Meeting Benches World art in all forms
PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577/1640), DUTCH PAINTER – The prince of painters and the painter of princes
ALSO HIS DINOSAURS WERE SOMETHING RATHER SPECIAL – Rob Hefferan and the Pre-Raphaelitism as photos painting
ROB HEFFERAN 1/3 – He was born in the north of England, where began drawing and painting as a small child. During family holidays, he would paint en plein. His art teacher who recognized that his childish drawings of dinosaurs were something rather special. Throughout high school and college, he entered and won many art competitions. This painter, is influenced …
Read More »ROB HEFFERAN, ENGLISH PAINTER – Capturing skin tones, movement, and fabric
MARC STOCK (1951/2014), AMERICAN PAINTER – Stylish women in slinky gowns and white-gloved butlers
FREDERICK LEIGHTON (1830/1896), ENGLISH PAINTER – Painting solidly drawn figures with luminous colours
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 …
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