Louis Apol | Pittore di paesaggi invernali

Louis Apol (L'Aia, 1850-1936) è stato un pittore Olandese, uno dei rappresentanti più importanti della Scuola dell'Aia.

Il talento di Apol fu scoperto precocemente e suo padre gli fece prendere lezioni private di pittura. I suoi insegnanti erano J.F. Hoppenbrouwers e P.F. Stortenbeker.

Ricevette una borsa di studio dal Re olandese Guglielmo III nel 1868.

Si specializzò in paesaggi con atmosfere invernali, soprattutto foreste, in cui sono presenti manufatti artificiali, come un ponte od una recinzione. Raramente le persone sono raffigurate nei suoi dipinti.

Johnny Palacios Hidalgo, 1970

Nato a Callao in Perù, il pittore surrealista Johnny Palacios Hidalgo ha compiuto i seguenti studi:

1988-1990 Disegno e Pittura presso il Museo d'Arte di Lima;

1991-1998 Pittura presso la Scuola Nazionale di Belle Arti di Lima.

Per quattro anni l’artista ha vissuto a Puerto Rico e questo soggiorno ha inevitabilmente influenzato il suo lavoro.

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 (#).