Edmund C. Tarbell | Impressionist painter

Edmund Charles Tarbell's (1862-1938) remarkable New Hampshire summer home is emblematic of the painter and his art.

Just as the artist's paintings draw upon traditional styles and motifs to construct an image of genteel New England, Tarbell's house blended the old and the new to create a rarefied atmosphere of history and domesticity.

On canvas, Tarbell repeatedly depicted modern life in terms of the past, arranging his female subjects in quiet interiors surrounded by icons of New England's glorious past, such as gate-leg tables, Chippendale chairs, and incense jars.

Tarbell's sitters read, knit, and drink tea as if in a historical vacuum.

August Gillé | Symbolist painter

August Gillé was a Belgian artist born in Mechelen in 1892 and died in Bonheiden in 1989. He was a painter and sculptor. Got his training in furniture manufacturing at the Academy in Mechelen (1910-1913).

Debuted as a furniture maker and sculptor. After the First World War, he started to focus on his great passion, painting. Then he took classes at the Academy in Mechelen (1919-1920) and Brussels (1922-1925).

As a painter, he evolved from expressionist figuration to spontaneous lyrical abstraction.

Realized approx. 10,000 works: oil paintings on canvas, drawings on paper, studies and sculptures.

Leonardo da Vinci | Della differenza ed ancora similitudine che ha la pittura con la poesia

Trattato della Pittura- Parte prima /19

La pittura ti rappresenta in un subito la sua essenza nella virtú visiva, e per il proprio mezzo, d'onde la impressiva riceve gli obietti naturali, ed ancora nel medesimo tempo, nel quale si compone l'armonica proporzionalità delle parti che compongono il tutto, che contenta il senso; e la poesia riferisce il medesimo, ma con mezzo meno degno dell'occhio, il quale porta nella impressiva piú confusamente e con piú tardità le figurazioni delle cose nominate che non fa l'occhio, vero mezzo infra l'obietto e l'impressiva, il quale immediate conferisce con somma verità le vere superficie e figure di quel che dinanzi se gli appresenta, dalle quali ne nasce la proporzionalità detta armonia, che con dolce concento contenta il senso, non altrimenti che si facciano le proporzionalità di diverse voci al senso dell'udito; il quale ancora è men degno che quello dell'occhio, perché tanto quanto ne nasce, tanto ne muore; ed è sí veloce nel morire come nel nascere.

Maurice Utrillo | Post-Impressionist painter

Maurice Utrillo, (1883-1955), French painter who was noted for his depictions of the houses and streets of the Montmartre district of Paris.

Born out of wedlock, Utrillo was the son of the model and artist Suzanne Valadon.

His father was not known, and he was given his name by a Spanish art critic, Miguel Utrillo. He had no instruction as an artist apart from that given by his mother, who herself was untutored.

Manuel Gil Perez (Spanish, 1925-1957)

Manuel Gil i Pérez was a painter.

He studied at the School of Fine Arts of Sant Carles in Valencia.

In 1951 he received a Count of Cartagena Scholarship with which he made brief stays in France and Italy.

After residing in the United Kingdom for a year, he took charge of the murals at the Ateneu Mercantil in Valencia.

In 1955 he participated in the first Autumn Salon.

In 1957 he founded the Parpalló Group together with Eusebi Sempere, Andreu Alfaro, Salvador SoriaAnd others

His painting can be framed within expressionism, abstraction and neofigurativism.