Yoshiro Tachibana | Abstract / Naif painter

Yoshiro Tachibana / 橘与四郎 (1941-2016) was born in Japan (Sanda, Kobe), son of a painter Nakaba Tachibana (1902-2000).

Growing up during World War II, especially in the aftermath of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki catastrophes, had a profound impact on his worldview.

This turbulent era awakened in him a deep restlessness and a desire to explore beyond Japan’s borders, leading him to travel at a young age in search of new artistic perspectives and experiences.

Yoshiro began to study art in Tokyo in 1962 and became inspired by the work of Klee.

Jacob Jordaens | Baroque Era painter

Jacob Jordaens, (baptized May 20, 1593, Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands [now in Belgium] - died October 18, 1678, Antwerp), Baroque artist** whose boisterous scenes of peasant life and sensuous allegories made him one of the most important painters of 17th-century Flanders.

Jordaens studied, like Peter Paul Rubens**, under the painter Adam van Noort, and he married his master’s daughter in 1616, the year after his admission to the guild of painters.

Early in his career Jordaens executed designs for tapestries, and such paintings as Allegory of Fertility (c. 1625) reveal his training as a decorator.

Jusepe de Ribera | Baroque Era painter ⁽²⁾

José de Ribera (1591-1652)** was an Spanish painter**, known for his Baroque** dramatic realism and his depictions of religious and mythological subjects.

He spent most of his life in Italy. ..

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Ribera see:

• José de Ribera | Baroque Era painter ➻
• Jusepe de Ribera | Baroque Era painter ➻

Marc Chagall: "Un quadro deve fiorire come qualcosa di vivo"

• "I am working in Paris. I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something essential, some immutable reality, and now that I have lost everything else (thank God, it gets lost all on its own) I am trying to preserve this and, what is more, not to be content. In a word: I am working".

• "I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more".

Marc Chagall: "Love and fantasy, go hand in hand"

• "I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors".

• "Love and fantasy, go hand in hand".