Nikolaos Gysis (Greek, 1842-1901)

Nikolaos Gyzis (Greek: Νικόλαος Γύζης) was considered one of Greece's most important 19th-century painters. He was most famous for his work "Eros and the Painter", his first genre painting. It was auctioned in May 2006 at Bonhams in London, being last exhibited in Greece in 1928.

He was the major representative of the so-called "Munich School", the major 19th-century Greek art movement.

His works are today exhibited at museums and private collections in Greece, Germany and elsewhere.

Gyzis was born in the village of Sklavochori, on the island of Tinos which has a long artistic history. As his family settled in Athens in 1850, he soon embarked on a study at the Athens School of Fine Arts. His studies there, formed the foundation of his artistic education and helped him to develop his natural skill in painting.

Artemisia Gentileschi | Esther before Ahasuerus, 1620-1630

The most famous woman painter of the seventeenth century, Gentileschi worked in Rome, Florence, Venice, and Naples.

This painting, among her most ambitious, represents the Jewish heroine Esther, who appeared before her husband, King Ahasuerus of Persia, in order to stave off a massacre of the Jewish people, breaking with court protocol and thereby risking death.

Artemisia Gentileschi | Esther before Ahasuerus, 1620-1630 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Trish Biddle, 1975

American artist Trish Biddle studied at the Dallas Institute of Art, before beginning her career as an illustrator and textile designer.

Trish Biddle is published internationally, and is collected around the world.

Her process of drawing, painting and designing eventually melded onto canvases, creating romantic images and her unmistakable Art Déco figurative paintings.

Her expertise in capturing nature and light creates richly colored, breath-taking canvases.

Arthur Hughes (1832-1915)

Arthur Hughes (Londra, 27 gennaio 1832 - Londra, 23 dicembre 1915) è stato un pittore ed illustratore Inglese, appartenente alla Confraternita dei Preraffaelliti.

Le sue opere più note sono Amore d'aprile (April Love) e Il lungo fidanzamento (The Long Engagement), il cui soggetto comune è l'amore contrastato di una coppia.

Hughes risente particolarmente dell'influenza di John Everett Millais e del gusto floreale tipico del decadentismo, che determina una grande presenza di vegetazione nei suoi dipinti.

L'artista si è inoltre occupato della figura di Ofelia e di altri soggetti da William Shakespeare, ha illustrato il poema La vigilia di Sant'Agnese (The Eve of St. Agnes) di Keats ed alcune opere di George MacDonald, di cui era amico.

Arthur Hughes era lo zio del pittore, anch'egli preraffaellita ed esteta, Edward Robert Hughes.

David Martiashvili (Tbilisi, Georgia 1978)

David Martiashvili crea dipinti di persone, edifici e paesaggi urbani.

Martiashvili è un artista Georgiano nato a Tbilisi, Georgia.

Si è laureato presso la "Scuola delle Arti" (Geo Arte) per bambini dotati.

Si è laureato presso l'Accademia d'Arte di Tbilisi.

Gary Benfield (British painter, 1965) The Horses

"The world around me is a continuous sequence of fortuitous events. Objects and figures intertwine in my mind; they dance, they fuse and one adopts the colour and life of another. I find myself drawn into an intimate world where sensuality and delight in life’s form are combined in a flight of frolic and fantasy" - Gary Benfield.

Award-winning🎨 illustrator Gary Benfield was born in Birmingham, England. He studied art at Stourbridge College of Art (1982-1984) and at Wrexham College of Art (1984-1986).

In 1986, Benfield became a professional freelance illustrator.

Gary Benfield's artistic style is unique. A pencil in one hand and a paint brush in the other, he approaches the canvas and uses both at the same time, just letting 'what happens, happen'.

Caravaggio | St John the Baptist at the Well, 1608

"All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature"

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Caravaggio | San Giovanni Battista, 1603

"I bury my head in the pillow, and dream of my true love…
I am rowing to you on the great, dark ocean.."

Caravaggio**

Van Gogh | Basket of Pansies, 1887

• "If one loves nature one finds beauty everywhere".
• "The more you love, the more you suffer".

Vincent van Gogh

Van Gogh | Still Life with Grapes, 1887

Vincent van Gogh
Date: 1887; Paris, France
Style: Post-Impressionism
Genre: still life
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Albert Edelfelt | Naturalist painter

From promising young Finnish painter to European celebrity, Albert Edelfelt was Finland’s first cosmopolitan art icon. His work was admired by, among many others, Vincent van Gogh. Declining a professorship at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, Edelfelt’s greatest passions were the Parisian lifestyle and summers spent in his native country.

• Childhood and study years

Albert Edelfelt was born in 1854 into an aristocratic Swedish-speaking family. Despite this background, his childhood was financially strained. The father of the family died when Albert was only fifteen, leaving large debts behind. Nevertheless, Albert’s mother supported his artistic interest and ambitions throughout his formative years as a painter.

Though Edelfelt received art tutoring while studying languages and history at the Imperial University in Helsinki, he found art teaching in Finland backward. There were few art collections and the country lacked an inspiring artistic culture. He eventually gave up university and enrolled in the Antwerp Academy of Art in 1873. After studying historical painting for six months, he moved to Paris to continue his learning process.

Ancient India

Per Storia dell'India si intende la storia del Subcontinente indiano e in un'accezione più ristretta si intende invece la storia della Repubblica dell'India.

Ad essere rigorosi non si potrebbe parlare della Storia dell'India intesa come Repubblica dell'India se non a partire dal 15 agosto del 1947, data di nascita di questo Stato dopo un lungo asservimento coloniale.

Non avrebbe però senso analizzare la storia della repubblica indiana se non tenendo conto delle sue vicende sotto il periodo coloniale e a partire dalla comune storia di tutto il Subcontinente indiano.

Non si potrebbe capire l'India moderna senza analizzare complessivamente la storia della (o forse sarebbe meglio dire delle) civiltà indiana.

Inoltre anche dopo il 1947 la storia indiana è rimasta strettamente legata al resto del subcontinente, specialmente al Pakistan, con cui ha combattuto ben quattro guerre e al quale tutt'oggi contende la regione islamica del Kashmir.

Rembrandt | Flora, 1634

Flora or Saskia as Flora is a 1634 painting by Rembrandt, showing his wife Saskia van Uylenburgh as the goddess Flora.

It is now in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.

This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930), a Dutch art collector, art historian and museum curator - in 1915, who wrote:

Vittorio (vidan) Dangelico, 1965

Nato Vittorio Dangelico a Perugia, in Italia, Vidan ha mostrato il talento artistico ed una grande passione per l'arte in tenera età.

Incoraggiato dai suoi genitori e da suo zio, l'artista di fama mondiale Pino Daeni, si formò in alcune delle migliori scuole d'Italia, tra cui il Liceo Artistico di Milano e l'Accademia delle belle Arti.

Quando Pino si trasferì negli Stati Uniti nel 1979, Vidan lo seguì nel 1988.

Head of Medusa | Studio of Antonio Canova, 1806-1807

On view in the Museum's Carroll and Milton Petrie European Sculpture Court is the marble version of Perseus with the Head of Medusa that Canova (1757-1822) carved for Countess Valeria Tarnowska.

He wrote that he was also shipping a plaster of the Medusa head, lest the marble one add too much weight to the statue's outstretched arm.

The countess could attach the lighter plaster to the arm instead, and, placing a lit candle inside the marble one, which is hollow, she could watch the eerie light effects.

Antonio Canova | Head of Medusa (Studio) 1806-1807 | Metropolitan Museum of Art

Vincent van Gogh | Window in the Bataille Restaurant, 1887

Title: Window in the Bataille Restaurant
Author: Vincent van Gogh
Date: 1887; Paris, France
Style: Post-Impressionism
Genre: interior
Media: chalk, ink, paper
Current location: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Arthur Braginsky, 1965 | Ucraina

Arthur Braginsky è un artista pluripremiato, nato a Mukachevo, Ucraina. Attualmente vive e lavora in Ungheria.

Attraverso la sua pratica artistica, si sforza di scoprire verità elementari.

Ispirato dai Preraffaelliti, Braginsky descrive le sue composizioni come la fusione dello stile accademico con l'estetica moderna.

Crea principalmente con oli su tela.

I dipinti di Braginsky sono stati esposti a livello nazionale, nonché in Francia, Austria, Russia, Belgio, Estonia, Inghilterra, Cina, Taiwan, Svizzera ed Italia.

Audrey Hepburn 1929-1993

Todd A. Williams | Pittore Impressionista

Il pittore multipremiato Todd A. Williams è noto per la pittura di paesaggi, figure, nature morte e strutture all'aria aperta.

Todd A. Williams è nato a Central City, nel Nebraska.

Dopo il liceo ha frequentato il Kansas City Art Institute, diplomandosi con un BFA.

Il lavoro di Todd è stato esposto negli Stati Uniti in gallerie, musei e mostre su invito, tra cui il Nebraska State Museum, Stuhr Museum, Gallery1516, Gilcrease Museum, Great Plains Art Museum, Richmond Art Museum, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Art Museum of Lafayette, ft. Wayne Museum of Art, The Maynard Dixon Museum, Evansville Museum of Arts, e le esposizioni nazionali dei pittori ad olio d'America e della Impressionists Society, dove è stato insignito del prestigioso status di Signature Member.

Guido Daniele, 1950 | Handimalds

Guido Daniele è un pittore Italiano, noto come body painter.

Biografia

Ha frequentato il liceo artistico di Brera (Milano), e poi il corso di scultura all'Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera.

Dal 1972-1986, come illustratore iperrealista, si afferma nel campo dell'editoria e della pubblicità. Tra gli anni ottanta e novanta realizza diverse scenografie di grandi dimensioni per la televisione - tra cui i fondali del Festival di Sanremo 1997 e la pubblicità.

Negli anni novanta inizia ad interessarsi al body painting, affiancandolo alle precedenti produzioni fotografiche e pittoriche, e dai primi anni 2000 sperimenta, con buon successo, una tecnica che prevede il dipingere forme di animali solo le mani. Quest'ultimo tipo di opere vengono definite Manimali e sono state impiegate, oltre che in ambito pubblicitario, anche in campagne ecologiste.

Tiziano | The Aldobrandini Madonna, 1532

Artist: Titian (1506-1576)

Full title: The Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John and a Female Saint or Donor / The Aldobrandini Madonna / The Madonna of the Rabbit / The Aldobrandini Madonna.

Date made about: 1532

Medium and support: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 100.6 x 142.2 cm

Acquisition credit: Bought, 1860

Location: The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, Room 2

Claude Monet | Le Tuileries, 1875

Title: Le Tuileries
Author: Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Date: 1875
Medium: Olio su tavola
Dimensions: 50 x 75,5 cm
Current location: Parigi, Musée d’Orsay - © René-Gabriel Ojéda / RMN-Réunion des Musées Nationaux/ distr. Alinari.

Caravaggio | John the Baptist feeding the Lamb

- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio | John the Baptist feeding the Lamb, end of the first decade of the 17th Century, oil on canvas, 78x122 cm

John the Baptist (sometimes called John in the Wilderness) was the subject of at least eight paintings by the Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610).

Ludwig Passini | The pretty fruit vendor / La bella venditora di frutta

Ludwig Johann Passini (1832-1903) was an Austrian narrative and genre painter and printmaker.

Ludwig Passini was born on 9 July 1832 in Vienna, the son of the engraver Johann Nepomuk Passini - the Passini family moved to Trieste in 1850.

On 9 November 1864 Passini married Anna Warsaw (1841-1866) at Berlin, she the daughter of Robert and Mary Warschauer, the great-granddaughter of banker Joseph Mendelssohn and the great-great-granddaughter of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.

Guillaume-Charles Brun | Young Rag Seller, 1870

Charles Guillaume Brun (Montpellier, 1825 - Paris, 1908) was registered in 1847 at the Paris Beaux-Arts school, where he studied under the direction of François- Edouard Picot (1786-1868) and of Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889)**.
His participation in the Paris Salon began in 1851 with genre subjects (Young girl doing her morning prayer), but as soon as 1853, he regularly sent Orientalist scenes, located in Algeria (Prayer in 1859, Rendez-vous in Constantine in 1861, Moorish woman in 1867), strongly architecturally designed, animated with sharp contrasts in lighting effects and showing a fine sensitivity while modulating his grays. 

In addition to numerous landscapes of Algeria, he was also known as military portraitist, painting accurately uniforms, and he naturally became official painter to the Ministry of War, where he worked with Alexandre Cabanel**. He was also the author of decoration of churches, including that of Villemomble (Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, 1857). Brun became a member of the French Artists society from 1883.

Edvard Munch | Girls on the Bridge, 1899

Girls on a Bridge
Edvard Munch
Date: 1899 - 1900
Style: Expressionism
Period: European period
Genre: genre painting
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Private Collection

Perhaps more than any of Munch's painting, Girls on the Bridge has gained a wide measure of justly deserved popularity. The theme engaged and held Munch's interest through many versions in paint and print, from the waning years of the nineteenth century to his old age.

Antonietta Brandeis | The Ponte Vecchio, Florence

Antonietta Brandeis was born in Miskowitz, Austria in 1849. She studied under Karel Javurek in Prague before moving to Venice to become a pupil at the Academy.

The development of international tourism in the nineteenth century meant that many more people were travelling to the beauty spots of Europe.

Venice was a very popular destination for these travellers and the demand for paintings of Venice grew. This demand resulted in an influx of artists to Venice who all produced topographical views of the city and its environs.

Vincent van Gogh | Irises, 1890

Title: Irises

Artist: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853-1890, Auvers-sur-Oise)

Date: 1890

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 29 x 36 1/4 in. (73.7 x 92.1 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Gift of Adele R. Levy, 1958

Accession Number: 58.187

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 825.

Vincent Van Gogh | White Roses, 1890

Yannick Bouchard (Canadian, 1982)

I am not claiming myself as a "surrealist artist", but my art is undeniably marked by their influence. I was also very impressed by some notable fantasy artists; the way they depict beauty and sensuality, and how they bring grandiose imaginary worlds to life.

Overall, my paintings are more or less a mixture of all those types; surrealism, fantasy with a touch of symbolism and even sometimes macabre.

Vincent Van Gogh | A Girl in White in the Woods, 1882

Girl in White in the Woods is an oil painting created in 1882 by Vincent van Gogh.
Of a study that Van Gogh made for Girl in a Wood or Girl in White in the Woods, he remarked at how much he enjoyed the work and explains how he wishes to trigger the audience's senses and how they may experience the painting:

Pietro Annigoni (1910-1988)

Pietro Annigoni è uno dei più noti pittori Italiani del '900. Artista di grande carisma, nato in un secolo di grandi rivoluzioni e contestazioni, ha impegnato le sue capacità tecniche, uniche al mondo, per realizzare opere gigantesche e minuscole incisioni, ritratti, paesaggi e grandi composizioni allegoriche che hanno suscitato contrastanti reazioni di ammirazione o di rifiuto.

Artista ormai affermato in tutto il mondo, la rivista "Time" gli ha dedicato ben sette copertine, Pietro Annigoni ha saputo raccogliere intorno a se ed alla sua "bottega" una vera e propria scuola di tipo rinascimentale, assolutamente gratuita, liberamente frequentata da artisti molto diversi tra loro ed oggi affermati, quali Luciano Guarnieri, Marcello Tommasi, Romano Stefanelli, Nelso H. White, Fernando Berardini, Timothy Widborne, Silvestro Pistolesi, Dawn Cookso, Antoio Ciccone, Ben Long, Douglas Anderson, Luigi Falai e molti altri.

August Hagborg | Reflections On The Beach

August Wilhelm Nikolaus Hagborg (born in Gothenburg on 26 May 1852, died in Paris on 30 April 1921) was a Swedish painter.
After initial training received at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, August Hagborg came to Paris in 1875 to complete his training.

He maintained a studio for most of his career, and continuously exhibited at the Salons between 1876-1909.
An Important figure in the naturalistic movement at the turn of the century, often close to artists such as Jules Breton and Jules Bastien-Lepage, he often depicted scenes inspired by coastal Normandy.

Jean-François de Troy | Study of three figures

Jean-François de Troy, de Troy also spelled Detroy (baptized January 27, 1679, Paris, France - died January 26, 1752, Rome, Papal States [Italy]), French Rococo painter known for his tableaux de mode, or scenes of the life of the French upper class and aristocracy, especially during the period of the regency-e.g., Hunt Breakfast (1737) and Luncheon with Oysters (1735).
As a youngster he studied with his father, François de Troy (1645–1730), a portrait painter from Toulouse, but moved to Italy at 14 years of age.

Alena Plihal (Canadan painter)

Born in the Czech republic Alena as been established in Quebec for many years, Alena explores several techniques at her disposal to create vibrante paintings.

Since her firt work painting has been a deliverance and freedom!

The pictorial expression of Alena is passionate and communicative.

Debra Hill | Australia

Originaria di Sydney, in Australia, Debra risiede a New York.

Dalla diversa energia di Manhattan crea potenti pezzi narrativi tratti dalla sua immaginazione.

Eseguiti in olio su tela, i suoi stimolanti dipinti simbolici utilizzano una tavolozza di colori vibranti.

Debra ha studiato disegno dal vero e ritrattistica alla Paddington Art School di Sydney.

Il suo fascino per la figura combinato con la sua passione per la danza ha portato a pezzi figurativi dinamici in cui il soggetto quasi salta fuori dalla tela.

Claude Monet | Bridge at Argenteuil on a gray day, 1876

Bridge at Argenteuil on a Gray Day
Artist: Claude Monet
Date: 1876, Impressionism
Current location: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Original size: 24.0 x 31.6" (61 x 80.3 cm)

Armand Guillaumin | The rackets, 1880

Born Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin in Paris, Armand Guillaumin worked at his uncle's lingerie shop while attending evening drawing lessons.

He also worked for a French government railway before studying at the Académie Suisse in 1861.

There, he met Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro with whom he maintained lifelong friendships. While he never achieved the stature of these two, his influence on their work was significant.

Edward Cucuel | Autumn Sun

American painter🎨 Edward Alfred Cucuel (1875-1954) was born in San Francisco, California.

He is best known for his paintings of sunny genre scenes of boating, afternoon tea, sleeping or reading in landscape settings.

Pascal Chove, 1963

Nato a Parigi, Pascal Chove ha studiato presso la scuola d'arte applicata Ecole des Arts Appliques Duperre di Parigi.

Fino al 1986, ha dipinto numerosi murales a Parigi e nel resto della Francia; in seguito a questo periodo decise di concentrarsi esclusivamente sulla pittura da cavalletto.

Preferisce lavorare con il legno perchè non ama dipingere su tela, la trova troppo morbida ed inadatta per il suo stile, le sue opere devono essere graffiate e raschiate.

Dipinge i suoi quadri con la resina su cui aggiunge vari materiali come cartone, reti o tessuti. Si possono vedere diversi piani sovrapposti supportati dall’uso elaborato della luce.

Raffaello Sorbi | The Harvest Dance, 1893

Raffaello Sorbi (1844-1931) was an Italian painter🎨.

He was born in Florence. As a young man, he studied design in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Florence; then painting under professor Antonio Ciseri. By 18 years, he had completed his first major work: Corso Donati mortally wounded is transported by Monks of San Salvi to their Abbey.

Bartolomeo Veneto (1502-1555)

Bartolomeo Veneto was an Italian painter who worked in Venice, the Veneto (the mainland) and Lombardy.

During his time in Venice, he studied under Gentile Bellini.

The little information available about Bartolomeo's life has been derived from his signatures, dates, and inscriptions.

His best known works are portraits or pictures with portrait-like character.

Van Gogh | Le Moulin de Blutefin, 1886

Le Moulin de Blute-fin, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle

Disputed Van Gogh painting Le Blute-Fin Mill goes on display

The Guardian News | 24 February 2010

Dirk Hannema was known as a brilliant art curator but a bit of a fool. He claimed he had seven Vermeers in his collection, several Van Goghs and a few Rembrandts, but no one believed him.
Now, 25 years after his death it turns out he was right – at least about one work, by Vincent van Gogh. The painting, Le Blute-Fin Mill, went on display today in the Museum de Fundatie in the central Dutch town of Zwolle.
Louis van Tilborgh, curator of research at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, said the painting was unusual for the impressionist, depicting large human figures in a landscape. It shows Parisians climbing wooden stairs to a windmill in the Montmartre district.
But the work was typical of Van Gogh's at that time in other ways, with its bright colours lathered roughly on the canvas.

Van Tilborgh said it was painted in 1886 when the artist was living in Paris. The canvas bore the stamp of an art store he frequented, and used pigments common in other works. The painting "adds to his oeuvre", he said.

"You can link it to certain works of Van Gogh in that period, but not that many".

It is the first Van Gogh to be authenticated since 1995 and the sixth to be added to the confirmed list of the artist's paintings since the latest edition of the standard catalogue was published in 1970, Van Tilborgh said.
Van Gogh painted about 900 works. Afflicted by mental illness, he died of a self-inflicted wound in 1890, aged 37.
Hannema, who died in 1984, bought the painting in 1975 from a dealer in Paris. He paid 5,000 guilders for this and another work, and insured it for 16 times what he paid. He touted the painting with "absolute certainty" as a Van Gogh, but no one was listening. He had been discredited since he bought a purported Vermeer in 1937 that later was shown to be a forgery. | © The Guardian News
 

Il dipinto Le Moulin de Blutefin di Vincent Van Gogh era rimasto per 35 anni in un deposito di un museo della cittadina olandese al Museum de Fundatie di Zwolle.
Il quadro era stato acquistato nel 1975 dal fondatore e gestore del museo locale de Fundatie, Dirk Hannema, in un negozio di oggetti d'arte parigino come opera del famoso artista.
Visto che il collezionista privato è deceduto nel 1984 e ha sempre avuto una 'cattiva fama' come commerciante di opere d'arte, il dipinto ha avuto poca attenzione ed è finito in un deposito.
Nal 2010, le precise analisi di esperti del museo Van Gogh di Amsterdam confermano senza ombra di dubbio che il dipinto, 55 per 38 centimetri, è un originale Van Gogh.

Van Gogh | Prisoners' Round (after Gustave Doré), 1890

Title: Prisoners Exercising (Prisoners Round)

Artist: Vincent van Gogh.

Date: 1890; Saint-rémy-de-provence, France.

Style: Post-Impressionism.

Genre: Genre painting.

Media: oil, canvas.

Dimensions: 64 x 80 cm.

Location: Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia.

Van Gogh | Cottage with Woman Digging, 1885

Cottage with Woman Digging

Vincent van Gogh
Date: 1885; Nunen / Nuenen, Netherlands
Style: Realism
Genre: Genre painting
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US.

Cottages is a subject of paintings created by Vincent van Gogh from 1883-1885.
This is related to the Peasant Character Studies that Van Gogh worked on during the same time period.

Antonio Mancini | Lost in Thought, 1895-1898

Antonio Mancini’s Lost in Thought is one of no fewer than fifteen works by this artist owned by the museum.

Mesdag and Mancini had an unusual agreement.

From 1885 onwards, Mesdag regularly sent money to the Italian artist in Rome, who in return sent him paintings and drawings, around 150 works in all.

Mesdag kept some for himself, but sold the bulk on to others.

In this painting Mancini worked with broad strokes and a loaded brush, rendering the shimmering silk skirt with great verve.

The girl’s face is much more delicately painted, whereby her contemplative expression gains in intensity. | Source: © The Mesdag Collection, The Hague

Jose Royo: "Dipingere è un privilegio, devi guadagnartelo!"

"Ho sempre desiderato essere un artista, o per meglio dire, non ho mai avuto scelta.

Era predeterminato. I miei occhi, il mio cervello e le mie mani hanno tradotto tutto in disegni, forme e colori.

Era un gioco dalle dimensioni infinite che dava senso alla vita.

Dipingere è un privilegio, devi guadagnartelo"- Jose Royo, 1941.

Petrus van Schendel | Charity in the Night Market, c.1851-54

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Karen Dupré

La californiana Karen Dupré è un'artista autodidatta il cui primo l'ispirazione derivava dal suo interesse per i cavalli.

Questo fascino l'ha portata rapidamente a tradurre lo splendore di questi animali e di altri animali selvatici attraverso il disegno.

All'età di nove anni, Dupré iniziò a lavorare con i pastelli, che presto progredì nell'uso di altri mezzi, principalmente colori acrilici.

Da quando nei suoi primi anni come artista, Dupré ha ampliato il suo repertorio includendolo paesaggi, immagini di nature morte e figure, senza mai abbandonare il fauna selvatica che per prima ha acceso la sua immaginazione.