Al Saralis | Pittore figurativo

Il pittore Britanico di origine greca Al Saralis è nato e cresciuto in una città mineraria gallese nella Rhymney Valley.

Attualmente vive e lavora nell'Hampshire, Regno Unito.

Da quando Al si è laureato a Cardiff con una laurea in Belle Arti, la figura umana è stata la sua principale fonte di ispirazione.

I suoi dipinti sono composti di solito da un'unica figura e, sebbene privi di narrativa ovvia, portano ai nostri pensieri ed interpretazioni indagatori.

William Callow | Watercolor painter

William Callow (1812–1908) was an British landscape painter, engraver and water colourist.

Callow was born in Greenwich on 28 July 1812.

He was apprenticed to the artist Copley Fielding, where he learnt the technique of plein air sketching.

He went on to study under Theodore and Thales Fielding, where he learnt to colour prints and make aquatints, and was taught water colour painting between 1825-7.

In 1829 Thales Fielding found him work as an engraver in Paris, where he worked alongside his friend Charles Bentley. While in the French capital he was encouraged by Thomas Shotter Boys to take up watercolours again.

Friedrich Overbeck | Nazareni painter

Johann Friedrich Overbeck (3 July 1789 - 12 November 1869) was a German painter. A member of the Nazarene movement - group of early 19th-century German Romantic painters who aimed to revive spirituality in art. The name Nazarene came from a term of derision used against them for their affectation of a biblical manner of clothing and hair style - he also made four etchings.

Early life and education

Born in Lübeck, his ancestors for three generations had been Protestant pastors; his father Christian Adolph Overbeck (1755-1821) was doctor of law, poet, mystic pietist and burgomaster of Lübeck.

Within a stone's throw of the family mansion in the Konigstrasse stood the Gymnasium, where the uncle, doctor of theology and a voluminous writer, was the master; there the nephew became a classic scholar and received instruction in art.

Wisława Szymborska | Possibilità / Possibilities

Preferisco il cinema.

Preferisco i gatti.

Preferisco le querce sul fiume Warta.

Preferisco Dickens a Dostoevskij.

Preferisco me che vuol bene alla gente, a me che ama l’umanità.

Alex Alemany

Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef | Landscape painter

Jacobus Hendrik (Henk) Pierneef (usually referred to as Pierneef) (Pretoria, 1886–1957), was a South African landscape artist (from Dutch parents), generally considered to be one of the best of the old South African masters.

His distinctive style is widely recognised and his work was greatly influenced by the South African landscape.

Most of his landscapes were of the South African highveld, which provided a lifelong source of inspiration for him. Pierneef's style was to reduce and simplify the landscape to geometric structures, using flat planes, lines and colour to present the harmony and order in nature.

Joseph von Eichendorff | Notte di luna / Moonlit night, 1837

Era come se il cielo avesse

baciato silenzioso la terra,

e questa in uno scintillio di fiori

dovesse ora sognarlo.

René Magritte | À la rencontre du plaisir, 1962

Charles Bukowski | Fuori posto / Displaced

Brucia all’inferno

questa parte di me che non si trova bene in nessun posto

mentre le altre persone trovano cose

da fare

nel tempo che hanno

posti dove andare

insieme

cose da

dirsi.

Fabian Perez | Cool Breeze and Cigarette