Charles Levier | Cubist painter

French painter🎨 Charles Levier (1920-2003) was born to a French father and American mother in Corsica.

From an early age, he held a fascination with color and form which led him, at age seventeen, to the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs for private studies.
During World War II, Levier served in the French Army in North Africa, later becoming Liaison Officer with the U.S. Office of Strategic Services.

John Singer Sargent | Venice painting

Sargent's Venice work illustrates an artistic double-life

By Roderick Conway Morris, © The New York Times, april 20, 2007

John Singer Sargent⏭ was the most sought-after society painter of the late 19th and early 20th century. But he led a double life.
Throughout the nearly 30 years he was occupied with portraiture, he produced hundreds of landscapes and figure studies not intended for public view, seldom seen outside his studio or beyond his immediate circle of family and friends.

Leonid Pasternak | Post-impressionist painter

Leonid Osipovič Pasternak, Леонид Осипович Пастернак (1862-1945) è stato un pittore Russo, appartenente alla corrente Post-impressionista, padre di Boris Pasternak.

Leonid Pasternak è nato a Odessa in una famiglia ebrea. Erano cinque bambini ed il padre era albergatore.

Dal 1878-1881, studia il disegno in una scuola di Odessa, poi entra alla facoltà di medicina dell'Università statale di Mosca.

Dal 1883-1885 studia alla facoltà di diritto dell'università di Nuova Russia a Odessa.

El Greco | Influence on other artists

According to Efi Foundoulaki, "painters and theoreticians from the beginning of the 20th century 'discovered' a new El Greco (1541-1614) but in process they also discovered and revealed their own selves".

His expressiveness and colors influenced Eugène Delacroix and Édouard Manet.

To the Blaue Reiter group in Munich in 1912, El Greco typified that mystical inner construction that it was the task of their generation to rediscover.

The first painter who appears to have noticed the structural code in the morphology of the mature El Greco was Paul Cézanne, one of the forerunners of Cubism.

Delphin Enjolras | Academic painter

Delphin Enjolras (1857 Coucouron - 1945 Toulouse) was a French⏭ academic painter. Enjolras painted portraits, figures, interiors, and used mostly watercolours, oil and pastels.

He is best known for his intimate portraits of young women performing mundane activities such as reading or sewing, often by illuminated by lamplight.

Perhaps his most famous work is the "Young Woman Reading by a Window".

Konstantin Gorbatov | Post-impressionist painter

Kонстантин Иванович Горбатов (1876-1945) was a Russian post-impressionist painter.

Gorbatov was born in the small Volga river town of Stavropol. After initially studying architecture at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, he transferred to the painting department where he studied under Nikolai Dubovskoy and Aleksandr Kiselev, though he was most influenced by Ilya Repin and Arkhip Kuindzhi.

In 1911, Gorbatov was officially granted the title of Artist and awarded a gold medal at an international exhibition in Munich.

Carl Vilhelm Holsøe | Interior scenes with figures

Carl Vilhelm Holsøe (1863-1935) is a very much respected artist of the Danish school. Holsøe became a well-listed, highly acclaimed artist.

Escaping from the sentimentality of Golden Age interiors, Holsoe and his contemporaries imbued this traditional genre with a sense of timeless sanctity.

Through the depiction of solitary, usually female, figures with concealed identities, Holsoe's paintings evoke the brooding nature of introspection and self-absorption.

His work, influenced by the 17th Century interiors of the Dutch masters Vermeer, de Hooch and ter Borch, explored the emotional content inherent in the household interior.

Vincent van Gogh | View of the Church of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole, 1889

Artist: Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)⏭

Title: View of the Church of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole

Date: Saint-Rémy, Autumn 1889

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 45.1 × 60.4 cm (17.7 × 23.7 in)

Collection: Elizabeth Taylor, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, North America