Leonard Cohen / Michael Parkes | Questo è per te.../ This is for you

Leonard Cohen / Michael Parkes | Questo è per te.../ This is for you

Questo è per te
è il mio intero cuore
è il libro che ti avrei letto
quando fossimo stati vecchi
Adesso sono un'ombra
Sono senza pace come un impero


René Magritte: "The purpose of art is mystery"

René Magritte: "The purpose of art is mystery"


"To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been".
"Essere surrealisti significa escludere dalla tua mente ogni ricordo di ciò che hai visto ed essere sempre alla ricerca di ciò che non è mai stato".

Sonia Drabkin, 1961 | Romantic Surrealist painter

Sonia Drabkin, 1961 | Romantic Surrealist painter

Israeli painter Sonia Drabkin is an emerging surrealistic and romantic fantasy artist.
Sonia Drabkin’s art is heavily influenced by Surrealism.
As with artists of this style who preceded her, her sources lie in Paris of the 1920s.
Drabkin celebrates a vision of the world in which the imagination is set free.


Julie Heffernan, 1956 | Magic Realism painter

Julie Heffernan, 1956 | Magic Realism painter

Painter and graphic novelist Julie Heffernan is an American painter whose work has been described by the writer Rebecca Solnit as "a new kind of history painting" and by The New Yorker as "ironic rococo surrealism with a social-satirical twist".
Heffernan has been a Professor of Fine Arts at Montclair State University in Upper Montclair, New Jersey since 1997.
She received a B.F.A., at the University of California, Santa Cruz and an M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art.


Johann Georg Meyer | Pittore di genere

Johann Georg Meyer | Pittore di genere

Johann Georg Meyer von Bremen (1813-1886), noto come Meyer von Bremen, è stato un importante rappresentante della pittura di genere classica Tedesca.
Meyer è considerato un rappresentante della Scuola di pittura di Düsseldorf e fu membro della Colonia di pittori di Willingshausen.
Johann Georg Meyer realizzò circa 1.000 opere.
Meyer ricevette numerosi premi ed onorificenze.


Gil Bruvel, 1959 | Visionary painter / sculptor

Gil Bruvel, 1959 | Visionary painter / sculptor

Gil Bruvel is a visionary artist, capable of translating complex ideas and fleeting impressions into stunning works of art.
His curiosity about the human condition and the workings of the human mind is honed through daily meditative practice.
His art emerges from a deep contemplation of images, emotions, and sensations, which he refines continually before he casts them into material form.

Gil Bruvel 1959 | Australian-born French Visionary painter

Jack B. Yeats, l'Espressionista moderno

Jack B. Yeats, l'Espressionista moderno

Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) è stato un pittore Irlandese.
Jack Butler Yeats nacque il 29 agosto 1871 a Londra, figlio del ritrattista irlandese John Butler Yeats (1839-1922) e fratello del poeta William Butler Yeats (1865-1939).
Passò gli anni dell'infanzia a Sligo, una città sul mare nel nord dell'Irlanda, dai nonni materni.


Eugene Galien-Laloue | Belle Époque painter

Eugene Galien-Laloue | Belle Époque painter

French painter Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854-1941) was born in Paris on 1854.
He was a populariser of street scenes, usually painted in autumn or winter.
His paintings o f the early 1900s accurately represent the era in which he lived: a happy, bustling Paris, la Belle Époque, with horse-drawn carriages, trolley cars and its first omnibuses.
Galien-Laloue's works are valued not only for their contribution to 20th century art, but for the actual history, which they document.