PAINTERS

I LAUGH, CRY, SUFFER AND MOVED – Pedro Fifari and the irresistable desire to display dreams

PEDRO FIGARI 1/3 – It is estimated that during almost 15 years of his life, he had created over 4,000 paintings. He have always lived on the margins of written poetry, like the most mystical of the uncouth. His father was emigrating from Italy to Argentina when his ship sank, and swimming he reached the shores of Montevideo, where he …

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PEDRO FIGARI (1861/1938), URUGUAYAN PAINTER – Painting on the margin of written poetry

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THE PAINTER OF MODERN LIFE – Liu Xiadong: large-scale works and emerging world

LIU XIADONG 1/3 – He is a painter of modern life, whose large-scale works serve as a kind of history painting for the emerging world. He lives and works in Beijing but has undertaken projects in Tibet, Japan, Italy, the UK, Cuba and Austria (and closer to home, in Jincheng, in the north-eastern province of Liaoning, China, where he was …

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LIU XIADONG, CHINESE PAINTER – When society and art should be like breathing in and out

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LEAN AND FRAGILE WOMEN, BY SAD LOOKING – Amrita Sher Gil: unbridled and bold colours, in direct contrast to the pale hues

AMRITA SHER GIL 1/3 – She was an Indian painter born to a Punjabi Sikh father and a Hungarian Jewish mother (sometimes known as India’s Frida Kahlo). An exceptional colourist, she was able to achieve special effects with colours that were unbridled and bold, in direct contrast to the pale hues in vogue among her contemporaries. Today she is considered …

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AMRITA SHER GIL (1913/1941), INDIAN PAINTER – An exceptional colourist

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AN EXCEPTIONAL PORTRAITIST INSIDE HALF NINETEENTH CENTURY – Valeriano Becquer

VALERIANO BECQUER 1/3 – He died of liver disease. He remains in the workshop of his uncle until 1853, then barely subsisting with doing portraits. Before the date of his marriage, he made some works of great interest, as the Carlist of La Esperanza, now in the Romantic Museum of Madrid. His brief marriage failed in 1862, after producing two …

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VALERIANO BECQUER (1833/1870), SPANISH PAINTER

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FROM EVERYDAY TO EXTRAORDINARY– Francisco de Goya: atrocities of war, between portraits and nudes

FRANCISCO GOYA 1/3 – The experience helped him become a keen observer of human behavior. The father of Spanish modern art. Francisco de Goya, painted royal portraits as well as more subversive works in late 1700s and early 1800s. He was born on March day, in Spain. He began his art studies as a teenager (even spent time in Rome). …

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FRANCISCO DE GOYA (1746/1828), SPANISH PAINTER – Creating works that criticized his era

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