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Yuri Krotov, 1964 | Landscapes

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Yuri Krotov / Юрий Кротов was born in Grivenskaya Cossack Settlement, Krasnodar Territory, located close to the Azov Sea. At the age of 8 he met a local painter G.A. Polugaev who became his mentor.
With Polugaev, Krotov traveled to Moscow and enrolled in Moscow High School of Art under the Surikov Art Institute.
After high school he served in the Soviet Army for 2 years before attending the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov.
His style of impressionist painting blossomed on trips to France, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, Monaco and other European countries.


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Vlaho Bukovac | Post-Impressionist painter

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Vlaho Bukovac (1855-1922) was born in Cavtat, near Dubrovnik. He showed inclination to drawing in his early childhood, but because of his family's poverty he could not continue his education.
At the age of eleven his uncle took him to the United States, where he spent four hard years. His uncle soon died.
In 1871, he returned to Dubrovnik and embarked as an apprentice on a merchant ship that sailed on regular line Istanbul- Odessa-Liverpool.
In 1873 he went to Latin America, where he worked as a letter drawer in a coach factory in Peru. Three years later he returned to Cavtat.
He found a sponsor in the person of Medo Pucic, a poet who recommended him to the archbishop Strossmayer, a very famous and influential Croatian at that time.


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Leonardo da Vinci | Della figura che va contro il vento

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Trattato della Pittura - Parte terza | Capitoli 398-432


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398. Discorso sopra il pratico.
399. Della pratica cercata con gran sollecitudine dal pittore.
400. Del giudicare il pittore le sue opere e quelle d'altrui.
401. Del giudicare il pittore la sua pittura.
402. Come lo specchio è il maestro de' pittori.
403. Come si deve conoscere una buona pittura e che qualità deve avere per essere buona.
404. Come la vera pittura stia nella superficie dello specchio piano.
405. Qual pittura è piú laudabile.
406. Qual è il primo obietto intenzionale del pittore.


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Lo Chan Peng 羅展鵬, 1983

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Lo Chan Peng was born in Chiayi, Taiwan and graduated Fine Art Department of Chinese Culture University.
Lo Chan-Peng had won many domestic art contests, and became well-known with “Strawberry Journal” series, which honestly records the sub-culture of young generation.
Lo uses his paintings to express what he observed from the real world, which not only depicts the mindset of young generations nowadays, but can be seen as a kind of self-dissect.


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Leonardo da Vinci | Delle diciotto operazioni dell'uomo

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Trattato della Pittura - Parte terza | Capitoli 359-397


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359. Delle diciotto operazioni dell'uomo.
360. Della disposizione delle membra secondo le figure.
361. Della qualità delle membra secondo l'età.
362. Della varietà de' visi.
363. Della membrificazione degli animali.
364. Come la figura non sarà laudabile s'essa non mostra la passione dell'animo.
365. Come le mani e le braccia in tutte le loro operazioni hanno da dimostrare l'intenzione del loro motore il piú che si può.
366. De' moti appropriati alla mente del mobile.
367. Come gli atti mentali muovano la persona in primo grado di facilità e comodità.


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