Il Verismo, la pittura degli umili

Filippo Palizzi (Italian, 1818-1899) | Girl on the rock in Sorrento, 1871

The "Verismo" (meaning "realism", from Italian vero, meaning "true") refers to a 19th-century Italian painting🎨 style. This style was practiced most characteristically by the Macchiaioli group of painters🎨, who were forerunners of the French Impressionists.

The link pin between European verismo in painting and the States could be considered to be the work of John Singer Sargent🎨, in regard to technique, but not in comments on the working classes.

Arnaldo Ferraguti | Genre / Vertist painter

Arnaldo Ferraguti (1862-1925) was an Italian painter and illustrator, often painting genre subjects.

He was born in Ferrara but trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Naples, then under the leadership of Domenico Morelli. He befriended the painter Francesco Paolo Michetti and his circle at Francavilla al Mare.

Marc Chagall | Expressionist /Cubist painter

Marc Chagall, (born July 7, 1887, Vitebsk, Belorussia, Russian Empire [now in Belarus]-died March 28, 1985, Saint-Paul, Alpes-Maritimes, France), Belorussian-born French painter, printmaker, and designer.

He composed his images based on emotional and poetic associations, rather than on rules of pictorial logic.

Predating Surrealism, his early works, such as I and the Village (1911), were among the first expressions of psychic reality in modern art. His works in various media include sets for plays and ballets, etchings illustrating the Bible, and stained-glass windows.

Charles Meynier (1768-1832) | History painter

Charles Meynier was a French painter of historical subjects in the late 18th and early 19th century. He was a contemporary of Antoine-Jean Gros und Jacques-Louis David.

Meynier was the son of a tailor.

Already at a young age he was trained by Pierre-Philippe Choffard.

He was a proficient student but nevertheless wished to become a painter, so his elder brother Meynier St-Phal, an actor at the Comédie-Française in Paris, paid for him to train from 1785 with François-André Vincent, who then enjoyed a considerable reputation.

Jean Metzinger | Cubist painter | Page 2

Jean Metzinger was born in Nantes, France, on June 24, 1883. At the age of twenty he moved to Paris to pursue a career as a painter. One of his early friends in Paris was Robert Delaunay.

About 1908 he met the writer Max Jacob, who introduced him to Guillaume Apollinaire and his circle, which included Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.

Picasso was to have a significant influence on Metzinger from this time to about 1923.

In 1910 and 1911 Metzinger published several articles on contemporary painting and afterward periodically contributed to the literature on Modern art.

Antonín Hudeček (1872-1941) | Plein Air painter

Antonín Hudeček was a Czech landscape painter.

After completing his primary education in Roudnice, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, with Maximilian Pirner and Václav Brožík; devoting himself mostly to figure painting.

From 1891-1893, he continued his studies in Munich with Otto Seitz. He opened a workshop in Prague in 1895.

Shortly after, he joined a group of painters, led by Julius Mařák, that went for plein aire painting excursions; mostly in the area around Okoř.

Adrianus Eversen (1818-1897) | Cityscapes painter

Dutch painter🎨 Adrianus Eversen portrayed the typical 19th century Dutch atmosphere in his work. As a member of Arti et Amicitiae he belonged to the society of elite artists of his time.

Eversen was a contemporary of Cornelis Springer.

Both painters were students of Hendrik Gerrit ten Cate at the same time, and usually painted contemporary regional (Oud-Hollandse) cityscapes.

In his choice of subjects, Eversen allowed himself more freedom.

Marcel-Clément (1873-1950) | Paris painting

Amedée Julien Marcel-Clément - Parisian painter of landscapes, seascapes, wildlife and Parisian scenes studied at the School of Fine Art and made his début at the Paris Salon in 1903.

At this time he was best known for his Parisian street scenes, which captured so vividly the era of the Belle Époque and fashionable Parisian Society.

He regularly exhibited there during this whole career, as well as at the Independent Exhibition, where he exhibited many paintings.

Between 1913-1914, he also presented his work in England at the Walker Gallery in Liverpool and at the Royal Scottish Academy.