Jean-François Millet at the National Museum of Wales

The goose girl's wistful gaze contrasts against the lively geese honking behind her and swimming in the water. In the background are the houses of Gruchy, the hamlet in Normandy where Millet was born.

This work was painted after his first visit to the area in nearly ten years.

There is a sense of personal nostlagia, less common to his works from Barbizon.

Jean Francois Millet | The goose girl at Gruchy | National Museum Wales

Emilio Grau Sala (1911-1975) | Colorist painter

Emilio (Emi) Grau Sala was a Catalan painter. He studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Barcelona.

He was a famous colorist (oil painting, watercolor and pastel) and illustrator.

Having made his debut at the Salon des Humoristes in Paris when extremely young, he had his first one-man show in Barcelona at the age of 18, and went on to have shows of his work throughout the world - Paris, Madrid, London, Buenos Aires, New York.

Wassily Kandinsky | I - Dell'Estetica, 1910

Lo spirituale nell'arte, 1910

I. Introduzione

Ogni opera d’arte è figlia del suo tempo, e spesso è madre dei nostri sentimenti.

Analogamente, ogni periodo culturale esprime una sua arte, che non si ripeterà mai più.

Lo sforzo di ridar vita a princìpi estetici del passato può creare al massimo delle opere d'arte che sembrano bambini nati morti. Noi non possiamo, ad esempio, avere la sensibilità e la vita interiore degli antichi Greci.

E se in scultura tentassimo di adottare i loro princìpi non faremmo che produrre forme simili alle loro, ma prive di anima.

Come le imitazioni delle scimmie. Esteriormente i movimenti delle scimmie sono perfettamente uguali a quelli dell'uomo.

Wassily Kandinsky | Oval n°2, 1925

Emily Dickinson | Heart! We will forget him! / Cuore! Lo dimenticheremo!

Heart! We will forget him!

You and I, tonight!

You may forget the warmth he gave,

I will forget the light!

Cuore! Lo dimenticheremo!

Tu ed io, questa notte!

Tu potrai dimenticare il calore che dava -

Io dimenticherò la luce!

Francine Van Hove, 1942

Willem Kalf | Dutch Golden Age painter

Willem Kalf (1619-1693) was a Dutch Golden Age painter who specialized in still lifes. Later in his life, Kalf became an art dealer and appraiser.

Life and work

Willem Kalf was born in Rotterdam, in 1619. He was previously thought to have been born in 1622, but H. E. van Gelder's important archival research has established the painter's correct place and date of birth. Kalf was born into a prosperous patrician family in Rotterdam, where his father, a cloth merchant, held municipal posts as well.