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Pablo Segarra Chias, 1945 | Genre painter
Spanish painter Pablo Segarra Chias was born in Seville, a city impoverished and devastated by the recent Spanish civil war, Pablo lived in the Macarena District in the heart of the city.At the tender...
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William Kay Blacklock | Victorian genre painter
William Kay Blacklock (1872-1924) was a British artist in the mediums of watercolours and oils.BiographyWilliam Blacklock was born in Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland, in North East England, in 1872.He was...
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Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重)
Hiroshige, in full Andō Hiroshige, professional names Utagawa Hiroshige and Ichiyūsai Hiroshige, original name Andō Tokutarō, (born 1797, Edo [now Tokyo], Japan - died October 12, 1858, Edo), Japanese...
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Theodore Earl Butler | Impressionist painter
Theodore Earl Butler (1861–1936) was an American impressionist painter. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, and moved to Paris to study art. He befriended Claude Monet in Giverny, and married his...
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Reading / Lettura | Quotes and painting
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book".Édouard Manet - Woman Reading, 1880"La macchina tecnologicamente più efficiente che l’uomo abbia mai inventato è il...
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Leonardo da Vinci | Perché il bianco non è colore..
Trattato della Pittura - Parte seconda | Capitoli 235-258Il Testo IntegraleIndice235. Del colore dell'ombra di qualunque corpo.236. Della prospettiva de' colori ne' luoghi oscuri.237. Prospettiva de'...
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Ralph Hedley | Genre painter
Ralph Hedley (1848-1913) was a realist painter, woodcarver and illustrator, best known for his paintings portraying scenes of everyday life in the North East of England.BiographyBorn in Gilling West...
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Pauline Palmer (1867-1938)
Pauline Lennards Palmer was an American artist based in Chicago. She is counted among Impressionism.Early lifePauline Lennards was born in McHenry, Illinois, the daughter of Nicholas Lennards, a...
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Arthur Hacker | Pre-Raphaelite painter
Arthur Hacker (25 September 1858 - 12 November 1919) was an British classicist painter.Born in London in 1858, Hacker was the son of Edward Hacker, a line engraver specialising in animal and sporting...
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Impressionist painter
Famed for his sensual charming scenes of pretty women, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a far more complex and thoughtful painter than generally assumed.He was a founding member of the...
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Edgar Degas | Artistic career
Upon his return to France in 1859, Degas moved into a Paris studio large enough to permit him to begin painting The Bellelli Family—an imposing canvas he intended for exhibition in the Salon, although...
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Edgar Degas | Lettera ai giurati del French Salon nel 1870
Nel 1870, Edgar Degas indirizzò questa lettera - pubblicata sul quotidiano Paris-journal - alla giuria del Salon, in cui delineava proposte radicali per eliminare l'affollata sospensione di quadri dal...
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Edgar Degas | Artistic style
Degas is often identified as an Impressionist, an understandable but insufficient description. Impressionism originated in the 1860s and 1870s and grew, in part, from the realism of such painters as...
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Edgar Degas a Napoli, 1856
Degas sbarcò a Napoli (IT) il 17 luglio 1856. Nella città partenopea l'artista ebbe modo di ricongiungersi con il nonno René Hilaire, che lo ospitò nella sua vasta dimora, palazzo Pignatelli di...
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Leonardo da Vinci | De' nuvoli
Trattato della Pittura - Parte settima | Capitoli 917-926Il Testo IntegraleIndice917. De' nuvoli.918. Del rossore de' nuvoli.919. Della creazione de' nuvoli.920. De' nuvoli e loro gravità e levità.921....
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Oskar Kokoschka | Expressionist painter
Oskar Kokoschka, (born March 1, 1886, Pöchlarn, Austria-died February 22, 1980, Villeneuve, Switzerland), Austrian painter and writer who was one of the leading exponents of Expressionism.In his early...
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Stacy Barter
Stacy Barter's Oil Paintings depict her intense fascination with light and atmosphere.- "I am constantly striving to capture depth and dimension in my oil paintings.Working from life, whether it's from...
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Wassily Kandinsky | VI - Il linguaggio delle forme e dei colori
Lo spirituale nell'arte, 1910L'uomo che non ha musica in se stessoche l`armonia dei suoni non commuovesa il tradimento, e la perfida frode.Le sue emozioni sono una notte cupai suoi pensieri un Erebo...
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Oskar Kokoschka | The bride of the wind / La sposa del vento, 1913-1914
"The Bride of the Wind" / "Die Windsbraut" or "The Tempest" is a 1913-1914 painting by Oskar Kokoschka. The oil on canvas work is housed in the Kunstmuseum Basel.Kokoschka's best known work, it is an...
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Leonardo da Vinci | De' corpi illuminati dall'aria senza il sole
Trattato della Pittura - Parte quinta | Capitoli 799-811Il Testo IntegraleIndice799. Del corpo luminoso che si volta intorno senza mutazione di sito e riceve un medesimo lume da diversi lati e si varia...
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