William R. Leigh (1866-1955) | Western scenes painter

William Robinson Leigh was an American🎨 artist and illustrator, who was known for his painted Western scenes. William Robinson Leigh was born at Maidstone Manor Farm, Berkeley County, West Virginia.

He entered the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts (now known as Maryland Institute College of Art) at age 14, then attended the Royal Academy in Munich.

Edward B. Gordon, 1966 | Figurative painter

Edward B. Gordon is a German painter🎨 who specializes in impressionist portraits.

An observer, a chronicler of moments, Edward B. Gordon is a passionate portraitist of modern daily life who splits his time between London and Berlin.

His works use muted, delicate hues and soft brushstrokes to create emotive depictions of his subjects.

Charles Baudelaire / Roberto Ferri | Tristezze della luna

This evening the Moon dreams more languidly,

Like a beauty who on many cushions rests,

And with her light hand fondles lingeringly,

Before she sleeps, the slope of her sweet breasts.

Roberto Ferri | Tristezze della luna

Edward Gordon, 1940 | Interior painter

Edward Gordon was born in Ocean City, New Jersey and received a BA from Rutgers University.

Over the past ten years Edward has received numerous honors and awards🎨 including: Cover and Center Spread, Yankee Magazine, March 2000; The Artists Magazine, May 1995; Cover Competition, First Prize, Landscape Division, The Artists Magazine; Finalist in the 1994 Arts for the Parks Competition

Marc Chagall | Le vetrate

Uno dei maggiori contributi di Chagall all'arte è stato il suo lavoro con le vetrate.

Questo mezzo gli ha permesso di esprimere ulteriormente il suo desiderio di creare colori intensi e freschi e ha avuto il vantaggio aggiuntivo della luce naturale e della rifrazione che interagiscono e cambiano costantemente: tutto, dalla posizione in cui si trova lo spettatore al tempo esterno, altera l'effetto visivo (sebbene questo non è il caso delle sue finestre Hadassah).

Fu solo nel 1956, quando aveva quasi 70 anni, che disegnò le finestre per la chiesa di Assy, il suo primo grande progetto.

Famose in tutto il mondo, le magnifiche fiabesche vetrate policrome, della misura di metri 4 per 2,8 circa, sono state realizzate dal grande artista in due anni di lavoro, tra il 1960-1961.

La prima vetrata fu montata nel 1967, mentre le ultime vennero installate nel 1985, lo stesso anno in cui Chagall morì all'età di 98 anni. Si trovano nella sinagoga del centro medico universitario Hadassah di Gerusalemme e nell'atrio aperto al pubblico del Palazzo delle Nazioni Unite ONU a New York, NY, Stati Uniti d'America.

Cesare Pavese | Agony / Agonia, 1933

Frantz Charlet (Belgian Impressionist painter, 1862-1928) | A promenade in Vonaco

I’ll wander the streets till I’m dead tired,

I’ll learn to live alone and look each passing face

straight in the eye and still be what I am.

This coolness ascending in me, searching through my veins,

is an awakening each morning that I’ve never felt

so real -except that I feel stronger

than my body, and a colder shiver comes each morning now.

The mornings I had at twenty are now far: away.

And tomorrow, twenty-one: tomorrow I’ll go out in tile

streets -

I remember every stone, and the layers of the sky.

Italico Brass (1870-1943)

Italico Brass was an Italian painter🎨 and set designer, of irredentist political trends. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich under the landscape painter Karl Raupp (1837-1918).

In 1888 he moved to Paris, which had become the world’s contemporary art capital and a destination of choice for many Italian artists.

There he married a Russian woman called Lina Rebecca Vidgoff.

The couple settled permanently in Venice in 1895.