PAINTING BAZAAR AND HAREM – John Frederick Lewis, oils and watercolour, painting oriental themes
JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS 1/4 – He was a student of his father Frederick Christian (a landscape painter), and to the age of 15 he sold his first painting (a work that represented the animals). This English, who paints in the nineteenth century (during the Romantic period), is known for his paintings oriental, exotic scenes with a Mediterranean flavor, a sea …
Read More »BALTHASAR KLOSSOWSKI DE ROLA (alias BALTHUS) – The human being stripped of its crust of hypocrisy
PAINT SO STRANGE, THE THEATRE OF LIFE – Balthus: paint everything that is hidden in ourselves
BALTHUS 1/6 – He was born and died in February, in France. Paris and Berlin, Bern and Geneva, separation of parents and the mother who falls in love with the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. He approaches art with drawings that illustrate a story and the Cat Mitsou, but his artistic talent – which starts from classicism – be encouraged, during …
Read More »ALEKSANDR RODCHENKO (1891/1956), RUSSIAN PAINTER – Showing the truth, but at the same time making the drawing clearer
MARIA’ FORTUNY I MARSAL, SPANISH PAINTER – the charm of the African light
THE COLORS OF THE EXOTICISM – Marià Fortuny i Marsal: the short flight of Oriental lights
MARIA’ FORTUNY I MARSAL 1/6 – He was born in a June day in Catalonia. He has twelve years of age when he is assigned to the protection of his grandfather, who encourages the artistic abilities of the boy. In Barcelona, he gets a scholarship to the School of Fine Arts, with a chance to complete in Rome on his …
Read More »JAMES ENSOR (1860/1949), BELGIAN PAINTER– The language of harsh colors, under the influence of Flemish naturalism
WHEN PAINTING BECAME COLORED FACES SHOW – The many faces of James Ensor
JAMES ENSOR 1/6 – The man who is born in the spring and dies in the autumn, the painter who at age 21 he created his first solo exhibition. A creative experience (still lifes, portraits, interiors bourgeois melancholy, landscapes), who was born with dark period, where the colors are deep and dark, with light that vibrates under the influence of …
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