PAINTERS

“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 …

ANDRE KOHN 1/3 – He was born in Stalingrad, raised by an artistically gifted family (his mother was a symphony violinist and his father a noted linguist, writer and sculptor), near the Caspian Sea in southern Russia. In Moscow, at age 15, he began studying fine arts (as a trainee) at the famous Impressionist artists studios. That experience has been …

JOHN SINGER SARGENT 1/3 – American origins, but Italian election, John Singer Sargent remained throughout his life tied to Italy, where he returned often and always symbolized for him a source of inspiration for his pictorial fantasies. In a time when the art world focused, in turn, on Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism, Sargent practiced his own form of Realism. To …

PIETER QUAST 1/3 – He was a Dutch painter (born and died in Amsterdam). Pieter Jansz Quast gave his age as twenty-six when his marriage banns were published on June 29, 1632. For its wittier imagery, the stage performances in The Hague and the theatrical characters etched by Callot, yes, was they really important. Observing its works you can admire …

IPPOLITO CAFFI 1/3 – Him, the man who will study at the Academy of Venice, where will know the painters of the eighteenth-century Venice, he was born in Belluno in an autumn day. He moved to Rome, he improves his painting technique, deepening the kind of landscape views. In this city he lives the uplifting experience of a balloon trip, an …

Ippolito Coffi he was the most modern and original landscape artist of his time, and his paintings are so special in immortalising the soul of the places and peoples he encountered during his many trips. You can visit an special exhibition http://correr.visitmuve.it/en/mostre-en/mostre-in-corso-en/ippolito-caffi-exhib/2016/05/17836/between-venice-and-the-east/ (open daily Monday to Tuesday10 am / 7 pm).          Until November 20, 2016 coming at Venice, remember …