Christen Dalsgaard | Pittore di genere / Romantico

Christen Dalsgaard (30 ottobre 1824 - 11 febbraio 1907) è stato un pittore Danese, allievo di Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg.

Era il figlio del proprietario della tenuta, Krabbesholm Manor, situata vicino a Skive nello Jutland.

Ha mostrato i primi segni di talento artistico e ha ricevuto una formazione come pittore artigianale.

Gustave Boulanger | Il pittore Néo-Grec

Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger (1824-1888) è stato un pittore di figure, artista accademico Francese ed insegnante, noto per i suoi soggetti classici ed orientalisti.

Boulanger fu una figura chiave del movimento artistico Néo-Grec, che cercava di reinterpretare la vita quotidiana dell'antica Grecia e di Roma con precisione archeologica ed un tocco di eleganza moderna.

Di origine creola ed orfano a 14 anni, fu allievo di Pierre Jules Jollivet (1754-1871) e di Paul Delaroche all'École des Beaux-Arts nel 1846.

Vinse il Prix de Rome nel 1849 con l'"Ulisse riconosciuto da Euriclea", divenne membro dell'Accademia di Belle Arti nel 1882 ed insegnò nell'Académie Julian.

I paesaggi emotivi di Isaac Levitan

Isaak Il'ič Levitan / Исаак Ильич Левитан (1860-1900) è stato un pittore, docente e paesaggista Russo.

È considerato il più importante paesaggista russo del XIX secolo.

Figura emblematica dei Peredvizhniki (I Vagabondi), fu pioniere del genere "Paesaggio dell'umore" ("paesaggio emotivo" / "paesaggio dello stato d'animo" / "mood landscape"), catturando non solo scene di natura ma anche le emozioni sottili legate alla stagione, alla luce ed alla solitudine.

Morì prematuramente a soli 39 anni a causa di una malattia cardiaca.

Rainer Maria Rilke | Do not be afraid, it’s me / Non aver paura, sono io..

Do not be afraid, it’s me.

You do not feel that I infringe on you,

with all your senses?

He put wings, my heart,

and now, white flies around your face.

Do not you see my soul before you,

adorned with silence?

Agnes Slott-Møller | Symbolist painter

Agnes Slott-Møller, born Rambusch (10 June, 1862, in Nyboder - June 11, 1937 in Løgismose) was the daughter of the later commander in the Navy Jacob Heinrich Victor Rambusch (1825-1886) and his wife Constantine Juliane born Hansen (1834-1891).

She was a Danish painter and sculptor who was influenced by Italian art before the Renaissance, British Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts Movement in his image and style.

Alphonse Osbert | Symbolist / Pointillist painter

Alphonse Osbert (23 March 1857 - 11 August 1939) was a French Symbolist painter.

Educated at the École des Beaux-Arts, his earliest passion was for the great Spanish masters, particularly Jusepe de Ribera. A shift away from his academic style took place in the late 1880s under the influence of several acquaintances associated with Post-Impressionism* and Symbolism*.

Paul Cézanne | The Four Seasons, 1860

between 1860 and 1862, French painter Paul Cézanne, still a student at the law faculty in Aix, started out as a painter by decorating the walls of the main drawing room at Jas de Bouffan, based on the allegorical theme of The Four Seasons (Les Quatre Saisons).

He was twenty when his father bought this estate near Aix-en-Provence.

Paul Cézanne | Spring, 1861

Henri Manguin | Il pittore Fauve

Henri Manguin (1874-1949) è stato un importante pittore Francese, figura centrale del movimento dei Fauves.

Soprannominato "il pittore voluttuoso" per la sua capacità di celebrare la gioia di vivere attraverso colori caldi e luminosi, Manguin si distinse per uno stile che, pur essendo audace, mantenne sempre un equilibrio armonioso rispetto all'espressività più aggressiva di altri esponenti del gruppo.

Manguin entrò nell'École des Beaux-Arts per studiare sotto Gustave Moreau, così come Henri Matisse e Charles Camoin con cui divenne amico intimo.

Mimosa paintings

• "After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world".

• "Dopo le donne, i fiori sono la cosa più bella che Dio ha dato al mondo".

- Christian Dior

William-Adolphe Bouguereau | The Mimosa Flower, 1899

Lea Reinhart | Still life painter

Lea Reinhart (Brno 1877 - 1970 Vienna) was an Austrian painter, known for Miniatures and still life painting.

She presumably studied at the Vienna Art School for Women under guidance of the Viennese painters Robert Scheffer and Adalbert Franz Seligman.

Her miniatures and still life paintings enjoy great popularity.

Market painting | The historical origins

Market paintings capture the vibrant energy and cultural diversity of trading spaces across the world, from bustling open-air bazaars to serene floral stalls.

Market scenes have been a popular genre for centuries, capturing the vibrancy of daily life, commerce and culture.

These paintings often use "visual seduction" to make the depicted commodities - like fruits, vegetables, or flowers - as alluring to the viewer as the art itself.

This subject is a favorite for artists to explore crowd dynamics, architectural perspective, and color theory through various mediums like oil and watercolor.

Edwin Lord Weeks | Orientalist painter

Edwin Lord Weeks (1849-1903) was born at Boston, Massachusetts.

He was a pupil of Léon Bonnat and of Jean-Léon Gérôme, at Paris.

He made many voyages to the East, and was distinguished as a painter of oriental scenes.

Weeks' parents were affluent spice and tea merchants from Newton, a suburb of Boston and as such they were able to accept, probably encourage, and certainly finance their son's youthful interest in painting and travelling.

Genre Art History and Sitemap

Genre painting, painting of scenes from everyday life, of ordinary people in work or recreation, depicted in a generally realistic manner.

Genre art contrasts with that of landscape, portraiture, still life, religious themes, historic events, or any kind of traditionally idealized subject matter.

Intimate scenes from daily life are almost invariably the subject of genre painting.

The elimination of imaginative content and of idealization focuses attention upon the shrewd observation of types, costumes and settings.

The term arose in 18th-century France to describe painters specializing in one kind genre of picture, such as flowers or animals or middle-class life, and was originally used derogatively by advocates of the ideal or grand manner in art.

Louis Gallait | Romantic painter

Louis Gallait (1810-1887) was a Belgian painter.

He lay at the basis of a revival of history painting in Belgium.

He earned his reputation especially with the large painting of Charles V's abdication.

Gallait's works were esteemed because of their realism, faithfulness of the costumes and color composition of his paintings.

He was also a distinguished portrait painter.

Marc Chagall | Les Offrandes, 1958

In his address delivered at the inauguration on 7 July 1973 - his 86th birthday - of the Musée national message biblique Marc Chagall in Nice, the artist described the meaning he found in Biblical stories:

“It has always seemed to me and still seems today the greatest source of poetry of all time.

Ever since then, I have searched for its reflection in life and in Art.

The Bible is like an echo of nature and this is the secret I have tried to convey”

- (quoted in J. Baal-Teshuva, ed., Chagall, A Retrospective, New York, 1995, p. 295).

Les Nabis | Art history and Sitemap

Ambitious decorative painting enjoyed a resurgence in Europe from the late 1880s through the early twentieth century.

In Paris, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis and Édouard Vuillard were among the most influential artists to embrace decoration as painting’s primary function.

Their works celebrate pattern and ornament, challenge the boundaries that divide fine arts from crafts, and, in many cases, complement the interiors for which they were commissioned.

Disaffected with the rigidly representational painting methods taught at the Académie Julian, Bonnard and Denis joined with other like-minded students in the fall of 1888 to form a brotherhood called the “Nabis”, a Hebrew word meaning “prophets”.

Vincent van Gogh | Still lifes of Shoes

Vincent van Gogh painted several still lifes of shoes, primarily between 1886-1888.

He found beauty in worn-out, mud-covered boots, viewing them as symbols of the "scars of life" and the long journeys of the working class.

Step into Van Gogh’s world, one shoe at a time Shoes were an unusual subject in Van Gogh’s time.

Most artists painted elegant still lifes, often symbolizing wealth.

Modern Masters of 20th Century | Art Quotes

Salvador Dalí:

• "The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot".

"Il primo uomo a paragonare le guance di una giovane donna a una rosa era ovviamente un poeta; il primo a ripeterlo era forse un idiota".

Salvador Dalí | Couple aux têtes pleines de nuages, 1937

Paolo Troubetzkoy | Sculptor of the Belle Époque

The Italian sculptor and painter Paolo (prince) Troubetzkoy / Павел Петрович Трубецкой (1866-1938), born on the shores of Lake Maggiore, was the illegitimate child of a Russian diplomat and an American pianist and singer, living under an assumed identity until he was acknowledged with his brothers at the age of five.

He would succeed in transforming the circumstances of his birth into assets that would lead to a dazzling international career.

Jens Ferdinand Willumsen | Symbolist / Expressionist painter

Jens Ferdinand Willumsen (1863-1958) was a Danish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, architect and photographer.

He became associated with the movements of Symbolism and Expressionism.

J. F. Willumsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark.

He was the son of Hans Willumsen and Ane Kirstine.