PAINTERS

PAULA REGO 1/3 – She is a Portuguese-born visual artist, who is particularly known for her paintings based on storybooks. http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/paula-rego-1823 Her style, has evolved from abstract towards representational (where she has favoured pastels over oils for much of her career). Her work, often reflects feminism, always coloured with folk-themes from her native Portugal. PAULA REGO 2/3 – She paints …

KENNE GREGOIRE 1/3 – He is a Dutch painter with several thematic areas, in which he explores different approaches. The most prominent it is the still life. Painting beauty, but also sadness, decay and deterioration. http://kennegregoire.com/ He has studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. In all of his work, he demonstrates a refined control of color, …

ANTONIO E PIERO DEL POLLAIOLO 1/3 – Renaissance artists were very versatile. Their premises in workshops, where – a single space, drew and painted, with little light and air full of smells. In shops like those, he realizes important works, also with the help of his brother Piero. The brothers Pollaiuolo, were active in Florence in the mid fifteenth century. …

GUSTAVE COURBET 1/3 – In Paris, he met artists and intellectuals, including champfleury and Max Buchon, Charles Baudelaire and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (with whom he used to meet at the Brasserie Andler). The beginning of his career was not encouraging (only three of the twenty-five works he presented, they passed the scrutiny of the jury). He remained a revolutionary art, the …