Henri Matisse | Legacy / L'eredità

The first painting of Henri Matisse🎨 (31 December 1869 - 3 November 1954) acquired by a public collection was Still Life with Geraniums (1910), exhibited in the Pinakothek der Moderne.

Today, a Matisse painting can fetch as much as US $17 million.

In 2002, a Matisse sculpture, Reclining Nude I (Dawn), sold for US $9.2 million, a record for a sculpture by the artist.

Matisse's daughter Marguerite often aided Matisse scholars with insights about his working methods and his works. She died in 1982 while compiling a catalog of her father's work.

Matisse's son, Pierre Matisse, (1900-1989) opened an important modern art gallery in New York City during the 1930s.

The Pierre Matisse Gallery which was active from 1931 until 1989 represented and exhibited many European artists and a few Americans and Canadians in New York often for the first time.

He exhibited Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, André Derain, Yves Tanguy, Le Corbusier, Paul Delvaux, Wilfredo Lam, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Balthus, Leonora Carrington, Zao Wou Ki, Sam Francis, sculptors Theodore Roszak, Raymond Mason and Reg Butler, and several other important artists, including the work of Henri Matisse.

Henri Matisse's grandson, Paul Matisse, is an artist and inventor living in Massachusetts.

Matisse's great granddaughter Sophie Matisse is active as an artist in 2008.

Il primo dipinto di Matisse acquisito da una collezione pubblica era Still Life with Geraniums (1910), esposto nella Pinakothek der Moderne.

Oggi, un dipinto di Matisse può arrivare fino a 17 milioni di dollari.

Nel 2002, una scultura di Matisse, Reclining Nude I (Dawn), ha venduto per US $ 9,2 milioni, un record per una scultura dell'artista.

La figlia di Matisse, Marguerite, spesso aiutava gli studiosi di Matisse a comprendere i suoi metodi di lavoro e le sue opere. Morì nel 1982 mentre compilava un catalogo del lavoro di suo padre.

Il figlio di Matisse, Pierre Matisse, (1900-1989) aprì un'importante galleria d'arte moderna a New York negli anni '30.

La Galleria Pierre Matisse, attiva dal 1931 al 1989, rappresentava e esponeva per la prima volta molti artisti europei e pochi americani e canadesi a New York.

Ha esposto Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, André Derain, Yves Tanguy, Le Corbusier, Paul Delvaux, Wilfredo Lam, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Balthus, Leonora Carrington, Zao Wou Ki, Sam Francis, scultori Theodore Roszak, Raymond Mason e Reg Butler e molti altri artisti importanti, tra cui il lavoro di Henri Matisse.

Il nipote di Henri Matisse, Paul Matisse, è un artista e inventore che vive in Massachusetts. La pronipote di Matisse Sophie Matisse è attiva come artista nel 2008.

El Greco | Life and Artworks

El Greco, byname of Doménikos Theotokópoulos (born 1541, Candia [Iráklion], Crete-died April 7, 1614, Toledo, Spain), master of Spanish painting, whose highly individual dramatic and expressionistic style met with the puzzlement of his contemporaries but gained newfound appreciation in the 20th century. He also worked as a sculptor and as an architect.

El Greco never forgot that he was of Greek descent and usually signed his paintings in Greek letters with his full name, Doménikos Theotokópoulos. He is, nevertheless, generally known as El Greco ("the Greek"), a name he acquired when he lived in Italy, where the custom of identifying a man by designating country or city of origin was a common practice.

he curious form of the article (El), however, may be the Venetian dialect or more likely from the Spanish.

John Constable RA | Romantic painter

John Constable (1776-1837) is famous for his landscapes, which are mostly of the Suffolk countryside, where he was born and lived.

He made many open-air sketches, using these as a basis for his large exhibition paintings, which were worked up in the studio.

His pictures are extremely popular today, but they were not particularly well received in England during his lifetime.

He did, however, have considerable success in Paris.

Constable was born in East Bergholt, Suffolk.

He was largely self-taught, and developed slowly.

In 1799 he was a probationer, and in 1800 a student at the Royal Academy schools.

Paolo Veronese | Opere / Aforismi

"Dipingo con tutte le considerazioni che sono convenienti e che il mio intelletto può capire".

"I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them".

"È un dovere per me di seguire l'esempio dei miei predecessori".

"Noi altri pittori ci prendiamo la licenza che si prendono i poeti e i matti".

"We painters use the same license as poets and madmen".

"Quando in un quadro mi rimane dello spazio, l'adorno di figure che invento".

"I had not thought that I was doing wrong; I had never taken so many things into consideration.".

Paolo Veronese (1528-1588)

Adam de Coster | Baroque / Genre painter

Little is known of the biography of Adam de Coster (1586 in Mechelen - 4 May 1643 in Antwerp).

Born in 1586 in the Flemish city of Mechelen, a province of Antwerp, he appears to have spent much of his career in Antwerp and became a Master of the Guild of Saint Luke around 1607.

His portrait was reproduced as an engraving in Anthony van Dyck's🎨 Iconography, where he was described as "pictor noctium", signaling that his reputation as a painter of night scenes had firmly been established in Northern Europe by the 1630s.

Although documentary evidence only ever records de Coster outside of Antwerp in 1635 when he visited Hamburg, Nicolson has noted that correspondences between his paintings and the works of the Lombard artist Antonio Campi suggest a possible sojourn to Italy.

Jack Vettriano | Pittore Romantico

Jack Hoggan, noto come Jack Vettriano (1951-2025), è un pittore Scozzese di origini italiane, onorato da Elisabetta II d'Inghilterra con l'Ordine dell'Impero Britannico (OBE).

Biografia

Cresce nella città industriale di Methil, Scozia.

La sua è una famiglia povera: "dovevo dividere un unico letto con mio fratello maggiore" racconta; così il futuro artista è spinto a lavorare fin da ragazzino.

Lasciati gli studi a 16 anni, diviene apprendista minerario e comincia a dipingere negli anni settanta con un set di acquerelli ricevuti in regalo per il suo ventunesimo compleanno.

Hubert Robert | Visionary painter

Hubert Robert, (born May 22, 1733, Paris, France - died April 15, 1808, Paris), French🎨 landscape painter sometimes called Robert des Ruines because of his many romantic representations of Roman ruins set in idealized surroundings.

Robert left Paris for Rome in 1754 and studied at the French Academy there.

He also met the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard in Rome, and in 1760 they traveled together with the Abbé de Saint-Non through southern Italy on a drawing expedition.

Robert developed a strong fascination with architecture and ruins, and he was strongly influenced by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the renowned etcher of architectural subjects who was then publishing his great collections of etchings of Roman architecture.

Among Robert’s best-known works from his Roman period is a series of red chalk drawings of the gardens at the Villa d’Este, that feature the garden’s dilapidated Classical-style architecture set in an overgrown landscape and animated with small human figures.

Hubert Robert | The Grande Galerie of the Louvre

Hubert Robert🎨 (22 May 1733 - 15 April 1808), was a French painter🎨, noted for his landscape paintings and picturesque depictions of ruins.

In 1784 Louis XVI appointed him keeper of his pictures and gave him responsibility for creating a museum at the Louvre🎨.

For biographical notes and earlier works by Hubert Robert see:

• Hubert Robert | Visionary painter🎨.

Jorge Ignacio Nazábal, 1962 | Surrealist painter

Jorge Ignacio Nazábal Cowan was born in Havana, Cuba.

He graduated in Biology at the University of Havana in 1985 and worked twelve years as a biologist in a cytogenetics laboratory.

In 1996 he began to study at the Academy of San Alejandro Arts of Havana and graduated from there in 2000.

In 1997 he left his job as a biologist and devoted himself to painting.

Julien Dupré | The Barbizon school of painters

Julien Dupré (March 18, 1851 - April 16, 1910) was a French painter🎨.

He was born in Paris on March 18, 1851 to Jean Dupré (a jeweler) and Pauline Bouillié and began his adult life working in a lace shop in anticipation of entering his family's jewelry business.

The war of 1870 and the siege of Paris forced the closure of the shop and Julien began taking evening courses at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs and it was through these classes that he gained admission to the École des Beaux-Arts.

Jules Dupré | The Barbizon school of painters

Born in 1811 in Nantes, Jules Dupré (1811-1889) spent his boyhood in L'Isle-Adam on the Oise river, near Paris.

Here he had his early initiation to art, as an apprentice decorator of porcelain in his father's china works.

At the age of twelve, he was sent to Paris, to work in the porcelain factory of an uncle, Arsène Gillet.

His fellow workers included several young artists who would play a role in his later life, among them Narcisse Diaz de la Peña🎨 (1808-1876).

Though during his early years in Paris, Dupré briefly studied with a painter of landscape, Jean-Michel Diebolt (b. 1779), he started on his artistic career nearly without formal training.

Luisa Villavicencio Aliaga | Visual Artist / Art Therapist

Luisa Villavicencio Aliaga: "I paint because I want to ask to everyone be better person, more expression of feeling and understanding.

Love is very important in the life of every human being.

My colors are intimately related with the shape, because my colors are saying, what I feel".

Charles-François Daubigny | The Barbizon school of painters

Charles-François Daubigny (15 February 1817 - 19 February 1878) was one of the painters of the Barbizon school🎨, and is considered an important precursor of Impressionism🎨.

Daubigny was born in Paris, into a family of painters and was taught the art by his father Edmond François Daubigny and his uncle, miniaturist Pierre Daubigny.

The Barbizon school of painters

The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time.

The Barbizon school was active roughly from 1830-1870.

It takes its name from the village of Barbizon, France, near the Forest of Fontainebleau, where many of the artists gathered. Some of the most prominent features of this school are its tonal qualities, color, loose brushwork, and softness of form.

In 1824 the Salon de Paris exhibited works of John Constable, an British painter.

John Constable | Tramonto sulla Senna

Demetre Chiparus | Art Déco sculptor

Demétre Haralamb Chiparus, also known as Dumitru Haralamb Chipăruș (16 September 1886 - 22 January 1947) was a Romanian Art Déco* era sculptor who lived and worked in Paris, France. He was one of the most important sculptors of the Art Deco era.

Life

Demétre H. Chiparus was born in Dorohoi, Romania, the son of Haralamb and Saveta Chiparus. In 1909 he went to Italy, where he attended the classes of Italian* sculptor Raffaello Romanelli.