Gerard Terburg (1617-1681)

Gerard ter Borch (December 1617 - 8 December 1681), also known as Gerard Terburg, was an influential and pioneering Dutch ⎆ genre painter who lived in the Dutch Golden Age.
He influenced fellow Dutch painters ⎆ Gabriel Metsu, Gerrit Dou ⎆, Eglon van der Neer and Johannes Vermeer ⎆.

According to Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., Ter Borch:

"established a new framework for subject matter, taking people into the sanctum of the home"

showing the figures’ uncertainties and expertly hinting at their inner lives. His influence as a painter, however, was later surpassed by Vermeer ⎆.

Renoir | La Promenade, 1875-1876

A young woman shepherds a pair of identically dressed little sisters along the path of a well-maintained public park. All three figures are outfitted for the cold and in the height of fashion.

The eldest wears a blue velvet jacket with wide sleeves trimmed with red fox; the little girls wear miniature blue-green jackets trimmed with either swansdown or white mink.

Further up the pathway to the right, Renoir🎨 has included no fewer than eleven additional figures and two playful dogs.

Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt portraits by Ary Scheffer

Ary Scheffer (Dutch-French Romantic painter, 1795-1858)🎨🎨 | Portrait of Frédéric Chopin, 1847

- Dordrecht Museum, Netherlands

Frédéric François Chopin, born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1 March 1810 - 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for the solo piano.

Édouard Manet ed il Realismo

Già negli esordi l'arte di Édouard Manet (1832-1883) apparve indubbiamente connotata da pressanti esigenze realiste, a tal punto che arrivò persino a infuriarsi con il maestro Couture, troppo legato agli accademismi («insomma, vi comportate così quando andate a comprare un mazzo di ravanelli dalla vostra fruttivendola?»).

A turbarlo in particolar modo era in particolare la mancanza di naturalezza delle pose adottate dalle modelle:

«Vedo che ha dipinto una finanziera.

E di eccellente fattura.

Ma dove sono finiti i polmoni della modella?

Sembra che sotto l’abito non respiri.

Come se non avesse un corpo.

È un ritratto da sarto»

William Holman Hunt | The Awakening Conscience, 1853

The Awakening Conscience was conceived as the material counterpart to Hunt's The Light of the World (1851-3, Warden and Fellows of Keble College, Oxford). Its inspiration was a verse from Proverbs:

'As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart'.

With his typical thoroughness, Hunt hired a room at Woodbine Villa, 7 Alpha Place, St John's Wood, a 'maison de convenance', to use as the setting.

Vicente López Portaña | The Marquess of Remisa, 1844

Title: The Marquess of Remisa
Author: Vicente López Portaña** (Spanish painter**, 1772-1850)
Date: 1844
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: w147.5 x h232
Current location: Museo Nacional del Romanticismo

Yosuke Ueno / 上野陽介, 1977 | Pittore Pop-Surrealista

Yosuke Ueno è un artista autodidatta di fama internazionale.

La sua arte è un chiaro riflesso delle radici asiatiche dell'artista e dell'influenza della cultura pop contemporanea.

Le opere d'arte di Ueno sono ispirate alla religione giapponese dello Shinto che si basa sui particolari e sul godimento della natura.

Elementi fumettistici, giovani personaggi, improbabili piante, animali e creature antropomorfe popolano le sue surreali galassie dipinte su tela, e vivono felici in una dimensione psichedelica di superfici luccicanti.