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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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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.