Greta Garbo: "Cara maledetta bambina"..

Greta Garbo, pseudonimo di Greta Lovisa Gustafsson (1905-1990), è stata un'attrice Svedese naturalizzata Statunitense, fra le più celebri della storia del cinema.

Soprannominata la Divina, dopo aver iniziato l'attività di attrice in Svezia venne ingaggiata negli Stati Uniti dalla Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, di cui divenne rapidamente l'attrice di punta fra gli anni venti e gli anni quaranta, ottenendo un grandissimo successo sia nell'epoca del muto che del sonoro.

Greta Garbo (Stoccolma, 18 settembre 1905 - New York, 15 aprile 1990)

Corinne Geertsen, 1953 | Digital photo collage

Corinne Geertsen, born in Salt Lake City, Utah. is an Arizona artist who creates digital photocollages.

Her work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States, is in collections worldwide, as well as in the permanent collections of museums.

Geertsen received her BA and MFA in drawing and printmaking from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

Octavio Ocampo, 1943 | Optical Illusion painter

Octavio Ocampo (born 28 February 1943 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico) is a Mexican surrealist painter.

He grew up in a family of designers, and studied art from early childhood.

At art school, Ocampo constructed papier mache figures for floats, altars, and ornaments that were used during carnival parades and other festivals.

In high school, Ocampo painted murals for the Preparatory School and the City Hall of Celaya.

Jeremiah Goodman | Interior designer

"A portrait of a room, should express the personality of the person who lives there - whose character has shaped it" - Jeremiah Goodman.

Jeremiah Goodman (1922-2017) was an illustrator who signed his work with his first name only.

Goodman used his unique painting style to create the essence of a building's interior.

His painting interprets the plans of both architects and interior designers.

He painted original portraits of spaces for both commercial and private clients.

For almost twenty years he created the covers for Interior Design magazine, and also books on interiors and for murals.

Man Ray | A l'Heure de l'Observatoire - Les Amoureux, 1970

"A l'Heure de l'Observatoire - Les Amoureux" is considered to be one of Man Ray’s most iconic images.

The lips featured in the composition are those of Man Ray’s photography assistant and lover, Lee Miller.

Her lips appear as a motif in a range of Man Ray’s work from throughout his lifetime, from a photograph in MoMA’s collection from 1929, to a major series of paintings in 1936, and even a cast-gold version.

They have gone on to inspire a number of images in pop culture, most famously the iconic lips from the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Paola Grizi, 1968 | Surrealist sculptor

Italian sculptor Paola Grizi has spent her entire life immersed in the art world.

As the granddaughter of a well known Italian painter and sculptor and the niece of a ceramicist Piero Grizi (1885-1976), her creativity was fostered from a young age.

This has translated into a successful career as an artist, where she is particularly known for her unique terracotta and bronze sculptures.

For many years Grizi has produced incredible sculptures of faces that seem to emerge from the pages of books.

Irina Biatturi, 1975 | Art Déco painter

A graduate of the Nicolae Grigorescu Art Academy and the N. Tonitza Art High School, Bucharest, Irina Biatturi has been in contact with painting since she was very young.

After living for a few years in Mexico and New Zealand, she now lives and works in Antibes, a coastal city in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France, on the Côte d'Azur between Cannes and Nice.

Her oil paintings, which have women and sensuality as their subject, are inspired by Art Deco and Art Nouveau, but also by the compositions of the Italian Renaissance masters, for the light and the colours.

Cheryl St. John | Following Monet

Cheryl is an artist that paints primarily in the plein-air tradition. She is a fourth generation Colorado native with a great appreciation of nature, the environment, and the preservation of both.

Born and raised at the foot of the Rocky Mountains and with parents that enjoyed the outdoors, Cheryl was introduced at an early age to the beauty of the Colorado mountains and developed her own love for the landscape that influences her artwork today.

Cheryl paints mainly with oil but loves to work with watercolor as well.

Hilma Af Klint | A Pioneer of Abstraction

Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered among the first abstract works known in Western art history.

A considerable body of her work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian.

She belonged to a group called "The Five", comprising a circle of women inspired by Theosophy, who shared a belief in the importance of trying to contact the so-called "High Masters" - often by way of séances.

Her paintings, which sometimes resemble diagrams, were a visual representation of complex spiritual ideas.

Celeste Bergin | Impressionist painter

Celeste Bergin grew up in Elgin, Illinois.

As a young girl she was attracted to the landscape and expressive faces, filling her notebooks with sketches of the gentle rolling plains of the Midwest and with portraits of the people she knew.

After graduating from high school she attended the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago.

Unfortunately, some unexpected events interrupted her art education.

She moved to Florida and worked for 7 years in an un-related field.

María Berrío, 1982 | Magic Realism painter

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Brooklyn-based Maria Berrio is a contemporary artist primarily known for her prismatic, large-scale paper collages.

The artist completed her BFA at the Parsons School of Design in 2004, after which she received her MFA at the New York School of Visual Arts in 2007.

Berrio’s work sees her filter memories of her childhood spent on a farm in Colombia, and her subsequent experience with migration, through the lens of her studio practice.

Martin Leighton, 1951 | Figurative painter

Born in Montrose Scotland, Martin has lived in Weymouth in the beautiful county of Dorset from the age of 2 years.

Martin is a self-taught artist specialising in oils on canvas and he has been painting professionally since 2003 when he opened his own gallery and working studio close to Weymouth harbour side, situated on the first floor of a beautifully converted Grade II listed building.

However the gallery closed in October 2016 to enable Martin to concentrate on new works for various exhibitions and commissions.

Prafull Sawant, 1979 | Watercolor painter

Prafull Sawant has won 42 international awards from across the world for his watercolor, oil and acrylic paintings.

He was the first and the only artist from India to win the 148th International Exhibition of American Watercolor Society award held in New York (2015).

Prafull B. Sawant was born at Nasik, India.

He has long been considered one of the foremost Realistic artists in the world.

He is best known for his Plain Air atmospheric landscapes that captures the light to create the mood and space of the scene.

Even Ulving | Nordic landscape painter

Even Christophersen Ulving (15 August 1863 - 3 August 1952) was a Norwegian painter.

Personal life

Ulving was born on 15 August 1863 in Vega, to Christopher Evensen and Olava Larsdatter.

He was married to Frederikke Johanne Knoff Quale.

Nikolo Balkanski, 1957 | Impressionist painter

Nikolo Balkanski began painting at very early age and graduated from the Medium Special Arts School in Sofia, Bulgaria, when he was 18.

At just 21, he held his first solo exhibition, “Time and People“, featuring portraits of some of the country's leading actors, poets and politicians, organized by his father, who is attorney, writer and poet.

This unique show garnered a lot of attention for the young artist, and he soon continued his studies at the art academy in Sofia, specializing in paintings.

After moving to Finland with his parents, he studied at the University of Helsinki.

Post-Impressionism | Art History and Sitemap

Breaking free of the naturalism of Impressionism in the late 1880s, a group of young painters sought independent artistic styles for expressing emotions rather than simply optical impressions, concentrating on themes of deeper symbolism.

Through the use of simplified colors and definitive forms, their art was characterized by a renewed aesthetic sense as well as abstract tendencies.

Vincent van Gogh | The Starry Night, 1889 | MoMA, Museum of Modern Art

Johannes Brahms: "Studiate Bach: lì troverete tutto quello che cercate"

• "On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind".

• "Su un pentagramma, per un piccolo strumento, l'uomo scrive un intero mondo dei pensieri più profondi e dei sentimenti più potenti. Se avessi immaginato che avrei potuto creare, persino concepito il pezzo, sono abbastanza sicuro che l’eccesso di eccitazione e l’esperienza sconvolgente mi avrebbe mandato fuori di testa".

Johann Strauss Jr e Johannes Brahms, 1894

Vera Kavura / Віра Кавура, 1978 | Pastel flower painter

In Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, Vera Kavura / Віра Кавура can be found painting her favorite subject: flowers, which she describes as "natural, beautiful, and diverse".

Kavura began drawing as a child and over the years experimented with different techniques until, in 2016, she discovered painting with pastels.

"The pastel medium allows me to work quickly and catch all the color nuances", she says.

"A single photo cannot reflect the shine of a flower’s petals; by painting a bouquet with pastel, I’m able to catch changes in the light and shadows, and even the movement of the petals".

Aron Wiesenfeld, 1972 | Allegorical figurative painter

Aron Wiesenfeld is an American painter, illustrator and comic book artist based in San Diego, California.

He is known for painting disquieting scenes of lonely youths.

His works have been shown at several exhibitions in the United States and Europe including those at Arcadia Contemporary in New York City, Unit London, Long Beach Museum of Art and the Bakersfield Museum of Art.

Wiesenfeld has created illustrations for various comics publishing companies including Marvel Comics, Continuity Comics and WildStorm.

He was nominated for an Eisner award in 1997 for his work on Marvel Comics' limited series, Deathblow/Wolverine.

Edita Broglio | Magic Realism painter

Edita Broglio (1886-1977) was a Latvian artist known for her paintings in the genre of Magic Realism.

She was born Edita Walterowna von Zur Muehlen in the town of Smiltene, northeast of Riga.

From 1908 to 1910 she studied at the Konigsberg Art Academy in East Prussia and in Paris since 1910.

In 1912 she settled permanently in Rome, coming into contact with Olga Resnevic Signorelli who introduced her to her living room, frequented by Melli, Spadini, Ferrazzi, Ivan Mestrovic.

Antonio Donghi | Magic Realism painter

Antonio Donghi (March 16, 1897 - July 16, 1963) was an Italian painter of scenes of popular life, landscapes, and still life.

Born in Rome, he studied painting at the Instituto di Belle Arti from 1908 to 1916.

After military service in World War I he studied art in Florence and Venice, soon establishing himself as one of Italy's leading figures in the neoclassical movement that arose in the 1920s.

Possessed of an extremely refined technique, Donghi favored strong composition, spatial clarity, and populist subject matter.