Alberto Salietti (Italian painter, 1892-1961)

Alberto Salietti (Ravenna, 1892 - Chiavari, 1961) was an Italian painter🎨.

Salietti was born in Ravenna and moved to Milan when child.

An eclectic character in the artistic universe of the first half of the century, he played two parts with expertise: he was the secretary of the group “Novecento” where he meticulously handled both national and international relationships and left a wealth of information in the archives; and painter "amongst the most significant contemporary artists" as how Ugo Nebbia has consecrated him.

Alberto Salietti (Ravenna,15 marzo 1892 - Chiavari, 19 settembre 1961) è stato un pittore Italiano🎨.

Nasce a Ravenna il 15 marzo 1892, figlio e nipote di decoratori murali. Dopo aver iniziato a lavorare con il padre, frequenta fino al 1914 l'Accademia di Brera, ove ha come maestri Cesare Tallone e Mentessi.

Dopo aver partecipato alla Prima guerra mondiale, riprende la sua attività, esponendo dal 1920 alle Biennali di Venezia.

Fu tra i fondatori delle Mostre del Novecento Italiano e fece parte del gruppo "Sette pittori moderni", alla Galleria Milano, con Carrà, Sironi, Tosi, Bernasconi, Funi e Piero Marussig.

Fu socio onorario dell'Accademia di Brera.

Nel 1936 la Wiener Secession lo nominò suo membro corrispondente.

Dal 1933-1936 fece parte del Consiglio Superiore per le Antichità e Belle Arti; fu insignito di due onorificenze all'estero.

I suoi principali soggetti sono paesaggi, ritratti e nature morte.

Ha opere in pubbliche gallerie: a Roma - Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna, Firenze, Milano, Torino, Berlino, Zurigo, Monaco, Berna, Montevideo, Cleveland, Mosca, Parigi, Varsavia.

Fra le mostre in cui ottenne premi citiamo:

• I° Internazionale di Barcellona, 1929; 
• Budapest, 1936;
• la Mostra dell'Istituto Carnegie di Pittsburgh, 1936;
• l'Esposizione mondiale di Parigi, 1937;
• la II e III Quadriennale Roma;
• la XXIII Biennale di Venezia (nel 1942, ricevendo il Gran Premio per la pittura);
• la mostra La Bella Italiana, a Milano, nel 1952;
• il Premio Marzotto, nel 1955 e 1956;
• il Premio Garzanti nel 1957;
• il Premio del Comune di Milano nel 1959;
• la medaglia d'oro a Firenze, al Premio del Fiorino, nel 1961;
• la XXII Biennale d'Arte alla Permanente di Milano, nel 1961, il premio Bagutta-Vergani.

Herbert Draper | Victorian Neoclassical painter

Herbert James Draper (1863-1920) was an British painter whose career began in the Victorian Era and extended through the first two decades of the 20th century.

In 1894 was the beginning of Draper's most productive period.

He focused mainly on mythological themes from ancient Greece.

His painting "The Lament For Icarus" from 1898 won the gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900 and was later bought for the Tate Gallery by the Chantrey Trustees.

Édouard Manet (1832-1883) | Legacy

Legacy

Manet's public career lasted from 1861, the year of his first participation in the Salon, until his death in 1883. His known extant works, as catalogued in 1975 by Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, comprise 430 oil paintings, 89 pastels, and more than 400 works on paper.

Although harshly condemned by critics who decried its lack of conventional finish, Manet's work had admirers from the beginning.

One was Émile Zola, who wrote in 1867: "We are not accustomed to seeing such simple and direct translations of reality. Then, as I said, there is such a surprisingly elegant awkwardness ... it is a truly charming experience to contemplate this luminous and serious painting which interprets nature with a gentle brutality".

Japanese Artists | Sitemap

Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture, ink painting and calligraphy on silk and paper, ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints, ceramics, origami, and more recently manga which is modern Japanese cartoons and comics along with a myriad of other types.

It has a long history, ranging from the beginnings of human habitation in Japan, sometime in the 10th millennium BC, to the present-day country.

Japan has been subject to sudden invasions of new ideas followed by long periods of minimal contact with the outside world.

Over time the Japanese developed the ability to absorb, imitate, and finally assimilate those elements of foreign culture that complemented their aesthetic preferences.

Yosuke Ueno, 1977 ~ Pop Surrealist painter

Atsushi Suwa / 諏訪敦, 1967 | Realist figure painter

Born in Hokkaido, Japan, Atsushi Suwa studied oil painting at Musashino Art University, graduating in 1992.

Two years later he was nominated by the Department of Culture of Japan to be an Overseas Art Trainee and traveled to Spain.

In 1995, he became the first Asian artist to receive the top award at the 5th International Painting Competition, presented by the Fundacion Barcelo in Mallorca, Spain.

After resuming his career in Japan, he went on to receive the Award for Excellence at the 22nd Rising Artists Exhibition, presented by the Sompo Japan Museum of Art in 2003.

Rabindranath Tagore | Vorrei.../ I long to sit silent by you..

Vorrei dirti le più profonde parole d’amore,

ma non oso, per timore che tu rida.

Ecco perché mi burlo di me stesso e del mio segreto.

Derido il mio dolore per paura che tu faccia lo stesso.

Victor Nizovtsev

Rogier Van Der Weyden | The Descent from the Cross, c. 1435

The Descent from the Cross was commissioned by the Greater Guild of Crossbowmen of Leuven in today's Belgium and was originally installed in the Chapel of Our Lady Without the Walls. The tiny crossbows in the side spandrels of the picture reflect the original patronage. De Vos and Campbell both give an approximate date of 1435 for the painting.

De Vos argues that the earliest known copy of Van der Weyden's Deposition, the Edeleheere triptych in Leuwen, may have been completed by 1435, certainly before 1443. This implies that Van der Weyden's painting pre-dates it. The painting was exchanged around 1548 for a copy by Michael Coxcie and an organ.

Henri Matisse | The Models

For Henri Matisse (1869-1954)🎨, his models were more than muses; they were partners in his work and guides on the ever-shifting paths to artistic expression.

He would often work with one model for an extensive period of time, beginning in 1916 with Italian model Laurette, sometimes spelled Lorette, who posed for nearly 50 paintings in the year after they met.

Matisse's longest continuous relationship was with Lydia Delectorskaya, a Russian woman who later become his secretary, studio manager and nurse to his sick wife.

Marius Markowsk, 1976 | Digital painter

Marius Markowski was born in Switzerland and makes digital paintings which look like they have been made with oil or acrylic paint.

"My artistic effort in digital painting was founded its origin in the oil painting, where I was passionately focusing my energy for several years. One day I had the idea to prepare an image on the computer in order to have more liberty in the development process. I experimented with these new tools and so discovered my enthusiasm for digital painting".

Mary Evelina Kindon (1849-1919) Genre painter

Mary Evelina Kindon was a British🎨 watercolorist, genre scenes🎨 and urban landscapes painter during the 20th century.

Mary Kindon was born in Victorian London and adopted a style that was being taught in the more progressive continental academies.

Mary Kindon was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy and the Suffolk Street Gallery in London. She also exhibited at the Institute of Painters in Watercolors from 1874.

She often painted mothers and children and seems to have been fond of painting girls in white dresses.

She exhibited widely, including Société des Artistes Français, the Paris Salon, the Society of Women Artists and the Royal Academy. She also exhibited at the Bushey Society of Artists in Rudolph Road.

Bushey Museum has three works by her in its collections.

L'artista Mary Evelina Kindon (1849-1919) è stata una acquerellista Britannica🎨, pittrice di scene di genere🎨 e di paesaggi urbani durante il XX secolo.

Mary Kindon è nata nella Londra vittoriana e ha adottato lo stile che veniva insegnato nelle accademie continentali più progressiste. Ha spesso dipinto mamme e bambini e sembra aver amato dipingere ragazze in abiti bianchi.

Ha esposto ampiamente, tra cui la Société des Artistes Français, il Salone di Parigi, la Society of Women Artists e la Royal Academy.

Ha esposto anche alla Bushey Society of Artists di Rudolph Road. Bushey Museum ha tre sue opere nelle sue collezioni.

Andrey Esionov / Андрей Есионов, 1963 | Academic Watercolor painter

Esionov Andrey Kimovich / Есионов Андрей Кимович is a Russian painter🎨 and graphic artist, who paints portraits and cityscapes.

He is academician (Full member) of the Russian Academy of Arts (the painting department, 2018), a member of the Russian Artistic Union of Painters (1995), the Moscow Artists' Association of International Art Fund, and the Union of Russian Artists.

Esionov works in the portrait genre, and actively promotes watercolor painting.

According to critics he works in a contemporary art style at the interface of academism.

The artist's works are in the collections of museums including the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow), the State Russian Museum (Saint Petersburg), the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan (Kazan), Samara Regional Art Museum (Samara) and the State Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan (Tashkent).

Renaissance Artists | Sitemap

Renaissance - French word meaning rebirth, now used in English to describe the great revival of art that took place in Italy from about 1400 under the influence of the rediscovery of classical art and culture.

The Renaissance reached its peak (known as the High Renaissance) in the short period from about 1500-1530 in the work of Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael.

The Renaissance style then underwent a myriad of successive transformations in Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, and the Romantic movement.

Rodolfo Amoedo (1857-1941) Academic painter

Rodolfo Amoedo (11 December 1857, Salvador - 31 May 1941, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian painter🎨, designer and decorator.

His interest in art and decoration began when a family friend (who was a lyricist) invited him to do work on the now defunct Teatro São Pedro.

In 1873, he enrolled at the "Liceu de Artes e Ofícios do Rio de Janeiro", where he studied with Victor Meirelles.

The following year, he transferred to the Academia Imperial de Belas Artes.

His teachers there included João Zeferino da Costa, Agostinho José da Mota and the sculptor Francisco Manuel Chaves Pinheiro.

In 1878, his painting on the "Sacrifice of Abel" narrowly won him a travel fellowship to study in Europe.

From 1879-1887, he lived and studied in Paris.

Initially, he attended the Académie Julian, but finally managed to enroll at the École des Beaux-arts in 1880, where he received the guidance of Alexandre Cabanel🎨, Paul Baudry and Puvis de Chavannes🎨.

From 1882-1884, he participated in the Salon while developing his primary themes of mythology, Biblical scenarios and Indianismo.

On his return to Rio de Janeiro in 1888, he was appointed an Honorary Professor as the Academia, but actually taught at the Escola Politécnica and held his first personal exhibition.

He won a gold medal at the "Exposição Nacional Comemorativa do 1º Centenário da Abertura dos Portos do Brasil" (1908).

He later became a Professor at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (ENBA), where he encouraged students to research the various process of painting (tempera, encaustic, watercolor etc.).

He also served as Vice-Director and Acting Director on several occasions.

In addition to his canvases, he painted panels for the Supremo Tribunal Federal in 1909, the Biblioteca Nacional and the Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro in 1916.

Two years later, he was awarded🎨 the Second Chair in the School of Painting, a position he held until 1934.

Among his best-known students were the brothers Arthur Timótheo da Costa and João Timóteo da Costa, Lucílio de Albuquerque, Eliseu Visconti🎨 and Cândido Portinari. | © Wikipedia

Rodolfo Amoedo (Salvador, 11 dicembre 1857 - Rio de Janeiro, 31 maggio 1941) è stato un pittore Brasiliano🎨.

Cominciò la carriera da artista nel 1873 come studente di Victor Meirelles.

Nel 1878 vinse il primo premio alla Accademia Brasiliana, permettendogli così di andare a Parigi, dove visse dal 1879-1887 studiando alla École des Beaux Arts.

Fu allievo di Alexandre Cabanel🎨 e lavorò anche con Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry. Amoedo fu professore e poi direttore dell'Accademia Brasiliana, poi rinominata Escola Nacional de Belas Arts alla caduta dell'Impero Brasiliano.

Tra i suoi studenti vi fu Eliseu Visconti. I dipinti di Amoedo sono esposti al Museu Nacional de Belas Artes di Rio de Janeiro.

Eugenio Zampighi | Romantic / Genre painter

Eugenio Zampighi (Modena, 1859-1944) was an Italian painter and photographer, mainly of Genre subjects.

He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Modena under Antonio Simonazzi.

At a very young age and from his early history paintings on he was influenced by the Verist Modenese painter Giovanni Muzzioli.

Mimosa paintings

"After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world".

"Dopo le donne, i fiori sono la cosa più bella che Dio ha dato al mondo".

- Christian Dior

William-Adolphe Bouguereau | The Mimosa Flower, 1899