Pierre-Auguste Renoir | La plage du Lavandou, 1894

La plage du Lavandou (private collection), is an oil painting on canvas made in 1894 by the French🎨 painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir🎨.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a visitor to Le Lavandou in 1894.
Le Lavandou is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.
It derives its name either from the flower lavender (lavanda in Provençal) that is prevalent in the area, or more prosaically from the local form of the Occitan name for lavoir, lavandor (for lavador, a public place for washing clothes).

Domenico Ghirlandaio | Renaissance painter

Domenico Ghirlandaio (2 June 1448 - 11 January 1494) was an Italian Renaissance painter🎨 born in Florence.

Ghirlandaio was part of the so-called "third generation" of the Florentine Renaissance, along with Verrocchio, the Pollaiolo brothers and Sandro Botticelli🎨.

Ghirlandaio led a large and efficient workshop that included his brothers Davide Ghirlandaio and Benedetto Ghirlandaio, his brother-in-law Bastiano Mainardi from San Gimignano, and later his son Ridolfo Ghirlandaio.

Odd Nerdrum, 1944 | Visionary / Baroque style painter | Part.²

Odd Nerdrum🎨 is a Swedish-born, Norwegian painter known for his dogged commitment to the traditional techniques of painters like Caravaggio🎨, Titian🎨 and Rembrandt🎨.

His paintings are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the de Young Museum in San Francisco and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.

Odd Nerdrum is born in April 8, 1944 in Helsingborg, Sweden.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Nerdrum see:

• Odd Nerdrum, 1944 | Visionary | Baroque style painter🎨

Carlo Fornara | Divisionist painter

Carlo Fornara (21 October 1871 - 15 September 1968) was an Italian neo-impressionist and divisionist painter🎨.

Born in Prestinone (Craveggia) into a humble family of Valle Vigezzo farmers in 1871, his talent emerged after he began attending courses in painting, drawing and ornamentation at the local Rossetti Valentini Art School in Santa Maria Maggiore, where he became close friends with other future painters such as Giovanni Battista Ciolina, Gian Maria Rastellini and Lorenzo Peretti Junior, and absorbed the teachings of Enrico Cavalli, a great connoisseur of the French art of the time, who decisively influenced him to follow the path of painting.

Neo-Impressionist Artists | Sitemap

Neo-Impressionism is a term applied to an avant-garde art movement that flourished principally in France from 1886-1906. Led by the example of Georges Seurat🎨, artists of the Neo-Impressionist circle renounced the random spontaneity of Impressionism🎨 in favor of a measured painting technique grounded in science and the study of optics.

Georges Seurat🎨 (1859-1891) A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884

Love Letter from Auguste Rodin to Camille Claudel, 1886

"My ferocious friend".... "Mia feroce amica"...

Thus begins Rodin’s🎨 desperate cry of love to Camille Claudel🎨 in the early years of their relationship. Rodin was soon captivated by this pupil who became his assistant, mistress and muse, while Claudel outwardly remained in complete control of her feelings. Consumed and tormented by an obsessive love, he implores her - “on his knees” - to ease his suffering from beginning to end of this letter, written in a muddled style, with erroneous syntax and imperfect spelling.

Lettera di Abramo Lincoln all'insegnante di suo figlio, 1830

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), sedicesimo presidente degli Stati Uniti, è rimasto nella storia perché nel settembre 1862, decretò la liberazione di tutti gli schiavi dai territori degli Stati Confederati d’America, ratificando il XIII emendamento della costituzione americana nel 1865.

Il primo giorno di scuola di suo figlio, Lincoln inviò all’insegnante di suo figlio una lettera.

Caro professore,
mio figlio inizia oggi la scuola: per lui, tutto sarà strano e nuovo per un po’ e desidero che sia trattato con delicatezza. È un’avventura che potrebbe portarlo ad attraversare continenti, un’avventura che, probabilmente, comprenderà guerre, tragedie e dolore. Vivere questa vita richiederà fede, amore e coraggio.

Dovrà imparare, lo so, che non tutti gli uomini sono giusti, che non tutti gli uomini sono sinceri.

Però gli insegni anche che per ogni delinquente, c’è un eroe;

Pedro Salinas / Giovanni Prini | Io di più non posso darti / I cannot give you more..

Io di più non posso darti

Non sono che quello che sono.

Ah come vorrei essere

sabbia, sole, in estate!

Che tu ti distendessi

riposata a riposare.

Che andando via tu mi lasciassi

il tuo corpo, impronta tenera,

tiepida, indimenticabile.

E che con te se ne andasse

sopra di te, il mio bacio lento:

colore,

dalla nuca al tallone,

bruno.

Pablo Neruda | Chiedo silenzio / I ask for silence / Pido silencio

Ora, lasciatemi tranquillo.

Ora, abituatevi senza di me.

Io chiuderò gli occhi

E voglio solo cinque cose,

cinque radici preferite.

Una è l'amore senza fine.

La seconda è vedere l'autunno.

Non posso vivere senza che le foglie

volino e tornino alla terra.

La terza è il grave inverno,

la pioggia che ho amato, la carezza

del fuoco nel freddo silvestre.

Victor Nizovtsev🎨

Qiang Huang, 1959 | Impressionist painter

Qiang Huang (pronounced Chong Wong) is an impressionistic, representational artist painting still life, landscape and figurative subjects.

Huang was born and raised in Beijing China and now lives at Austin, Texas. His interest in art was developed in his early ages, and influenced strongly by his uncle, a professional painter and art educator. Qiang has studied basic skills of drawing and painting under his uncle's guidance. He won awards🎨 in multiple school art shows.

After immigrated to America, Qiang took a career in science and technology.

However, Qiang has been active in local art communities. To further develop his artistic skills, Qiang has attended classes and workshops. He has studied from well-known artists like Miles Mathis, Scott Burdick, David Leffel🎨 and Sherrie McGraw.