Eugenio De Blaas

Eugene de Blaas also known as Eugenio De Blaas or Eugen von Blaas, was born on July 24th in the Italian village of Albano, near Rome in 1843, to Austrian parents. His career was enriched by a talented and artistic family. His father, Carl von Blaas (1815-1894), was one of the most notable portrait painters of Roman society, a successful history portrait and fresco painter of the late Biedermeier period. It was in Venice that Eugene de Blaas established himself as the leading painter of Venetian genre. Painter of portraits, women, nudes, balcony-and genre scenes, children in the Realist and Romanticism style. Native Italian artists like Antonio Paolettu, Antonio Rotta and Eugene de Blaas, as well as Englishmen such as Luke Fildes and William Logsdail depicted the lives of Venetian fisher folk, gondoliers and Venetian beauties. Eugene de Blaas died on the 10th Febuary in the Italian city of Venice in 1932.

As The Shadows Fall | Robert Coombs, 1970

Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Robert Coombs is a painter of female figures whose time-period is illusive in that they wear simple clothing that features the subject rather than the era in which it was worn. His interest in art began as a youngster, and his future as an artist was helped with his receipt of a scholarship to Utah State where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 2000.

Tamara De Lempicka 1898-1980 | Art Déco | VideoArt

"...I live life
in the margins of society,
and the rules of normal society
don't apply to those
who live on the fringe".

Tamara De Lempicka 1898-1980 | Art Déco

"...I live life
in the margins of society,
and the rules of normal society
don't apply to those
who live on the fringe".

- Tamara De Lempicka, 1898-1980, born Maria Górska in Warsaw, in partitioned Poland, was a Polish Art Deco painter and "the first woman artist to be a glamour star".

Sol de la isla | Jose Royo 1941 ~ Spanish Impressionist painter

Jose Royo, is a modern master artist of impressionist painting. The sweeping brush strokes, bold swaths of color, and heavy impasto capture the eye and draws one inward until that final absolute moment of awareness that one is actually there in the scene feeling the light and heat of the sun, the salt and sea spray, and hearing the crashing surf. Royo conveys not merely image, but mood and atmosphere as well. This is rare in today's art world, hence the connoisseur is compelled to compare with the old masters. Thus, the appeal of Royo's work for today's collector becomes obvious. With pride we offer the art work of today's Spanish master painter, Royo, to the art connoisseurs of the world.

Andre Lucero | American Plein Air painter

Andre Lucero is an American painter whose work is primarily composed of plein air landscapes, still lifes and figurative paintings done from life. In combining the draftsmanship of the Academic School along with the color and brushwork of the impressionists, Andre’s work captures the drama of common places and objects as seen through his personal artistic vision. An avid hiker, fly fisherman, and gardener Andre believes that even the most simple of subjects can be elevated, taking on a meaning greater than their initial appearance.

La vita è come il cammino di un pellegrino.. | Vincent van Gogh ~ Le lettere

La corrispondenza tra Vincent van Gogh [1853-1890] ed il fratello minore, il mercante d'arte Theo van Gogh, rappresenta il testamento del pensiero di Van Gogh verso la vita, l'arte e la pittura. I fratelli si scambiarono tra il 1872-1890 centinaia di lettere: più di 600 da Vincent a Theo e 40 da Theo a Vincent.
Anche se molte di queste lettere non sono datate, gli storici dell'arte sono stati in grado di ordinarle cronologicamente. Il periodo in cui Vincent visse a Parigi è il più difficile da ricostruire per gli storici, poiché i due fratelli, vivendo insieme, non ebbero bisogno di scriversi.