Edward Lamson Henry | Genre painter

December 24, 2015, 4:45 am

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Edward Lamson Henry (January 12, 1841 - May 9, 1919), commonly known as E.L. Henry, was an American genre painter, born in Charleston, South Carolina.

• Early life

Though born in Charleston, by age seven his parents had died and Henry moved to live with cousins in New York City. He began studying painting, there and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In 1860 he went to Paris, where he studied with Charles Gleyre and Gustave Courbet, at roughly the same time as Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille and Alfred Sisley.

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Sandro Botticelli | Calumny of Apelles / La calunnia di Apelle, 1496

December 24, 2015, 7:25 am

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The Calumny of Apelles is a tempera painting by Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli. Based on the description of a painting by Apelles, the work was completed in approximately 1494. It is on display in the Uffizi in Florence.

In The Calumny of Apelles, Botticelli drew on the description of a painting by Apelles, a Greek painter of the Hellenistic Period.

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Sandro Botticelli | Mystic Nativity / Natività mistica, 1501

December 24, 2015, 12:40 pm

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The 'Mystic Nativity' shows angels and men celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. The Virgin Mary kneels in adoration before her infant son, watched by the ox and the ass at the manger. Mary's husband, Joseph, sleeps nearby. Shepherds and wise men have come to visit the new-born king. Angels in the heavens dance and sing hymns of praise. On earth they proclaim peace, joyfully embracing virtuous men while seven demons flee defeated to the underworld.

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Salvatore Fiume | Figurative painter

December 26, 2015, 3:01 pm

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Salvatore Fiume (1915-1997) was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, writer and stage designer. His works are kept in some of the most important museums in the world, among which the Vatican Museums, the Hermitage of Saint Petersburg, the Museum of Modern Art of New York, the Pushkin Museum of Moscow and the Galleria d'Arte Moderna of Milan.

Born in Comiso, Sicily, on the 23rd of October, 1915 Salvatore Fiume was a painter, sculptor, architect, writer, and stage designer. At age sixteen he won a scholarship for the Royal Institute for the Book Illustration in Urbino, where he acquired a deep knowledge of printing techniques such as lithography, serigraphy, etching, and xylography. After finishing his studies, in 1936 he moved to Milan where he became friends with important writers such as Dino Buzzati and Salvatore Quasimodo, (the latter was to gain the Nobel Prize in 1959).

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Vida Gábor | Genre painter

December 27, 2015, 10:14 am

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Vida Gábor (1937-1999) was born to a simple working Hungarian family in 1937. He became attracted to music in his early youth and received a music scholarship. He studied and mastered the flute. In 1956, he began working as a flute soloist in the Philharmonic orchestra for the Budapest Opera and continued for 25 years. Although, he has always been painting and sculpting throughout his life, he decided to dedicate himself completely to painting in 1977. Being a perfectionist, he decided to achieve the highest standards in this fine art and to create his own unique style.

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Pyotr Nilus | La Belle Époque

December 28, 2015, 2:45 am

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The grandson of General, a member of the War of 1812, Pyotr Alexandrovich Nilus / Пётр Александрович Нилус (1869-1940) was a famous artist, especially in Odessa, where he studied at the Art School (1883-1889). But studies at the Academy of Fine Arts is over for P. Nilus in the year. By doing it in 1889, a year later he left her to do independent work. He made ​​such a bold move young Pyotr Nilus on the advice of great authority - IE Repin, who believed that not every talent academy is good, otherwise it just standardizes.

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Axel Törneman | The father of Swedish Modernism

December 28, 2015, 9:59 am

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Johan Axel Gustaf Törneman (28 October 1880 - 26 December 1925) was one of Sweden's earliest modernist painters. Born in Persberg, Värmland, in Sweden, he grew to work in several modernist styles, was one of the first Swedish expressionist artists, and became a part of the international avant-garde in art after embracing more abstract art styles in Germany and France that were evolving there during the early 1900s. He created his most famous paintings, Night Café I and II, and Trait, in France in 1905. These night café paintings, made from studies in the Place Pigalle, and in other nightclubs popular with artists such as Café du Rat Mort (Dead Rat Café), are seen as two of Swedish modernism's most important works, and are considered breakthrough work of Swedish modernism.

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Ernesto Canto da Maia | Symbolist sculptor

December 29, 2015, 12:45 pm

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Ernesto Canto da Maia (1890-1981) was born in 1890 at Ponta Delgada (São Miguel island, Azores) in the midst of a wealthy family. In 1907, after graduating at high school, he leaves to Lisbon and enrols at the Drawing Class of the Fine Arts School, having Ernesto Condeixa, José Luís Monteiro and José Alexandre Soares as teachers. In 1912, he participates at the I Portuguese Caricature Exhibit with a set of small statuetes which criticize the frivolity of life at the cities.

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Max Streckenbach | Floral still life painter

December 30, 2015, 1:35 pm

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Max Theodore Streckenbach (1863-1936) was born in Eckernförde, Germany on May 18, 1863 to Udo Streckenbach and Marie Wiebke. Streckenbach was the son of a pharmacist and, as such, was sent to study medicine after finishing high school at Schleswig Catholic School (1876-1885).

He studied medicine in Munich, Berlin, Rostock, Kiel and Bern, Switzerland before returning to his home town of Eckernförde.

His fondness for botany led him to take lessons from his role model, the French painter Fantin-Latour.

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Rainer Maria Rilke ~ Do not be afraid, it’s me / Non aver paura, sono io..

December 31, 2015, 1:46 pm

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William Zorach (1887-1968) Spring in Central Park, 1914

Do not be afraid, it’s me.
You do not feel that I infringe on you,
with all your senses?
He put wings, my heart,
and now, white flies around your face.
Do not you see my soul before you,
adorned with silence?
And my prayer of May,
not ripe to your eyes, like a tree?
If you dream, I’m your dream,
but if you’re awake, I am your will;
master of all glory arch my silence starry

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John Haag, 1980 | Realist / Impressionist painter

January 2, 2016, 1:33 pm

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John Haag is a professional artist whose work has been described as a fusion of impressionism and realism. Specializing in oil and charcoal, Haag began painting at the age of 18 and selling his work at age 21. He had his first solo show at age 24 in Park City, UT. Working primarily as a portrait artist in his early career, Haag’s work can be found in private collections throughout the US and has been commissioned by many prominent Americans, including the late world renowned author/speaker Steven R. Covey.

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Louis Toffoli | Abstract Cubist painter

January 3, 2016, 4:54 am

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Louis Toffoli (1907-1999) was a French modernist artist, born in 1907, known for his characteristic post-cubist transparent paintings.
A twentieth century French painter and printmaker, Louis Toffoli studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Trieste in 1924. In 1928 he exhibited his paintings in that city and was promptly condemned by Mussolini's fascist regime.

Two years later Toffoli emigrated to Paris and began regularly exhibiting at the Salon d'Automne, Salon des Independants, Salon des Peintres Temoins de leur Temps and elsewhere. With the outbreak of the Second World War (1939-1945) Louis Toffoli sought refuge in the countryside of Touraine and worked for the French Resistance. After the war he returned to Paris and received his French citizenship in 1947.

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Arthur Schopenhauer / Antonio Nunziante | Quotes / Aforismi

January 3, 2016, 3:50 pm

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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

• All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
• Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
• If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
• The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
• To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

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Paul Gagni | Paris painting

January 4, 2016, 9:35 am

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Paul Gagni (1893-1962) was a Post-Impressionist Artist. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He exhibited at the Autumn Salon and the Salon of Independent Artists. He is well known for his Paris street scenes.

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Fernand Toussaint ~ Post-Impressionist painter | Portrait and Figure

January 4, 2016, 12:35 pm

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Fernand Toussaint (1873-1956) was equally at ease painting in all categories, from landscapes and seascapes to beautiful bouquets and still lifes, but it is in his intimate portraiture and genre paintings that we discover, according to Mario de Monchi, Toussaint as the “incontestable master of the grace and charm of the woman”. His classical artistic schooling in drawing gave his work a certain precision, but it was Toussaint’s travels and friendships, notably in Paris and London, that influenced his choice of palette and the tender sensuality with which he endowed the paintings he most loved creating, his portraits of women.

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Albert Carrier-Belleuse | Rembrandt sitting with book

January 5, 2016, 2:55 pm

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Albert Carrier-Belleuse (1824-1887) was instrumental in popularising the fashion for ideal portraits of historical personalities. After his return from England in 1855, he created a lively series of fantasy busts of great artists.

The Rembrandt was one of the first of the sculptor's series of busts and was exhibited at the 1863 Union Centrale in Faience with a bust of Durer. These two were soon followed by portraits of Beethoven, Mozart, Michelangelo and Raphael, and in 1874, Rubens, van Ostade, Velazquez and Murillo were added to the series.

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Albert Carrier-Belleuse | La Melodie, 1887

January 5, 2016, 3:25 pm

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Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (born Albert-Ernest Carrier de Belleuse; 12 June 1824 - 4 June 1887) was a French sculptor. He was one of the founding members of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and was made an officer of the Legion of Honour.

His work encompassed all manner of sculptural subjects and materials, and his naturalism incorporated a breadth of styles: unembellished Realism, neo-Baroque exuberance, and Rococo elegance.

For biographical notes notes -in english and italian- on Carrier de Belleuse see Albert Carrier-Belleuse ~ Chryselephantine sculpture.

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Albrecht Dürer ~ Renaissance painter | Hand study

January 6, 2016, 9:29 am

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Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was a painter, printmaker and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, due to his high-quality woodcut prints. He was in communication with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 he was patronized by emperor Maximilian I.

For biographical notes notes -in english and italian- on Dürer see Albrecht Dürer ~ Renaissance painter.

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Albrecht Dürer ~ Renaissance painter | Woodcuts and Engravings

January 6, 2016, 10:47 am

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Undisputed master of the woodcut, German painter and engraver Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) is one of the most celebrated Northern Renaissance painters and printmakers. His original etchings, engravings and woodcuts contain exquisite detail and elaborate imagery drawing on religious and philosophical ideas.

For biographical notes notes -in english and italian- on Dürer see Albrecht Dürer ~ Renaissance painter.

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Crawfurd Adamson, 1953 | Figurative painter

January 6, 2016, 3:28 pm

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Crawfurd Adamson, born in Edinburgh, is a noted figurative artist from Scotland, although he has spent much of his career in the South of England. He has exhibited widely and internationally, and has paintings in major collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the National Fleming Collection in London.

He came to note in the 1980s and 90s, with extensive international shows including Monaco, Hong Kong and Spain. His work fell out of fashion during the late 90s, as the art market took a preference to conceptual works, rather than traditional media such as oil painting or pastels.

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