PAINTERS

LUCIAN FREUD (1922/2011), GERMAN PAINTER – Rejecting nothing to which you are naturally drawn.

When a painter must give a free rein to any feeling or sensations. Here, where a famous figurative artist was born, waiting for you the masterpieces Berlin Museum (one of these items it’s the Pergamon Alter frieze, which was discovered in 1886). Something special? The Bode Museum, https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/bode-museum/home.html is the home for art works of the Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance and …

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KURT SCHWITTERS (1887/1948), GERMAN PAINTER – I’m a painter, but I like nail my pictures together.

Realizing that machines are abstractions of the human spirit. In Hanover, Klein Kröpcke (Callinstraße 2), http://www.klein-kroepcke.de/kontakt.php is the best place to start, if you are about to set out on a night of partying, but of course you will no longer be able to meet the artist who loved to illustrate metaphors of human activity by painting machines. In 1901, …

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GERTRUDE ABERCROMBIE (1909/1977), AMERICAN PAINTER – Painting incredible surrealist works in Chicago, until death.

Because it is always myself that I paint. Her parents were traveling opera singers, who happened to be in Austin (Texas), on the day of her birth. GERTRUDE ABERCROMBIE, born into a February day, was an painter based in Chicago, where she was involved in the jazz scene, becoming friends with musicians whose music inspired her own creative work. The family …

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DOROTHEA TANNING (1910/2012), AMERICAN PAINTER –You may be a woman and an artist; the one is a given and the other is you.

She was a loner, but Max was the only she needed. DOROTHEA TANNING was born and raised in Galesburg (Illinois), where attended public schools. After attending Knox College, she moved to Chicago and New Yok, where discovered Surrealism at the Museum of Modern Art’s. Then, the gallery owner Julien Levy introduced her to the circle of émigré Surrealists (including the …

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YANNIS TSAROUCHIS (1910/1989), GREEK PAINTER – Filling canvases with images of vulnerable men and few strong women.

Painter, set decorator and costume designer. Buy souvenirs? Head to Monastiraki district (just under the Acropolis, in Athens). You can wander around the flea market and buy original gifts for your friends. Visiting the Museum of the Yannis Tsarouchis Foundation, you can also buy a reproduction of some paintings by a Greek painter who was born in the port of …

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NIKOS ENGONOPOULOS (1907/1085), GREEK PAINTER – Much of an uproar, as the surrealist poems and paintings of a creative man.

Faithful to the tenets of surrealism, like a way of life as an aesthetic. What to drink in Greece? After your dinner, have a little Mastika (a sweet, sticky liquor seasoned with a resin gathered from the mastic tree native to the island of Chios). A good way to save money and time on your visit to Athens is to …

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GEORGE PEARSE ENNIS (1884/1936), AMERICAN ARTIST – Short life, between watercolors and stained glass window.

Inside expressive use of strong colors, evocative landscapes and seascapes, Eastport, https://visitmaine.com/places-to-go/downeast-and-acadia/eastport the easternmost city in the United States, is a small city (consisting entirely of islands) in Maine. The principal island is Moose Island, which is connected to the mainland by causeway. Here, you to can explore the tidal flats around this area to search for fossils and view …

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LOUISE NEVELSON (1899/1988), AMERICAN ARTIST – Monumental, wooden wall pieces, paintings and outdoor sculptures.

When figures are painted in monochrome black or white They featuring the work of emerging and established artists. The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) http://cmcanow.org/ is a arts institution presenting a year-round program of changing exhibitions. Located in downtown Rockland (Maine), has three exhibition galleries, a gift shop and ArtLab classroom. Here, where a famous Russian-born painter had lived, …

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PRUDENCE HEWARD (1896/1947), CANADIAN PAINTER – Thinking with more interest in figure painting.

Hoping we shall develop Canadian feeling, modern, yet timeless. It is absolutely stunning! Terrasse Nelligan (106 Rue Saint Paul, Montreal), http://terrassenelligan.com/home/ your favorite terrasse, happens located in the heart of Old Montreal. The views are amazing, and they have amazing fish tacos. Here you will discover their different summer menu options, developed by our renowned chef, Anthony Joyce. Cocktails? Don’t …

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LAWREN HARRIS (1885/1970), CANADIAN PAINTER – Between Art Nouveau And Abstract Art.

When you stop signing works, so that people would judge works on their own merit. He is best known as a member the “Group of Seven”, who pioneered a distinctly Canadian painting style in the early twentieth century. In 1919, he financed boxcar trips for the artists to the Algoma region, painting in areas such as the Montreal River and …

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