Daniel Wall, 1965 | Intense Impressionist painter

Daniel Wall is the originator of Intense Impressionism, which is characterized by unsurpassed intensity and boldness.

Started in the 1980s by Daniel Wall, Intense Impressionist techniques include big, conspicuous strokes created with palette knifes, extreme texture with heavy paints, intensified vibrant colors, and exaggerated striking effects of lights.

Daniel Wall's Intense Impressionist landscape and cityscape paintings are very much loved by the collectors around the world.

Sergey Ivchenko ~ Abstract Expressionist painter

Sergey Ivchenko [Сергей Ивченко] 1954-2008, Russian painter, was born in Frankfurt on the Oder, Germany. 1976 Graduated from Art Institute, Moscow, Russia. 1975-1991: worked in various art studios in the USSR. 1990: as a member of the group of artists took part in the action "Falling of the Berlin wall", Berlin, Germany. 1991 immigrated to Israel. 1992-1994 worked as a computer graphic artist, and then as an Art Director in the "Utopia" company, Haifa.

La nascita di Venere, 1863 | Émile Zola contro Cabanel

Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889), pittore francese, ottenne la grande fama nel 1863, con la Nascita di Venere, acquistata da Napoleone III nel 1863. Lo stesso anno, Cabanel venne nominato professore all'École des Beaux-Arts e membro dell'Académie des Beaux-Arts.

Cabanel, rigorosamente accademico nello stile, pittore di storia, di genere e ritrattista, fu nemico del Naturalismo e dell'Impressionismo, mentre fu attaccato dallo scrittore Émile Zola e da tutti coloro che difendevano la necessità di un'arte meno soave e più realista.

Monet: Ecco il mio atelier!

In una intervista, realizzata nell'aprile del 1880 da Emile Taboureux e pubblicata sul settimanale "Le Vie moderne" il 12 giugno 1880, al giornalista che gli chiedeva di mostrargli il suo studio, Claude Monet rispose:

- "Il mio atelier?

Ma non ho mai avuto un atelier, io, e non capisco come ci si possa chiudere in una stanza.

Per disegnare si, non certo per dipingere".

Quindi, in un gesto eloquente, puntato in direzione di Vétheuil e della Senna aggiunse:

- "Ecco il mio atelier!"

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Monet nel suo giardino, 1873

Kees van Dongen | Fauve painter

Cornelis Theodorus Maria "Kees" van Dongen (1877-1968) was a Dutch-French painter, who was one of the leading Fauves.

He took evening classes in geometric drawing from 1892-1897 at the Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Rotterdam.

In 1895 he began working intermittently for the newspaper Rotterdamsche Nieuwsblad, for which he made, among other things, a series of bright watercolour drawings of Rotterdam’s red-light district and illustrations of Queen Wilhelmina’s coronation.