The environment induces. Living inside a circle (domestic or urban), in contact with challenging reality, it is always an excellent opportunity to enhance your creative abilities, often hidden. Visiting a city, you can also collect the attitudes of other people who, before you, have lived this experience. A perfectly proportioned man (created by Leonardo da Vinci), correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. What you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside Meeting Benches way: the Vitruvian approach to life. EUGENIO DE BLAAS 1/4 – He, son of Austrian parents, was born in the Italian village of Albano, not far from Rome. His paintings, in time, will be appreciated everywhere, with exhibitions in Vienna and London, Paris, Berlin and Melbourne. He was influenced by British Impressionism where women were shown in rural or domestic settings. EUGENIO DE BLAAS 2/4 – The son of a painter, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and Venice, Vienna and Paris. His artistic life flourishes in a family atmosphere steeped in poetry and painting. Many of his scenes, painted either in oil or watercolor, suggest male and female flirtation.
EUGENIO DE BLAAS 3/4 – At the age of 17, he exhibited his paintings, oil paintings and watercolors. The artist often used his wife, Paola Prina, as a model. It was in Venice, that Eugene de Blaas established himself, as the leading painter of Venetian genre. Venice, being an key stop on the grand tour, had a developed market for paintings depicting Venetian life. EUGENIO DE BLAAS 4/4 – Landscapes and portraits: Venetian atmospheres captured on canvas, the colors, depicting fishermen and gondoliers, but also nobles and commoners. De Blaas paintings continue to be in popular demand throughout the world. He died in Venice, on a February day. You can see more on Meeting Benches, looking for: EUGENIO DE BLAAS (1843/1931), AUSTRIAN/ITALIAN PAINTER – Shades of Academic Classicism, also with Italian flower girls
