🇬🇧 Avenue at Chantilly – Cézanne spent several months during the summer of 1888 working in and around Chantilly, about 24 miles north of Paris. This is one of three similar oil paintings from the park surrounding the castle that he produced during his stay. The symmetry and spatial depth of this vision may have attracted him more than his historical associations, as he focused … Continue reading Avenue à Chantilly, by Cézanne 🖌🖼🇫🇷
Paul Gauguin ha iniziato a dipingere relativamente tardi nella sua vita, con i suoi primi dipinti risalenti al periodo in cui lavorava come agente di cambio a Parigi. Fu solo verso i trentacinque anni che decise di dedicarsi completamente alla pittura professionale, dopo una profonda crisi del suo matrimonio con Mette-Sophie Gad, una donna danese sposata nel 1873. Questo quadro del suo periodo impressionista esposto … Continue reading Paul Gauguin 🖌🖼🇮🇹
🇬🇧 One of the greatest composers ever was clearly missing in my musician list featured on this blog, so I’m bridging the gap with a short profile on Ludwig van Beethoven, the quintessentially romantic composer. Born in Bonn, Germany in a family of musicians on 17 December 1770, the precocious Ludwig showed musical genius talent as a pianist from an early age, being taught by … Continue reading Ludwig van Beethoven 🎼🎹🎶
Nato a Mosca il 18 dicembre 1866, Vassily Kandinsky è generalmente considerato il padre fondatore dell’arte astratta. È interessante notare che ha iniziato gli studi di pittura solo all’età di 30 anni, dopo una carriera accademica iniziale come professore di diritto. A questo punto della sua vita si trasferì a Monaco, in Germania, dove insegnò anche alla scuola Bauhaus dal 1922 fino alla sua chiusura … Continue reading Vassily Kandinsky 🖌🖼🟡
🇬🇧 Dance at Le moulin de la Galette – This large painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir is one of the most famous and celebrated impressionist masterpieces, depicting a populated outdoor scene of a Sunday dancing party in the Parisian district of Montmartre. Although dense with a good number of characters portrayed in fine details, the overall feeling is of a dynamic snapshot represented with fluid brushstrokes … Continue reading Le bal du moulin de la Galette, by Renoir 🖌🖼🇫🇷
🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇷🇺 🇮🇹 🇵🇹 🇩🇪 🇨🇳 🇯🇵 🇬🇧 Liberty Leading the People – One of the most iconic paintings in history, representing an allegory of the goddess Liberty leading French fighters to an armed revolt. This large artwork, now exhibited at the Louvre in Paris, was painted in 1830 by Eugène Delacroix celebrating the July Revolution of the same year, ending the reign … Continue reading La Liberté guidant le peuple, de Delacroix 🖌🖼🇫🇷
Nella prima parte della sua vita Van Gogh non è stato un pittore ma un mercante d’arte e un predicatore che ha vissuto tra i Paesi Bassi, la Francia e la Gran Bretagna. Nato nel Brabante settentrionale nel marzo 1853, solo negli ultimi 10 anni della sua vita è stato un pittore a tempo pieno, producendo oltre 900 quadri ma, probabilmente molto in anticipo sui … Continue reading Vincent Van Gogh 👨🏼🎨🎨🇮🇹
Giuseppe De Nittis was born in Barletta, in the region of Apulia – Italy on 25 February 1846 and spent most of his prolific artistic life in Paris, where he become part of the French impressionist movement, although maintaining a clear personal style of painting, Giuseppe De Nittis was part of the Italian impressionist movement, but he was so much more than just an impressionist. … Continue reading Giuseppe De Nittis 🖌🖼🇬🇧
🇬🇧 Evoë 3 – abstract oil painting on canvas by Bridget Riley, 2003, Tate Modern, London. This large horizontal painting, on two adjointing canvases, is created with irregular curved shapes using four solid and contrasting colours: green, blue, pink and white. This is a characteristic aspect of optical art. Like other of her compositions, for example Nataraja, Evoë 3 is structured on a diagonal grid moving from … Continue reading Evoë 3, by Riley 🎨🔶🔷
🇬🇧Woman with Children, oil painting by Pablo Picasso, 1961 – In this painting Picasso portrays his family at the time, with his new wife, Jacqueline Roque, in the middle, sided by his daughter from a previous marriage, Paloma, on the right, and Cathy, Jacqueline’s daughter from a previous marriage, shown faceless on the left. Picasso had married Jacqueline the previous month. This painting is exhibited … Continue reading Woman with Children, by Picasso 🖼🖌🔲
