sperduto, che gira per casa e siede a piangere sull'ultimo gradino".

Dame Laura Knight (British Impressionist painter, 1877-1970) | The Dark Pool, 1908-1918 | Laing Art Gallery

Jacques Prévert / Daniel Gerhartz | Quicksands / Sabbie mobili

Quicksands

Demons and wonders

Winds and tides

The sea has gone far away

And you

Like seaweed softly stroked by the wind

Stir dreaming in the sands of our bed

Demons and wonders

Winds and tides

The sea has gone far away

But in your half open eyes

Two small waves wait

Demons and wonders

Winds and tides

Two small waves to drown me.

Sabbie mobili

Dèmoni e meraviglie

Venti e maree

Il mare si è ritirato già in lontananza

E tu

Come un'alga dolcemente dal vento accarezzata

Nelle sabbie del letto ti agiti sognando

Dèmoni e meraviglie

Venti e maree

Il mare si è ritirato già in lontananza

Ma nei tuoi occhi socchiusi

Due piccole onde sono rimaste

Dèmoni e meraviglie

Venti e maree

Due piccole onde per farmi annegare.

Sables mouvants

Démons et merveilles

Vents et marées

Au loin déjà la mer s'est retirée

Et toi

Comme une algue doucement caressée par le vent

Dans les sables du lit tu remues en revant

Démons et merveilles

Vents et marées

Au loin déjà la mer s'est retirée

Mais dans tes yeux entrouverts

Deux petites vagues sont restées

Démons et merveilles

Vents et marées

Deux petites vagues pour me noyer.

John Callcott Horsley | The Morning of St Valentine,1865

Title: The Morning of St Valentine🎨;
Author: John Callcott Horsley (British painter, 1817-1903)
Date: 1865;
Medium: Oil on canvas;
Dimensions: w458 x h383 cm (Without frame);
Current location: Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool.

John Callcott Horsley RA was an English Academic painter of genre and historical scenes, illustrator and designer of the first Christmas card🎨. He was a member of the artist's colony in Cranbrook.