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Gustave Caillebotte | Stile e contenuti

Nonostante l'impegno impressionista Caillebotte interpretò gli stilemi del movimento in modo assolutamente personale, senza abdicare alla propria formazione e ubbidendo soprattutto alla propria sensibilità.
Alla poetica dell'attimo fuggente e irripetibile, colto in un solo battito di ciglia, egli preferì infatti la solida costruttività del disegno, già appreso durante il discepolato con Bonnat: in aperta controtendenza con l'impostazione impressionista, d'altronde, egli era solito meditare a lungo sulle composizioni, realizzando talora diversi schizzi preparatori.
L'originalità del Caillebotte, dunque, sta proprio nel mirabile equilibrio con cui riusciva a fondere la sua dichiarata matrice accademica con gli spunti di modernità, intelligentemente soppesati e impiegati.
Non desta meraviglia, pertanto, che lo stile di Caillebotte non è interamente impressionista, bensì presenta anche contaminazioni accademiste e realiste.


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Vittorio Matteo Corcos | Dreams / Sogni, 1896 | Art in Detail



Title: Dreams
Description: The young lady is Elena Vecchi, a friend's daughter.
Date: 1896
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 160 × 135 cm
Current location: National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome.

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Marilyn Simandle | Plein air painter


Marilyn Simandle has always known that she would become an artist. Learning from her mother, a musician and painter, Marilyn started painting watercolors at age 6. She received her BA Arts Degree from San Jose State Univ. and went on to share her inspiration with the world.
A native Californian, she now resides in the Santa Ynez Valley where she explores all her passions: Painting, gardening and playing the piano. The former stewardess is an avid traveler and photographer that keep her fully stocked with subject matter for painting. Her late husband and acclaimed artist, Ted Goerschner, graduated to be with the Lord in 2012.

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Sir John Lavery R.A. | Plein Air / Portrait painter




Sir John Lavery R.A. (1856-1941)* was a well-known Irish-born British painter*, associated with the Glasgow Boys*, a group of artists who followed the French "En plein air*" movement.
Sir John Lavery R.A. was born in Belfast in 1856 and educated in Glasgow, London and Paris.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Lavery see: Sir John Lavery R.A. | The Glasgow School of Art*.

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Cristina Fornarelli, 1978 | Figurative Palette knife painter

Cristina Fornarelli was born in Bari, Italy. After art school, she attended the Institute of Industrial Design in Rome where she still lives and works.
She has taken part in many national and international art fairs.
The subjects of her paintings are always women in equilibrium, hanging on swings, dangling in the air, dancing in an indefinite space emphasizing this delicate atmosphere. Her dreamlike subjects are relaxed and nostalgic, where the image seems crystallized and frozen.


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Lord Frederic Leighton | Cymon and Iphigenia, 1884


Cymon and Iphigenia is an oil on canvas painting by Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton PRA.
The painting does not bear a date but was first exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 1884.
The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, purchased it at a Christie's auction in London in 1976.

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Lorenzo Lotto | High Renaissance painter



Lorenzo Lotto, (born c. 1480, Venice [Italy]-died 1556, Loreto, Papal States), late Renaissance Italian painter* known for his perceptive portraits and mystical paintings of religious subjects. He represents one of the best examples of the fruitful relationship between the Venetian and Central Italian (Marche) schools.

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Master of the Female Half-Lengths | Renaissance painter


The Master of the Female Half-Lengths*, active ca.1530-1540, was a Dutch* Northern Renaissance painter* or likely a group of painters of a workshop.
The name was given in the 19th century to identify the maker or makers of a body of work consisting of 67 paintings to which since 40 more have been added.
The works were apparently the product of a large workshop that specialized in small-scale panels depicting aristocratic young ladies at half-length.