Gari Melchers (1860-1932) | Naturalist painter

Julius Garibaldi Melchers was an American artist🎨. He was one of the leading American proponents of naturalism. He won a 1932 Gold medal🎨 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

The son of German-born American sculptor Julius Theodore Melchers, Gari Melchers was a native of Detroit, Michigan, who at seventeen studied art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under von Gebhardt and is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Virginia Woolf | Quotes about Women

• "As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking".

• "Finché pensa ad un uomo, nessuno si oppone ad una donna che pensa".

• "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size".

• "Per tutti questi secoli le donne hanno svolto la funzione di specchi, dotati della magica e deliziosa proprietà di riflettere la figura dell’uomo a grandezza doppia del naturale".

Dame Laura Knight (British Impressionist painter, 1877-1970) | A girl reading

Gyuri Lohmuller, 1962: "L'emozione è Arte"

Nato a Gataia, in Romania e pittore autodidatta, con mostre in Austria, Germania, Francia ed Ungheria, Gyuri Lohmuller preferisce i temi surrealisti.

I suoi dipinti riflettono le sue emozioni più profonde.

"L'emozione", dice, "è Arte".

Virginia Woolf | Quotes

• • "I wish you’d find the exit out of my head".

• "Io scriverei poesie d'amore anche sulle parti di te che tu non sopporti".

• "My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child-wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry".

• "Se il mio cervello, distratto da un'ansia o da altra causa, deve distogliersi dalla carta bianca, è come un bimbo sperduto, che gira per casa e siede a piangere sull'ultimo gradino".

Dame Laura Knight (British Impressionist painter, 1877-1970) | The Dark Pool, 1908-1918 | Laing Art Gallery

Jacques Prévert / Daniel Gerhartz | Quicksands / Sabbie mobili

Quicksands

Demons and wonders

Winds and tides

The sea has gone far away

And you

Like seaweed softly stroked by the wind

Stir dreaming in the sands of our bed

Demons and wonders

Winds and tides

The sea has gone far away

But in your half open eyes

Two small waves wait

Demons and wonders

Winds and tides

Two small waves to drown me.

Sabbie mobili

Dèmoni e meraviglie

Venti e maree

Il mare si è ritirato già in lontananza

E tu

Come un'alga dolcemente dal vento accarezzata

Nelle sabbie del letto ti agiti sognando

Dèmoni e meraviglie

Venti e maree

Il mare si è ritirato già in lontananza

Ma nei tuoi occhi socchiusi

Due piccole onde sono rimaste

Dèmoni e meraviglie

Venti e maree

Due piccole onde per farmi annegare.

Sables mouvants

Démons et merveilles

Vents et marées

Au loin déjà la mer s'est retirée

Et toi

Comme une algue doucement caressée par le vent

Dans les sables du lit tu remues en revant

Démons et merveilles

Vents et marées

Au loin déjà la mer s'est retirée

Mais dans tes yeux entrouverts

Deux petites vagues sont restées

Démons et merveilles

Vents et marées

Deux petites vagues pour me noyer.

John Callcott Horsley | The Morning of St Valentine,1865

Title: The Morning of St Valentine🎨;
Author: John Callcott Horsley (British painter, 1817-1903)
Date: 1865;
Medium: Oil on canvas;
Dimensions: w458 x h383 cm (Without frame);
Current location: Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool.

John Callcott Horsley RA was an English Academic painter of genre and historical scenes, illustrator and designer of the first Christmas card🎨. He was a member of the artist's colony in Cranbrook.

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) | Art Quotes

"L'artista deve creare una scintilla prima di poter fare un fuoco e quindi nasce l'arte, l'artista deve essere pronto a consumarsi al fuoco della sua stessa creazione".