Di pomeriggio uno scroscio di pioggia
fece profumare anche l’erba pesta
e la sera, piena di primaverile malinconia,
lenta s’univa alla notte.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Tête de jeune fille coiffée d'un chapeau de jardin, 1895
"I have taken up again, never to abandon it, my old style, soft and light of touch", Renoir wrote to his dealer Durand-Ruel in 1888, full of enthusiasm for his latest efforts.
"This is to give you some idea of my new and final manner of painting - like Fragonard, but not so good" (quoted in J. House, Renoir in the Barnes Foundation, New Haven, 2012, p. 121).
Renoir's new approach represented a sea-change after the controversial Ingres-inspired method he cultivated in the previous decade.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Tête de jeune fille coiffée d'un chapeau de jardin, 1895 | Christie's
Jaroslav Seifert | Se al cuore si potesse dire / If one could tell one’s heart…
Se al cuore si potesse dire:
non correre!
Se potessi ordinargli: brucia!
Già si spegne.
Marc Chagall
Romà Ribera | Painter of the Belle Époque
Romà Ribera i Cirera (Barcelona, 1848-1935) was a Catalan genre painter.
He specialized in contemporary scenes from upper-class social events, rendered in meticulous detail, but also did numerous scenes from life in the 17th and 18th centuries.
He studied at the Escola de la Llotja and at the private school operated by Pere Borrell del Caso.
In 1873, he went to Rome to complete his studies.
While there, he met Marià Fortuny, who works would influence his style.
Rosario de Velasco | Magic Realism painter
Rosario de Velasco Belausteguigoitia (Madrid, 1904 - Barcelona, 1991) Spanish painter.
Born in Madrid, in her early years she started an active painting career.
Pupil of Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza, developed a neo-traditional style imbued with Magic Realism.
Her favourite subjects were seascapes, portraits and landscapes.
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