Renoir: "It gives my brain a rest, painting flowers"

"It gives my brain a rest, painting flowers. I don't feel the same tension as when I have a model in front of me. When I paint flowers, I put on colours and try out values boldly, without worrying about wasting a canvas. I wouldn't dare to do it with a figure; I'd be afraid of spoiling the whole thing. And the experience I gain this way is then applied to my pictures" - Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Janice Darr Cua | Pittrice di figure e cavalli

Il talento naturale di Janice Darr Cua era evidente sin dalla tenera età.

Ha iniziato i studi con Phyllis Markawitz a otto anni.

Era ben istruita in olio, disegno dal vero e scultura.

All'età di 10 anni esponeva e vendeva opere d'arte a Los Angeles.

Edouard Léon Cortès | Post-impressionist painter

Pablo Picasso | Head of a Man in El Greco style, 1899

"Head of a Man in El Greco style" painting was created in 1899 by a Spanish painter Pablo Picasso.

The original size of the painting is 34x31cm.

The painting was painted in oil painting on canvas.

This painting is currently collected at Museum Picasso, Barcelona, Spain.

Paul Klee: "A line is a dot that went for a walk"

• "The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles)".

• "Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible".

Lennette Newell | Body art photographer

Naturalist fashion photographer Lennette Newell channels a lifelong passion for Earth’s biodiversity and the magical wonder of the natural world into compelling animal portraits that afford viewers an intimate glimpse of creatures large and small. Having grown up on the high plains of western Nebraska as the daughter of a veterinarian and cattleman, Lennette creates images that explore the innate connections between subject and photographer, the common ties between the world of humans and that of animals.

Newell’s black-and-white photographs are simultaneously stark in composition yet rich in detail. Again and again, the viewer comes face to face with animal subjects that display an unexpected emotionality that lends new insight into the inner lives of these creatures.

L'espressionismo astratto di Arshile Gorky

Arshile Gorky, nato Vostanik Manoug Adoian /Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան (1904-1948) è stato un pittore Armeno naturalizzato statunitense, esponente dell'Espressionismo Astratto.

Gorky nacque a Khorkom, un piccolo villaggio situato nei pressi del lago di Van, nell'allora Turchia ottomana (oggi parte della regione turca dell'Anatolia Orientale), il 15 aprile 1904 in una povera famiglia armena. Nel 1908, per eludere il servizio di leva, suo padre fuggì negli Stati Uniti, lasciando a casa la propria famiglia.

Allo scoppio della prima guerra mondiale, nel 1915, Gorky scappò con la madre e le sorelle in Armenia (al secolo una provincia dell'Impero russo), per poter così sfuggire alle atrocità commesse sulla minoranza armena dall'esercito ottomano. Sua madre morirà poi di stenti a Erevan, nel 1919.