PAINTERS

THE EVERYDAY SCENES FROM RURAL LIFE – William Mulready: from Ennis to the Royal Academy School

WILLIAM MULREADY 1/2 – Best known for his romanticizing depictions of rural scenes, he was an Irish genre painter. William Mulready (the pupil and brother-in-law of John Varley), he was born in Ennis, County Clare, but after six years its family moved to London, where he was accepted at the Royal Academy School. In 1802, he married Elizabeth (a landscape …

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BENOZZO GOZZOLI /1421/1497), ITALIAN PAINTER – Not only the most fascinating fresco cycles of 15th-century Florence

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THE MAN CALLED BENOZZO – Trained as a goldsmith, he will become painter

BENOZZO GOZZOLI 1/3 – Benozzo Gozzoli he was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence, best known for a series of murals in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi depicting festive processions (in fresco-painting he used the methods of tempera), with fine attention to detail. The art of Gozzoli is pre-eminently attractive by its sense of what is rich, winning, lively and abundant in …

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ROMAN LANDSCAPES – Stunning views of the city and poignant images of the Roman countryside

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ROMAN LANDSCAPES PAINTINGS

Landscape painting is the depiction in art of landscapes (such as mountains and valleys, trees, rivers and forests), with its elements inside coherent composition. The history of Roman painting is essentially a history of wall paintings on plaster, and it is thanks to the ancient Roman city of Pompeii that we can trace the history of Roman wall painting. Until …

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MANIPULATING COLORS EMPTINESS AND FULLNESS – Zhang Jing Sheng: the painter that tried to reveal the intensity of color

ZHANG JING SHENG 1/3 – Zhang Jing Sheng is a devoted painter who for many years studied color. In 1967, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Central Fine Arts Academy. He is a professor and tutor for graduate students at the Tianjin Fine Arts Academy. He tried to reveal the intensity of color, often working with a palette …

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ZHANG JING SHENG, CHINE PAINTER – Dynamic tension inside colors, with shades of impressionism

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THE PARADISE OF THE SOUL, FROM THE LABYRINTH OF THE WORLD – Hard and harsh style into engravings and drawings, like its life

KOLOMAN SOKOL 1/3 – Koloman Sokolwas (largely considered one of the most prominent of Slovakia’s contemporary artists), he was born in a poor family, in Liptovsky Mikulas. Sokol’s father died when he was very young. He attended the private schools in Kosice and in Bratislava, as well as the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where a real breakthrough in …

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KOLOMAN SOKOL (1902/2003), SLOVAK PAINTER – The eventful artistic odyssey of an painter

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THE UNUSUAL USE OF COLOUR – Portraits and lascapes: symbolic meaning intertwine in the painting of Harald Slott Moller

HARALD SLOTT MOLLER 1/2 – He was born in Copenhagen, studyng at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He was married to the artist Agnes Slott Møller. Harald Slott-Møller is most known for his portraits of prominent Southern Jutland and South Schleswig. He was influenced by Naturalism and Realism, but later also incorporated new trends such as Symbolism and …

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