Meeting Benches World art in all forms
JOHN CHARLES CLEARY, ENGLISH ARTIST– When the life is like riding a coloured bicycle
THE UNPREDICTABLE WORLD OF A PAINTER – Carlo Salomoni, becoming a professional painter, with a degree in general surgery
CARLO SALOMONI 1/3 – He is an Italian artist, born in December day in Ferrara. He is a graduate from the medical faculty, but decides to leave the medical activity, becoming a professional artist. His paintings are mentioned in art catalogues and auctions. All his paints, have origin in surrealism, art fantasy and magic realism. Looking his paints, you can …
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WHEN MUSICAL ATMOSPHERE THEY UNDERSTOOD ARTIST’S LIFE – Cecilia Beaux: the painter’s pilgrimage of a woman
CECILIA BEAUX 1/3 – She – an American society portraitist – have a passionate determination to overcome every obstacle, and really become one of the most famous portrait painters of her era. At age 16, she began art lessons, and produced decorative art and small portraits (also gave private art lessons). In 1876, Beaux began attending the Pennsylvania Academy of …
Read More »CECILIA BEAUX (1855/1942), AMERICAN PAINTER – She considered herself a New Woman
HE WORRIED WOULD BE KNOWN ONLY AS A PAINTER OF FISH – William Merrit Chase, the gifted witness painter of his era
WILLIAM MERRIT CHASE 1/3 – He showed an early interest in art, and was known as an exponent of Impressionism. He was a gifted witness to his era, gathering impressions of late nineteenth-century city life. Its father moved the family to Indianapolis, and employed his son in the family business. William Merritt Chase was born on a November day, and …
Read More »WILLIAM MERRIT CHASE (1849/1916), AMERICAN PAINTER – The noble sense of color
THE SON OF A TEXTILE MANUFACTURER, ABLE TO MAKE COLORED EMOTIONS – The dramatic creative metamorphosis of Charles Sims
CHARLES SIMS 1/3 – The son of a textile manufacturer, he also works as part of the curtains, but soon he joined the South Kensington College of Art (then he was in Paris to further his studies of painting and decorating). Back again to London to join the Royal Academy School, he was expelled in 1895, two years later. In …
Read More »CHARLES SIMS (1873/1928) – Creating a kind of magic realism, with oil, tempera and watercolor
WEST CHESHIRE MUSEUMS / GROSVENOR MUSEUM – Anne Lever: The Poetic Landscape
“I have a passion for paint and am compelled to push through boundaries in order to resolve things which I do not fully comprehend. The result is always a surprise and leads on to further discovery.” An exhibition of beautiful paintings by Anne Lever (and poems by Michael Fox), opens shortly at Chester’s Grosvenor Museum (27 Grosvenor Street, Chester), until …
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