Hjalmar Munsterhjelm | Moonlight paintings

Magnus Hjalmar Munsterhjelm (19 October 1840, Tuulos - 2 April 1905, Helsinki) was a Finnish landscape painter.

Munsterhjelm was born at Toivoniemi Manor of Tuulos, Finland.

He was the son of Gustaf Riggert Munsterhjelm (1806-1872) and his wife and Mathilda Charlotta Eleonora von Essen (1818-1895).

His father first sent him to the Turku Maritime School.

In the early 1860s, he studied art at Düsseldorf with Werner Holmberg (1830-1860) and Oswald Achenbach (1827-1905) and at Karlsruhe under Hans Gude.

Jaroslav Seifert / Vladimir Volegov: "Prima che asciughino quei due o tre baci"

Prima che asciughino quei due o tre baci

sulla fronte

e qui e lí,

ti chinerai per bere

acqua d’argento dallo specchio,

e se nessuno ti starà a guardare

ti toccherai le labbra con la bocca.

Henry Bacon | Orientalist painter

Henry A. Bacon (1839-1912) was an American painter, author, illustrator, and translator.

Before his formal training as an artist, he served as a soldier and war artist during the American Civil War, and was badly wounded in the Second Battle of Bull Run.

He then studied in France, and became a member of the Pont-Aven School, painting genre subjects of French country life, many sold back in America.

He first traveled to Egypt in 1897, and then developed an interest in Orientalist painting, soon spending his winters in the Middle East, dying in Cairo.

Adam Scott Rote | Hollywood legends

Adam Scott Rote is a uniquely American painter, and his work draws equally on american architecture and classic cinema to create an enduring sense of aesthetic timelessness. Rote’s work throughout the last decade has been influenced by architecture, fashion, and classic cinema.

He is a self-taught artist who studied early icons including pinup legends Vargas, Robert McGinnis, and master photographer George Hurrell. setting the stage for the elegant and realist styles his figures would garner.

Wassily Kandinsky | Lend your ears to music../ Presta le tue orecchie alla musica..

"…Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking!

Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to “walk about” into a hitherto unknown world.

If the answer is yes, what more do you want?"

Sergey Shenderovsky, 1964