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Giorgio Conta, 1978 | Figurative sculptor

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Giorgio Conta grew up in an artistic environment where, being his father a well known artist, he came into contact with various personalities from the art and culture world, including the great pianist Arturo Benedetti Michel-angeli, close friend of the family, who expressed the wish to be his Godfather. After having earned his high-school diploma he attended a sculpture school devoting himself to painting and drawing as well.

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Antonio Sannino, 1959 | Abstract /Cityscape painter

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Antonio Sannino was born in Naples in 1959. He lives and works in Naples and Rome.
He is been focusing for years in portraying "landscapes". Sannino has been able to create new representations of the landscape, by searching new framing, re-drawing the space and its contents. He uses his camera to catch the best light in his pictures, that moment when everything seems to be frozen and timeless. His sea surfaces do not only reproduce water but they emphasize the transparency and light.

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Paul Gauguin | Still life

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  • "L'arte è un'astrazione: spremetela dalla natura sognando di fronte ad essa e preoccupatevi più della creazione che del risultato".

  • "When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body".
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Stile artistico

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Renoir è stato uno degli interpreti più convinti e spontanei del movimento Impressionista.
Artista prodigiosamente prolifico, con all'attivo ben cinquemila tele e un numero altrettanto cospicuo di disegni e acquerelli, Renoir si è distinto anche per la sua poliedricità, tanto che possiamo distinguere numerosi periodi nella sua produzione pittorica.

È lo stesso Renoir, in ogni caso, a parlare del suo metodo di fare arte:

«Dispongo il mio soggetto come voglio, poi mi metto a dipingerlo come farebbe un bambino. Voglio che il rosso sia sonoro e squillante come una campana, quando non ci riesco aggiungo altri rossi ed altri colori finché non l'ottengo.


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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Impressionist painter | Part.4

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, commonly known as Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), was a French* artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau".

For biographical notes -in english and italian- see:
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Impressionist painter ➺

For other works by Renoir see:
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Impressionist painter | Part.3

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, commonly known as Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), was a French* artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau".

For biographical notes -in english and italian- see:
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Impressionist painter ➺

For other works by Renoir see:
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Impressionist painter | Part.2

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, commonly known as Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), was a French* artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau".

For biographical notes -in english and italian- see:
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Impressionist painter ➺

For other works by Renoir see:
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Impressionist painter | Part.1

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, commonly known as Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), was a French* artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau".

For biographical notes -in english and italian- see:
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Impressionist painter ➺

For other works by Renoir see:
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