Jessica Hayllar | Victorian painter

Jessica Ellen Hayllar (1858–1940) was a British artist and painter.

Hayllar was born in London and was the eldest daughter of the nine children born to Ellen Phoebe Cavell (1827-1899) and her husband James Hayllar (1829-1920).

The family lived at Mecklenburgh Square in London and also rented a country house in Suffolk for several months each year before moving to a large house, Castle Priory, by the Thames at Wallingford, then in Berkshire. Hayllar and her four sisters attended a day school in Gower Street and all were given art lessons by their father, who was himself a well-regarded painter.

Jessica Hayllar became the most prolific artist among the Hayllar offspring, although her sister Edith also achieved some recognition.

Alda Merini: E poi la vita ci insegna..

E poi la vita ci insegna

che bisogna sempre volare in alto.

Più in alto dell’invidia, più del dolore,

della cattiveria…

Più in alto delle lacrime, dei giudizi.

Marc Chagall | Sopra la città, 1918

Charles Bukowski: " Sai cosa succederà a noi due?"

Sai cosa succederà a noi due?

Ci cercheremo,

ancora.

Ci cercheremo nelle canzoni,

nelle citazioni,

nei libri.

Fabian Perez | Black and Classic

389th anniversary of Johannes Vermeer's birth

Today’s Doodle celebrates Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, a seminal Baroque artist who is widely regarded among the greatest Dutch painters of all time.

Johannes Vermeer (October 1632 - December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime but evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings.

Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, and frequently used very expensive pigments. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work.
Vermeer painted mostly domestic interior scenes.

"Almost all his paintings are apparently set in two smallish rooms in his house in Delft; they show the same furniture and decorations in various arrangements and they often portray the same people, mostly women".

Web colors | I codici HTML dei colori

Web colors are colors used in displaying web pages on the World Wide Web, and the methods for describing and specifying those colors.

Colors may be specified as an RGB triplet or in hexadecimal format (a hex triplet) or according to their common English names in some cases. A color tool or other graphics software is often used to generate color values.

In some uses, hexadecimal color codes are specified with notation using a leading number sign (#).

Anatoliy Kalugin, 1959: "Woman is poetry by nature"!

Anatoliy Kalugin / Анатолий Калугин was born in 1959. He lives in Moscow, Russia.

Kalugin graduated from Moscow Architectural Institute and started to work as an artist.

Then he became interested in the computer processing of photos in order to get sketches of the future pictures.

The outcomes of the processing were attractiveness and integrity.

His nickname - Waatson - once, spontaneously chosen username to register on the Internet, became pseudonym for all his works.

Vincent Van Gogh: "Finché ci sarà l'Autunno, non avrò abbastanza mani, tele e colori per dipingere la bellezza che vedo"!

"Finché ci sarà l'autunno, non avrò abbastanza mani, tele e colori per dipingere la bellezza che vedo".

"As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see".

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh | Red Vineyard at Arles, 1888 | Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts