Meeting Benches World art in all forms
ROB HEFFERAN, ENGLISH PAINTER – Capturing skin tones, movement, and fabric
MARC STOCK (1951/2014), AMERICAN PAINTER – Stylish women in slinky gowns and white-gloved butlers
FREDERICK LEIGHTON (1830/1896), ENGLISH PAINTER – Painting solidly drawn figures with luminous colours
ALFRED STEVENS (1823/1906), BELGIAN PAINTER – The immensely successful painter, known for his paintings of elegant modern women
PAINTING THE REALISM OFTHE SOLIDITY – Albert Anker: the reflex vision of a harmonic world order
ALBERT ANKER 1/3 – Only after his death in 1910 was there a first exposition dedicated to him. He has been called the national painter of Switzerland, because of his enduringly popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life. As you can observe, Anker’s portraiture reveals a pronounced desire for individualization. He studied theology, and continuing at the university of Halle, …
Read More »ALBERT ANKER (1831/1910), SWISS PAINTER – When the portrait reveals a pronounced desire for individualization
ARDENGO SOFFICI (1879/1964), ITALIAN PAINTER – The primacy of pictorial visibility, after the experiences of Cubism and Futurism
EXPANDING IMAGINATION CAPACITY – Jean Calogero: unreal worlds that arise listening to classical music
JEAN CALOGERO 1/3 – First exhibitions in 1945 in Sicily, and he is best known for his Surrealistic and Genre pieces. Born in Sicily in 1922, from a modest background he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania, and the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, lived and worked for many years in Paris and Italy (also exhibited in …
Read More »JEAN CALOGERO (1922/2001), ITALIAN PAINTER – Surrealistic and Genre pieces, between Sicily and Paris
LIVED MOMENT, LIKE REVELATIONS – Natale Scarpa, a brief existential flight inside the hyper-pictorial realism
CAGNACCIO DI SAN PIETRO – His real name was Natale Scarpa, but we know him by his pen name: Cagnaccio di San Pietro. Born in Desenzano del Garda in a January day in 1897, he would become a hyper-realist Italian painter. Initially, his creativity had approached to Futurism, briefly, because the Magic Realism had grown inside him.                              CAGNACCIO DI …
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