Giunto è già 'l corso della vita mia
Per tempestoso mar con fragil barca
Al comun porto , ov'a render si varca
Conto e ragion d'ogni opra trista e pia.
Frithjof Smith-Hald | Landscape painter
Frithjof Smith-Hald (1846-1903) was a Norwegian landscape painter.
From 1865-1870 he attended the Royal Drawing School (established in 1816) in the capital Christiania, and Johan Fredrik Eckersberg (1822-1870) Painting School in Border (established in 1859).
From 1871-1873 he moved to Karlsruhe in Germany, and taught with Hans Gude (1825-1903) who had gone there in 1864.
From 1873-1878 Smith-Hald was at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf where Gude had been from 1841. But he preferred Paris and moved there in 1878, and became Norway's most famous painter in Europe at the time.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: "Ho cercato di fare ciò che è vero e non ideale"
• "Of course one should not drink much, but often".
• "I paint things as they are. I don't comment".
• "Dipingo le cose come stanno. Io non commento. Io registro".
• "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return".
David Černý, 1967 | Metalmorphosis | Giant Rotating Heads
Metalmorphosis is a 14-ton water fountain that's shaped like a human head. On top of that, the sculpture is made with over 35 steel layers that can independently rotate 360 degrees to re-arrange its face and trip your brains out.
The mirrored water fountain is made by Czech sculptor David Černý and is located in Whitehall Technology Park in Charlotte, North Carolina.
James Smetham | The Dream, 1856
James Smetham (1821-1889), a Victorian painter and critic, is better remembered for his friendships with such Pre-Raphaelite figureheads as Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Ruskin than for the short time in his career when he adopted their artistic ideology into his own aesthetic.
"The Dream" is a good example of Smetham’s take on the Pre-Raphaelite style as it sports many of its characteristic elements, including the arched format, meticulous finish, and moody intensity.
James Smetham | The Dream, 1856 | High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Edward William Cooke (1811-1880)
Edward William Cooke was an English🎨 landscape and marine painter and gardener.
Cooke was born in Pentonville, London, the son of well-known line engraver George Cooke; his uncle, William Bernard Cooke (1778-1855), was also a line engraver of note, and Edward was raised in the company of artists.
He was a precocious draughtsman and a skilled engraver from an early age, displayed an equal preference for marine subjects (in special in sailing ships) and published his "Shipping and Craft" - a series of accomplished engravings - when he was 18, in 1829.
He benefited from the advice of many of his father's associates, notably Clarkson Stanfield (whose principal marine follower he became) and David Roberts.
Cooke began painting in oils in 1833, took formal lessons from James Stark in 1834 and first exhibited at the Royal Academy and British Institution in 1835, by which time his style was essentially formed.
He went on to travel and paint with great industry at home and abroad, indulging his love of the 17th-century Dutch marine artists with a visit to the Netherlands in 1837.
He returned regularly over the next 23 years, studying the effects of the coastal landscape and light, as well as the works of the country's Old Masters, resulting in highly successful paintings.
These included 'Beaching a Pink at Scheveningen' (National Maritime Museum, London), which he exhibited in 1855 at the Royal Academy, of which he was an Associate from 1851. He went on to travel in Scandinavia, Spain, North Africa and, above all, to Venice.
In 1858, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Academician.
Cooke was "particularly attracted by the Isle of Wight, and on his formative visit of 1835 he made a thorough study of its fishing boats and lobster pots; above all he delighted in the beaches strewn with rocks of various kinds, fishing tackle, breakwaters and small timber-propped jetties".
He also had serious natural history and geological interests, being a Fellow of the Linnean Society, Fellow of the Geological Society and Fellow of the Zoological Society, and of the Society of Antiquaries.
In the 1840s he helped his friend, the horticulturist, James Bateman fit out and design the gardens at Biddulph Grange in Staffordshire, in particular the orchids and rhododendrons.
His geological interests in particular led to his election as Fellow of the Royal Society in 1863 and he became a Royal Academician the following year.
In 1842 John Edward Gray named a species of boa, Corallus cookii, in Cooke's honor. | © Wikipedia
Edvard Munch | Symbolist / Expressionist painter
Edvard Munch, (born December 12, 1863, Löten, Norway - died January 23, 1944, Ekely, near Oslo), Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.
His painting The Scream, or The Cry (1893)🎨, can be seen as a symbol of modern spiritual anguish.
Edvard Munch | The Scream / L'urlo, 1893
The Scream is the best known and most frequently reproduced of all Edvard Munch’s (1863-1944) motifs.
With its expressive colours, its flowing lines and striking overall effect, its appeal is universal.
Despite radical simplification, the landscape in the picture is recognisable as the Kristiania Fjord seen from Ekeberg, with a broad view over the fjord, the town and the hills beyond.
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