Jacques Prévert / Daniel Gerhartz | Quicksands / Sabbie mobili

Quicksands

Demons and wonders

Winds and tides

The sea has gone far away

And you

Like seaweed softly stroked by the wind

Stir dreaming in the sands of our bed

Demons and wonders

Winds and tides

The sea has gone far away

But in your half open eyes

Two small waves wait

Demons and wonders

Winds and tides

Two small waves to drown me.

Sabbie mobili

Dèmoni e meraviglie

Venti e maree

Il mare si è ritirato già in lontananza

E tu

Come un'alga dolcemente dal vento accarezzata

Nelle sabbie del letto ti agiti sognando

Dèmoni e meraviglie

Venti e maree

Il mare si è ritirato già in lontananza

Ma nei tuoi occhi socchiusi

Due piccole onde sono rimaste

Dèmoni e meraviglie

Venti e maree

Due piccole onde per farmi annegare.

Sables mouvants

Démons et merveilles

Vents et marées

Au loin déjà la mer s'est retirée

Et toi

Comme une algue doucement caressée par le vent

Dans les sables du lit tu remues en revant

Démons et merveilles

Vents et marées

Au loin déjà la mer s'est retirée

Mais dans tes yeux entrouverts

Deux petites vagues sont restées

Démons et merveilles

Vents et marées

Deux petites vagues pour me noyer.

John Callcott Horsley | The Morning of St Valentine,1865

Title: The Morning of St Valentine🎨;
Author: John Callcott Horsley (British painter, 1817-1903)
Date: 1865;
Medium: Oil on canvas;
Dimensions: w458 x h383 cm (Without frame);
Current location: Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool.

John Callcott Horsley RA was an English Academic painter of genre and historical scenes, illustrator and designer of the first Christmas card🎨. He was a member of the artist's colony in Cranbrook.

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) | Art Quotes

"L'artista deve creare una scintilla prima di poter fare un fuoco e quindi nasce l'arte, l'artista deve essere pronto a consumarsi al fuoco della sua stessa creazione".

Jacques Prévert / Maximilien Luce | Chanson de la Seine, 1945

The River Seine’s song

The Seine is lucky

She has no worries

She takes it easy

By day and by night

And she flows from her spring

Gently, quietly

And without foaming

Without overflowing her banks

She’s leaving for the sea

Passing through Paris.

Vittorio Matteo Corcos | La signora con ombrellino, 1884

Born into a Jewish family of the Italian port city of Livorno in 1859 and died in 1933, in Florence, Vittorio Matteo Corcos is known for his portraits of parisian society and his genre scenes.

Corcos studied in Florence and then in Naples, where he was one of Domenico Morelli's best students.

Peace quotes / Frasi sulla pace

• "Occhio per occhio e il mondo diventa cieco"!
• "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind"!

Mahatma Gandhi

• "I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word".

Micko-Vic / Miodrag

Micko-Vic è il soprannome del pittore professionista - Miodrag. Micko è un artista autodidatta.

Micko è nato in Serbia, in una città industriale vicino a Belgrado.

Dopo la laurea in ingegneria elettrica presso l'Istituto Nikola Tesla, si è presto trovato in una professione che non era affatto adatta alla sua personalità, cosi si da all'arte.

Il suo stile di disegno parla dell'artista come rappresentante del cubismo moderno.

Nei dipinti di Micko-Vic ci sono forme cubiche affilate e colori brillanti, e prima esegue le sue opere con una matita ed un pennello, poi acrilico e gel.

I temi principali di Micko-Vic sono ritratti, paesaggi e scene della vita quotidiana.

Jacques Prévert | Kiss Me / Embrasse-moi / Baciami, 1946

Twas in a street of the City of Lights

Where ’is always dark, where there’s no air

And winter like summer, there ’is always winter.

She was on the stairs

Him next to her, her next to him

‘Twas night

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | La plage du Lavandou, 1894

French traditions in the fine arts are deep and rich, and painting, sculpture, music, dance, architecture, photography, and film all flourish under state support.

During the Renaissance led to Italy becoming the main source of stylistic developments until France matched Italy's influence during the Rococo and Neoclassicism periods.

During the 19th century and up to mid-20 century France and especially Paris was considered the center of the art world with art styles such as Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Fauvism originating there as well as movements and congregations of foreign artists such as the École de Paris.

Liu Maoshan, 1942 | Modern impressionist painter

Liu Maoshan is a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu province. He is now vice-president of the Suzhou Chinese Painting Academy and a member of Chinese Artists Associations. He is rated as a national first class artist.

He was graduated from the Suzhou Institute of Arts and Crafts in 1962.

Having mastered a solid and intensive understanding of the works of classical European masters and modern impressionism, he later changed his interest to the creation of Chinese landscape painting.

Anja Bührer | Surreal silhouettes

Anja Bührer, aka Latoday, is a Berlin-based photographer and digital artist. Bührer uses her hauntingly beautiful aesthetic to depict a myriad of dreamy scenes. Bührer's conceptual photographs lie somewhere between dreams and nightmares, as though one is trapped in this in-between state of unconsciousness.

There's a haziness throughout her dreamed, souls, and street collections that somehow balance the familiar with the unknown.

Lado Gudiashvili Symbolist painter

Lado Gudiashvili / ლადო გუდიაშვილი (1896-1980) was a 20th-century Georgian painter.

Gudiashvili was born in Tiflis (now Tbilisi) on March 18 (30), 1896 into a family of a railroad employee.

He studied in the Tiflis school of sculpture and fine art (1910-1914), where he met the Armenian artist Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan, and later in Ronson's private academy in Paris (1919-1926).

Diego Velázquez | Legacy

Diego Velázquez (Spanish Baroque Era painter, 1599-1660) is the most influential figure of the Spanish Golden Age.

Velázquez was not prolific; he is estimated to have produced between only 110 and 120 known canvases.

He produced no etchings or engravings, and only a few drawings are attributed to him.

William Turner | L'eruzione del Vesuvio, 1817

La drammatica rappresentazione di Joseph Mallord di William Turner (1775-1851) sul Vesuvio è una delle numerose iterazioni artistiche di eruzione di vulcani dalla fine del diciottesimo all'inizio del diciannovesimo secolo.

Turner visitò Napoli e salì al Vesuvio nel 1819; tuttavia, non ha mai assistito ad un'eruzione in prima persona e questa composizione probabilmente ha preceduto il suo soggiorno italiano.

William Turner | L'Eruzione del Vesuvio, 1817

Philip Wilson Steer | Pittore Impressionista

Steer, Philip Wilson - Pittore, nato a Birkenhead il 28 dicembre 1860. Ricevette la sua istruzione artistica nella Scuola d'arte di Gloucester, a Parigi nello studio di Julian con il Bouguereau, e all'École des Beaux-arts con il Cabanel.

Attraversò dapprima un periodo in cui subì influssi varî, compresi quelli del Whistler e del Bastien-Lepage, fino al 1889, quando intese la grande importanza dell'impressionismo francese e del Monet.

Nel 1866 venne fondato New English Art Club, di cui lo St. rimase per 30 anni il membro più importante. Nel 1893 divenne assistente del Brown alla Slade School e in tale qualità esercitò un grandissimo influsso sulla generazione successiva di pittori.

Maria Oosthuizen, 1972 | Embrace painting

Maria Magdalena Oosthuizen is a full-time artist exhibiting in various galleries.

Oosthuizen was born in Paarl (Western Cape) South Africa. She currently resides in Mossel Bay, a small coastal town in South Africa, with her husband, and three children.

Maria is a qualified hairdresser.

Diego Velázquez and the Modern recreations

Diego Velázquez is the most influential figure in the history of Spanish portraiture.

Velázquez is estimated to have produced between only 110 and 120 known canvases.

The respect with which twentieth century painters regard Velázquez's work attests to its continuing importance.

Jean-Leon Gérome (1824-1904)

Jean-Léon Gérôme is considered among the greatest French academic painters of the 19th century, following in the footsteps of the father of French neo-classical painting, Jacques-Louis David.

Born in 1824 into a modest family in Vesoul, Haute-Saône, Gérôme moved to Paris in 1841 and enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the studio of Paul Delacroche and later that of Charles Gleyre.

John Callcott Horsley | The world's first Christmas card, 1843

John Callcott Horsley, (born January 29, 1817, London, England - died October 18, 1903, London), British🎨 narrative painter best known as the designer of the first Christmas card🎨.

Created in 1843 for Callcott’s friend Sir Henry Cole, an edition of 1,000 cards was placed on sale in London.

Samuel Peploe | Colourist painter

Samuel John Peploe, RSA (1871-1935) is one of the group of four artists known as the "Scottish Colourists".

The other colourists were John Duncan Fergusson, Francis Cadell and Leslie Hunter.

Born in Edinburgh, he studied art in Paris and lived there from 1910-1912.

It was through painting holidays in Northern France that he was introduced to the use of bold colour, inspired by the bright sunlight.

Dunoyer De Segonzac | Modern / Impressionist painter

André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884-1974) was a French painter and graphic artist.

Segonzac was born in Boussy-Saint-Antoine and spent his childhood there and in Paris. His parents wanted him to attend the military academy of Saint-Cyr but, recognizing his strong interest in drawing, they agreed to his enrollment at the Free Academy of Luc-Olivier Merson.

Abraham Bloemaert | I disegni

Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651) è stato un pittore Olandese.

Figlio dell'architetto e dello scultore Cornelis Bloemaert, dal quale ricevette le prime lezioni prima di recarsi ad Utrecht nel 1575, dove, dopo un breve periodo di studio autodidatta sui manieristi di Anversa, Bloemaert divenne allievo di Gerrit Splinter e di Joos de Beer.

Presso quest'ultimo venne a contatto con la pittura fiamminga di Anthonie Blocklandt formatasi su una base romana-parmigiana.

Nel 1580 si trasferì a Parigi per seguire un perfezionamento artistico sotto la guida di vari maestri, tra i quali Hieronymus Francken I e Jean Bassot.

Durante il triennio di formazione francese si rivelò fondamentale anche la permanenza presso la scuola di manieristica di Fontainebleau.

Abraham Bloemaert | Circe, 1625-1628

Author: Abraham Bloemaert (Dutch Mannerist painter🎨, ca.1564-1651);
Title: Circe;
Medium: Oil on canvas;
Dimensions: 22 1/8 x 19 ¼ in. (56.2 x 48.9 cm.)
Provenance: Private collection, England - with Salomon Lilian, Amsterdam and Geneva, where acquired by the present owner in 2006;
Current location: Christie's.

Daughter of Helios and Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft, the enchantress Circe was notorious in Greek mythology for her knowledge of herbs and potions.

The story is recounted by Homer in the Odyssey (Book X): Odysseus and his companions came to the island retreat of the cruel sorceress on their journey home from the Trojan War. It was Circe’s way with travelers to offer them food laced with a magic potion that transformed them into swine.

Cornelis Cornelisz (1562-1638) | Mannerist painter

Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem - Dutch🎨 Golden Age painter and draughtsman, was one of the leading Northern Mannerist artists in the Netherlands, and an important forerunner of Frans Hals🎨 as a portraitist.

Together with Carel van Mander, Hendrick Goltzius and other artists, he started an informal drawing school that has become known in art history circles as the Haarlem Academy or "Haarlem Mannerists".

Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) | Pittrice Manierista

Lavinia Fontana (Bologna, 24 agosto 1552 - Roma, 11 agosto 1614) è stata una pittrice Italiana del tardo Manierismo**.

Lavinia era figlia del pittore Manierista Prospero Fontana, nella cui bottega poté attingere, accanto agli insegnamenti del padre, ad una vasta gamma di esperienze pittoriche, emiliane (dal Parmigianino a Pellegrino Tibaldi), venete (Veronese, Jacopo Bassano), lombarde (Sofonisba Anguissola) e toscane.

Presso il padre poté anche frequentare i Carracci (Ludovico, Agostino e Annibale), poco più giovani, ma che non mancarono di influire su di lei.

Si narra che, ricevuta dal pittore Giovan Paolo Zappi la richiesta di sposarlo, la già attempata (25 anni) Lavinia pose la condizione di poter continuare a dipingere. Zappi accettò la cosa, tanto che rinunciò in pratica a lavorare in proprio e assunse il ruolo d'assistente della moglie.

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Abraham Bloemaert | Circe, 1625-1628 | Christies

Before the 16th century, the Church commissioned most Netherlandish art. Artists, such as Lucas van Leyden, produced elaborate altarpieces.

After independence from Spain, the chief patrons were the merchant class.

The 17th century was a golden age in portraiture, landscape, and genre painting, producing artists of the calibre of Rembrandt, Jan Vermeer, Frans Hals, and Jacob an Ruisdael.

Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669)

Pietro da Cortona was an Italian Baroque painter and architect.

Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture. He was also an important designer of interior decorations.

Diego Velázquez | Quotes

"I would rather be the first painter of common things than second in higher art".

"Preferirei essere il primo pittore delle cose comuni piuttosto che il secondo dell'arte più alta".

"Raphael, to be plain with you, for I prefer to be candid and outspoken, does not please me at all....It is Titian that bears the banner".

Pietro da Cortona | Allegory of Divine Providence, 1633-39

"The Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power" is a fresco by Italian painter Pietro da Cortona, filling the large ceiling of the grand salon of the Palazzo Barberini in Rome, Italy.

Begun in 1633, it was nearly finished in three years; upon Cortona's return from Venice, it was extensively reworked to completion in 1639.

Diego Velázquez (1599-1660)

Diego Velázquez, in full Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, was the most important Spanish painter of the 17th century, a giant of Western art.

Velázquez is universally acknowledged as one of the world’s greatest artists.

The naturalistic style in which he was trained provided a language for the expression of his remarkable power of observation in portraying both the living model and still life.

Leonid Afremov | The summer sun of Sicily

Leonid Afremov (1955-2019) was an Jewish artist of Belarusian descent, mainly known as being a self-representing artist who promotes and sells his work exclusively over the internet with very little exhibitions and involvement of dealers and galleries.

Afremov was born in Vitebsk - the same town where Marc Chagall began his artistic career -and passed away on August 19th 2019 from cardiac arrest in Playa Del Carmen.

Michael Ancher | Skagen girl in a red shawl, 1881

Michael Peter Ancher (1849-1927) came to Skagen in 1874 at the age of 25, and he was the only one of the visiting artists who settled permanently in the town.

He grew up on the island of Bornholm, and at the age of 16, he began his apprenticeship as a clerk at the Kalø Manor in Djursland.

Here, he began to draw and paint in his spare time, and in 1871 he was accepted as a student at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.

Here, he met Karl Madsen, among others, who encouraged him to go to Skagen.

Michael Ancher | Skagen girl in a red shawl, 1881

Wilhelm Tischbein | Goethe in the Roman Campagna, 1787

Title: Goethe in the Roman Campagna;

Author: Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (German Neoclassical painter, 1751-1829);

Date: 1787;

Dimensions: 164.0 x 206.0 cm;

Medium: Oil on canvas;

Current location: Städel Museum, Frankfurt;

Acquisition: Acquired in 1887 as a gift by Baroness Adèle von Rothschild;

Status: On display, 1st upper level, Modern Art.

Pierre Bonnard (Francese, 1867-1947)

Pierre Bonnard è stato un pittore post-impressionista Francese, appartenente al Gruppo degli artisti Nabis.

Dopo il diploma in legge decide di dedicarsi alla pittura.

A Parigi, nel 1888 segue i corsi dell’Accademia Julian e dell’Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

È in questo periodo che conosce artisti come Paul Sérusier, Maurice Denis, Paul Ranson, Édouard Vuillard e Ker-Xavier Roussel, con i quali forma il Gruppo dei Nabis -dall’ebraico che significa profeti, ispirati, e con i quali esporrà al Salon des Indépendants a partire dal 1891.

Gaetano Gandolfi (1734-1802)

Gaetano Gandolfi nasce a S. Matteo della Decima (Bologna), nel 1734.

Adolescente raggiunge a Bologna il fratello Ubaldo, per dedicarsi anch’egli agli studi artistici.

Fu allievo di Ercole Lelli, scultore ed anatomista, e di Felice Torelli.

Iscritto all’accademia Clementina si segnalò vincendo con raffinati rilievi numerosi premi Marsigli e con nudi d’accademia diversi premi Fiori.

Le prime opere pittoriche di Gaetano datano alla fine degli anni ’50 (S. Girolamo e S. Maria Maddalena, Bazzano, Oratorio del Suffragio; decorazione della galleria del Palazzo Malvasia con il fratello Ubaldo).

J.H.W. Tischbein | Diogenes looking for an Honest Man, 1780

"Diogenes Looking for an Honest Man" is a painting attributed to German painter Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751-1829).

It depicts Diogenes of Sinope with a lantern searching for an honest man.

Diogenes of Sinope used to stroll about in full daylight with a lamp; when asked what he was doing, he would answer, "I am just looking for an honest man".

Henri Lebasque | Pittore post-impressionista

Henri Lebasque (1865-1937) fu membro fondatore del Salon d'Automne nel 1903 con il suo amico Henri Matisse ed espose al Salon des Indépendants.

Nacque in una famiglia modesta (il padre era bottaio) e si iscrisse all'Académie Colarossi nel 1886. In seguito collaborò con Ferdinand Humbert agli affreschi del Panthéon per sei anni, a partire dal 1888.

Iniziò poi ad esporre i suoi lavori presso la "Società degli Artisti Francesi" ed al Salon degli Indipendenti, lavorando assieme a Maximilien Luce e a Paul Signac.

Espose anche alla "Società nazionale di Belle arti", dove, nel 1902, conobbe Pissarro, artista che esercitò subito una grande influenza sulle sue concezioni pittoriche. Nei suoi viaggi, inoltre, si recò a Londra dove scoprì la pittura di Turner. Questi apporti culturali consolidarono la sua formazione e gli aprirono nuove vie espressive, che egli esperì sempre con grande maestria.

Jean-Léon Gérôme | Pittore / Scultore Accademico

Jean-Léon Gérôme (Vesoul, 11 maggio 1824 - Parigi, 28 gennaio 1904) è stato un pittore e scultore Francese.

Si oppose al movimento impressionista iniziato da Monet e Manet - continuando a sviluppare e conservare il neoclassicismo francese.

Le sue opere sono principalmente di tema storico, mitologico ed orientalistico portando la tradizione dell'Impero francese ad un climax.

La gamma delle sue opere comprendeva la pittura storica, la mitologia greca, l'orientalismo, i ritratti e altre materie, portando la tradizione della pittura accademica al culmine artistico.