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 …
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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 …
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BEYOND THE LIGHTHOUSE – Sicilian painters
FRIEDRICH OBERBECK (1789/1869), GERMAN PAINTER – Painting with the nuances of the moral purpose of art
ARTHUR STREETON (1867/1943), AUSTRALIAN PAINTER – The shades of the Heidelberg school, inside the Australian version of impressionism
UNTIL HIS LAST SPRING – Zvest Apollonio, when the colors of the Mediterranean will light
ZVEST APOLLONIO 1/3 – Zvest Apollonio 1/3 – He was convinced that the time and place of his birth, 1935, Bertocchi Koper, Istria), were not a coincidence, but are factors that had greatly affected his life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIWg3m14Tps With his mother spoke in Slovene, with his father in Italian. Bilingualism had helped him to learn with foreign languages. ZVEST APOLLONIO 2/3 …
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PAINTING BETWEEN TRADITION AND INNOVATION – Istvan Csok
ISTVAN CSOK 1/3 – He was a Hungarian Impressionist painter, that lived and exhibited in Paris for a portion of his life. István Csók was born in 1865, inside a February day, becoming most famous in Hungary for his nudes, portraits, and landscapes of the Lake Balaton. Similarly to the other young artists of his time, he studied at the …
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