Desiderio delle tue mani chiare
nella penombra della fiamma:
sapevano di rovere e di rose;
di morte. Antico inverno.
Alfred Sisley | Snow Effect in Louveciennes, 1874 | Museum Barberini, Potsdam
Antonio Mancini | La lacrima, 1883-1890
Dopo un duro ricovero nel manicomio Provinciale di Napoli nel 1881, Antonio Mancini (1852-1930) trovò ospitalità a Roma, presso gli zii Andrea e Noemi, e durante il suo soggiorno in città può dedicarsi alla pittura utilizzando i nipoti come modelli.
In questa tela si vede infatti Agrippina, con lo sguardo delicato e sofferente e gli occhi lucidi inumiditi dalle lacrime.
Proprio questo dettaglio dà il titolo all’opera, e si dice fosse stato un rimprovero del pittore a far scaturire il pianto.
Antonio Mancini | La lacrima, 1883-1890 (detail) | GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano
Massimo D'Azeglio | A vendetta, 1834-1835
"A Vendetta" is an oil on canvas by Massimo D'Azeglio, created in 1834-1835.
The painting, measuring 179 x 225 cm, is part of the collection of the GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano.
Massimo Taparelli, Marquess of Azeglio (24 October 1798 - 15 January 1866), commonly called Massimo d'Azeglio, was an artist, writer and minister during the Italian Risorgimento.
A vendetta belongs to the historical landscape genre - this refers to landscape paintings drawn "from life" or in a realistic fashion, but populated with figures from history or literature.
Massimo D'Azeglio | Una vendetta, 1834-1835 | GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano
Marco d'Oggiono | Elevazione della Maddalena, 1522-1524
Elevazione della Maddalena was created in 1522-1524 by Marco d'Oggiono (1470-1540), Italian Renaissance painter and a chief pupil of Leonardo da Vinci.
The painting, measuring cm 146x103, is part of the collection of the Pinacoteca Brera, Milano.
The artwork, on a stylistic level is noted for, other than Leonardo’s influences, also the peaceful sweetness of Raphael and the sensuality of Correggio, represents Saint Mary Magdalene elevated to heaven by a multitude of angels.
Marco d'Oggiono | Elevazione della Maddalena, 1522-24 | Pinacoteca Brera, Milano
Claude Monet | Deux femmes en barque, 1887
In 1883, Claude Monet (1840-1926) acquired a property in Giverny, a small village in his native Normandy.
Over the next several decades, the artist transformed the isolated, overgrown grounds that surrounded his new home into a lush private paradise, replete with overflowing flowerbeds, sweeping willow trees, wisteria vines, and an infamous waterlily pond.
This curated gardenscape would ultimately inspire some of the artist’s most infamous works in the second half of his career.
Claude Monet | Deux femmes en barque, 1887 | Christie's
Rudi Hurzlmeier, 1952 | Cartoonist / Illustrator
Rudi Hurzlmeier (born in Mallersdorf Abbey, in Bavaria) is a German cartoonist, painter and author.
Hurzlmeier has been dedicated to comic art since the early eighties.
His works have also been acclaimed by classical art critics.
In 2010 he was awarded the German Caricature Prize in Dresden, the most important award for cartoonists in Germany.
Giovanni Segantini | The Two Mothers / Le due madri, 1889
"The Two Mothers" is an 1889 oil painting by Giovanni Segantini (Italian painter, 1858-1899).
This work is a product of the Divisionist technique and measuring 301x162.5 cm.
It is part of the collection of the GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Milan.
Presented at the inaugural Milan Triennale in 1891, alongside "Maternità" (Maternity) by Gaetano Previati (1858-1899), "Le due madri" is one of Segantini's most celebrated and talked-about works, and affirmed the revolutionary new technique known as Divisionism.
Giovanni Segantini | Le due madri, 1889 | olio su tela; 301x162.5 cm | GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milano
Pierre-Édouard Frère | Genre painter
Pierre Édouard Frère (1819-1886), was a French genre painter.
Frère studied under Paul Delaroche, entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1836 and exhibited first at the Salon in 1843.
Among his chief works are the two paintings, Going to School and Coming from School, The Little Glutton (his first exhibited picture) and L'Exercice (in the 19th century this work was in John Jacob Astor's collection).
Gaetano Previati | Maternity, 1890-1891 | From Scandal to Masterpiece
The "Maternity" is a monumental painting in which the Italian symbolist painter Gaetano Previati (1852-1920) interpreted the theme of Christian tradition in a secular way.
The painting was completed between 1890 and 1891 resides at the GAM - Gallery of Modern Art in Milan.
The "Maternity" has a complex and tormented genesis, not only due to the difficulties connected with the unconventional interpretation of a great theme, but also because of the high costs of making a painting of monumental dimensions (177 x 411 cm) .
A fundamental work, the painting represents a turning point in Previati's career and a manifesto of the new divisionist painting.
Gaetano Previati | Maternità, 1890-1891 | GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano
Tito Corbella (1885-1966)
Tito Corbella (Pontremoli, 1885 - Rome, 1966) was an Italian painter and postcard designer.
Tito Corbella first studied chemistry at the University of Padua.
However, he changed fields and continued his studies at the Academy of Visual Arts in Venice, where he was a pupil of Guglielmo Ciardi and Ettore Tito.
After his training, he began a career as an illustrator.
In early 1912, he focused more on portraits of women and lovers.
Helen Keller: "Tieni il viso rivolto al sole e non vedrai mai le ombre"
Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968) è stata una scrittrice ed accademica Americana, che, pur essendo sorda e cieca, si è fatta paladina della causa dei ciechi, dei sordi e dei muti in tutto il mondo.
Figlia di un direttore di giornale, Helen Keller contrasse la scarlattina all'età di diciannove mesi, che la lasciò cieca e sorda.
Quindi comunicò principalmente usando cartelli domestici fino all'età di sette anni, quando incontrò la sua prima insegnante Anne Sullivan (1866-1936), parzialmente cieca, avendo contratto il tracoma all'età di cinque anni ed ampiamente riconosciuta per i suoi successi nell'istruire ad alto livello una persona priva di vista, udito e linguaggio normale.
Sullivan, che si assunse l'oneroso e spesso frustrante compito di insegnare a Keller l'alfabeto manuale, tamburellando sul palmo della mano e come leggere le labbra appoggiando il pollice e l'indice sul viso di chi parlava, insegnò a Keller il linguaggio, inclusa la lettura e la scrittura.
Dopo un'istruzione sia presso scuole specialistiche che tradizionali, Keller frequentò il Radcliffe College dell'Università di Harvard e divenne la prima persona sordocieca negli Stati Uniti a conseguire una laurea in arti.
Helen Keller
Jane Crowther, 1962
Originally from York (UK), Jane Crowther studied Illustration BA(Hons) at Kingston Polytechnic.
In the early 1990’s, whilst based in North London, Jane designed a small range of greeting cards to supplement her meagre income as an artist, initially selling them at craft fairs alongside her large multi-media paintings.
The cards started to sell really well and Jane made the commercial decision to concentrate on her card designs.
Alex Gross, 1968 | Pop surrealism painter
Alex Gross lives in Portland, Oregon. In 1990, he received a BFA with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Since then, he has had ten solo exhibitions at various galleries, and participated in dozens of museum and gallery exhibitions across the globe.
His 2017 exhibition with Corey Helford Gallery was his most recent solo exhibition.
In the summer of 2007, Alex's first retrospective museum show was held at the Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, California.
Joseph Lorusso, 1966 | Il pittore romantico
Di origini italiane, Joseph Lorusso è stato esposto all'arte in tenera età.
Attraverso diversi viaggi iniziali in Italia, i suoi genitori lo hanno introdotto alle opere dei maestri italiani.
Lorusso avrebbe guardato a queste influenze durante il suo primo sviluppo artistico e sono ancora evidenti nel suo lavoro odierno.
Durante gli anni della scuola, Lorusso si è specializzato in acquerelli e si considera un autodidatta come pittore ad olio.
Eva Melhuish | Scandinavian Christmas cards
Eva Melhuish is an illustrator who has been published across Europe, the USA and has worked on global projects with UNICEF.
With a Swedish mother and English father, Eva is bi-lingual and has travelled extensively.
Her work reflects this diverse background and she illustrates a wide range of subjects, from natural history and horses to gardening and educational books.
Eva grew up in Sweden and her Scandinavian roots are a key influence.
Ed Wheeler | Santa Classic
In a series of self-portraits dressed as Santa Claus, Philadelphia-based artist Ed Wheeler, photographer, incorporates himself in classical paintings from Botticelli to Caravaggio to Monet.
In so doing he transforms the masterworks of art history from the Renaissance to the Surrealists. Santa Classics, his derivative art series, is based on a digital photography process.
Wheeler’s goal is to pay homage to the original paintings while offering art lovers an additional reason to smile.
Francesco Hayez | The Kiss, 1859 | Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Molly Brett | Writer / Children's book illustrator
Molly Brett (1902–1990) was an English illustrator and writer of children's literature, best known for her anthropomorphic artwork.
Molly (Mary Elizabeth) Brett grew up in the English county of Surrey, surrounded by animals and nature.
Her mother, Mary Gould Brett, was a respected animal painter who encouraged her daughter to paint from life, and this is reflected in Molly's gift for making her animals look thoroughly naturalistic while giving them human characteristics and activities.
Emily Dickinson | L’erba ha così poche occupazioni / The Grass so little has to do
L’erba ha così poche occupazioni -
un mondo di semplice verde
con solo farfalle su cui meditare
e api da ospitare -
non ha da fare altro che cullarsi
tutto il giorno ai suoni melodiosi
che le brezze portano leggere -
e accogliere in grembo la luce -
Camille Pissarro | Gardeuse de vaches, Eragny | Christie's
Bertolt Brecht | Of all the works of man / Tra tutte le opere
Of all the works of man I like best
Those which have been used.
The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges
The knives and forks whose wooden handles
Have been worn away by many hands: such forms
Seemed to me the noblest.
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) | Crouching Boy, 1524 | Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Johannes Vermeer died on this day, in 1675
Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) passed away on this day December 15th, 1675.
He was 43 years old.
Vermeer’s small oeuvre is remarkable.
It is estimated that Vermeer created around 40 to 50 paintings, which is not a big number compared to other master painters of the time.
For example, Rembrandt made around 300 paintings and Frans Hals around 200.
Wisława Szymborska / René Magritte | A Note / Una nota
Life is the only way
to get covered in leaves,
catch your breath on the sand,
rise on wings;
to be a dog,
or stroke its warm fur;
to tell pain
from everything it's not;
to squeeze inside events,
dawdle in views,
to seek the least of all possible mistakes.
An extraordinary chance
to remember for a moment
a conversation held
with the lamp switched off;
and if only once
to stumble upon a stone,
end up soaked in one downpour or another,
mislay your keys in the grass;
and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes;
and to keep on not knowing
something important.
Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012)
René Magritte | L'Utopie, 1945 | Cleveland Museum of Art
Wisława Szymborska | Una nota
La vita - è il solo modo
per coprirsi di foglie,
prendere fiato sulla sabbia,
sollevarsi sulle ali;
essere un cane,
o carezzarlo sul suo pelo caldo;
distinguere il dolore
da tutto ciò che dolore non è;
stare dentro gli eventi,
dileguarsi nelle vedute,
cercare il più piccolo errore.
Un’occasione eccezionale
per ricordare per un attimo
di che si è parlato
a luce spenta;
e almeno per una volta
inciampare in una pietra,
bagnarsi in qualche pioggia,
perdere le chiavi tra l’erba;
e seguire con gli occhi una scintilla
nel vento;
e persistere nel non sapere
qualcosa d’importante.
Vincent van Gogh | Two peasant women digging in field with snow, 1890
Van Gogh was fascinated with the labour and life of peasants, as expressed in art and literature.
In his paintings and drawings, he prominently featured working men and women.
He believed that to truly capture ‘the heart of the people’, an artist must immerse himself in their world.
He saw labourers as simple, kind-hearted and courageous people, often holding them in higher regard than those he termed "civilized".
Vincent van Gogh | Two peasant women digging in field with snow, 1890 | Kunsthaus Zürich
Happy 194th Birthday, Emily Dickinson!
American poet Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886) was born 194 years ago, in 1830.
Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry.
Despite Dickinson's prolific writing, only ten poems and a letter were published during her lifetime.
After her younger sister Lavinia discovered the collection of nearly 1,800 poems, Dickinson's first volume was published four years after her death.
Bronze sculpture of Emily Dickinson by Jane DeDecker
Giovanni Segantini | L’angelo della vita (Dea cristiana), 1894
The Angel of Life (Christian Goddess) was commissioned in 1891 or shortly before by the banker Leopoldo Albini, together with the Pagan Goddess, now exhibited alongside it.
The two works were intended to form a diptych on the theme of women, a mystical mother in the case of the painting considered here, a worldly and lustful vision in the other.
The two figures are portraits of the family nanny, Baba, and of her son Gottardo (painted from memory, since he must have been twelve years old at the time).
Giovanni Segantini | L’angelo della vita (Dea cristiana), 1894 (detaglio) | GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milano
Spinario (Boy pulling a thorn from his foot)
Boy with Thorn, also called Fedele (Fedelino) or Spinario, is a Greco-Roman Hellenistic bronze sculpture of a boy withdrawing a thorn from the sole of his foot, now in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome.
There is a Roman marble version of this subject from the Medici collections in a corridor of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
The sculpture was one of the very few Roman bronzes that was never lost to sight.
The work was standing outside the Lateran Palace when the Navarrese rabbi Benjamin of Tudela saw it in the 1160s and identified it as Absalom, who "was without blemish from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head".
Lo Spinario | Palazzo dei Conservatori, Musei Capitolini
Mahmoud Darwish | Un altro giorno verrà / Another day will come
Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) è stato un poeta, scrittore e giornalista Palestinese.
È autore di circa venti raccolte di poesie, pubblicate a partire dal 1964, e sette opere in prosa, di argomento narrativo o saggistico.
È considerato tra i maggiori poeti in lingua araba.
Darwish ha vinto numerosi premi per le sue opere.
È stato giornalista e direttore della rivista letteraria "al-Karmel" (Il Carmelo), e dal 1994 era membro del Parlamento dell'Autorità Nazionale Palestinese.
È considerato poeta nazionale della Palestina per cui scrisse nel 1988 la Dichiarazione d'indipendenza, poi proclamata da Yasser Arafat.
I suoi libri sono stati tradotti in più di venti lingue e diffusi in tutto il mondo.
Mahmoud Darwish | Un altro giorno verrà
Shamsia Hassani | Hope is always beautiful even when you know you are the loser
Un altro giorno verrà, un giorno femmineo,
alla metafora trasparente,
compiuto, diamantino, di visita nuziale, soleggiato,
fluido, allegro. Nessuno sentirà
alcun bisogno di suicidio o di migrazione.
Poiché ogni cosa, fuori del passato, è naturale e vera,
sinonimo dei suoi attributi originari.
Come se il tempo oziasse in vacanza… "Prolunga il bel
tempo
della tua grazia. Illùminati nel sole dei tuoi seni di seta,
e aspetta l’arrivo della buona novella. Poi,
potremo crescere. Abbiamo ancora tempo
per crescere dopo questo giorno…"
Un altro giorno verrà,
un giorno femmineo,
dal cenno canterino e dal saluto e verbo azzurri.
Tutto è femmineo fuori del passato,
l’acqua scorre dalle mammelle della pietra.
Nessuna polvere, nessuna siccità, e nessuna sconfitta.
E le colombe dormono in un carro armato abbandonato
quando non trovano un piccolo nido
nel letto degli amanti.
Mahmoud Darwish | Another day will come
Another day will come, a womanly day
diaphanous in metaphor, complete in being,
diamond and processional in visitation, sunny,
flexible, with a light shadow. No one will feel
a desire for suicide or for leaving. All
things, outside the past, natural and real,
will be synonyms of their early traits. As if time
is slumbering on vacation…"
Shamsia Hassani | Love
"Extend your lovely
beauty-time. Sunbathe in the sun of your silken breasts,
and wait until good omen arrives. Later
we will grow older. We have enough time
to grow older after this day…"/
Another day will come, a womanly day
songlike in gesture, lapis in greeting
and in phrase. All things will be feminine outside
the past. Water will flow from rock's bosom.
No dust, no drought, no defeat.
And a dove will sleep in the afternoon in an abandoned
combat tank if it doesn't find a small nest
in the lovers' bed…
Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) was a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as Palestine's national poet.
In 1988, Darwish wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, which was the formal declaration for the creation of a State of Palestine.
Darwish won numerous awards for his works.
In his poetic works, Darwish explored Palestine as a metaphor for the loss of Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of dispossession and exile.
He has been described as incarnating and reflecting "the tradition of the political poet in Islam, the man of action whose action is poetry".
He also served as an editor for several literary magazines in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Darwish wrote in Arabic, and also spoke English, French and Hebrew.
Book sculptures by Jodi Harvey-Brown
- "I have always loved art, and I have always loved to read.
Books pull you into a new world, while art lets you see it.
It made sense to me that these two mediums should come together.
The books that we love to read should be made to come to life.
Characters, that we care so much for, should come out of the pages to show us their stories.
What we see in our imaginations as we read should be there for the world to see.
My book sculptures are my way of making stories come alive" - Jodi Harvey-Brown.
7 masterpieces at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Frederick Carl Frieseke | The House in Giverny, 1912
When Frieseke first settled at Giverny in 1906, he stayed at Le Hameau (the hamlet) on the rue du Pressoir.
The two-story cottage surrounded by high walls on three sides enclosing a garden was next door to the home of Claude Monet and had previously been occupied by the American artist Lilla Cabot Perry.
The house shown in The House in Giverny, however, is most likely the Whitman house, the second of Frieseke's three Giverny residences.
Its green shutters and the distinctive open lattice-work of green trellises laden with flowers appear in a number of Frieseke's paintings, including Lilies, Tea Time in a Giverny Garden (both Daniel J. Terra Collection) and Hollyhocks, c. 1912-1913 (Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection).
The intimacy of Frieseke's small painting and his interest in decorative pattern links the artist more closely with the Nabi painters Vuillard and Bonnard than to his neighbour Monet or with Renoir, the French Impressionist he most admired.
The artist stated his creed published in a 1914 interview: "My one idea is to reproduce flowers in sunlight.
I do not suggest detail by form, as I have to keep it as pure as possible or the effect of brilliancy will be lost.
Of course, there is a limit to the strength of pigments, and one can but relatively give the impression of nature. I may see a glare of white light at noon, but I cannot render it literally [...]
I usually make my first notes and impressions with dashes of tempera, then I paint over this with small strokes in oil to produce the effect of vibration, completing as I go". | Source: © Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Frederick Carl Frieseke (American, 1874-1939) | The House in Giverny, 1912 | Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Enoch Wood Perry | A Month’s darning, 1876
In their subject matter and compositional format, Enoch Wood Perry’s watercolor paintings are quite similar to his oils, and his method of applying paint was consistently characterized by fastidious attention to detail.
Like his colleague Eastman Johnson, Enoch Wood Perry (1831-1915) studied in Düsseldorf and Paris, where he acquired a respect for careful draftsmanship.
He exhibited "A Month’s Darning" in 1876 at the American Society of Painters in Water Colors and later the same year at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, where it was acclaimed for its evocation of times past.
The critic for the "New-York Tribune" found the woman’s head to be "the best part" of the composition and only regretted "that the sweet-faced girl . . . should have such large-footed men-folks to darn for". | Source: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Enoch Wood Perry | A Month’s Darning, 1876 | Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cindy Hendrick | Watercolor illustrator
A love of gardening, nature and woodland animals inspire Hendrick’s artwork.
Spending time in her surroundings, she observes these friends of the forest and field and their quirky behaviors.
The small company Hendrick started from her home in 2004, Woodfield Press has grown from humble beginnings with a handful of notecards and a couple of paper doll kits to a business with products in up to 450 stores throughout the US and the ability to print 40,000 cards at a time.
Camille Pissarro at the Christie's
Camille Pissarro | Paysannes travaillant dans les champs, Pontoise, 1881
In Paysannes travaillant dans les champs, Pontoise, painted in 1881, Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) depicts a group of five young women harvesting peas on the rural outskirts of Pontoise, a bustling market town about forty kilometers northwest of Paris where he and his family had lived for over a decade.
Pissarro had first treated the theme of picking peas in two oils the previous year, and he returned to the motif at least three times following his move to the agrarian hamlet of Éragny in 1884.
Camille Pissarro | Paysannes travaillant dans les champs, Pontoise, 1881 | Christie's
Happy birthday to Théo van Rysselberghe, born on this day in 1862
Happy birthday to Théophile "Théo" van Rysselberghe (23 November 1862 - 13 December 1926), a Belgian neo-impressionist painter, who played a pivotal role in the European art scene at the turn of the twentieth century.
Van Rysselberghe discovered the pointillist technique when he saw Georges Seurat's La Grande Jatte at the eighth impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1886.
Together with Henry Van de Velde, Georges Lemmen, Xavier Mellery, Willy Schlobach and Alfred William Finch and Anna Boch he "imported" this style to Belgium.
Metropolitan Museum of Art | Storia del Museo
Le prime radici del Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) risalgono al 1866 a Parigi, Francia, quando un gruppo di americani decise di creare una "istituzione nazionale e galleria d'arte" per portare l'arte e l'educazione artistica al popolo americano.
L'avvocato John Jay, che propose l'idea, portò avanti rapidamente il progetto al suo ritorno negli Stati Uniti dalla Francia.
Sotto la presidenza di Jay, l'Union League Club di New York radunò leader civici, uomini d'affari, artisti, collezionisti d'arte e filantropi alla causa.
Alaa Awad, 1981 | Neo-pharaonic style art
Dr. Alaa Awad is an Egyptian painter and muralist, known for his public murals in Cairo and Luxor, Egypt.
Inspired by ancient Egyptian heritage and contemporary society, some of Awad’s most popular work includes scenes of celebration, victory, Sufism, Egyptian social life and culture.
Currently, he serves as an assistant lecturer and PhD candidate at South Valley University (SVU), Faculty of Fine Arts.
His PhD working dissertation title is, "Artistic Vision Inspired by the Murals of War and Peace in Ancient Egyptian Art" and will be released in 2019.
Balbusso Twins, le gemelle dell'illustrazione
Anna ed Elena Balbusso, gemelle, vivono e lavorano a Milano.
Diplomate in pittura all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, dal 1994 operano come illustratrici freelance per la pubblicità e l’editoria sia in Italia che all’estero.
Dal 1998 illustrano libri per ragazzi e copertine con varie case editrici.
Dal 2003 lavorano con testate francesi nell’ambito della comunicazione e dei magazine.
Nel 2006 hanno iniziato nuove collaborazioni nell’editoria per ragazzi in Francia ed in Corea del Sud.
Charles Dickens: "Love is not a feeling to pass away"
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.
He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius.
His novels and short stories are widely read today.
Charles Dickens | Love is not a feeling to pass away
Love is not a feeling to pass away,
Like the balmy breath of a summer day;
It is not - it cannot be - laid aside;
It is not a thing to forget or hide.
William Powell Frith | The Two Central Figures in "Derby Day" | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Happy birthday to Édouard Vuillard, born on this day, in 1868
Happy birthday to French Post-impressionist and Nabis painter Edouard Vuillard, born on this day in November 11, 1868.
From 1891 through 1900, Vuillard was a prominent member of the avant garde artistic group Les Nabis, creating paintings that assembled areas of pure color.
His interior scenes, influenced by Japanese prints, explored the spatial effects of flattened planes of color, pattern, and form.
The Prado Mona Lisa, 1507-1516
This version of the Mona Lisa (Louvre) was painted by one of Leonardo’s pupils.
The fact that each pentimento, or change, in Leonardo’s original (to the bust, outline of the veil and position of the fingers) is repeated here suggests that the two works were created simultaneously.
There are also differences with respect to the original, in the unfinished landscape and on the face.
Overall, the panel seems to reflect an intermediate stage in the creation of the Louvre painting.
Prado Mona Lisa, 1503-1516 | Museo Nacional del Prado
Chiaki Okada | Children's book illustrator
Chiaki Okada / 岡田 千晶 is an illustrator and author of children’s books from Osaka, Japan.
Her gentle, calming artwork was selected at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 2010 and she has since illustrated books by authors from around the world.
Her first picture book published in English, For All the Stars Across the Sky, was released in 2019. She lives in Japan.
Konstantinos Kavafis | Itaca / Ithaca / Ιθάκη, 1911
"Ithaca" /Ιθάκη è una poesia del poeta greco Konstantinos Kavafis, comunemente considerata la sua opera più popolare.
Fu pubblicata per la prima volta sulla rivista Grammata (Γράμματα, "lettere") della Alessandria. Basata sul viaggio di ritorno di Ulisse nell'Odissea di Omero, la poesia è intitolata all'isola omonima di Itaca.
Una prima versione della poesia, intitolata "Una seconda Odissea" fu scritta nel 1894.
Ithaca ottenne un pubblico globale dopo la sua lettura del 1994 al funerale dell'ex first lady degli Stati Uniti, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Se ti metti in viaggio per Itaca
augurati che sia lunga la via,
piena di conoscenze e d’avventure.
Shamsia Hassani, 1988 | Afghanistan's First Female Street Artist
"I want to colour over the bad memories of war on the walls, and if I colour over these bad memories, then I erase [war] from people's minds.
I want to make Afghanistan famous for its art, not its war" - Shamsia Hassani.
Afghan artist Shamsia Hassani risks all to bring color to war-torn Kabul with her street art and murals.
Born April 1988, she is the first female graffiti artist of Afghanistan.
Through her artworks, Shamsia portrays Afghan women in a male dominant society.
Robert Frost | La mia Ospite di Novembre / My November Guest
Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963) è stato un poeta e drammaturgo Statunitense, considerato tra i maggiori intellettuali del Novecento.
Frost è considerato uno dei più influenti e popolari poeti della storia statunitense; vincitore di quattro Premi Pulitzer e premiato con numerosi altri riconoscimenti, le sue raffigurazioni realistiche della vita rurale e la sua padronanza del discorso colloquiale americano lo resero il poeta più di successo del suo tempo.
Quando lei, mio Dolore, è qui con me,
pensa che questi giorni melanconici
e piovosi d’autunno sono splendidi
come possono i giorni essere; ama
la nuda pianta che appassisce, e va
sull’umido sentiero in mezzo all’erba.
Lawton Silas Parker | Autumn Sunlight
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