Meeting Benches World art in all forms
JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856/1925), AMERICAN PAINTER – The leading portrait painter of his generation
THEATRICAL SCENES WRAPPED BY HARMONIOUS PALETTES – Countrysides, city and inner landscapes of Pieter Quast
PIETER QUAST 1/3 – He was a Dutch painter (born and died in Amsterdam). Pieter Jansz Quast gave his age as twenty-six when his marriage banns were published on June 29, 1632. For its wittier imagery, the stage performances in The Hague and the theatrical characters etched by Callot, yes, was they really important. Observing its works you can admire …
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TRANSLATED PERCEPTIONS, INTO PAINTINGS – Ippolito Caffi: patriot and observer of society, Venetian by choice, painter and reporter
IPPOLITO CAFFI 1/3 – Him, the man who will study at the Academy of Venice, where will know the painters of the eighteenth-century Venice, he was born in Belluno in an autumn day. He moved to Rome, he improves his painting technique, deepening the kind of landscape views. In this city he lives the uplifting experience of a balloon trip, an …
Read More »IPPOLITO CAFFI (1809/1866), ITALIAN PAINTER – A capacity for synthesis, unequalled during the entire nineteenth century
BETWEEN VENICE AND THE EAST – Ippolito Caffi: the painter who anticipated Impressionism, painting with different eyes our places of every day
Ippolito Coffi he was the most modern and original landscape artist of his time, and his paintings are so special in immortalising the soul of the places and peoples he encountered during his many trips. You can visit an special exhibition http://correr.visitmuve.it/en/mostre-en/mostre-in-corso-en/ippolito-caffi-exhib/2016/05/17836/between-venice-and-the-east/ (open daily Monday to Tuesday10 am / 7 pm). Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Until November 20, 2016 coming at Venice, remember …
Read More »STRONG PORTRAYLS GROWING UP BLACK – John Thomas Biggers, the painter that had grow nex to the “Shotgun houses”
JOHN THOMAS BIGGERS – John Thomas Biggers was an African-American muralist and studied African myths and legends. He was drawn to the creation stories of a matriarchal deistic system. Biggers is an artist whose strong portrayals of African-American life, combine images of his childhood, his travels in Africa and his feeling, about growing up black in America. He was born …
Read More »JOHN THOMAS BIGGERS (1924/2001), AMERICAN PINTERS – The unmistakable and remarkable influence named Biggers
WINSON HOMER (1836/1910), AMERICAN PAINTER – He believed that artists only should stutter in a language of their own
MARINE LANDSCAPES & FARM LIFE SCENES – Winson Homer: The son of art who loved the sea
WINSON HOMER 1/3 – He was an American landscape painter, best known for his marine subjects. Winslow Homer was born in Boston (Massachusetts), and his mother was a amateur watercolorist, also for that his art talent was on display early. He is considered a preeminent figure in American art. Almost self-taught, he began his career like a illustrator (Homer’s career …
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