Édouard Manet, l'uomo che ha rimesso in discussione l'arte intera!

Amareggiato dalla virulenza delle critiche, nell'agosto del 1865 Manet decise di partire per la Spagna, patria di quel Velázquez che gli aveva ispirato così tanti quadri (a tal punto che iniziò a circolare il nomignolo «Don Manet y Courbetos y Zurbaran de las Batignolas»).

Dopo aver distrutto moltissime delle sue tele in un accesso di sconforto e di rabbia, l'artista si recò a Burgos, Valladolid e Madrid, ed al museo del Prado rimase incantato dai Velázquez (pittore che poté già ammirare de visu al museo spagnolo di Luigi Filippo) e dalla collezione dei dipinti antichi, italiani e nordici.

Il soggiorno spagnolo, d'altro canto, lo deluse, in quanto si rese conto di aver idealizzato troppo la Spagna, che sino ad allora era stato uno straripante repertorio di motivi (più volte dipinse scene legate alla corrida, senza d'altronde mai averne vista una).

Khalil Gibran | On pleasure / Il piacere

Pleasure is a freedom-song, But it is not freedom.

It is the blossoming of your desires,

But it is not their fruit.

It is a depth calling unto a height, But it is not the deep nor the high. It is the caged taking wing,

But it is not space encompassed.

Ay, in very truth, pleasure is a freedom song.

And I fain would have you sing it with fullness of heart; yet I would not have you lose your hearts in the singing.

Some of your youth seek pleasure as if it were all, and they are judged and rebuked.

I would not judge nor rebuke them. I would have them seek.

For they shall find pleasure, but not her alone;

Seven are her sisters, and the least of them is more beautiful than pleasure.

Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?

Ron Barsano, 1945 | Figurative / Abstract painter

American painter Ron Barsano, was born and raised in Chicago Illinois just two blocks from Wrigley Field.

Immediately after High School he started a five year intense fine art program studying drawing and painting under the European taught masters William Mosby and Joseph Vanden Broucke at the American Academy of Art also in Chicago.

Ron moved to Taos, New Mexico in 1970 and became one of the co-founders of the famous "Taos Six".

He currently lives in Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico and shows his work at his Studio Gallery.

Viatcheslav Plotnikov, 1962 | Glamour of Monte Carlo

Viatcheslav Plotnikov was born in Russia. Since a young boy, Plotnikov knew which road his professional life would take. He couldn't of course have foreseen the good fortune he would have, but was however reassured and encouraged by his teachers of the art school: they recognised in him a great pictorial energy and sensed his talent.

Plotnikov was sustained by an intense desire to know and by an unshakeable will to perfect his work: he knew how important it was to master every technique and every style, because from this knowledge he would have been able to germinate a new art.

The neoclassicism would have represented the foundations of a new structure. The dedication and great passion he put into his studies slowly guaranteed the acquisition of a fascinating new knowledge: his character was strengthened internalising the example of the great painters of the past.

Pablo Neruda | The Kiss / Il Bacio / El beso

I'll send you a kiss in the wind

and I know you feel,

you turn around without seeing me, but I'll be there

We are made ​​of the same stuff

of which dreams are made ​​of

I would like to be a white cloud

in an endless sky

to follow you everywhere and loving every moment.

If you are a dream, do not wake me

I would live in your breath

while you watch mad about you

Your dreams will be dreaming of me

I love you because you see reflected

in everything that is beautiful

Tell me where are you tonight

in my dreams again?

O Capitano! Mio Capitano! / O Captain! My Captain! | Walt Whitman, 1865

After Abraham Lincoln’s🎨 assassination in 1865, Walt Whitman (American🎨 poet, essayist and journalist, 1819-1892) wrote “O Captain My Captain”. The poem is written in a form of an elegy and is aimed to honor the sixteenth president of the United States.

The entire poem itself provides extended metaphor that implies comparisons between seemingly dissimilar things, for the U.S. after the Civil War and the killing of the President Lincoln.

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;

The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;

The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,

While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:

But O heart! heart! heart!

O the bleeding drops of red,

Where on the deck my Captain lies,

Fallen cold and dead.

Thomas Eakins 1844-1916 | Sketch for the Portrait of Walt Whitman, 1887

Bill Mack, 1949 | Relief sculptor

The impact of Bill Mack's art is achieved not only by his dramatic portrayal of the human form, but also by the utilization of a wide variety of materials with which to execute his artistic vision.

The final work emerges as a classic example of the interplay of form and materials.

For over 35 years, American sculptor Bill Mack has created sculpture in relief and in the round for government, corporate and private collections.

His art hangs in galleries in four continents and he has had exhibits in Tokyo, England, France and Germany.

In reference to his interest in relief sculpture, Mack states, A lot of sculptors have no reason to do it and they just don't develop in that direction.

Troy Brooks, 1972 | Pop-Surrealist painter

Toronto-based artist Troy Brooks is a contemporary surrealist painter known for his elaborate oil paintings dominated by towering women enveloped in a landscape of visual metaphor.

His heroine plays out intimate scenes, usually caught in moments where something transformative has or is about to happen.

Giulio Romano | Renaissance / Mannerist painter

Giulio Romano🎨, also known as Giulio Pippi, (c. 1499 - 1 November 1546) was an Italian painter🎨 and architect. A pupil of Raphael🎨, his stylistic deviations from high Renaissance🎨 classicism help define the 16th-century style known as Mannerism🎨.

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

• Giulio Romano | Mannerist painter🎨

Ambrosius Benson | Northern Renaissance painter

Ambrosius Benson (c. 1495/1500, in Ferrara or Milan - 1550, in Flanders) was an Italian painter who became a part of the Northern Renaissance.

While many surviving paintings have been attributed, there is very little known of him from records, and he tended not to sign his work.

He is believed to be responsible for mainly religious art, but also painted portraits on commission.

He sometime painted from classical sources, often setting the figures in modern-dress, or a contemporary domestic setting.

Elena Vizerskaya, 1980 | Surrealist photographer

Elena Vizerskaya / Елка Визерская - Kassandra, is wonderful talented Russian🎨 photographer specialized in photo manipulating. She creates enigmatic universes teeming details with surgical precision. Graduated with flying colors from a children’s art school in 1994. Graduated from the Boychuk College of Decorative Arts and Design in Kiev, Ukraine in 2000.

The year 2001 saw me pursue a rather eclectic mix of design projects spanning practically all relevant areas, with the exception of web design and ikebana.

This mixed bag would engage my creativity for the next 3 years.

- In 2004, however, I happily took time off to experience the joys of motherhood, which, among other things, gave me a new sense of creative direction as I decided to concentrate on photography. I’ve kept at it with a passion ever since.

Rosso Fiorentino | Musician Angel, 1522

Playing putto / Musical Angel is a fragment of a lost altarpiece which probably depicted the Madonna and Child with Saints.

This little work belonging to the period of maturity of the artist.

In 1605 the picture was collocated in the Tribune beside the more precious masterworks Medici family had collected.

Recent studies revealed the panel to be a fragment of a larger painting including - such as other altarpieces by Rosso - the angel in the lower part of the scene.

Michelangelo Buonarroti | Life and Sculptures

Michelangelo, in full Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475, Caprese, Republic of Florence -died February 18, 1564, Rome, Papal States) Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.

Michelangelo was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime, and ever since then he has been held to be one of the greatest artists of all time.

A number of his works in painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in existence.

Michelangelo | Pietà for Vittoria Colonna, 1538-44

"The Pietà for Vittoria Colonna" is a black chalk drawing on cardboard (28.9×18.9 cm) by Michelangelo Buonarroti, dated to about 1538-44 and kept at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

History

Michelangelo became acquainted with Vittoria Colonna (1492-1547, marchioness of Pescara, was an Italian noblewoman and poet) around 1538.

Their lively friendship gained Michelangelo admission to her social circles, and he became acquainted with issues of church reform.

For Colonna, Michelangelo executed several paintings in the fifth decade of the sixteenth century.

All of them are now lost or of controversial attribution, but several sketches and copies by students and admirers of Michelangelo have been preserved.

Apart from a famous Crucifixion, Michelangelo's most notable work for Vittoria Colonna is a Pietà, of which a remarkable drawing is exhibited at Boston.

Giorgio Vasari racconta Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1550

Mentre gli industriosi et egregii spiriti col lume del famosissimo Giotto e de gli altri seguaci suoi si sforzavano dar saggio al mondo de ’l valore che la benignità delle stelle e la proporzionata mistione degli umori aveva dato a gli ingegni loro e, desiderosi di imitare con la eccellenzia della arte la grandezza della natura, per venire il piú che e’ potevano a quella somma cognizione che molti chiamano intelligenzia, universalmente, ancora che indarno si affaticavano, il benignissimo Rettor del Cielo volse clemente gli occhi a la terra e, veduta la vana infinità di tante fatiche, gli ardentissimi studii senza alcun frutto e la opinione prosuntuosa degli uomini, assai piú lontana da ’l vero che le tenebre da la luce, per cavarci di tanti errori si dispose mandare in terra uno spirito, che universalmente in ciascheduna arte et in ogni professione fusse abile, operando per sé solo a mostrare che cosa siano le difficultà nella scienza delle linee, nella pittura, nel giudizio della scultura e nella invenzione della veramente garbata architettura.

Charles Edward Perugini | Victorian Era painter

Charles Edward Perugini (1839-1918) was an Italian-born British painter of the Victorian era.

Perugini was born in Naples, but lived with his family in England from the ages of six to 17.

He trained in Italy under Giuseppe Bonolis and Giuseppe Mancinelli, and in Paris under Ary Scheffer. He became a protégé of Lord Leighton, who brought him back to England in 1863.

Kal Gajoum, 1968 | Cityscape painter

Kal Gajoum🎨 is an artist from Tripoli, Libya who currently resides in British Columbia, Quebec, Canada.

Kal Gajoum lived for extended periods of time in Malta, England and Paris before moving to Vancouver, British Columbia.

During these periods he earnestly studied fine art at the knee of some of the greatest teachers in Europe where he fell in love with the post-impressionist style.

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

• Kal Gajoum, 1968 | Cityscape / Palette Knife painter🎨

Giacomo Ceruti | Baroque / Genre / Portrait painter

Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti (October 13, 1698 - August 28, 1767) was an Italian🎨 late Baroque painter🎨, active in Northern Italy in Milan, Brescia, and Venice. He acquired the nickname Pitocchetto (the little beggar) for his many paintings of peasants dressed in rags.

He was born in Milan, but worked primarily in Brescia. He may have been influenced early by Antonio Cifrondi and/or Giacomo Todesco (Todeschini), and received training from Carlo Ceresa. While he also painted still-life paintings and religious scenes, Ceruti is best known for his genre paintings, especially of beggars and the poor, whom he painted realistically and endowed with unusual dignity and individuality.

Ceruti gave particular attention to this subject matter during the period 1725-1740, and about 50 of his genre paintings from these years survive.

Arturo Ricci | Genre painter

Arturo Ricci was born in Florence 19th April 1854. He studied in Florence under Tito Conti (1842-1924), a painter of genre renowned for "… the grace of his figures, precision of drawing and strength of his colours", Ricci was to surpass his master in all facets of his work.

Painting figurative subjects, genre scenes and scenes from family life, Ricci soon established himself as one of the foremost artists in Europe in the field of historical costume genre.

Fellow artists in this specific field included Vittorio Reggianini born 1858 in Modena, and Charles Frederick Soulacroix (1825-1879) in Paris.

Tomasz Alen Kopera, 1976 | Magic Realism painter

Polish painter Tomasz Alen Kopera was born in Kożuchów, Poland.

He attended the University of Technology in Wrocław, where he gained a degree in construction engineering.

His artistic talent came to light already in early childhood.

Tomasz paints in oil on canvas.

Human nature and the mysteries of the Universe are his inspiration.

His paintings permeate with symbols that often relate to human psyche and man’s relation with the surrounding world.

Tintoretto | 500th anniversary of the birth of the Venetian painter

In celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Jacopo Tintoretto (1519-1594), the National Gallery of Art, Washington and the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia with the special cooperation of the Gallerie dell’Accademia, will organize a major exhibition on the Venetian master.

• Following its opening at the Palazzo Ducale, Venice, beginning in September 2018, Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice will travel to the Gallery - its only other venue - from March 10 through July 7, 2019.

As the first retrospective of the artist in North America, the exhibition will include many significant international loans traveling to the U.S. for the first time.

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio | Renaissance painter

Born in Milan, Boltraffio (1467-1516), sometimes called Giovanni Antonio Beltraffio, was a painter of the High Renaissance said to work with Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).

This is partially confirmed by the biographer, Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) and also from Leonardo’s note of a Gian Antonio working in his studio.

There is also the evidence that Boltraffio painted closely to the style of da Vinci at the time.

Lisa Yuskavage, 1962 | Figurative painter

Lisa Yuskavage is an American artist🎨 who lives and works in New York City. She is known for her figure paintings, in which seemingly ignoble subjects are depicted with classic, historical techniques.

Yuskavage was born in 1962 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and studied abroad during her third year through the Tyler School of Art’s program in Rome, before obtaining her BFA in 1984. Yuskavage received her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 1986.

She had a New York exhibit sell out before it opened, and one of her paintings sold at auction for more than $1 million.

In September 2015, Lisa Yuskavage: The Brood opened at the Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Guercino | Baroque painter

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591-1666) was called Guercino in reference to his pronounced squint.

He was the leading Bolognese painter after the death of Guido Reni. His earlier pictures typically combine the chiaroscuro effects of Caravaggio with a charm and softness not usually found in followers of this artist.

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Salvatore Romano, 1957 | Symbolist painter

Salvatore Romano was born in Palermo and after his artistic studies at the Art Institute of Palermo and the Academy of Fine Arts of the painting course he moved to Florence, where he still lives and works.

He has held many collective and fifteen personal exhibitions.

His art has always been oriented towards New Symbolism.

National critics such as Marcello Venturoli, Dino Pasquali, Francesco Carbone, Nicolò D’Alessandro and Roberto Roda have dealt with him.

Tintoretto | Mannerist painter

Tintoretto (1519-1594) was an artist of immense output and dramatic style who emerged from the Venetian School of painting.

He was one of the best known Venetian painters next to Titian (1485-1576), having very briefly trained under the master.

Tintoretto had high ambitions, and adorned an inscription in his studio that said, "Michelangelo’s design and Titian’s Color".

In this he sought to produce the brilliant compositional methods of Michelangelo, while using the bold coloring of Titian; a goal of the highest order for Renaissance painting.

Duffy Sheridan, 1947 | Realistic Figurative painter

Duffy Sheridan, American painter🎨, has been painting since he was a child. His father, also an artist, encouraged him to learn to paint anything and everything. He has traveled the world and dedicated his artistic life to the discovery and expression of beauty as he sees it.

Although he and his family spent many years in relative seclusion in the far corners of the world, Sheridan's work has attracted the attention of collectors on five continents.

Since returning to the United States in 1991, his work has received international acclaim and he has been designated a Living Master by the Art Renewal Center.

His paintings can be found in prestigious institutions from a Cathedral in the South Pacific to the US Air Force Academy to corporate headquarters in Manhattan, as well as in the private residences of kings, judges, bishops, doctors and collectors all over the world.

For over 35 years the teachings of the Baha'i Faith have been the primary influence of Sheridan's life and work and have dominated his continual search for that balance of craftsmanship and artistic expression which has the ability to elevate, in some small way, the human condition.

Tomek Setowski, 1961 | Pittore del Realismo Magico

Il pittore polacco Tomek Sętowski è nato a Czestochowa, dove risiede tuttora e dove si trova la sua galleria principale chiamata "Museo dell'immaginazione".

Sętowski incontrò la pittura quando aveva solo 3 anni e la passione lo portò a frequentare con profitto l’Accademia delle Belle Arti della sua città natale.

Espose per la prima volta nel 1988, alla Galleria Der Sparkasse di Iserlohn, Germania ed immediatamente dopo fecero seguito mostre in Francia, Svezia, Svizzera, Polonia ed il favore della critica, così come l’interesse di numerose gallerie, sia in patria che all’estero, arriva nel 1995, grazie a una collettiva organizzata in strada, denominata Surrealisti Polacchi.

Il definitivo successo sarebbe arrivato appena 3 anni dopo, quando la prestigiosa Stricoff Fine Art Gallery di New York, in cerca di nuovi volti che potessero offrire interpretazioni originali, fra decine di talenti selezionati, decise di puntare su Sętowski.

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Polish Art has often reflected European trends while maintaining its unique character.

The Kraków school of Historicist painting developed by Jan Matejko produced monumental portrayals of customs and significant events in Polish history.

He is referred to as the most famous Polish painter or even the "national painter" of Poland.

Stanisław Witkiewicz was an ardent supporter of Realism in Polish art, its main representative being Jozef Chełmoński.

Stanisław Witkiewicz (Polish painter, illustrator, art critic and theoretician, a writer, 1851-1915 )

Maria Gruza | Figurative painter

Maria Jolanta Gruza graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

She graduated interior designer. She also studied painting in the studio prof. Romualda.

Since 1981 is member of the Union of Polish Artists. Her pictures are in the hands of private collectors in Europe, America and Australia.

Manet ed il Realismo

Già negli esordi l'arte di Manet apparve indubbiamente connotata da pressanti esigenze realiste, a tal punto che arrivò persino aa infuriarsi con il maestro Couture, troppo legato agli accademismi («insomma, vi comportate così quando andate a comprare un mazzo di ravanelli dalla vostra fruttivendola?»).

A turbarlo in particolar modo era in particolare la mancanza di naturalezza delle pose adottate dalle modelle:

«Vedo che ha dipinto una finanziera. E di eccellente fattura. Ma dove sono finiti i polmoni della modella? Sembra che sotto l’abito non respiri. Come se non avesse un corpo. È un ritratto da sarto».

Vijender Sharma, 1962 | Surrealist / Metaphysical painter

Vijender Sharma did his MFA from College of Art, New Delhi.

He has had several shows with many prestigious galleries.

He has participated in Rashtrapati Bhawan, Harmony Shows, Sacred Space, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; Silent Auction, French Embassy; Auction by Tehelka and Bonhams, London among many others.

He has attended camps at Turkey, Paris, Venice, Malaysia, Thailand among others.

Sharma has received the Artist of the year Award, Harmony, Sahitya Kala Parishad Award, Delhi and Pt Ravi Shankar Award, College of Art Delhi.

He is a part of all major public and private collections.

He lives and works in Delhi.

Pablo Neruda / Lisa G. | Here I Love You / Qui ti amo

Qui ti amo.

Negli oscuri pini si districa il vento.

Brilla la luna sulle acque erranti.

Trascorrono giorni uguali che s'inseguono.

Here I love you.

In the dark pines the wind disentangles itself.

The moon glows like phosphorous on the vagrant waters.

Days, all one kind, go chasing each other.

La nebbia si scioglie in figure danzanti.

Un gabbiano d'argento si stacca dal tramonto.

A volte una vela. Alte, alte, stelle.

O la croce nera di una nave.

Dragan Ilic Di Vogo, 1962 | Fantastic / Surrealist painter

Dragan Ilic Di Vogo is an contemporary, magic realism, surrealism artist🎨 who works and live in Serbia, full-time Artist for over 20 years, ship work worldwide.

Born on 7th September 1962, in Belgrade, Serbia.

- Professional artist painter since 1990.

- Since 1991 he has had a number of solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions: Vienna, Pozarevac, Belgrade, Herceg Novi, Pristina, Sarajevo, Gornji Milanovac, Banja Luka, Athens, Paris, Los Angeles, Graz, Castroreale, Madrid, Rome.

- Enjoys the status of independent artist since 2001.

- Member of the art group Paralaksa.

- Member of the association of painters Esnaf.

- Member of the association of painters Art of imagination.

- Member of the art group Libelulle.

- He lives and paints in Belgrade, deliberately.

Suchitra Bhosle, 1975 | Figurative painter

Suchitra Bhosle is an India-born artist based in California. Suchitra paints in a representational realistic style drawing inspiration from 20th century Naturalist painters.

She embraces impressionism to depict everyday representational scenes. Suchitra excels at capturing and expressing the mood of her subjects, often in contemplative classical settings.

This lends a timeless yet intimate quality to her paintings.

Though primarily a portrait and figurative painter, she has recently been painting urban and architectural subjects.

Suchitra is represented in leading fine art galleries across USA including Santa Fe, Washington D.C., Carmel and Houston.

Lluís Ribas, 1949 | Figurative painter

Spanish artist Ribas was born in Masnou, Spain, a coastal town in the Maresme district near Barcelona.

Ribas spent hours on the beach tracing his first drawings in the sand. His mother dreamed of a life for him that would be less difficult than that of a fisherman. At nine years of age he began studying drawing and painting with Jose Maris Martinez.

He entered the “Escuela Massana” in Barcelona when he was 13. At the age of 25, Ribas held his first one-man exhibition which immediately earned him international acclaim.

Galla Fattah, 1970 | Symbolist painter | Touching Egypt

Russian painter🎨 Galla Abdel Fattah / Галла Абдель Фаттах is born in Moscow.

One has just the feeling of that mysterious attractiveness when meets that woman fragile, helpless, amazingly beautiful, her profile reminds portraits of Egyptian empresses. Especially, if you can see her among lambent gold of her pictures.

But when you start talking to her it is like the mist clears away and features of a very Russian, soft, poetic character come out through a bright, eastern appearance; it is an astonishing combination making this woman even more fascinating. How was such a mixture born? What does it promise? In what creative form such a spirit can be realized? I believe everyone asks these questions who becomes acquainted with Galla and her works.

She admitted that she had not turned to Egyptian themes in art for many years, but the roots are powerful and sooner or later they reflect in artist’s work, find their form of existence on canvas. Grown up in Russia with traditional values of Russian fine arts at a certain moment Galla discovered the harmony of ancient Russian icon painting and Egyptian symbolism, their graphical fineness.

Eugène Bégarat, 1943 | Post-impressionist painter

Eugène Begarat was born at Nice. In 1960, he entered the "Ecole des Arts Décoratifs de Nice", in 1964 at the "Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris". His first holidays were at Venice and Murano.

He set himself up in Brittany and became interested in the Pont-Aven school and with Nabists such as Felix Valoton et Maurice Denis.

Later, he went on a series of trips to Italy, Morocco, Tunis, and Spain before returning to Paris to the l'Oise, and in 1993 to Provence.

René Miessen (Bellor) | Symbolist painter

Bellor is the pseudonym of the Belgian symbolist painter René Miessen (1911-2000).

He was born in Arlon in Belgium on July 30, 1911. At the age of 15, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in his hometown, and after four years of studies at the Architecture Academy of Tournai, his father could no longer financially support his studies.

Established in Brussels and enters the active life in the field of advertising where he made an important career, but his true passion is painting.

Cristina Iotti, 1965 | Photorealism / Figurative painter

Italian painter🎨 Cristina Iotti is born in Sassuolo, Italy where she lives and works. She graduated at the European Institute of design (IED) of Milan in 1987 with a degree in Illustration.

From 1988-2001 she worked professionally for 13 years as a tile- designer for graphic arts and serigraphic studios. She also designed sketches for prints on sweaters and illustrations for packaging and children books.

In 2002 she decided to dedicate herself full time to painting and since then she has participated in national and international group and solo-exhibitions.

In addition to this she has been shortlisted in several and important national and international Prizes🎨 and Art-competitions receiving prizes and acclaim.

Through a personal chromatic choice and photographic framing, yet keeping the link with ancient techniques, she describes, with highly detailed accuracy and attention to details, contemporary and everyday events.

Danilo Ricciardi, 1958 | Figurative painter

Italian painter Danilo Ricciardi was born in Siracusa, located near the southeastern corner of Sicily on the Ionian coast.

At the age of 12 he produced his first canvas with oil paints.

He became a full-time painter at the age of 22.

His paintings have been exhibited in Geneva, Malta, New York, Rome, in many cities in Italy.

Auguste Rodin | Hands of a pianist

Fascinated by the expressive qualities of the hands, French🎨 sculptor Auguste Rodin🎨 sculpted hands more than he did any other part of the body.

As revealing as a face, they are sometimes capable, on their own, of symbolizing an entire of human activity, like the Hand of a Pianist which seems to run along an imaginary piano with nervous energy.

Kal Gajoum, 1968 | Cityscape / Palette Knife painter

Kal Gajoum, Libyan painter, was born in Tripoli. His interest in art was sparked at a very early age. In fact, he was only ten years old when he entered his first art competition. Later on he was introduced to oil painting and palette knife techniques by friend of the family who were artist in attendance at the Leonardo da Vinci school of art in Rome.

He held his first exhibition in 1983 in Tripoli.

He moved to Paris to learn watercolor techniques and the Parisian style of painting from a private artist. Then returned to Tripoli in 1992 to give an exhibition.

In Malta he spent his time as a professional artist where he spent seven years working for the Royal Fine Art Gallery and also during this time continuing his pursuit of artistic knowledge.

He traveled to Tunisia during this time to give exhibitions.

In 2000 Gajoum found himself in Britain where he ran the Center of Britain Art Gallery. He started a permanent exhibition in the City of Carlisle where he steadily developed his palette knife techniques and put together a set of four limited edition watercolor prints of the city. Which he sold with the proceeds going to a local charity.

In 2003 Gajoum immigrated to Canada where he now resides in British Columbia and Quebec. He now concentrates on cityscapes and still life’s using his palette knife techniques in oil on canvas.

Richard Macneil, 1956 | Cityscape painter | Part.3

Richard Macneil🎨 is an British artist🎨 that captures the colors of life in his oil paintings.

Self-taught artist, Macneil has always worked in the creative industries in a wide range of disciplines including sculpture, ceramics and graphics.

Richard Macneil was born in Worcester.

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

• Richard Macneil, 1958 | Cityscape / Figurative painter🎨

Happy New Year! | Vintage Greeting Cards

New Year's Day, also called simply New Year's or New Year, is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar.

In pre-Christian Rome under the Julian calendar, the day was dedicated to Janus, god of gateways and beginnings, for whom January is also named. As a date in the Gregorian calendar of Christendom, New Year's Day liturgically marked the Feast of the Naming and Circumcision of Jesus, which is still observed as such in the Anglican Church and Lutheran Church.

Claude Verlinde, 1927 | Fantastic Realism painter

Claude Verlinde is a French painter🎨 who works in the vein of “fantastic realism”, sometimes called “magic realism”, and his work shows the lineage of fantastical art from Bruegel🎨 and Bosch🎨 to the Surrealists🎨 and contemporary magic realism.

I would also suspect that a number of the Surrealists, and certainly contemporary magic realists, were influenced by his work (not to mention the production designers of the Harry Potter movies).

Claude Verlinde found his vocation very early and entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the Academy de la Grande Chaumiere at the age of twenty. Soon, the richness of his painting, its great sensitivity controlled by technique, made Verlinde undisputed master of visionary art of our time.

Distinctions: Chevalier of Arts and Letters 1986, Medal🎨 of the City of Paris.

Beethoven's love letters to his immortal beloved, 1812

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a German composer and pianist.

A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Classical music, he remains one of the most recognized and influential of all composers.

After his death in 1827, the following love letter was found amongst the personal papers of Ludwig van Beethoven, penned by the composer over the course of two days in July of 1812 while staying in Teplice.

Julius Schmid (Viennese painter, 1854-1935)| Beethoven's walk in nature

Richard Macneil, 1956 | Cityscape / Figurative painter

British painter🎨 Richard Macneil🎨 is a self taught artist who has always worked in the creative industry. Born in Worcester, UK in 1958, he started his working life at Worcester Royal Porcelain and has always worked in the fields of sculpture, ceramics and graphics both in the UK and internationally.

Richard spent many years in the USA where his company Bronn Fine Art, produced large, exclusive sculptures of American western art. One of his greatest achievements was seeing his artwork displayed in the Oval office of The White House.

Juliette Aristides, 1971 | Realist painter

American artist🎨 Juliette Aristides is a mid-career artist living in Seattle, Washington. She has studied at The National Academy of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. Aristides is an Elizabeth Greenshields Grant recipient. Juliette Aristides is actively dedicated to rebuilding a traditional arts education in the United States.

She was an original member of the Water Street Atelier and currently teaches at The Seattle Academy of Fine Art, where she founded the award winning🎨 Classical Atelier Program.

Founder and instructor of the Aristides Atelier at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, WA, Aristides teaches workshops both nationally and internationally and is author of:

• Classical Drawing Atelier;
• Classical Painting Atelier;
• Lessons in Classical Drawing with Watson-Guptill, NY.