Frans Stracké | The Two Mothers, 1893 | Rijksmuseum
Franz Stracké created this sculpture in terracotta in 1893. The title "Two Mothers" refers to the woman and the dog, positioned at her feet looking upwards, whose puppies she is carrying. This work by...
View ArticleVilhelm Hammershøi | La poesia del silenzio
Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) è stato un pittore Danese, noto per i suoi ritratti ed interni poetici e sommessi.VitaVilhelm Hammershøi nacque a Copenhagen, in Danimarca. Figlio di un mercante...
View ArticleAleksandra Ekster | Avant Garde painter
Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster (1882-1949) cubo-futurist, suprematist, constructivist and designer is one of most famous Russian Avant Garde female painters that gained international recognition.She...
View ArticlePete "The Street" Brown, 1967 | Urban plein-air painter
Peter first came to Bath for a year in 1986 to study an art foundation course.He went on to graduate from Manchester Polytechnic remaining a further two years working in a studio in Ancoats, an area...
View ArticleFloris Arntzenius (1864-1925)
Pieter Florentius Nicolaas Jacobus Arntzenius was a Dutch painter, water-colourist, illustrator and printmaker.He is considered a representative of the younger generation of the Hague School.Arntzenius...
View ArticleEugène Jansson | The blue painter
Eugène Fredrik Jansson (1862, Stockholm – 1915, Skara) was a Swedish painter known for his night-time land- and cityscapes dominated by shades of blue. Towards the end of his life, from about 1904, he...
View ArticleBeppe Ciardi (1875-1932)
Figlio del pittore Guglielmo Ciardi, Beppe Ciardi ricevette l'educazione non solo dal nonno materno, Gian Francesco Locatelli, che dipinse ritratti in stile classico: quando era ancora un ragazzo,...
View ArticleGreta Gerell (1898-1982)
Anna Margareta Ulrika (Greta) Gerell (1898, Stockholm - 1982, Stockholm) was a Swedish painter and graphic artist.Gerell was the daughter of Consul General Carl Peter Gerell and Anna, born Sellman....
View ArticleHarriette Bowdoin | Impressionist painter
Harriette Bowdoin (1880-1947) è stata una pittrice ed illustratrice impressionista nata a South Hadley Falls, nel Massachusetts.Bowdoin si trasferì a New York in giovane età per studiare con Henry...
View ArticleWilliam Strang (1859-1921)
From National Galleries of Scotland:During his lifetime, Dumbarton-born William Strang built up an international reputation as a highly skilled and imaginative printmaker, portraitist and painter.His...
View ArticleRilke: "Un’opera d’arte è buona se nasce da necessità!"
Lettera ad un Giovane Poeta / Letter to a Young Poet, 1903"Le Lettere ad un giovane poeta" - dieci lettere scritte da Rainer Maria Rilke (Scrittore, poeta e drammaturgo austriaco di origine boema,...
View ArticlePedro Salinas / Chagall | "Per vivere non voglio isole, palazzi, torri.."
To live I don't wantislands, palaces, towers.What steeper joyThan living in pronouns!Take off your clothing,features, pictures;I don't want you like that,masked as another,always a daughter of...
View ArticleIo conosco il canto dell'Africa..
"Io conosco il canto dell'Africa,della giraffa e della luna nuova africana distesa sul suo dorso,degli aratri sui campi e delle facce sudate delle raccoglitrici di caffè,ma l'Africa conosce il mio...
View ArticleTiziano Baravelli, 1963
Nato in provincia di Bologna, Tiziano Baravelli scopre l'arte fin da bambino, diventando prima un musicista e poi un produttore musicale.Finché, a 40 anni, capisce che la sua vera passione è, invece,...
View ArticleHemen Majumdar (India, 1894-1948)
Hemendranath Majumdar was an Indian painter who lived in Bengal. In 2002, there was a huge uproar when his painting was stolen and found with an art dealer.His birthplace Kishoreganj now belongs to...
View ArticleShaun Smith | Ocean Waves
Shaun Smith is a playful water photographer who sees the bright side in the smallest things in life.Like many surfers before him, Shaun started bringing a camera in the water to shoot his friends and...
View ArticleFrancisco Goya | Vita ed Opere
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Fuendetodos, 30 marzo 1746 – Bordeaux, 16 aprile 1828) è stato un pittore ed incisore Spagnolo.Considerato il pioniere dell’arte moderna, è stato uno dei più grandi...
View ArticleEl Greco | Vita ed Opere
El Greco, nome d'arte di Dominikos Theotokòpoulos (Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος) - (Candia, 1541 - Toledo, 7 aprile 1614), è stato un pittore, scultore ed architetto greco vissuto in Italia ed in Spagna. È...
View ArticleBlandford Fletcher | Genre painter
William Teulon Blandford Fletcher, noto come Blandford Fletcher (1858-1936), è stato un pittore naturalista Britannico.Figlio di un commerciante di biancheria, contro la volontà del padre, Fletcher...
View ArticleOskar Zwintscher | Art Nouveau painter
Oskar Zwintscher (1870-1916) was a German painter. He is often associated with the Jugendstil movement.From 1887-1890 he studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig and, from 1890-1892...
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