Legge di Murphy: "Si riesce a far funzionare qualsiasi cosa, se ci si pasticcia abbastanza".

Della Murfologia Applicata alla Meccanica | Capitolo 4

Legge della perversità della Natura

• Non si può prevedere con successo quale lato del pane andrebbe imburrato.

Legge della gravità selettiva

• Un oggetto cadrà sempre in modo da produrre il maggior danno possibile.

Corollario di Jenning

• Le probabilità che il pane cada sul lato imburrato sono direttamente proporzionali al costo del tappeto.

Atsushi Koyama (Artista giapponese, 1978)

Matt Talbert, 1982 | Abstract portrait painter

Matt Talbert is a contemporary oil painter living in Southern California. While he grew up at the beach, Matt attributes much of his artistic development to his years spent in New York City.

Working in the basement of the famous Pearl art store on Canal Street and meeting a wide range of artists from all disciplines was indispensable.

He is both a graduate from the Orange County School of the Arts and the Laguna College of Art and Design and has had the honor of being named one of the "Top 100 Figurative Artist Working Now" by PoetsArtists Magazine.

Matt's primary focus is expressive paintings of the human figure exhibited in galleries such as Arcadia Contemporary, Abend Gallery, and the Salmagundi Club in New York.

Robert Lyn Nelson, 1955 | Magic realism painter

Robert Lyn Nelson is an American artist known for his paintings of marine wildlife, particularly those in his "Two Worlds" style, which simultaneously shows life above and below the surface of the sea.

Artistic career

Nelson moved to Hawaii when he was eighteen years old.

According to Nelson, the turning point in his life and his career occurred when he encountered a group of whales while surfing off Lahaina, Hawaii.

"In learning to ride the waves, I also learned to respect the ocean...to feel its pulse with all five of my senses, and to feel its spirit at an extra-sensory level. It was a blend of magic and realism that I wanted to communicate in my paintings", says Nelson.

Happy birthday Berthe Morisot!

Berthe Morisot was an essential figure in the Impressionist movement (a small group of inventive creators who organized independent exhibitions in protest against established art institutions in Paris).

Morisot’s paintings are visual poems.

Staying true to the tenets of impressionism, at first glance, you immediately notice her loose brushstrokes and colors that reflect the hues of nature.

Then, you realize later the absorbing quality of her work. Her paintings are hard to stop thinking about when you leave them.

Why?

Because Morisot had an understanding of women and their experiences that was uncommon for an artist at the time.

She painted women existing in their everyday lives in a way that was not present in the work of her male counterparts.

Rather than simply looking at these women, in Morisot’s work, you take time to think about what it’s like to be them and in their world. | National Gallery of Art

La Legge di Murphy: "I computer sono inaffidabili, ma gli uomini ancora di più!"

Dalla Murfologia Applicata alla Progettazione | Capitolo 3

Legge di Osborn

• Le variabili non mutano mai, le costanti sì.

Prima legge delle modifiche
Meglio conosciuta col nome di Legge dell'Adesso me lo dicono!

• Qualsiasi informazione che comporti un cambiamento nel progetto sarà trasmessa al progettista dopo - e soltanto dopo - che tutti i disegni sono stati completati

Corollario

• In casi semplici, che presentino una soluzione ovviamente giusta e una ovviamente sbagliata, è spesso più saggio scegliere quella sbagliata, in modo da aver già pronta la conseguente modifica.

Paweł Kuczyński, 1976

Gabriele Münter | Expressionist painter

Gabriele Münter (19 February 1877 – 19 May 1962) was a German expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century.

She studied and lived with the painter Wassily Kandinsky and was a founding member of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter.

Early life

Münter was born to upper middle-class parents in Berlin on 19 February 1877.

Her family supported her desires to become an artist. Her father died in 1886. She began to draw as a child.

As she was growing up, she had a private tutor. In 1897, at the age of twenty, Münter received artistic training in the Düsseldorf studio of artist Ernst Bosch and later at the Damenschule (Women's School) with artist Willy Spatz.

By the time she was 21 years old, both of her parents had died and she was living at home with no occupation.

In 1898, she decided to take a trip to America with her sister to visit extended family. They stayed in America for more than two years, mainly in the states of Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri; six sketchbooks survive from Münter's period in America, depicting images of people, plants and landscapes.

Loie Fuller | Modern Dance Pioneer

Loie Fuller, original name Marie Louise Fuller, (born Jan. 15, 1862, Fullersburg [now part of Hinsdale], Ill., U.S.- died Jan. 1, 1928, Paris, France), American dancer who achieved international distinction for her innovations in theatrical lighting, as well as for her invention of the "Serpentine Dance", a striking variation on the popular "skirt dances" of the day.

Fuller made her stage debut in Chicago at the age of four, and over the next quarter century she toured with stock companies, burlesque shows, vaudeville, and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, gave temperance lectures and Shakespearean readings, and appeared in a variety of plays in Chicago and New York City.

Sculpture of modern dance pioneer Loie Fuller at Brookgreen Gardens SC

Laura Alma-Tadema | Genre painter

Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema -née Epps (1852-1909) was an English painter specialising in domestic and genre scenes of women and children.

Eighteen of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy. Her husband, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, was also a painter.

Life

A daughter of Dr. George Napoleon Epps (who was brother of Dr. John Epps), Lady Alma-Tadema had two sisters who were also painters (Emily studied under John Brett, a Pre-Raphaelite, and Ellen under Ford Madox Brown), while Edmund Gosse and a stockbroker called Rowland Hill were her brothers-in-law.

La Legge di Murphy: "Il mal di denti tende a cominciare di venerdì sera..!"

Della Murfologia Applicata | Capitolo 2

Legge di Booker:

• Un grammo di applicazione val più di una tonnellata di astrazione.

Leggi di Klipstein
Applicate alla tecnica in generale:

• Ogni brevetto sarà preceduto di una settimana da un brevetto simile presentato da un indipendente.

• La puntualità nei tempi di consegna è direttamente proporzionale al tempo a disposizione.

• Le dimensioni saranno sempre indicate nei termini meno comuni.

• La velocità, per esempio, sarà indicata in furgoni alla settimana.

• Ogni filo metallico tagliato su misura sarà troppo corto.

Lucas Zimmermann | Traffic Lights

Gabriele D'Annunzio | Voglio un amore doloroso / I want a slow painful love

Voglio un amore doloroso, lento,

che lento sia come una lenta morte,

e senza fine (voglio che più forte

sie della morte) e senza mutamento.

Voglio che senza tregua in un tormento

occulto sien le nostre anime assorte;

e un mare sia presso a le nostre porte,

solo, che pianga in un silenzio intento.

Francesca Strino | Iside e Osiride Resurrezione

La Legge di Murphy: "Se qualcosa può andar male, lo farà"!

Della Murfologia | Capitolo 1

Nel 1949, l'ingegnere aeronautico dell'aviazione americana, capitano Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr. (1918-1990), osservando l'andamento dei propri esperimenti, ebbe a dire: "Se qualcosa può andar male, lo farà".

Prova della "verità" di questa affermazione è il fatto che Ed Murphy, nel giro di pochi anni, è diventato famosissimo in tutto il mondo: non per le sue scoperte in aeronautica, del resto inesistenti, ma per quella frase, che immediatamente si diffuse sotto il nome di "Legge di Murphy".

Oggi la Legge di Murphy in America è talmente famosa da comparire nei dizionari, come: "Il principio per cui qualsiasi cosa possa andare male lo farà" (Funk and Wagnalls, Standard College Dictionary).

Laboratori, uffici, circoli di golf, redazioni, banche, palestre, università, biblioteche, studi di dentisti, di avvocati, di fiscalisti, di ingegneri, di architetti, persino ospedali, sale operatorie, cessi sono immancabilmente tappezzati di manifesti, calendari o adesivi che ricordano la Legge di Murphy e le sue applicazioni.

L'insieme delle Leggi ed Osservazioni di cui la Legge di Murphy è da considerarsi capostipite è stato raccolto da Arthur Bloch nel 1977.

Una raccolta che è un inventario del pessimismo esistenziale, ma che offre anche l'antidoto più antico e sicuro contro il malumore: la buona, sana e vecchia risata. | La Feltrinelli

Michael Cheval | Discord of Analogy

Emily Dickinson | Wild Nights! / Oh, folli notti!

O folli notti! - folli notti!

Se fossi con te,

queste notti folli sarebbero

il nostro sfarzo.

Futili - i venti -

per un cuore in porto!

Daniel Gerhartz

Vicente Palmaroli | Genre painter

Vicente Palmaroli González (Zarzalejo, 1834-1896, Madrid) was a Spanish portrait and Genre painter.

He was the son of Gaetano Palmaroli, an Italian painter and lithographer, who was his first teacher. After his father's death in 1853, he took over his official position at the royal art collections.

He requested leave in 1857 to go to Rome and complete his education, using some surplus money from the collection fund.

While there, he joined a group of Spanish painters who met at the Antico Caffè Greco, including Luis Álvarez Catalá, Dióscoro Puebla, José Casado del Alisal, Eduardo Rosales, Benet Mercadé, Marià Fortuny and Alejo Vera.

Erik Tryggelin | Impressionist / Genre painter

Erik Viktor Tryggelin (1878-1962) in Stockholm, was a Swedish artist, drawer and photographer.

Erik Tryggelin studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (Konstakademien) in Stockholm. Then he studied in Paris for some time, during the period of October 1911 until January 1913.

In Paris he lived a normal artists' life with his Swedish fellows, for instance David Wallin (1876-1957), Svante Kede (1877-1955), Otto Strandman (1871-1970), Fritz Lindström (1874-1962) and Svante Nilsson (1869-1942).

In Paris he accompanied the art scene and he discovered modernism. In the springtime of 1912 he went to the gallery Bernheim-Jeune and saw the futurists. In 1906 Galerie Bernheim-Jeune was installed in 25, Boulevard de la Madeleine in Paris.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Per l'Anno Nuovo / For the New Year

Tra il vecchio e il nuovo,

la sorte dona

queste ore liete;

e il passato impone

d’aver fiducia

a guardare avanti

e a guardare indietro.

Andy Warhol | Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 1982

Fanny Churberg | Düsseldorf school of painting

Fanny Churberg (12 December 1845, in Vaasa - 10 May 1892, in Helsinki) was a Finnish landscape painter.

Her father, Matias Churberg, was a doctor from a family of farmers and her mother Maria was the daughter of the vicar in Liperi parish, Nils Johan Perander. Fanny was the third of seven children.

Four of her siblings died when they were young and so Fanny grew up with her two older brothers Torsten and Waldemar Churberg.

Fanny was proud of her Ostrobothnian family and heritage and was planning along with her brothers on changing the surname to Kuurila according to the family's old estate. They never got around to it though.

Robert Louis Stevenson | Winter Time / Tempo d'inverno

Late lies the wintry sun a-bed,

A frosty, fiery sleepy-head;

Blinks but an hour or two; and then,

A blood-red orange, sets again.

Before the stars have left the skies,

At morning in the dark I rise;

And shivering in my nakedness,

By the cold candle, bathe and dress.

Bror Lindh (Swedish painter, 1877-1941) | Winter night, 1941

Eustache Le Sueur | Baroque painter

Eustache Le Sueur or Lesueur (19 November 1617 – 30 April 1655) was a French artist and one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting. He is known primarily for his paintings of religious subjects. He was a leading exponent of the neoclassical style of Parisian Atticism.

Training and career

He was born in Paris, where he spent his entire life. His father, Cathelin Le Sueur, a turner and sculptor in wood, placed him with Vouet, in whose studio he rapidly distinguished himself.

Admitted at an early age into the guild of master-painters, he left them to take part in establishing the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1648 and was elected as one of the original twelve elders in charge of its administration.

Wisława Szymborska: Contributo alla statistica / A Word on Statistics

Su cento persone:

che ne sanno sempre più degli altri

- cinquantadue;

insicuri a ogni passo

- quasi tutti gli altri;

pronti ad aiutare,

purché la cosa non duri molto

- ben quarantanove;

buoni sempre,

perché non sanno fare altrimenti

- quattro, be’, forse cinque;

Rene Magritte | Golconda, 1953

Wislawa Szymborska | Nuvole / Clouds

Dovrei essere molto veloce

nel descrivere le nuvole -

già dopo una frazione di secondo

non sono più quelle, stanno diventando altre.

La loro caratteristica è

non ripetersi mai

in forme, sfumature, pose, disposizione.

Non gravate dalla memoria di nulla,

si librano senza sforzo sui fatti.

Claude Monet | The Clouds, 1923-1926 | Musée de l'Orangerie

Franz Kafka | Domenica saremo insieme..

Nella primavera del 1919, Franz Kafka (1883-1924) - una delle maggiori figure della letteratura del XX secolo ed importante esponente del modernismo e del realismo magico europeo - conosce la giornalista, scrittrice e traduttrice Ceca Milena Jesenská (Praga, 10 agosto 1896 - Campo di concentramento di Ravensbrück, 17 maggio 1944), moglie del critico e scrittore ebreo Ernst Pollak (1886-1947), residente a Vienna, in cui si era dovuta trasferire dopo essere stata allontanata dalla famiglia che non le aveva perdonato il matrimonio con un ebreo.

Poiché gli introiti di Pollak non erano sufficienti per un'adeguata vita della coppia a Vienna, Milena contribuì lavorando come traduttrice.

Nel 1919 si imbatté in un breve racconto dello scrittore praghese Franz Kafka, e gli scrisse per ottenere l'autorizzazione alla traduzione dal tedesco al ceco. Da quel momento cominciò una intensa corrispondenza tra i due.

Franz Kafka e Milena Jesenska

Alda Merini: Buon Natale!

A Natale non si fanno cattivi pensieri

ma chi è solo

lo vorrebbe saltare questo giorno.

A tutti loro auguro di

vivere un Natale

in compagnia.

Un pensiero lo rivolgo a

tutti quelli che soffrono

per una malattia.

Daniel Rodgers

Daniel Rodgers | It's Christmas time

Daniel Rodgers is an figurative artist and illustrator living in Sunderland, UK.

"I'm a freelance illustrator and artist that specialises in making illustrations on the realistic side of things.

As you'll see through this site I like to work on a variety of subject matter from traditional Christmas cards to fantasy and scifi illustrations.

Above all I find it most satisfying to inject some element of story into my work.

My work focuses on a love of painting and drawing with a narrative context".

Gaudenzio Ferrari | The Concert of Angels, 1534-1536

The Concert of Angels is a Fresco created between 1534 and 1536 by Gaudenzio Ferrari (c. 1471 - January 11, 1546) a Northern Italian painter** and sculptor of the Renaissance** and housed in Sanktuarium Santa Maria delle Grazie, Saronno, Italy.

Gaudenzio Ferrari was born to Franchino Ferrari at Valduggia in the Valsesia in the Duchy of Milan. Valduggia is now in the Province of Vercelli in Piedmont. He is said to have first learned the art of painting at Vercelli from Gerolamo Giovenone.

Sandro Botticelli | Figures and portraits

Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445 - May 17, 1510) painted a number of portraits, although not nearly as many as have been attributed to him.

There are a number of idealized portrait-like paintings of women which probably do not represent a specific person (several closely resemble the Venus in his Venus and Mars).

Traditional gossip links these to the famous beauty Simonetta Vespucci, who died aged twenty-two in 1476, but this seems unlikely.

These figures represent a secular link to his Madonnas.

With one or two exceptions his small independent panel portraits show the sitter no further down the torso than about the bottom of the rib-cage.

Mary Fairchild (1858-1946)

Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low, born in New Haven, Connecticut was an American painter who specialized in landscapes, genre paintings, and portraits.

Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts (where she won a three years' scholarship), and in Paris at the Académie Julian and under Carolus Duran.

She had her own studio at 11 Impasse du Maine, (now part of Musée Bourdelle). She married Frederick MacMonnies in 1888 and divorced him in 1909. She married Will H. Low that same year.

Maggie Rudy | Mouseland | Children's book author and illustrator

Children's book author and illustrator Maggie Rudy spent part of her childhood living in England, where she visited Beatrix Potter’s farm on a formative third-grade field trip.

She has since been making mice and their worlds out of felt and scavenged materials for more than twenty years. Maggie lives in Portland, Oregon.

- "I had a couple of felt mice, bought in an English toy shop when I was a child. About 25 years ago, with young children of my own, I took a pattern from those old survivors and began to make my own versions. Then the mice needed somewhere to live, and the whole thing got out of hand.

I began photographing Mouseland for children's books in 2013. I'd previously worked as an artist, showing paintings and sculptures in a gallery. Building Mouseland is much more engrossing, because I constantly need to problem-solve materials and fabrication methods".

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun | Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat, 1782

"Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat" is a signed copy by the artist of a very popular self portrait that she painted in 1782 and which is now in the collection of the baronne Edmond de Rothschild.

The pose is deliberately modelled on Rubens’s Portrait of Susanna Lunden (?) (also in the National Gallery’s collection), which was formerly, but incorrectly, known as Le Chapeau de Paille (The Straw Hat).

Wisława Szymborska | Scrivere un curriculum / Writing a résumé

Che cos’è necessario?

È necessario scrivere una domanda,

e alla domanda allegare il curriculum.

A prescindere da quanto si è vissuto

è bene che il curriculum sia breve.

È d’obbligo concisione e selezione dei fatti.

Cambiare paesaggi in indirizzi

e malcerti ricordi in date fisse.

Vladimir Kush | Diary of Discoveries

Gabriele Münter e Wassily Kandinsky | Amore ai tempi dell'astrattismo

Gabriele Münter (1877-1962) è stata una pittrice espressionista Tedesca.

Vasilij Vasil'evič Kandinsky / Василий Васильевич Кандинский (1866-1944) è stato un pittore Russo, naturalizzato francese, precursore e fondatore della pittura Astratta.

Insieme, con Franz Marc ed altri, fondarono il movimento artistico espressionista Der Blaue Reiter (Il cavaliere azzurro).

La Münter era di Berlino e proveniva da una famiglia benestante che aveva vissuto a lungo negli Stati Uniti.

Nel 1901 si iscrisse ad un corso d'arte a Monaco di Baviera.

L'anno successivo, poiché alle donne erano precluse le Accademie, iniziò a prendere lezioni presso la scuola d'arte privata Phalanx-Schule (appena fondata da W. Kandinsky) dove seguì i corsi di Wilhelm Husgen e quelli di Wassily Kandinsky.

Wassily Kandinsky | Ritratto Gabriele Münter, 1903 | Lenbachhaus, Monaco di Baviera

Pedro Salinas | No, non ti amano, no / No, no te quieren, no..

No, non ti amano, no.

Tu sì, tu ami davvero.

L’amore che hai in più

se lo spartiscono esseri

e cose che guardi,

che tu tocchi, che mai

hanno avuto amore prima.

Marco Grassi

Pablo Neruda | Il vasaio / Potter

Tutto il tuo corpo ha

coppa o dolcezza destinata a me.

Quando ascendo la mano

trovo in ogni luogo la colomba

che mi cercava, come

se ti avessero, amore, fatta d’argilla

per le mie mani di vasaio.

Tomasz Rut | Intimata

Shana Levenson, 1980 | Pittrice figurativa

Shana Levenson è una pittrice figurativa di Albuquerque, NM.

La sua passione per le arti l'ha portata a conseguire una laurea in Fashion Design presso l'Università del Texas, ad Austin, e dopo la nascita dei suoi figli nel 2009 e nel 2010 un MFA in Fine Art Painting presso l'Academy of Art University di San Francesco. Il lavoro di Shana si concentra sul ritratto e sulla figura.

La sua ispirazione viene dal dipingere persone importanti nella sua vita ed il suo obiettivo è catturare la storia di ogni persona in modo onesto e significativo.

Shana trae ispirazione dalle proprie esperienze e utilizza serie specifiche come modo per illustrare i capitoli della sua vita.

Il suo background nella moda ha ispirato la sua nuova serie di dipinti di pizzo.

Morten Lasskogen, 1986

Morten Lasskogen è un graphic designer e digital artist di origini Danesi.

Il suo lavoro sfida lo spettatore ad esplorare un luogo interdisciplinare, un luogo che si trova tra il riconosciuto e lo sconosciuto.

Ispirato da luci e ombre, il lavoro di Lasskogen bilancia il minimalismo e il surrealismo e l'estetica futuristica con oggetti dei giorni nostri.

Esplorando le nozioni del presente, futuro e passato, il suo lavoro pone domande sull'esperienza condivisa del nostro ambiente, oggi come in futuro.

Lucia Heffernan, 1966 | Yoga Chicks

"My body of work is an expression and exploration of my lifelong fascination with animals.

Through my paintings, I seek to give animals a voice and a personality, while making light of our uniquely human existence.

By imagining what animals might do if put in human situations, I stage tableaus that shine a spotlight on both their innocence and raw instinct.

This collision between animal and human sensibilities creates a whimsical, theatrical, and often humorous world that viewers can relate to on an emotional level.

Pavle "Paja" Jovanovic | Orientalist painter

From Belgrade City Museum:

Pavle "Paja" Jovanović / Павле "Паја" Јовановић (Vršac, 1859 - Vienna, 1957) was born into the family of photographer Stevan and Ernestina Jovanović.

In 1875, his father took him to Vienna, where he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts (Akademie der bildenden Künste) in 1877. Having completed his studies at the Academy, Jovanović travelled a lot and worked for Paris and London art dealers, to settle in Vienna in 1895. He was elected full member of the Serbian Royal Academy in 1888.

In his very long artistic career, Jovanović created outstanding works of art: history paintings (Migration of the Serbs, Proclamation of The Code of Emperor Dušan), genre paintings (Adoring of the bride, Cocok-fight, Fencing) and numerous portraits of famous people (Mihailo Pupin, King Aleksandar and Queen Maria Karađorđević).

Alexandr Pushkin | Eugene Onegin e la storia d'amore di Tatyana

"Eugenio Onegin" / "Евгений Онегин" è un romanzo in versi di Aleksandr Pushkin, composto dal 1822-1831 e pubblicato completo per la prima volta nel 1833.

Trama

Eugenio Onegin è il nome del personaggio principale della storia: è un giovane già disilluso dalla vita e che sembra aver già provato tutto quello che gli era possibile, provando un certo spleen.

Si ritira in campagna e diventa amico di un giovane poeta, Vladimir Lenskij. Questi è innamorato di Olga con cui si è appena fidanzato.

La sorella di Olga, Tatyana, si innamora a prima vista di Onegin.

Ardendo di questo amore, ella gli scrive una lettera infiammata, ma Onegin la respinge.

Il monumento di Onegin e Tatyana a Kazakistan, Petropavlovsk, Piazza intitolata a Pushkin

Oscar Wilde | De profundis, 1897

Il "De Profundis" è una lunga lettera al Lord Alfred Douglas, il giovane amato da Wilde, scritta nei primi mesi del 1897 nel carcere di Reading dove Oscar Wilde (Scrittore, aforista, poeta, drammaturgo, giornalista e saggista irlandese dell'età Vittoriana, esponente del decadentismo e dell'estetismo Britannico, 1854-1900), si trovava da quasi due anni per aver amato un uomo.

Nel 1895 Oscar Wilde, al culmine del successo mondano e letterario, fu condannato a due anni di lavori forzati per “atti osceni”: alla sofferenza della reclusione si unirono la bancarotta finanziaria e la morte civile, con il divorzio e la perdita dei figli.

Chiuso tra le mura del carcere di Reading, Wilde scrisse una lunga lettera a Lord Alfred Douglas, il giovane poeta aristocratico di cui era innamorato e che era stato la causa dello scandalo.

Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, May 1893 | British Library

Georges Seurat's 162nd Birthday, December 2

Todays Google animated Doodle celebrates French painter Georges Seurat, who captured the natural qualities of light in scenes of contemporary Parisian life with his signature painting techniques known as Pointillism and Divisionism.

Seurat’s innovative methods gave rise to the school of Neo-Impressionism, an avant-garde 19th century movement that forever changed the course of modern art.

Georges-Pierre Seurat (born December 2, 1859, Paris, France—died March 29, 1891, Paris) was a French post-Impressionist artist.

He is best known for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism as well as pointillism.

While less famous than his paintings, his conté crayon drawings have also garnered a great deal of critical appreciation.

Lord Alfred Douglas | L’Amore che non osa.. / The Love that dare not..

Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, soprannominato "Bosie" (1870-1945), è stato un poeta, scrittore e traduttore Britannico, ricordato soprattutto per il fatto di essere stato il compagno dello scrittore Oscar Wilde, nonché un poeta uraniano.

Douglas incontrò Oscar Wilde nel 1891 e subito iniziò una relazione con lui. Quando suo padre, il marchese di Queensberry (con il quale Alfred aveva già rapporti di odio reciproco a causa del carattere intrattabile di entrambi), scoprì il legame del figlio insultò pubblicamente Wilde con un biglietto sgrammaticato lasciato al club dello scrittore dublinese.

Paul Cadmus (American painter, 1904-1999)

Alex Venezia, 1993 | Figurative painter

Alex Venezia was born Virginia Beach, Virginia; currently lives and works in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Primarily a self taught painter, Alex Venezia, first became aware of the transcendent power of art during a high-school art lesson on chiaroscuro while examining the works of Caravaggio. This class marked a unique turning point for the young student as he began to consider a vocation in the arts.

Searching for new art experiences he frequented the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia where he was able to fill his eyes with the works of the Masters and make copies.

Venezia has sought out and studied classical technique with many of todays top representational painters including: Colleen Barry, Daniel Sprick, Michael Klein and Jeff Hein.

Alda Merini: "Il mio primo trafugamento di madre.."

Il mio primo trafugamento di madre

avvenne in una notte d'estate

quando un pazzo mi prese

mi adagiò sopra l'erba

e mi fece concepire un figlio.

Alex Venezia

Sigmund Freud: Omosessualità? "Nulla di cui vergognarsi!", 1935

Il 9 aprile del 1935, Sigmund Freud (Neurologo, psicoanalista e filosofo Austriaco, 1856-1939) scrisse una lettera di risposta ad una madre che gli aveva chiesto aiuto per il figlio gay.

Cara signora,

deduco dalla sua lettera che suo figlio è omosessuale.

Sono molto colpito dal fatto che non usi mai questo termine nel darmi le informazioni su di lui. Posso chiedere perché lo evita?

L’omosessualità non è certo un vantaggio, ma non c'è nulla di cui vergognarsi, non è un vizio, non è degradante; non può essere classificata come una malattia; riteniamo che sia una variazione della funzione sessuale, prodotta da un arresto dello sviluppo sessuale.

Molti individui altamente rispettabili di tempi antichi e moderni erano omosessuali, tra di loro c’erano grandi uomini. (Platone, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, ecc).

Jean Metzinger | Woman with a Mirror, 1916

Femme au miroir / Woman with a Mirror / Femme à sa toilette or Lady at her Dressing Table, is a painting by the French artist Jean Metzinger.

This distilled synthetic form of Cubism exemplifies Metzinger's continued interest, in 1916, towards less surface activity, with a strong emphasis on larger, flatter, overlapping abstract planes.

The manifest primacy of the underlying geometric configuration, rooted in the abstract, controls nearly every element of the composition.

David Ligare, 1945 | Post-Modern / Neo-Classic painter

American Post-modern fine artist David Ligare paints in a neo-classical mode using narrative and mythology in a historically informed body of work.

Since 1978, he has focused on painting still lifes, landscapes, and figures that are informed by Greco-Roman antiquity.

Chief among his stated influences are the aesthetic and philosophical theories of the Greek sculptor Polykleitos and the mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras, as well as the work of the 18th-century classical painter Nicholas Poussin.

A resident of Salinas, California, his paintings often depict the terrain of the central Californian coast in the background.

Costantino Di Renzo, 1946

Born in Chieti, Italian painter Costantino Di Renzo was predominantly inspired by the 1960s.

Art turned into a vehicle for ideologies and other agendas, with Pop and Minimalism appearing simultaneously as the most defining art movements of the decade.

Pop Art in New York city embraced the culture of mass media and mass consumerism, with Artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Tom Wesselmann getting stimulated by television, comic strips, billboards and other products of the rise of Capitalism for their artworks.

James Hayllar (1829-1920) | Genre painter

From Christie's:

Artistic dynasties were not unusual in Victorian England, but few attained the distinction of the Hayllars, where five members of the family exhibited at the Royal Academy towards the end of the century. In addition to producing a son who was an engraver, James produced four remarkable daughters, each of whom he taught.

James Hayllar was born in Chichester in 1829, and after overcoming family opposition enrolled at Cary's Art School in 1842. Francis Cary was a respected historical painter who later took over Sass's Academy in Bloomsbury. He is now principally remembered as tutor to Rossetti and Millais.

On completing his studies, Hayllar made a tour of the continent, where he encountered Leighton in Rome in in 1851.

His likeness can be seen in Leighton's first great canvas, Cimabue's Madonna carried through the streets of Florence, which was purchased by Queen Victoria, and is now in the Royal Collection, though on loan to the National Gallery.

Anthony Hinchliffe | Figurative painter

"I have always loved the sense of escapism that comes with creating artwork.

I am passionate about exploring my creativity, constantly looking at developing my techniques so I can keep that feeling of energy within my work.

When someone is emotionally moved by looking at my artwork that is a big motivation for me as I have always liked to please people through my painting.

My preferred medium is oil paint, I do sometimes create an acrylic underpainting first as I really like the way the oil paint behaves when applied over acrylic.

I often dilute the oil paint down with turpentine in the initial stages and use it like watercolour".

Olga Naletova, 1966 | Surrealist painter

Ольга Налётова was born in St.Petersburg.

Finished Ioganson’s Art College at the USSR Academy of Arts.

In 1990 graduated from I.E.Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture at the USSR Academy of Arts.

Faculty of Painting. Neprintsev’s Studio.

Member of the Union of Artists of St.Petersburg from 1992. Member of the Union of Artists of Moscow Lives and works in Moscow.

Tishk Barzanji | Modern Surrealist /Symbolist painter

Kurdish-British artist Tishk Barzanji is a visual artist based in London, United Kingdom. His work touches on the modernism and surrealism movement.

His process is about space, colour, deconstruction, breaking boundaries, understanding the living space in this fast-moving world, and human interactions within these spaces.

Inspired by his childhood in Kurdistan, and early adult years in London, where he moved in 1997.

The first few years in London were an eye-opener, where his passion for architecture and art began. Surrounded by the rich cultures of London and this new environment, shaped his ideas.

He later went on to study Fine Art at Richmond upon Thames College, and Physics at Loughborough University.

Since 2017, he has worked with Rockefeller, New York Times, V and A museum, Somerset house, NET-A-PORTER, Gucci, and most recently featured in British Vogue.