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Michele Del Campo, 1976 | Figurative painter

Italian painter Michele Del Campo was born in San Nicandro Garganico, a small town in rural South Italy. When he was 18 he moved to Milan (Italy), then he went to study in Dundee (UK), afterwards in Madrid (Spain) and finally in 2008 he moved to London (UK), where he now lives and works.
Lately he is spending part of the year in Valencia (Spain), where he has another studio.
He has a degree in Fine Arts from Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain, 2007) and a degree in Illustration and Printmaking from University of Dundee (UK, 2001).


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Leonardo da Vinci | De' movimenti dell'uomo ed altri animali

Trattato della Pittura - Parte terza | Capitoli 287-315


Indice
287. Della bellezza de' volti.
288. Di fisonomia e chiromanzia.
289. Del porre le membra.
290. Degli atti delle figure.
291. Dell'attitudine.
292. De' movimenti delle membra, quando si figura l'uomo, che sieno atti propri.
293. Ogni moto della figura finta dev'essere fatto in modo che mostri effetto.
294. De' moti propri dimostratori del moto della mente del motore.
295. De' moti propri operati da uomini di diverse età.
296. De' movimenti dell'uomo e d'altri animali.
297. Di un medesimo atto veduto da varî siti.
298. Della membrificazione de' nudi e loro operazioni.
299. Degli scoprimenti o coprimenti de' muscoli di ciascun membro nelle attitudini degli animali.


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Tomasz Rut, 1961 | Neo Baroque painter

Named one of the most collectible living artists, Tomasz Rut continues to expand the realm of contemporary figurative painting to the artistic limits reached only by the Great Masters of the past. Often compared to the epic works of the Antiquity, Renaissance and Baroque, his Classical artwork, inducted into The Vatican Collection by Pope Benedict XVI, resurrects the dormant tradition of figurative painting, emulating the style, harmonious elegance and passion in the spirit of Michelangelo, Raphael or Caravaggio, but does it in an eloquent, modern adaptation, accommodating the contemporary viewer.


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Helen Maria Turner | Impressionist painter

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

Life and career

Turner was born in Louisville, Kentucky while her parents, Mortimer Turner and Helen Maria Davidson, were on a long visit to family in the town.
Her lineage was respectable; she was the great-granddaughter of John Pintard of New York, granddaughter of a well-known doctor from New Orleans, and daughter of a wealthy Louisiana businessman.
Turner spent much of her early life between Alexandria, Louisiana and New Orleans, and early became a refugee from the American Civil War, which destroyed her father's fortune and led to the loss of his business.


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Gustave Boulanger (1824-1888) | Academic painter

Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger was a French figure painter, Academic artist and teacher known for his Classical and Orientalist subjects.

The Néo-Grecs and the Prix de Rome

Boulanger was born in Paris in 1824.
He never knew his father, and when his mother's death left him orphaned at the age of fourteen, he became the ward of his uncle, Constant Desbrosses, who in 1840 sent him to study first under the history painter Pierre-Jules Jollivet and then at the atelier of Paul Delaroche, where Boulanger met and befriended his fellow student Jean-Léon Gérôme.


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Anna Gardell-Ericson (Swedish, 1853-1939)

Anna Maria Gardell-Ericson was a Swedish painter and watercolorist. She specialized in coastal scenes and landscapes with lakes or rivers.
Her father, Johan Theodore Gardell, is generally described as a landscape painter, although he may have been primarily a local administrative officer.
At the age of sixteen, she began painting and displayed sufficient talent for her to be sent to Switzerland to begin her studies.
Later, she studied with Per Daniel Holm at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm; making her début at one of the Academy's exhibitions in 1875. The following year, she won a bronze medal at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.


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Candace Lovely, 1953 | Impressionist painter

Candace Whittemore Lovely is an American painter known for her paintings of contemporary American life, including landscapes of treasured locales and people at play in idyllic locations. She lives and works in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
In 1991, Lovely painted the official portrait of former First Lady Barbara Bush that now hangs in the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum.
She has been called "the grand dame of Boston painters".


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Domingo Alvarez Gomez, 1942

Domingo Alvarez Gomez is a world-renowned artist who was born in Barcelona, where he still lives and works.
He loved drawing and painting from an early age and was destined to become an artist. He is completely self-taught.
On completing his studies in 1966 he traveled to London before quickly becoming a highly sought-after book illustrator for many publishing houses and design studios in his native Spain.
In 1971 he became editor of a very influential Spanish art magazine. This time in his life was pivotal in shaping his future.


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Alan Ayers | Cover painter for Romances

Alan Ayers is an Award winning cover artist for romance novels in the historical category by Romance Writers of America's network of published authors

A native of Gainesville, Florida, I graduated from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art with a BFA in 1981.
Although I was trained traditionally, and created images in acrylic and oil for many years, I've been working digitally since 1995.
I feel the digital world has brought a new energy to my work. I am very comfortable working with a tablet, and often forget I'm not "pushing paint around".
I’ve had the pleasure of working with some of the most talented art directors in publishing and advertising. I greatly enjoy the process of working as a team to create the strongest images possible. I live with my wife Jeanne and our spoiled whippet in Lancaster, PA.


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Henry John Yeend King | Victorian genre painter

Henry John Yeend King (1855-1924) was a British artist best known for his paintings of rustic English farms and young women strolling in the countryside.
His technique was influenced by Impressionism, but is notably more restrained, detailed, and realistic in its application.
Born on August 21, 1855 in London, England, King went on to study as a glass painter, later traveling to Paris to study under Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat and Fernand Cormon where he learned Impressionist techniques.
The plein-air technique prevalent in France influenced his art, and on his return to England he chose to specialise in landscapes and depictions of rustic genre.
Yeend King lived in London for most of his life however, like many of his contemporaries his heart was 'in the country'.


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Henri Matisse | Notes of a Painter, 1908

Quotes from: 'Notes d'un Peintre' (Notes of a Painter), Henri Matisse, in 'La Grande Revue', Paris, 25 December 1908; as quoted in Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries, ed. by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972, London


"What I am after, above all, is expression. Sometimes it has been conceded that I have a certain technical ability but that, my ambition being limited, I am unable to proceed beyond a purely visual satisfaction such as can be procured from the mere sight of a picture.
But the purpose of a painter must not be conceived as separate from his pictorial means, and these pictorial means must be the more complete (I do not mean complicated) the deeper is his thought. I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it".


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Ten American Painters, 1897-1918

The Ten American Painters (also known as The Ten) was an artists' group formed in 1898 to exhibit their work as a unified group.
John Henry Twachtman, J. Alden Weir and Childe Hassam were the driving forces behind the organization. Dissatisfied with the conservatism of the American art establishment, the three artists recruited seven others from Boston, New York City, and elsewhere on the East Coast, with the intention of creating an exhibition society that valued their view of originality, imagination, and exhibition quality.
The Ten achieved popular and critical success, and lasted two decades before dissolving.

Foundation

In America, popular painting styles usually originated on the east coast in cities like New York and Boston.
The Ten continued a tradition of artists forming new groups in reaction to a lack of support from existing artists' groups. Thus, the National Academy of Design (founded in 1825 by students dissatisfied by the conservatism of the older American Academy of the Fine Arts) eventually became too conservative to suit the artists who in 1877 initiated the Society of American Artists so they could meet and exhibit their work as a collective.

Frank W. Benson | Summer, 1909

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Frank Weston Benson | Impressionist painter

Frank Weston Benson, frequently referred to as Frank W. Benson, (March 24, 1862 - November 15, 1951) was an American artist from Salem, Massachusetts known for his Realistic portraits, American Impressionist paintings, watercolors and etchings.
He began his career painting portraits of distinguished families and murals for the Library of Congress. Some of his best known paintings (Eleanor, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Summer, Rhode Island School of Design Museum) depict his daughters outdoors at Benson's summer home, Wooster Farm, on the island of North Haven, Maine.
He also produced numerous oil, wash and watercolor paintings and etchings of wildfowl and landscapes.


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Claude Monet | Vita ed Opere

Claude-Oscar Monet (Parigi, 14 novembre 1840 - Giverny, 5 dicembre 1926) è stato un pittore Francese, considerato il padre dell'Impressionismo.

La formazione artistica

Claude Monet nacque nel 1840 a Parigi in rue Laffitte, secondogenito di Claude Adolphe e di Louise Justine Aubrée, una giovane vedova al suo secondo matrimonio. Nel 1845 i Monet si trasferirono a Sainte-Adresse, un sobborgo di Le Havre, dove il padre iniziò a gestire un negozio di drogheria e di forniture marittime insieme con il cognato Jacques Lecadre. A quindici anni l'adolescente Claude cominciò a disegnare a matita e a carboncino, e a vendere bonarie caricature di personaggi della città alla buona somma di una decina di franchi l'una, acquistando così una certa fama nella città insieme ad un modesto gruzzolo


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Eric Bowman, 1960 | Jazz music

Eric Bowman è nato a Pasadena ed è cresciuto a Orange County, in California. Essenzialmente un artista autodidatta, ha avuto un talento per il disegno fin da quando riesce a ricordare, sempre l'artista della scuola durante i suoi anni di scuola elementare e superiore.
Per vocazione, però, l'arte non è stata guidata da un percorso ben definito, ed è diventata un esercizio di apertura di porte che implicano opportunità artistiche.
Mentre il freelance a tempo pieno come artista commerciale lo ha tenuto lavoratore autonomo per molti anni, è stato solo un incontro casuale con due importanti pittori californiani alla fine degli anni '90 che Eric ha sperimentato un importante cambiamento nella sua visione del mondo dell'arte che lo ha portato a un nuovo viaggio nella pittura d'arte.


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Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849-1921)

Painter, best known for his idealistic and allegorical paintings of women as angels and madonnas. His interest in color and nature led to his writing Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom (1909), the basis for camouflage techniques in World War I.

Abbott Thayer: The Nature of Art

Abbott Handerson Thayer, is recognized today for his ethereal angels, portraits of women and children, landscapes, and delicate flower paintings. A New Englander who expressed the spiritual in much of his work, he was known as a “soul painter”. In his own time, his work was praised by critics even as it was popular with the public and sought after by collectors.

Thayer’s World

Thayer was born into a distinguished Boston family. In the 1880s and 1890s he was a leader in the New York art world. While he carried on a lively trade in portraits, he also began to paint allegorical figures, which had gained popularity among collectors with a taste for subjects from classical antiquity and the European Renaissance.
In 1891, his first wife Kate Bloede Thayer died; her loss changed Thayer’s art and his outlook on life in virtually every respect. Her family, intellectually and artistically distinguished German émigrés, had introduced Thayer to the romantic world of literature, music, and philosophy.


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Edward Simmons (1852-1931)

Edward Emerson Simmons was an American Impressionist painter, remembered for his mural work.

Biography

His father was a Unitarian minister. He graduated from Harvard College in 1874, and was a pupil of Lefebvre and Boulanger in Paris, where he took a gold medal.
In 1894, Simmons was awarded the first commission of the Municipal Art Society, a series of murals - Justice, The Fates, and The Rights of Man - for the interior of the Criminal Courthouse at 100 Centre Street in Manhattan.
This court is the criminal branch of New York Supreme Court (the trial court in New York), where many New Yorkers serve on jury duty.
Later Simmons decorated the Waldorf Astoria New York hotel, the Library of Congress in Washington, and the mural series "Civilization of the Northwest" in the Minnesota State Capitol rotunda in Saint Paul.


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Claude Monet | Life and artworks

Claude Monet - in full Oscar-Claude Monet (born November 14, 1840, Paris, France-died December 5, 1926, Giverny), French painter who was the initiator, leader and unswerving advocate of the Impressionist style.
In his mature works, Monet developed his method of producing repeated studies of the same motif in series, changing canvases with the light or as his interest shifted.
These series were frequently exhibited in groups-for example, his images of haystacks (1891) and the Rouen Cathedral, 1894.


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Leonardo da Vinci | De' corpi illuminati dall'aria senza il sole

Trattato della Pittura - Parte quinta | Capitoli 799-811


Indice
799. Del corpo luminoso che si volta intorno senza mutazione di sito e riceve un medesimo lume da diversi lati e si varia in infinito.
800. Di ombra e lume de' corpi ombrosi.
801. De' corpi illuminati dall'aria senza il sole.
802. Quei termini delle ombre saranno più insensibili, che nasceranno da maggior quantità di luce.
803. Quale ombra è più oscura.
804. Del lume.
805. Precetto.
806. Precetto.
807. De' termini de' corpi mediante i campi.
808. Precetto delle ombre.
809. Dell'imitazione de' colori in qualunque distanza.
810. Del lume riflesso.
811. Di prospettiva.

Leonardo da Vinci | Sant'Anna, la Vergine e il Bambino con l'agnellino, 1510-1513 (detail)

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Oskar Kokoschka | The bride of the wind / La sposa del vento, 1913-1914

"The Bride of the Wind" / "Die Windsbraut" or "The Tempest" is a 1913-1914 painting by Oskar Kokoschka.
The oil on canvas work is housed in the Kunstmuseum Basel.
Kokoschka's best known work, it is an allegorical picture featuring a self-portrait by the artist, lying alongside his lover Alma Mahler (Viennese-born composer, 1879-1964).

In 1912 Alma met the young painter Oskar Kokoschka, who was known as the enfant terrible of the Viennese art scene.
He was violent and unbridled, and the press derided him as "the wildest beast of all".


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Wassily Kandinsky | VI - Il linguaggio delle forme e dei colori

Lo spirituale nell'arte, 1910

L'uomo che non ha musica in se stesso
che l`armonia dei suoni non commuove
sa il tradimento, e la perfida frode.
Le sue emozioni sono una notte cupa
i suoi pensieri un Erebo nero.
Alla musica credi, non a lui.


Il suono musicale giunge direttamente all'anima. E vi trova subito un'eco, perché l'uomo "ha la musica in sé".

"Si sa che il giallo, l'arancione e il rosso ispirano e rappresentano un'idea di gioia, di ricchezza" (Delacroix).


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Stacy Barter

Stacy Barter's Oil Paintings depict her intense fascination with light and atmosphere.
- "I am constantly striving to capture depth and dimension in my oil paintings.
Working from life, whether it's from flowers or a model is exhilarating and ever changing. This is my passion, life dedication and contribution".

Best in Show Winner of the most prestigious International Competition and 2 year US Museum Tour.

In her 25 years as a full time professional painter - Stacy has won many top awards in some of the most important organizations and exhibitions and is part of entertainment/celebrity and museum collections.
She also teaches and is on senior faculty at Crealdé School of Art in Winter Park, Florida.


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Oskar Kokoschka | Expressionist painter

Oskar Kokoschka, (born March 1, 1886, Pöchlarn, Austria-died February 22, 1980, Villeneuve, Switzerland), Austrian painter and writer who was one of the leading exponents of Expressionism.
In his early portraits, gesture intensifies the psychological penetration of character; especially powerful among his later works are allegories of the artist’s emphatic humanism.
His dramas, poems, and prose are significant for their psychological insight and stylistic daring.

Early life and works

When Kokoschka was three years old, his father went bankrupt in a financial crash. The family was forced to move to Vienna, where his father worked as a traveling salesman and his mother cared for the children on limited means.


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Leonardo da Vinci | De' nuvoli

Trattato della Pittura - Parte settima | Capitoli 917-926


Indice
917. De' nuvoli.
918. Del rossore de' nuvoli.
919. Della creazione de' nuvoli.
920. De' nuvoli e loro gravità e levità.
921. Perché della nebbia si fa nuvoli.
922. Dell'aria tutta nuvolosa.
923. Dell'ombra de' nuvoli.
924. De' nuvoli.
925. De' nuvoli sotto la luna.
926. De' nuvoli.

Leonardo da Vinci | Diluvio, 1515 | Royal Library collection

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Edgar Degas a Napoli, 1856

Degas sbarcò a Napoli (IT) il 17 luglio 1856. Nella città partenopea l'artista ebbe modo di ricongiungersi con il nonno René Hilaire, che lo ospitò nella sua vasta dimora, palazzo Pignatelli di Monteleone: il viaggio in Italia, oltre a un'inestimabile opportunità formativa, era infatti anche un modo per ricongiungersi con i familiari, in parte residenti a Napoli, in parte a Firenze.
Napoli, città esuberante e vivace, che offriva un clima splendidamente mediterraneo, serbava all’epoca non solo un grande fervore culturale, ma anche una vasta gamma di divertimenti pittoreschi, gastronomici e carnali.
Degas, tuttavia, conduceva una vita ascetica, totalmente dedicata all'arte, e pertanto consacrò il suo soggiorno napoletano al perfezionamento della sua pittura.
Notevole, in tal senso, il Ritratto di Hilaire De Gas, opera raffigurante proprio il nonno che si può considerare a pieno titolo il primo cimento artistico di rilievo del giovane Degas.

Edgar Degas | Ritratto di Hilaire De Gas, 1857 | Museo d'Orsay, Parigi

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Edgar Degas | Artistic style

Degas is often identified as an Impressionist, an understandable but insufficient description. Impressionism originated in the 1860s and 1870s and grew, in part, from the realism of such painters as Courbet and Corot.
The Impressionists painted the realities of the world around them using bright, "dazzling" colors, concentrating primarily on the effects of light, and hoping to infuse their scenes with immediacy. They wanted to express their visual experience in that exact moment.
Technically, Degas differs from the Impressionists in that he continually belittled their practice of painting en plein air.

"You know what I think of people who work out in the open. If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning".


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Edgar Degas | Lettera ai giurati del French Salon nel 1870

Nel 1870, Edgar Degas indirizzò questa lettera - pubblicata sul quotidiano Paris-journal - alla giuria del Salon, in cui delineava proposte radicali per eliminare l'affollata sospensione di quadri dal pavimento al soffitto del Salon.

"Ai signori giurati del Salon del 1870,

suvvia, signori della giuria, non scoraggiatevi. Non avete ancora finito. Eccovi dunque padroni di organizzare un’esposizione. Si dice che siate molto imbarazzati. Dio sia lodato! L’amministrazione lo era ancor di più e da molto più tempo.
Eppure ha continuato. C’è una cosa a cui ogni espositore ha indiscutibilmente diritto e di cui non si è mai parlato nei progetti scritti e nei conciliaboli: una collocazione di suo gradimento. Questo già accade nell'industria. Un calzolaio, nel piccolo spazio che ottiene, espone la propria merce come vuole. Un pittore no.

Non è lo spazio che manca: si può montare e smontare questo palazzo costruito in ferro e sottili tramezzi, come un teatro. Di soldi, ne servono pochi per una festa così semplice, e le entrate ci sono. Il vostro tempo, la vostra attenzione, e un po’ del vostro senso del dovere, signori, ecco quel che occorre.
Cochin, l’incisore, fu sovente, nel secolo scorso, l’arazziere delle esposizioni. Diderot gli diede questo nome, che, a quanto pare, è andato perduto. Riprendetelo.
Ho l’impressione che l’organizzazione del Salon richieda qualche cambiamento. In tutta coscienza, voi potreste farlo. Un paio di voi, una volta decisa la cosa, verrebbero delegati al controllo.


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Edgar Degas | Artistic career

Upon his return to France in 1859, Degas moved into a Paris studio large enough to permit him to begin painting The Bellelli Family—an imposing canvas he intended for exhibition in the Salon, although it remained unfinished until 1867.
He also began work on several history paintings: Alexander and Bucephalus and The Daughter of Jephthah in 1859–60; Sémiramis Building Babylon in 1860; and Young Spartans around 1860.
In 1861 Degas visited his childhood friend Paul Valpinçon in Normandy, and made the earliest of his many studies of horses.
He exhibited at the Salon for the first time in 1865, when the jury accepted his painting Scene of War in the Middle Ages, which attracted little attention.


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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Impressionist painter

Famed for his sensual charming scenes of pretty women, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a far more complex and thoughtful painter than generally assumed.
He was a founding member of the Impressionist movement, nevertheless he ceased to exhibit with the group after 1877.
From the 1880s until well into the twentieth century, he developed a monumental, classically inspired style that influenced such avant-garde giants as Pablo Picasso.


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Arthur Hacker | Pre-Raphaelite painter

Arthur Hacker (25 September 1858 - 12 November 1919) was an British classicist painter.
Born in London in 1858, Hacker was the son of Edward Hacker, a line engraver specialising in animal and sporting prints (who was also for many years the official Registrar of Births, Marriages and Deaths for Kentish Town in the St Pancras registration district, north London).
In his art he was most known for painting religious scenes and portraits, and his art was also influenced by his extensive travels in Spain and North Africa.


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Pauline Palmer (1867-1938)

Pauline Lennards Palmer was an American artist based in Chicago. She is counted among Impressionism.

Early life

Pauline Lennards was born in McHenry, Illinois, the daughter of Nicholas Lennards, a merchant, and Frances Spanganacher Lennards. Her parents were both immigrants from Prussia; she grew up speaking German as her first language.
She studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago, under William Merritt Chase, Frank Duveneck and Kenneth Hayes Miller.
She pursued further training in Paris at Académie Colarossi, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and with Paris-based American painter Richard E. Miller.


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Leonardo da Vinci | Perché il bianco non è colore..

Trattato della Pittura - Parte seconda | Capitoli 235-258


Indice
235. Del colore dell'ombra di qualunque corpo.
236. Della prospettiva de' colori ne' luoghi oscuri.
237. Prospettiva de' colori.
238. De' colori.
239. Da che nasce l'azzurro dell'aria.
240. De' colori.
241. De' colori.
242. De' campi delle figure de' corpi dipinti.
243. Perché il bianco non è colore.
244. De' colori.


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Ralph Hedley | Genre painter

Ralph Hedley (1848-1913) was a realist painter, woodcarver and illustrator, best known for his paintings portraying scenes of everyday life in the North East of England.

Biography

Born in Gilling West near Richmond, North Yorkshire, Ralph and his parents Richard and Anne Hedley moved to Newcastle upon Tyne around 1850, on the wave of industrial opportunity.
Aged about 13, he was apprenticed to Thomas Tweedy in his carving workshops, simultaneously studying art and design at the 'Government school' in Newcastle, and attending evening classes at the Life School under William Bell Scott. At the age of 14 he was awarded a bronze medal by government's Department of Art and Science.
After concluding his apprenticeship, Hedley established a successful woodcarving business, whilst also producing lithographs for the local press and taking every opportunity to work as an artist. He had the first of many paintings, The Newsboy, accepted for exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1879.


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Reading / Lettura | Quotes and painting

"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book".

Édouard Manet - Woman Reading, 1880

"La macchina tecnologicamente più efficiente che l’uomo abbia mai inventato è il libro
- Herman Northrop Frye CC FRSC (1912-1991) - Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century.

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Theodore Earl Butler | Impressionist painter

Theodore Earl Butler (1861–1936) was an American impressionist painter. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, and moved to Paris to study art. He befriended Claude Monet in Giverny, and married his stepdaughter, Suzanne Hoschedé. After her death he married her sister, Marthe Hoschedé. Butler was a founding member of the Society of Independent Artists.
Butler's chosen subjects were domestic scenes of family and friends and the French landscape. Although his Impressionistic approach to painting sometimes reflected the influence of his father-in-law, his work also suggests Post-Impressionist tendencies.

Biography

Butler studied at Marietta College in Ohio and graduated in 1882. He studied at the Art Students League with James Carroll Beckwith, Kenyon Cox and J. Alden Weir, and under William Merritt Chase from 1884-1886. One of Butler's first paintings is a copy of Menippus by Diego Velázquez (1639–1641) Standing Bearded Man, 1885. Butler then moved to study in Paris.
In Paris, Butler enrolled at La Grande-Chaumière, Académie Colarossi and at Académie Julian. Butler studied under Emile Carolus Duran. Carolus opened an art studio in 1873 on Boulevard Montparnasse, called the "81". Carolus, who was also known to have given free private lessons to some painters, introduced his students to the work of Claude Monet.


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Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重)

Hiroshige, in full Andō Hiroshige, professional names Utagawa Hiroshige and Ichiyūsai Hiroshige, original name Andō Tokutarō, (born 1797, Edo [now Tokyo], Japan - died October 12, 1858, Edo), Japanese artist, one of the last great ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world") masters of the colour woodblock print.
His genius for landscape compositions was first recognized in the West by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists.
His print series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (1833-34) is perhaps his finest achievement.
Hiroshige was the son of Andō Genemon, warden of the Edo fire brigade. Various episodes indicate that the young Hiroshige was fond of sketching and probably had the tutelage of a fireman who had studied under a master of the traditional Kanō school of painting.
In the spring of 1809, when Hiroshige was 12 years of age, his mother died.


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William Kay Blacklock | Victorian genre painter

William Kay Blacklock (1872-1924) was a British artist in the mediums of watercolours and oils.

Biography

William Blacklock was born in Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland, in North East England, in 1872.
He was one of three children of John Blacklock, an engine fitter, and his wife Isabella. His father died in 1886.
According to the 1891 census, William was 18 years old and was working as a lithographer's apprentice, while living with his widowed mother. He continued to live with his mother, at least until 1901, practising the trade of lithography. It seems that he added Kay as his middle name when he became an artist.


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Pablo Segarra Chias, 1945 | Genre painter

Spanish painter Pablo Segarra Chias was born in Seville, a city impoverished and devastated by the recent Spanish civil war, Pablo lived in the Macarena District in the heart of the city.
At the tender age of 7yrs Chias completed his first oil on canvas painting.
His father would let him use a chair, outside the local tavern, as an easel and it was from here he sold his first painting for 10p encouraging him to start and go on with painting as a more vocational commitment.

Pablo Segarra Chias 1945 | Spanish Realistic Figurative painter

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Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn | Impressionist painter


Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn (sometimes 'Wilfried') RA (1870-1951) was an Impressionist British painter, elected to the Royal Academy in 1932.

Biography

De Glehn's father was Alexander de Glehn of Sydenham, London. His mother was French.
Louise Creighton, a women's rights activist and author, and Alfred de Glehn, a French steam locomotive designer, were Alexander's sister and brother.

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Leonardo da Vinci | Gradi di pittura

Trattato della Pittura - Parte seconda | Capitoli 217-234


Indice
217. Della verdura veduta in campagna.
218. Qual verdura parrà partecipare piú d'azzurro.
219. Qual è quella superficie che meno che le altre dimostra il suo vero colore.
220. Qual corpo ti mostrerà piú il suo vero colore.
221. Della chiarezza de' paesi.
222. Prospettiva comune, e della diminuzione de' colori in lunga distanza.
223. Delle cose specchiate nelle acque de' paesi, e prima dell'aria.
224. Diminuzione de' colori pel mezzo interposto infra loro e l'occhio.
225. De' campi che si convengono alle ombre ed ai lumi.
226. Come si deve riparare quando il bianco termina in bianco o l'oscuro in oscuro.


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Charles Courtney Curran | Impressionist painter

Charles Courtney Curran (13 February 1861 – 9 November 1942) was an American painter. He is best known for his canvases depicting women in various settings

Biography

Curran was born in Hartford, Kentucky in February, 1861, where his father taught at the school. A few months later after the beginning of the Civil War, the family left there and returned to Ohio, eventually settling in Sandusky on the shores of Lake Erie where the elder Curran served as superintendent of schools.
Charles Curran showed an early interest and aptitude for art, and in 1881 went to Cincinnati to study at the McMicken School (later the Fine Arts Academy of Cincinnati). He stayed there only a year before going to New York to study at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League. Many of the pictures he created during this period featured young attractive working-class women engaged in a variety of tasks.


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Frederick William MacMonnies

Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937), was the best known expatriate American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school, as successful and lauded in France as he was in the United States.
He was also a highly accomplished painter and portraitist.
He was born in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York and died in New York City.
Three of MacMonnies' best-known sculptures are Nathan Hale, Bacchante and Infant Faun and Diana.

Pioneer Monument by Frederick William MacMonnies (detail)

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Teodor Axentowicz | Academic painter

Teodor Axentowicz (1859-1938) was a Polish-Armenian painter and university professor.
A renowned artist of his times, he was also the rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. As an artist, Axentowicz was famous for his portraits and subtle scenes of Hutsul life, set in the Carpathians.

In Paris, he received the prestigious title of Officier d'Académie Ordre des Palmes Académiques and Member of Académie des Beaux-Arts.
In 1904 at the St. Louis World's Fair, Axentowicz received a Special Commemorative Award in recognition of distinguished service in connection with various national sections of the Department of Art.


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Willard Leroy Metcalf | The Ten American painters

Willard Leroy Metcalf (1858-1925) was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. His family moved to a farm in Maine in 1863, but eventually returned to Massachusetts, purchasing a home in Cambridgeport in 1872. Metcalf's parents, themselves artistically inclined, early recognized their son's talents and encouraged his proper training.
He served first as an apprentice to a wood engraver and later as a student of George Loring Brown (1814-1889), a portrait and landscape painter of considerable reputation at the time.
Metcalf also took evening life drawing classes at the Lowell Institute and was the first student to receive a scholarship to the Museum of Fine Arts school, which he attended from 1877-1878.
The careful draughtsmanship that Metcalf learned as a student in Boston served him well when he was commissioned to illustrate series of stories about the Zuni Indians.


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Theodore Robinson | The first American impressionist

Long considered the first American impressionist, Theodore Robinson (1852-1896) was born in Irasburg, Vermont, but spent most of his childhood in the rural Midwest, predominantly Wisconsin.
Robinson’s formal art education began at the Art Institute of Chicago (1869-1870) and continued at the National Academy of Design in New York (1874-1876), where he was one of the founders of the Art Students League.
In 1876 he journeyed to Paris and entered the atelier of the academician Carolus-Duran but later moved to the École des Beaux-Arts to study with Jean-Léon Gérôme.


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Tina Garrett, 1974

In 2012, after a career as a freelance cartoon illustrator and graphic designer, the Scottsdale Artists’ School awarded Tina the first of two merit scholarships based on a handful of self-taught pastel portraiture, and she began learning how to paint, dedicating herself to the full-time practice of understanding oil painting.

By 2014 Tina earned the first of four Purchase Awards in the 11th and 12th International ARC Salons. Tina’s works, “City Blues”, “String of Pearls”, "Melancholy" and "Bravado" are now part of the Art Renewal Center's renowned permanent collection.
Tina’s recognitions also include Best of Show in the 51st National Women Artists of The West Show, Oil Painters of America Online Showcase 1st Prize, The International Artist Magazine People and Figures Grand Prize, NOAPS Best of America People’s Choice Award and Second Prize awards and Portrait Society of America International Art of The Portrait Competition Select 50.