Benjamin Lacombe, 1982
Benjamin Lacombe è nato a Parigi. Nel 2001 ha frequentato la scole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs di Parigi dove ha proseguito la sua formazione artistica.
Oltre ai suoi studi, ha lavorato come artista pubblicitario e di film d'animazione prima di completare la sua prima serie di fumetti all'età di 19 anni, insieme ad alcuni altri libri illustrati.
William Bouguereau | Jeannie, 1868
"Jeannie" is an 1868 oil painting by French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905).
In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body.
As the quintessential salon painter of his generation, he was reviled by the Impressionist avant-garde.
To many, he epitomized taste and refinement, and a respect for tradition.
Man Ray (1890-1976)
Emmanuel Rudnitzky, pseudonimo Man Ray, è stato un pittore, fotografo e regista statunitense, esponente del Dadaismo.
Ray rivoluzionò l'arte fotografica. Grandi artisti dell'epoca come James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau e molti altri posarono di fronte alla sua macchina fotografica.
Giovanni Dupré | Figurative sculptor
Giovanni Dupré (1 March 1817 - 10 January 1882) was an Italian sculptor, of distant French stock long settled in Tuscany, who developed a reputation second only to that of his contemporary Lorenzo Bartolini.
Biography
Born in Siena, Dupré began in his father's carving workshop and that of Paolo Sani, where he was occupied with producing fakes of Renaissance sculptures.
In an open contest run by the Accademia di Belle Arti, he won first prize with a Judgment of Paris and made his reputation with the life-size figure of the dead Abel, which was purchased for Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, Duchess of Leuchtenberg (now at the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg) and was replicated in bronze, c. 1839, (now in the Galleria d'arte moderna, Palazzo Pitti, Florence).
Albert Bierstadt | Boats Ashore at Sunset
"Boats Ashore at Sunset" was created by the American Hudson River School painter Albert Bierstadt in Luminism style.
Albert Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Prussia, on January 7, 1830, but he spent his early years in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where his parents settled two years after his birth. Henry Bierstadt, the artist's father, found work as a cooper in the capital of America's whaling industry.
Vincent van Gogh | Outskirts of Paris, 1886
Outskirts of Paris are paintings that Vincent van Gogh made in 1887, while he was living in Paris with his brother Theo.
Van Gogh liked to explore the outskirts of Paris, searching for pastoral settings in parks and the wooded areas of the suburbs.
His goal was to find scenes that would allow him to explore techniques he learned in Paris.
Jean-François Millet | Bird's Nesters, 1874
Known for his realistic portrayals of French peasants, Millet produced this painting at the very end of his life.
He based the scene on stories from his childhood that told of great flights of wild pigeons.
When the birds settled in trees at night, the peasants blinded them with light from torches and then clubbed hundreds to death.
Vyacheslav Khabirov | Kazakhstan
Khabirov Vyacheslav è nato nel 1967 in Kazakistan, nella città di Ust-Kamenogorsk.
L'amore per la pittura si è manifestato in Vyacheslav nella prima infanzia.
All'età di 13 anni iniziò a dipingere ad olio, poiché vedeva in esso il mezzo migliore per creare i suoi dipinti.
Mentre studiava alla scuola d'arte, ha preso parte a mostre tenutesi nella capitale del Kazakistan, Almaty.
Vladimir Volegov, 1957 | Morning light
Vladimir Volegov is a visual artist from Russia, who lives in Spain.
His early work centered on graphic art for music recordings, comics, and commercial posters.
He is known in the West for his oil paintings, which often depict outdoor family life scenes.
Born in Khabarovsk, Russia, Volegov began painting at the age of three and his talent would be noted repeatedly throughout his adolescence.
After having attended the art school, "Krivoj rog" and having served in the army, Volegov was admitted to the lvov polygraphic institute in the former soviet union.
Mihai Criste (Romanian, 1975)
Mihai Criste is a creative Romanian artist who is fascinated by abstration, mystery and surrealism. Mihai Criste was born in the Deva Hunedoara county in Romania.
A professional painter for more than 10 years, Mihai has participated in numerous contests and exhibitions.
His artworks combine several subjects in an attempt to confuse the viewer of what is reality.
Since 2001 Mihai has participated in various group exhibitions in Romania, the USA and England.
He furthermore collaborated with a number of Printing Houses to illustrate books, such as the children's book "The Wizard of Oz" and covers, such as for the book "About Clowns" by Norman Manea. Mihai's paintings strongly remind the onlooker of Magritte.
The oustanding precision with which Mihai paints his surealistic works is absolutely fascinating and immediately catches the recipients attention.
Dorina Costras (Romanian, 1967)
Dorina Costras è nata ad Iasi, in Romania.
Ha lavorato come designer e come insegnante di belle arti.
Ora collabora per la decorazione come designer di interni e dipinge.
I suoi dipinti sono in stile fantasy e il tema favorito è dei costumi e maschere di carnevale, ma anche un universo fantastico con l'atmosfera della storia lontana dai nostri giorni.
Lawrence Koe | Idyll, c. 1908-11
Lawrence E. Koe was a portrait painter and sculptor. He is listed as living in Brighton when he first exhibited at The Royal Academy in 1891, but by 1894 he had moved to London where he appears to have settled for the remainder of his life.
Carolyn Biggio, 1958
Nata a Columbus, nel Ohio, la pittrice Americana Carolyn Biggio è cresciuta a Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
La sua istruzione formale le è valsa una laurea in scienze; ma in seguito ha intrapreso gli studi artistici con Henry Hensche alla Cape School of Art.
Altre lezioni con i suoi seguaci hanno approfondito il suo impegno ed il suo percorso professionale si è spostato sulla pittura.
Edward Hopper | Pittore realista
Edward Hopper, considerato il migliore pittore realista Americano del XX secolo, è stato un pittore famoso soprattutto per i suoi ritratti della solitudine nella vita americana contemporanea.
Il successo ottenuto con una mostra di acquerelli 1923 e con un'altra di dipinti 1924 contribuiscono a fare di Hopper il caposcuola dei realisti che dipingevano la "scena americana".
La sua evocativa vocazione artistica si rivolge sempre più verso un forte realismo, che risulta la sintesi della visione figurativa combinata con il sentimento struggente e poetico che Hopper percepisce nei suoi soggetti.
Diceva: "non dipingo quello che vedo, ma quello che provo".
Edward Hopper: "Non dipingo quello che vedo, ma quello che provo"!
"Il mio scopo in pittura è sempre quello di usare la natura come mezzo, per cercare di fissare sulla tela le mie reazioni più intime di fronte al soggetto, così come mi appare quando lo amo di più: quando il mio interesse e il mio modo di vedere riescono a dare unità alle cose".
"L'opera è l'uomo. Una cosa non spunta dal nulla".
"La gente trova qualcosa nel tuo lavoro, la traduce in parole e poi va avanti per sempre. Del resto, perché non dovrebbe esserci nostalgia nell'arte?".
Edgar Degas | Ballet dancers | Part. 5
Edgar Degas | Ballet dancers | Part. 4
Edgar Degas | Ballet dancers
Among the supreme masterpieces of the century are Degas's pictures of the ballet and its dancers. The impulse towards painting the contemporary scene came to him not only from Gustave Courbet 1819-1877 and Manet 1832-1883 but from his friend, the critic Duranty, the exponent of the aesthetics of naturalism. Yet in the particular direction of his tastes and his conception of design he was entirely individual. To study and convey movement was a chosen task, first undertaken on the race course and then in his many pictures of the Opera, viewed from behind the scenes, in the wings, or from the orchestra stalls during a performance.
Edgar Degas | Ballet dancers | Part. 2
Alphonse Maria Mucha | Master of Art Nouveau
Alphonse Mucha was born in what is now the Czech Republic in 1860 and moved to Paris in 1890 where he became the star of the poster-art movement under the patronage of the Sarah Bernhardt. After World War I he returned to Czechoslovakia and became the father of a slavic arts and crafts movement which combined elements of art nouveau with classic national themes. In addition to commercial art, jewelry design, interior decoration, sculpture and stage design, Mucha experimented with lettering and calligraphy to produce excellent source material for unique typefaces. Mucha's style is virtually synonymous with French Art Nouveau and he is one of the most imitated artists and designers of all time.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: "It's with my brush that I make love"
"People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance".
"Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art".
"The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion".
Jerome G. Parker | Portrait painter
A Central California native, Jerome Garth Parker comes from a family of artists and musicians. A quiet and introspective figure, Jerome is active in galleries in this beautiful region of his home state.
Figurative compositions, closely observed from life, comprise many of this artists rich work in oils and charcoal.
Though clearly inspired by the masters, Jerome's intriguing subjects nevertheless capture a certain contemporary view of life in the moment.
Antonio Ermolao Paoletti | Venetian flower sellers
Antonio Ermolao Paoletti (Venice, 1834-1912) was an Italian painter, mainly of Venetian genre scenes, recalling Bamboccianti life of children and women, as well as sacred fresco work for churches in the Veneto.
Antonio's father, Ermolao Paoletti, was a well known scholar and writer of Venice.
He wrote a much cited expansive guide to its architecture, monuments, artistic works, and customs.
He also wrote a dictionary of Venetian dialect. He was an engraver and painter, and was a professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice.
Pablo Picasso: "La pittura non è fatta per decorare gli appartamenti"
• "Quando uno inizia un ritratto e cerca per successive eliminazioni di trovare la forma pura... si finisce inevitabilmente con un uovo..."
• "Dipingere non è un'operazione estetica: è una forma di magia intesa a compiere un'opera di mediazione fra questo mondo estraneo ed ostile e noi."
• "Dipingo gli oggetti come li penso, non come li vedo."
• "I 40 anni sono quell'età in cui ci si sente finalmente giovani. Ma è troppo tardi."
Mary Jane Ansell, 1972
Mary Jane Ansell è stata finalista del prestigioso BP Portrait Award nel 2004, 2009, 2010 e 2012 e successivamente è stata incaricata dalla National Portrait Gallery di dipingere Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou.
Espone regolarmente con la Royal Society of Portrait Painters, è membro del CBPP Contemporary British Portrait Painters, vive nel Regno Unito ed espone a livello internazionale con recenti mostre collettive e personali a Londra, New York e Los Angeles.
Rabindranath Tagore | At the end of the day
I know, this day will come to an end
At the end of the day
Wanly smiling
The dying sun will look at my face
Bidding me its last farewell.
The flute will play by the side of the way
The cattle will graze on the banks of the river
Louis Apol | Winter landscape with sunset
Giuseppe De Nittis | Figura di donna, 1880
Giuseppe De Nittis (February 25, 1846 - August 21, 1884) was one of the most important Italian painters of the 19th century, whose work merges the styles of Salon art and Impressionism.
De Nittis exhibited twelve paintings in the Exposition Universelle of 1878, and was awarded a gold medal.
In that same year he received the Légion d’honneur.
Juan Gris | The reader, 1926
• "Cézanne made a cylinder out of a bottle. I start from the cylinder to create a special kind of individual object. I make a bottle - a particular bottle - out of a cylinder".
• "I try to make concrete that which is abstract".
• "No work which is destined to become a classic can look like the classics which have preceded it. In art, as in biology, there is heredity but no identity with the ascendants. Painters inherit characteristics acquired by their forerunners; that is why no important work of art can belong to any period but its own, to the very moment of its creation. It is necessarily dated by its own appearance. The conscious will of the painter cannot intervene".
Charles Ricketts R.A. | The Wise and Foolish Virgins, 1914
Elizabeth Forbes | Blackberry Gathering, 1912
Elizabeth Forbes was born in Canada and studied in New York and Munich.
In 1890 she married Stanhope Forbes.
Both painters were leading members of the group of artists who worked at Newlyn in Cornwall at the end of the 19th century, painting local outdoor subjects full of light and atmosphere using characteristic free brushwork.
Elizabeth Forbes | Blackberry Gathering, 1912 | Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Van Gogh | Portraits
Vincent van Gogh, known for his landscapes, seemed to find painting portraits his greatest ambition.
He said of portrait studies, "The only thing in painting that excites me to the depths of my soul, and which makes me feel the infinite more than anything else".
Vincent Van Gogh | The flowers
Vincent Van Gogh painted several versions of landscapes with flowers, as seen in View of Arles with Irises, and paintings of flowers, including Irises, Sunflowers, lilacs and roses.
Some reflect his interests in the language of color, and also in Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints.
He completed two series of sunflowers: the first while he was in Paris in 1887, and the second during his stay in Arles the following year.
Francisco Goya | La duquesa de Abrantes, 1816
Doña Manuela Isidra Téllez-Girón y Alonso de Pimentel (1793-1838) era la figlia minore dei Duchi di Osuna (P00739) e sorella della Marchesa di Santa Cruz, anch'essa ritratta da Goya.
Nel 1813 sposò Don Ángel María de Carvajal y Fernández de Córdoba y Gonzaga (1793-1839), futuro VIII Duca di Abrantes (1816).
Come il resto dei suoi fratelli, ha ricevuto un'educazione illuminata dalla sua famiglia e tra i suoi hobby c'erano la musica ed il canto, come rivela Goya nel suo ritratto attraverso la partitura musicale.
Angelo Inganni
Angelo Inganni (1807-1880) was an Italian painter.
Born in Brescia, Inganni was taught the basics of art by his father Giovanni and his elder brother Francesco, with whom he worked on fresco decorations from when he was young.
Distinguished during his military service as a draughtsman and portraitist, he was noticed by Marshal Radetzky who had him admitted to the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in 1833.
The work he presented regularly at the Brera exhibitions from 1834 to 1859 constitutes a vast series of urban views of Milan capturing all the details of its architecture and including likenesses of real people.
Agnolo Bronzino | Maria Magdalena, 1565
Mary Magdalene (Young Florentine Woman portrayed as the Magdalene) is an painting of about 1565 by the Florentine painter Agnolo Bronzino.
It is now in the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas.
Shoulder length representation of a young woman holding an alabaster ointment jar in her proper right hand.
She is blond, has a halo, and turns to the left.
She wears a green dress and a yellow scarf (identified as cangiant).
She has pearls in her hair.
Jean Metzinger | Woman with a Fan, 1913
Juan Gris | La chanteuse /La cantante, 1926
André Lhote | House by the Lake, 1925
François Boucher | Head of a Young Girl, 1740-1750
Sandro Botticelli, il pittore del sacro e del profano
Maestro del sacro e del profano, Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) è stato descritto come un outsider nella corrente principale della pittura italiana, avendo egli un interesse limitato per molti degli aspetti associati alla pittura del Quattrocento, come l'ispirazione diretta all'arte classica e la rappresentazione realistica di anatomia umana, prospettiva e paesaggio.
Infatti, la sua formazione gli ha permesso di rappresentare questi aspetti della pittura, senza però lasciarsi omologare dallo scenario contemporaneo.
Claude Rogers (1907-1997) Eclipse at Blandford, 1952
Brita Nordencreutz (1899-1982) At the Piano, 1950
Augusto Giacometti | Il pioniere della pittura Astratta
Augusto Giacometti (1877-1947) fu un importante pittore Svizzero legato al liberty ed al simbolismo.
E' considerato un pioniere dell’arte astratta.
A lui si devono, inoltre, alcune particolari realizzazioni artistiche nell’ambito della pittura su vetro e della pittura murale monumentale.
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Jean Metzinger | Seated Woman, 1919
Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (24 June 1883 - 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter**, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote a theoretical work on Cubism.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Idylle: famille antique, 1860
At the time that Bouguereau painted Idylle: famille antique he was a rising star on the Paris art scene. After studying with the esteemed French Academic master François Picot, Bouguereau gained admittance to the hallowed halls of Paris' École des Beaux-Arts.
In 1849, he exhibited for the first time in the Paris Salon and the following year won the prestigious Grand Prix de Rome.
In 1849, he exhibited for the first time in the Paris Salon and the following year won the prestigious Grand Prix de Rome.
During his time in Italy, Bouguereau traveled extensively, studying the Renaissance masters** who inspired his early fascination with classical antiquity, as demonstrated by the present painting.
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