Alfred Sisley: "I always start a painting with the sky"

▻ "Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love".

▻ "Ogni immagine mostra un elemento del quale l'artista si è innamorato".

Alfred Sisley | Works

Sisley's student works are lost.

His first landscape paintings are sombre, coloured with dark browns, greens, and pale blues.

They were often executed at Marly and Saint-Cloud. Little is known about Sisley's relationship with the paintings of J. M. W. Turner and John Constable, which he may have seen in London, but some have suggested that these artists may have influenced his development as an Impressionist painter, as may have Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.

Firmin Baes | Portrait / Figurative painter

Firmin Baes (1874, Saint-Josse-ten-Noode - 1943, Brussels) was a Belgian impressionist* painter.

The son of the decorative painter Henri Baes, Firmin Baes was active as a portrait painter and a painter of still life subjects, figures, landscapes and interiors. He studied under Léon Frédéric at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels between 1888-1894, and the elder artist’s influence is evident in many of Baes’s early paintings.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema | Spring / Primavera, 1894

A procession of women and children descending marble stairs carry and wear brightly colored flowers. Cheering spectators fill the windows and roof of a classical building.

Dutch-born British Classicist painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912)* here represented the Victorian custom of sending children into the country to collect flowers on the morning of May 1, or May Day, but placed the scene in ancient Rome.

Alessandro Andreuccetti, 1955 | Watercolor painter

Italian painter Alessandro Andreuccetti is born in San Gimignano, Italy. He studied art and architecture in Florence and, after graduating, started his job in 1980 as a graphic designer.

From 1978 he was interested in watermedia painting, fascinated with this technique and the support of hand-worked paper. He was showing paintings in many italian towns.

On 1983 he won the 1th prize at “Concorso nazionale del fumetto e del Fantastico di Prato” and he started to collaborate with Sergio Micheli of University of Siena and the editor Nerbini of Florence to realize comics and illustrations.

Sexto Canegallo | Pointillist / Futurist painter

Italian painter* Giuseppe Sexto Canegallo (Genova Sestri Ponente 1892 - Carezzano 1966) graduated from the Ligustica of Fine Arts of Genoa.
Originally a divisionist painter, after his transfer to Milan, was halfway between divisionism and futurism.
Sexto Canegallo successfully exhibited in Rome, Genoa and Paris.

Everett Shinn | Ashcan School painter

Everett Shinn (1876-1953), a painter, illustrator, designer and playwright who was best known for his images of the theater, was born in New Jersey in 1876.

He studied industrial design in Philadelphia from 1888-1890, and in 1893, he enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

At the same time, Shinn supported himself as an artist-reporter for the Philadelphia Press, where he became friends with William Glackens, George Luks, and John Sloan, whose style of urban realism influenced Shinn to depict the bleaker aspects of city life.

Paris painting | Page 5

"Avremo sempre Parigi !"

"We'll always have Paris !"

- diceva Humphrey Bogart ad Ingrid Bergman nel film Casablanca, una delle pellicole hollywoodiane più celebri di tutti i tempi, tratta dall'opera teatrale "Everybody Comes to Rick's" di Murray Burnett e Joan Alison, diretto nel 1942 da Michael Curtiz.

Nel 2005, questa frase fu scelta da 1500 addetti ai lavori dell'American Film Institute come la numero 43 tra le 100 migliori citazioni cinematografiche di tutti i tempi tratte da film di produzione USA.