If they want to choose something or someone over you,
Let them.
If they want to go weeks without talking to you,
Let them.
If they are okay with never seeing you,
Let them.
Cassie Phillips | Let them
Jacqueline Marval | The Female Fauve
Jacqueline Marval was the pseudonym for Marie Josephine Vallet (1866-1932), who was a French painter, lithographer and sculptor.
Vallet was born in Quaix-en-Chartreuse into a family of school teachers.
She was married in 1866, to a traveling salesperson, Albert Valentin, but separated from her husband in 1891 after the death of her son.
Cassie Phillips | Lasciali fare (La poesia)
Se vogliono scegliere qualcosa o qualcuno al posto tuo,
Lasciali fare.
Se vogliono passare settimane senza parlarti,
Lasciali fare.
Se stanno bene a non vederti mai,
Lasciali fare.
Se stanno bene a mettere sempre se stessi al primo posto,
Lasciali fare.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Bal du moulin de la Galette, 1876
Bal du moulin de la Galette (Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette) is doubtless Renoir's most important work of the mid 1870's and was shown at the Impressionist exhibition in 1877.
Hippolyte Flandrin | Neoclassical painter
Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809-1864) was a French Neoclassical painter.
His most celebrated work, Jeune Homme Nu Assis au Bord de la Mer (1836) is held in the Louvre.
From an early age, Flandrin showed interest in the arts and a career as a painter.
He was the second of three sons, all of whom were painters.
Auguste, his older brother, spent most of his life as a professor at Lyon and later died there.
Wisława Szymborska | Ruben's Women
Herculasses, a feminine fauna.
Naked as the crashing of barrels.
Cooped up atop trampled beds.
They sleep with mouths poised to crow.
Their pupils have retreated in the depths,
and penetrate to the heart of their glands,
trickling yeast into their blood.
Peter Paul Rubens | Venus in Front of the Mirror, (1614-1615) | Museo Nacional del Prado
Daughters of the Baroque. Dough bloats in a bowl,
baths are steaming, wines are blushing.
piglets of cloud are dashing across the sky,
trumpets neigh in physical alarm.
O pumpkinned, O excessive ones,
doubled by your unveiling,
trebled by your violent poses,
fat love dishes.
Peter Paul Rubens | Mars and Rhea Silvia, 1617
Their skinny sisters got up earlier,
before dawn broke within the painting,
and no one saw them walking single file
on the unpainted side of the canvas.
Exiles of style. Ribs all counted.
Birdlike feet and hands.
They try to ascend on gaunt shoulderblades.
The thirteenth century would have given them a golden backdrop.
The twentieth, a silver screen.
But the seventeenth has nothing for the flat-chested.
For even the sky curves in relief -
curvaceous angles, a curvaceous god -
a moustached Apollo astride a sweaty steed
enters the steaming bedchamber.
Wisława Szymborska (Polish poet, essayist, translato, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature, 1923-2012)
Tatiana Deriy, 1973 | Figurative painter
Tatiana Deriy / Татьяна Дерий is a dynamically growing painter, whose major creative goal is comprehension of unity of the world's esthetic beauty and its profound meaning as well as rendering them to viewers through painting.
Born in a wonderful part of Moscow region, not far from "Archangelskoye" estate full of creations of famous architects and sculptors, refinement of palace parks and canvases by Veronese and Tintoretto, at an early age she developed special world outlook which later on defined the tenor of her work, based on the sense of harmony and beauty.
Maki Horanai, 1977 | Magic realism painter
Born in Japan, Maki Horanai 洞内麻希 moved to Australia from Japan in 2005 and has had 18 solo exhibitions in various cities throughout Australia.
She grew up in small seaside villages in Hokkaido, northern Japan, where she often sat or played along the beach.
Maki's early influences were the ocean, the shore, the birds and islands she saw both in reality and in her imagination.
Pope Francis: "Dear Poets, help us Dream"
Below is the letter Pope Francis wrote for the book 'Verses to God: An Anthology of Religious Poetry (italian).
Dear poets,
I know that you hunger for meaning, and that is why you reflect on how faith questions life.
This "meaning" cannot be reduced to a concept. No, it is a comprehensive meaning that encompasses poetry, symbols, and feelings.
The true meaning is not found in the dictionary - that's the meaning of words, and words are merely tools to express everything within us.
Le Quattro Stagioni | I Concerti ed i Sonetti di Antonio Vivaldi
Le Quattro Stagioni è un gruppo di quattro concerti per violino del compositore italiano Antonio Vivaldi (Compositore e violinista Barocco, 1678-1741), ognuno dei quali dà espressione musicale ad una stagione dell'anno.
Furono composti intorno al 1718-1720, quando Vivaldi era maestro di cappella alla corte di Mantova.
Furono pubblicati nel 1725 ad Amsterdam, in quella che all'epoca era la Repubblica delle Sette Province Unite, insieme ad altri otto concerti, con il titolo Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'invenzione.
Un ritratto anonimo ad olio conservato al Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna, generalmente ritenuto di Vivaldi, 1723
Bartolomeo Bezzi | Genre painter
Bartolomeo Bezzi (1851-1923) was an Italian painter.
Bartolomeo Bezzi was born in Fucine di Ossana (Trento), then in the Austrian Empire.
Having lost his father as a child, Bezzi lived with an uncle and enrolled at the Brera Academy in Milan at the age of twenty, exhibiting for the first time in 1878.
He won the Fumagalli Prize in 1882 and the following year he took part in the Esposizione di Belle Arti di Roma, receiving general acclaim for his landscape painting.
Antonio Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" | Music and Sonnets
The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year.
These were composed around 1718-1720, when Vivaldi was the court chapel master in Mantua.
They were published in 1725 in Amsterdam in what was at the time the Dutch Republic, together with eight additional concerti, as Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest Between Harmony and Invention).
Orazio Gentileschi | Young Woman with a Violin (Saint Cecilia), 1612 | Detroit Institute of Arts
Vladimir Mukhin, 1971 | Romantic painter
Vladimir Mukhin captivates audiences with his art, seamlessly blending lyricism, refined lines, and vibrant energy.
His works harmoniously merge the rich color palette of impressionism with the dynamism of Art Nouveau and the foundational techniques of traditional academic painting.
Born in Kazakhstan, Vladimir Mukhin honed his skills at the Penza Savitsky Art College before embarking on a transformative journey at the renowned Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in Moscow.
Georges Corominas, 1945
Son of a Spanish painter, Georges Corominas, after studying at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts d'Alger, returned to France in 1962, where his paintings were quickly noticed.
Corominas is an artist who, while in search of the deep soul of the world, presents his "joie de vivre" as well as his emotions, passions and fascination for the perfect beauty to life, all in a bright enchantment.
Laureate of prestigious price, result of participation in the famous national and international exhibitions, his painting is pointed out by the collectors.
Theodore Earl Butler, l'impressionista americano a Parigi
Theodore Earl Butler (1861-1936) è stato un pittore impressionista Americano.
Nacque a Columbus, Ohio, e si trasferì a Parigi per studiare arte.
Conobbe Claude Monet a Giverny e ne sposò la figliastra, Suzanne Hoschedé.
Dopo la sua morte, sposò la sorella di lei, Marthe Hoschedé.
Butler fu uno dei membri fondatori della Society of Independent Artists.
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Ionut Caras, 1978 | Surrealist photographer
Romanian professional photographer and "photo mechanic" Ionut Caras was born and lives in Iasi, Romania.
Caras describes himself as a 'photo mechanic' and has created the series of mindboggling pictures using the computer program.
His passion for photography began seven years ago when Kara discovered the processing of photographs, artistic of composition.
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Vladimir Volegov | Il pittore Romantico delle figure
Vladimir Volegov nacque nella città di Khabarovsk il 19 dicembre 1957.
All'età di due anni, sua madre abbandonò il padre, prese il figlio e si trasferì a Sverdlovsk (ex Ekaterinburg).
Da allora in poi, la famiglia si trasferì spesso da una città all'altra.
La madre desiderava che Volegov diventasse medico, ma lui nutriva un forte desiderio di dipingere.
Wisława Szymborska | Non ce l’ho con la primavera, 1993
Non ce l'ho con la primavera
perché è tornata.
Non la incolpo
perché adempie come ogni anno
ai suoi doveri.
Marc Chagall | Fleurs de printemps, 1930
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David Gray, 1970 | Classical Realist painter
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David's Gray signature style reveals a personal and contemporary expression of beauty and order which pays homage to the Classical Tradition in its craftsmanship.
Collectors of David's work often relate that his painting provoke a sense of peace, stillness, or a contemplative mood.
His award winning works have been covered by major art publications including Southwest Art, Art of the West, and American Art Collector.
Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Portrait of Pope Francis
Roberto Ferri devoted himself to Caravaggesque and academic painting - including Ingres, David, Gericault - but also by Surrealist painters.
Ferri's way of painting is elevated by a technique which is almost virtuosity, where the traditional tools of the surrealism are inserted onto the traditional iconographic elements.
His career took on greater notoriety for having been in charge of portraying Pope Francis.
There were two works commissioned from the Italian artist, which occupy privileged places in the Vatican.
Eric Wallis, 1968 | Pittore impressionista
Eric K.Wallis è nato in Arizona.
Ha iniziato la dipingere ad olio all'età di sette anni insieme a suo padre, Kent R. Wallis, grazie al quale Eric divenne un bambino prodigio.
Ha vinto molti premi durante gli anni di scuola.
Iscritto alla Utah University, ha passato molto tempo a disegnare schizzi con la compagnia di danza moderna della stessa università’.
La sua carriera professionista parte nel 1990 mentre era ancora iscritto al college.
Louis Janmot | Pittore simbolista
Louis Janmot (1814-1892) è stato un pittore e poeta Francese, appartenente alla Scuola di Lione, 1830 - un movimento ispirato alle correnti mistiche ed illuministe lionesi.
Louis Janmot è stato considerato una figura di transizione tra Romanticismo e Simbolismo, anticipando la componente francese della Confraternita dei Preraffaelliti; la sua opera fu ammirata da Puvis de Chavannes, Odilon Redon e Maurice Denis.
Louis Janmot | Le Poème de l'âme. L’idéal, 1850-1854 | Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts
Jules Worms | The furtive message, 1877
In the "Furtive Message" Jules Worms (French academic painter, 1832-1924) re-creates a Spanish street as it might have appeared in the time of Goya.
The background is based on a watercolor sketch the artist made during an 1877 visit to Salamanca.
The picturesque setting forms a backdrop for a farce.
Jules Worms | The furtive message, 1877 | Haggin Museum, California
Vincenzo Sorrentino, 1956 | Neo Baroque painter
Vincenzo Sorrentino was born in Torre Annunziata, (Naples) Italy.
He is an illustrator, painter, sculptor and modeler of ceramic works.
His exhibition activity began in 1984 in institutional places, private galleries and at cultural institutes.
He taught painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, and since 2001 he his a professor of fresco theory and technique at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.
Antonio Mancini | Verist painter
Antonio Mancini (14 November 1852 - 28 December 1930) was an Italian painter.
Mancini was born in Rome and showed precocious ability as an artist.
At the age of twelve, he was admitted to the Institute of Fine Arts in Naples, where he studied under Domenico Morelli (1823-1901), a painter of historical scenes who favored dramatic chiaroscuro and vigorous brushwork, and Filippo Palizzi.
Mancini developed quickly under their guidance, and in 1872, he exhibited two paintings at the Paris Salon.
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Alexei Butirskiy, 1974 | Cityscape painter
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Born in Moscow, Russian painter Алексей Бутырский entered Moscow Art College in 1992.
In 1996 he completed his studies at the Art College and graduated with an Excellence Diploma.
In 1998 he graduated from the Russian Academy of the Arts where he studied under respected professor, L.S. Hasyanova.
He graduated from the Academy with the highest honors attainable.
Alexei currently serves as Professor of Drawing at the same academy.
Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot | Genre painter
Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, born Antoinette Cécile Hortense Viel (1784-1845), was a French painter, mainly of genre and historical scenes.
She was born in Paris to Jean-Baptiste Viel, a perfumer, and his wife Cécile, née Lejeune.
Her mother became a widow two years later and remarried; to Jean-Louis Lescot, a pharmacist.
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Jacques Van Den Abeele, 1960 | Figurative sculptor
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Jacques Van den Abeele, Belgian sculptor, is exhibited in galleries spread over Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Switzerland and the United States of America.
He realized also monumental sculptures for state orders.
For Jacques Van den Abeele, art is above all a quest for the essential foundations of existence, moving towards what lies behind appearances: feelings, emotions, fears.
Anna Klumpke | Catinou knitting, 1887
Encouraged by an independent, educationally oriented mother, Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856-1942) was a copyist in the Luxembourg Museum and studied at the Académie Julien in Paris.
She enjoyed an education guided by the concept that women artists could compete with their male counterparts.
In her memoirs of 1940, Klumpke cites a most influential moment in her childhood: receiving the gift of a Rosa Bonheur doll.
Her admiration of Bonheur, the French painter of animals, led her to paint the aging woman’s portrait - which is considered a companion piece to her portrait of leading suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Louis Aragon | Amor mio, non dire niente / Mon Amour ne dis rien
Amor mio non dire niente
lascia cadere queste due parole nel silenzio
Come una pietra a lungo lisciata fra i palmi delle mie mani
Una pietra veloce e pesante una pietra
Che cada nel profondo della nostra vita
DU Kun 杜昆, 1982 | Surrealist painter
DU Kun /杜昆 born in Sichuan, China.
Under the influence of his art teacher father DU began studying painting from the age of four, later graduating from Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts’ Oil Painting program.
Today he works between Tianjin and Beijing as his base, and is particularly widely renowned as a young Chinese artist for his creativity and the brilliance of his techniques.
Further, since his student days, in addition to his work as a painter DU Kun has been applying his talents in the field of music.
Édouard Cortès | Paris in the Belle Époque
Édouard Leon Cortès (1882-1969), of french and spanish ancestry, was born in Lagny-sur-Marne, a few miles east of Paris.
As an adolescent, he became fascinated with the arts and at seventeen began his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
The year 1901 marked the artist's first exhibition at the Salon des Artistes Francais.
His piece depicting a dramatic Paris street scene at dusk brought him immediate recognition and fame.
David Bowers, 1956 | Surrealist painter
David Michael Bowers was born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania and graduated from art school in Pittsburgh in 1979.
He began working as a staff artist at various studios in the Pittsburgh, PA area.
Two years later, David began teaching his craft at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh where he lectured for ten years and was honored as the Keynote Speaker for the Class of 2003.
In 1991, David began his illustration career working mostly with book publishers in New York City in which he completed over one hundred book covers in the span of over ten years.
Meadow Gist, 1975 | Impressionist painter
Meadow Gist chooses the subject matter she paints to express a love and respect of a simpler life, when you grew your own food and more things were crafted by hand.
This is what attracted her to being an artist in the first place, "crafting a unique item that has a piece of me in it, and I can say "I made that".
She enjoys presenting a romantic view of bygone days, and sharing a little of this optimism with all who view her paintings.
Her inspiration comes from the painting of the Russian Impressionists and the way they paint daily life, as well as the Orientalists and the pride they bring to the simple man.
Salvador Dali: "Adoro i miei nemici quando sono intelligenti"
"Ho sfondato il muro della spudoratezza con una disciplina da caserma" - confidava Salvador Dalí in una intervista del 1961 alla giornalista e scrittrice italiana Oriana Fallaci (1929-2006), mentre, nelle successive riflessioni tuonava contro gli pseudo moralisti: "Non sono io il pagliaccio ma lo è questa società mostruosamente cinica e così ingenuamente incosciente che gioca a fingere di essere seria per meglio nascondere la propria follia".
Coco Chanel: "Fashion changes, but style endures"!
Coco Chanel and Romy Schneider
• "Where should one use perfume? A young woman asked. Wherever one wants to be kissed".
• "It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong".
And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person".
I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love".
The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness".
Francisco Sanchis Cortés, 1969 | Impressionist figurative painter
The Valencian painter Francisco Sanchis Cortés has an enviable genetic line that leads him in pursuit of the fine arts.
A line that genetically connects the best manners of Hispanic roots, heir to the demonic fictional painting of the Pinazo, Emilio Sala, Mongrell and Sorolla.
A narrative line in which he tells a lot about the story of the matter and his ability to move.
A line in which knowing how to paint is essentially valued, precisely to characterize the motifs, with humanity in the gestures of the characters and above all with an outcrop of a romantic character.
Santiago Carbonell, 1960 | Visionary painter
Born in Quito, Ecuadorian painter Santiago Carbonell emigrated to Mexico in 1986.
Carbonell studied painting in Barcelona and was part of a group of young painters influenced by informalism.
Tàpies was an influential figure for him.
Tachism and working with different materials, accidents, chance, and texture are all highly influential in his works.
Nancy Boren, 1955 | Impressionist painter
Nancy Boren’s first painting, a watercolor, was done at age 12 while sitting next to her artist father, James Boren, as he painted at the Grand Canyon.
Since then she has branched out to original print making and oil painting, depicting a variety of landscape and marine subjects, and is often captivated by scenes in which the figure fills the canvas.
She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Abilene Christian University and cites the influence of notable traditional painters such as Sargent, Sorolla and Fechin.
Giacomo Moretti, 1939 | Genre painter
Giacomo Moretti is an Italian painter born in Cava dei Tirreni in the province of Salerno Italy. For some years he lived in Naples where in 1971 he received, on the occasion of the First Neapolitan Biennial of Contemporary Painting, the diploma with a gold medal.
He later moved to La Rochelle, France. Giacomo Moretti has achieved great success among collectors, obtaining interesting prices.
Luigi Bazzani | Neo-Pompeian painter
Luigi Bazzani, also called Il Bazzanetto, was an Italian painter, illustrator and watercolorist.
He was born November 8, 1836, in Bologna, Italy.
Bazzani studied at Bologna's Accademia di Belle Arti then traveled to France, Germany and, eventually, Rome where he settled down in 1861 and began to specialize in genre and landscape subjects as well as set designs for theaters.
Many of his paintings featured the remains of the city's monuments from classical antiquity.
Rosmery Mamani Ventura, 1985 | Pastel painter
Rosmery Mamani Ventura is an award winning hyperrealistic pastel artists from Bolivia.
She was born in Omasuyos, near Lake Titicaca where she lived until 1998.
At 14 she migrated from her rural Aymara indigenous community to the city of El Alto to work as a maid, a move that brought excitement, but also struggle.
Despite the hardships, that move was also the first step toward discovering her talent as an artist.
Johan Ericson | Landscape painter
Johan Erik Ericson (1849-1925) was a Swedish landscape painter.
He was born to Anders Eriksson, a woodcarver, and his wife Johanna, née Petersson. His father emigrated to America when he was only four.
From 1872 to 1878, he studied at the Royal Institute of Art, where his primary teacher was Per Daniel Holm.
This was followed by studies in France from 1878 to 1884, where he came under the influence of the Impressionists and served as an assistant in the studios of Alfred Wahlberg.
Jan Bogaerts (Dutch, 1878-1962)
Johannes Jacobus Maria (Jan) Bogaerts was an artist from Netherlands.
Born in the Dutch city of 's-Hertogenbosch, in the province of North Brabant, Bogaerts attended the Koninklijke School voor Nuttige en Beeldende Kunsten in his birth city between 1893 and 1899.
He spent four years working in the studio of the fin-de siècle artist Antoon van Welie (1866-1956) and also received tutelage from him at the Den Bosch academy from 1897 until 1899.
Under his influence, Bogaerts painted figures, portraits, landscapes, parks, gardens and castle grounds in a symbolistical manner.
Alexander Sheversky, 1961 | Ballet dancers
Alexander Sheversky is an artist who truly captures the essence of beauty with his brushstrokes, whether he is painting a still life, a ballerina, or an assortment of candy in a crystal clear Mason jar.
Clean, modern, crisp. Sheversky's art speaks to his technical training, discipline, and great patience.
Alexander employes these same skills, in his daily practice of yoga.
Alexander Sheversky, born in the Republic of Moldova, the son of an accomplished artist.
Louis Aragon | Tutte le parole del mondo / Toutes les paroles du monde…
Quando tutte insieme le parole del mondo ti avrò dato
Tutte le foreste d’America e tutte le messi notturne del cielo
Quando ti avrò dato ciò che brilla e ciò che l’occhio non può vedere
Tutto il fuoco della terra come una coppa di lacrime
Il seme maschile delle specie diluviane
E la mano di un bambino
Sergey Shenderovsky
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Jeune fille (L’Eté), 1880
Renoir’s Jeune fille (L'Eté) is a pretty pastel fantasy: a plump brunette wears a breezy white chemise and a fashionable straw hat, festooned with a thick blue ribbon.
This Impressionist goddess of summer, nestled in a flowering meadow, has adorned her hat with freshly plucked blooms.
She leans towards the viewer with a sweet, languid look, her lips gently parted.
The sensuality of her expression is underscored by the casual exposure of her bare shoulder, arms and décolleté.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Jeune fille (L’Eté), 1880 | Christie's
Babylon, the Gate of the Gods
Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometres (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad.
Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia.
Its rulers established two important empires in antiquity, the 19th-16th century BC Old Babylonian Empire, and the 7th-6th century BC Neo-Babylonian Empire.
Babylon was also used as a regional capital of other empires, such as the Achaemenid Empire.
Babylon was one of the most important urban centres of the ancient Near East, until its decline during the Hellenistic period.
Nearby ancient sites are Kish, Borsippa, Dilbat and Kutha.
An artist's depiction of Ishtar Gate as it may have appeared around the time it was constructed in Babylon c. 575 BCE. From the game Old World
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