Claude Monet | Woman Seated under the Willows, 1880

A woman sits among loosely painted, crescent-shape blades of emerald and lemon-lime green grass, under tall trees in this vertical scene.

The brushstrokes are unconnected and visible, so many of the details difficult to make out.

Facing our left almost in profile, the woman’s form is suggested with thick strokes of eggshell white, periwinkle blue, mint green, and deep pink.

We get the impression of a light-colored dress that pools around her hips and legs, and a hat atop dark hair. Her face is painted with an area of blush peach.

Claude Monet | Woman Seated under the Willows, 1880 | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Elena Barenbaum (Eve Farb)

Illustrator Eve Farb / Ева Фарб - real name Elena Barenbaum / Елена Баренбаум, works both as an illustrator and as a psychologist.

She has a passion for design and Russian fairy tales, and has illustrated multiple books published in Russia, where she is from and lives with her husband and her cat.

Gabriele D'Annunzio | I pastori / The Shepherds

Settembre, andiamo. È tempo di migrare.

Ora in terra d'Abruzzi i miei pastori

lascian gli stazzi e vanno verso il mare:

scendono all'Adriatico selvaggio

che verde è come i pascoli dei monti.

Giovanni Segantini | Mezzogiorno sulle Alpi / Midday in the Alps, 1891

Gabriele D’Annunzio | La pioggia nel pineto / The rain in the pinewood

Taci. Su le soglie

del bosco non odo

parole che dici

umane; ma odo

parole più nuove

che parlano gocciole e foglie

lontane.

Claude Monet | The Rain (La pluie), 1886-1887

Toni Demuro, 1974 | Surreal memory of the Trees

Italian painter and illustrator Toni Demuro was born in Sardinia.

In 1997 he graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine art in Sassari and since then has worked as a creative in the field of visual arts and design.

He won the prize "Acquaviva nei Fumetti" in 1996 and has collaborated as an illustrator with Legambiente, published with Vanity Fair, Carlo Spera Editore, Eli Edizioni, La Peste (Mexico) and Manifesto (Greece).