Henri Fantin-Latour | Fleurs et fruits, 1865

Henri Fantin-Latour | Fleurs et fruits, 1865 | Musée d’Orsay

Contemporaneamente alla sua attività di ritrattista, Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) realizza un numero cospicuo di nature morte.

Negli anni sessanta del XIX secolo, quest'ultime esercitano un ruolo fondamentale nella carriera dell'artista.

È proprio in Inghilterra, paese dove Fantin-Latour abitualmente risiede, che questi trova un numero considerevole di estimatori delle sue composizioni raffiguranti fiori e frutta, il che comporta un susseguirsi di acquisti e commesse in grado di assicurare al pittore un successo commerciale che, fino a quel momento, il suo lavoro non gli ha permesso di raggiungere.

George Lundeen, 1948 | Figurative sculptor

Born and raised in Holdrege, Nebraska, George W. Lundeen, American sculptor, went to college at Hastings and then to the University of Illinois, where he studied with Frank Gallo, a realist sculptor.

He then spent a year on a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship in Florence, Italy, where the works of Old Masters inspired his ambition to sculpt for a living.

Today Lundeen lives and works in Loveland, Colorado, presiding over a family of sculptors, including his wife, a younger brother, a sister-in-law and a cousin.

Gil Bruvel, 1959 | Stainless Steel sculptures

A word from Gil Bruvel🎨...

“I am artist because it is the conduit to release the ideas and visuals I carry daily. Since I was a little boy I have pursued my own exploration rooted in the unconscious mind and nurtured with daily practice using a variety of mediums of artistic expression. My artistic process developed organically from my father's cabinet shop to the stainless steel sculptures I create today.

Egon Schiele | Expressionist painter | Page 2

Egon Leon Adolf Schiele🎨 (12 June 1890 - 31 October 1918) was an Austrian painter🎨.

A protégé of Gustav Klimt🎨, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century.

The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism.

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

• Egon Schiele | Expressionist painter🎨
• Egon Schiele | Quotes / Le lettere🎨

Rembrandt van Rijn | Vita ad Opere

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, meglio noto semplicemente come Rembrandt (Leida, 15 luglio 1606 - Amsterdam, 4 ottobre 1669), è stato un pittore ed incisore Olandese.

Viene generalmente considerato uno dei più grandi pittori della storia dell'arte europea e il più importante di quella olandese. Il suo periodo di attività coincide con quello che gli storici definiscono l'età dell'oro olandese.

Dopo aver ottenuto un grande successo fin da giovane come pittore ritrattista, i suoi ultimi anni furono segnati da tragedie personali e difficoltà economiche. I suoi disegni e dipinti furono popolari già durante la sua vita, la sua reputazione rimase alta e per vent'anni fu maestro di quasi tutti i più importanti pittori olandesi.

I più grandi trionfi creativi di Rembrandt sono evidenti specialmente nei ritratti dei suoi contemporanei, nei suoi autoritratti e nelle illustrazioni di scene tratte dalla Bibbia.

Sia nella pittura che nella stampa egli esibì una completa conoscenza dell'iconografia classica che modellò per adattarla alle proprie esigenze. Così, la rappresentazione di scene bibliche era costituita dalla sua conoscenza dei relativi testi, dall'influenza delle tematiche classiche e dall'osservazione della popolazione ebrea di Amsterdam. Per la sua comprensione della condizione umana, inoltre, fu definito "uno dei grandi profeti della civiltà".

Ricardo Sanz, 1957 | Figurative painter

Ricardo Sanz is an Spanish painter. His work is contemporary figurative style. His artistic vocation was forged through his grandfather, owner of the Art Gallery La Perfecta in which he met the great artists of the painting: Sorolla, Zuloaga, Vázquez Diaz, etc.

He has won top honors, including the National Living Culture Award, the Goya Prize Foundation, or Paul Harris Medal awarded* the Rotary International Foundation.

Giuseppe Sanmartino | The Veiled Christ, 1753

Placed at the centre of the nave of the Sansevero Chapel, The Veiled Christ is one of the most famous and impressive works of art in the world.

It was the Prince’s wish that the statue be made by Antonio Corradini (Italian🎨 Rococo sculptor🎨, 19 October 1688 - 12 August 1752), who had already done Modesty for him.

However, Corradini died in 1752 and only managed to make a terracotta scale model of the Christ, which is now preserved in the Museo di San Martino.

Vladimir Mukhin / Владимир Мухин, 1971

Vladimir Mukhin /Владимир Мухин belongs to a new generation of Russian artists who survived the artistic repressions of the Soviet Union and are now flourishing in the more open political climate of modern Russia.

He was born in Karaganda a small city in the country of Kazakhstan.

Both his mother and father shared a love of the arts and both were members of notable ballet companies.

At the age of 12, Vladimir began his formal instruction as a painter.

Charles Roka (1912-1999) | Genre painter

Charles Roka (Róka Károly) was a Hungarian painter🎨 living in Norway whose name became synonymous with an excess of artistic kitsch.

Roka was born in Hungary in 1912. After he finished his studies on the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest he went on a European journey. In 1937 he finally settled in Norway, and lived in Bærum, outside Oslo until his death.

Eric Wallis, 1968 | Impressionist painter

Not long ago, Tutt'Art@ published the figurative paintings of American painter🎨 Eric Wallis and continue to familiarize with his work.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- by Wallis see:

• Eric Wallis, 1968 | Impressionist Figurative painter 🎨
• Eric Wallis, 1968 | Ballet dancers🎨

Caspar David Friedrich | Stile pittorico e temi

«Il pittore non dovrebbe dipingere solo ciò che vede davanti a sé, ma anche ciò che vede dentro di sé. Se dentro di sé non vede nulla, allora eviti anche di dipingere ciò che vede davanti a sé»

- Caspar David Friedrich.

L'innovazione portata avanti da Friedrich si realizzò in chiave paesaggistica: Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) intendeva far evolvere la concezione classica di paesaggio, inteso solo come scenario bello da vedere, aggiungendovi il sentimento del sublime, una riunione con il sé spirituale attraverso la contemplazione della natura.

L'artista fu un personaggio chiave per trasformare il paesaggio, sino ad allora un fondale subordinato al dramma umano, in un soggetto autosufficiente.

Non a caso i dipinti di Friedrich includono spesso una Rückenfigur, ovvero una persona vista di tergo, assorta nella contemplazione del panorama.

Jean-François Portaels | Orientalist painter

Jean-François Portaels or Jan Portaels was a Belgian painter of genre scenes, biblical stories, landscapes, portraits and orientalist subjects.

He was also a teacher and director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent and the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.

He is regarded as the founder of the Belgian Orientalist school.

He was praised in his time as the premier painter of 'everyday elegance and feminine grace'.

Madre Teresa / Dorian Florez | Give me someone to love..

Lord, when I am hungry,

give me someone needing food.

When I am thirsty,

send me someone needing a drink

When I am cold, send me

someone to warm

When I am grieved, send me

someone to console

When my cross grows heavy

let me carry another's cross too

Robert Henri | Ashcan School painter | Page 1

Robert Henri ~ Ashcan School painter | Part 1 ||| Robert Henri ~ Ashcan School painter [Part 2]

Robert Henri (1865-1929) was born Robert Henry Cozad in Cincinnati, in 1865, the son of a professional gambler and businessman.

In 1881 he accompanied his family to Denver. When his father was indicted for manslaughter a year later the Cozads changed their name and fled to Atlantic City, New Jersey.

In 1886 Henri enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he studied under Thomas Anshutz, Thomas Hovenden and James B. Kelly.

In 1888 he went to Paris and enrolled at the Académie Julian under Adolphe-William Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury. During the summers he painted in Brittany and Barbizon, and visited Italy prior to being admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1891.

Isaac Israëls | Impressionist painter

Isaac Lazarus Israëls (1865-1934) was a Dutch painter associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement. The son of Jozef Israëls, one of the most respected painters of the Hague School, and Aleida Schaap, Isaac Israëls displayed precocious artistic talent from an early age.

Between 1880-1882 he studied at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, where he met George Hendrik Breitner who was to become a lifelong friend. In 1881, when he was 16, he sold a painting, Bugle Practice, even before it was finished to the artist and collector Hendrik Willem Mesdag.

Léon Bazile Perrault | La venditrice di rose

Léon Bazile Perrault ( Poitiers, 16 giugno 1832-1908, Royan) era un pittore accademico Francese.

È nato da una famiglia modesta.

Studente diWilliam Bouguereau e François-Edouard Picot, espose al Salon dal 1863 in poi, producendo molte opere di genere immensamente popolari.

Nel 1887 fu decorato con la Légion d'honneur.

Edvard Munch | Paintings and Quotes

• By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.
• Attraverso l'arte cerco di vedere chiaro nella mia relazione con il mondo, e se possibile aiutare anche chi osserva le mie opere a capirle, a guardarsi dentro.
• To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.

Patrice Murciano, 1969 | Pop painter / Sculptor

Patrice Murciano🎨, French painter and sculptor was born in Belfort, France. He moved to Montpellier from an early age.

Passion for art early on, it starts reproducing the characters of comics from the age of 6 years, he then goes on to paint his early muses, who at the time of fashion magazine models, to the age of 8 with the makeup of his mother that rests on the rollers to the attic abandoned to tapestry.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) | Quotes / Aforismi

• "Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else".
• "I libri sono per le persone che desiderano essere altrove".
• "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear".
• "Il coraggio è resistenza alla paura, padronanza della paura, non assenza della paura".
• "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it".
• "Il perdono è la fragranza che la viola sparge sul tallone che l'ha schiacciata".

Marcel Nino Pajot, 1945 | Alla ricerca di Don Quichotte..

Fin da bambino l'artista Francese Marcel Nino Pajot ha sviluppato le sue abilità nel disegno.

È un regalo di sua madre, Reine Pajot-Védry, anche lei artista, che ha realizzato sculture straordinarie.

Come artista autodidatta, Pajot ha migliorato le sue capacità di dipingere fianco a fianco con altri artisti.

Li ha conosciuti alla Beaux-Arts Society del Perigord, in Francia.

È stata fondata nel 1978 da Jean-Daniel Ribeyrol e Paul-André Enard, due pittori.