Meeting Benches World art in all forms
HERMAN WAHLBERG (1834/1906), SWEDISH PAINTER– The sun’s setting is prolonged in that latitudes, while he capture the surprises of light among the hills
WHEN NORTHERN CLIMES OFFER FEELINGS – Herman Wahlberg: by painting, landscape art phenomena become a grand novel
HERMAN WAHLBERG 1/2 – He was born in Stockholm, one day in February of 1834. His father also was a painter. After receiving preparatory education at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, he moved to Düsseldorf, to train to paint. He returned to Stockholm, then moved to Paris, where his art collecting critical acclaim. HERMAN WAHLBERG 2/2 – He started …
Read More »ANTONIO DONGHI (1897/1963), ITALIAN PAINTER – Figures that possess a gravity and an archaic stiffness
THE MAGICAL REALISM OF ANTONIO DONGHI – Strong composition, spatial clarity and populist subject matter
ANTONIO DONGHI 1/4 – Magical realism, is a term that is used both to indicate, in the visual arts, a pictorial trend of the first half of the twentieth century, one that identifies a vision clearly stunned the real. This definition was used for the first time by an art critic, to describe a reality characterized by a meticulous rendering …
Read More »CHIHO AOSHIMA: IN THE BALANCE BETWEEN MANGA AND TRADITION – Japan now: the artistic contamination between different creative genres
AROUND THE AOSHIMA’S UNIVERSE – My work feels like strands of my thoughts that have flown around the universe before coming back to materialise
When your geographical horizon extends – for business or pleasure – you have the wonderful opportunity to hear you inside, like the perfectly proportioned man (created by Leonardo da Vinci), correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. What you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside the Vitruvian approach to life. We have the …
Read More »XAVIER GOSE’ I ROVIRA (1876/1915), SPANISH PAINTER – Between Art Nouveau and Art Déco styles
BETWEEN ART NOUVEAU AND ART DECO STYLES – Xavier Gosè I Rovira: the creative imprint on a generation of artists
XAVIER GOSE I ROVIRA 1/4 – He provided illstrations for several well-known magazines. Gosé’s oeuvre has been defined as something between modernisme and art deco. A frequent customer at “Els Quatre Gats”, he held an exhibition of his drawings, then, he moved to Paris. XAVIER GOSE’ I ROVIRA 2/4 – The artist was inspired by the everyday of cafès-concert, midinettes, …
Read More »GEORGE TSUI – Forbidden city and exotic birds
THE GEORGE’S ROMANTIC MODELS – The Chinese themes inside paintings of George Tsui
GEORGE TSUI 1/2 – George was born in Hong Kong, and moved to New York in the late 60s, studying first at the School of Visual Arts, and later majoring in oil painting at the Art Students League. Chinese themes filled his imagination. After twenty years in New York, George Tsui set out on a creative journey into China, in …
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