Born in Poland in 1810 Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin was very soon recognised as a child prodigy and, by the age of seven, he started giving public concerts as a pianist and composed his first piano pieces. In his early 20s he left Poland and made no return to his homeland, whereas he settled in Paris and acquired the French citizenship, also using the French version … Continue reading Frรฉdรฉric Chopin ๐จ๐ถ๐ฌ๐ง
๐ฎ๐น Nato in Polonia nel 1810 Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin fu ben presto riconosciuto come un bambino prodigio e, all’etร di sette anni, iniziรฒ a dare concerti pubblici come pianista e compose i suoi primi pezzi per pianoforte. Poco piรน che ventenne lasciรฒ la Polonia e non fece ritorno in patria, mentre si stabilรฌ a Parigi e acquisรฌ la cittadinanza francese, usando anche la versione francese … Continue reading Frรฉdรฉric Chopin ๐จ๐ถ๐น
๐ฌ๐ง Born in Salzburg, today Austria, on 27th January of 1756 in a family of musicians Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart showed immediately his incredible capacities as a prodigious child. He started playing the clavier when he was four, thanks to the initiative of his father who was teaching also Wolfgang’s older sister, and started composing his first pieces when he was five. This extraordinary talent was … Continue reading Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ๐ถ๐น๐ต
๐ฌ๐ง Evoรซ 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, Evoรซ 3 is structured on a diagonal grid moving from … Continue reading Evoรซ 3, by Riley ๐จ๐ถ๐ท
๐ฌ๐งNataraja – oil painting on canvas by Bridget Riley, 1993, Tate Modern, London. Inspired by a trip to India and the liveliness of local folk art. The variety, balance ,and complexity of colours are amazing, with up to 20 shades of one colour across the canvas. Choose the colours you like best! The title refers to the Hindu god Shiva, as Lord of the Dance, … Continue reading Nataraja, by Riley ๐จ๐ถ๐ท
Femmes de Tahiti – Tahitian Women on the Beach, oil painting by Paul Gauguin, 1891, Musรฉe d’Orsay, Paris. This painting belongs to the early period Paul Gauguin spent in Tahiti, where he wanted “to live there in ecstasy, calm and art.” The painter moved in 1891 to the South Pacific from Paris, escaping the “European fight after money” and to be “finally free”. This double … Continue reading Femmes de Tahiti, by Gauguin ๐ฉ๐ฝโฑ๐ต๐ซ
๐ฌ๐ง Norham Castle, Sunrise, oil painting by JMW Turner 1845, Tate Britain, London – This artwork is part of a series of late unfinished paintings that Turner kept in his studio and were bequeathed to the nation upon his death. Although these artworks may seem sketchy and “impressionistic” they represent a trial run by Turner to explore different studies on light and colour and their marketability. … Continue reading Norham Castle, by Turner ๐๐ฐ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-49025203-2 window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag(‘js’, new Date()); gtag(‘config’, ‘UA-49025203-2’); August Blue ๐จ by Henry Scott Tuke, 1893, at Tate Britainย ๐จ๐ฝโ๐ปโฅ๏ธ๐ท๐จ Continue reading August Blue by HS Tuke
Wheatfield with Cypresses – ๐จ by Vincent Van Gogh 1889 – National Gallery, London. ๐ฌ๐ง There are three different versions of this scene painted by Van Gogh in the summer of 1889, while he was spending some time in a mental asylum in Saint-Remy, in the South of France. All paintings depict the view from his room’s window at the asylum. The painting on … Continue reading Wheatfield with Cypresses ๐จ๐พ๐ณ
