Giuseppe Faraone, 1954 | Impressionist painter

Born in Picerno (Potenza), Giuseppe Faraone attended the Art School of Potenza, before moving to San Donato Milanese on the outskirts of Milan, where he still lives and works.

Here he started his relentless pursuit of a variety of drawing techniques and the use of colors.

He understands the art of painting, having perfected his talent in Italy and abroad.

Faraone fined tuned his skills in the Impressionist style by painting in the same places where French Impressionism was born.

Theodore Wores | Impressionist painter

Theodore Wores (August 1, 1859 - September 11, 1939) was an American painter born in San Francisco, son of Joseph Wores and Gertrude Liebke.

His father worked as a hat manufacturer in San Francisco. Wores began his art training at age twelve in the studio of Joseph Harrington, who taught him color, composition, drawing and perspective.

When the San Francisco School of Design opened in 1874, Wores was one of the first pupils to enroll.

Frank Myers Boggs (1855-1926)

American-born French painter Frank Myers Boggs was born in Ohio and raised in New York City, where he began his career as an engraver for "Harper's" magazine.

He went to Paris in 1876 and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts with Jean Léon Gérôme, who encouraged him to practice landscape painting rather than figure painting in the academic tradition. Two years later he returned to New York City and set up a studio on Shelter Island.

Vincent van Gogh | The Olive Trees series

Vincent van Gogh painted at least 15 paintings of olive trees, mostly in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in 1889. At his own request, he lived at an asylum there from May 1889 through May 1890 painting the gardens of the asylum and, when he had permission to venture outside its walls, nearby olive trees, cypresses and wheat fields.

One painting, "Olive Trees in a Mountainous Landscape", was a complement to "The Starry Night".

The olive tree paintings had special significance for van Gogh.

Vincent van Gogh | Couple Walking among Olive Trees in a Mountainous Landscape with Crescent Moon 1890 | Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo

Wassily Kandinsky | VI. The language of Form and Color

Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1910

Part II: About painting

The man that hath no music in himself,

Or is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,

Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;

The motions of his spirit are dull as night;

And his affections dark as Erebus;

Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.

(The Merchant of Venice, Act v, Scene I.)

"Musical sound acts directly on the soul and finds an echo there because, though to varying extents, music is innate in man".

"Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty" (Delacroix).