Salvatore Quasimodo | Ed e' subito sera / And suddenly it is evening

Ognuno sta solo sul cuor della terra
trafitto da un raggio di sole:
ed è subito sera.

Everyone stands alone at the heart of the world

pierced by a ray of sunlight,

and suddenly it is evening.

Dan Beck, 1955 | Figurative painter

Equally adept at figurative, still-life and landscape, Dan Beck is an award winning artist and sought after teacher.

His paintings have found collectors in both the private and corporate world on a national level as well as from such diverse places as Canada, Japan and the Middle East. Dan's work has also been featured in "Southwest Art", "Art of the West" magazines and "Art Talk".

Jaume Plensa, 1955 | Conceptual sculptor

Jaume Plensa is a Spanish artist and sculptor.

Plensa's works include the Crown Fountain at Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois, which opened in July 2004.

The fountain is composed of a black granite reflecting pool placed between a pair of glass brick towers. The towers are 50 feet (15 m) tall, and they use light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to display digital videos on the inward faces.

In the summer of 2007 he participated in the Chicago Public Art exhibit, Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet.

Another Plensa piece is Blake in Gateshead in North East England, a laser beam that on special occasions shines high into the night sky over Gateshead's Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.

Felice Pedretti, 1961 | Metaphysical / Symbolist painter

Felice Pedretti was born in South Africa to Italian parents. In 1977, after having attended an English school, he came to Italy where he had the privilege of meeting artist and restorer Luigi Ferrero, who aroused in him a deep interest in ancient art.

«What I’m teaching you are ancient gestures and the result of centuries of experience and love for art», are his Teacher’s words that have remained impressed in his mind.

Elena Filatov, 1968 | Abstract painter

Kazakhstani painter Elena Filatov studied art and music in Omsk/Siberia and Moscow and worked as a graphic designer in Chabarovsk/Asia and Portland/USA.
Elena Filatov has been living in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, since 1995. An independent designer and illustrator she is trained in the following art techniques: oil, pastel, gouache, aquarelle, lead and coal pencil and collages.

Wassily Kandinsky | Concerning the Spiritual in Art / La spiritualità nell'Arte, 1910

La spiritualità nell’arte / Concerning the Spiritual in Art/ Über das Geistige in der Kunst, è il titolo che Wassily Kandinsky diede al saggio del 1911, dove spiegò il problema dell'astrazione, esaminando il rapporto possibile tra la spiritualità e le manifestazioni artistiche.

Nel capodanno del 1911 Wassily Kandinsky assiste ad un concerto di Arnold Schönberg a Monaco. Tornato a casa Kandinsky, pur non conoscendolo personalmente, scrive una lettera al compositore per renderlo partecipe di tutto il suo entusiasmo nell’aver assistito al concerto e, per parlargli di quelli che, secondo lui, sono i punti di contatto forte tra i suoi dipinti e la musica del compositore.

Sandro Botticelli | Artwoks | Page 7

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (c. 1445 - May 17, 1510), known as Sandro Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century, when he was rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelites who stimulated a reappraisal of his work. Since then, his paintings have been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting.

In addition to the mythological subjects for which he is best known today, Botticelli painted a wide range of religious subjects (including dozens of renditions of the Madonna and Child, many in the round tondo shape) and also some portraits.

His best-known works are The Birth of Venus and Primavera, both in the Uffizi in Florence.

Botticelli lived all his life in the same neighbourhood of Florence; his only significant times elsewhere were the months he spent painting in Pisa in 1474 and the Sistine Chapel in Rome in 1481–82.

Nguyen Thanh Binh, 1954 | Minimalist Romantic painter

Nguyen Thanh Binh is an exponent of the increasing popularity of Vietnamese art.

After graduating from art institutes in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, he achieved international recognition for his graceful paintings.

His work frequently being exhibited around Asia, America and Europe.