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Aziz Sulaymanov, 1986 | Garden by the Sea

Born in the picturesque region of Osh in the Kyrgyz Republic-Uzbekistan, Aziz Sulaymanov discovered his passion for painting at a young age, laying the foundation for a lifelong pursuit of artistic excellence.
Aziz Sulaymanov's artistic journey took flight as he honed his skills at a tailored art academy before venturing to Saint-Petersburg, Russia, to refine his craft under the mentorship of esteemed Russian artists Nikolay Evdokimov and Tuman Jumanaev.
With a keen eye for detail and a distinctive style, Aziz's paintings captivate viewers with their depth, beauty, and emotional resonance.


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Czárdás - Hungarian Dance

Inscribed in 2024 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the Csárdás is a Hungarian dance that is performed by couples consisting of a man and a woman, or, in some regions, of two women.
Multiple couples participate in the dance at the same time, forming one large or several smaller circles.
Each region has its own themes, gestures and figures, which are improvised according to well-known, established rules and patterns.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | Czardas dancers, 1908 | Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

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Adolf von Becker | Genre painter

Adolf von Becker (1831-1909) was a Finnish genre painter and art professor of German descent.
He was one of the first Finnish artists to study in Paris, who taught many of the young artists of the Golden Age of Finnish Art.
Becker was born in Helsinki, where he began his artistic studies at the newly founded Finnish Art Society Drawing School; he also studied law.


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Wisława Szymborska | Hatred

See how efficient it still is,
how it keeps itself in shape -
our century’s hatred.
How easily it vaults the tallest obstacles.
How rapidly it pounces, tracks us down.
It is not like other feelings.
At once both older and younger.


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“Il Lago dei Cigni” di Tchaikovsky

Il lago dei cigni (in russo, Лебеди́ное о́зеро) è uno dei più famosi ed acclamati balletti del XIX secolo, musicato da Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
La prima rappresentazione ebbe luogo al Teatro Bolshoi di Mosca il 20 febbraio 1877 (4 marzo secondo il calendario gregoriano), con la coreografia di Julius Wenzel Reisinger.
La trama del balletto, modellata su diverse fiabe popolari russe e tedesche, si svolge in Germania e narra la triste storia d'amore tra il Principe Siegfried e la bella Principessa Odette, trasformata in cigno da un maleficio del perfido stregone Rothbart.

Carlotta Edwards | Swan Lake

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Ary Scheffer | Romantic painter

Ary Scheffer (1795-1858) was a Dutch-French Romantic painter.
Scheffer was the son of Johan Bernard Scheffer (1765-1809), a portrait painter born in Homberg upon Ohm or Kassel who had moved to the Netherlands in his youth, and Cornelia Lamme (1769-1839), a portrait miniature painter and daughter of the Dordrecht landscape painter Arie Lamme, after whom Arij (later Ary) was named.


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Italian ballet dancer Jacopo Tissi in Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake"

Jacopo Tissi is an Italian ballet dancer.
Tissi was born in 1995 in Landriano, Province of Pavia.
He began dancing at age five, after seeing a ballet on television, at a new ballet school in his hometown.
He entered La Scala Theatre Ballet School in Milan when he was ten.


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Out of Africa, 1985

"If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?
Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?"

Robert Redford and Meryl Streep Shampoo Scene in "Out of Africa"

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Karen Blixen | L'Incontro

Ah, quando sei lontano e nessuno
più nomina il tuo nome -
quando ovunque mi rechi sento
cupo e gelido un vuoto -
comincio a credere che tu sia solo un sogno
nato dalle brame della mia mente,

Charles-Amable Lenoir | Reverie, 1893

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Vincent van Gogh | A Walk at Twilight, 1889-1890

A Walk at Twilight or Landscape with Couple Walking and Crescent Moon is an intriguing composite of common themes found in works throughout Van Gogh's career, but at the same time some specific characteristics set it aside from other paintings.
Olive trees and cypresses are often portrayed in paintings from Van Gogh's Saint-Rémy period.
But the trees in Landscape with Couple Walking and Crescent Moon are less imposing and less intricately detailed.
Van Gogh's cypresses are famous, but those seen in the current work appear in the distance almost as an afterthought, lacking the majesty and turbulence that so often characterize Van Gogh's cypress trees.


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Camille Corot | The Barbizon school of painters

Of Camille Corot Claude Monet exclaimed: "There is only one master here - Corot. We are nothing compared to him, nothing".
His contributions to figure painting are hardly less important; Degas preferred his figures to his landscapes, and the classical figures of Picasso pay overt homage to Corot's influence.


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Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore | Act 2: "Una furtiva lagrima"

"Una furtiva lagrima" (A furtive tear) is the romanza from act 2, scene 8 of the Italian opera L'elisir d'amore by Gaetano Donizetti.
It is sung by Nemorino (tenor) when it appears that the love potion he bought to win the heart of his dream lady, Adina, is working.
He loves Adina, but she is not interested in an innocent, rustic man such as he.

Ponziano Loverini | Portrait of Gaetano Doninzetti, 1877

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Yary Dluhos, 1944 | Impressionist painter

Yary Dluhos was born in an area of the Czech Republic considered by many to be a center of culture, the city of Olomouc.
Strongly influenced by the historical and picturesque ambiance of her native Olomouc, she soon began to paint and draw early in her childhood.
All her formative years spent drawing and painting finally culminated with her acceptance to the renowned art school in Uherski Hradiste, in the Czech Republic.


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Playing music in Baroque era

Baroque music refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750.
The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transition (the galant style).
The Baroque period is divided into three major phases: early, middle, and late. Overlapping in time, they are conventionally dated from 1580 to 1650, from 1630 to 1700, and from 1680 to 1750.


Baroque music forms a major portion of the "classical music" canon, and is widely studied, performed, and listened to.
The term "baroque" comes from the Portuguese word barroco, meaning "misshapen pearl".

Key composers of the Baroque era include: Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Handel, Georg Philipp Telemann, Domenico Scarlatti, Claudio Monteverdi, Alessandro Stradella, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Arcangelo Corelli, François Couperin, Heinrich Schütz, Dieterich Buxtehude and Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber.


The Baroque saw the formalization of common-practice tonality, an approach to writing music in which a song or piece is written in a particular key; this type of harmony has continued to be used extensively in Western classical and popular music.
During the Baroque era, professional musicians were expected to be accomplished improvisers of both solo melodic lines and accompaniment parts.


Baroque concerts were typically accompanied by a basso continuo group (comprising chord-playing instrumentalists such as harpsichordists and lute players improvising chords from a figured bass part) while a group of bass instruments—viol, cello, double bass—played the bassline.
A characteristic Baroque form was the dance suite.


While the pieces in a dance suite were inspired by actual dance music, dance suites were designed purely for listening, not for accompanying dancers.
During the period composers experimented with finding a fuller sound for each instrumental part (thus creating the orchestra), made changes in musical notation (the development of figured bass as a quick way to notate the chord progression of a song or piece), and developed new instrumental playing techniques.


Baroque music expanded the size, range, and complexity of instrumental performance, and also established the mixed vocal/instrumental forms of opera, cantata and oratorio and the instrumental forms of the solo concerto and sonata as musical genres.
Dense, complex polyphonic music, in which multiple independent melody lines were performed simultaneously (a popular example of this is the fugue), was an important part of many Baroque choral and instrumental works.
Overall, Baroque music was a tool for expression and communication. | Source: © Wikipedia



Playing music in Baroque era | Johann Sebastian Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (BWV 565)


La musica barocca è un'epoca nella storia della musica colta occidentale che segue il Rinascimento e si estende dall'inizio del XVII fino a circa la metà del XVIII secolo.
Le caratteristiche tipiche di questa lunga ed eterogenea epoca musicale sono la rappresentazione degli affetti (l'assegnazione di tipi di rappresentazione musicale a stati d'animo specifici), lo stile concertato (l'interazione di gruppi sonori eterogenei) ed il basso continuo (le voci della melodia sono contrapposte a una voce di basso, che è notata con numeri per indicare gli accordi da suonare).

Per questo motivo è stato suggerito il termine “Era del direttore d’orchestra”.
Nel periodo barocco la musica strumentale si emancipò dalla musica vocale e diede origine anche all'orchestra nel suo senso moderno.

L'inizio del periodo barocco nella musica fu segnato intorno al 1600 dall'invenzione della monodia (canto solista o voce solista strumentale con accompagnamento) e dal nuovo genere dell'opera in Italia, il cui principale rappresentante fu Claudio Monteverdi.
Lo stile drammatico e carico di emozione fu trasferito alla musica strumentale da Girolamo Frescobaldi e adattato in Germania da Heinrich Schütz alle caratteristiche della lingua tedesca.


Dopo questa fase iniziale, intorno al 1640, ebbe inizio in Italia l'alto barocco, con un carattere più lirico e una maggiore fluidità formale, con Francesco Cavalli come compositore di opere, Giacomo Carissimi di oratori e poi Arcangelo Corelli con la musica per archi.

In Francia, uno stile barocco indipendente, in cui la danza rivestiva maggiore importanza, fu instaurato da Jean-Baptiste Lully, nelle cui opere, a differenza dello stile italiano, il contenuto espressivo del canto rimase contenuto.

In Inghilterra, Henry Purcell combina influenze italiane e francesi con la tradizione locale e le peculiarità della pronuncia inglese.


In Germania la scuola organistica della Germania settentrionale, importante anche per la musica vocale sacra, trovò in Dietrich Buxtehude un rappresentante di spicco.

Nel tardo barocco, a partire dal 1690 circa, la combinazione degli stili nazionali sviluppatisi nel periodo dell'alto barocco giocò un ruolo importante, in Francia con François Couperin, in Germania con Georg Philipp Telemann e in Inghilterra con Georg Friedrich Händel.
La tensione tra i rapporti tonali viene ora utilizzata per sviluppare forme più ampie, come nella forma ritornello (con una parte ricorrente chiamata ritornello) di Antonio Vivaldi.

Un cambiamento di stile con melodie più dettagliate e una riduzione della polifonia (più voci indipendenti) iniziò negli anni Venti del Settecento, inizialmente nell'opera italiana, ad esempio con Leonardo Vinci e Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.
Jean-Philippe Rameau presentò la prima teoria dell'armonia (la teoria della successione di armonie di più toni).

Anche Domenico Scarlatti, compositore di sonate per clavicembalo attivo in Spagna, divenne un precursore del periodo classico, rompendo la continuità barocca, mentre allo stesso tempo la densità strutturale di Johann Sebastian Bach, che servì da modello per i compositori del periodo classico, funge da contrappunto.

L'anno della morte di Bach, il 1750, è spesso utilizzato come punto di fine di un'epoca.
La musica barocca serviva principalmente a rappresentare la nobiltà e la chiesa.

I musicisti erano organizzati in forma di corporazione oppure avevano un impiego fisso.
La tipologia dell'imprenditore musicale inizia a farsi notare solo a metà del XVIII secolo, in un'attività musicale in cui la borghesia è sempre più coinvolta.


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Salvador Dali: "Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams"!

"I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality".
"If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it".
"We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art".


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Il canale YouTube della Tutt'Art@ | La mappa

Creata nel 2011, la Tutt'Art@ | Pittura * Scultura * Poesia * Musica rappresenta un progetto, un luogo, un sentiero artistico, dove invitare gli artisti e gli amanti dell’arte a confrontarsi con epoche, culture e stili diversi, stimolarli ad interagire tra loro, a scambiarsi le opere, le esperienze e le proprie conoscenze per poter far nascere delle nuove.
Nel progetto Tutt'Art@ trovano spazio di espressione tutti gli artisti in cerca di una seria finestra di visibilità.


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Alexei Antonov, 1957 | Still life painter

Aлексей Антонов is a Russian artist who has studied art in Russia, Azerbaijan and Italy, and has been living in the US since 1990.
TAlexei Antonov has created a stunning collection of still life paintings that embody hyper realism and classic work of Renaissance masters.
Antonov was literally born an artist, began to draw, as he remembers - since the age of three.
The first drawings were made by mom’s lipstick, right on the wallpaper.


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Love Letter from Balzac to Countess Ewelina Hańska

My beloved angel,

I am nearly mad about you, as much as one can be mad: I cannot bring together two ideas that you do not interpose yourself between them.
I can no longer think of nothing but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you.
I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
As for my heart, there you will always be - very much so. I have a delicious sense of you there.
But my God, what is to become of me, if you have deprived me of my reason?

Lorenzo Bartolini | Buste d'Ewelina Hańska, 1837 | Musée Bertrand, à Châteauroux, France

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Cassie Phillips | Let them

If they want to choose something or someone over you,
Let them.
If they want to go weeks without talking to you,
Let them.
If they are okay with never seeing you,
Let them.


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Jacqueline Marval | The Female Fauve

Jacqueline Marval was the pseudonym for Marie Josephine Vallet (1866-1932), who was a French painter, lithographer and sculptor.
Vallet was born in Quaix-en-Chartreuse into a family of school teachers.
She was married in 1866, to a traveling salesperson, Albert Valentin, but separated from her husband in 1891 after the death of her son.


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Cassie Phillips | Lasciali fare | La poesia

Se vogliono scegliere qualcosa o qualcuno al posto tuo,
Lasciali fare.
Se vogliono passare settimane senza parlarti,
Lasciali fare.
Se stanno bene a non vederti mai,
Lasciali fare.
Se stanno bene a mettere sempre se stessi al primo posto,
Lasciali fare.


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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Bal du moulin de la Galette, 1876

Bal du moulin de la Galette [Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette] is doubtless Renoir's most important work of the mid 1870's and was shown at the Impressionist exhibition in 1877.


Author: Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Title: Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette
Date: 1876
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: H. 131; W. 175 cm
Current location: © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d'Orsay) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi


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Hippolyte Flandrin | Neoclassical painter

Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809-1864) was a French Neoclassical painter.
His most celebrated work, Jeune Homme Nu Assis au Bord de la Mer (1836) is held in the Louvre.
From an early age, Flandrin showed interest in the arts and a career as a painter.
He was the second of three sons, all of whom were painters.
Auguste, his older brother, spent most of his life as a professor at Lyon and later died there.


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Wisława Szymborska | Ruben's Women

Herculasses, a feminine fauna.
Naked as the crashing of barrels.
Cooped up atop trampled beds.
They sleep with mouths poised to crow.
Their pupils have retreated in the depths,
and penetrate to the heart of their glands,
trickling yeast into their blood.

Peter Paul Rubens | Venus in Front of the Mirror, (1614-1615) | Museo Nacional del Prado

Daughters of the Baroque. Dough bloats in a bowl,
baths are steaming, wines are blushing.
piglets of cloud are dashing across the sky,
trumpets neigh in physical alarm.

O pumpkinned, O excessive ones,
doubled by your unveiling,
trebled by your violent poses,
fat love dishes.

Peter Paul Rubens | Mars and Rhea Silvia, 1617

Their skinny sisters got up earlier,
before dawn broke within the painting,
and no one saw them walking single file
on the unpainted side of the canvas.
Exiles of style. Ribs all counted.


Birdlike feet and hands.
They try to ascend on gaunt shoulderblades.
The thirteenth century would have given them a golden backdrop.
The twentieth, a silver screen.

But the seventeenth has nothing for the flat-chested.
For even the sky curves in relief -
curvaceous angles, a curvaceous god -
a moustached Apollo astride a sweaty steed
enters the steaming bedchamber.

Wisława Szymborska (Polish poet, essayist, translato, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature, 1923-2012)

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Tatiana Deriy, 1973 | Figurative painter

Tatiana Deriy / Татьяна Дерий is a dynamically growing painter, whose major creative goal is comprehension of unity of the world's esthetic beauty and its profound meaning as well as rendering them to viewers through painting.
Born in a wonderful part of Moscow region, not far from "Archangelskoye" estate full of creations of famous architects and sculptors, refinement of palace parks and canvases by Veronese and Tintoretto, at an early age she developed special world outlook which later on defined the tenor of her work, based on the sense of harmony and beauty.


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Maki Horanai, 1977 | Magic realism painter

Born in Japan, Maki Horanai 洞内麻希 moved to Australia from Japan in 2005 and has had 18 solo exhibitions in various cities throughout Australia.
She grew up in small seaside villages in Hokkaido, northern Japan, where she often sat or played along the beach.
Maki's early influences were the ocean, the shore, the birds and islands she saw both in reality and in her imagination.
She began painting in high school and continued through college and graduate school where she was strongly influenced by the colors and themes of western and eastern art.


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Pope Francis: "Dear Poets, help us Dream"

Below is the letter Pope Francis wrote for the book 'Verses to God: An Anthology of Religious Poetry (italian).

Dear poets,
I know that you hunger for meaning, and that is why you reflect on how faith questions life.
This "meaning" cannot be reduced to a concept. No, it is a comprehensive meaning that encompasses poetry, symbols, and feelings.
The true meaning is not found in the dictionary - that's the meaning of words, and words are merely tools to express everything within us.


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Le Quattro Stagioni | I Concerti ed i Sonetti di Antonio Vivaldi

Le Quattro Stagioni è un gruppo di quattro concerti per violino del compositore italiano Antonio Vivaldi (Compositore e violinista Barocco, 1678-1741), ognuno dei quali dà espressione musicale ad una stagione dell'anno.
Furono composti intorno al 1718-1720, quando Vivaldi era maestro di cappella alla corte di Mantova.
Furono pubblicati nel 1725 ad Amsterdam, in quella che all'epoca era la Repubblica delle Sette Province Unite, insieme ad altri otto concerti, con il titolo Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'invenzione.

Un ritratto anonimo ad olio conservato al Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna, generalmente ritenuto di Vivaldi, 1723

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Bartolomeo Bezzi | Genre painter

Bartolomeo Bezzi (1851-1923) was an Italian painter.
Bartolomeo Bezzi was born in Fucine di Ossana (Trento), then in the Austrian Empire.
Having lost his father as a child, Bezzi lived with an uncle and enrolled at the Brera Academy in Milan at the age of twenty, exhibiting for the first time in 1878.
He won the Fumagalli Prize in 1882 and the following year he took part in the Esposizione di Belle Arti di Roma, receiving general acclaim for his landscape painting.


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Antonio Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" | Music and Sonnets

The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year.
These were composed around 1718-1720, when Vivaldi was the court chapel master in Mantua.
They were published in 1725 in Amsterdam in what was at the time the Dutch Republic, together with eight additional concerti, as Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest Between Harmony and Invention).

Orazio Gentileschi | Young Woman with a Violin (Saint Cecilia), 1612 | Detroit Institute of Arts

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Vladimir Mukhin, 1971 | Romantic painter


Vladimir Mukhin captivates audiences with his art, seamlessly blending lyricism, refined lines, and vibrant energy.
His works harmoniously merge the rich color palette of impressionism with the dynamism of Art Nouveau and the foundational techniques of traditional academic painting.
Born in Kazakhstan, Vladimir Mukhin honed his skills at the Penza Savitsky Art College before embarking on a transformative journey at the renowned Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in Moscow.

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Georges Corominas, 1945

Son of a Spanish painter, Georges Corominas, after studying at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts d'Alger, returned to France in 1962, where his paintings were quickly noticed.
Corominas is an artist who, while in search of the deep soul of the world, presents his "joie de vivre" as well as his emotions, passions and fascination for the perfect beauty to life, all in a bright enchantment.
Laureate of prestigious price, result of participation in the famous national and international exhibitions, his painting is pointed out by the collectors.


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Theodore Earl Butler, l'impressionista americano a Parigi

Theodore Earl Butler (1861-1936) è stato un pittore impressionista Americano.
Nacque a Columbus, Ohio, e si trasferì a Parigi per studiare arte.
Conobbe Claude Monet a Giverny e ne sposò la figliastra, Suzanne Hoschedé.
Dopo la sua morte, sposò la sorella di lei, Marthe Hoschedé.
Butler fu uno dei membri fondatori della Society of Independent Artists.


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Ionut Caras, 1978 | Surrealist photographer

Romanian professional photographer and "photo mechanic" Ionut Caras was born and lives in Iasi, Romania.
Caras describes himself as a 'photo mechanic' and has created the series of mindboggling pictures using the computer program.
His passion for photography began seven years ago when Kara discovered the processing of photographs, artistic of composition.


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Vladimir Volegov | Il pittore Romantico delle figure

Vladimir Volegov nacque nella città di Khabarovsk il 19 dicembre 1957.
All'età di due anni, sua madre abbandonò il padre, prese il figlio e si trasferì a Sverdlovsk (ex Ekaterinburg).
Da allora in poi, la famiglia si trasferì spesso da una città all'altra.
La madre desiderava che Volegov diventasse medico, ma lui nutriva un forte desiderio di dipingere.


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Wisława Szymborska | Non ce l’ho con la primavera, 1993

Non ce l'ho con la primavera
perché è tornata.
Non la incolpo
perché adempie come ogni anno
ai suoi doveri.

Marc Chagall | Fleurs de printemps, 1930

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David Gray, 1970 | Classical Realist painter


David's Gray signature style reveals a personal and contemporary expression of beauty and order which pays homage to the Classical Tradition in its craftsmanship.
Collectors of David's work often relate that his painting provoke a sense of peace, stillness, or a contemplative mood.
His award winning works have been covered by major art publications including Southwest Art, Art of the West, and American Art Collector.

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Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Portrait of Pope Francis

Roberto Ferri devoted himself to Caravaggesque and academic painting - including Ingres, David, Gericault - but also by Surrealist painters.
Ferri's way of painting is elevated by a technique which is almost virtuosity, where the traditional tools of the surrealism are inserted onto the traditional iconographic elements.
His career took on greater notoriety for having been in charge of portraying Pope Francis.
There were two works commissioned from the Italian artist, which occupy privileged places in the Vatican.