James Clarke Hook (1819-1907)

James Clarke Hook RA was an British painter and etcher of marine, genre and historical scenes and landscapes.

Hook was born in London, the son of James Hook, a draper and one time Judge of the Mixed Commission Court in Sierra Leone.

His mother was the second daughter of Bible scholar Dr Adam Clarke - hence the painter's second name.

Young Hook's first taste of the sea was on board the Berwick smacks which took him on his way to Wooler.

L.W. Howard | Pittore Romantico di figure

Non sappiamo niente della biografia di questo artista che si firma L.W. Howard, ma un fatto è certo: Le sue opere ti portano alla produzione artistica del pittore Pino Daeni (1939-2010).

Comunque, dal poco che sappiamo, L.W. Howard è un artista Americano (una coincidenza?, visto che Pino Daeni è stato un atista italo-americano).

Howard è molto noto per il suo stile romantico-figurativo.

Howard ama disegnare figure femminili, alcune delle quali condivido qui.

Daniel Gerhartz, 1965 | Ballet dancers

Daniel Gerhartz⏭, a native of Wisconsin, is an accomplished painter who is well known for his figurative, landscape, architectural and still life paintings.

Eugene de Blaas | Academic /Genre painter

Eugene de Blaas also known as Eugenio De Blaas or Eugen von Blaas, was born on July 24th in the Italian village of Albano, near Rome in 1843, to Austrian parents. His career was enriched by a talented and artistic family. His father, Carl von Blaas (1815-1894), was one of the most notable portrait painters of Roman society, a successful history portrait and fresco painter of the late Biedermeier period.

Jeanne Saint Chéron, 1973 | Romantic painter

Born in Laval Loire Valley, Jeanne Saint-Chéron has been successful for over fifteen years.

In the beginning of her career, a self taught painter Saint Chéron participates to riding competitions and invests in racing horses breeding.

Then she decides to move to Brittany, France, where she teaches drawing and painting for more than ten years. However, her main occupation remains painting and participating to various art exhibitions.

Jules-Joseph Lefebvre | Academic painter

Winner of the coveted Prix de Rome in 1861, Lefebvre fulfilled his early promise both as a painter of meticulously executed portraits and as a teacher: during his long career, he earned three Salon medals, was appointed to the French Academy of Fine Arts, and attained the rank of Commander in the Legion of Honor.

A reviewer at the 1881 Paris Salon wrote the following about Jules-Joseph Lefèbvre:

"It is sufficient to just mention his name in order to immediately evoke the memory and the image of the thousand adorable creatures of which he is the father.... Jules Lefèbvre, better than anyone else caresses, with a brush both delicate and sure, the undulating contour of the feminine form".

Henri Matisse | Windows series

Addio | Nâzım Hikmet⏭

L'uomo dice alla donna: ti amo,

come se stringessi tra le palme il mio cuore,

simile a scheggia di vetro che m'insanguina le dita,

quando lo spezzo follemente.

La donna dice all'uomo:

ho guardato nei tuoi occhi,

nel mio cuore,

Lluís Ribas, 1949 | Luminist painter

Lluís Ribas is one of the best known luministas of contemporary Spanish art. His profound knowledge of the secrets of light, shade and opaqueness are present throughout his work. His female forms are classics - brilliantly executed and exquisitely drawn.

His palette contains a wide range of colors which give his paintings their great beauty.

Yuri Krotov, 1964 | Impressionist painter

Юрий Кротов was born in Grivenskaya Cossack Settlement, Krasnodar Territory, situated in a close proximity to the Azov Sea;

1972 - He met a local painter G.A. Polugaev, his future teacher and tutor. His got his first lessons of painting;

1976 - He went to Moscow with his teacher where he entered the Moscow High School of Art under the Surikov Art Institute;

1976-1983 - Years of study in the Moscow High School of Art;

1983-1985 - He served in the Soviet Army.

Théodore Chassériau | Romantic / Neoclassical painter

Théodore Chassériau (born Sept. 20, 1819, Samana, Dominican Republic-died Oct. 8, 1856, Paris), French painter who attained some measure of success in his attempt to fuse the Neoclassicism of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and the Romanticism of Eugène Delacroix.

As a boy, Chassériau entered the studio of Ingres, following his master to Rome in 1834. Chassériau’s immediate success at the Paris Salon of 1836 was confirmed three years later by a Venus and his “Suzanne”, both in the Louvre. About 1840, however, he began to grow dissatisfied with the art of Ingres.