Andrei Zadorin, 1960 | Memories..

Belarusian painter Андрей Задорин was born in Berezovka, Belarus.

He graduated from the Belarusian Institute of Arts in 1984 and completed graduate studies at the USSR Academy of Arts in Minsk in 1990.

Andrew draws inspiration from his memories of childhood, combining reality and imagination in his paintings.

Leonardo da Vinci | Come il pittore è signore d'ogni sorta di gente e di tutte le cose...

Trattato della Pittura - Parte prima /9

Il pittore è padrone di tutte le cose che possono cadere in pensiero all'uomo, perciocché s'egli ha desiderio di vedere bellezze che lo innamorino, egli è signore di generarle, e se vuol vedere cose mostruose che spaventino, o che sieno buffonesche e risibili, o veramente compassionevoli, ei n'è signore e creatore.

Leonardo da Vinci | Come chi sprezza la pittura non ama la filosofia, né la natura..

Trattato della Pittura - Parte prima /8

Se tu sprezzerai la pittura, la quale è sola imitatrice di tutte le opere evidenti di natura, per certo tu sprezzerai una sottile invenzione, la quale con filosofica e sottile speculazione considera tutte le qualità delle forme: mare, siti, piante, animali, erbe, fiori, le quali sono cinte di ombra e lume.

E veramente questa è scienza e legittima figlia di natura, perché la pittura è partorita da essa natura; ma per dir più corretto, diremo nipote di natura, perché tutte le cose evidenti sono state partorite dalla natura, dalle quali cose è nata la pittura.

Adunque rettamente la chiameremo nipote di essa natura e parente d'Iddio.

Julien Stappers | Still life with Flowers painter

Julien Stappers (1875-1960) was an Belgian flower painter, but also views of cities and paysages.

Training at the The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in Juliaan De Vriendt (1894-1899) and at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp (1899-1901). First exhibition in 1903.

A presentation to the "Rubens" Gallery in Brussels in 1959 and 1960, the "Jordaens" gallery in Ghent in 1957, 1959 and 1960.

Pablo Neruda | Love, how many roads.. | Amore, quanta strada..

Amore, quante strade per giungere a un bacio,
che solitudine errante fino alla tua compagnia!
I treni continuano a rotolare soli con la pioggia.
A Taltal ancora non albeggia la primavera.

Ma tu ed io, amor mio, siamo uniti,
uniti dai vestiti alle radici,
uniti d'autunno, d'acqua, di fianchi,
fino ad essere solo tu, sol io uniti.

Love, how many roads to obtain a kiss,

what lonely wanderings before finding you!

Trains now trundle through the rain without me.

Spring has yet to come to Taltal.

But you and I, my love, are together,

together from our clothes to our bones,

together in Autumn, in our water, at our hips,

until it's just you together, me together.

Leonardo da Vinci | Come l'occhio meno s'inganna ne' suoi esercizi..

Trattato della Pittura - Parte prima /7

Come l'occhio meno s'inganna ne' suoi esercizi, che nessun altro senso, in luminosi, o trasparenti, ed uniformi, e mezzi

L'occhio nelle debite distanze e debiti mezzi meno s'inganna nel suo ufficio che nessun altro senso, perché vede se non per linee rette, che compongono la piramide che si fa base dell'obietto, e la conduce ad esso occhio, come intendo provare.

Candice Bohannon, 1982

American painter Candice Bohannon Reyes was born in Sacramento, CA. Raised in the rural forested landscape of the foothills of the sierra Nevada mountains, her naturalistic aesthetic in art was honed from an early age. After high school, Bohannon enrolled in art college, and after intense studies in painting, drawing, sculpting, art history, philosophy and aesthetics, she graduated from the Laguna College of Art and Design in 2005 with a BFA in painting/drawing and a minor in sculpture. It was there at LCAD that Candice met her future husband, fellow artist and best friend, Julio Reyes. After nearly 10 years in southern California, they moved back to rural northern California where they currently reside.

Leonardo da Vinci | Come la pittura abbraccia le superficie, figure e colori..

Trattato della Pittura

Parte prima | Capitolo 6

Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura | Testo Integrale

Come la pittura abbraccia le superficie, figure e colori de' corpi naturali, e la filosofia sol s'estende nelle lor virtù naturali

Leonardo da Vinci | Come la pittura abbraccia tutte le superficie de' corpi..

Trattato della Pittura - Parte prima /5

La pittura sol si estende nella superficie de' corpi e la sua prospettiva si estende nell'accrescimento e decrescimento de' corpi e de' lor colori; perché la cosa che si rimuove dall'occhio perde tanto di grandezza e di colore quanto ne acquista di remozione.

Leonardo da Vinci | Delle scienze imitabili

Trattato della Pittura

Parte prima | Capitolo 4

Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura | Testo Integrale

Delle scienze imitabili, e come la pittura è inimitabile, però è scienza

Le scienze che sono imitabili sono in tal modo, che con quelle il discepolo si fa eguale all'autore, e similmente fa il suo frutto; queste sono utili all'imitatore, ma non sono di tanta eccellenza, quanto sono quelle che non si possono lasciare per eredità, come le altre sostanze.

Infra le quali la pittura è la prima; questa non s'insegna a chi natura nol concede, come fan le matematiche, delle quali tanto ne piglia il discepolo, quanto il maestro gliene legge.

Questa non si copia, come si fa le lettere, che tanto vale la copia quanto l'origine.

Leonardo da Vinci | Quale scienza e' piu' utile...

Trattato della Pittura

Parte prima | Capitolo 3

Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura | Testo Integrale

Quella scienza è più utile della quale il frutto è più comunicabile, e così per contrario è meno utile quella ch'è meno comunicabile.

La pittura ha il suo fine comunicabile a tutte le generazioni dell'universo, perché il suo fine è subietto della virtù visiva, e non passa per l'orecchio al senso comune col medesimo modo che vi passa per il vedere.

Adunque questa non ha bisogno d'interpreti di diverse lingue, come hanno le lettere, e subito ha satisfatto all'umana specie, non altrimenti che si facciano le cose prodotte dalla natura.

Leonardo da Vinci | Esempio e differenza tra pittura e poesia

Trattato della Pittura

Parte prima | Capitolo 2

Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura | Testo Integrale

Tal proporzione è dalla immaginazione all'effetto, qual è dall'ombra al corpo ombroso, e la medesima proporzione è dalla poesia alla pittura, perché la poesia pone le sue cose nella immaginazione di lettere, e la pittura le dà realmente fuori dell'occhio, dal quale occhio riceve le similitudini, non altrimenti che s'elle fossero naturali, e la poesia le dà senza essa similitudine, e non passano all'impressiva per la via della virtù visiva come la pittura.

Leonardo da Vinci | Se la pittura e' scienza

Trattato della Pittura

Parte prima | Capitolo 1

Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura | Testo Integrale

Scienza è detto quel discorso mentale il quale ha origine da' suoi ultimi principî, de' quali in natura null'altra cosa si può trovare che sia parte di essa scienza, come nella quantità continua, cioè la scienza di geometria, la quale, cominciando dalla superficie de' corpi, si trova avere origine nella linea, termine di essa superficie; ed in questo non restiamo satisfatti, perché noi conosciamo la linea aver termine nel punto, ed il punto esser quello del quale null'altra cosa può esser minore.

Adunque il punto è il primo principio della geometria; e niuna altra cosa può essere né in natura, né in mente umana, che possa dare principio al punto.

Leonardo Da Vinci | Se vuoi star sano..

Se vuoi star sano, osserva questa norma:

non mangiare senza voglia, e cena lieve;

mastica bene e quel che in te ricevi

sia ben cotto e di semplice forma.

Ritrovate a Monaco 1500 opere confiscate da Hitler

Da Picasso a Renoir, un tesoro artistico stimato un miliardo

ansa/ Un tesoro di 1500 opere d'arte per un valore stimato di oltre un miliardo confiscato dai nazisti durante il Terzo Reich e che si riteneva fosse perduto è stato ritrovato in un appartamento a Monaco di Baviera. Lo riporta il Mail online, secondo cui si tratta di capolavori di artisti come Pablo Picasso, Renoir, Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall. Gli esperti ritenevano che tutte quelle opere fossero andate perdute o distrutte sotto i bombardamenti.

Anna Ewa Miarczynska, 1961 | Surrealist painter

Polish painter Anna Ewa Miarczyska was born in Warsaw, Poland and that is where she has been living most of her life.

She graduated from Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Conservation of Painting and Polychrome Sculpture.

At first she worked as a heritage conservator. She was also involved in interior design, exhibitions, presentations and jewellery design.

Hsu Yin-Cheng / 許英正 | Abstract painter

Hsu Yin-Cheng / 許英正 is an Chinese painter, known for working in the Abstract style. Hsu Yin-Cheng live and work in Kaohsiung City.

Leonard Cohen / Tomasz Rut | Il vero amore non lascia tracce...

Come la nebbia non lascia ferite

Sul verde cupo della collina

Così il mio corpo non lascia ferite

Su di te e non lo farà mai.

Nel buio oltre le finestre

Vanno e vengono i bambini

Come frecce senza bersaglio

Come manette fatte di neve

As the mist leaves no scar

On the dark green hill

So my body leaves no scar

On you and never will

Through windows in the dark

The children come, the children go

Like arrows with no targets

Like shackles made of snow

Tomasz Rut

Sydney Long | Art Nouveau / Symbolist painter

Sydney Long (1871-1955) is Australia's foremost Art Nouveau style painter and a major Symbolist. In works such as The Spirit of the plains 1897, Pan 1898 and Fantasy c 1914, as well as in his many versions of Flamingoes, he created magical images.

Long's Art Nouveau paintings are like reveries, an escape from the everyday; they create a feeling of spiritual elevation, of another reality. And yet, seeking imagery which conveyed the 'lonely and primitive feelings of this country', he captured something of the soul and tone of the Australian bush.

Zoltan Molnos | The Transylvanian Dalí

It is now more than 80 years since the Surrealism, in a smoky Parisian café, was officially born, After long decades of peak and slow agony, when the world was still celebrating its most famous master, Salvador Dali, far from the French and Spanish lands, in a small Transylvanian town, inhabited by hard-working people of Hungarian minority, the surrealism had its second birth on the canvas of a that time unknown young Romanian painter, Zoltán Molnos.

It might seem curious that the surrealism, the most spectacular limb of the avant-garde movement, which had its philosophy in protesting against the inhumanity of the “civilised” world, had its renaissance in a city from Romania.

Alan Douar | Quando ti chiedi cos'è l'amore...

Quando ti chiedi cos'è l'amore,

immagina due mani ardenti

che si incontrano,

due sguardi perduti l'uno nell'altro,

due cuori che tremano

di fronte all'immensità di un sentimento,

e poche parole

per rendere eterno un istante.

When you ask what love is,

imagine two burning hands encountered,

two eyes lost in each other,

two hearts that tremble faced

with the enormity of a feeling,

and a few words to

make a moment forever.

Dorina Costras

Leonid Afremov | Romantic painter

Leonid Afremov [Леанід Афрэ́маў] (1955-2019) was born in city of Vitebsk.

Amazingly enough Leonid was born in the same town as Marc Chagall, the famous artist who also founded the Vitebsk Art School along with Malevich Kandinsky.

Tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and palette-knife.

Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world.

Each of my paintings brings different moods, colors and emotions.

Claudia Lucia McKinney ~ Cover artist

American artist Claudia Lucia McKinney is an Digital artist specializing in book covers for best selling authors.
"I've done over 300 covers to date - some of the authors I've done work for you may know -Kami Garcia, Samantha Young, Amanda Hocking, JL Bryan, Maria Rachel Hooley, Aaron Patterson and many more....
I've worked with Publishing Houses such as Random House, Simon & Schuster, Llewellyn, Flux, and others..."

Bertram Bahner, 1959

German photographer Bertram Bahner was born in Germany. He is well known with a pseudonym Kim Anderson, for his work with children. Kim Anderson photography career, now overseen from his home base in a Swiss mountainside village, began the way of many shutter bugs. His early photos focused on fashion and people, as well as photography for advertising agencies.

Christof Monnin, 1968 | Palette knife painter

French painter Christof Monnin was born in Lyon, France. The self-taught artist exposed his works for the first time in the age of 17 years and immediately won recognition and the main prize.

Being an adherent of a bright palette, he masterfully mixes colors, excellently combining almost incompatible red with the golden yellow.

Even more often working with a palette knife, making lines stiffer, he reaches a certain aggression in the transfer of forms which makes his works even more realistic. Peering into his works, it is possible to see, how a warm southern wind hardly sways flowers on a tree branches.

Arthur Schopenhauer: "Chi è amico di tutti non è amico di nessuno"

• Ogni giornata è una piccola vita,

ogni risveglio una piccola nascita,

ogni nuova mattina è una piccola giovinezza...

• Each day is a little life,

every waking and rising a little birth,

every fresh morning a little youth,

every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Igor Zenin

La crisi secondo Albert Einstein

"Non pretendiamo che le cose cambino se continuiamo a farle nello stesso modo.

La crisi può essere una vera benedizione per ogni persona e per ogni nazione,

perché è proprio la crisi a portare progresso.

La creatività nasce dall'angoscia, come il giorno nasce dalla notte oscura.

È nella crisi che nasce l'inventiva, le scoperte e le grandi strategie.

Giorgio De Chirico

Phoebe Anna Traquair | Arts and Crafts Movement painter

Inspired and visionary woman of her time, Phoebe Anna Traquair spent eight years of her life creating the herculean works which earned Mansfield Traquair the title of “Edinburgh’s Sistine Chapel”.
Her vivid, striking and truly beautiful murals interpret religious scenes, inspired by Blake and Renaissance, and reflect her status as an eminent figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement.
Born in Dublin, Phoebe Anna Moss (1852-1936) married Scots palaeontologist Dr Ramsay Traquair in 1873, and moved to Edinburgh the following year.

Nazim Hikmet: Sei la mia schiavitù, sei la mia libertà..

Sei la mia schiavitù, sei la mia libertà

sei la mia carne che brucia

come la nuda carne delle notti d'estate

Sei la mia patria

tu, coi riflessi verdi dei tuoi occhi

Katarzyna Kurkowska

Michael Gorban, 1956

Russian painter Michael Gorban was born in Russia. He studied art for 21 years with the finest of Russian artists and by age 30 his paintings were hanging alongside those of Dali, Kandinsky and Chagall in the prestigious Hermitage museum in Leningrad.
In 1990 Gorban left everything behind and emigrated to Israel. Today he is considered a first-rate Israeli artist, as well as being prominently featured with three of his paintings in the national album of Russian art history as one of the young artists to impact the 20th century between 1960 and 1980.
"Painting is a sensual experience", claims Gorban from his studio near Tel Aviv. "I will not sign my name until I am completely satisfied.... I have never painted under duress or according to order. My success comes from people feeling the same satisfaction that I myself felt upon completing the painting".

Alexandrina Karadjova | La Dolce Vita

Alexandrina Karadjova [Acrista] is a Bulgarian painter, who, for 10 years, charms the art-lovers with her exquisite, magic and feminine paintings, done in soft pastel - one of the most expressive art materials. Called “The artist of dolce vita” Karadjova impresses the admirers with her poetic vision of the world, her tenderness and color, that she also expresses with two other artistic materials - oil and acrylic. Since November 2010 Alexandrina is a member of the Pastel Guild of Europe.

Leaf Carving Art

Leaf Carving Art is a relatively new art form China, that will last for generations to come. This art is already exceeding all expectations in popularity. All our leaves are hand carved from an actual Chinar tree leaf which is put through a 60 step process to ensure everlasting quality and durability.

Addio a Giuliano Gemma !

Roma, 1 ottobre 2013 - L'attore Giuliano Gemma è morto in seguito a un incidente stradale vicino Roma.
L'attore, coinvolto in un impatto frontale mentre era a bordo della propria auto a Cerveteri, è stato trasportato all'ospedale di Civitavecchia e le sue condizioni sono apparse subito critiche. Gli altri due feriti, più lievi, sono un uomo con suo figlio [Ansa].

Valentin Rekunenko, 1955 | Fantasy painter

"Art is a world of fantasy, where everything is possible. Once I visited it, I understood that it is my house" - Valentin Rekunenko.

Ukrainian painter Валентин Рекуненко was born in Tokmak, Zaporozhzhya region, Ukraine.

Graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk Art College in 1974.

Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1987. Participated in many national and all-union art exhibitions.

Talk Triennale of Painting in Kiev in 1998 and 2001.

His works are in private galleries in Poland, Yugoslavia, Germany, Russia, the United States.

Hazel Soan, 1954 | British Watercolor painter

British painter Hazel Soan grew up in the UK and graduated with a BA hons in Fine Art after studying painting at Camberwell and Leicester Art Colleges.She was awarded the Holbrook Trust Prize from Nottingham Museum and Art Gallery in 1976 and within a year of her graduation, she was earning a living by her paintings, and her watercolors sold out within the first hour of her first exhibition in London. Hazel has since held over 20 solo exhibitions, heeding the advice of one of her college professors- ‘Always have an exhibition on the horizon’. She has held exhibitions from as far afield as the Namibia, Venezuela, South Africa and Zimbabawe to closer to home in the UK. She took advice from the same lecturer when he told her to have a studio of her own where she could work uninterrupted and also to travel in order to avoid getting in a rut. She now has a studio in West London and another in Cape Town.

Jean-Pierre Augier, 1950 | Metal sculptures

French sculptor Jean-Pierre Augier, was born in Nice, he lives and works in Saint-Antoine-de-Siga, between Levens and Saint-Blaise (Alpes-Maritimes, France).

As a child, he created with various materials. From 1963, he got interested in disused old tools and learned how to weld them. From that time on, he would only shape iron and then exhibit at «La Maison du Portal» in Levens, in several other French regions, but also in Paris, New York, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland.

Girel Oleg ~ Minimalist portraits

These Minimalist portraits by artist Girel Oleg eliminate all but a few colors to tell their story. Each image (originally a photograph) was digitally remixed, removing layer upon layer of detail to leave just contour lines and patches of richly textured color. It’s a simple, yet effective effect.

Włodzimierz Czurawski ~ Belarusian painter

Belarusian painter Włodzimierz Czurawski has graduated from the A.K. Glebow National Art Academy in Minsk. He has exhibited his art multiple times in his home country of Belarus. His work is characterised by its subtlety and calm, dimmed colour scheme. The artist in his landscape art or paintings still life using his masterful skills is able to create an effect of a magical depth.

The Leshan Giant Buddha / Il Buddha gigante di Leshan

The Leshan Giant Buddha (乐山大佛) was built during the Tang Dynasty (618–907AD). It is carved out of a cliff face that lies at the confluence of the Minjiang, Dadu and Qingyi rivers in the southern part of Sichuan province in China, near the city of Leshan. The stone sculpture faces Mount Emei, with the rivers flowing below his feet. It is the largest stone Buddha in the world and it is by far the tallest pre-modern statue in the world.
The Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996. It was not damaged by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

Egidio Antonaccio, 1954 ~ Realistic Impressionist painter

Italian painter Egidio Antonaccio is a Realistic Impressionist whose oil paintings express his love of nature and a man gifted with a rare talent. Having studied with some of the great Italian masters of fine art, he has developed a brilliant and commanding style. Born in Castelluccio, Italy, Egidio Antonaccio graduated from the Institute of Fine Art in Castrovillari, Italy, in 1973. Then in 1978, he graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy.

Sung Sam Park, 1949

Korean painter Sung Sam Park was born in Soeul, Korea where he began painting at the age of twelve. His talent and teaching abilities were quickly recognized and by the age of thirteen, while still a junior high school student, Park taught painting at the local high school.
Early on, Park attracted the attention of prominent artists and heads of state. Byen Si-Jin, former university president of Jo-Joo Island, was his private art teacher and mentor. The former president of South Korea, Yoon Bo-Sun, personally awarded him many First Places in the national competitions of the Mok-Woo Art Society. Park is still the youngest person ever to have competed in these competitions.

William Waterhouse | The Modern Pre-Raphaelite

British painter of classical, historical, and literary subjects, John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) was born in Rome, where his father worked as a painter.

In the 1850s the family returned to England. Before entering the Royal Academy schools in 1870, Waterhouse assisted his father in his studio.

His early works were of classical themes in the spirit of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Frederic Leighton, and were exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of British Artists and the Dudley Gallery.

Cha Soo Griffith | Cityscape painter

Korean painter Soo Cha Griffith lives in Knoxville, but her artist's spirit lives in the picturesque villages and gardens of Italy and France. Griffith paints and sketches a wide variety of subjects, but her favorites are old-world towns, streets, coastal areas, open meadows, flower gardens and people. Her favorite place to paint, she said, is around Lake Como in northern Italy, Griffith said.

Van Gogh | Scoperto il 'Tramonto a Montmajour', 1888

"Tramonto a Montmajour': questo il titolo del quadro di Vincent Van Gogh 'scoperto' dal Museo di Amsterdam dedicato al celebre pittore Olandese ed ora presentato al pubblico.

La paternità dell'opera, secondo le informazioni diffuse dal museo, è stata accertata attraverso il minuzioso lavoro condotto da due esperti che hanno esaminato la tecnica utilizzata, la tela, lo stile e tutti gli indizi disponibili.

Elena Drobysheva, 1976

Елена Дробышева is an Ukrainian painter, known for working with Watercolor in the Figurative style. Дробышева was born on 1976 in Ukraine, Russia.

Jacques Guignard, 1946 | French Surrealist painter

French painter Jacques Guignard “J.G” paints his first work at the age of 15. He studies at the renowned school l'École des Beaux Arts in Paris and as did Le Corbusier, follows the 2 careers of architect and painter.
With the turn of the century, comes his inspiration to transpose the world into a floral expression. Through a work rich in colors and precise in shapes and forms, “J.G” leads us a more detached look at the world around us. Our imagination wonders through his painting to sometimes reach poetry.

Elena Shlegel, 1965 | Romantic painter

"An artist lives partially in a dream - just like a poet does. I strive to reflect something impossible to exist…to allow an audience to see beyond the reality, to make up its own fairy-tale, to become a participator and a creator. And thus to feel happy for a moment…" says Elena Shlegel.