Le Pho | Pittore romantico

Lê Phổ / 黎谱 (1907-2001) è stato un pittore impressionista e romantico Vietnamita.

Dipinse scenari del Vietnam, nature morte con fiori, ambientazioni familiari e ritratti.

Le donne vietnamite, spesso ritratte come figure allungate che evocano l'influenza del surrealismo, sono state un tema ricorrente nel suo lavoro.

Dal 1925-1930, Lê Phổ studiò all'Ecole des Beaux-Arts di Hanoi.

Tina Spratt, 1976 | Figurative painter

British painter🎨 Tina Spratt is best known for her paintings of the female figure, either in oils or pastel, her subjects are often lost in introspection, or surrounded by the fascinating textures of a myriad of fabrics.

"I have always been drawn to the female figure in my work", she has said, "and I hope to recreate the beauty and integrity of a simple, everyday intimacy".

With an emphasis on beautiful fabrics or domestic scenes , she is influenced by artists such as Andrew Wyeth🎨, Rembrandt🎨 and Vermeer🎨.

Kieta Nuij, 1960 | Abstract sculptor

Dutch artist🎨 Kieta Nuij was born in Heerlen in the south of the Netherlands. She is a graduate of the Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts. She started working as an artist - she became a sculptor🎨 in 1984, just after graduating. Initially, she worked in clay, and now she has been creating bronze sculptures for over 25 years.

Characteristic for her art is the use of materials marked by the destructive effects of time - pieces of material, ropes, wood.

Sandro Botticelli | The Map of Hell, 1480-1490

The Divine Comedy Illustrated by Botticelli is a manuscript of the Divine Comedy by Dante, illustrated by 92 full-page pictures by Sandro Botticelli that are considered masterpieces and amongst the best works of the Renaissance painter.

The images are mostly not taken beyond silverpoint drawings, many worked over in ink, but four pages are fully coloured.

The manuscript eventually disappeared and most of it was rediscovered in the late nineteenth century, having been detected in the collection of the Duke of Hamilton by Gustav Friedrich Waagen, with a few other pages being found in the Vatican Library.

Sandro Botticelli | The Map of Hell, 1480-1490 | Vatican Museums

Johannes Vermeer | Tecnica pittorica

Il pittore Olandese Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) era in grado di ottenere colori trasparenti applicando sulle tele il colore a punti piccoli e ravvicinati, tecnica nota come pointillé, da non confondere con il pointillisme.

La sua tecnica punta a una resa più vivida possibile, con effetti, soprattutto di colore, che egli ricerca con un interesse quasi scientifico, considerando il soggetto una sorta di espediente: "le pitture di Vermeer sono vere nature morte con esseri umani".

Non ci sono disegni attribuibili con certezza all'artista e i suoi quadri presentano pochi indizi dei suoi metodi preparatori.

Zig Ziglar: "Non esiste un ascensore per il successo.."

"Non esiste un ascensore per il successo, devi prendere le scale!"

"There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs!"

-Zig Ziglar (1926-2012) Scrittore e speaker motivazionale statunitense.

Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922) | Pre-Raphaelite painter

Although his name is not commonly known, Edmund Blair Leighton's most famous works are among the most widely recognized paintings of the period.

His works of Godspeed (1900) and the Accolade (1901), can be seen in almost every poster shop around the world and are used as the epitome of medieval iconography.

If one looks at the visual elements in Godspeed for example, it becomes evident that very few paintings encapsulate with such a strong a sense, the sensibilities of this genre.

The beautiful maiden on the steps of a stone castle, the knight in shining armor, the white steed, and the sense of immediate peril which threatens the subjects contentment almost define our modern day conception of Medieval legend and romantic sentiment.

Henry Tonks | Impressionist painter

Henry Tonks, FRCS (9 April 1862 - 8 January 1937) was a British surgeon and later draughtsman and painter of figure subjects, chiefly interiors, and a caricaturist.

He became an influential art teacher.

He was one of the first British artists to be influenced by the French Impressionists; he exhibited with the New English Art Club, and was an associate of many of the more progressive artists of late Victorian Britain, including James McNeill Whistler, Walter Sickert, John Singer Sargent and George Clausen.