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Dita Omuri | Fashion/Abstract painter
Award winning artist Dita Omuri, born and raised in northern Albania, escaped her home country running towards the unknown and away from the restricted ways of expressing her emotions through art.From...
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Lorado Taft ~ The Solitude of the Soul /La solitudine dell'anima, 1914
In stone, four life-sized figures, two male and two female, posed around and halfway emerging from, or captured by, an indistinct central volume.By the American sculptor Lorado Taft, 1860-1936. In the...
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Marie Laurencin | Cubist painter
Marie Laurencin (1885-1956) French painter, designer, illustrator, etcher and lithographer. Born in Paris. Studied at the Académie Humbert, where Braque was a fellow pupil. Met Picasso, André Salmon...
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Cristina Troufa, 1974 | Surrealist/Symbolist painter
Cristina Troufa is a Portuguese based artist, working predominately in figurative painting. In recent works, she uses her own image in autobiographical paintings that explore her livings and spiritual...
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B. Prabha | Abstract Figure painter
B. Prabha (1933-2001) was a major Indian artist who worked mainly in oil, in an instantly recognizable style. She is best known for graceful elongated figures of pensive rural women, with each canvas...
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Leonardo da Vinci ~ Come la musica si dee chiamare sorella e minore della...
Trattato della Pittura- Parte prima /25Viola Organista c. 1493-95La musica non è da essere chiamata altro che sorella della pittura, conciossiaché essa è subietto dell'udito, secondo senso all'occhio,...
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Leonardo da Vinci ~ Il pittore dà i gradi delle cose opposte all'occhio, come...
Trattato della Pittura- Parte prima /27Benché le cose opposte all'occhio si tocchino l'un l'altra di mano in mano, nondimeno farò la mia regola di venti in venti braccia, come ha fatto il musico infra...
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Sir George Clausen RA | Victorian/ Edwardian/Genre painter
Sir George Clausen RA (18 April 1852 - 22 November 1944), was an British artist working in oil and watercolour, etching, mezzotint, dry point and occasionally lithographs. He was knighted in...
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Mother Teresa /Jeanie Tomanek ~ Love life /Ama la vita
Jeanie Tomanek, 1949 ~ Allegorical/Narrative painterLove life as it isLove her fully, unpretentious.Love her when they love you or hate you when.Love her when no one understands you,or when you include...
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Rainer Maria Rilke ~ La sera/The evening
Johan August Malmström (1829-1901) Dancing Fairies, 1866Come una indefinibile fata d'ombre...Vien da lungi la Sera, camminandoper l'abetaia tacita e nevosa.Poi, contro tutte le finestre premele sue...
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Pellizza da Volpedo | Italian Divisionism/Neo-Impressionism
Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (July 28, 1868 - June 14, 1907) was an Italian Neo-Impressionist painter. He was born and died in Volpedo, in the Piedmont region of northern Italy.Pellizza was a pupil of...
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Pellizza da Volpedo ~ Il Quarto Stato /The Fourth Estate
The monumental painting Il Quarto Stato /The Fourth Estate by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (1868-1907) portrays a group of workers on strike. It symbolises the social protest at the beginning of the...
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Charles Angrand | Neo-Impressionist piainter
Charles Angrand (1854-1926) was a visible presence in the Parisian avant-garde in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Associated with a circle of artists known as the Neo-Impressionists, Angrand emulated...
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Giovanni Panza ~ Impressionist/Genre painter
Giovanni Panza, 1974 (a destra)Giovanni Panza (Miseno, March 9, 1894 - Napoli, December 20, 1989) was an Italian painter.Born into a family of poets and painters, he was the nephew of Salvatore...
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Madre Teresa /Agim Sulaj ~ The most beautiful day / Il giorno più bello
Agim Sulaj, 1960 ~ Hyperrealist painterThe most beautiful day: Today.The easiest thing: Equivocate.The biggest obstacle: Fear.The gravest error: give up, to despair.The root of all evils: Egoism.The...
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Leonardo da Vinci ~ Conclusione del poeta, del pittore e del musico
Trattato della Pittura- Parte prima /28Tal differenza è in quanto alla figurazione delle cose corporee dal pittore al poeta, quant'è dai corpi smembrati agli uniti, perché il poeta, nel descrivere la...
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Leonardo da Vinci ~ Quale scienza è meccanica, e quale non è meccanica
Trattato della Pittura- Parte prima /29Dicono quella cognizione esser meccanica la quale è partorita dall'esperienza, e quella esser scientifica che nasce e finisce nella mente, e quella essere...
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Rainer Maria Rilke ~ Letters on Cézanne /Lettere su Cézanne
The extraordinary letters (translated from the german by Jane Bannard Greene), show to what degree the eye of one artist can penetrate to the essence of another art. The most distinguished of modern...
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Auguste Rodin ~ The Drawings /Watercolours
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was a prolific draughtsman, producing some 10,000 drawings, over 7,000 of which are now in the Musée Rodin, Paris. His drawings were seldom used as studies or projects for a...
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Rainer Maria Rilke ~ Letters on Rodin /Lettere su Rodin
Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste RodinRilke to Lou Andreas-SalomèBerlino‒WestendOberneuland bei Bremen,8 august 1903... When I first came to Rodin and lunched with him out there in Meudon with people to...
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