Alberto Guillen, 1951 | Watercolor flowers

Mexican artist Alberto Guillen is well known for his watercolor paintings of flowers.

Alberto Guillen was born in Mexico City. Lives and works in Salem, Oregon.

Artist's education: 2 years of traditional training in the art of painting at the University of Willamette and the study of Photoshop CS4, and Painter 11, Wacom Intuos4 Digital Tablet.

William Turner | Mount Vesuvius in Eruption, 1817

Joseph Mallord William Turner’s dramatic representation of Mount Vesuvius is one of numerous artistic iterations of erupting volcanoes from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century.

Turner visited Naples and ascended Vesuvius in 1819; however, he never witnessed an eruption firsthand and this composition likely preceded his Italian sojourn.

Maria Oosthuizen, 1972 | Modern/ Figurative painter | Page 2

Born in Paarl, raised mostly in Gauteng, Maria Magdalena Oosthuizen🎨 currently residing in Mossel Bay.

"I believe my highest calling in life is my relationship with God, my husband, my children and with all people. My friends and family provide a balance in my life and keep me humble. They are all extraordinary people!

I am inspired by God for He is the creator of all beautiful things. He called me for His purpose and in obedience and love of art, I paint with all I am to worship Him".

Jacques-Louis David | Neoclassical painter

Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) was a highly influential French painter in the neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.

In the 1780-s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity, heightened feeling chiming with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime.

Francis Cadell | Colourist painter

Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell RSA (1883-1937) is one of the four artists known as the Scottish Colourists. He studied in Paris and lived in Munich before settling in his native Edinburgh around 1909.

He is perhaps the most elegant of the Colourists, renowned for his stylish portrayals of Edinburgh New Town interiors and his vibrantly coloured, daringly simplified still lifes.

Cadell grew up in Edinburgh and showed artistic ability from an early age.

Richard E. Miller (1875-1943) Impressionist painter

Richard E. Miller was a native of St. Louis, Missouri, where he first studied at the local School of Fine Arts and served as a staff illustrator for the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

He continued his studies at the Académie Julian from 1898-1901 and remained a resident of France until the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 prompted his return to America.

One of the many Americans who worked at Giverny during these years, he became a familiar of Frederick Frieseke🎨 and together they often met at Monet's home to paint, critique and socialize.

Karl Albert Buehr | Impressionist painter

Karl Albert Buehr (1866-1952) was a painter born in Germany, in Feuerbach - near Stuttgart. He moved to Chicago with his parents and siblings in the 1880s.

In Chicago, young Karl worked at various jobs until he was employed by a lithograph company near the Art Institute of Chicago.

Introduced to art at work, Karl paid regular visits to the Art Institute, where he found part-time employment, enabling him to enroll in night classes.

Abraham Bloemaert | Drawings

Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651) was a Dutch painter and printmaker in etching and engraving.

He was one of the "Haarlem Mannerists" from about 1585, but in the new century altered his style to fit new Baroque trends.

He mostly painted history subjects and some landscapes. He was an important teacher, who trained most of the Utrecht Caravaggisti, at least for a period.

Mannerism Art History and Sitemap

Giuseppe Arcimboldo | The librarian

Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, lasting until about 1580 in Italy, when the Baroque style began to replace it. Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century.

Stylistically, Mannerism encompasses a variety of approaches influenced by, and reacting to, the harmonious ideals associated with artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and early Michelangelo.

Abraham Bloemaert | Mannerist painter

Abraham Bloemaert, (born Dec. 25, 1564, Gorinchem [now in the Netherlands]-died Jan. 27, 1651, Utrecht, Neth.), influential Dutch Mannerist painter and engraver.

Bloemaert studied at Utrecht under eminent painters, spent three years in Paris, and then returned to settle finally at Utrecht, where he became dean of the Guild of St. Luke.

Leonard Cohen / Fabian Perez | The Stranger Song

It's true that all the men you knew were dealers

Who said they were through with dealing

Every time you gave them shelter

I know that kind of man.

It's hard to hold the hand of anyone

Who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.

E’ vero che tutti gli uomini che conoscevi

erano giocatori che dicevano di averne abbastanza

di giocare a carte ogni volta che davi loro un riparo.

Lo conosco, quel genere di uomini.

E’ difficile tenere le mani di qualcuno

che le alza al cielo soltanto per arrendersi.

Pietro da Cortona | Drawings

Pietro da Cortona was an Italian Baroque painter and architect.

Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture. He was also an important designer of interior decorations.

Pietro da Cortona | Baroque painter

Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669), original name Pietro Berrettini, Italian architect, painter, and decorator, an outstanding exponent of Baroque style.

Pietro studied in Rome from about 1612 under the minor Florentine painters Andrea Commodi and Baccio Ciarpi and was influenced by antique sculpture and the work of Raphael.

Benjamin West PRA | Neoclassical painter

American-born Benjamin West (1738-1820) was one of the most prominent artists in late eighteenth century London.

President of the Royal Academy (PRA) from 1792 until his death, he received many commissions from George III and other English patrons, and at the same time served as teacher and advisor to three generations of American artists in London.

Michael Ancher | Skagen painter

Michael Peter Ancher (1849-1927) was a Danish realist artist.

He is remembered above all for his paintings of fishermen and other scenes from the Danish fishing community in Skagen.

He achieved his artistic breakthrough in 1879 with the painting "Vil han klare pynten" Will He Round the Point?.

Michael Ancher's works depict Skagen's heroic fishermen and their dramatic experiences at sea, combining realism and with classical composition.

Gaetano Gandolfi | I Disegni

Gaetano Gandolfi (1734-1802) è stato un pittore Italiano del tardo barocco e del primo periodo neoclassico, attivo a Bologna.

Gaetano Gandolfi frequentò l'Accademia Clementina di Bologna, ma su di lui l'influenza determinante fu esercitata dal fratello Ubaldo.

Come studente all'Accademia Clementina ha vinto due medaglie per la scultura e quattro medaglie per i suoi disegni.

Gaetano Gandolfi | Rococò painter

Gaetano Gandolfi (1734-1802) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque and early Neoclassic period, active in Bologna.

Gaetano was born in San Matteo della Decima, near Bologna, to a family of artists.

Ubaldo Gandolfi was his brother, Mauro Gandolfi was his son, and Democrito Gandolfi was his grandson.

Gaetano became a "student" at the Accademia Clementina in Bologna, where he was taught by Felice Torelli and Ercole Lelli.

Love letter from Igor Stravinsky to Coco Chanel, 1933

"Rouge de Chanel on Igor’s brow

Losing its sweet odour

Impatiently waiting for an exquisite perfume

To add itself

To the sweet memory of a kiss

From the fiery coloured lips

Of Chanel also called Coco

Fred Tomaselli, 1956 | A "beautiful" virus

Fred Tomaselli is an American artist🎨. He is best known for his highly detailed paintings on wood panels, combining an array of unorthodox materials suspended in a thick layer of clear, epoxy resin.

Tomaselli's paintings include medicinal herbs, prescription pills and hallucinogenic plants alongside images cut from books and magazines: flowers, birds, butterflies, arms, legs and noses, which are combined into dazzling patterns that spread over the surface of the painting like a beautiful virus or growth.

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) | Quotes

• In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
• Per creare ci deve essere una grande forza dinamica. E quale forza è più potente dell'amore.
• Gli artisti mediocri prendono in prestito, quelli grandi rubano.
• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
• Composers combine notes, that's all.
• I compositori combinano le note, tutto qui.