Elise MacDonald | Magical Surrealist painter

Born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Graduated with a BA(Fine Art) from Wits University.

First exhibition at Crake Gallery, Jhb in 1982.

Thereafter exhibited in group show at the Everard Read Gallery, Jhb.

After relocating to Knysna in 1996 exhibited at Trent Read's Knysna Fine Art gallery.

After a serious illness in 2009, her passion for painting was re-ignited.

Hermann Corrodi | Italian ruins at the nightfall

Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (July 1844 - 30 January 1905) was an Italian painter** of landscapes and orientalist scenes
Corrodi was born in Frascati (an alternate source lists his birthplace as Zurich) and lived for many years in Rome. Corrodi studied at the Academy of St Luke under his father, Salomon Corrodi (1810-1892) and in Paris (1872).
Corrodi received commissions for history paintings from the British royal family. He was acquainted with most of the European royalty of the time, including a friendship with Queen Victoria, and traveled widely in the Far East, including Egypt, Syria, Cyprus and Istanbul, which provided the subject matter for many of his paintings.

Jan Sluijters | Pittore Post-Impressionista

Johannes Carolus Bernardus (Jan) Sluijters, o Sluyters (17 dicembre 1881 a 's-Hertogenbosch - 8 maggio 1957 ad Amsterdam ) è stato un pittore Olandese.

Sluijters è stato un pioniere leader di vari movimenti post-impressionisti nei Paesi Bassi.

Julio Romero de Torres | Pittore simbolista

Julio Romero De Torres (Cordova, 1880-1930) è stato un pittore Spagnolo, figlio di Rafael Romero Barros, pittore e curatore del Museo di belle arti di Cordova.

Julio Romero De Torres nacque all'interno del Museo di belle arti di Cordova, dove il padre lavorava e risiedeva.

Il più giovane di tre fratelli con il padre anch'esso pittore e ricercatore, conosciuto per la fondazione del museo Cordova.

Arthur Streeton | Pittore Impressionista

Sir Arthur Streeton (1867-1943) è stato un pittore Australiano, membro della celebre Scuola di Heidelberg di artisti Australiani, meglio noto per i suoi paesaggi rurali.

Streeton nacque a Mount Duneed, a sudovest di Geelong, nello stato australiano del Victoria e la sua famiglia si trasferì a Richmond nel 1874. Iniziò i suoi studi presso le National Gallery Schools nel 1882.

Streeton fu influenzato dall'Impressionismo francese e dall'opera di Turner. Durante questo periodo iniziò la sua collaborazione con altri artisti come Frederick McCubbin e Tom Roberts — un gruppo che sarebbe divenuto in seguito il nucleo della Scuola di Heidelberg — iniziò inoltre a dipingere "en plein air" scene rurali della campagna attorno a Melbourne, inclusi il campo per artisti di Box Hill e Heidelberg.

Tytus Brzozowski

Tytus Brzozowski - architect and watercolorist. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology.

He also studied and worked in Finland where he was searching for severe Nordic art and design.

Tytus Brzozowski presents the city of his dreams - full of decorative buildings, narrow streets and soaring towers.

Using the elements of architecture and landscape that are characteristic for Warsaw, he creates new worlds that, despite its fairy character, are still local.

Leonid Afremov | L'Impressionista romantico

Leonid Afremov (1955-2019) è uno dei più illustri artisti contemporanei noti per la sua inusuale maniera pittorica ed un forte impatto emotivo che le sue opere hanno su un'anima umana. Uomo di grande talento e fantasia, cerca di trovare ispirazione in cose semplici che a volte possono avere più significato delle parole più forti.

Alla ricerca di nuove impressioni e nuove idee, Leonid ha viaggiato in numerosi paesi prendendo in tutto ciò che ha visto raccontarlo nel linguaggio del colore su una delle sue tele luminose e straordinarie. Creativi, allegri e sognanti come lui, trasmettono un forte messaggio positivo che riempie il cuore di pace, armonia e gioia.

Sir Alfred Munnings (1878-1959)

Sir Alfred James Munnings, KVO, PRA era conosciuto come uno dei migliori pittori Inglesi di cavalli e come critico schietto del modernismo.

Coinvolto dal Canadian War Memorials Fund di Lord Beaverbrook, dopo la Grande Guerra ottenne numerose commissioni prestigiose che lo resero ricco.

Munnings è stato eletto presidente della Royal Academy of Arts nel 1944.

E' stato fatto un Knight Bachelor nel mese di luglio dello stesso anno, ed è stato nominato un Cavaliere Comandante del Royal Victorian Order nel 1947 New Year Honours.

Marianne von Werefkin (1860-1938)

Marianne von Werefkin /Мариа́нна Влади́мировна Верёвкина (10 September [O.S. 29 August] 1860, Tula, Russia - 6 February 1938, Ascona, Switzerland), born Marianna Wladimirowna Werewkina (transliteration Marianna Vladimirovna Verëvkina), was a Russian-German-Swiss Expressionist painter.

Godfried Schalcken | Pittore di genere

Godfried Schalcken o Schalken (1643-1706) è stato un pittore Olandese.

I quadri di Schalcken sono caratterizzati dai giochi di luce: era solito dipingere soggetti in ambienti scuri illuminati da candele.

Studiò pittura sotto la guida di van Hoogstraten a Dordrecht ed in seguito con Gerrit Dou a Leida.

Gabriel Metsu | Baroque painter

Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667), Dutch painter was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway.

He was a contemporary, in the Delft Guild of St. Luke, of Jan Vermeer with whom his work shares themes and style.

De Hooch was born in Rotterdam to Hendrick Hendricksz de Hooch, a bricklayer, and Annetge Pieters, a midwife.

Frans Hals | Baroque Era painter

Frans Hals the Elder (1582-1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, normally of portraits, who lived and worked in Haarlem.

He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and he helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art.

Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group portraiture.

Adriaen Brouwer (1605-1638) | Genre painter

Adriaen Brouwer (Oudenaarde, c. 1605 - Antwerp, January 1638) was a Flemish painter🎨 active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the first half of the 17th century.

Brouwer was an important innovator of genre painting through his vivid depictions of peasants, soldiers and other 'lower class' individuals engaged in drinking, smoking, card or dice playing, fighting, music making etc. in taverns or rural settings.

John Singer Sargent: "Fai uno schizzo su qualsiasi cosa e mantieni attiva la curiosità!"

"You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh".

"Non si fanno mai abbastanza schizzi. Fai uno schizzo su qualsiasi cosa e mantieni attiva la tua curiosità".

"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend".

"Ogni volta che dipingo un ritratto perdo un amico".

Canaletto | Vedute of Venice

Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 - 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto (Italian: [kanaˈletto]), was an Italian painter🎨 of city views or vedute, of Venice, Rome and London.

He also painted imaginary views (referred to as capricci), although the demarcation in his works between the real and the imaginary is never quite clearcut.

He was further an important printmaker using the etching technique.

Paul Signac: "The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music"

• "Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance..."

• "The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music".

• "Divisionism is a complex system of harmony, an aesthetic rather than a technique".

Cao Yong, 1962 | Tibet painter

Chinese artist Cao Yong 曹勇 spent a year alone in the mountains of Tibet, and the paintings he produced were exhibited in Beijing in early 1989.

Cao Yong's canvases evoke the essence of some of the most delightful places on earth. Although Cao Yong was formally educated in China, the artist achieved maturity during seven years of self-exile in Tibet.

Then he left for Japan, where he quickly became that nation's most honored muralist. Later, he immigrated to America, in this nation know for her freedom of expression, Cao Yong has transferred to an artist who dedicates to the love of nature and passion for life through artwork.

Gustave Loiseau (Parigi, 1865-1935)

Nato a Parigi da una famiglia di macellai originaria della Val-d'Oise, il pittore Francese Gustave Loiseau visse l'infanzia e l'adolescenza a Pontoise.

All'età di quindici anni venne messo come apprendista nella bottega di un salumiere, ma, pochi anni dopo, sentì il bisogno di abbandonare l'ambiente commerciale e di avvicinarsi all'arte. Passò quindi, sempre come apprendista, presso un decoratore amico della famiglia e la fortuna lo assistette. Alla morte della nonna, infatti, ereditò una somma sufficiente a mantenersi nella capitale.

Si trasferì quindi a Parigi, distante solo 25 km, nel quartiere di Montmartre, e si iscrisse alla "Scuola di arti decorative".

Dopo solo un anno, però, a causa di una lite con un docente, lasciò la Scuola e iniziò a lavorare come decoratore.

Henry Moret (1856-1913)

Henry Moret was born in Cherbourg, Normandy, the son of a garrison officer. A gentle, thoughtful man and an indefatigable worker, Henry Moret discovered Brittany during his military service in 1875.

Having trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and in the studios of Gérôme and Laurens in Paris, Moret went to Brittany in 1881, staying at Le Pouldu near Pont Aven. For the rest of his life he divided his time between Paris and Brittany, painting the landscape and rugged coastline.

Wassily Kandinsky | Life and Artworks

MoMa - Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky /Васи́лий Васи́льевич Канди́нский (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 - 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist.

Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art.

Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art school.

He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession - he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat - Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.

Gustave Loiseau | Post-Impressionist painter

French Post-Impressionist painter Gustave Loiseau (1865-1935) is best remembered for his scenes of evocative landscapes and bustling Paris streets.

The artist used latticed brushstrokes to depict fleeting moments, blending the Impressionist pursuit of naturalistic depiction with a more modern desire for painterly expression.

Loiseau was born on October 3, 1865 in Paris.

In his youth, he was apprenticed to a decorator, but soon received an inheritance from his grandmother, which allowed him to pursue his artistic passions. He enrolled at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, where he studied life drawing, but left after a year after quarreling with an instructor.

He set out for the riparian vistas of Pont-Aven, where he befriended other artists including Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard.

Wassily Kandinsky | Abstract painter

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky / Васи́лий Васи́льевич Канди́нский (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 - 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter🎨 and art theorist.

Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art🎨.

Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art school.

He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession - he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat - Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.

John Singer Sargent: "Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend!"

"Ogni volta che dipingo un ritratto perdo un amico".

"It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry".

"È certo che in certi momenti il talento supera del tutto il pensiero o la poesia".

Camille Pissarro | Femme lavant une casserole, 1879

Included in the seminal Fifth Impressionist Exhibition that took place in 1880, Camille Pissarro’s Femme lavant une casserole encapsulates the quintessential Impressionist style and subject matter of the artist’s figure paintings.

As well as rustic, quotidian scenes of the rural French landscape, Pissarro frequently painted women absorbed in daily activities.

Indeed, from 1879, the year that he painted the present work, Pissarro began to create a number of monumental figure studies that reflected his growing interest in the primacy of the human form within the landscape setting, a theme that would continue throughout his career.

Here, a woman is framed by blossoming shrubs and flowers, bending over slightly as she washes objects in a bowl.

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) | Femme lavant une casserole, 1879 | Christie's

Gustave Loiseau (French, 1865-1935)

Gustave Loiseau was a French Post-Impressionist painter, remembered above all for his landscapes and scenes of Paris streets.

Loiseau was born in Paris and was brought up there, and at Pontoise, by parents who owned a butchers shop..

He served an apprenticeship with a decorator who was a friend of the family..

In 1887, when a legacy from his grandmother allowed him to concentrate on painting, he enrolled at the École des arts décoratifs where he studied life-drawing..

However, a year later he left the school after an argument with his teacher.

Roman Fedosenko / Роман Федосенко, 1970

Роман Федосенко lives and works in Minsk, Belarus.

Hailing from Minsk, Belarus, Roman Fedosenko is an international artist who paints in both Impressionist and Realist styles.

A lot of traveling and actively exhibit their work.

Participates in various art projects.

Józef Pankiewicz | Il primo colorista Polacco

Józef Pankiewicz (Lublino 1866 - La Ciotat, Bouches-du-Rhône, 1940), è stato un pittore Polacco ed artista grafico, influenzato a Parigi (1889) dall'impressionismo, che introdusse in Polonia.

Pankiewicz ha ricevuto la sua formazione presso l'Accademia d'arte da Varsavia, con Wojciech Gerson ed Alexander Kamiński.

Con il suo amico Władysław Podkowiński poi è andato a San Pietroburgo e vi studiò nel 1885-1886 all'Accademia d'arte.

Marc Chagall | Les Paysans, 1971

The wondrous vitality of Chagall's imagination, as youthfully whimsical and impetuous as ever, empowered him in his late paintings to become - like Picasso, notwithstanding the strong differences in their backgrounds and temperament - the impresario, auteur, director and a leading player in a lively theater of memory. Just as Picasso drew heavily on his ancestral Mediterranean roots, so Chagall became the artificer of a pictorial realm based on multiple personal mythologies he had evolved for himself as the proverbial Wandering Jew.

Sir Frederic William Burton | Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs, 1864

The subject is taken from a medieval Danish ballad translated by Burton’s friend Whitley Stokes in 1855, which tells the story of Hellelil, who fell in love with her personal guard Hildebrand, Prince of Engelland.

Her father disapproved of the relationship and ordered her seven brothers to kill the young prince.

Rembrandt | Old Woman Cutting Her Nails,1655-60

Once well known as a Rembrandt🎨, this large canvas has also been attributed to the master's pupil, Nicolaes Maes (1643-1693), and to Abraham van Dijck (ca. 1635?-1680?).

The two artists were closely associated in Dordrecht, the southern Dutch city from which several Rembrandt🎨 followers came.

Whatever its authorship, the painting must date from about 1655-60.

Othello and Desdemona's painting

Desdemona (The Song of the Willow) is based on a print, part of a suite of etchings by Chassériau illustrating Shakespeare’s Othello, which was published in Paris in 1844.

It depicts act 4, scene 3 of the play, a final moment of calm preceding Desdemona’s murder by her husband, Othello.

Desdemona’s maid, Emilia, who was complicit in orchestrating the crime, shrinks away, cringing at the knowledge of what is about to occur.

The lyre Desdemona holds was not described by Shakespeare; Chassériau observed it in an 1836 production in which the role was performed by the celebrated singer Maria Malibran Garcia (1808–1836), called La Malibran. | © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Théodore Chassériau | Desdemona (The Song of the Willow) 1849 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Moise Kisling | Pittore post-impressionista

Moïse Kisling, nato Mojżesz Kisling (Cracovia, 22 gennaio 1891 - Sanary-sur-Mer, 29 aprile 1953), è stato un pittore Polacco naturalizzato francese. La più ampia raccolta delle opere di Kisling è esposta al Museo del Petit Palais di Ginevra.

Nato e cresciuto a Cracovia in una famiglia ebraica ashkenazita, studiò presso la Scuola delle Belle Arti, dove fattosi notare per il suo talento venne incoraggiato a trasferirsi a Parigi, il centro della creatività artistica dell'epoca. Nel 1910 dimorò nel quartiere di Montmartre per poi trasferirsi, qualche anno più tardi, a Montparnasse.

Allo scoppio della Prima guerra mondiale, si arruolò volontario nella Legione straniera, così come l'artista italiano Ugo Giannattasio, e nel 1915 rimase gravemente ferito al petto nella battaglia della Somme, motivo per il quale fu premiato con la cittadinanza francese.

Luigi Rossi | Symbolist / Genre painter

A Swiss painter Luigi Rossi (1853-1923) was born in Cassarate, Lugano. Having studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts under the guidance of Giuseppe Bertini, Rossi made his artistic debut in 1871, inaugurating a repertoire of Genre scenes🎨 with a subtle vein of social criticism that was to be a distinctive feature of his work.

Le Pho | Impressionist Still Lifes

The sensitive, subtle beautiful paintings by Vietnamese artist, Lê Phổ / 黎谱 (1907-2001) are a fascinating blending of Oriental artistry with influences of contemporary Western art.

For the most part this artist specialized in semi-Impressionist studies of flowers and figures and handled them with delicacy and an unusually fluid transparency of color.

Early Years of Le Pho’s Art Career

In his early years, Le Pho preferred painting on silk instead of canvas, and to do so, developed a technique all his own.

Johannes Rosierse | Genre painter

Johannes Rosierse (Dordrecht, 1818 - 1901) was a Dutch painter🎨 - from the Netherlands, who mostly painted portraits, genre scenes🎨 and candlelight-pieces.

His most important subject were interior images with staffage.

He focused on individual figures, or on groups arranged by candlelight in dark interiors.

He frequently painted kitchens, presenting a synopsis of food such as fruits and vegetables en passant.

Johannes Rosierse passed away in 1901.

Works of the artist can be seen in the museum of his hometown Dordrecht, as well as in Musée Fabre in the Southern French Montpellier.

Jacqueline Williams, 1962 | Impressionist painter

Born in Lincoln, Jacqueline Williams soon became interested in art at school and went on to attend the Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology. Her success at College earnt her a place at the prestigious Royal Academy School London.

Jacqueline's continued hard work and success meant that she was elected a member of the New English Art Club ( NEAC) in 1993.

She has won many awards including: The Antique Collectors prize, Antonio De Segonzac Travel Scholarship, Elizabeth Greenshields Award, Patterson Prize NEAC, Critics Prize NEAC, Patterson Memorial Prize.

Mario Henrique, 1983 | Ritrattista astratto

Affascinato dai significati sottili del linguaggio del corpo e delle espressioni facciali, Mario Henrique dipinge ritratti ravvicinati di una vasta gamma di persone.

Mario Henrique è un artista con sede a Cascais, in Portogallo.

Laureato in Design all'Università di Belle Arti di Lisbona, ha iniziato la sua carriera in agenzie di marketing online e sviluppo web.

In qualità di direttore creativo, ha reclutato e guidato team in Portogallo, Spagna e Brasile.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Italien à la mandoline

A consummate example of Bouguereau's ability to render tender portraits of children, Italien à la mandoline depicts a young peasant boy holding his elegant instrument.

Although images of boys are rare in Bouguereau's oeuvre, perhaps, as Damien Bartoli suggests, because of the artist's difficult relationship with his own father, this youth appears in three other works which date to this same period - Pifferaro (1870), Pifferaro (1874) and Enfant Italien tenant une croûte de pain (1874).

William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Italien a la mandoline

Cheri Blum (1969-2003)

An artist who celebrated beauty in imperfection. These kinds of simple contradictions were Cheri Blum’s trademarks and perhaps the key to her remarkable success.

Cheri Blum who was born in Maryland on 1969 and passed away at her home in Georgetown on November 4, 2003, at the age of 34. In her brilliant but brief career, Cheri Blum created more than 400 original paintings. Cheri Blum began her careeas an illustrator and muralist, creating trompe l’oeil, faux painting and decorative furniture finishes. This background not only provided her with the techniques she used to create her beautiful, unique backgrounds, but also a strong desire to bring art into everyday life. “We should be able to surround ourselves with beautiful art in our homes and offices, not just when we visit museums and galleries”.

Cheri’s approach was inspired by the past, but reflected today’s modern styles. She strove to create art that was peaceful, tranquil and edited of unnecessary detail. The simple, graceful shapes she painted have a timeless quality and restful feeling that make them easy to live with and enjoy.

Galina Chuvilyaeva, 1957 | Angels

Galina Chuvilyaeva / Галина Чувиляева is a famous St. Petersburg artist, jeweler, member of the Union of Designers and the Union of Artists of Russia, a participant in numerous exhibitions.

Galina Chuvilyaeva was born in 1957 on the Volga. Childhood and youth passed in Ukraine, where his father served.

The beauty of the Carpathians, mountains, rivers and gardens blooming twice a year - all this has left an indelible mark on the artist's soul.

Claude Monet | Figures / Portraits | Page 2

Vincent van Gogh | The Ravine of the Peyroulets, 1889

In the autumn of 1889, Van Gogh painted the ravine near the asylum in the southern French town of Saint‑Remy.

He wrote about it to his dear friend Emile Bernard:

"Such subjects certainly have a fine melancholy, but then it is fun to work in rather wild places, where one has to dig one’s easel in between the stones lest the wind should blow the whole caboodle over".

The following spring, Van Gogh sent this painting to Paris, where Paul Gauguin saw it and wrote to him:

Hans Dahl (1849-1937)

Hans Dahl (19 February 1849 - 27 July 1937) was a Norwegian painter.

Hans Dahl was famous for his paintings of Norwegian fjords and surrounding landscapes.

Dahl had his first exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1876. Dahl lived in Düsseldorf until 1888, when he moved to Berlin. Almost every summer, he was back to Norway. In 1893, he commissioned the firm of Jacob Digre in Trondheim to build his summer residence, Villa Strandheim.

It is located on the banks of the Sognefjord at Balestrand in the county of Sogn og Fjordane. Norwegian painter Adelsteen Normann had settled in Balestrand during 1891. Dahl's villa was of a similar design to the villa built for Normann.

James Smetham | The Mandolin, 1866

James Smetham (9 September 1821 - 5 February 1889) was an English Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painter and engraver, a follower of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Smetham worked in a range of genres, including religious and literary themes as well as portraiture; but he is perhaps best known as a landscape painter.

His "landscapes have a visionary quality" reminiscent of the work of William Blake, John Linnell and Samuel Palmer.

Claude Monet | Rising Tide at Pourville, 1882

Throughout his career Claude Monet depicted France’s English Channel coastline.

In works such as Rising Tide at Porville / Marée montante à Pourville, he combined keen observation with Impressionism’s subjective use of color and light effects.

Henrik Willem Mesdag also painted churning waters, of the nearby North Sea.

Here, a small ship with wind-torn sails is tossed by massive, white-capped waves.

The broad expanse of water, almost matching the tone of the sky, dramatizes nature’s mighty power.

Claude Monet | Rising Tide at Pourville (Marée montante à Pourville), 1882 | Brooklyn Museum

Claude Monet | Boats below the Cliffs at Pourville, 1882

Bateaux devant les falaises de Pourville / Boats below the Cliffs at Pourville features a bold geometrically structured composition of diagonals and horizontals, reflective of the more simplified approach that Monet was then exploring.

The horizon line bisects the canvas into two parts of roughly equal size; two tranches of nearly identical size and shape form the sand and sea, whilst the diagonal line of the cliff runs to the very centre of the composition.

The slightly raised vantage point from which Monet has captured this view serves, in comparison with other views from this group, to considerably foreshorten the angle of the shoreline.

Edward William Cooke (1811-1880)

Edward William Cooke was an English🎨 landscape and marine painter and gardener.

Cooke was born in Pentonville, London, the son of well-known line engraver George Cooke; his uncle, William Bernard Cooke (1778-1855), was also a line engraver of note, and Edward was raised in the company of artists.

He was a precocious draughtsman and a skilled engraver from an early age, displayed an equal preference for marine subjects (in special in sailing ships) and published his "Shipping and Craft" - a series of accomplished engravings - when he was 18, in 1829.

Vladimir Kush, 1965 | Pillow Book

Il dipinto raffigura il momento del risveglio.

Quando la notte tiene ancora le redini nella parte oscura del letto-libro, e la luce dorata del mattino penetra attraverso le tende aperte dello spazio dell'abitazione.

I sogni guariscono la propria anima, bilanciando la realtà con elementi di magia ed il mondo intangibile della fantasia.

Morpheus sta ancora salvaguardando il sonno dorato che rimane sulle ciglia setose della ragazza.

Un segnalibro a forma di piuma d'uccello simboleggia il volo dell'immaginazione.

Franz Skarbina | Pittore impressionista

Franz Skarbina (1849-1910) è stato un pittore impressionista Tedesco, disegnatore, incisore ed illustratore.

Nato a Berlino, era figlio di un orafo di Zagabria.

Dal 1865-1869, ha studiato all'Accademia delle arti prussiane.

Dopo la laurea, ha trascorso due anni come tutor alle figlie del conte Friedrich von Perponcher-Sedlnitzky (1821-1909), durante il quale ha viaggiato a Dresda, Vienna, Venezia, Monaco, Norimberga e Merano.

Dietz Edzard (1893-1963)

Dietz (Dietrich Hermann) Edzard (1893-1963) was born in Bremen.

From 1911, he studied painting at Max Beckmann in Berlin, and worked in the Netherlands thereafter.

In 1927, he moved to France, and in 1929 the first exhibition of his work took place in Paris at the Jeu de Paume, a museum exclusively devoted to Impressionist masters. He got married to the artist Suzanne Eisendieck (1908-1998) in 1938.

During the Second World War, he was captured in the detention and deportation camp Les Milles.

His works are held by the collections of international art museums, and by American and Canadian private collections.

Guiding themes of his creativity are the circus and the theatre.