Edvard Munch | The dance of life, 1900
The Dance of Life or Life's Dance is an 1899–1900 expressionist painting by Edvard Munch, now in the National Museum of Art in Norway.The Dance of Life was a key work in Munch's project "The Frieze of...
View ArticleFrederick Carl Frieseke (1874-1939)
Frederick Carl Frieseke was born in Owosso, Michigan. After studying for a short while at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, Frieseke left for France in 1898, and...
View ArticleJesús Helguera (1910-1971)
Mexican painter Jesús Enrique Emilio de la Helguera Espinoza, was born to spanish economist Alvaro Garcia Helguera and Maria Espinoza Escarzarga in Chihuahua, Mexico.He lived his childhood in Mexico...
View ArticleBenito Quinquela Martín (1890-1977)
Argentine painter Benito Quinquela Martín is considered the port painter-par-excellence and one of the most popular Argentine painters. His paintings of port scenes show the activity, vigor and...
View ArticleAlda Merini | Superb is the Night / Superba è la notte, 2000
The superbest thing it is the nightWhen the last fears fallAnd the soul thrust itself into adventure.He hushes in your wombAs if reabsorbed into the bloodDaniel Gerhartz | Return To Me... Read more .. »
View ArticleAddio a Luciano Ventrone!
The Italian painter Luciano Ventrone died during the night in his house in Collelongo - Aquila, Italia.Luciano Ventrone was born in Rome in 1942, he attended Liceo Artistico in Rome. After graduation...
View ArticleWassily Kandinsky | V. La Pittura - L'effetto del colore
Lo spirituale nell'arte, 1910Se si osserva una tavolozza coperta di colori si hanno due risultati:1 - Si ha un effetto puramente fisico, cioè l'occhio è affascinato dalla bellezza c dalle qualità dei...
View ArticleTito Conti (1842-1924) | Genre painter
Tito Conti was an Italian 19th Century painter who was born in Florence, mainly of genre costume or historical subjects.He lived in Florence, where he studied at the Institute of Fine Arts.He was...
View ArticleWassily Kandinsky | IV - The Pyramid
Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1910And so at different points along the road are the different arts, saying what they are best able to say, and in the language which is peculiarly their own. Despite,...
View ArticleWisława Szymborska | First Love / Il primo amore
They saythe first love's most important.That's very romantic,but not my experience.Something was and wasn't there between us,something went on and went away.Andre Kohn | The burnt orange beret... Read...
View ArticleFrederick Vezin (1859-1933)
Frederick Vezin also Fred or Frederik was an American-born German painter, engraver and lithographer.His family originally came from Saint-Florentin, Yonne in France. According to Richard Böger, Pierre...
View ArticleAmbrosius Bosschaert the Elder | Baroque painter
Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (1573-1621) was a Flemish-born Dutch still life painter and art dealer.He is recognised as one of the earliest painters who created floral still lifes as an independent...
View ArticleCarlo Bossoli | Orientalist painter
Carlo Bossoli (6 December 1815, in Lugano - 1 August 1884, in Turin) was a Swiss-born Italian painter and lithographer, who spent his early career in Russia. He is best known for historical scenes from...
View ArticleWassily Kandinsky | V - The psychological working of color
Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1910Part II: About paintingTo let the eye stray over a palette, splashed with many colours, produces a dual result. In the first place one receives a PURELY PHYSICAL...
View ArticleRose Barton RWS (1856-1929) | Watercolor painter
Rose Mary Barton RWS was an Anglo-Irish artist; a watercolourist who painted landscape, street scenes, gardens, child portraiture and illustrations of the townscape of Britain and Ireland.Barton...
View ArticleAnthony Hopkins | Let go the people who are not prepared to love you / Lascia...
Let go the people who are not prepared to love you. This is the hardest thing you will have to do in your life and it will also be the most important thing. Stop having hard conversations with people...
View ArticleVincent van Gogh | Le pont de Trinquetaille, 1888
The fifteen months that Van Gogh spent at Arles in 1888-1889 represent a pivotal moment in his career, "the zenith, the climax, the greatest flowering of Van Gogh's decade of artistic activity",...
View ArticleGarnet Ruskin Wolseley (1884-1967)
Garnet Ruskin Wolseley was a British landscape, figure and portrait painter. Born in London in 1884 he trained at the Bushey School of Painting winning a scholarship to Slade School of Fine Art.He...
View ArticleThomas Seddon (1821-1856) | Pre-Raphaelite painter
Thomas Seddon was an British landscape painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who painted colourful and highly detailed scenes of Brittany, Egypt and Jerusalem.Seddon was born in...
View ArticleAugust Macke | Expressionist painter
August Macke, (born January 3, 1887, Meschede, Germany-died September 26, 1914, Perthes-les-Hurlus, France) German painter who was a leader of Der Blaue Reiter (“The Blue Rider”), an influential group...
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