Max Liebermann, (born July 20, 1847, Berlin, Ger. - died February 8, 1935, Berlin), painter and printmaker who is known for his naturalistic studies of the life and labour of the poor. He was also the foremost proponent of Impressionism🎨 in Germany.
Claude Monet | The Geese / Le oche, 1874
The Geese was painted a few months after the first Impressionist exhibition and the painting's bright tone and thickly applied touches of color are characteristic of Monet’s🎨 experimental technique during this period.
More unusual is the painting’s vertical format and dense composition.
Tall trees shade a path that leads our eye from the rippling water in the foreground to the diminutive figures of a woman and child standing in front of a sunlit, whitewashed building. | © The Clark Art Institute
Carlo Grubacs | Venice painter
The Grubacs name is closely associated with views of Venice, especially of the Grand Canal.
The eighteenth-century tradition of veduta painting was carried on by artists such as Carlo Grubacs (1812-1870) and his sons Giovanni and Marco, all of whom remained faithful to their predecessors Canaletto and Guardi.
Italian painter of animated urban waterscapes and architectural features.
Carlo Grubacs was born in Venice.
The Head of Franz Kafka by David Černý
Other work by artist David Černý is located at yard of the shopping center Quadrio, metro Národní třída in Prague.
This bust of Franz Kafka weighs 39 tons and is composed of 42 moving layers and reaches a height of 11 meters.
Henri Lamy, 1985 | Abstract painter
Henri Lamy is a French figurative painter, being used to paint, thanks to his father, when he was a kid, Henri admires Pollock «drip painting» technique (that consists in dropping paint from the palette knife he uses, straight to the canvas, or even throwing it).
Seduced by acrylic painting, the quality of his work is enhanced by the sharp and expressive colours of his compositions, abstract when you are close, getting figurative when you go further.
He became part of the 59 Rivoli (old art squat, that now belongs to the city of Paris, gathering more than 30 artists), and currently exhibits in Beijing (in collaboration with Coral Contemporary Art).
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Luigi Querena (1824-1887) | Veduta painter
Luigi Querena was an Italian painter🎨, born in Venice. Following in the footsteps of his father Lattanzio, a painter of historical and religious works, Luigi enrolled at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts at the age of 12 years.
He studied under Federico Moja and distinguished himself as a vedute painter. The contemporary art critic Sagredo said that Luigi was reviving Canaletto🎨.
Henri Fantin-Latour | Symbolist / Still Life painter
"I even belief that the schools and artistic movements is past.
After the Romantic movement, born of classicizing exaggeration, after the Realist movement, product of the follies of Romanticism, it may be seen that there is a great foolishness in all these ideas.
We are going to achieve a personal manner of feeling" - Henri Fantin-Latour🎨 (1836-1904).
Giovanni Sottocornola | Divisionist / Genre painter
Giovanni Sottocornola (1855-1917) was an Italian painter🎨.
He was born in Milan of humble origins.
In 1875 he enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where he attended the courses of Raffaele Casnedi and Giuseppe Bertini until 1880 and met his fellow students Gaetano Previati🎨, Emilio Longoni🎨 and Giovanni Segantini🎨.
While the portraits and still lifes presented at the Brera exhibitions of the following years enjoyed considerable success on the art market, he began to address social themes early in the new decade and experimented with the Divisionist technique in paintings like The Worker’s Dawn (1897, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan).
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