Al Saralis | Pittore figurativo

Il pittore Britanico di origine greca Al Saralis è nato e cresciuto in una città mineraria gallese nella Rhymney Valley.

Attualmente vive e lavora nell'Hampshire, Regno Unito.

Da quando Al si è laureato a Cardiff con una laurea in Belle Arti, la figura umana è stata la sua principale fonte di ispirazione.

I suoi dipinti sono composti di solito da un'unica figura e, sebbene privi di narrativa ovvia, portano ai nostri pensieri ed interpretazioni indagatori.

William Callow | Watercolor painter

William Callow (1812–1908) was an British landscape painter, engraver and water colourist.

Callow was born in Greenwich on 28 July 1812.

He was apprenticed to the artist Copley Fielding, where he learnt the technique of plein air sketching.

He went on to study under Theodore and Thales Fielding, where he learnt to colour prints and make aquatints, and was taught water colour painting between 1825-7.

In 1829 Thales Fielding found him work as an engraver in Paris, where he worked alongside his friend Charles Bentley. While in the French capital he was encouraged by Thomas Shotter Boys to take up watercolours again.

Friedrich Overbeck | Nazareni painter

Johann Friedrich Overbeck (3 July 1789 - 12 November 1869) was a German painter. A member of the Nazarene movement - group of early 19th-century German Romantic painters who aimed to revive spirituality in art. The name Nazarene came from a term of derision used against them for their affectation of a biblical manner of clothing and hair style - he also made four etchings.

Early life and education

Born in Lübeck, his ancestors for three generations had been Protestant pastors; his father Christian Adolph Overbeck (1755-1821) was doctor of law, poet, mystic pietist and burgomaster of Lübeck.

Within a stone's throw of the family mansion in the Konigstrasse stood the Gymnasium, where the uncle, doctor of theology and a voluminous writer, was the master; there the nephew became a classic scholar and received instruction in art.

Wisława Szymborska | Possibilità / Possibilities

Preferisco il cinema.

Preferisco i gatti.

Preferisco le querce sul fiume Warta.

Preferisco Dickens a Dostoevskij.

Preferisco me che vuol bene alla gente, a me che ama l’umanità.

Alex Alemany

Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef | Landscape painter

Jacobus Hendrik (Henk) Pierneef (usually referred to as Pierneef) (Pretoria, 1886–1957), was a South African landscape artist (from Dutch parents), generally considered to be one of the best of the old South African masters.

His distinctive style is widely recognised and his work was greatly influenced by the South African landscape.

Most of his landscapes were of the South African highveld, which provided a lifelong source of inspiration for him. Pierneef's style was to reduce and simplify the landscape to geometric structures, using flat planes, lines and colour to present the harmony and order in nature.

Joseph von Eichendorff | Notte di luna / Moonlit night, 1837

Era come se il cielo avesse

baciato silenzioso la terra,

e questa in uno scintillio di fiori

dovesse ora sognarlo.

René Magritte | À la rencontre du plaisir, 1962

Charles Bukowski | Fuori posto / Displaced

Brucia all’inferno

questa parte di me che non si trova bene in nessun posto

mentre le altre persone trovano cose

da fare

nel tempo che hanno

posti dove andare

insieme

cose da

dirsi.

Fabian Perez | Cool Breeze and Cigarette

Pierre-Auguste Renoir at the Clark Art Institute

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Bouquet of Roses, 1879

In the summer of 1879, the banker and diplomat Paul Berard invited Pierre-Auguste Renoir to his country house in Normandy.

During his visit, the artist painted portraits of Berard’s children and made several panel decorations, this one for a door in the library.

While the bouquet’s orderly arrangement is traditional, the thick brushstrokes and lively colors reflect Renoir’s Impressionist technique. | Source: © The Clark Art Institute

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Bouquet of Roses, 1879 | The Clark Art Institute

Nell'estate del 1879, il banchiere e diplomatico Paul Berard invitò Renoir nella sua casa di campagna in Normandia.

Durante la sua visita, l'artista dipinse ritratti dei figli di Berard e realizzò diverse decorazioni su tavola, questa per una porta della biblioteca.

Mentre la disposizione ordinata del bouquet è tradizionale, le spesse pennellate ed i colori vivaci riflettono la tecnica impressionista di Renoir. | Fonte: © Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Saitō Kazu / 斉藤 和, 1960

Born in Kyoto, Japan, Kazu Saitō graduated from Kyoto City Arts University in 1987. He explored Nihonga all the way.

In addition to retaining the fineness of texture, color, form and space in Japanese art, he transforms his aesthetic experiences and the feelings of all things in life into a poetic conception and charming aesthetics with his unique new contemporary image.

"I want to look deeply at the essence of impression, connect the moving tradition to the future, and convey the essence of that impression in a simple visual language".

Pablo Neruda | Se saprai.. / If you will know..

Se saprai starmi vicino,

e potremo essere diversi,

se il sole illuminerà entrambi

senza che le nostre ombre si sovrappongano,

se riusciremo ad essere "noi" in mezzo al mondo

e insieme al mondo, piangere, ridere, vivere.

Carrie Graber

Ken Moroney | Impressionist painter

Ken Moroney (1949-2018) was born in South London. Of Anglo Irish parentage, his father was typical of his generation and worried about Ken’s artistic temperament which he viewed as effeminate.

As a result Ken took up boxing and won a gold medal for South London in his teens.

His art continued to flourish with his trademark striking use of colour. His main medium is oils and he favours romantic subjects of Edwardian times.

Stylistically Moroney’s work surely emanates from the French Post-Impressionist tradition and his subject matter and bright palette can be compared to similar beach scenes created by the likes of Eugène Boudin.

Mario Sironi | Scritti e pensieri

• "Ciò che diciamo attualità, modernità non è spesso che la sola realtà dell'esistenza - il resto è morte eco sotto volte lontane e paurose, o silenzio e buio impenetrabile".

• "Gli uomini debbono essere governati. Lasciarli liberi di fare quello che vogliono significa incrementare la bestialità e il disordine".

• "L'uomo disprezza, aggredisce, tortura gli animali - maledetto lui che fa il deserto intorno a sé sulla polvere".

Anna Syberg | Watercolor painter

Anna Louise Birgitte Syberg (7 January 1870 - 4 July 1914) was a Danish painter.

Together with her husband Fritz Syberg, she was one of the Funen Painters (Fynboerne) who lived and worked on the island of Funen. She is remembered for her lively watercolours of flower arrangements.

Anna Syberg was born in Faaborg, Denmark. Her father was artist Peter Syrak Hansen (1833-1904).

She was the sister of artist Peter Hansen (1868-1928).

Axel Jungstedt | Genre painter

Axel Adolf Harald Jungstedt (17 March 1859 - 14 March 1933) was a Swedish painter and professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.

He is represented with paintings at the Gothenburg Art Museum, the National Gallery of Denmark, and the National Gallery of Norway, and contributed with decorations of the Stockholm Opera House.

Axel Adolf Harald Jungstedt was born on 17 March 1859 in Norrköping in Östergötland, Sweden, the son of Johan Nils Jungstedt and Matilda Sundius.

He was the brother of opera singer Matilda Jungstedt.

Ubaldo Oppi | Magic realism painter

Ubaldo Oppi (1889-1942) was an Italian painter, one of the founders of the Novecento Italiano in Milan. He painted in a Neo-quattrocento realist style.

He was born in Bologna, but by the age of 4 years, his father, a shoe salesman, had moved to Vicenza.

He was sent by his father North to the German countries to learn the shoe trade, but elected to stay in Vienna (1907-1909), and study under Gustav Klimt.

Gustave Van de Woestyne | Expressionist painter

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In 1900, after art studies in his native city of Ghent, Gustave Van de Woestyne (1881-1947) settled in Sint-Martens-Latem, on the banks of the Leie river, where an artistic colony of poets, painters and sculptors had formed in search of an innovative and meaningful artistic expression.

His admiration for the technique and spirituality of the Flemish old masters led him to develop an art of mystic-religious symbolism and allegory.

He also drew inspiration from the Italian Primitives, Maurice Denis and fresco painting and became one of the figures of the "First School of Larthem".

Emily Dickinson | The Skies can't keep their secret! / I Cieli non sanno serbare il loro segreto!

The Skies cant keep their secret!

They tell it to the Hills -

The Hills just tell the Orchards -

And they - the Daffodils!

A Bird - by chance - that goes that way -

Soft overhears the whole -

If I should bribe the little Bird -

Who knows but she would tell?

René Magritte | Le Baiser, 1957

Emily Dickinson | Vi dirò come sorse il sole / I’ll tell you how the sun rose

Vi dirò come sorse il sole -

un nastro dopo l’altro -

i campanili nuotavano nell’ametista -

la notizia, come scoiattoli, corse -

le colline di slegarono i cappucci -

Ben Winspear

Pedro Salinas | Lì, oltre il sorriso / There, behind laughter

Lì, oltre il sorriso,

non ti si conosce più.

Vai e vieni, scivoli

per un mondo di valzer...

"Che allegra!" dicono tutti.

Ed è che tu allora

tenti di essere altra,

così somigliante

Michel Hendrich | Transmission

Elliott Seabrooke | Post Impressionist painter

Elliott Seabrooke (1886-1950) was a British landscape and still-life painter.

His work is in the permamnent collection of the Tate.

Seabrooke was born in Upton Park, Essex (now London).

Seabrooke studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1906-1911, painted mainly in the Epping Forest and the Lake District, later also repeatedly in Holland, France and Italy.