Ken Howard OBE RA, 1932 | Impressionist painter
Ken Howard OBE RA is an British artist and painter. He was President of the New English Art Club from 1998-2003.Life and artKen Howard was born in London. He studied at the Hornsey College of Art...
View ArticleRoelof Rossouw, 1957 | Romantic Impressionist painter
Roelof Rossouw was born and grew up in Benoni, near Johannesburg. As a child he had a passion for comic heroes like Tarzan, Cisco Kid, Flash Gordon and Tintin which, with the artists of the sixties,...
View ArticleWassily Kandinsky | VI. The language of Form and Color
Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1910Part II: About paintingThe man that hath no music in himself,Or is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;The motions of...
View ArticleVincent van Gogh | The Olive Trees series
Vincent van Gogh painted at least 15 paintings of olive trees, mostly in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in 1889. At his own request, he lived at an asylum there from May 1889 through May 1890 painting the...
View ArticleFrank Myers Boggs (1855-1926)
American-born French painter Frank Myers Boggs was born in Ohio and raised in New York City, where he began his career as an engraver for "Harper's" magazine.He went to Paris in 1876 and studied at the...
View ArticleTheodore Wores (1859-1939) | Impressionist painter
Theodore Wores (August 1, 1859 - September 11, 1939) was an American painter born in San Francisco, son of Joseph Wores and Gertrude Liebke.His father worked as a hat manufacturer in San Francisco....
View ArticleMartha Walter (1875-1976)
Martha Walter was an American impressionist painter.EducationA Philadelphia native, Walter attended Girls High School.She studied art at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (now the...
View ArticleWalt Whitman | Do not let / Non lasciare
Non lasciare che finisca il giorno senza essere cresciuto un po',senza essere stato felice, senza avere aumentato i tuoi sogni.Non lasciarti vincere dallo scoraggiamento.Non permettere che nessuno ti...
View ArticlePablo Neruda | Per tanto amore la mia vita.. / De tanto amor mi vida..
Per tanto amore la mia vita si tinse di violae andai di rotta in rotta come gli uccelli ciechifino a raggiungere la tua finestra, amica mia:tu sentisti un rumore di cuore infrantoe lì dalle tenebre mi...
View ArticleWassily Kandinsky | VII - Painting Theory
Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1910Part II: About paintingFrom the nature of modern harmony, it results that never has there been a time when it was more difficult than it is today to formulate a...
View ArticleSalvatore Quasimodo | Lament for the South / Lamento per il Sud
La luna rossa, il vento, il tuo coloredi donna del Nord, la distesa di neve...Il mio cuore è ormai su queste praterie,in queste acque annuvolate dalle nebbie.Ho dimenticato il mare, la graveconchiglia...
View ArticleGiuseppe Faraone, 1954 | Impressionist painter
Born in Picerno (Potenza), Giuseppe Faraone attended the Art School of Potenza, before moving to San Donato Milanese on the outskirts of Milan, where he still lives and works. Here he started his...
View ArticleMichail Lermontov | Demon, 1829 | Part.1
Demon / Демон is a poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written in several versions in the years 1829-1839.It is considered a masterpiece of European Romantic poetry.Lermontov began work on the poem when he was...
View ArticleBerit Hildre, 1964 | Figurative sculptor
Berit Hildre is a self-taught artist, born in Aalesund, in Norway.For Berit Hildre, the vocation is late, it is born from his meeting with the painter Louis Tresseras with whom she lives today in...
View ArticleMichail Lermontov | Il Demone, 1829 | Seconda parte
Capitolo I"Padre, padre non minacciarmi più,la tua Tamara non rimproverare;vedi che piango, vedi queste lacrimeche già non sono più le prime. Invanos'affollano, venuti da lontano,i pretendenti per...
View ArticleTitian | The Venus of Urbino, 1538 | Uffizi Gallery
Toward the beginning of his career Titian had brought to completion Giorgione's unfinished canvas of Venus asleep in a landscape; some twenty-five years later he adapted the central motif of the...
View ArticleEdgar Allan Poe | To Helen / Ad Elena, 1848
Ti vidi una volta, una sola volta - anni fa:non voglio dir quanti – non molti, tuttavia.Era notte, di Luglio; e dalla grande luna pienache, come la tua anima, ricercava, elevandosi,un suo erto sentiero...
View ArticleCharles William Wyllie (1853-1923)
Charles William Wyllie was a British painter of landscape and marinescape.Born in London he was the son of William Morison Wyllie and brother of William Lionel Wyllie (1851-1931).While his brother...
View ArticleAlfred Eberling (1872-1951)
Alfred Rudolfovich Eberling, was a successful painter and photographer in the early 20th century.A pupil of Ilya Repin, he never deviated from realism (in the broad sense of the word) and left a number...
View ArticleGustave Jacquet | Portrait / Genre painter
During the 19th century, particularly in France, people developed a vivid fascination with the past and paintings of the bygone eras were in demand.Jacquet specialised in painting figures, portraits...
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