Quantcast
Channel: Tutt'Art@ | Pittura * Scultura * Poesia * Musica
Viewing all 2178 articles
Browse latest View live

Photographers | Sitemap


Van Gogh series | View of Saintes-Maries

0
0


Saintes-Maries is the subject of a series of paintings that Vincent van Gogh made in 1888. When Van Gogh lived in Arles, he took a trip to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer on the Mediterranean sea, where he made several paintings of the seascape and town.
  • Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
In June 1888 Van Gogh took a 30-mile stagecoach trip from Arles to the sea-side fishing village of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer on the coast of the Mediterranean sea. Van Gogh's week-long trip was taken to recover from his health problems and make some seaside paintings and drawings. At that time Saintes-Maries was a small fishing village with under a hundred homes.

More.... Continua......

Correggio | Jupiter and Io, 1530 | Art in Detail

0
0

Jupiter and Io is a painting by the Italian* late Renaissance artist Antonio Allegri da Correggio*. It is housed in the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna, Austria.
  • History
The series of Jupiter's Loves was conceived after the success of Venus and Cupid with a Satyr. Correggio painted four canvasses in total, although others had been programmed perhaps.

More.... Continua......

Dutch Artists | Sitemap

Paul Chabas | Academic painter

0
0


Paul Émile Chabas (1869-1937) was a French painter* and illustrator and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. He was born in Nantes, and had his artistic training under William-Adolphe Bouguereau* and Tony Robert-Fleury. He first exhibited at the Salon in 1890.
He was awarded a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 and in 1912 received the Médaille d’honneur*. His preferred subject was a nude young girl in a natural setting.



More.... Continua......

Claudio Bonanni, 1960 | Impressionist Seascape painter

0
0


Claudio Bonanni was born in Tivoli, Rome on 29th September 1960. From 1980-1986, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, then he moved to Paris to study painting under the guidance of Pio Santini, of Tivoli, moved to the French capital fifty year before.
Here he deepened the knowledge of the Impressionists, first of all Pissarro.

More.... Continua......

Greek Artists | Sitemap

Ricardo Sanz, 1957 | Portrait /Figurative painter *


Masaaki Sasamoto 笹本正明, 1966 | Symbolist painter

0
0


Japanese artist Masaaki Sasamoto was born in 1966 in Tokyo. He graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, specializing in Japanese painting.

He has been a permanent participant of solo and group art exhibitions throughout Japan. Masaaki Sasamoto currently lives and works in Yamanashi Prefecture, on the island of Honshu, Japan. The artworks of Masaaki Sasamoto are exhibited at Art Prefectural Gallery of Yamanashi Museum.

More.... Continua......

Helen Allingham RWS | Victorian era painter

0
0


Helen Allingham RWS (née Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson; 26 September 1848 - 28 September 1926) was an British* watercolour painter and illustrator of the Victorian era.
  • Biography
Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson was born on 26 September 1848, at Swadlincote in Derbyshire, the daughter of Alexander Henry Paterson, a medical doctor, and Mary Herford Paterson. Helen Paterson was the eldest of seven children. The family moved to Altrincham in Cheshire when she was one year old. In 1862 her father and her 3-year-old sister Isabel died of diphtheria during an epidemic. The family then moved to Birmingham, where some of Alexander Paterson's family lived.

More.... Continua......

Vincent van Gogh | Sunflowers series / La serie dei Girasoli

0
0


Paul Gauguin, van Gogh che dipinge i girasoli, 1888, Van Gogh Museum

Sunflowers (original title, in French: Tournesols) are the subject of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh*. The earlier series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, executed a year later in Arles, shows bouquets of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions.

More.... Continua......

Nicola Vietti, 1945 | Figurative painter

0
0

Nicola Vietti was born in Marseille to Italian parents emigrated from Apulia in France at the beginning of the century. Numerous solo and group exhibitions. And 'present in catalogs and magazines. He currently lives and works in Milan, after a long period spent in Paris.
The figures of maidens Nicola Vietti, you can look on each side, three-quarter profile, facing away. The style might defer to their fathers, that should not be forgotten at this point, as the International Botero* and Bueno Nicola Vietti that offer a hint of a departure of style attempted with disenchantment.

More.... Continua......

Kenneth Howard OBE RA, 1932 | Impressionist / Plein air painter

0
0


Kenneth Howard OBE RA (born 26 December 1932) is an British artist* and painter. He was President of the New English Art Club from 1998 to 2003.
  • Life and art
Ken Howard was born in London. He studied at the Hornsey College of Art (1949-53) and the Royal College of Art (1955-58). In 1958 he won a British Council Scholarship to Florence. He spent his National Service in the Royal Marines (1953-55). In 1973 and 1978 he was the Official War Artist to Northern Ireland, and 1973-80 worked in various locations, including Hong Kong, Cyprus and Canada with the British Army. In 1983 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA).

More.... Continua......

Howard Behrens | Palette knife painter

0
0



American painter Howard Behrens (August 20, 1933 - April 14, 2014) - the world's most renowned palette knife artist. As a landscape and seascape artist, Behrens has painted the idyllic lakes of Italy to the gardens of New England.
He has had over 150 one-man shows from coast-to-coast since becoming a professional artist in 1980. Behrens was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1933. He grew up near Washington, DC. He began drawing at age seventeen after being confined to bed following a sledding accident.

More.... Continua......

Alessandro Sicioldr, 1990 | Visionary painter

0
0


Alessandro Sicioldr is an Italian painter* and illustrator born in Tarquinia, living and working in Perugia. He works mainly with oil paint, pencils and coloured pencils.
His subjects are surreal* images coming from unconscious that he represents using a blend of contemporary and traditional techniques.
His visionary attitude began to sprout in early childhood, when he used to depict in his drawings strange and uncanny worlds.

More.... Continua......

Gigino Falconi, 1933 | Surrealist painter

0
0


Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo, Italy) and started to paint when he was sixteen years old, at the same time he attended the Technical Institute for Accountants and obtained a diploma in 1952.
Then he graduated at the Art School of Pescara in 1954. The following year he won the Chair Design’s competition and started teaching in a middle school in Giulianova, an activity that he left in 1975 to devote himself entirely to painting. His first solo exhibition was at the Gallery Il Polittico of Teramo in 1961.

More.... Continua......

Miguel Avataneo, 1962 | Figurative painter

Eugène Delaplanche | Naturalist sculptor

0
0


Eugène Delaplanche (28 February 1836 - 10 January 1891) was a French sculptor°, born at Belleville, Seine.
He was a pupil of the neoclassical sculptor Francisque Joseph Duret (French, 1804-1865), gained the Prix° de Rome in 1864 (spending 1864-67 at the Villa Medici in Rome), and the medal of honor° in 1878.
His "Messenger of Love" (1874), "Aurora" (1878), and the "Virgin of the Lillies" (1884), are in the Luxembourg.

More.... Continua......

Alphonse Osbert | Symbolist / Pointillist painter

Elin Danielson-Gambogi | Realist / Plein-air painter

0
0


Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi (3 September 1861 - 31 December 1919) was a Finnish painter, best known for her realist works and portraits. Danielson-Gambogi was part of the first generation of Finnish women artists who received professional education in art, the so-called "painter sisters' generation".
The group also included Helene Schjerfbeck.

More.... Continua......
Viewing all 2178 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images