Meeting Benches World art in all forms
BRENT LYNCH, CANADIAN PAINTER – Pursuing the abstract quality of light, color and composition
WAKING UP EARLY IN THE MORNING – Pierre August Cot, the French painter that preferred to paint while the light was good
PIERRE AUGUSTE COT 1/3 – He woke at dawn, painted while there was good light. His paintings had a strength that magically was mixed with delicate grace. He created several works of lasting popularity (such as Le Printemps and The Storm, both are on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City), but he also was renowned …
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THE INVISIBLE IMPRESSIONISTIC BORDER – Pal Szinyei Merse: Pal Szinyei Merse: the man who paints over the borders
PAL SZINYEI MERSE 1/3 – Now, Chminianska Nová Ves is a village in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia, but historical records of the village was first mentioned in 1248. Pál Szinyei Merse (one of the most well-known rapresentativ of Hungarian impressionist painting), was born here into a Hungarian family. In 1864, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts …
Read More »PAL SZINYEI MERSE (1845/1920), HUNGARIAN PAINTER – The harmonious effect of complementary and contrasting colours
SEARCHIN FOR FORMS AND COLOUR OF HIS COUNTRY – Martin Benka: where people lived in communion with nature
MARTIN BENKA 1/3 – Searching for forms and colours of Slovakia, he would visit regions where people lived in communion with nature. He was born in 1888, inside a September day, in the family of an carpenter with a small farm, as the youngest of six children living. Modesty and sensitive towards people taught him by his mother (a model …
Read More »MARTIN BENKA (1888/1971), SLOVAK PAINTER – Its purpose was to combine the cooperation of different kinds of art
BASING BACKGROUND COLOURS ON THE COLOURS YOU FEEL – David Hockney, painting while listening music
DAVID HOCKNEY 1/3 – He was born in Bradford, England, in 1937, and attended art school in London before moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s, where he painted his famous swimming pool paintings. English painter, but also photographer and stage designer. He made apparent his facility as a draughtsman while studying at Bradford School of Art. DAVID HOCKNEY …
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THE PAINTER THAT ENCOURAGED THE CAREERS OF EXPERIMENTAL ARTISTS – William Rothensteing: when art training should encourage flexibility
WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN 1/3 – He was an English painter, but also printmaker, lecturer, and writer on art. His father was emigrated from Germany in 1859, to work in Bradford textile industry. His style and subject varies, through certain themes reappear. He took a keen interest in the work of young artists (and this included Augustus John). WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN 2/3 …
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