Month: April 2005

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Giovanni Boldini Italian-French portrait painter (1845 -1931)

Daniel Graves Paintings

“..As an American painter living in Florence for almost thirty years, I am
continually inspired by my surroundings. Florence permeates my existence (both
professionally and personally). This city gave birth to the Renaissance which
resulted in an extraordinary development of culture and craftsmanship that
continues today, visible in the bottegas run for generations. The craft of fine
painting, the harmonic architecture, the wondrous Tuscan landscape challenge and
inspire my work.
The late Italian
master, Pietro Annigoni,
called me “one of the most gifted” painters in Florence”“..”

John Davis Paintings

“John Davis is a fine art painter who embraces visual realism to achieve
his own eclectic brand of story telling. The artist’s work intends to direct on
stage a cinematic snapshot of the drama and comedy of human nature. ”


“Red”

Carol Wilson – Painter Art Cat

BATHROOM WE 2 NAP

FLOWER FIELD

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Francesco Guardi Italian painter, Venetian school (b. 1712, Venezia, d. 1793, Venezia)


"The Doge at the Basilica of La Salute"
1766-70, Oil on canvas 

click! Ladies Concert at the Philharmonic Hall 1782 Oil on canvas, Alte Pinakothek, Munich


Fontainebleau School

Fontainebleau is a royal palace of Francis I.
It was begun in 1528 and added to for the next 200 years. The Galerie Franois I
(1533-40)
introduces the so-called “Fontainebleau style” of interior decoration, a combination of sculpture, metalwork, painting, stucco and woodwork.


“Diane de Poitiers” Tempera on wood, Kunstmuseum, Basel

Nicolo’Dell’Abate – Italian painter (b. 1509, Modena, d. 1571, Fontainebleau)


“The Continence of Scipio”
Oil on canvas, Muse du Louvre, Paris

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Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish – Aristotle

Giacomo Balla: Swifts, Paths of Movement and Dynamic Sequences, 1913

Giacomo Balla"Swifts, Paths of Movement and Dynamic Sequences," 1913
Oil on Canvas
Born in Turin on 18 July 1871, Giacomo Balla was the senior member of the first wave
of Futurist painters and was well established as a teacher –
Umberto Boccioni and Gino Severini were pupils.
His early, pre-Futurist period was influenced by the Italian Divisionists and the Pointilism
of Georges Seurat and it was not until 1912 that
he joined the Futurist movement. His painting style underwent a dramatic change about 1909
when he became preoccupied with the pictorial depiction of light, movement and speed
epitomised by works such as The Hand of the Violinist (1912) and
Speed of a Motorcycle (1913) respectively. Through to 1914 he decomposed movement and light but his compositions moved ever closer to total
abstraction as, for example, with Perils of War (1915). By 1914 Balla was
advocating a Futurist lifestyle – he even named his two daughters Propeller and Light –
and his energies expanded to include sculpture (for example
Boccioni’s Fist of 1915) and the applied arts, especially costume and theatre design.

Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) Italian Futurist Painter and Sculptor.


"La Risata – The Laugh" – Museum of Modern Art, New York

Panoromiques

Andrea Lazzari Paintings

Bottega Antica

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Willi Kissmer Paintings and Prints


Kissmer’s expressive and exaggerated interpretation of detail is a trait that
permeates the body of his art that has been described as sensual, provocative,
technical and mysterious. The subjects interchange of folds, texture and light
have the effect of transforming a commonplace subject into something
extraordinary. The result for the observer is not just a visual experience, but
also a uniquely personal journey

  

 
JIN G. KAMArt

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@ Kim Art Gallery

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