Wassily Kandinsky | Art Quotes / Aforismi sull'arte

✔ Ogni opera d'arte è figlia del suo tempo e spesso è madre della nostra sensibilità.

✔ Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions.

✔ Color is a power which directly influences the soul.

✔ Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.

✔ L'arte oltrepassa i limiti nei quali il tempo vorrebbe comprimerla, ed indica il contenuto del futuro.

✔ Il colore è un mezzo di esercitare sull'anima un'influenza diretta. Il colore è un tasto, l'occhio il martelletto che lo colpisce, l'anima lo strumento dalle mille corde.

✔ An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

✔ Mi sembrava che l'anima viva dei colori emettesse un richiamo musicale, quando l'inflessibile volontà del pennello strappava loro una parte di vita.

David Graux, 1970 | Abstract Figurative painter

David Graux was born in Besançon, France, where he still lives and works.

He has experimented with different styles before finding his own unique artistic touch.

His main subject is the beauty and mystery of woman, evoked both through his sensual nudes and through the symbolic richness and Oriental motifs of his colorful backgrounds.

His paintings are, in effect, forms of tangible poetry. Even David Graux’s titles exude poetry, let alone his evocative art.

Valeriy Belenikin / Валерий Беленикин, 1961 | Figurative painter

Born at Moscow, Valery Belenikin / Валерий Беленикин is a graduate of the Moscow Academy of Fine Arts named after V. I. Surikov. The artist's conception of his work is based upon truth and the mystery of this life.

He is in awe of all that takes place in this world. Not only human banality, but all that is best in humanity occupy the thoughts of the true artist.

As master of various artistic techniques (murals, frescoes, mosaics) he is easily able to communicate his innermost emotions and feelings.

Walter Girotto, 1953 | Symbolic / Figurative painter

Walter Girotto was born in a small northern Italian town called Rovigo and it was May 4th when his family moved to Turin (Italy) to seek their fortune.

The only things he likes to remember about his town of origin are the branches of the weeping willow in the small garden, two tin soldiers and a picture of a whale, drawn at nursery school when he was 4, under the incredulous gaze of a nun who was unaware that her admiring glance was to decide his life as a painter.

Auguste Rodin | Impressionist / Romantic sculptor

Auguste Rodin's works created a new era in sculpture.

Known as Auguste Rodin, François-Auguste-René Rodin, was a romantic and realistic french sculptor

Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past.

He was schooled traditionally, took a craftsman-like approach to his work, and desired academic recognition, although he was never accepted into Paris's foremost school of art.

Sculpturally, Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, deeply pocketed surface in clay.

Harald Slott-Møller | Symbolist painter

Born in Copenhagen, Danish painter Slott Georg Harald Møller (17 August 1864 - 20 October 1937) was the son of merchant Carl Emil Møller and Anna Maria née Møller.

After completing the preparatory course at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (1883), he painted for three years under Peder Severin Krøyer🎨.

Slott-Møller first exhibited in 1886 at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition and attracted attention in 1888 with his large lively work Fattigfolk i Fattiglægens Venteværelse  | Poor People in the Poor Doctor's Waiting Room🎨.

He exhibited at Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Den Frie Udstilling with individual portraits, such as that of Georg Brandes (Georg Brandes at the University in Copenhagen, 1889) and landscapes, which often featured a prominent spot.

Mathis Miles Williams, 1964 | Figurative painter

Mathis Miles Williams is an American artist🎨 born in Texas. He currently lives in Western Massachusetts.

He graduated in Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Texas in 1984 with a degree in philosophy.

Later in 80’s he switched his career and won the Alkazzi Fellowship to study fine art at the Tate Gallery in London in 1990.

Education

• Lyndon B. Johnson School Of Public Affairs, Austin, Texas. 1984. A two-year masters program in politics and management. Full Merit Scholarship. Withdrew to pursue art career.
• University Of Texas, Austin, Texas. 1982-1984. Graduated Summa cum Laude (3.9 GPA) in May 1984 at age 20 with a Bachelor of Arts. Double Major in Philosophy and Latin, minor in History. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. Special Honors in philosophy.
• Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania. 1981. National Merit Scholarship, National Honor Society Scholarship, Junior Classical League Scholarship (for Latin). Studied Liberal Arts.

Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Portrait of Pope Francis

Roberto Ferri🎨 devoted himself to Caravaggesque and academic painting - including Ingres🎨, David, Gericault - but also by Surrealist painters🎨.

Ferri's way of painting is elevated by a technique which is almost virtuosity, where the traditional tools of the surrealism are inserted onto the traditional iconographic elements.

Born in Taranto, Italy, he began to study painting at first as a self-taught person and, after moving to Rome in 1999, he deepened his research on ancient painting from the early ’16 century till late ’19 century.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Roberto Ferri see:

• Roberto Ferri🎨, 1978 | Baroque Era style painter.