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 du linge, avec enfant, 1898

Artist: Camille Pissarro🎨 (Danish/French, 1830-1903);
Title: Femme lavant du linge, avec enfant , ca. 1898;
Medium: Gouache on silk laid down on card;
Size: 17.5 x 13.7 cm. (6.9 x 5.4 in.);
Museum location: 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.