David Tutwiler ~ American Railroad Art

Renowned for his firsthand knowledge of Trains and Railroads, David Tutwiler is considered to be one of the leading experts of Railroad Art in the United States today. His artistic technique, coupled with his eye for accuracy and attention to detail, result in paintings that evoke the warmth and timelessness of his subjects.

Concerto di Capodanno di Vienna, 2014

La Filarmonica di Vienna ha invitato a Daniel Barenboim per guidare il Concerto di Capodanno del 2014. Questo è un riconoscimento a 25 anni di collaborazione musicale dell’orchestra col Direttore Generale Musicale dell’Opera di Stato Berlinese, qui ha diritto il suo premier Concerto di Capodanno con la Filarmonica di Vienna nel 2009, e per tutti gli apporti artistici, in aggiunta al riconoscimento mondiale del suo coraggio personale per costruire dei ponti e riconciliare quello ch’è irreconciliabile.

Tanti auguri di Buon 2014 !

Il giorno nasce con un nuovo raggio di sole,
la vita nasce con un nuovo amore
ed il tuo anno nuovo con i miei migliori auguri.
            Auguri di Buon Anno!

Dal 1939 la Wiener Philarmoniker in concerto

Evento di fama mondiale, perla della tradizione musicale viennese, il Concerto di Capodanno di Vienna rappresenta per gli appassionati del genere un appuntamento irrinunciabile. Trasmesso dalla Goldener Saal -Sala d'Oro- del prestigioso Musikverein, per l’occasione addobbata con opere d’arte floreali di matrice sanremese, l’esibizione dell’orchestra dei filarmonici annovera un pubblico di oltre un miliardo di spettatori e vanta la messa in onda di emittenti televisive di oltre quaranta paesi.

Buon 2014.. Felice Anno Nuovo !!

Libera in cielo i tuoi desideri
perché ad ogni ventata improvvisa tu te ne posa ricordare.
Libera in cielo le tue paure
perché con la sua profondità le mischi con le stelle
e le trasformi in nuovi punti di riferimento per crescere.

Elli Michler | I wish you time / Ti auguro tempo

Non ti auguro un dono qualsiasi,
ti auguro soltanto quello che i più non hanno:

I don't wish you all sorts of gifts.

I just wish you, what most people don't have:

Carl Payne, 1969 ~ Figurative sculptor

British sculptor Carl Payne was born in Staffordshire. During his education he studied Figurative Sculpture and began on his first commission in 2000. Since then, Payne has compiled an extensive ensemble of commissions including 'Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross' and 'King George and Queen Mary' which were unveiled by George Best, Bobby Moore and Pele and by Princess Anne at Banbury respectively. Today he has a wide variety of collectors throughout the world.

Payne's works are incredibly lifelike, portraying their subjects flawlessly, the pieces look like they might spring to life at any given moment. Despite a lack of use of colour, the pieces convey a dynamic sense of weight and movement, capturing the viewer in the freeze-frame that his sculptures are trapped in.

Leonardo Bistolfi | Symbolist sculptor

Leonardo Bistolfi (1859-1933) was an Italian sculptor, an important exponent of Italian Symbolism. Bistolfi was born in Casale Monferrato in Piedmont, north-west Italy, to Giovanni Bistolfi, a sculptor in wood and to Angela Amisano.
In 1876 he enrolled in the Brera Art Academy in Milan, where his teacher was Giosuè Argenti. In 1880 he studied under Odoardo Tabacchi at the Accademia Albertina in Turin.

His first works Le lavandaie "The Washerwomen", Tramonto ‘Sunset’, Vespero ‘Evening’, Boaro ‘Cattle-hand’, Gli amanti ‘The Lovers’, executed between 1880 and 1885, show the influence of the Milanese Scapigliatura. In 1882 he sculpted L'Angelo della morte ‘The Angel of Death’ for the Brayda tomb in the Turin cemetery known as the Cimitero Monumentale, and in 1883 he produced a bust of the painter Antonio Fontanesi for the Accademia Albertina: these works show a turn towards Symbolism which the artist was never to abandon.

From this time until 1914 Bistolfi produced many busts, medals and portraits of prominent figures including the Piedmontese painter Lorenzo Delleani, the kings of Italy Vittorio Emanuele II and Umberto I, the criminologist Cesare Lombroso, the writer Edmondo De Amicis, and the publisher and journalist Emilio Treves.
In the early 1890s he was made an honorary member of the Accademia Albertina and became secretary of the Circolo degli Artisti ‘Artists’ Circle’.
In 1892 he began a two-year task of decorating Chapel XVI of the Sacro Monte di Crea, one of the Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy which are recognised as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In 1893 he married Maria Gusberti.