Moïse Kisling | Post-Impressionist / Modern painter

Moïse Kisling (January 22, 1891 - April 29, 1953) was a Polish🎨-born French painter🎨, best known for his highly stylized, unsettling portraits, still lifes ecc.

Born in Kraków, Austria-Hungary, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków.

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

• Moïse Kisling | Paris school of artists🎨

Renoir | Jeune paysanne mangeant une pomme

Renoir and Berthe Morisot became close friends in 1885 - when both artists were forty-four years old - and continued to be until Morisot's death a decade later.

Morisot invited Renoir to her weekly dinner parties and during this period he frequently visited Morisot at her summer home in Mézy.

While their subjects and ultimately their styles differ, the similarity of palette and brushwork in each artist's work of the mid-1880s to the mid-1890s is notable.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Italien à la mandoline

A consummate example of Bouguereau's🎨 ability to render tender portraits of children, Italien à la mandoline depicts a young peasant boy holding his elegant instrument.

Although images of boys are rare in Bouguereau's oeuvre, perhaps, as Damien Bartoli suggests, because of the artist's difficult relationship with his own father, this youth appears in three other works which date to this same period - Pifferaro (1870)🎨, Pifferaro (1874)🎨 and Enfant Italien tenant une croûte de pain (1874).

William-Adolphe Bouguereau🎨 | Italien a la mandoline

With his flushed plump pink cheeks and sparkling eyes, this lad appears as the very embodiment of youth. As he stares languidly off into the distance, there is a sweet innocence about him that reminds one of the halcyon days of childhood.

By the time Bouguereau painted Italien à la mandoline, he had already gained considerable recognition in Paris where he regularly exhibited at the Salon.

But Bouguereau was born in the countryside and his heart remained there, leading him to spend long stretches outside of Paris painting the monde paysan; the subject for which he is most remembered today.

Italien à la mandoline thus represents Bouguereau doing what he loved most, painting the French peasantry, whom he perceived as embodying beauty, purity and hope, the central principles of his artistic philosophy. | Christie's

William-Adolphe Bouguereau🎨 | Pifferaro, 1870 | Christie's

Esemplare esempio della capacità di Bouguereau di rendere teneri ritratti di bambini, Italien à la mandoline raffigura un giovane contadino che regge il suo elegante strumento.

Sebbene le immagini di ragazzi siano rare nell'opera di Bouguereau, forse, come suggerisce Damien Bartoli, a causa della difficile relazione dell'artista con il proprio padre, questa giovinezza appare in altre tre opere che risalgono a questo stesso periodo:

• Pifferaro (1870)🎨,
• Pifferaro (1874)🎨,
• Enfant Italien tenant une croûte de pain (1874).

Con le sue guance paffute paffute e gli occhi scintillanti, questo ragazzo appare come l'incarnazione stessa della giovinezza. Mentre fissa languidamente in lontananza, c'è una dolce innocenza su di lui che ricorda uno dei giorni felici dell'infanzia.

Quando Bouguereau dipinse Italien à la mandoline, aveva già ottenuto notevoli riconoscimenti a Parigi, dove esponeva regolarmente al Salon.

Ma Bouguereau nacque in campagna ed il suo cuore rimase lì, portandolo a trascorrere lunghi tratti fuori Parigi dipingendo il monde paysan; il soggetto per il quale è più ricordato oggi.

Italien à la mandoline rappresenta così Bouguereau facendo ciò che amava di più, dipingendo i contadini francesi, che considerava incarnanti bellezza, purezza e speranza, i principi centrali della sua filosofia artistica. | Christie's

William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Pifferaro, 1870 | Christie's (detail)

William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Pifferaro, 1874

Norbert Goeneutte | Impressionist painter

From: The National Gallery

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Born in Paris, Norbert Gœneutte (1854-1894) enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1872, studying first under Isidore Pils, who died in 1875, and then under his replacement, Henri Lehmann.

In the mid-1870s he met Marcellin Desboutin, who taught him etching.

He was associated with the Impressionists, especially Renoir, and in the 1880s painted Parisian scenes, from famous landmarks to boulevard subjects.

He also worked in Brittany, Normandy and Bordeaux.

In his later years he settled in Auvers-sur-Oise. | © The National Gallery

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Come ho accennato nel primo articolo Come trasformare la passione in professione🎨, pubblicherò una serie intitolata Art Blogger Fai da te, con l'intento di avvicinare gli artisti e gli amanti dell'arte all'internet, aiutandoli a costruire ed aggiornare da soli i propri siti d'arte, senza aver bisogno di pagare gli altri, anzi, guadagnando dal programma Adsense di Google.

Norbert Goeneutte (French, 1854-1894) Les Halles de Paris

Come trasformare la passione in professione | Art Blogger Fai da te

La piattaforma Blogger è, a mio parere, adatta ad un sito d'internet dedicato all'Arte.

Sono oramai 10 anni che lavoro con questa piattaforma.

Questo blog l'ho costruito da me, imparando giorno dopo giorno e credetemi, amandolo giorno dopo giorno.

Alla fine mi sono creata un luogo mio, dove riverso i miei gusti, la bellezza che mi incanta, la poesia che mi porta lontano, verso l'orizzonte, la musica che mi accarezza l'anima.

George Tooker | Embrace

George Clair Tooker, Jr. (1920-2011) was in a relationship with the artist Paul Cadmus from 1944-1949 and was a part of the PaJaMa artists collective during that time.

He is featured, often nude, in many of their images from that period.

In the mid-1950's Tooker met his long time partner, painter William R. Christopher, and they lived together in New York City.

They moved into a house they had built in Hartland, Vermont in 1960.

The couple were involved in the Civil Rights Movement and participated in one of the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965.

Galina Chuvilyaeva, 1957 | Angels

Galina Chuvilyaeva / Галина Чувиляева is a famous St. Petersburg artist, jeweler, member of the Union of Designers and the Union of Artists of Russia, a participant in numerous exhibitions.

Galina Chuvilyaeva was born in 1957 on the Volga. Childhood and youth passed in Ukraine, where his father served.

The beauty of the Carpathians, mountains, rivers and gardens blooming twice a year - all this has left an indelible mark on the artist's soul.

"Childhood is difficult now", says Galina Chuvilyaeva, "a lot of problems, not much positive. It feels the lack of the kindness and the warmth that were in my childhood.

Therefore, I want to share this warmth. My paintings bring joy, so I can not stop: I work and work. Through myself I transfer my sunny childhood. We lived in that life in an illusion, in anticipation of change for the better, we were dreamers".

“I am happy that in this way I can bring good to this imperfect, but beautiful world” she said.