Fan Ho / 何藩 | Street photographer

Fan Ho (Shanghai, 1931-2016) photographic⏭ career started at the early age of 14 when given his first Kodak Brownie from his father.

Within the first year he won his first award⏭ in 1949 in Shanghai.

At the age of 18, he acquired his twin lens Rolleiflex with which he captured all his famous work after he moved to Hong Kong with his parents and continued to purse his love for photography.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Cassandra

Rend, rend thy hair, Cassandra: he will go.⁠⁠⁠

Yea, rend thy garments, wring thy hands, and cry

⁠From Troy still towered to the unreddened sky.

See, all but she that bore thee mock thy woe: -

He most whom that fair woman arms, with show

⁠Of wrath on her bent brows; for in this place

⁠This hour thou bad'st all men in Helen's face

The ravished ravishing prize of Death to know.

Irving Ramsey Wiles | The Green Cushion, 1895

Artist: Irving Ramsey Wiles (1861-1948)
Date: 1895
Culture: American⏩
Medium: Watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paper
Dimensions: 22 x 28 in. (55.9 x 71.1 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Ann M. and Thomas W. Barwick, and Purchase, Ann M. and Thomas W. Barwick Gift, 1994

This watercolor portrays a young woman reclining on an Empire revival-style recamier couch. The woman at leisure was a popular subject in late-nineteenth-century American painting.

Simon Pasini, 1976 | Impressionist painter

Simon Pasini was born in Genoa. In 1984 he moved with his family to South Africa, where he began studying art and began to cultivate a passion for painting and art.

His early works watercolors are characterized by attention to detail and the use of light with dramatic cuts.

He returned to Italy in 1992, he attended the Art School "James and Pio Manzu" of Bergamo.

After his studies he worked initially as a restorer, then specializing in the realization of the frescoes, dedicated in particular to the decoration.

Claude Monet | La Grenouillère, 1869

During the summer of 1869, Monet⏩ and Renoir⏭ set up their easels at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on the Seine River, not far from Paris.

Monet noted on September 25,

"I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillère, for which I have made some bad sketches, but it is only a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting".

Among their various depictions of the subject, this composition closely resembles one by Renoir in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. | © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Francesco Guardi | Baroque Era / Veduta painter

Francesco Guardi (1712-1793), one of the outstanding Venetian landscape painters of the Rococo period.

Francesco and his brother Nicolò (1715-86) were trained under their elder brother, Giovanni Antonio Guardi. Their sister Cecilia married Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. By 1731 the brothers are recorded as collaborating in a bottega, half-studio and half-shop.

Pier Toffoletti, 1957 | Figurative painter

Italian painter Pier Toffoletti was born in the village of Torreano near Cividale in Northern Italy, surrounded by the art and antiquities of ancient Rome. Now he lives and works in Udine. Since he was a young boy, painting has been a passion and he drew inspiration from the tiles and frescos which were a part of his daily life.

In 1976 Pier earned a "Diploma di Maestro in Arte Applicata" (Certificate of Master in Applied Arts). While developing his unique medium and style he worked as Creative Director for his advertising agency, using his talented eye for developing and directing television commercials. Pier also worked with the Italian public broadcasting network (RAI) on a number of animation projects.

Frank Cadogan Cowper | The last of the Pre-Raphaelites

From: Christie's

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Frank Cadogan Cowper was born in 1877 at Wicken in Northamptonshire, where his maternal grandfather was rector. He studied art at the St John's Wood Art School and then spent five years in the Royal Academy Schools (1897-1902), before entering the Cotswold studio of Edwin Austin Abbey (1852-1911).

After six months working with this American muralist who, like his friend John Singer Sargent, had taken up residence in England, Cowper completed his artistic education by studying for a while in Italy.

Tamara de Lempicka's 120th Birthday

'Among a hundred paintings, you could recognize mine,

my goal was:

Do not copy. Create a new style...

colors light and bright,

return to elegance in my models'..

Tamara De Lempicka

Salvatore Quasimodo | Ora che sale il giorno / Now that the day rises..

Edvard Munch⏭ | Young woman on the veranda, 1924

Finita è la notte e la luna

si scioglie lenta nel sereno,

tramonta nei canali.

The night is over and the moon

melts slowly in cloudless sky,

sets into the canals.

Dan Beck, 1955 | The Dreamers | VideoArt

For American painter Dan Beck🎨, painting is "a balancing act between opposite ideas - direct observation and instinct, control and spontaneity, even between the literal and the symbolic.

It seems to me that although a painter is deeply involved with his own private investigation, his real aim is to communicate something that only the person looking at the painting really understands".

Salvatore Quasimodo | Ed e' subito sera / And suddenly it is evening

Ognuno sta solo sul cuor della terra
trafitto da un raggio di sole:
ed è subito sera.

Everyone stands alone at the heart of the world

pierced by a ray of sunlight,

and suddenly it is evening.

Dan Beck, 1955 | Figurative painter

Equally adept at figurative, still-life and landscape, Dan Beck is an award winning artist and sought after teacher.

His paintings have found collectors in both the private and corporate world on a national level as well as from such diverse places as Canada, Japan and the Middle East. Dan's work has also been featured in "Southwest Art", "Art of the West" magazines and "Art Talk".

Jaume Plensa, 1955 | Conceptual sculptor

Jaume Plensa is a Spanish artist and sculptor.

Plensa's works include the Crown Fountain at Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois, which opened in July 2004.

The fountain is composed of a black granite reflecting pool placed between a pair of glass brick towers. The towers are 50 feet (15 m) tall, and they use light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to display digital videos on the inward faces.

In the summer of 2007 he participated in the Chicago Public Art exhibit, Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet.

Another Plensa piece is Blake in Gateshead in North East England, a laser beam that on special occasions shines high into the night sky over Gateshead's Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.

Felice Pedretti, 1961 | Metaphysical / Symbolist painter

Felice Pedretti was born in South Africa to Italian parents. In 1977, after having attended an English school, he came to Italy where he had the privilege of meeting artist and restorer Luigi Ferrero, who aroused in him a deep interest in ancient art.

«What I’m teaching you are ancient gestures and the result of centuries of experience and love for art», are his Teacher’s words that have remained impressed in his mind.

Elena Filatov, 1968 | Abstract painter

Kazakhstani painter Elena Filatov studied art and music in Omsk/Siberia and Moscow and worked as a graphic designer in Chabarovsk/Asia and Portland/USA.
Elena Filatov has been living in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, since 1995. An independent designer and illustrator she is trained in the following art techniques: oil, pastel, gouache, aquarelle, lead and coal pencil and collages.

Wassily Kandinsky | Concerning the Spiritual in Art / La spiritualità nell'Arte, 1910

La spiritualità nell’arte / Concerning the Spiritual in Art/ Über das Geistige in der Kunst, è il titolo che Wassily Kandinsky diede al saggio del 1911, dove spiegò il problema dell'astrazione, esaminando il rapporto possibile tra la spiritualità e le manifestazioni artistiche.

Nel capodanno del 1911 Wassily Kandinsky assiste ad un concerto di Arnold Schönberg a Monaco. Tornato a casa Kandinsky, pur non conoscendolo personalmente, scrive una lettera al compositore per renderlo partecipe di tutto il suo entusiasmo nell’aver assistito al concerto e, per parlargli di quelli che, secondo lui, sono i punti di contatto forte tra i suoi dipinti e la musica del compositore.

Sandro Botticelli | Artwoks | Page 7

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (c. 1445 - May 17, 1510), known as Sandro Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century, when he was rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelites who stimulated a reappraisal of his work. Since then, his paintings have been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting.

In addition to the mythological subjects for which he is best known today, Botticelli painted a wide range of religious subjects (including dozens of renditions of the Madonna and Child, many in the round tondo shape) and also some portraits.

His best-known works are The Birth of Venus and Primavera, both in the Uffizi in Florence.

Botticelli lived all his life in the same neighbourhood of Florence; his only significant times elsewhere were the months he spent painting in Pisa in 1474 and the Sistine Chapel in Rome in 1481–82.

Nguyen Thanh Binh, 1954 | Minimalist Romantic painter

Nguyen Thanh Binh is an exponent of the increasing popularity of Vietnamese art.

After graduating from art institutes in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, he achieved international recognition for his graceful paintings.

His work frequently being exhibited around Asia, America and Europe.