Sir William Blake Richmond | Drawings

Sir William Blake Richmond KCB, RA, PPRBSA (1842-1921) was a British portrait painter and a designer of stained glass and mosaic, whose works include mosaic decorations below the dome and in the apse of St Paul's cathedral in London.

He was the Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford from 1879-1883.

Vincent van Gogh | I disegni

Vincent van Gogh ha disegnato migliaia di immagini per migliorare le sue capacità e per soddisfare il tempo libero.

Ha completato oltre 1.000 disegni, di cui si conosce, dal 1877 al 1890.

Van Gogh vedeva il disegno come un compito necessario per costruire una base come artista e per studiare la forma e il movimento.

Tuttavia, come descrive, in molte delle sue lettere, usava anche il disegno come sfogo per la sua depressione.| © Van Gogh Gallery

Pablo Picasso: "To draw you must close your eyes and sing"

"To draw you must close your eyes and sing".

"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else".

"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money".

"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction".

"The hidden harmony is better than the obvious".

"We don't grow older, we grow riper".

P. John Burden, 1943 | Pittore simbolista

Di formazione classica come incisore e pittore in Gran Bretagna, l'artista visivo P. John Burden si è trasferito a Prince Edward Island nel 1976, dove ha continuato la sua carriera artistica e ha sviluppato una reputazione come designer di vetrate tradizionali, illustratore di libri ed artista grafico.

Il lavoro di John Burden include dipinti acrilici originali, acquerelli e stampe di artisti tradizionali e moderni.

La sua arte è simbolica o surrealista, utilizzando l'abilità rappresentativa di una vita di disegno, pittura e design.

John illustra anche libri per tutte le età e ha opere in collezioni in tutto il mondo.

Claude Monet | The Rain (La pluie), 1886-1887

"The Rain (La pluie)" was created in 1886-1887 by French impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926).

• "Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment".
• "I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.."

Georges de la Tour | The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds, 1635

The only diurnal painting by Georges de La Tour in the Louvre along with the Saint Thomas, the Cheat illustrates a theme that was frequently taken up in the wake of Caravaggio.

The young man is subjected here to three major temptations according to 17th-century moral standards: gambling, wine and lust.

Another version with notable variations is known to exist, the Cheat with the Ace of Clubs (Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum).

Diego Rivera | Portrait of a Spaniard, 1912

The illustrious Salon d’Automne - from its inception the world’s leading avant-garde venue along with the Salon des Artistes Indépendants - opened its annual exhibition at the Grand Palais on October 1, 1912.

Displaying over seventeen hundred paintings and sculptures to an expectant Parisian public, it included a portrait section of nineteenth century paintings all executed by French artists and, most notoriously, a gallery of increasingly scandalous and rejected Cubist works such as La Maison Cubiste, a three dimensional installation that housed works by Duchamp, Léger, Gleizes and others.