THE DISEASE OF HASSAM – As soon as he could, Hassam entirely devoted himself to painting
FREDERICK CHILDE HASSAM 1/4 – Of the many ways to express the visual art he knew those of oil and tempera paintings, watercolors and pastels, but he was also an engraver, designer and illustrator. His career, however, began with an illustrator and watercolor painter. He will also go to Paris to follow courses in painting and drawing of human figures, …
Read More »GABRIELE MUNTER (1877/1962), GERMAN PAINTER – Sharing a common desire to express spiritual truths through art
VIVID BRAND OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING – Gabriele Munter: figurative works and still life painting in which melancholy and dream merge
GABRIELE MUNTER 1/4 – She was a German expressionist painter (most well known for her landscapes), born to upper middle class parents in Berlin, and began to draw as a child. Gabriele took classes at the Woman’s Artist School, since she was not allowed to enroll in the German Academies, because she was a woman. GABRIELE MUNTER 2/4 – Living …
Read More »JEAN BAPTISTE SIMEON CHARDIN (1699/1779), FRENCH PAINTER – The man who painted with feeling, using colors
COLLECT FLOWERS, A PASTEL PAINTING – Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin: his infirmities have moved away from oil painting, but he continued to paint reality, with crayons
JEAN BAPTISTE SIMEON CHARDIN 1/4 – He – the painter who was born and died in the fall, the son of a cabinet maker manufacturer of billiard tables – he has always lived in Paris, without ever traveling abroad, even in Italy, as was customary at the time. The subjects of his paintings were less hardworking than those of his …
Read More »WILLIAM KURELEK (1927/1977), CANADIAN PAINTER – Past’s Scenes, to capture on canvasses the spirit of a nation
WHEN INNER-NIGHTMARES BECOME CREATIVITY – William Kurelek: the double voyage to the ancestral farmlands
WILLIAM KURELEK 1/4 – He was the son of Ukrainian immigrant farmers, and was born in a shack on the Prairies during an winter. He grew up working on his parents’ farm, ploughing fields and tending cows. As a painter he became one of the most successful artists in Canadian history, using scenes from his past to capture the spirit …
Read More »DENIS NUNEZ RODRIGUEZ, CUBAN PAINTER – A painting that capturesand enchants
THE COMPLEX MAZE – Denis Nunez Rodriguez: painting the nature of human beings
DENIS NUNEZ RODRIGUEZ 1/4 – Cuban painter, he was born in Mantanzas. He studied drawing and painting in Cuba`s National Art School and graduated in 1986 as a painter and professor of painting and drawing. Subtle elements in his works reinforce the image of the psychological island in the artist’s concept, a stone pedestal where the figures or true martyrdom …
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