Jules Bastien-Lepage | Naturalist painter

The day after French painter Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) died at his Paris studio on rue Legendre, on the 10th December 1884, the world press announced his premature death and burial in the family cemetery in Damvillers in the Meuse region of France.

In just ten productive years, this son of a modest farming family had won an eminent place in the French and international art scene, even if it was challenged at times.

Halil Pasha | Signora con guanti / Lady in gloves, 1886

Eseguita dal pittore Halil Pasha (1857-1939), la Lady in Gloves del 1886, anticipò l'altra tela, la Lady in Gloves, nota anche come "Madam X", (1889) per la quale, al pittore Turco gli fu assegnato un premio alla Mostra Internazionale di Parigi del 1889.

La modella della Madam X, fu quasi certamente una scrittrice, la moglie del pittore Aliye Hanim.

La Madam X fu elogiata dai principali critici dell'epoca per la sua "finitura nitida" e fu paragonata al lavoro del pittore Francese Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904).

Halil Pasha | Lady in Gloves, 1886

Daniela Astone, 1980 | Figurative Realist painter

Daniela Astone was born in Pisa, Italy and raised in Porto Santo Stefano, in Maremma (Italy), a costal town south of Florence. She discovered her passion for drawing and painting at a very young age, and began nourishing and cultivating her craft early on.

In 1998, after graduating from the High School for Visual Arts of Grosseto, she moved to Florence to study illustration at the International school of Comix.

Upon arriving, she first worked in illustration, then, in 2001, enrolled in The Florence Academy of Art🎨, where she is now an instructor. In 2003, Daniela participated, as a student, in the exhibition, "Realism Revisited" at Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen, Germany.

Man Ray (1890-1976) | Quotes / Aforismi

• "An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human".
• "Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else".
• "Non ha senso continuare a chiedersi se la fotografia sia o meno una forma d'arte, perché l'arte è fuori moda e noi abbiamo bisogno di altro".

Man Ray (1890-1976) Paintings

Man Ray, original name Emmanuel Radnitzky photographer, painter and filmmaker who was the only American to play a major role in both the Dada and Surrealist movements🎨.

The son of Jewish immigrants -his father was a tailor and his mother a seamstress- Radnitzky grew up in New York City, where he studied architecture, engineering, and art, and became a painter. As early as 1911, he took up the pseudonym of Man Ray. As a young man, he was a regular visitor to Alfred Stieglitz’s "291" gallery, where he was exposed to current art trends and earned an early appreciation for photography.

Elzbieta Brozek, 1979 | The Red hat

Elzbieta Brozek is a Polish painter who works mainly a portrait of women, prefering to work in their paintings with red and orange tones using realism in some cases and in others you can see the influence of the symbolism of the austrian artist Gustav Klimt.

Shee has portrayed many characters known, as this of Angelina Jolie.

Giovanni Pascoli | Night Blooming Jasmine /Gelsomino notturno

Jacob Van Walscapelle 1644-1727

E s'aprono i fiori notturni,

nell'ora che penso a' miei cari.

Sono apparse in mezzo ai viburni

le farfalle crepuscolari.

Da un pezzo si tacquero i gridi:

là sola una casa bisbiglia.

Sotto l'ali dormono i nidi,

come gli occhi sotto le ciglia.

Alda Merini / Howard Pyle | Those like me.. / Quelle come me...

Howard Pyle (American Golden Age Illustrator, 1853-1911) | The mermaid, 1910

Quelle come me regalano sogni,

anche a costo di rimanerne prive…

Quelle come me donano l’Anima,

perché un’anima da sola è come

una goccia d’acqua nel deserto…

Quelle come me tendono la mano

ed aiutano a rialzarsi, pur correndo il rischio

di cadere a loro volta…