I paesaggi emotivi di Isaac Levitan

Isaak Il'ič Levitan / Исаак Ильич Левитан (1860-1900) è stato un pittore, docente e paesaggista Russo.

È considerato il più importante paesaggista russo del XIX secolo.

Figura emblematica dei Peredvizhniki (I Vagabondi), fu pioniere del genere "Paesaggio dell'umore" ("paesaggio emotivo" / "paesaggio dello stato d'animo" / "mood landscape"), catturando non solo scene di natura ma anche le emozioni sottili legate alla stagione, alla luce ed alla solitudine.

Morì prematuramente a soli 39 anni a causa di una malattia cardiaca.

Rainer Maria Rilke | Do not be afraid, it’s me / Non aver paura, sono io..

Do not be afraid, it’s me.

You do not feel that I infringe on you,

with all your senses?

He put wings, my heart,

and now, white flies around your face.

Do not you see my soul before you,

adorned with silence?

Jean-Claude Campana, 1941 | It's Carnival time

Jean-Claude Campana is an French painter, who has been painting for more than thirty years, started his career by exhibiting together with Baboulène, Buffet, Hilaire, Brayer...

The approach of these Masters encourages the talent of Campana, who already in his youth, builds up a strong character.

Strengthened by his expérience in surrealism, symbolism and realism, Jean-Claude Campana has been devoted to Venice since about a fifteen years, in a very personal style.

Agnes Slott-Møller | Symbolist painter

Agnes Slott-Møller, born Rambusch (10 June, 1862, in Nyboder - June 11, 1937 in Løgismose) was the daughter of the later commander in the Navy Jacob Heinrich Victor Rambusch (1825-1886) and his wife Constantine Juliane born Hansen (1834-1891).

She was a Danish painter and sculptor who was influenced by Italian art before the Renaissance, British Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts Movement in his image and style.

Alphonse Osbert | Symbolist / Pointillist painter

Alphonse Osbert (23 March 1857 - 11 August 1939) was a French Symbolist painter.

Educated at the École des Beaux-Arts, his earliest passion was for the great Spanish masters, particularly Jusepe de Ribera. A shift away from his academic style took place in the late 1880s under the influence of several acquaintances associated with Post-Impressionism* and Symbolism*.

Paul Cézanne | The Four Seasons, 1860

between 1860 and 1862, French painter Paul Cézanne, still a student at the law faculty in Aix, started out as a painter by decorating the walls of the main drawing room at Jas de Bouffan, based on the allegorical theme of The Four Seasons (Les Quatre Saisons).

He was twenty when his father bought this estate near Aix-en-Provence.

Paul Cézanne | Spring, 1861

Henri Manguin | Il pittore Fauve

Henri Manguin (1874-1949) è stato un importante pittore Francese, figura centrale del movimento dei Fauves.

Soprannominato "il pittore voluttuoso" per la sua capacità di celebrare la gioia di vivere attraverso colori caldi e luminosi, Manguin si distinse per uno stile che, pur essendo audace, mantenne sempre un equilibrio armonioso rispetto all'espressività più aggressiva di altri esponenti del gruppo.

Manguin entrò nell'École des Beaux-Arts per studiare sotto Gustave Moreau, così come Henri Matisse e Charles Camoin con cui divenne amico intimo.

Mimosa paintings

• "After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world".

• "Dopo le donne, i fiori sono la cosa più bella che Dio ha dato al mondo".

- Christian Dior

William-Adolphe Bouguereau | The Mimosa Flower, 1899

18th century Art History / Sitemap

18th-century Art was a period of dramatic shifts, evolving from the ornate and playful Rococo style to the serious, structured ideals of Neoclassicism, and finally giving way to the emotional depth of early Romanticism.

This century's art was deeply shaped by the Enlightenment, a renewed passion for classical antiquity following the discovery of Pompeii, and the political upheavals of the American and French Revolutions.