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Hjalmar Munsterhjelm | Pittore Romantico

Magnus Hjalmar Munsterhjelm (1840-1905) è stato un paesaggista Finlandese.

Biografia

Munsterhjelm è nato a Toivoniemi Manor di Tuulos, in Finlandia.
Era il figlio di Gustaf Riggert Munsterhjelm (1806-1872) e sua moglie e Mathilda Charlotta Eleonora von Essen (1818-1895).
Suo padre lo mandò per la prima volta alla scuola marittima di Turku.


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Léon Cogniet | Strage degli innocenti, 1824

La "Strage degli innocenti", attualmente presso il Museo delle Belle Arti di Rennes, è il primo successo del pittore Francese Léon Cogniet (Parigi, 1794-1880), presentato al Salon di Parigi del 1824.
La "Strage degli innocenti" è un episodio presente nel Vangelo secondo Matteo (2,1-16), in cui Erode il Grande, re della Giudea, ordinò un massacro di bambini allo scopo di uccidere Gesù, della cui nascita a Betlemme era stato informato dai Magi.

Léon Cogniet | Strage degli innocenti, 1824 | Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes

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Ambrosius Benson | Pittore manierista

Ambrogio Benzone (1495-1550), od Ambrosius Benson in fiammingo, è stato un pittore Italiano, di origine lombarda, attivo a Bruges.
Si ignorano la data precisa e il luogo della nascita, che si ipotizza sia avvenuta nei dintorni di Milano, per via del nome Ambrogio. Dovette trasferirsi piuttosto giovane a Bruges nelle Fiandre, proveniente dalla Lombardia.


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Vincent van Gogh | Garden of the Asylum, 1889


This painting shows the garden of the clinic in Saint-Rémy where Van Gogh spent a year. He worked there regularly when his illness meant he was not allowed to venture outside.

Van Gogh wrote to his friend Bernard about this painting:
You’ll understand that this combination of red ochre, of green saddened with grey, of black lines that define the outlines, this gives rise a little to the feeling of anxiety from which some of my companions in misfortune often suffer, and which is called "seeing red".
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Paul Gauguin: "Art is either plagiarism or revolution"


"Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams".
"Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction".
"Art is either plagiarism or revolution".
"Art = a mad search for individualism".
"There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover".

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Paul Gauguin: "I shut my eyes in order to see.."

  • Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
  • We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
  • Civilization is what makes you sick.
  • Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses
  • It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.


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    Anton Einsle | Portrait painter

    Anton Einsle (1801-1871), an Austrian ⎆ portrait painter, was born at Vienna in 1801.
    He studied at the Academy of that city, and was largely patronized by the court and nobility. He died in 1871.