Khalil Gibran | Il pittore / The painter

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) - Lebanese-American writer, poet, visual artist - painted more than 700 pictures, watercolors and drawings.

In 1930, Gibran's final will reflected this similar desire: "Everything found in my studio after my death - pictures, books, objects of art, ecc. - goes to Mrs. Mary Haskell Minis, now living at 24 Gaston Street West, Savannah, Ga. But I would like to have Mrs. Minis send all, or any part of these things, to my hometown, should she see fit to do so".

Kahlil Gibran | Love letter to Mary Haskell, 1912

New York, 7th January 1912

"Now I will say goodnight, as any other time.

I kiss you and then I say goodnight

and then I open the door and then I go out to the streets

with a full heart and a hungry soul.

But I always come again

to kiss you and to say goodnight

and to open the door and to go out to the street

with hungry soul and full heart".

Kahlil

New York - domenica pomeriggio, 7 gennaio 1912

"Ora ti do la buonanotte, come ogni altra volta.

Ti bacio e poi ti auguro la buonanotte,

e poi apro la porta e poi esco per le strade

con il cuore pieno e l’anima affamata.

Ma continuo a tornare, ancora e sempre,

per baciarti e augurarti la buonanotte

e aprire la porta e uscire per la strada

con l’anima affamata e il cuore pieno".

Kahlil

John Atkinson Grimshaw (British painter, 1836-1893)

John Atkinson Grimshaw was born in Leeds, his father was a policeman, and he started work as a railway clerk. His parents were opposed to his taking up art as a career. Grimshaw was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, and in his youth produced vivid, highly finished landscapes.

Gradually, Grimshaw developed his own highly distinctive style, and subject matter. He became a consummate painter of twilight, night time, and autumnal scenes. Grimshaw spent holidays at Scarborough, and many of his pictures were set there, and in Whitby.

He also painted nocturnal harbour and dockside pictures. He spent some time in London.

Richard Blunt | Historia de un amor

- Born in Stourbridge in the West Midlands I had a happy but pretty average childhood for a kid growing up in the eighties. My favourite place to be was outside but if I was ever inside I loved to be creative, especially with art and later on playing guitar and music.

On leaving school I went to art college to study 3D design and although I enjoyed the course, as with many teens I was easily distracted and became easily derailed. I soon began to lose my way and eventually dropped out of art college early.

The next few years went from bad to worse, so much so that despite persistence from my family I stubbornly entered my twenties, homeless, in a strange town and my only possessions could be carried in the pockets of my coat".

Sacha Baraz, 1940 | Mamá Africa

French painter Baraz Sacha, son of Ukrainian and Polish immigrants, was born in Paris, was a life whose content seems surreal to ordinary mortals.

Indeed, You have to live it to believe it. To date, Sacha Baraz worked on three periods: surreal, figurative, and now it is in an abstract phase.
Discover Baraz Sacha and his work, is a human adventure like no other. It is a living crossroads of cultures, rare, buried and disparate. It is the expression by the materialization of images and colors of all shapes and kinds of lives.

How not to succumb to so much talent and wealth of the mind? We don 'fate as they came. This is a free and strong spirit in a world where imitation and the standardization of tastes, choices, desires are measures undertaken by the law of the dominant business.