Salvador Dali | Self-portraits

Salvador Dalí started to paint self-portraits very early on.

In the ones made during adolescence, Dalí represents himself with a distant attitude towards his companions, but at the same time wishing to make an impact on them (or to provoke them) and on the public in general.

Like other adolescents, he sought through his appearance an affirmation of his own personality, wearing long hair and sideburns, and dressing extravagantly.

Salvador Dali 1941 Soft self-portrait with grilled Bacon

Akzhana Abdaliyeva, 1975 | Pittrice cubista

Akzhana Abdaliyeva è una pittrice pluripremiata proveniente da AlmaTa, nel Kazakistan.

E' membro dell'Unione creativa degli artisti del Kazakistan.

Oggi ha un dottorato in Belle Arti.

Le sue opere sono in collezioni private in Svizzera, Kazakistan, Germania, Stati Uniti e in altri paesi.

- "Fin dalla mia infanzia sono cresciuta con una matita e un pennello in mano. Ora alle mie spalle ho 25 anni di istruzione.

Jean-Pierre Alaux (1925-2020) | Surrealist painter

Jean-Pierre Alaux, born in La Ciotat, was a French painter belonging to the "young painters of the School of Paris".

Son of the painter François Alaux, Jean -Pierre Alaux after high school among Dominicans in Arcachon and the Marists in La Seyne -sur -Mer, is eligible for assistance from the top of Fine Arts National School in Paris where he worked in the studio of Jean Dupas from 1943-1949 where you can find Joseph Archepel Paul Ambille Paul Collomb, Mickaël Companion, Geoffroy Dauvergne, Dechezelle Claude Garand, Paul Guiramand Roland GuillaumeL, Lolichon, Pettit, André Pedoussaut André Plisson, Rogert, Roverchon, Someton, Tournaire Van Tea.

Alex Stevenson Diaz, 1962 | Abstract painter

Alex Stevenson Diaz is an artist with appreciation of the human, which communicates through expressive poses the inner struggle of man with himself, his yearnings for freedom, their prisons and bonds.

Anatomies which express the hardness in a baroque miguelangelesco. The tension of his hands and fingers or the rigidity of the neck muscles in head turns back, giving way to an energy that comes from the inside more visceral.

Mona Lisa, Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, 1503-1504

This portrait was doubtless started in Florence around 1503. It is thought to be of Lisa Gherardini, wife of a Florentine cloth merchant named Francesco del Giocondo - hence the alternative title, La Gioconda. However, Leonardo seems to have taken the completed portrait to France rather than giving it to the person who commissioned it. After his death, the painting entered François I's collection.

Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco Giocondo

The history of the Mona Lisa is shrouded in mystery. Among the aspects which remain unclear are the exact identity of the sitter, who commissioned the portrait, how long Leonardo worked on the painting, how long he kept it, and how it came to be in the French royal collection.

The portrait may have been painted to mark one of two events - either when Francesco del Giocondo and his wife bought their own house in 1503, or when their second son, Andrea, was born in December 1502 after the death of a daughter in 1499. The delicate dark veil that covers Mona Lisa's hair is sometimes considered a mourning veil. In fact, such veils were commonly worn as a mark of virtue. Her clothing is unremarkable. Neither the yellow sleeves of her gown, nor her pleated gown, nor the scarf delicately draped round her shoulders are signs of aristocratic status.