The Age of Maturity/L'âge mûr is probably the work that most lends itself to an interpretation based on autobiographical narrative: the end of the relationship between Claudel and Rodin.
In actual fact, the association of the three figures with Camille Claudel, Auguste Rodin and Rose Beuret arose some time after the sculpture was first exhibited. The critics initially saw it as the “symbolic representation of Destiny, in which the ageing man is torn away from love, youth and life”.
Gustave Loiseau (1865-1935) was a French Post-Impressionist painter, remembered above all for his landscapes and scenes of Paris.
Brought up in Paris and Pontoise by parents who owned a butchers shop, Loiseau served an apprenticeship with a decorator who was a friend of the family. After suffering an attack of typhoid that brought him near to death, he 1880 explained to his parents his aspirations to become an artist. His parents, realizing that their son was unlikely to change his mind, soon sold their business and retired to Pontoise.
Henri-Edmond Cross, born Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix, (20 May 1856 - 16 May 1910) was a French painter and printmaker. He is most acclaimed as a master of Neo-Impressionism, and he played an important role in shaping the second phase of that movement. He was very influential to Henri Matisse and many other artists, and his work was an instrumental influence in the development of Fauvism.
French painter Gustave Loiseau is remembered above all for his landscapes and scenes of Paris. Loiseau's paintings, revealing his passion for the seasons from the beginning of spring to the harvests later in the autumn, often depict the same scene as time goes by. Series of this kind, which include many different types of landscapes, are reminiscent of Claude Monet.
For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Loiseau see Gustave Loiseau | Paris painting.
Henry Moret (12 December 1856, Cherbourg - 5 May 1913, Paris) was a French Impressionist painter. He was one of the artists who associated with Gauguin at Pont-Aven in Brittany.
Little is known of Moret's life until he began his military service in 1875. Jules La Villette, his commander in Lorient, who first noticed his artistic talents, introduced him to Ernest Corroller, a drawing teacher and marine painter. Corroller taught him the art of landscape painting as practiced by masters such as Corot and Courbet, enabling him to register at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where in 1876 he studied under Rudolf Lehmann, Jean-Léon Gérôme and later, from about 1880, under the history painter Jean-Paul Laurens.
Laurence Amélie, daughter of renowned Swiss abstract painter Gérard Schneider, continues the family tradition of painting following a successful career as Creative Director and Fashion designer of Bon Point in Paris.
Laurence paints from her idyllic country setting near Fontainebleau. It is the house where her father, a contemporary of Picasso, painted during the highly active mid-century abstract period.
Irina Rumyantseva was born in St Petersburg, Russia. She achieved the highest grade for her art studies at university and soon became a highly respected artist in Russia. At the age of 26 she came to England to further her career.
Since then she hasn't looked back, her name has become hugely popular in the UK and in many parts of the world. Her unique style of painting is highly sought after and to achieve so much in this short space of time, one can only imagine what the future brings for this talented artist.
Ernest Lawson (1873-1939), a progressive artist and member of a group of artists called The Eight, achieved early recognition with his impressionist landscape paintings but later in life experienced personal tragedy and artistic isolation. Born in Nova Scotia in 1873, Lawson studied at the Art Students League, New York, from 1891-1892 and took summer classes in Cos Cob, Connecticut, under J. Alden Weir and John Twachtman. Lawson’s early work has delicate tones and harmonious textures reminiscent of Twachtman’s style. While living in France from 1893-1896, Lawson briefly attended the Académie Julian.
Марк Олич is a Russian photographer born in Omsk, Russia in 1974. A graduate of theatre and art schools, Mark has been engaged with photography since 2002.
Mark has always drawn but suffered from a creative crisis after moving to St. Petersburg. He became a set designer at the Mariinsky Theatre, where he began to capture ‘behind the scenes’, images of the dancers training and rehearsing in the theatre. The aim of his work is to show what is happening in the boundary that separates the inside, the backstage, from the outer, public performance. The viewer of his photography can see the difference between ordinary person and onstage hero.
Dutch Conceptual Artist Ger Doornink is a creative multitalent specialized in painting, illustration and photography. He is combining different techniques the outcome is often more than surprising.
Doornink received an education at the Arnhem Art Academy in Publicity. Doornink is a very versatile artist who started his career as designer and photographer in the advertisement business and the fashion world. Here he build quite the reputation, using an alias: Gerry the Cat.
He lived and worked in Tokyo, where he became acquainted with the Japanese style, and used this in his designs.
Dutch Conceptual Artist Hans Jochem Bakker as a self taught undergone remarkable development. He was initially inspired by the mystical world of Salvador Dali with his talent was not trained for that of his fellow artists. Even celebrities like Miró and Picasso influenced the early work of Jochem. Between 1980-1990 took place a sensational change. The very detailed at times surreal work gave way to the broad approach of the expression. Notable are the movement and energy that are reflected in the new work. Old motifs such as birds, horses, bullfights and women remain interested in his work and persistence.
Sally Storch comes from an artistic family with roots in the Paris school of the early Twentieth Century. Her great aunt Bertha Rihani lived and painted in Paris during the 1920’s and kept the company of Henri Matisse and in particular Kees Van Dongen. Another aunt, painter Stephanie Stockton, attended The Art Students League in New York and apprenticed with John Steuart Curry in the 1930’s. Storch spent a great deal of time with both aunts, and both of these women painters were particularly influential to her as a young girl.
An award-winning artist, Dr. James Gwynne is a professor of visual arts at County College of Morris, who discovered his talents through chance and circumstance. He initially attended college thinking he would become a doctor. When he took a drawing class during his first year of college, however, he knew he needed to switch majors.
"I knew from then on that art was my passion and I had to follow it", says Gwynne.
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