Yoshio Markino | The colour of London

Makino Yoshio / 牧野 義雄, known as Yoshio Markino (1870-1956), was a Japanese Impressionist Watercolor painter and writer born in Koromo (Toyota City).

In 1893, he travelled to San Francisco where he trained at the Hopkins Art School, before arriving in London in 1897, instantly falling in love with the city.

He spent hours walking the streets, fascinated by the effect of mist and fog on the appearance of buildings, especially under gaslight.

Rabindranath Tagore / Marc Chagall | Unending Love / Amore senza fine

Marc Chagall🎨 | La branche de gui or Le rêve, 1928

Sembra che ti abbia amato in innumerevoli modi, innumerevoli volte…

nella vita dopo la vita, ripetutamente, sempre.

Il mio cuore incantato ha creato e ricreato la collana delle canzoni,

che hai accettato in dono e hai messo attorno al tuo collo a modo tuo,

nella vita dopo la vita, ripetutamente, sempre.

Ogni qualvolta odo vecchie cronache d’amore, è un’annosa pena,

l’antica storia di trovarci lontani l’uno dall'altro o insieme.

Fabian Perez, 1967

"Beauty, in every sense of the word, is my inspiration and by consequence, the common denominator between the subject or the object I create"

- Fabian Perez

Argentine🎨 painter and sculptor Fabian Perez has achieved important artistic recognition internationally and his work is exhibited in galleries around the world.

Fabian's art and style are unique; his art reflects passion, emotion and pure energy.

He is the creator of a new style of painting that he has called Neo Emotionalism, which is characterized by a dramatic narrative style and heady atmosphere.

Egon Schiele | The portrait of the silent pale girl, 1910

An effusion of my love, – Yes.

I loved everything. The girl came, -

I found here face;

Her unconsciousness

Her worker’s hands,

I loved everything about

Her.

Egon Schiele | I was first to see the eternal avenues of spring, 1910

I was first to see the eternal avenues of spring, the raging storm

and had to take my leave, -

endlessly of all the locations of life.

in those early days the level lands were around me, at that time

I had already heard and smelled the miracle flowers, the speechless

17th century Inventions

1670 ‣ Dom Pérignon invents Champagne

The 17th century🎨 was the century that lasted from January 1, 1601, to December 31, 1700.

It falls into the Early Modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque🎨 cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, the French Grand Siècle dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific Revolution, the world's first public company and megacorporation known as the Dutch East India Company, and according to some historians, the General Crisis.

Alda Merini / Leonora Carrington | Ci sono notti che non accadono mai..

Leonora Carrington🎨 ( British-born Mexican painter, 1917-2011) | Self-portrait with orthopedic brace, 1973

Ci sono notti

che non accadono mai

e tu le cerchi

muovendo le labbra.

Poi t’immagini seduto

al posto degli Dèi.