E intanto...fuori piove ~ Catherine La Rose

Assorta nella penombra
delle pagine gialle
della mia vita
mi siedo in abbandono
con le mani raccolgo il vuoto
e mi conforta la pena
non guardo fuori
sento solo confesso
il rigurgito fuso delle mie angosce
Eppur...c'era il sole!

Emilia WILK, 1983 ✿

Emilia Wilk est une artiste peintre polonaise, née en 1983 dans le comté de Wałcz, en Pologne. Le travail de Wilk peut être décrit comme un réalisme impressioniste. Elle se spécialise dans la peinture à l'huile, a commencé à peindre à l'âge de 6 ans. La figure de la femme a toujours été au centre de son travail qu'elle essaie de capturer avec une grande atmosphère et lumière.

Cristiano BANTI (1824-1904) ✿

Cristiano Banti (Santa Croce sull'Arno, 4 gennaio 1824 – Montemurlo, 4 dicembre 1904) è stato un pittore italiano figurativo di formazione accademica, esponente di spicco del movimento dei Macchiaioli toscani.  Nato a Santa Croce sull'Arno in provincia di Pisa da famiglia borghese, alla sua formazione accademica neoclassica come allievo di Francesco Nenci, fa seguire un netto avvicinamento ai modi dei Macchiaioli, con cui entra in contatto dopo il suo trasferimento a Firenze nel 1855, dove frequenta gli artisti del Caffè Michelangiolo.

Achille GLISENTI (Italian, 1848-1906) ✿

Achille Glisenti (October 1, 1848 – December 21, 1906) was an Italian painter, mostly of elegant genre and Orientalist subjects. He was born in Brescia and had his first training there under Luigi Campini. He then studied at the Brera Academy of Milan under Eleuterio Pagliano

Robert BRACKMAN (1898-1980) ✿

Robert Brackman (25 settembre 1898 – 16 luglio 1980) è stato un artista e insegnante americano, noto soprattutto per le grandi opere figurative, i ritratti e le nature morte. È nato a Odessa, nell'Impero russo (ora in Ucraina). Emigrò negli Stati Uniti nel 1908 o 1910.

Domenico MORELLI (1823-1901) ✿

Domenico Morelli  (Napoli 1823-1901) è stato un pittore e politico italiano. Considerato uno dei più importanti artisti italiani della seconda metà del XIX secolo, fu senatore del Regno d'Italia nella XVI legislatura, fu il maestro d'arte di Vincenzo Petrocelli.

Domenico MORELLI (Napoli 1823-1901) ~ Orientalist ✿

Domenico Morelli (Naples 1823-1901) was an Italian painter and politician. Considered one of the most important Italian artists of the second half of the nineteenth century, he was a senator of the Kingdom of Italy in the sixteenth legislature, he was the art master of Vincenzo Petrocelli.

Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940) ✿

Jean-Édouard Vuillard (11 novembre 1868 – 21 giugno 1940) è stato un pittore, artista decorativo e incisore francese associato ai Nabis. Dal 1891 al 1900, fu un membro di spicco dei Nabis, realizzando dipinti che assemblavano aree di colore puro e scene d'interni, influenzate dalle stampe giapponesi, in cui i soggetti si fondevano in colori e motivi.

Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) ✿

Jean-Édouard Vuillard (11 November 1868 – 21 June 1940) was a French painter, decorative artist and printmakerassociated with the Nabis. From 1891 through 1900, he was a prominent member of the Nabis, making paintings which assembled areas of pure color, and interior scenes, influenced by Japanese prints, where the subjects were blended into colors and patterns.

John George BROWN (1831-1913) ✿

John George BROWN (1831-1913) è stato un pittore realista americano specializzato in scene di genere. Brown è nato a Durham, in Inghilterra. Ha studiato notti alla School of Design di Newcastle-on-Tyne mentre lavorava come tagliavetro lì tra il 1849 e il 1852 e le serate alla Trustees Academy di Edimburgo mentre lavorava alla Holyrood Glass Works tra il 1852 e il 1853.

Robert BRACKMAN (American, 1898-1980) ✿

Robert Brackman (September 25, 1898 – July 16, 1980) was an American artist and teacher, best known for large figural works, portraits, and still lifes. He was born in Odessa, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine). He immigrated to the United States in 1908 or 1910.

Gustave Leonard DE JONGHE (Belgian, 1829-1893) ✿

Gustave Léonard de Jonghe (1829-1893) was a Flemish painter known for his glamorous society portraits and genre scenes. After training in Brussels, he started out as a painter of historical and religious subjects in a Realist style. After moving to Paris where he spent most of his active career, he became successful with his scenes of glamorous women in richly decorated interiors.

John George BROWN (American, 1831-1913) ✿

John George BROWN (1831-1913) was an American Realist painter specialized in genre scenes. Brown was born in Durham, England. He studied nights at the School of Design in Newcastle-on-Tyne while working as a glass cutter there between 1849 and 1852 and evenings at the Trustees Academy in Edinburgh while working at the Holyrood Glass Works between 1852 and 1853.

Aimée BRUNE (1803-1866) ✿

Aimée Brune-Pagès (1803-1866) was a 19th century French painter. Aimée Brune Pagès was a pupil of Charles Meynier and was, under the various French political regimes, the Restoration, July Monarchy, Second Republic and Second Empire, one of the most respected women painters. She exhibited regularly at the Salon from 1822 to 1853 and sometimes collaborated with her husband, Christian Brune.

Bernard CIOCHETTI, 1942 ✿

Bernard Ciochetti is a french painter born in 1942 in Marseille. After having followed a training in "Métiers d'Art", "Art Déco", "Ecole Charpentier" in Paris, Bernard Ciochetti began, in the 1970s, a career as Artistic Director at Havas Conseil (advertising agency). He then specialized in the creation of posters and illustration. His taste for classical 19th century painting led him to become an amateur orientalist painter.

Ricardo CELMA, Buenos Aires ✿

Ricardo Celma è un'artista plastico argentino, nato a Buenos Aires nel 1975. Dall'età di 5 anni ha seguito corsi nelle botteghe di grandi artisti, e all'età di 16 anni ha realizzato la sua prima mostra personale. Alla fine del liceo è entrato alla Scuola Nazionale di Belle Arti Prilidiano Pueyrredón, dove ha ottenuto il titolo di professore nazionale di disegno e pittura, con ottimi voti.

Konstantin KACEV/ Константин Качев ✿

Konstantin kacev / Константин Качев described the realistic concrete scenes of modern life with surrealism. He is born in 1967 in the former Soviet Union, and he is a painter who currently lives and works in Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia.

Henri ROUSSEAU (French, 1844-1910) ✿

 Henri Rousseau's Dream Garden by Frances Broomfield

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910) was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties; by age 49, he retired from his job to work on his art full-time.

La paura di amare non ci fa amare ~ Catherine La Rose

La paura di amare non ci fa amare
La paura di amare
d'innamorarsi troppo
sentirsi travolti
ed imprigionati

Julius LeBlanc STEWART (American, 1855-1919) ✿

Julius LeBlanc Stewart (6 settembre 1855, Filadelfia, Pennsylvania – 4 gennaio 1919, Parigi, Francia), è stato un artista americano che ha trascorso la sua carriera a Parigi,  soprannominato "il parigino di Filadelfia". Stewart è ricordato soprattutto per i suoi ritratti di società della Belle Époque e figure di donne sensuali.

Adolphe JOURDAN (1825‐1889) ✿

Adolphe Jourdan (1825‐1889) was a French painter, known for his genre scenes and his portraits, born in Nîmes.

Jessica HAYLLAR ~ Still Life ✿

Jessica Ellen Hayllar (16 September 1858 – 7 November 1940) was a British painter, born in London. She was the eldest daughter of the nine children born to Ellen Phoebe Cavell (1827-1899) and her husband James Hayllar (1829-1920).

Jan VERHAS (Belgian, 1834-1896) ✿

Jan Verhas or Jan Frans Verhas (9 January 1834 – 31 October 1896) was a Belgian painter of the Realist school. He was known for his portraits and genre paintings often depicting children of the Belgian bourgeoisie.

Henri ROUSSEAU ~ Il Doganiere ✿

Henri Rousseau (Laval, 1844 – Parigi, 1910), detto il Doganiere (perché come mestiere lavorava al dazio di Parigi ) è stato un pittore francese importante, considerato uno dei primi artisti naïf della storia dell'arte.  Questo impiego lo accompagnerà fino al 1893 e sarà il tempo e il luogo dove maturerà il suo desiderio di divenire un pittore e caratterizzerà la sua identità nel mondo artistico con il soprannome di Rousseau il Doganiere.

Nathaniel SICHEL (1843-1907) ~ Orientalist ✿

Nathaniel SICHEL (1843-1907) was a german painter known for Historical scenes, portrait and figure Orientalist. Born in Mainz, Germany Nathaniel Sichel gained great repute as a figurative artist, portraitist, historical painter and lithographer. He is best known and won the widest popularity for his arresting depictions of female beauties, who as here were often dressed in Oriental costume.

Hamish BLAKELY ✿

Hamish Blakely is an English painter was born in Canterbury in 1968 and developed an interest in art from an early age. He studied illustration at Wimbledon School of Art and completed his degree at Kingston University to become a professional illustrator. He worked for numerous renowned companies and the author of ‘Schindler’s List’, Thomas Keneally.

Helen Maria TURNER (1858-1958) ✿

Helen Maria Turner (November 13, 1858 – January 31, 1958) was an American Impressionist painter and teacher known for her work in oils, watercolors and pastels in which she created miniatures, landscapes, still lifes and portraits.

Nathaniel SICHEL (1843-1907) ✿

Nathaniel SICHEL (1843-1907) was a german painter of Orientalist and historical subjects. Nathaniel Sichel studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Munich from 1859 to 1862. In 1863 Sichel won the prestigious Italian prize and ensuing travel scholarship for his painting titled "Joseph Explains the Dreams of the Pharaoh" and established himself as an outstanding Orientalist painter. Having returned to Germany he became active as a portrait painter. Works of Sichel can be viewed in various German museums.

Giuliano BOSCAINI Art ✿

Giuliano Boscaini is an Italian painter, known for his watercolor landscapes, urban scenes, seascapes and portrait paintings. Boscaini was born in Turate (CO) Italy, the 18th of June 1958.Very soon he began to work in the field of advertising graphics until 1986, when he decided to become an independent professional in this sector, acquiring leading companies in the national territory in his portfolio.

Herman TULP, 1955 ✿

Herman Tulp (Zwolle, 31 dicembre 1955) è un pittore olandese che dipinge in uno stile realistico. Tra i suoi insegnanti c'erano i famosi pittori olandesi Wout Muller e DiederikKraaijpoel.Tulp divenne un pittore che prestava grande attenzione ai dettagli e divenne noto per le sue intricate e intime nature morte.

Giuliano BOSCAINI (Italian, 1958) ✿

"Dipingere ad acquerello per me è un momento di meditazione in cui la mente logica si annulla, uno stato di non pensiero, consentendomi di attingere dallo spazio energia e quiete". - Giuliano Boscaini

Julius SCHRADER ✿

Julius SCHRADER (1815-1900) ✿

Alla fine,
sono le relazioni tra le persone
quelle che danno valore alla vita.

~ Alexander Von Humboldt ~
Portrait of Baron Alexander von Humboldt by Julius SCHRADER

William SCHNEIDER, 1945 ✿

William A. Schneider, 1945 è un pittore Figurativo Americano che lavora a olio e pastello. Considera le figure, il paesaggio o la natura morta come opportunità per esplorare gli effetti della luce sulla forma. Dipingendo dal vero, cerca di catturare l'emozione di un particolare momento e luogo.

Robert DUNCAN, 1952 ✿

Robert Duncan is an American West artist. He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was born in Salt Lake City in 1952 and grew up in a large family of ten children. He spent the summers helping his grandparents on their 10,000 acre cattle ranch in Wyoming. The Green River ran through their land from its source high in the Rocky Mountains.

Dennis PERRIN ✿

Dennis Perrin is an American Impressionist in the Boston School tradition, and that is not surprising since among his greatest influences are the American Painters John Singer Sargeant, Edmund Tarbell, and Frank Benson, as well as the French painter Henri Fantin-Latour. A former member of the Guild of Boston Artists, Mr. Perrin paints in order to express his great love for the beauty seen all around, especially in his immediate environment.