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.

Guido Argentini, 1966 | Silver dancers

Guido Argentini, Italian photographer, was born in Florence, Italy. He studied Medicine for three years at the university of Florence.

At 23 he decided to turn his passion for photography into a profession and started to shoot fashion and beauty.

Yosuke Ueno, 1977 | Pop Surrealist painter

Yosuke, Japanese painter🎨, started to create original characters and draw them since early childhood, and learned his way to paint by himself.

The first solo show was held in Yamaguchi when he was sixteen, 1994.

Known as Spaceegg77, and shows works in Asia, the U.S, and Europe, living in Tokyo.

Also known as a specialist of symbolism and innocence. Sometimes four colors like red, green, yellow, and blue appear in his works.

These colors represent the four bases of DNA: adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine, that is, A, T, G and C-molecular elements that all animate beings share. Yosuke paints these colors and A, T, G and C with a message that all animate beings should have equal worth.

Andy Warhol: "In futuro tutti saranno famosi per quindici minuti.."

Affascinato dalla cultura del consumo, dai media e dalla fama, lo stesso Andy Warhol divenne uno degli artisti più famosi e importanti del ventesimo secolo.

Figlio di immigrati cecoslovacchi, Andrew Warhola è cresciuto a Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania, studiando arte al Carnegie Institute of Technology dal 1945 al 1949.

Subito dopo la laurea si è trasferito a New York City, dove ha abbreviato il suo nome in Andy Warhol e ha iniziato a lavorare come un designer commerciale e artista di vetrine, vincendo numerosi premi per i suoi distintivi design pubblicitari.

Salvador Dalí | Personality

Dalí was renowned for his eccentric and ostentatious behavior throughout his career.

In 1941, the Director of Exhibitions and Publications at MoMA wrote: "The fame of Salvador Dalí has been an issue of particular controversy for more than a decade...Dalí's conduct may have been undignified, but the greater part of his art is a matter of dead earnest".

When Dalí was elected to the French Academy of Fine Arts in 1979, one of his fellow academicians stated that he hoped Dalí would now abandon his "clowneries".

In 1936, at the premiere screening of Joseph Cornell's film Rose Hobart at Julien Levy's gallery in New York City, Dalí knocked over the projector in a rage.

"My idea for a film is exactly that", he said shortly afterward, "I never wrote it down or told anyone, but it is as if he had stolen it!"

Gerard van Honthorst | Baroque Era painter

Gerard van Honthorst (1590-1656) became one of the main Dutch followers of Caravaggio, whose style he popularised in Holland on his return from a stay in Rome, 1610-20.

With paintings such as 'Christ before the High Priest' he became one of the few Dutch painters to achieve international fame.

Józef Pankiewicz | Impressionist painter

Józef Pankiewicz (29 November 1866 in Lublin - 4 July 1940 in La Ciotat) was a Polish impressionist painter, graphic artist and teacher who spent much of his career in France.

From 1884-1885, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw under Wojciech Gerson and Aleksander Kamiński.

After obtaining a scholarship, he went to Saint Petersburg to study at the Imperial Academy of Arts.

In 1889, he and his studio partner Władysław Podkowiński went to Paris to participate in the Exposition Universelle and he was awarded a silver medal for his painting of a vegetable market.