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The Head of Franz Kafka by David Černý

Other work by artist David Černý is located at yard of the shopping center Quadrio, metro Národní třída in Prague.
This bust of Franz Kafka weighs 39 tons and is composed of 42 moving layers and reaches a height of 11 meters.


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Henri Lamy, 1985 | Abstract painter


Henri Lamy is a French figurative painter, being used to paint, thanks to his father, when he was a kid, Henri admires Pollock «drip painting» technique (that consists in dropping paint from the palette knife he uses, straight to the canvas, or even throwing it).


Seduced by acrylic painting, the quality of his work is enhanced by the sharp and expressive colours of his compositions, abstract when you are close, getting figurative when you go further.
He became part of the 59 Rivoli (old art squat, that now belongs to the city of Paris, gathering more than 30 artists), and currently exhibits in Beijing (in collaboration with Coral Contemporary Art).






























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Luigi Querena (1824-1887) | Veduta painter


Luigi Querena was an Italian painter🎨, born in Venice. Following in the footsteps of his father Lattanzio, a painter of historical and religious works, Luigi enrolled at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts at the age of 12 years.
He studied under Federico Moja and distinguished himself as a vedute painter. The contemporary art critic Sagredo said that Luigi was reviving Canaletto🎨.

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Henri Fantin-Latour | Symbolist / Still Life painter

"I even belief that the schools and artistic movements is past.
After the Romantic movement, born of classicizing exaggeration, after the Realist movement, product of the follies of Romanticism, it may be seen that there is a great foolishness in all these ideas.
We are going to achieve a personal manner of feeling" - Henri Fantin-Latour🎨 (1836-1904).


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Giovanni Sottocornola | Divisionist / Genre painter

Giovanni Sottocornola (1855-1917) was an Italian painter🎨.
He was born in Milan of humble origins.
In 1875 he enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where he attended the courses of Raffaele Casnedi and Giuseppe Bertini until 1880 and met his fellow students Gaetano Previati🎨, Emilio Longoni🎨 and Giovanni Segantini🎨.
While the portraits and still lifes presented at the Brera exhibitions of the following years enjoyed considerable success on the art market, he began to address social themes early in the new decade and experimented with the Divisionist technique in paintings like The Worker’s Dawn (1897, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan).


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Giovanni Sottocornola | The worker's dawn / L'alba dell'operaio, 1897

Giovanni Sottocornola🎨 was an Milanese painter, best known for his charming genre scenes set in Italy’s Lombardy region.
Sottocornola was born in Milan, Italy, in 1855.

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

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Gaspar van Wittel | Baroque / Veduta painter

Caspar van Wittel or Gaspar van Wittel - born Jasper Adriaensz van Wittel; Italian name variations: Gaspare Vanvitelli, Gasparo degli Occhiali- (1652/1653, Amersfoort - September 13, 1736, Rome) was a Dutch painter and draughtsman who had a long career in Rome.
He played a pivotal role in the development of the genre of topographical painting known as veduta.
He is credited with turning topography into a painterly specialism in Italian art.


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Angelo Morbelli | Divisionist / Genre painter

Angelo Morbelli (1853-1919) was an Italian painter of the Divisionist style.
A grant from the City Council of Alessandria enabled Morbelli to enrol at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, in 1867.
He was awarded the Fumagalli Prize at the Brera exhibition of 1883 for Last Days (Milan, Galleria d’Arte Moderna) as well as a gold medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889.