Colors Quotes

Vincent van Gogh

Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance

I am crazy about two colors: carmine and cobalt. Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing so beautiful for creating atmosphere. Carmine is as warm and lively as wine... the same with emerald green.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and orange too, mustn't you? Oh well, you will tell me that what I write to you are only banalities.

Eliot Hodgkin | Modern Still Life painter

Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987) was an British painter, born in Purley Lodge, Purley-on-Thames near Pangbourne, Berkshire.

Although he began with oil painting, most of his best known works were highly detailed still lifes executed in tempera.

Curwen Eliot Hodgkin was born on 19 June 1905, the only son of Charles Ernest Hodgkin and of his wife Alice Jane (née Brooke). The Hodgkins were a Quaker family and were related to Roger Fry. Eliot, a cousin of the abstract painter Howard Hodgkin (b. 1932) was educated at Harrow School from 1919-1923.

Ceslovas Cesnakevicius | Surrealist / Digital photographer

Ceslovas Cesnakevicius is an artist from Lithuania. He creates really unusual and attractive shots in the sphere of digital art. His photos are so simple and at the same time so incredibly thought-provoking.

Stephen Pan 潘仲武, 1963 | Ballet dancers

Stephen Pan 潘仲武 is an extremely versatile artist n the classic European oil painting tradition.

His singular artistic expression is easily recognized in his sublimely elegant and serene paintings.

Since 1987 he has focused primarily on original figurative oil paintings on canvas.

In spite of his close relationship with formal Chinese traditions in art, Pan fell in love with the paintings of renaissance and French impressionist periods.

Giuseppe Cacciapuoti, 1969 | Figurative /Seascape painter

Giuseppe Cacciapuoti, Neapolitan -Italian painter, was born in Pozzuoli. The range of his interests extremely wide. He paints portraits, still lifes, landscapes and seascapes.

Cacciapuoti studied at the Istituto di Belle Arti di Napoli where today he is a full time lecturer.

Cacciapuoti gives the viewer a pleasant vision of beauty and seduction. Cacciapuoti’s paintings and skillful work of color with show lifelike expressions and attitudes. His talent on a canvas could bring an environment to life and the sea welcoming the boat floating above.

His works can be found in private and public collections all over the world.

Gleb Goloubetski, 1975 | Impressionist / Cityscape painter

Born in Omsk, Russia, a Siberian town, Gleb Goloubetski / Глеб Голубецкий⏭ displayed noticeable artistic talent and a keen interest in the arts from an early age.

His initial tutorage and inspiration came from his late father, who achieved success as a painter in his own right and who actively encouraged Goloubetski to paint.
Goloubetski’s formal training came from his studies at the highly acclaimed academy in St Petersburg where his work attracted much attention.

Gleb Goloubetski, 1975 | Venice painting

Gleb Goloubetski / Глеб Голубецкий is an Russian painter⏭, known for work in a contemporary impressionist style⏭.

Goloubetski was born in Omsk, Russia, a Siberian Town.

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

• Gleb Goloubetski, 1975 | Impressionist / Cityscape painter.⏭

Patrick Le Hec'h, 1965 | Illusionist photographer

The Hec'h Patrick began his academic training at the School of Graphic Art Corvisart Paris.

On his release he worked briefly as an illustrator and graphic designer before accepting the artistic direction of a communications agency.

Inspired by the romantic and surreal, is detected in its early creations of the atmosphere that are visionary painters: Giorgio De Chirico 1888-1978, Tanguy, Bocklin, Delvaux and René François Ghislain Magritte, 1898-1967.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | Il ritrattista del "Popolo della notte"

Agli effetti della produzione artistica lautreciana questa diversificazione sociale così massiccia risultò determinante.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), infatti, concepì i suoi dipinti come fedele specchio della quotidianità urbana di Montmartre, nel segno di una ripresa (e, anche, di un aggiornamento) del programma espresso da Charles Baudelaire nel 1846:

«La nostra epoca non è meno ricca di temi sublimi di quella precedente [...]

Ho osservato che la maggioranza degli artisti che hanno condannato i soggetti moderni si sono accontentati di soggetti pubblici e ufficiali [...]

Ci sono invece dei soggetti privati che sono molto più eroici di quelli pubblici.

Lo spettacolo della vita alla moda e le migliaia di esseri - criminali e mantenute - che galleggiano alla deriva nei bassifondi di una grande città. [...]

La vita della nostra città è piena di spunti poetici e meravigliosi: ne siamo avvolti, vi siamo immersi come in una meravigliosa atmosfera, ma non ce ne accorgiamo» - Charles Baudelaire.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | La vita e le opere

Il conte Henri-Marie-Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa (Albi, 24 novembre 1864 - Saint-André-du-Bois, 9 settembre 1901) è stato un pittore francese, tra le figure più significative dell'arte del tardo Ottocento.

Divenne un importante artista post-impressionista, illustratore e litografo e registrò nelle sue opere molti dettagli degli stili di vita bohémien della Parigi di fine Ottocento.

Toulouse-Lautrec contribuì anche con un certo numero di illustrazioni per la rivista Le Rire, durante la metà degli anni novanta.

Soffriva di picnodisostosi, una malattia genetica delle ossa, che può portare a manifestazioni cliniche apparentemente simili al nanismo.

Toulouse-Lautrec morì a soli 37 anni circa, a causa dell'alcolismo o della sifilide.