Vassilis Antonakos, 1980 | Pittore astratto

Nato ad Atene, l'artista greco Βασίλης Αντωνάκος è noto per le sue opere in stile astratto.

L'arte è sempre stata per lui un modo alternativo di esprimersi, fin da bambino.

Ha frequentato il Vakalo Art and Design College e successivamente ha proseguito gli studi presso l'Accademia di Belle Arti di Atene.

È un artista prevalentemente autodidatta, con una vasta gamma di opere che spaziano dalla pittura alla scultura e alla scenografia.

La sua prima mostra personale, intitolata "Volti", si è tenuta nel 2013 presso la galleria Red Dot di Atene.

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.