Adolph von Menzel | Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim in Concert, 1854

Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel (1815-1905) was a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings, and paintings.

Along with Caspar David Friedrich, he is considered one of the two most prominent German painters of the 19th century, and was the most successful artist of his era in Germany.

First known as Adolph Menzel, he was knighted in 1898 and changed his name to Adolph von Menzel.

Patrice Murciano, 1969 | Pop Art

Patrice Murciano è nato nel sud della Francia.

Affascinato dall'arte in tenera età, ha iniziato a copiare le figure dei cartoni animati all'età di 6 anni ed ha esposto il suo primo dipinto quando ne aveva 12.

Ha iniziato a dipingere le sue prime muse con il trucco di sua madre.

Affascinato dalla donna, rende omaggio ai vari movimenti artistici che lo accompagneranno durante la sua evoluzione: il "Courbisme" lusinga le curve della donna, il "Griboullisme" si insinua nei suoi quadri ed oggi si ritrovano in questa nuova flusso che è il New Pop.

Claude Debussy: "Music is the space between the notes"!

(Achille) Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term.

He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Born to a family of modest means and little cultural involvement, Debussy showed enough musical talent to be admitted at the age of ten to France's leading music college, the Conservatoire de Paris.

He originally studied the piano, but found his vocation in innovative composition, despite the disapproval of the Conservatoire's conservative professors.

He took many years to develop his mature style, and was nearly 40 when he achieved international fame in 1902 with the only opera he completed, Pelléas et Mélisande.

Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942) | Claude Debussy, 1902

Franz Liszt's Love Letter to Marie d'Agoult

"My heart overflows with emotion and joy!

I do not know what heavenly languor, what infinite pleasure permeates it and burns me up.

It is as if I had never loved!

Tell me whence these uncanny disturbances spring, these inexpressible foretastes of delight, these divine, tremors of love.

Oh! all this can only spring from you, sister, angel, woman, Marie!"

Henri Lehmann | Marie d'Agoult, 1843 | Petit Palais, Paris

Paganini non ripete!

La frase “Paganini non ripete” ha origine da un episodio risalente al 1825.

Al Teatro Falcone di Genova l'artista fu chiesto dal re Carlo Felice per il bis di un brano che gli era piaciuto; ma poiché Paganini aveva improvvisato, non è stato in grado di ripetere la performance e si dice che abbia dato questa come sua risposta.

Di conseguenza, è stato espulso dal Regno di Sardegna per due anni.

Niccolo Paganini by Sir Edwin Landseer, 1831-34

Niccolò Paganini by Johann Peter Lyser

Paganini | Cartoon Drawing by Johann Peter Lyser

Johann Peter Lyser

(German engraver, journalist, critic, miscellaneous writer; caricaturist,1804-1870)

about Paganini from the magazine "Originalien", 1830

"Paganini is an Italian artist, and an Italian artist will be never sad or misanthrope. If he become that, it is the end of the art. In the character of Paganini there is nothing exalted.

His heart bits with a strong joy of living, it is attached to this land and to all it has to offer. However great the passion for his art is, he does despise nothing, not even things of little importance if they offer enjoyment […].

Paganini is one of the strangest, indeed baroque and certainly greatest phenomena, that cross land for over a century, but there is nothing mysterious about him. He his not like the stormy sea, but he is like the quiet lake.

Anatoly Metlan, 1964 | Impressionist painter

Anatoly Metlan è nato a Yalta, in Ucraina, vicino al Mar Nero.

Crescendo, Metlan ha sviluppato la passione per le opere degli impressionisti.

Dopo il liceo ha frequentato la Krivoi Rog University, nel sud dell'Ucraina.

Mentre era all'università, Metlan espose le sue opere e pian piano si fece un nome.

Nel 1989, era stato accettato nella Guild Artist in Ucraina.

Mariano Fortuny y Marsal | Fantasy on Faust, 1866

In this work, Mariano Fortuny y Marsal (1838-1874) establishes an eloquent link between painting and music and a clear exposition of what his friend, the Baron Davillier, called his very lively and very pure taste in music.

Fortuny depicts one of the musical evenings that he attended in Madrid during the summer of 1866 at his friend and former classmate, Catalan painter Francisco Sans y Cabot’s studio at no. 13, calle Flor Baja in Madrid.

Chen Yifei (1946-2005) | Music Player painting

Chen's works considered a unique combination of both Western and Eastern influences. Chen's style combines the realism associated with European art styles, with Eastern subject matter and themes close to the artist's history.

One such example of this unique blend is his painting Poppy which derives its content from a Tang dynasty song about a woman who solemnly questions her fate.

Marc Chagall | Music and Colour

• "Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul".
• "Mozart non ha mai composto nulla, mai! Ha copiato ciò che è stato scritto sulla sua anima".
• "Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration".
• "Il colore è tutto. Quando il colore è giusto, anche la forma è giusta. Il colore è tutto, il colore è vibrazione come la musica; tutto è vibrazione".

Serge Marshennikov | VideoArt

Serge Marshennikov è un pittore Russo nato ad Ufa, la capitale e la città più popolata della Repubblica di Baschiria.

Nel 1995 frenquentò l'Ufa Art College, continuando la sua formazione presso una delle più prestigiose accademie d'arte del mondo, l'Accademia di Belle Arti Repin di San Pietroburgo, in Russia.

Marshennikov è stato premiato "Chairman's Choice Award"Al salone del Centro internazionale per il rinnovo dell'arte 2008/2009 e ha ricevuto il Certificato di Eccellenza per il suo eccezionale risultato in arte.

Nel 2008 è stato scelto come "Top 30" dalla Portrait Society of America.

I dipinti di Marshennikov sono venduti con successo attraverso importanti aste d'arte, tra cui Christie's of London e Bonham's a Knightsbridge, London.

Franz von Lenbach | Portrait of Franz Liszt, 1880

Franz von Lenbach (13 December 1836, Schrobenhausen - 6 May 1904, Munich) was regarded as the leading German portraitist of his era.

Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 - July 31, 1886) was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary.

Arunas Rutkus, 1961 | VideoArt

Nato a Vilnius, Lituania, Aruna nel 1985 si è laureato alla Lithuanian Art Academy.

Oltre alla pittura ha studiato vetrate, affresco, mosaico, ceramica e scultura.

Nel 1987 sotto l'invito personale dell'Unione degli Artisti partecipato al Simposio di Arte Monumentale sotto la direzione di A.Karnaukhov a Mosca.

Bec Winnel | Fashion

Bec Winnel - Artist, Illustrator and experimenter: "I enjoy creating beautiful and detailed portraits of imaginary women in imaginary worlds that celebrate the feminine spirit.

My 'girls' are often accompanied by elements of nature, fantasy and items from bygone eras.

My colour palette is mostly soft, subdued pastels, and my mediums include pencil, pastel, watercolour and acrylic.

To further enhance the mystery, my girls are often fading into or out of the background, as if they are nearly there, speaking to you from a distant place.

Whilst I love creating my girls, I also enjoying experimenting in all creative forms including abstract painting, exploring colour, texture, pattern and various subject matters".