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WHITE UMBRELLAS AND RED DRESSES – Andre Kohn, the Impressionist painter who seeks the extraordinary in the ordinary

7 June 2016 0

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 …

ANDRE KOHN, RUSSIAN PAINTER – The figurative Impressionism dressed in red, and under white umbrellas

7 June 2016 0

DASHING OF CHARCOAL PORTRAIT SKETCHES – John Singer Sargent inside Edwardian era luxury

6 June 2016 0

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 …

JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856/1925), AMERICAN PAINTER – The leading portrait painter of his generation

6 June 2016 1

THEATRICAL SCENES WRAPPED BY HARMONIOUS PALETTES – Countrysides, city and inner landscapes of Pieter Quast

1 June 2016 0

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 …

PIETER QUAST (1605/1647), DUTCH PAINTER – Small social genre paintings and theatrical scenes

1 June 2016 1

TRANSLATED PERCEPTIONS, INTO PAINTINGS – Ippolito Caffi: patriot and observer of society, Venetian by choice, painter and reporter

29 May 2016 0

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 CAFFI (1809/1866), ITALIAN PAINTER – A capacity for synthesis, unequalled during the entire nineteenth century

29 May 2016 0

BETWEEN VENICE AND THE EAST – Ippolito Caffi: the painter who anticipated Impressionism, painting with different eyes our places of every day

29 May 2016 1

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 …

STRONG PORTRAYLS GROWING UP BLACK – John Thomas Biggers, the painter that had grow nex to the “Shotgun houses”

28 May 2016 0

JOHN THOMAS BIGGERS – John Thomas Biggers was an African-American muralist and studied African myths and legends. He was drawn to the creation stories of a matriarchal deistic system. Biggers is an artist whose strong portrayals of African-American life, combine images of his childhood, his travels in Africa and his feeling, about growing up black in America. He was born …