Yoshio Markino | The colour of London

Makino Yoshio / 牧野 義雄, known as Yoshio Markino (1870-1956), was a Japanese Impressionist Watercolor painter and writer born in Koromo (Toyota City).

In 1893, he travelled to San Francisco where he trained at the Hopkins Art School, before arriving in London in 1897, instantly falling in love with the city.

He spent hours walking the streets, fascinated by the effect of mist and fog on the appearance of buildings, especially under gaslight.

Rabindranath Tagore / Marc Chagall | Unending Love / Amore senza fine

Marc Chagall🎨 | La branche de gui or Le rêve, 1928

Sembra che ti abbia amato in innumerevoli modi, innumerevoli volte…

nella vita dopo la vita, ripetutamente, sempre.

Il mio cuore incantato ha creato e ricreato la collana delle canzoni,

che hai accettato in dono e hai messo attorno al tuo collo a modo tuo,

nella vita dopo la vita, ripetutamente, sempre.

Ogni qualvolta odo vecchie cronache d’amore, è un’annosa pena,

l’antica storia di trovarci lontani l’uno dall'altro o insieme.

Fabian Perez, 1967

"Beauty, in every sense of the word, is my inspiration and by consequence, the common denominator between the subject or the object I create"

- Fabian Perez

Argentine🎨 painter and sculptor Fabian Perez has achieved important artistic recognition internationally and his work is exhibited in galleries around the world.

Fabian's art and style are unique; his art reflects passion, emotion and pure energy.

He is the creator of a new style of painting that he has called Neo Emotionalism, which is characterized by a dramatic narrative style and heady atmosphere.

Egon Schiele | The portrait of the silent pale girl, 1910

An effusion of my love, – Yes.

I loved everything. The girl came, -

I found here face;

Her unconsciousness

Her worker’s hands,

I loved everything about

Her.

Egon Schiele | I was first to see the eternal avenues of spring, 1910

I was first to see the eternal avenues of spring, the raging storm

and had to take my leave, -

endlessly of all the locations of life.

in those early days the level lands were around me, at that time

I had already heard and smelled the miracle flowers, the speechless

17th century Inventions

1670 ‣ Dom Pérignon invents Champagne

The 17th century🎨 was the century that lasted from January 1, 1601, to December 31, 1700.

It falls into the Early Modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque🎨 cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, the French Grand Siècle dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific Revolution, the world's first public company and megacorporation known as the Dutch East India Company, and according to some historians, the General Crisis.

Alda Merini / Leonora Carrington | Ci sono notti che non accadono mai..

Leonora Carrington🎨 ( British-born Mexican painter, 1917-2011) | Self-portrait with orthopedic brace, 1973

Ci sono notti

che non accadono mai

e tu le cerchi

muovendo le labbra.

Poi t’immagini seduto

al posto degli Dèi.

Pablo Neruda | If you forget me / Se tu mi dimentichi, 1952

Georg Pauli (1855-1935) Aftonrodd

I want you to know

one thing.

You know how this is:

if I look

at the crystal moon, at the red branch

of the slow autumn at my window,

if I touch

near the fire

the impalpable ash

or the wrinkled body of the log,

Simon Glücklich (1863-1943)

Simon Glücklich was born in Bielitz, Germany (now Poland) in 1863.

Son of decorator painter Leo Glücklich, Simon Glücklich attended high school in Bielitz and then studied at the Vienna Art Academy from 1880-1890 and from 1885-1890 with the genre and landscape painter Leopold Carl Müller (1834-1892).

Pedro Salinas | I look for you! / Al di là della gente ti cerco!

Yes, behind other people

I look for you.

Not in your name if they say it,

not in your image if they paint it.

Behind, behind, beyond.

Francisco Ribera Gómez (Spanish painter, 1907-1996)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard | A Young Scholar, 1778

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) was a French painter🎨 and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance and hedonism.

One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings (not counting drawings and etchings), of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings.

Auguste Leroux | Figurative / Genre painter

Jules Marie Auguste Leroux (1871-1954) was a French painter and illustrator. His younger brother Georges Paul Leroux (1877-1957) was also a brilliant artist who won the Prix de Rome in painting in 1906 and was a member of the Académie des Beaux-arts.

Jules Marie Auguste Leroux was born in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris on 14 April 1871, during the Commune.

Angele Dubos (1844-1916)

Angèle Dubos born Laure Constance Angèle Dubos was a student of the great painter Charles Chaplin (1825-1891)🎨, which opens a course devoted solely to women artists🎨, among which we can mention Mary Cassatt🎨 and Louise Abbéma.

Chaplin encourages its students to participate. She is the first winner🎨 of the contest that gets the gold medal.

18th century Inventions

Piano by Bartolomeo Cristofori, 1726

The inventions of the 18th century made the modern world that we live in possible.

The 18th century was a time of innovation. The industrial revolution would not be possible if it were not for the men who created the inventions to make life easier and more productive.

Some inventions were improvements on older machinery.

1700s

1701 ‣ Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.
1709 ‣ Bartolomeo Cristofori crafts the first piano.
1709 ‣ Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.

Salvatore Quasimodo / Fabian Perez | Mi chiedi parole..

Mi chiedi parole. Ma il tempo

precipita come un masso sulla mia anima

che vuole certezze, e più non ha sillabe

da offrire se non quelle silenziose

del sangue legate al tuo nome,

o mia vita, mio amore senza fine.

Mikki Senkarik, 1954 | Romantic Impressionist painter

Mikki Senkarik illustrated 47 major medical textbooks and in her nine years as a medical illustrator was honored 5 times with the Award🎨 of Excellence by her peers.

Before switching to oils she was the most sought after medical artist during her years of practice.

She says, "There is nothing accidental about quality".

Senkarik had dreamed of being an artist as long as she can remember. Her mother recognized the spark of genius before Mikki entered kindergarten.

Paul Signac: "Il divisionismo è un complesso sistema di armonia.."

• "Il divisionismo è un complesso sistema di armonia, un'estetica piuttosto che una tecnica.

Il punto è solo un mezzo.

Dividere è ricercare la potenza e l'armonia del colore, attraverso la rappresentazione della luce colorata mediante elementi puri, ed attraverso l'utilizzo della miscela ottica di questi elementi puri, separati e proporzionati secondo le leggi essenziali del contrasto e della graduazione".

Salvatore Quasimodo | Che breve notte!

Charles-Amable Lenoir (1860-1926) | Reverie, 1893 (detail)

Che breve notte, amore. Un raggio

di luce è già sulla tua fronte,

nei tuoi capelli di madonna bizantina:

e dai carrozzoni lungo il fiume

assale antiche radici

la voce dei giovani nomadi, funamboli

di gramo pane e di parole murate nello sdegno.

19th century Inventions

Gaines Ruger Donoho (American painter, 1857-1916) | The Mount, 1880

The 19th century🎨 saw the birth of science as a profession; the term scientist was coined in 1833 by William Whewell, which soon replaced the older term of (natural) philosopher.

mong the most influential ideas of the 19th century were those of Charles Darwin (alongside the independent researches of Alfred Russel Wallace), who in 1859 published the book "The Origin of Species", which introduced the idea of evolution by natural selection.

Another important landmark in medicine and biology were the successful efforts to prove the germ theory of disease.

Franz Leo Ruben (1842-1920) | Genre painter

Franz Leo Ruben was an Austrian painter🎨 who was born in Prague, Czech Republic.

Painter of history, genre scenes, landscapes, he obtained numerous awards including a gold medal🎨 in Vienna in 1873 and one in Munich in 1883.

He has painted numerous views of Venice. His works can be found in the Museum of Graz, Prague, Stuttgart, Vienna, Zurich.

Alfred Agache (1843-1915) | Academic painter

Alfred-Pierre Joseph Agache, also known simply as Alfred Agache, was a French🎨 academic painter.

Little is known of Agache's life. He was born in Lille, France, and exhibited his work frequently in Paris until his death.

He seems to have specialized in portraits and large-scale allegorical paintings.

He was a member of the Société des Artistes Français, and won a third-class medal🎨 in 1885 for his work.

Myron G. Barlow | Apples, 1914

Myron G. Barlow (1873-1937) - American Genre and figure painter, was born in Ionia, Michigan, and raised in Detroit. His name is associated with that city even though he spent most of his later life in France.

Barlow studied with Joseph Gies at the Detroit Museum School and for a year at the Chicago Art Institute, Illinois.

Early in his career, he worked as a newspaper artist.

Rabindranath Tagore | O Woman / Donna!

O woman, you are not merely the

handiwork of God, but also of men;

these are ever endowing you with

beauty from their hearts.

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) | Judith II Salomè, 1909 (detail)