Edna St. Vincent Millay | When the Year Grows Old / Quando l’anno invecchia

Edward Cucuel (American Impressionist painter, 1875-1954)🎨 | In autumn sunlight

I cannot but remember

When the year grows old -

October - November -

How she disliked the cold!

She used to watch the swallows

Go down across the sky,

And turn from the window

With a little sharp sigh.

And often when the brown leaves

Were brittle on the ground,

And the wind in the chimney

Made a melancholy sound.

Nathalie Picoulet, 1968 | Pastel figurative painter

French painter Nathalie Picoulet was born in Amiens and began a career in portrait paintings in 1993.

After displaying an early talent for drawing, she studied the history of Art and Design before deciding to pursue a full-time career as an artist in pastels.

Nathalie Picoulet studied at The University of Plastic Arts and followed higher education of drawing at L Ecole Superieur of design in Amiens.

Egon Schiele | I, eternal child / Io, eterno fanciullo

I, eternal child,

always watched the passage of the rutting people and did not want

to be inside them, I said -

spoke and did not speak, I listened and wanted

to hear them and see into them, strongly and more strongly.

I, eternal child -

I sacrificed myself for others …

who looked and did not see me …

Anne-Christine Roda, 1974 | Hyperrealist painter

Anne-Christine Roda is an French painter🎨.

She defines a highly original interpretation of the portrait:  in her work the painting is entirely subjugated to the portrayal of man’s fragility.

Her paintings, in terms of the choice of pose for her models and the neutral treatment of their backgrounds are as rooted in tradition, as her subjects are sourced unequivocally from our contemporary era.

Her choice of subject speaks directly to our everyday lives.

Yannis Ritsos | The Meaning of Simplicity / Il senso della Semplicità

I hide behind simple things so you’ll find me;

if you don’t find me, you’ll find the things,

you’ll touch what my hand has touched,

Our hand-prints will merge.

Ernst Koerner (1846-1927) | Landscape painter

Ernst Karl Eugen Koerner was a German🎨 landscape painter.

In 1861, while still attending the public schools, he began working in the studios of Hermann Eschke, where he received most of his artistic education.

Later, he also worked for Karl Steffeck and Gottlieb Biermann.

Pedro Salinas | Wake up. Day calls you / Svegliati. Il giorno ti chiama..

Wake up. Day calls you

to your life: your duty.

And to live, nothing more.

Root it out of the glum

night and the darkness

that covered your body

for which light waited

on tiptoe in the dawn.

Svegliati. Il giorno ti chiama

alla tua vita: il tuo dovere.

A nient’altro che a vivere.

Strappa ormai alla notte

negatrice e all'ombra

che lo celava, quel corpo

di cui è in attesa, sommessa,

la luce, nell'alba.

Rudolf Jordan (1810-1887) | Genre painter

Wilhelm Rudolf Jordan was a German🎨 genre painter, illustrator, etcher and art teacher.

His father was a member of the Judicial Council and he was a descendant of Charles-Étienne Jordan; advisor to Frederick the Great.

After completing his basic artistic studies with Karl Wilhelm Wach at his private school in Berlin, Jordan moved to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he took master classes with Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow and Karl Ferdinand Sohn.

Ghiannis Ritsos / Jeffrey T. Larson | Debito autunnale

La casa profuma già di autunno.

E una volta ancora siamo impreparati,

senza pullover né sciarpe. Nuvole inattese

dal mattino oscurano le colline. Dobbiamo sbrigarci

a fare un po’ di provviste, perché tra poco arrivano

i venti sbraitanti. I vapori della cucina

occupano il primo posto nel silenzio del corridoio. A uno a uno

chiudono i locali sul mare. Sul molo bagnato

Yoshio Markino | The colour of London

Makino Yoshio / 牧野 義雄, known as Yoshio Markino (1870-1956), was a Japanese Impressionist Watercolor painter and writer born in Koromo (Toyota City).

In 1893, he travelled to San Francisco where he trained at the Hopkins Art School, before arriving in London in 1897, instantly falling in love with the city.

He spent hours walking the streets, fascinated by the effect of mist and fog on the appearance of buildings, especially under gaslight.

Rabindranath Tagore / Marc Chagall | Unending Love / Amore senza fine

Marc Chagall🎨 | La branche de gui or Le rêve, 1928

Sembra che ti abbia amato in innumerevoli modi, innumerevoli volte…

nella vita dopo la vita, ripetutamente, sempre.

Il mio cuore incantato ha creato e ricreato la collana delle canzoni,

che hai accettato in dono e hai messo attorno al tuo collo a modo tuo,

nella vita dopo la vita, ripetutamente, sempre.

Ogni qualvolta odo vecchie cronache d’amore, è un’annosa pena,

l’antica storia di trovarci lontani l’uno dall'altro o insieme.

Fabian Perez, 1967

"Beauty, in every sense of the word, is my inspiration and by consequence, the common denominator between the subject or the object I create"

- Fabian Perez

Argentine painter and sculptor Fabian Perez has achieved important artistic recognition internationally and his work is exhibited in galleries around the world.

Fabian's art and style are unique; his art reflects passion, emotion and pure energy.

He is the creator of a new style of painting that he has called Neo Emotionalism, which is characterized by a dramatic narrative style and heady atmosphere.

Egon Schiele | The portrait of the silent pale girl, 1910

An effusion of my love, – Yes.

I loved everything. The girl came, -

I found here face;

Her unconsciousness

Her worker’s hands,

I loved everything about

Her.

Egon Schiele | I was first to see the eternal avenues of spring, 1910

I was first to see the eternal avenues of spring, the raging storm

and had to take my leave, -

endlessly of all the locations of life.

in those early days the level lands were around me, at that time

I had already heard and smelled the miracle flowers, the speechless

17th century Inventions

1670 ‣ Dom Pérignon invents Champagne

The 17th century🎨 was the century that lasted from January 1, 1601, to December 31, 1700.

It falls into the Early Modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque🎨 cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, the French Grand Siècle dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific Revolution, the world's first public company and megacorporation known as the Dutch East India Company, and according to some historians, the General Crisis.

Alda Merini / Leonora Carrington | Ci sono notti che non accadono mai..

Leonora Carrington🎨 ( British-born Mexican painter, 1917-2011) | Self-portrait with orthopedic brace, 1973

Ci sono notti

che non accadono mai

e tu le cerchi

muovendo le labbra.

Poi t’immagini seduto

al posto degli Dèi.

Pablo Neruda | If you forget me / Se tu mi dimentichi, 1952

Georg Pauli (1855-1935) Aftonrodd

I want you to know

one thing.

You know how this is:

if I look

at the crystal moon, at the red branch

of the slow autumn at my window,

if I touch

near the fire

the impalpable ash

or the wrinkled body of the log,

Simon Glücklich (1863-1943)

Simon Glücklich was born in Bielitz, Germany (now Poland) in 1863.

Son of decorator painter Leo Glücklich, Simon Glücklich attended high school in Bielitz and then studied at the Vienna Art Academy from 1880-1890 and from 1885-1890 with the genre and landscape painter Leopold Carl Müller (1834-1892).

Pedro Salinas | I look for you! / Al di là della gente ti cerco!

Yes, behind other people

I look for you.

Not in your name if they say it,

not in your image if they paint it.

Behind, behind, beyond.

Francisco Ribera Gómez (Spanish painter, 1907-1996)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard | A Young Scholar, 1778

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) was a French painter🎨 and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance and hedonism.

One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings (not counting drawings and etchings), of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings.