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Francis Picabia | Paysages

Francis Picabia, born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia (1879-1953), was a French avant-garde painter, poet and typographist.
After experimenting with Impressionism and Pointillism, Picabia became associated with Cubism.
His highly abstract planar compositions were colourful and rich in contrasts.
He was one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France.
He was later briefly associated with Surrealism, but would soon turn his back on the art establishment.


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Marc Chagall (1887-1985) | Les Amoureux


"When you did catch a glimpse of his eyes, they were as blue as if they’d fallen straight out of the sky. They were strange eyes.. ..long, almond-shaped.. ..and each seemed to sail along by itself, like a little boat"!
- Quote of Bella Chagall - her description of their first encounter in Vitebsk, 1909.

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Michele Lehmann, 1940 | Abstract painter


Michele Lehmann was born in Switzerland but moved to Mijas in southern Spain over 30 years ago.
After arriving there, Michele opened an art gallery as an outlet for local artists.
Although not an artist herself she began sketching to pass the time.
It began with a sketch of an old woman in black who passed the gallery every day.
She moved too fast for Michele to draw so the image captured her from behind.

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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.

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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

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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".


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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