Meeting Benches World art in all forms
OTTONE ROSAI (1895/1957), ITALIAN PAINTER – Humble protagonists, caught in the daily attitudes
SURREAL AND UNSETTLING PAINTING – Kenne Grégoire
KENNE GREGOIRE 1/3 – He is a Dutch painter with several thematic areas, in which he explores different approaches. The most prominent it is the still life. Painting beauty, but also sadness, decay and deterioration. http://kennegregoire.com/ He has studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. In all of his work, he demonstrates a refined control of color, …
Read More »KENNE GREGOIRE, DUTCH PAINTER – Painting sadness, decay and deterioration
POLLAIOLO’S BROTHERS WOMEN – Antonio and Piero del Pollaiolo: Portraits of Ladies
ANTONIO E PIERO DEL POLLAIOLO 1/3 – Renaissance artists were very versatile. Their premises in workshops, where – a single space, drew and painted, with little light and air full of smells. In shops like those, he realizes important works, also with the help of his brother Piero. The brothers Pollaiuolo, were active in Florence in the mid fifteenth century. …
Read More »THEY WERE ACTIVE IN FLORENCE – The wonderful artistic fly of the Pollaiolo brothers
DO WHAT YOU SEE, WHAT YOU FEEL, THAT YOU WANT – Gustave Courbet and French realism
GUSTAVE COURBET 1/3 – In Paris, he met artists and intellectuals, including champfleury and Max Buchon, Charles Baudelaire and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (with whom he used to meet at the Brasserie Andler). The beginning of his career was not encouraging (only three of the twenty-five works he presented, they passed the scrutiny of the jury). He remained a revolutionary art, the …
Read More »GUSTAVE COURBET (1819/1877), FRENCH PAINTER – May be no schools, but only painters
PARISIAN ATMOSPHERES OF MID NINETEENTH CENTURY
DAVID HOCKNEY, ENGLISH PAINTER – One of the most influential British artists of the 20th century
EMIL JAKOB SCHINDLER (1842/1892), AUSTRIAN PAINTER – Landscape painter
