Rabindranath Tagore | Metaphorical painter | 120 artworks | Page.³

Day by day I float my paper boats

one by one down the running stream.

In big black letters I write my name on them

and the name of the village where I live.

I hope that someone in some strange land

will find them and know who I am.

I load my little boats with shiuli flowers

from our garden, and hope that these blooms of the dawn

will be carried safely to land in the night.

Emile Claus | Genre painting

Belgian painter Emile Claus (1849-1924) was born in Sint-Eloois-Vijve, a village in West-Flanders (Belgium), at the banks of the river Lys.

Emile was the twelfth child in a family of thirteen. Father Alexander was a grocer-publican and for some time town councillor.

Mother Celestine Verbauwhede came from a Brabant skipper’s family and had her hands full with her offspring.

As a child, Emile already loved drawing and on Sunday went three kilometres on foot to the Academy of Waregem (the neighbouring town) to learn how to draw.

Evariste Carpentier | Genre / Luminist painter

Évariste Carpentier, (1845 in Kuurne - 1922 in Liège), was a Belgian painter of Genre scenes🎨 and animated landscapes.

Over the years, his painting evolved from the academic art to impressionism🎨. He is, alongside Emile Claus, one of the earliest representatives of Luminism🎨 in Belgium.

During his life, Carpentier achieved a great success.

Throughout his career, he won many prizes and awards🎨 at international exhibitions, both in Europe and in the United States, receiving the golden medals at Antwerp, Munich and Berlin for Summer sun (1896), Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Nice.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze | Broken Eggs, 1756

Broken Eggs attracted favorable comment when exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1757.

One critic noted that the young serving girl had a noble pose worthy of a history painter.

The canvas was painted in Rome, but the principal source may have been a seventeenth-century Dutch work by Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635-1681) - State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, which Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French painter, 1725-1805) would have known from an engraving.

The broken eggs symbolize the loss of the girl's virginity. | © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lusia Popenko, 1955

Russian painter Людмила Попенко was born in Volgograd, and now lives in Moscow.

She had numerous personal and group exhibits in Russia and other countries, her paintings were presented at Christie's Charity Auctions of Russian Art.

Lusia Popenko populates her works with characters brought from memory and imagination. Her paintings are pastoral: everything here is the way you want it to be: you have many lives and all of them are happy.

These lives' stories resemble the novels you've read and movies you've seen. Everything here is an incarnation of your dreams of beauty and perfection.

Henri Lebasque | Painter of light

Painter of light, colorist and designer, French painter🎨 Joseph Henri Baptiste Lebasque🎨 (1865-1937) expresses in his art his zestful vision of life.

Henri Lebasque was born on September 25, 1865, in Champigné - Maine-et-Loire.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- by Henri see:

• Henri Lebasque | Post-Impressionist painter🎨

For other works see:

• Henri Lebasque | Paysages🎨
• Henri Lebasque | Figures🎨

Henri Lebasque | Figures

Joseph Henri Baptiste Lebasque🎨 (1865-1937) was an French painter🎨, known for working in the post-impressionist style.

Henri Lebasque was born on September 25, 1865, in Champigné, France.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- by Henri see:

• Henri Lebasque | Post-Impressionist painter🎨

For other works by Henri see:

• Henri Lebasque | Post-Impressionist painter | Paysages🎨

Arthur Sarnoff (1912-2000) | Vintage Pinup painter

Arthur Saron Sarnoff  was an American artist. Prior to working as an illustrator, Sarnoff studied at the Industrial School and the Grand Central School of Art in New York City. He was a member of the Society of Illustrators and exhibited widely including the National Academy of Design.