Peder Mørk Mønsted | Paesaggi invernali

Si ritiene che ci siano ben 18.000 i dipinti che il danese Peder Mørk Mønsted (1859-1941) abbia realizzato durante la sua lunga carriera.

I suoi motivi preferiti includono paesaggi invernali innevati, acque ferme e foreste.

Il suo lavoro presenta spesso scene di fitta foresta e vita rurale danese rese con un alto livello di precisione, creando una visione romantica e poetica della natura. Mønsted divenne rapidamente noto per la sua capacità di rappresentare la grandezza e l'aspetto monumentale del paesaggio, con un occhio per i dettagli ed i colori accurati.

I suoi studi approfonditi di diverse tecniche artistiche gli hanno permesso di mescolare il naturalismo accademico con un approccio quasi fotorealistico a soggetti familiari.

Peder Mørk Mønsted nasce il 10 dicembre 1859 vicino a Grenaa, in Danimarca. Iniziò la sua formazione artistica ad Aarhus prima di recarsi a Copenaghen per studiare all'Accademia di Copenaghen dal 1875-1879.

Konstantin Razumov, 1974 | L'Impressionista Romantico

Konstantin Razumov / Константин Разумов è un pittore Russo nato a Mosca. Ha studiato alla Ilya Glazunov Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, dove si è specializzato in pittura storica, ottenendo un grande successo.

Un artista giovane e talentuoso, influenzato da stili diversi combinati magistralmente in un mix che comprende realismo ed impressionismo.

Al centro del suo universo la bellezza, l'eleganza della donna, figura ritratta con grande realismo ma vestita di abiti e circondata da oggetti dipinti con le tipiche pennellate impressioniste.

Pedro Salinas | Perdonami / Forgive me

Perdonami se ti cerco così

goffamente, dentro di te.

Perdonami il dolore, qualche volta.

Quello che non vedesti e che io vedo,

immerso nel tuo fondo, preziosissimo.

Maria Amaral

Emily Dickinson | Fammi un ritratto del sole!

Fammi un ritratto del sole

così che io possa appenderlo in camera mia

e possa fingere di scaldarmi

mentre gli altri lo chiamano "Giorno"!

Disegnami un pettirosso su un ramo

così che io possa ascoltarlo e sognare

Pauline Palmer | Woman in a Garden, 1910

George Underwood, 1947

Imagination is the key word in George Underwood's paintings. George Underwood joined Beckenham Art School in 1963.

At art school George Underwood became more and more interested in music. As a result he pursued a career in the music world. Along with life long friend David Bowie he made one record (The King Bees) and also a solo record under the name Calvin James.

After deciding that the music business was not for him, George returned to art studies and then worked in design studios as an illustrator. Initially he specialised in fantasy, horror and science fiction book covers.

Many of George Underwood's colleagues in the music business asked him to do various art works for them. This led to George becoming a freelance artist. Art work for the first T Rex album and later David Bowie's Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust album covers established him as a leading and creative art illustrator.

Robert Brackman (1898-1980)

Robert Brackman was an American artist and teacher, best known for large figural works, portraits, and still lifes.

Robert Brackman was born on September 25, 1898, in Odessa, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine). He immigrated to the United States in 1908 or 1910.

Brackman studied at the National Academy of Design from 1919-1921, and the Ferrer School in San Francisco.

From 1931, he had a long career teaching at the Art Students League of New York where he was a life member.

He also taught at the American Art School in New York City, the Brooklyn Museum School, the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, and the Madison Art School in Connecticut.

Giovanni Battista Crema | Divisionist painter

Italian painter Giovanni Battista Crema (1883–1964) was born in Ferrara on April 13th. Son of a lawyer, Carlo Crema, and Maria Cottica, already as a child he showed an out of the ordinary ability in drawing, so much so as to convince his parents to introduce him to the rudiments of painting with Angelo Longanesi Cattani, appreciated portraitist of the local high society, before entering academic studies.

A cultured, curious and enthusiastic man and artist, he enters the world of contemporary art at a very young age, even if the advance of the avant-gardes, to which he looks with skepticism, convinces him to isolate himself more and more and to undertake a completely solitary search.

After completing his training in Naples, with Domenico Morelli and Bologna, with Domenico Ferri, Giovanni Battista Crema arrived in Rome in 1903.

And it is in the Eternal City that, attending Giacomo Balla, he is seduced by the novelties of Divisionism, to which he will remain faithful in the decades to follow.