Max Svabinsky (1873-1962)

Max Švabinský (1873-1963) was a Czech painter🎨, draughtsman, graphic artist, and professor in Academy of Graphic Arts in Prague.

Švabinský is considered one of the more notable artists in the history of Czech painting and produced significant work during the first half of the 20th century.

He was relatively unusual among modernist artists in that his work was accepted by the communist regime; this was due at least in part to his having formed his artistic personality prior to 1900, prior to the advent of cubism. | © Wikipedia

Max Švabinský (1873-1963) è stato un pittore Ceco🎨, disegnatore, grafico e professore presso l'Accademia di arti grafiche di Praga.

È uno degli artisti più importanti del XX secolo, ammirato per la straordinaria abilità disegnativa e una grande varietà di tecniche grafiche. Si rese molto benemerito per far conoscere le belle arti ceche a tutta l'Europa.

Dalla fine degli anni Venti, dimorava spesso insieme alla moglie Ela presso la famiglia Vejrych a Kozlov vicino a Česká Třebová. Nel 1910 fu nominato professore dell'Academia di Praga.

Nel giornale Rajské sonáty, ampliò nel 1917 la gamma di proprie possibilità espressive con l'incisione in legno. Inoltre è autore di mosaiche per il Monumento Nazionale sul colle Žižkov a Praga, di cartoni per tre finestre colorate del Duomo di San Vito di Praga, nonché dell' abbozzo di una miniatura grafica per francobollo.

Max Švabinský continuò a disegnare quasi fino agli ultimi giorni della sua vita e morì il 10 febbraio 1962 a Praga.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Seascape, 1879

Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir🎨 (French, 1841-1919)

Title: Seascape

Origin: France

Date: 1879

Medium: Oil on canvas

Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right: Renoir'79

Dimensions: 72.6 × 91.6 cm (28 1/2 × 36 in.)

Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection

Reference Number: 1922.438

The name Renoir is closely associated with paintings of dancers, boaters, women, the celebration of life, and the enjoyment of leisure, which makes Seascape and its storm-tossed ocean quite unusual and unexpected.

For his landscapes, Renoir preferred sunny days with blue skies and calm winds; rarely do we see unsettled weather, and there are only four known winter scenes.

Il nome Renoir è strettamente associato con dipinti di ballerini, diportisti, donne, la celebrazione della vita e il godimento del tempo libero, il che rende Seascape ed il suo oceano tempestato di intemperie inusuali e inaspettati.

Per i suoi paesaggi, Renoir preferiva giornate soleggiate con cielo azzurro e venti calmi; raramente vediamo condizioni meteorologiche instabili e ci sono solo quattro scene invernali conosciute.

Max Liebermann | Impressionist painter

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 (1812-1870) | Veduta / 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 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).

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).