Meeting Benches World art in all forms
ALFRED STEVENS (1823/1906), BELGIAN PAINTER – The immensely successful painter, known for his paintings of elegant modern women
PAINTING THE REALISM OFTHE SOLIDITY – Albert Anker: the reflex vision of a harmonic world order
ALBERT ANKER 1/3 – Only after his death in 1910 was there a first exposition dedicated to him. He has been called the national painter of Switzerland, because of his enduringly popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life. As you can observe, Anker’s portraiture reveals a pronounced desire for individualization. He studied theology, and continuing at the university of Halle, …
Read More »ALBERT ANKER (1831/1910), SWISS PAINTER – When the portrait reveals a pronounced desire for individualization
ARDENGO SOFFICI (1879/1964), ITALIAN PAINTER – The primacy of pictorial visibility, after the experiences of Cubism and Futurism
EXPANDING IMAGINATION CAPACITY – Jean Calogero: unreal worlds that arise listening to classical music
JEAN CALOGERO 1/3 – First exhibitions in 1945 in Sicily, and he is best known for his Surrealistic and Genre pieces. Born in Sicily in 1922, from a modest background he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania, and the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, lived and worked for many years in Paris and Italy (also exhibited in …
Read More »JEAN CALOGERO (1922/2001), ITALIAN PAINTER – Surrealistic and Genre pieces, between Sicily and Paris
LIVED MOMENT, LIKE REVELATIONS – Natale Scarpa, a brief existential flight inside the hyper-pictorial realism
CAGNACCIO DI SAN PIETRO – His real name was Natale Scarpa, but we know him by his pen name: Cagnaccio di San Pietro. Born in Desenzano del Garda in a January day in 1897, he would become a hyper-realist Italian painter. Initially, his creativity had approached to Futurism, briefly, because the Magic Realism had grown inside him.                              CAGNACCIO DI …
Read More »CAGNACCIO DI SAN PIETRO (1897/1946), PITTORE ITALIANO – When the Magic realism it grow inside you
THE PAINTER LEADING TO THE SPANISH BAROQUE – Francisco De Zurbaran
FRANCISCO DE ZURBARAN 1/3 – He baptized in a church of Extremadura November 7, 1598, was the son a wealthy merchant. Large monastic cycles, devotional works and still lifes, are what he has given us, forever. He was the artist who painted the Counter-religiosity of the Spanish Church of the 17th century. Since 1614 he works as an apprentice in …
Read More »FRANCISCO DE ZURBARAN (1598/1664), SPANISH PAINTER – Large monastic cycles and devotional works
