Paul Gauguin started painting relatively late in life, with his first paintings dating to the time when he was working as a stockbroker in Paris. It was only in his mid-thirtyies that he decided to dedicate himself completely to professional painting, after a profund crisis of his marriage with Mette-Sophie Gad, a Danish woman he married in 1873. This impressionist still life, Still Life with … Continue reading Paul Gauguin 🖌🖼🇬🇧
Below are the links to the top 10 art posts for 2022 on this blog. These are the posts with the highest number of views throughout the year presented in descending order. There are some painting posts that have become increasingly popular even if these have been published years ago now. Amongst the painter’s profiles Vincent Van Gogh is always a popular choice. Continue reading The top 10 most popular art posts in 2022
Nascido em 1775, Joseph Mallord Wiliam Turner é o pintor inglês mais significativo e inovador de sua época. Suas paisagens evocativas e pinturas marinhas estão entre as mais icônicas do período romântico. Na Tate Britain, pode-se apreciar a maior coleção de pinturas e outras obras de JMW Turner, já que o pintor deixou um legado ao Reino Unido de sua enorme coleção particular, agora exibida … Continue reading JMW Turner 👨🏼🎨🎨🇵🇹
This is a list of my favourite paintings that I have been posting on this blog. These are presented in order of popularity by my visitors, hence if you want to change the position on this list you can simply visit the individual posts of each painting. I hope you enjoy it! Circles in a Circle, oil painting by Wassily Kandinsky, 1923, exhibited at Palazzo … Continue reading My favourite paintings ❤️🖌👨🏼🎨
Optical Art Just after the end of WW2 Victor Vasarely started establishing a new artistic movement inspired by his influences stemming from the Abstract Expressionism and the Bauhaus style. The vibrant artistic environment in Paris at the time was the perfect background for the development of new creative outbursts. The main idea was the generation of a fluctuating and dynamic effect on a painting through … Continue reading Optical Art 🔲🖌👨🏼🎨
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 🖌🖼🇮🇹
Born in 1775, Joseph Mallord Wiliam Turner is the most significant and innovative English painter of his age. His evocative landscapes and marine paintings are amongst the most iconic of the Romantic period. At Tate Britain one can enjoy the largest collection of paintings and other artworks by JMW Turner, as the painter left a bequest to the United Kingdom of his huge private collection, … Continue reading JMW Turner 🇬🇧👨🏼🎨🎨
The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s permanent collection is one of the most encyclopaedic in North America, spanning over 227,000 works across American, European, and Asian art. From Van Gogh’s luminous Sunflowers (1889) and Thomas Eakins’s monumental Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross to Marcel Duchamp’s radical Nude Descending a Staircase, the collection rewards visitors at every turn. Celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2026, the museum offers a sweeping panorama of art history  — and remains an unmissable destination for anyone passionate about the visual arts. Read on for a guided tour of its essential masterworks. Continue reading Philadelphia Museum of Art 🖌🖼🇺🇸
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 🖌🖼🇬🇧
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was the leading painter of the Impressionist movement at the end of the 1800s in France. Born in Limoges on the 25th of February 1841 in a familiy of modest means that moved to Paris, close by to the Louvre Museum, when the little Pierre-Auguste was three years old. Since very young he demonstrated artistic talent but as a singer and attracted the … Continue reading Pierre-Auguste Renoir 🖌🖼🇬🇧
