Katarzyna Kurkowska | Pittrice di figure

La pittrice Polacca Katarzyna Kurkowska negli ultimi 20 anni ha sviluppato le sue capacità artistiche nella pittura.

Kurkowska dipinge paesaggi realistici, ritratti e nature morte.

E sebbene non si incontrino nei cataloghi di arte contemporanea, i dipinti Katarzyna Kurkowska sono l'orgoglio di molte collezioni private in Polonia ed in altri paesi.

Vincent van Gogh | Paintings of peasants

Van Gogh had a particular attachment and sympathy for peasants and other working class people that was fueled in several ways.

He was particularly fond of the peasant genre work of Jean-François Millet and others.

He found the subjects noble and important in the development of modern art.

Van Gogh had seen the changing landscape in the Netherlands as industrialization encroached on once pastoral settings and the livelihoods of the working poor with little opportunity to change vocation.

Paul Signac | Port-en-Bessin, the Outer Harbour, 1884

Paul Signac | Port-en-Bessin, the Outer Harbour, 1884 | Christie's

In his luminous seascape painting of 1884, Paul Signac (1863-1935) recorded his impressions of the outer harbour of Port-en-Bessin.

The scene is suffused with the golden afternoon sunlight, which casts a benevolent warmth over natural and manmade elements alike.

The choppy, dappled surface of the deep blue water reflects a myriad of other colours: the pale rocks and velvety-green grass of the surrounding cliffs, the colourful houses nestled in the crevice of the valley, and the brilliant blue of the sky above.

Paul Signac | Port-en-Bessin, the Outer Harbour, 1884 | Source: © Christie's

Vincent van Gogh | Country road in Provence by night, 1890

Symbol of Provence

For Van Gogh, the cypress is the ultimate symbol of Provence.

"The cypresses still preoccupy me", he writes to his brother Theo, "I'd like to do something with them like the canvases of the sunflowers, because it astonishes me that no one has yet done them as I see them.

It's beautiful as regards lines and proportions, like an Egyptian obelisk.

And the green has such a distinguished quality".

Vincent van Gogh | Country road in Provence by night, 1890 | The Kröller-Müller Museum

Christophe Giral, 1960 | A new art of color

"Studying light not in the representation of objects, but in the assembly of colors.

I feel like I'm putting my colors down on a score that the audience's eyes are going to let him or her sing.

To achieve this result, we must know the deep architecture of light, this is my discovery that could not be done without the technical means of the 21st century" - Christophe Giral.

Christophe Giral comes from a family of artists: painters, musician and architect.

Christophe Giral studied at the Beaux-arts in Toulouse in 1976, in 1981 he graduated in fine arts.

He worked in the Capitol's decoration workshop from 1984 to 1989 as a sculptor-moulder-painter.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Tamaris, France, 1885

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Tamaris, France, 1885 | Minneapolis Institute of Art

Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted Tamaris, France in 1885.

This art piece is located in Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN, USA.

Alberto Giacometti | Scultore surrealista

Giacométti, Alberto - Scultore e pittore svizzero (Stampa, Grigioni, 1901 - Coira 1966), figlio di Giovanni Giacometti.

Frequentò la scuola d'arte di Ginevra; nel 1920-21 fu a Roma; nel 1922 si stabilì a Parigi, ove frequentò Bourdelle e s'iscrisse all'Académie de la Grande-Chaumière.

Dal 1925-1928 eseguiva sculture di carattere decisamente cubista.

Nel 1929 aderì al movimento Surrealista, realizzando degli objets e delle constructions-cages (Boccia sospesa, 1930, Zurigo, Kunsthaus) e dall'esperienza surrealista trasse un senso magico dello spazio, talvolta definito per mezzo di fragili strutture lineari (Palazzo alle 4 del mattino, 1932-33, New York, Museum of modern art).

John Everett Millais | La confraternita dei Preraffaelliti

Sir John Everett Millais, RA (Southampton, 8 giugno 1829 - Londra, 13 agosto 1896) è stato un pittore ed illustratore Inglese dell'Età Vittoriana, cofondatore della Confraternita dei Preraffaelliti.

John Everett Millais nacque a Southampton, in Inghilterra, figlio di John William e Emily Mary Millais, entrambi appartenenti a una ricca famiglia nativa del Jersey.

Fu proprio sull'isola di Jersey, d'altronde, che Millais trascorse la sua prima fanciullezza, maturando una vera e propria devozione per questo luogo: quando un giorno William Makepeace Thackeray, noto scrittore inglese dell'Ottocento, gli avrebbe chiesto "quando l'Inghilterra conquistò Jersey", egli avrebbe risposto con veemenza: "Giammai! Jersey conquistò l'Inghilterra".

Cesare Tallone | Pittore Verista

Cesare Vittore Luigi Tallone (Savona, 11 agosto 1853 - Milano, 21 giugno 1919) è stato un pittore e docente Italiano.

Unico figlio maschio dei quattro avuti dalla pianista Teresa Macario e da Pietro Domenico Tallone, originario di Pinerolo, nasce a Savona dove è di servizio il padre, ufficiale dell'esercito piemontese.

Nel 1860 la famiglia si sposta a Parma, dove Pietro dirige il Real Collegio militare ma alla sua precoce morte (nel 1863, a soli 47 anni), si trasferisce ad Alessandria, città natale della madre.

Yunior Hurtado Torres, 1977

Yunior Hurtado Torres, was born in Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba.

At 11 years old he began studying art at the Vocational School of Arts, Olga Alonzo, Santa Clara, Villa Clara.

He finished his studies as an artist in 1999 at the Professional Academy of Fine Arts Oscar Fernández Morera, Trinidad, Cuba.

Since then he has developed his artistic work participating in events inside and outside his country with more than 40 personal and collective exhibitions.

Alex Kelly, 1968 | Alla prima oil painter

Alex Kelly received a Fine Art BA with honours from Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) in 1993.

He has also trained and worked as a graphic designer for over 20 years and has a HNC (Distinction) in Graphic Design from New College Nottingham (UK).

He has also had various studio practices and art related teaching positions with schools and colleges before devoting himself full-time to painting.

His work is in many private collections around the world.

Henri Fantin-Latour | Madame Lerolle, 1882

Fantin-Latour exhibited this portrait of Madeleine Lerolle, wife of fellow artist Henry Lerolle, at the Paris Salon of 1882.

The Salon was the official, annual exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, the national art academy of the French government.

At the time of this portrait, Madeleine Lerolle was 26 years old.

Albert Besnard portrayed her more formally in his painting Madeleine Lerolle and Her Daughter Yvonne, currently on display in the other Romanticism to Realism gallery. | Source: © The Cleveland Museum of Art

Henri Fantin Latour | Madame Lerolle, 1882 | Cleveland Museum of Art

Claude Monet in Italy

Claude Monet | Palm Trees at Bordighera, 1884 | Metropolitan Museum of Art

Monet first visited Italy’s southern coast with Renoir in December 1883.

Shortly thereafter, he returned alone to paint, writing his dealer that working "à deux" was constraining.

This scene and The Valley of the Nervia reflect Monet’s excitement at the new motifs offered by the region’s palm trees and mountains.

For this view, he ventured from his hotel in Bordighera and looked across the Bay of Ventimiglia toward the Alps on the French border.

The dazzling colors challenged him to "dare to use all the tones of pink and blue", although what he truly needed was a "palette of diamonds and jewels".

Claude Monet | Palm Trees at Bordighera, 1884 | Metropolitan Museum of Art

Il Salon di Parigi (1667-1890)

A partire dal 1667, Il Salon de Paris fu la mostra d'arte ufficiale dell'Académie des Beaux-Arts di Parigi.

Per quasi 150 anni (1740-1890 ca.), il Salon è stato l'evento artistico annuale o biennale più prestigioso al mondo.

Di conseguenza, la sua influenza sulla pittura francese - in particolare lo stile artistico, le convenzioni pittoriche e la reputazione degli artisti - fu enorme.

Al Salon del 1761 contribuirono trentatré pittori, nove scultori ed undici incisori.

Dal 1881 in poi, è stato gestito dalla Société des Artistes Français.

Claude Monet | Donna con il parasole - Madame Monet con il figlio, 1875 | Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art

Leis Schjelderup | Figurative painter

Georgia Elise (Leis) Schjelderup (1856-1933) was a Norwegian painter.

She came from the bourgeoisie in Bergen.

The family was part of an environment that cultivated literature, art and music.

Her father was a good singer, and her mother a skilled pianist.

Fritz von Uhde | Genre painter

Fritz von Uhde (born Friedrich Hermann Carl Uhde; 1848-1911) was a German painter of genre and religious subjects.

His style lay in-between Realism and Impressionism, he was once known as "Germany's outstanding impressionist" and he became one of the first painters to introduce plein-air painting in his country.

Biography

Uhde was born in Wolkenburg, Saxony.

His family, moderately wealthy civil servants, had artistic interests.

Joseph Oppenheimer | Impressionist painter

Joseph Oppenheimer (1876-1967) was born in Würzburg, Germany. From an early age his whole life was art.

At 15, before being old enough to enroll in the Munich Academy of Art, he left school and began studying art with some of the foremost German painters such as Fehr.

Perhaps the impetus for this was his chance meeting with The Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, at the age on 14 when they both stayed at the same spa hotel in Bad Kissingen.

Joseph made a pencil sketch of Bismarck and presented it to him.

Vincent Magni, 1963 | Abstract artist

Artist since always, Vincent Magni was born in St Etienne. He currently lives and works in France, in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, in the Yonne.

It is the place where he created in 2006, in an old industrial wasteland of 10 000 square meters, a village of artists called "The Poetry", where he invites other creators to come to settle there.

An innovative and inspired sculptor, the characters he creates are tribute to life and movement, while respecting the materials used.

Playing with the idea of an intrinsic dynamics, its metal mobiles are animated with a life of their own and interact directly with the spectator.

Their brilliant colors, like a hymn to joy, give them the appearance of human-sized toys.

Vincent van Gogh ad Arles, 1888-89

Il desiderio di conoscere il Mezzogiorno francese, con la sua luce e le sue tinte mediterranee così lontane dal cromatismo nordico, fu una buona occasione per assimilare gli stimoli artistici raccolti a Parigi e per porre fine alla convivenza con Théo, resa più difficile dal carattere irritabile di entrambi.

«Ho intenzione una volta o l'altra, appena posso, di andarmene nel Sud, dove c'è ancora più colore e ancora più sole [...] Quest'estate, quando dipingevo il paesaggio ad Asnières, vi ho visto più colore che in passato».

Il Meridione francese, luogo elettivo di Zola, Cézanne (che vi avevano trascorso l'infanzia) e di Monticelli (che vi era morto), rispose splendidamente alle esigenze di van Gogh, che vi si stabilì nel febbraio del 1888.

Sigrid Hjertén | Pittrice Espressionista

Sigrid Hjertén (1885-1948) è stata una pittrice Svedese, considerata una figura importante nel modernismo svedese.

Periodicamente era molto produttiva e ha partecipato a 106 mostre.

Sigrid Hjertén nacque a Sundsvall il 27 ottobre 1885.

Dopo i primi studi d'arte a Stoccolma, nel 1909 conobbe il suo futuro marito, il pittore Isaac Hirsche Grünewald, che sposò nel 1911.