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.

Salvatore Quasimodo | Alleyway / Vicolo

Sometimes your voice calls to me,

and I do not know what skies

or waters you wake me to:

A net of sunlight that glazes

your walls that at evening were

a swaying of late lanterns

in the workshops filled

with the breeze and sadness.

Telemaco Signorini (1835-1901)| Il ghetto di Firenze, 1892

Josef Kinzel (1852-1925) | Genre painter

Josef Kinzel, father of the painter Elise Kinzel, was born on in Lobenstein in Silesia and died in the Wachau (Austria).

The genre🎨, landscape and portrait painter studied at first under Eduard Engerth, Carl von Blaas, Carl Wurzinger, August Eisenmenger and Christian Griepenkerl at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.

Pablo Neruda: Never Blame Anyone / Non incolpare nessuno!

Sarolta Ban (Hungarian artist, 1982)

Never complain about anyone, nor anything,

because basically you have done

what you wanted in your life.

Accept the difficulty of improving yourself

and the courage to start changing yourself.

The triumph of the true man emerges from

the ashes of his mistake.

Non incolpare nessuno,

non lamentarti mai di nessuno, di niente,

perché in fondo

Tu hai fatto quello che volevi nella vita.

Accetta la difficoltà di costruire te stesso

ed il valore di cominciare a correggerti.

Il trionfo del vero uomo

proviene delle ceneri del suo errore.

Timothy Easton, 1943 | Impressionist painter

Timothy Nigel Dendy Easton, was born in Tadworth, Surrey, son of Dendy Bryan Easton, and his wife Iris Joan née Keyser, his brother was Dendy Peter Easton, a fine art consultant at Bonham's and Sotheby's.

Encouraged by his father's passion for collecting paintings and his own keen interest in drawing, Easton decided he wished to become an artist.

Anna Richards Brewster | Impressionist painter

American painter Anna Richards Brewster (1870-1952) was among the most successful international women artists of her time, yet her name has largely been forgotten.

Recent decades have seen a slight revival of interest in her work, including a solo exhibition at the Newport Art Museum in 1985, and a major solo exhibition in 2008 which traveled between the Hudson River Museum, Butler Institute of American Art and the Fresno Metropolitan Museum.

Edgar Lee Masters | Silence / Il silenzio

Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist.

He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness, An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man and Illinois Poems.

In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay and Walt Whitman.

Lucien Lévy Dhurmer (French Art Nouveau painter, 1865-1953) | Le Silence, 1895 | Musée d’Orsay, Paris