Nazim Hikmet | Dead Leaves / Foglie morte, 1961

Ferdinand Hodler (Swiss painter, 1853-1918) | Autumn Evening, 1892

Seeing the leaves fall tears me inside

especially those falling on boulevards

especially chestnut leaves

especially if kids are around

especially if the sky is clear

especially if I’ve got good news that day

especially if my heart doesn’t ache that day

and I believe my love loves me

especially if that day I feel in agreement with men and with myself

seeing the leaves fall, it tears me inside

especially those falling on boulevards

especially chestnut’s boulevards.

Alfred Sisley | Boat in the Flood at Port Marly, 1876

In 1874, Alfred Sisley (French Impressionist painter, 1839-1899) moved to Marly-le-Roi and became the chronicler of this village situated a few kilometres to the west of Paris.

His most beautiful motif was when the Seine burst its banks and flooded the neighbouring village of Port-Marly in the spring of 1876.

The artist produced six paintings of this event.

He captured the great expanse of water with moving reflections that transformed the peaceful house of a wine merchant into something mysterious and poetic.

Two of these paintings are in the Musée d'Orsay.

Paul Cézanne | Color Quotes

▻ "There is no model; there is only color".

▻ "Non esiste un modello; c'è solo il colore".

▻ "Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones".

▻ "L'ombra è un colore come la luce, ma meno brillante; luce e ombra sono solo il rapporto di due toni".

▻ "Nature is more depth than surface. Hence the need to introduce into our light vibrations represented by the reds and yellows, a sufficient amount of blue to give the impression of air".

▻ "La natura è più in profondità che in superficie, di qui la necessità di introdurre nelle nostre vibrazioni di luce, rappresentate dai rossi e dai gialli, una quantità sufficiente di azzurri, per far sentire la presenza dell’aria".

Christopher Zhang, 1954 | Ballet dancers

Christopher Zhang is an realist painter born in Shanghai but now living and teaching art in the US since 1990.

- "As a professional artist, I have received the most institutional education and substantial training of painting in both China and the US.

In the last four decades, I have successfully developed my career and markets nationally and internationally through numerous exhibits and awards at home and abroad".

Claire Basler, 1960 | Abstract Flowers painter

French artist Claire Basler - born in Vincennes, France - studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts before bringing her work to the world - first exhibiting locally in Paris and later reaching an international audience with gallery exhibits spanning the globe from London to Beijing, Houston to Brussels..

It was at the Louvre, though, where she found her inspiration, spending hours around the masterpieces of the museum’s collections, becoming especially enamoured with the work of 18th Century French artists such as Watteau, which remain a point of reference for her own work.

Alda Merini | Mia Solitudine..

S'anche ti lascerò per breve tempo,

solitudine mia, se mi trascina

l'amore, tornerò, stanne pur certa;

i sentimenti cedono, tu resti.

Gianni Bellini | Un pensiero che sfugge

Igor Levashov, 1964

Igor Levashov è nato e cresciuto nelle vicinanze di Mosca. Ha studiato alla Moscow Art School dal 1979-1983.

Poco dopo, ha iniziato i suoi studi presso l'Accademia Statale d'Arte di Mosca, intitolata a V.I.Surikov, presso la quale si è laureato nel 1990.

Nel 1991 è venuto a studiare presso l'Accademia Reale d'Arte di The Aia nei Paesi Bassi e si è laureato nel 1996.

Vive e lavora nei Paesi Bassi. Dal 1998 il suo lavoro è rappresentato negli Stati Uniti.