Just after the end of WW2 Victor Vasarely started establishing a new artistic movement inspired by his influences at the time, stemming from the Abstract Expressionism and the Bauhaus style. The vibrant artistic environment in Paris of this period was the perfect background for the development of new creative outbursts. The main idea behind the optical art was the generation of a fluctuating and dynamic … Continue reading Feny, by Vasarely ๐ณ๐ฒโผ๏ธ
Giuseppe De Nittis was born in Barletta, in the region of Apulia – Italy on 25 February 1846 and spent most of his prolific artistic life in Paris, where he become part of the French impressionist movement, although maintaining a clear personal style of painting, He died prematurely in 1884 at the age of 38 at the peak of his artistic career. When years later … Continue reading Pinacoteca De Nittis, Barletta ๐๐ผ๐ฌ๐ง
๐ฌ๐ง Georges Seurat departed from the artistic approach of his contemporaries inventing a new painting technique that consisted in applying a moltitudine of little dots of painting on the canvas, to render an image that the human eye is processing as a highly nuanced and shimmering surface. This technique was quite a departure from the plein air painting of the impressionists as it required a … Continue reading Une baignade, Asniรจres, by Seurat ๐ผ๐โ ๏ธ
A l’occasion du 173e anniversaire de la naissance de Paul Gauguin, nรฉ ร Paris le 7 juin 1848 Paul Gauguin a commencรฉ ร peindre relativement tard dans sa vie, ses premiรจres peintures remontant ร l’รฉpoque oรน il travaillait comme agent de change ร Paris. Ce n’est que vers l’รขge de trente-cinq ans qu’il dรฉcide de se consacrer entiรจrement ร la peinture professionnelle, aprรจs une crise … Continue reading Paul Gauguin ๐๐ผ๐ซ๐ท
๐ฌ๐ง In 1908 Claude Monet spent some time in Venice and painted various views of the city which are amongst the most iconic pictures of the Italian city. As it was his habit on favourite subjects he would paint the same scene several times at different times of the day and with different light effects. Of this particular view of the church of Salute across … Continue reading Le Grand Canal, by Monet ๐ผ๐โ ๏ธ
Celebrating Vincent Van Goghโs 168th anniversary In the first part of his life Van Gogh was not a painter but an art dealer and preacher who lived between the Netherlands, France and Great Britain. Born in North Brabant in March 1853, in the last 10 years of his life alone he was a full-time painter, producing over 900 paintings but, probably well ahead of his … Continue reading Vincent Van Gogh ๐จ๐ผโ๐จ๐จ๐ฌ๐ง
๐ฌ๐ง Weeping Woman is based on the image of a woman holding her dead baby in her arms. It is inspired by a detail from Picasso’s monumental anti-war mural, Guernica. Picasso painted both works during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), in response to a particularly heinous episode of the war. The attack on the Basque city of Guernica was carried out in April 1937 by … Continue reading Weeping Woman, by Picasso ๐ผ๐๐ฒ
Celebrando il 175ยบ anniversario della nascita di Giuseppe De Nittis Giuseppe De Nittis nacque a Barletta, in Puglia – Italia il 25 febbraio 1846 e trascorse gran parte della sua prolifica vita artistica a Parigi, dove divenne parte del movimento impressionista francese, pur mantenendo un chiaro stile personale di pittura, Giuseppe de Nittis รจ considerato il padre della moderna pittura italiana. Nacque nel 1848 a … Continue reading Giuseppe De Nittis ๐๐ผ๐ฎ๐น
๐ฌ๐ง Avenue at Chantilly – Cรฉzanne spent several months during the summer of 1888 working in and around Chantilly, about 24 miles north of Paris. This is one of three similar oil paintings from the park surrounding the castle that he produced during his stay. The symmetry and spatial depth of this vision may have attracted him more than his historical associations, as he focused … Continue reading Avenue ร Chantilly, by Cรฉzanne ๐๐ผ๐ซ๐ท
In occasione del 172ยบ anniversario della nascita di Paul Gauguin, nato il 7 giugno 1848 Paul Gauguin ha iniziato a dipingere relativamente tardi nella sua vita, con i suoi primi dipinti risalenti al periodo in cui lavorava come agente di cambio a Parigi. Fu solo verso i trentacinque anni che decise di dedicarsi completamente alla pittura professionale, dopo una profonda crisi del suo matrimonio con … Continue reading Paul Gauguin ๐๐ผ๐ฎ๐น
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