Gustave Caillebotte | Attività collezionistica

Dopo che nel 1876 il fratello minore René lo ammonì dell'inesorabile brevità della vita, Caillebotte - intimamente turbato - dispose il suo testamento a soli ventotto anni.

Una delle clausole ivi previste, in particolare, contemplava un lascito della sua intera collezione artistica al governo francese. Caillebotte, infatti, fu uno dei più convinti collezionisti di pitture impressioniste e, qualora ne avesse l'opportunità, non esitava ad aiutare i suoi colleghi acquistandone le opere.

Pian piano arrivò ad accumulare opere d'arte di vari artisti a lui contemporanei: Camille Pissarro (diciannove), Claude Monet (quattordici), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (dieci), Alfred Sisley (nove), Edgar Degas (sette), Paul Cézanne (cinque) ed Édouard Manet (quattro).

Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Drawings and poems | La Bella Mano

O lovely hand, that thy sweet self doth lave

In that thy pure and proper element,

⁠Whence erst the Lady of Love's high advent

Was born, and endless fires sprang from the wave:—

Even as her Loves to her their offerings gave,

⁠For thee the jewelled gifts they bear; while each

Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)

Gustave Caillebotte - French painter, art collector and impresario who combined aspects of the academic and Impressionist styles in a unique synthesis.

Born into a wealthy family, Caillebotte trained to be an engineer but became interested in painting and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

He met Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet in 1874 and showed his works at the Impressionist exhibition of 1876 and its successors.

Caillebotte became the chief organizer, promoter, and financial backer of the Impressionist exhibitions for the next six years, and he used his wealth to purchase works by other Impressionists, notably Monet, Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley and Berthe Morisot.

Inna Tsukakhina, 1968 | Abstract painter

Russian painter Инна Цукахина was born in Krasnodar. In 1986 she graduated from Krasnodar Art College and in 1993 - the Academy of Fine Arts in Kiev. From 1995, a member of the Artists Union SF. From 2002, Master of the Academy of Artists in Prague.

Exhibited since 1990. Inna Tsukakhina - author Courteous "Floral Still Life", written easily in one breath.

The motif of a female body, or colors that are immersed in a conditional environment - the most common myth of their aesthetics. Image of the woman she always likened to a flower, ready to give its sweetness.

Hector Berlioz | Art and Life Quotes

2019 marks the sesquicentenary - or 150th anniversary - of the death of French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz in Paris, in 1869.

To celebrate the life and music of this great artist, we offer you his art -life quotes.

Hector Berlioz, in full Louis-Hector Berlioz, (born December 11, 1803, La Côte-Saint-André, France - died March 8, 1869, Paris), French composer, critic and conductor of the Romantic period, known largely for his Symphonie fantastique (1830), the choral symphony Roméo et Juliette (1839) and the dramatic piece La Damnation de Faust (1846).

His last years were marked by fame abroad and hostility at home.

Hector- Berlioz by Émile Signol (French painter, 1804-1892) 1832

Horace Fisher (1861-1928) | Genre painter

Horace Fisher was a British painter🎨, best known for his genre paintings🎨, paintings of scenes from everyday life, and his portraits both of everyday people.

Fisher's notable works include "Young Girls Picking Flowers", "A Peasant Girl on a Sunlit Veranda", "Lost in Thought" and "The Orange Sellers".

Horace Fisher è stato un pittore Britannico🎨, noto soprattutto per i suoi dipinti di genere, dipinti di scene della vita quotidiana e i suoi ritratti di persone comuni.

Le opere degne di nota di Fisher includono "Young Girls Picking Flowers", "A Peasant Girl on a Sunlit Veranda", "Lost in Thought" e "The Orange Seller".

Guy Pène du Bois (1884-1958) Modern painter

Guy Pène du Bois (1884-1958) was an American painter🎨 and art critic. In characteristic figurative works of the 1920s, he depicted the upper class with a cold eye. Smooth, simplified volumes sculpt his society figures, who seem to have little capacity for personal relationships.

Although sometimes approaching social criticism, Pène du Bois's inherent satire generally yields to a fascination with chic and an apparent distaste for probing beyond appearances into the realm of character. As a writer, he championed the American realist tradition but also endeavored to explain modern currents.

Albert Williams (1922-2010) Floral still-life painter

British painter🎨 Albert Williams was a painter of flowers in the tradition of the seventeenth century Flemish School of painters.

Williams was born in 1922 in Sussex, England. His father and grandfather were his first teachers.

As a boy in Brighton he attended Brighton School of Art, moving to London where he was employed by Sanderson's in their studio.

After the Second World War, he returned to Brighton to make a career as an artist.

Still life studies of flowers suited his natural abilities as a draughtsman and colourist.

His work has been exhibited at the Fine Art Society, the London galleries of Frost and Reed and the Omell Galleries and the Summer Exhibitions at the Royal Academy.

Albert Williams' paintings of flowers have a photographic realism, and each petal has lifelike detailed veins and coloring.

In 1955 he exhibited at the Paris Salon.

Il pittore Britannico🎨 Albert Williams è stato un pittore di fiori nella tradizione della scuola di pittori fiamminghi del XVII secolo.

Williams è nato nel 1922 nel Sussex, in Inghilterra.

Suo padre e suo nonno furono i suoi primi insegnanti.

Da ragazzo a Brighton ha frequentato la Brighton School of Art, trasferendosi a Londra dove è stato impiegato da Sanderson nel loro studio.

Il suo lavoro è stato esposto alla Fine Art Society, alle gallerie londinesi di Frost and Reed e alle Omell Galleries e alle mostre estive alla Royal Academy.

I dipinti di fiori di Albert Williams hanno un realismo fotografico e ogni petalo ha vene e colorazioni dettagliate realistiche. Nel 1955 espose al Salon di Parigi.