If you were coming in the Fall,
I'd brush the Summer by
With half a smile, and half a spurn,
As Housewives do, a Fly.
Emily Dickinson | La natura usa poco il Giallo / Nature rarer uses Yellow, 1865
La Natura usa il Giallo più raramente
Di ogni altra Tinta -
Lo serba tutto per i Tramonti
Prodiga d’Azzurro
Mariangela Gualtieri | Salute a te Umanità ferita!
Salute a te umanità ferita
umanità uscita dalla pietra
e arrivata fin qui.
Randolph Rogers | Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii, 1859 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Camille Claudel, l'ossessione di Rodin: "Mia feroce amica.."
"Mia feroce amica"...
Inizia così il grido d'amore disperato di Rodin a Camille Claudel nei primi anni della loro relazione.
Rodin fu presto affascinato da questa allieva che divenne sua assistente, amante e musa, mentre Camille Claudel, esteriormente è rimasta in completo controllo dei suoi sentimenti.
Consumato e tormentato da un amore ossessivo, lui la implora - "in ginocchio" - per facilitare la sua sofferenza dall'inizio alla fine di questa lettera, scritta in uno stile confuso, con la sintassi errata ed ortografia imperfetta.
Paul Éluard | Ti amo / Je t'aime, 1951
T'amo per tutte le donne
che non ho conosciuto.
T'amo per tutte le stagioni
che non ho vissuto, per l'odore
d'altomare e l'odore del pane
fresco, per la neve che si
scioglie per i primi fiori
per gli animali puri che
l'uomo non spaventa.
T'amo per amare.
Montserrat Gudiol | La prima donna-membro della Reale Accademia Catalana di Belle Arti
Montserrat Gudiol i Corominas (1933-2015) è stata una pittrice Spagnola di origine catalana, celebre per essere stata una figura pionieristica nell'arte contemporanea della sua regione.
Alcuni dei suoi lavori sembrano ricordare Hieronymus Bosch con un occhiolino allo studio di suo padre, e altri sembrano riflettere le opere di famosi pittori del suo tempo come Picasso.
Figlia dell'architetto e storico dell'arte Josep Gudiol i Ricart, Montserrat si forma inizialmente come autodidatta all'interno dello studio di famiglia specializzato nel restauro di dipinti medievali.
Auguste Rodin | L'Addio, 1898
L'Addio (L'Adieu / The Farewell) è una celebre scultura realizzata da Auguste Rodin nel 1898.
L'opera è profondamente legata alla tormentata e dolorosa storia d'amore tra Rodin e l'artista Camille Claudel.
Per la composizione del volto, infatti, lo scultore ha riutilizzato un calco della testa di Camille con i capelli corti (risalente al 1884), aggiungendo davanti al viso due mani indipendenti e giunte, che evocano un senso di separazione, malinconia ed, appunto, un ultimo addio.
Auguste Rodin | L'Adieu /Farewell, 1898 | Musée Rodin, Paris
Rainer Maria Rilke | Io temo tanto la parola degli uomini / I am so afraid of people's words, 1898
Io temo tanto la parola degli uomini.
Dicono tutto sempre cosí chiaro:
questo si chiama cane e quello casa,
e qui è l'inizio e là è la fine.
Auguste Rodin | Detail from The Gates of Hell, 1890
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Liu Yi 柳毅, 1958 | Watercolor painter
Liu Yi 柳毅 is an internationally acclaimed contemporary Chinese watercolor master, born in Shanghai in 1958.
He is world-renowned for his extraordinary mastery of the wet-on-wet watercolor technique.
He was a Fine Arts graduate from the Hua Dong University for Education.
He did his postgraduate study of watercolor painting at the China College of Fine Arts.
He lectures at university for painting and design.
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Paul Éluard / Pablo Picasso | Dove of Peace, 1951
Dove (French: La Colombe) is a 1949 lithograph on paper created by Pablo Picasso in 1949 in an edition of 50+5.
The lithograph displays a white dove on a black background, which is widely considered to be a symbol of peace.
The image was used to illustrate a poster at the 1949 Paris Peace Congress and also became an iconographic image of the period, known as "The dove of peace".
An example is housed in the collection of the Tate Gallery and MOMA.
Since then, it has been considered a masterpiece.
Picasso | The Dove / La Colombe, 1949 | MOMA
Ernst Barlach, lo scultore censurato dai nazisti
Ernst Barlach (1870-1938) è stato uno dei più importanti scultori, grafici e scrittori Tedesci, appartenente al movimento Espressionista.
Barlach nacque a Wedel nella Germania settentrionale, il più anziano di quattro figli della coppia formata da Johanna Luise Barlach e dal dottore Georg Barlach.
Frequentò i primi corsi di studio a Ratzeburg.
Restò orfano di padre durante questo periodo, nel 1884.
Franz Marc: "Art is nothing but the expression of our dream"!
👉 "Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two".
👉 "Il blu rappresenta il principio maschile, austero e spirituale. Il giallo il principio femminile, gentile, allegro e sensuale. Il rosso è materia, brutale e pesante, ed è sempre il colore che deve essere combattuto e sconfitto dagli altri due".
Jacques Volpi, 1948 | Expressionist painter
Jacques Volpi is a very famous painter from southern France, of the school of painting cévenole and Provençal.
He is born in the town of Ales in the Gare.
Winner of numerous awards and medals.
He paints by using the technique of the "knife".
The subjects are animated by persons, the colours are lively.
It is famous for his persons in the rain of noon of France.
Oswald Achenbach | Düsseldorf school of painting
Oswald Achenbach (1827-1905) was a German painter associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Though little known today, during his lifetime he was counted among the most important landscape painters of Europe.
Through his teaching activities, he influenced the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
His brother, Andreas Achenbach, who was twelve years older, was also among the most important German landscape painters of the 19th century.
The two brothers were humorously called "the A and O of Landscapes" (a reference to their initials matching a common German reference to the Alpha and Omega).
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Eliseu Visconti | Impressionist / Art Nouveau painter
Eliseu Visconti (born Eliseo d'Angelo; July 30, 1866 – October 15, 1944) was an Italian-born Brazilian painter, designer, and educator widely celebrated for introducing Impressionism and Art Nouveau to Brazil.
Spanning a highly transitional era between academic traditions and early modernism, he remains one of the most versatile and influential visual artists in Brazilian history.
He entered in 1884 the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios do Rio de Janeiro, where studied under Victor Meireles.
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Julien Stappers | Still life with Flowers painter
Julien Stappers (1875-1960) was an Belgian flower painter, celebrated for his radiant and technically superb floral still lifes.
Part of the traditional Belgian school, his signature style is defined by a cool, delicate palette and a highly diffusive, luminous management of light that gives his floral arrangements an energetic yet soothing quality.
Training at the The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in Juliaan De Vriendt (1894-1899) and at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp (1899-1901). First exhibition in 1903.
A presentation to the "Rubens" Gallery in Brussels in 1959 and 1960, the "Jordaens" gallery in Ghent in 1957, 1959 and 1960.
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Art of Music | History / Sitemap
"Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul; on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful" - Plato.
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Caravaggio: "Amor Vincit Omnia / Love conquers all!"
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) ha lasciato pochissimi scritti, poiché prediligeva lavorare direttamente sulla tela senza schizzi preparatori e ha vissuto una vita notoriamente tumultuosa, spesso in fuga.
La maggior parte di ciò che sappiamo della sua filosofia proviene da verbali legali e dichiarazioni dei suoi contemporanei.
👉 "Prendo in prestito dei corpi e degli oggetti, li dipingo per ricordare a me stesso la magia dell'equilibrio che regola l'universo tutto. In questa magia l'anima mia risuona dell'Unico Suono che mi riporta a Dio".
👉 "I borrow bodies and objects, I paint them to remind myself of the magic of balance that governs the entire universe. In this magic, my soul resonates with the Only Sound that brings me back to God".
Tan Chun Chiu | Watercolor painter
Tan Chun Chiu (commonly professionally known as T.C. Chiu) was born in China and developed an interest in art when he was a young child.
He began his art studies in China and continued when he came to America in 1974.
His delicate work is the combination of the essential qualities of traditional realism and contemporary painting techniques.
Accomplished in a wide range of media, he incessantly challenges his mastery of watercolor, oil and printmaking.
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David Renshaw, 1973 | Romantic painter
David Renshaw (born in Southport, England) is a contemporary British artist celebrated for his romantic oil paintings and nostalgic landscapes.
He is best known for his popular "Northern Romance" series, which captures the enduring love story and travel adventures of two iconic characters, Ted and Doris.
Renshaw discovered his love for art early in life and went on to study graphic design, developing a foundational mastery of diverse mediums.
While fulfilling early watercolor and sketch commissions, he spent years working as a picture framer for a local art gallery.
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