Georges Seurat ed il colore

Georges Seurat (Parigi, 2 dicembre 1859 – Gravelines, 29 marzo 1891) è stato un pittore Francese, pioniere del movimento puntinista.

Seurat, intendendo portare a risoluzione gli studi sui rapporti cromatici, predispose un disco cromatico, ossia un cerchio la cui corona esterna riporta tutti i colori prismatici ed intermedi, come già aveva fatto il chimico Michel-Eugène Chevreul a partire dal 1839. La sequenza di ventidue colori, inizia con il colore blu, proseguendo con: blu oltremare, oltremare artificiale, viola, porpora, rosso porpora, carminio, rosso spurio, vermiglione, minio, arancio, giallo arancio, giallo, giallo verde, verde, verde smeraldo, blu molto verde, blu verde cianico, blu verde, blu cianico I e blu cianico II, che si riunisce al blu di partenza.

Carl Holsøe | Copenhagen Interior School

Danish painter Carl Vilhelm Holsoe (1863-1935), a leading member of the Danish school of painting in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, was highly regarded by colleagues and collectors alike.

Holsoe trained at the Royal Academy of Copenhagen with Vilhelm Hammershoi, a very close friend and mentor, from 1882-1884.

Holsoe continued his instruction at the Peder Severin Kroyer's Artists' Study School.

Victor Crisostomo Gomez, 1941 | Indians Native Art

Completely self-taught, Peruvian painter Victor Crisostomo Gomez’s approach to art is to portray emotion through intense color and to render the men, women and children in his portraits with a soft, almost dream-like quality.

The result is that each painting becomes a beautiful exploration into symbolism, cultural heritage and identity, drawing on a sense of harmony that he tries to instill in each canvas.

Victor’s work has been likened to a treasure chest full of mysteries and surprises.

Henri Lehmann | Neoclassical painter

Henri Lehmann (14 April 1814 - 30 March 1882) was a German🎨-born French🎨 historical painter and portraitist.

Born Heinrich Salem Lehmann in Kiel, in the Duchy of Holstein, he received his first art tuition from his father Leo Lehmann (1782-1859) and from other painters in Hamburg.

In 1831, at the age of 17, he travelled to Paris to study art under Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres🎨, becoming one of his most accomplished pupils and a close associate for many years.

Botticelli, the painter of the Medici

Botticelli became associated by historians with the Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, a movement historians would later characterize as a "golden age".

The Medici family were effective rulers of Florence, which was nominally a republic, throughout Botticelli's lifetime up to 1494, when the main branch were expelled.

Lorenzo il Magnifico became the head of the family in 1469, just around the time Botticelli started his own workshop.

He was a great patron of both the visual and literary arts, and encouraged and financed the humanist and Neoplatonist circle from which much of the character of Botticelli's mythological painting seems to come.

Théo van Rysselberghe (Belgian, 1862-1926)

Théo Van Rysselberghe, in full Théophile Van Rysselberghe, (born Nov. 23, 1862, Ghent, Belg. - died Dec. 13, 1926, Saint-Clair, Manche, France), Belgian painter, sculptor, and designer who, together with Henry van de Velde, headed the large rank of Belgian artists that adhered to Neo-Impressionism.

Van Rysselberghe studied in Ghent and Brussels, and he was among the founders of both the Twenty (Les XX) and the Free Aesthetics (La Libre Esthétique), the two major associations of Belgian artists at the turn of the 20th century.

He was influenced by the work of Georges Seurat - particularly his Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte (1884–86), which he saw in 1886.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Peonies, 1880 | The Clark

Moïse Kisling | Post-Impressionist / Modern painter

Moïse Kisling (January 22, 1891 - April 29, 1953) was a Polish🎨-born French painter🎨, best known for his highly stylized, unsettling portraits, still lifes ecc.

Born in Kraków, Austria-Hungary, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków.

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

• Moïse Kisling | Paris school of artists🎨

Renoir | Jeune paysanne mangeant une pomme

Renoir and Berthe Morisot became close friends in 1885 - when both artists were forty-four years old - and continued to be until Morisot's death a decade later.

Morisot invited Renoir to her weekly dinner parties and during this period he frequently visited Morisot at her summer home in Mézy.

While their subjects and ultimately their styles differ, the similarity of palette and brushwork in each artist's work of the mid-1880s to the mid-1890s is notable.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Italien à la mandoline

A consummate example of Bouguereau's🎨 ability to render tender portraits of children, Italien à la mandoline depicts a young peasant boy holding his elegant instrument.

Although images of boys are rare in Bouguereau's oeuvre, perhaps, as Damien Bartoli suggests, because of the artist's difficult relationship with his own father, this youth appears in three other works which date to this same period - Pifferaro (1870)🎨, Pifferaro (1874)🎨 and Enfant Italien tenant une croûte de pain (1874).

William-Adolphe Bouguereau🎨 | Italien a la mandoline

With his flushed plump pink cheeks and sparkling eyes, this lad appears as the very embodiment of youth. As he stares languidly off into the distance, there is a sweet innocence about him that reminds one of the halcyon days of childhood.

By the time Bouguereau painted Italien à la mandoline, he had already gained considerable recognition in Paris where he regularly exhibited at the Salon.

But Bouguereau was born in the countryside and his heart remained there, leading him to spend long stretches outside of Paris painting the monde paysan; the subject for which he is most remembered today.

Italien à la mandoline thus represents Bouguereau doing what he loved most, painting the French peasantry, whom he perceived as embodying beauty, purity and hope, the central principles of his artistic philosophy. | Christie's

William-Adolphe Bouguereau🎨 | Pifferaro, 1870 | Christie's

Esemplare esempio della capacità di Bouguereau di rendere teneri ritratti di bambini, Italien à la mandoline raffigura un giovane contadino che regge il suo elegante strumento.

Sebbene le immagini di ragazzi siano rare nell'opera di Bouguereau, forse, come suggerisce Damien Bartoli, a causa della difficile relazione dell'artista con il proprio padre, questa giovinezza appare in altre tre opere che risalgono a questo stesso periodo:

• Pifferaro (1870)🎨,
• Pifferaro (1874)🎨,
• Enfant Italien tenant une croûte de pain (1874).

Con le sue guance paffute paffute e gli occhi scintillanti, questo ragazzo appare come l'incarnazione stessa della giovinezza. Mentre fissa languidamente in lontananza, c'è una dolce innocenza su di lui che ricorda uno dei giorni felici dell'infanzia.

Quando Bouguereau dipinse Italien à la mandoline, aveva già ottenuto notevoli riconoscimenti a Parigi, dove esponeva regolarmente al Salon.

Ma Bouguereau nacque in campagna ed il suo cuore rimase lì, portandolo a trascorrere lunghi tratti fuori Parigi dipingendo il monde paysan; il soggetto per il quale è più ricordato oggi.

Italien à la mandoline rappresenta così Bouguereau facendo ciò che amava di più, dipingendo i contadini francesi, che considerava incarnanti bellezza, purezza e speranza, i principi centrali della sua filosofia artistica. | Christie's

William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Pifferaro, 1870 | Christie's (detail)

William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Pifferaro, 1874

Norbert Goeneutte | Impressionist painter

From: The National Gallery

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Born in Paris, Norbert Gœneutte (1854-1894) enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1872, studying first under Isidore Pils, who died in 1875, and then under his replacement, Henri Lehmann.

In the mid-1870s he met Marcellin Desboutin, who taught him etching.

He was associated with the Impressionists, especially Renoir, and in the 1880s painted Parisian scenes, from famous landmarks to boulevard subjects.

He also worked in Brittany, Normandy and Bordeaux.

In his later years he settled in Auvers-sur-Oise. | © The National Gallery

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Norbert Goeneutte (French, 1854-1894) Les Halles de Paris

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La piattaforma Blogger è, a mio parere, adatta ad un sito d'internet dedicato all'Arte.

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Alla fine mi sono creata un luogo mio, dove riverso i miei gusti, la bellezza che mi incanta, la poesia che mi porta lontano, verso l'orizzonte, la musica che mi accarezza l'anima.

George Tooker | Embrace

George Clair Tooker, Jr. (1920-2011) was in a relationship with the artist Paul Cadmus from 1944-1949 and was a part of the PaJaMa artists collective during that time.

He is featured, often nude, in many of their images from that period.

In the mid-1950's Tooker met his long time partner, painter William R. Christopher, and they lived together in New York City.

They moved into a house they had built in Hartland, Vermont in 1960.

The couple were involved in the Civil Rights Movement and participated in one of the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965.

Galina Chuvilyaeva, 1957 | Angels

Galina Chuvilyaeva / Галина Чувиляева is a famous St. Petersburg artist, jeweler, member of the Union of Designers and the Union of Artists of Russia, a participant in numerous exhibitions.

Galina Chuvilyaeva was born in 1957 on the Volga. Childhood and youth passed in Ukraine, where his father served.

The beauty of the Carpathians, mountains, rivers and gardens blooming twice a year - all this has left an indelible mark on the artist's soul.

"Childhood is difficult now", says Galina Chuvilyaeva, "a lot of problems, not much positive. It feels the lack of the kindness and the warmth that were in my childhood.

Therefore, I want to share this warmth. My paintings bring joy, so I can not stop: I work and work. Through myself I transfer my sunny childhood. We lived in that life in an illusion, in anticipation of change for the better, we were dreamers".

“I am happy that in this way I can bring good to this imperfect, but beautiful world” she said.

Vassilis Antonakos, 1980 | Abstract painter /sculptor

Βασίλης Αντωνάκος is an Greek painter🎨, known for work in abstract style.

Antonakos was born in Athens.

For biographical notes and other works see:

• Vassilis Antonakos / Βασίλης Αντωνάκος, 1980 | Abstract painter /sculptor🎨

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller | Genre / Romantic painter

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Vienna, 1793 – Hinterbrühl, 1865) è stato un pittore e scrittore Austriaco.

Considerato con Friedrich von Amerling il più grande ritrattista austriaco del XIX secolo.

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller frequentò brevemente l'Accademia di belle arti di Vienna ma, per vivere, iniziò a realizzare ritratti.

Nel 1811 si recò in Croazia per svolgere la professione di insegnante d'arte. Tornato a Vienna tre anni dopo, iniziò a migliorare le proprie abilità ricopiando i capolavori dei più grandi maestri.

Waldmüller indirizzò quindi il suo interesse alla natura e iniziò a dipingere paesaggi, di cui divenne maestro.

Edvard Munch | Love and Pain, 1893-1895

Love and Pain is a painting by Edvard Munch🎨. It has also been called Vampire, though not by Munch.

Munch painted six different versions of the subject in the period 1893-1895:

• Three versions are at the Munch Museum in Oslo;
• One is at the Gothenburg Museum of Art;
• One is owned by a private collector;
• The last one is unaccounted for.

He also painted several versions and derivatives in his later career.

The painting shows a woman with long flame-red hair kissing a man on the neck, as the couple embrace.

Edvard Munch | Vampire, 1895 | The Munch Museum Oslo

Alvar Suñol, 1935 | Cubist painter /sculptor

Alvar Suñol Munoz-Ramos was born in Montgat, a Catalonian city near Barcelona, on January 29, 1935. He started painting at 12, and at 17, he was accepted into the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Jorge in Barcelona.

At 18, Alvar entered a painting into a competition for the Young Painters Prize🎨 sponsored by the City of Barcelona.

His painting won the grand prize🎨 and it is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona. His first one-man exhibition in Barcelona was in 1957.

George Elgar Hicks | Genre Victorian-era painter

George Elgar Hicks (13 March 1824 - 1914) was an English painter🎨 during the Victorian era.

He is best known for his large genre paintings🎨, which emulate William Powell Frith🎨 in style, but was also a society portraitist.

Born on 13 March 1824 in Lymington, Hampshire, George Elgar Hicks was the second son of a wealthy magistrate.

His parents encouraged Hicks to become a doctor and so Hicks studied medicine at University College from 1840-1842.

William Powell Frith (1819-1909)

William Powell Frith (1819-1909) was British painter.

The few pictures that made Frith's reputation are of contemporary subjects.

These started, tentatively, with a picture of a servant girl (c. 1853), which was engraved with the saleable title of Sherry Sir?

Frith produced his first ambitious modern-life subject: Life at the Seaside (or Ramsgate Sands, exh. RA 1854; London, Buckingham Pal., Royal Col.)..

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller | Genre / Orientalist painter

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (15 January 1793 in Vienna - 23 August 1865 in Hinterbrühl, Austria) was an Austrian painter and writer. Waldmüller was one of the most important Austrian painters of the Biedermeier period.

Career

In 1807 Waldmüller attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

He lived in Bratislava and, in 1811, he worked as a teacher of arts for the children of Count Gyulay in Croatia.

He returned to the Academy of Vienna and studied portrait painting.

In 1814 he married the singer Katharina Weidner, and subsequently went on tour with her, working as a set designer.

Michelangelo Buonarroti | Giunto è già 'l corso della vita mia | Sonetto 285

Giunto è già 'l corso della vita mia

Per tempestoso mar con fragil barca

Al comun porto , ov'a render si varca

Conto e ragion d'ogni opra trista e pia.