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Dorothea Sharp | Plein air painter

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Dorothea Sharp ROI RBA (1874-1955) was a British artist* best known for her landscapes and naturalistic studies of children at play.
  • Life and career
Sharp was born in Dartford, Kent, and began her training aged 21, when, after inheriting £100 from an uncle, she attended the Richmond art school run by C. E. Johnson RI. She went on to study at the Regent Street Polytechnic, where her work was admired by George Clausen and David Murray.


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Pierre Auguste Cot | Springtime / Le Printemps, 1873

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O primavera! gioventù dell'anno!
O gioventù! primavera della vita!!!

O Spring! Youth of the year!
O youth! Springtime of life!!!


Springtime
Artist: Pierre-Auguste Cot (French, Bédarieux 1837-1883 Paris);
Date:1873;
Medium: Oil on canvas;
Dimensions: 84 x 50 in. (213.4 x 127 cm);
Classification: Paintings;
Credit Line: Gift of Steven and Alexandra Cohen, 2012;
Accession Number: 2012.575;
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 827.

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Federico Garcia Lorca | Indovinello della chitarra / Riddle of the guitar

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Nel rotondo
crocevia
sei fanciulle
ballano.

Tre d’argento
e tre di carne.

Federico Beltrán Masses | Tres Para Uno / Three for one, 1934

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Jean Abrie, 1962 | Pittore di figure

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Jean Abrie è nato in Sud Africa e nei suoi primi anni è cresciuto in Zimbabwe.
Quando è tornato in Sud Africa ha completato gli studi e si è laureato all'Università di Pretoria.
È ben noto per i suoi dipinti fotorealistici della fauna selvatica africana.
Jean Abrie vive in Sudafrica, dove trae ispirazione dalla natura, dagli animali e dalle persone del continente africano in continua evoluzione.

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Alois Arnegger | Romantic landscape painter | Part.3

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Unlike many artists of his time, Austrian painter* Alois Arnegger (1879-1967) was artistically inspired by a pre-Impressionist style rooted in Romanticism and Barbizon School theories.
Arnegger established a reputation as a fine portraitist and landscape artist, and was particularly well known for his Austrian and Italian scene paintings.


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Renoir | Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar, 1898

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir🎨
Young Spanish woman with a guitar
1898
55.6 x 65.2 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right: Renoir.98.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

"Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar" is an 1898 painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

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Alois Arnegger | Romantic landscape painter | Part.2

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Alois Arnegger* is an Austrian painter*, well known for his Austrian and Italian scene paintings.
Alois Arnegger was born in Vienna in 1879.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- by Arnegger see:

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Glenna Goodacre, 1939 | Figurative sculptor | Public Art

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Glenna Goodacre’s sculptures are immediately recognizable for their unique expression, texture, design and movement. Beginning as a painter provided a foundation for her first bronzes created in 1969.
She has since created over 600 different works, the most well-known of which is the Vietnam Women’s Memorial installed in Washington, D.C. in 1993. Her largest piece is the massive Irish Memorial created in 2002 for Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia.

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