Marianne von Werefkin (1860-1938)

Marianne von Werefkin /Мариа́нна Влади́мировна Верёвкина (10 September [O.S. 29 August] 1860, Tula, Russia - 6 February 1938, Ascona, Switzerland), born Marianna Wladimirowna Werewkina (transliteration Marianna Vladimirovna Verëvkina), was a Russian-German-Swiss Expressionist painter.

Godfried Schalcken | Pittore di genere

Godfried Schalcken o Schalken (1643-1706) è stato un pittore Olandese.

I quadri di Schalcken sono caratterizzati dai giochi di luce: era solito dipingere soggetti in ambienti scuri illuminati da candele.

Studiò pittura sotto la guida di van Hoogstraten a Dordrecht ed in seguito con Gerrit Dou a Leida.

Gabriel Metsu | Baroque painter

Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667), Dutch painter was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway.

He was a contemporary, in the Delft Guild of St. Luke, of Jan Vermeer with whom his work shares themes and style.

De Hooch was born in Rotterdam to Hendrick Hendricksz de Hooch, a bricklayer, and Annetge Pieters, a midwife.

Frans Hals | Baroque Era painter

Frans Hals the Elder (1582-1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, normally of portraits, who lived and worked in Haarlem.

He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and he helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art.

Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group portraiture.

Adriaen Brouwer (1605-1638) | Genre painter

Adriaen Brouwer (Oudenaarde, c. 1605 - Antwerp, January 1638) was a Flemish painter🎨 active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the first half of the 17th century.

Brouwer was an important innovator of genre painting through his vivid depictions of peasants, soldiers and other 'lower class' individuals engaged in drinking, smoking, card or dice playing, fighting, music making etc. in taverns or rural settings.

John Singer Sargent: "Fai uno schizzo su qualsiasi cosa e mantieni attiva la curiosità!"

"You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh".

"Non si fanno mai abbastanza schizzi. Fai uno schizzo su qualsiasi cosa e mantieni attiva la tua curiosità".

"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend".

"Ogni volta che dipingo un ritratto perdo un amico".

Canaletto | Vedute of Venice

Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 - 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto (Italian: [kanaˈletto]), was an Italian painter🎨 of city views or vedute, of Venice, Rome and London.

He also painted imaginary views (referred to as capricci), although the demarcation in his works between the real and the imaginary is never quite clearcut.

He was further an important printmaker using the etching technique.

Paul Signac: "The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music"

• "Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance..."

• "The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music".

• "Divisionism is a complex system of harmony, an aesthetic rather than a technique".

Cao Yong, 1962 | Tibet painter

Chinese artist Cao Yong 曹勇 spent a year alone in the mountains of Tibet, and the paintings he produced were exhibited in Beijing in early 1989.

Cao Yong's canvases evoke the essence of some of the most delightful places on earth. Although Cao Yong was formally educated in China, the artist achieved maturity during seven years of self-exile in Tibet.

Then he left for Japan, where he quickly became that nation's most honored muralist. Later, he immigrated to America, in this nation know for her freedom of expression, Cao Yong has transferred to an artist who dedicates to the love of nature and passion for life through artwork.

Gustave Loiseau (Parigi, 1865-1935)

Nato a Parigi da una famiglia di macellai originaria della Val-d'Oise, il pittore Francese Gustave Loiseau visse l'infanzia e l'adolescenza a Pontoise.

All'età di quindici anni venne messo come apprendista nella bottega di un salumiere, ma, pochi anni dopo, sentì il bisogno di abbandonare l'ambiente commerciale e di avvicinarsi all'arte. Passò quindi, sempre come apprendista, presso un decoratore amico della famiglia e la fortuna lo assistette. Alla morte della nonna, infatti, ereditò una somma sufficiente a mantenersi nella capitale.

Si trasferì quindi a Parigi, distante solo 25 km, nel quartiere di Montmartre, e si iscrisse alla "Scuola di arti decorative".

Dopo solo un anno, però, a causa di una lite con un docente, lasciò la Scuola e iniziò a lavorare come decoratore.

Henry Moret (1856-1913)

Henry Moret was born in Cherbourg, Normandy, the son of a garrison officer. A gentle, thoughtful man and an indefatigable worker, Henry Moret discovered Brittany during his military service in 1875.

Having trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and in the studios of Gérôme and Laurens in Paris, Moret went to Brittany in 1881, staying at Le Pouldu near Pont Aven. For the rest of his life he divided his time between Paris and Brittany, painting the landscape and rugged coastline.

Wassily Kandinsky | Life and Artworks

MoMa - Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky /Васи́лий Васи́льевич Канди́нский (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 - 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist.

Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art.

Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art school.

He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession - he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat - Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.

Gustave Loiseau | Post-Impressionist painter

French Post-Impressionist painter Gustave Loiseau (1865-1935) is best remembered for his scenes of evocative landscapes and bustling Paris streets.

The artist used latticed brushstrokes to depict fleeting moments, blending the Impressionist pursuit of naturalistic depiction with a more modern desire for painterly expression.

Loiseau was born on October 3, 1865 in Paris.

In his youth, he was apprenticed to a decorator, but soon received an inheritance from his grandmother, which allowed him to pursue his artistic passions. He enrolled at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, where he studied life drawing, but left after a year after quarreling with an instructor.

He set out for the riparian vistas of Pont-Aven, where he befriended other artists including Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard.

Wassily Kandinsky | Abstract painter

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky / Васи́лий Васи́льевич Канди́нский (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 - 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter🎨 and art theorist.

Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art🎨.

Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art school.

He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession - he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat - Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.

John Singer Sargent: "Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend!"

"Ogni volta che dipingo un ritratto perdo un amico".

"It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry".

"È certo che in certi momenti il talento supera del tutto il pensiero o la poesia".

Camille Pissarro | Femme lavant une casserole, 1879

Included in the seminal Fifth Impressionist Exhibition that took place in 1880, Camille Pissarro’s Femme lavant une casserole encapsulates the quintessential Impressionist style and subject matter of the artist’s figure paintings.

As well as rustic, quotidian scenes of the rural French landscape, Pissarro frequently painted women absorbed in daily activities.

Indeed, from 1879, the year that he painted the present work, Pissarro began to create a number of monumental figure studies that reflected his growing interest in the primacy of the human form within the landscape setting, a theme that would continue throughout his career.

Here, a woman is framed by blossoming shrubs and flowers, bending over slightly as she washes objects in a bowl.

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) | Femme lavant une casserole, 1879 | Christie's

Gustave Loiseau (French, 1865-1935)

Gustave Loiseau was a French Post-Impressionist painter, remembered above all for his landscapes and scenes of Paris streets.

Loiseau was born in Paris and was brought up there, and at Pontoise, by parents who owned a butchers shop..

He served an apprenticeship with a decorator who was a friend of the family..

In 1887, when a legacy from his grandmother allowed him to concentrate on painting, he enrolled at the École des arts décoratifs where he studied life-drawing..

However, a year later he left the school after an argument with his teacher.

Roman Fedosenko / Роман Федосенко, 1970

Роман Федосенко lives and works in Minsk, Belarus.

Hailing from Minsk, Belarus, Roman Fedosenko is an international artist who paints in both Impressionist and Realist styles.

A lot of traveling and actively exhibit their work.

Participates in various art projects.

Józef Pankiewicz | Il primo colorista Polacco

Józef Pankiewicz (Lublino 1866 - La Ciotat, Bouches-du-Rhône, 1940), è stato un pittore Polacco ed artista grafico, influenzato a Parigi (1889) dall'impressionismo, che introdusse in Polonia.

Pankiewicz ha ricevuto la sua formazione presso l'Accademia d'arte da Varsavia, con Wojciech Gerson ed Alexander Kamiński.

Con il suo amico Władysław Podkowiński poi è andato a San Pietroburgo e vi studiò nel 1885-1886 all'Accademia d'arte.

Marc Chagall | Les Paysans, 1971

The wondrous vitality of Chagall's imagination, as youthfully whimsical and impetuous as ever, empowered him in his late paintings to become - like Picasso, notwithstanding the strong differences in their backgrounds and temperament - the impresario, auteur, director and a leading player in a lively theater of memory. Just as Picasso drew heavily on his ancestral Mediterranean roots, so Chagall became the artificer of a pictorial realm based on multiple personal mythologies he had evolved for himself as the proverbial Wandering Jew.