Wassily Kandinsky | VII - Painting Theory

Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1910

Part II: About painting

From the nature of modern harmony, it results that never has there been a time when it was more difficult than it is today to formulate a complete theory, or to lay down a firm artistic basis.

All attempts to do so would have one result, namely, that already cited in the case of Leonardo and his system of little spoons. It would, however, be precipitate to say that there are no basic principles nor firm rules in painting, or that a search for them leads inevitably to academism. Even music has a grammar, which, although modified from time to time, is of continual help and value as a kind of dictionary.

Pablo Neruda | Per tanto amore la mia vita.. / De tanto amor mi vida..

Per tanto amore la mia vita si tinse di viola

e andai di rotta in rotta come gli uccelli ciechi

fino a raggiungere la tua finestra, amica mia:

tu sentisti un rumore di cuore infranto

e lì dalle tenebre mi sollevai al tuo petto,

senz'essere e senza sapere andai alla torre del frumento,

sorsi per vivere tra le tue mani,

mi sollevai dal mare alla tua gioia.

Leonid Afremov (1955-2019) | Romantic Impressionist painter

Walt Whitman | Non lasciare che finisca il giorno senza essere cresciuto un po'..

Non lasciare che finisca il giorno senza essere cresciuto un po',

senza essere stato felice, senza avere aumentato i tuoi sogni.

Non lasciarti vincere dallo scoraggiamento.

Non permettere che nessuno ti tolga il diritto ad esprimerti,

che e' quasi un dovere.

Non lasciar cadere la tensione di fare della tua vita

qualcosa di straordinario.

Jon Bøe Paulsen, 1958 | The Blue Hour

Martha Walter (1875-1976) | Impressionist painter

Martha Walter was an American impressionist painter.

Education

A Philadelphia native, Walter attended Girls High School.

She studied art at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts College of Art and Design) from 1895-98 and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.

She was taught by William Merritt Chase. She won the school's Toppan Prize (1902) and Cresson Traveling Scholarship (1908).

In 1909 she also won the school's Mary Smith Prize for the best painting by a resident female artist.

Giuseppe Faraone, 1954 | Impressionist painter

Born in Picerno (Potenza), Giuseppe Faraone attended the Art School of Potenza, before moving to San Donato Milanese on the outskirts of Milan, where he still lives and works.

Here he started his relentless pursuit of a variety of drawing techniques and the use of colors.

He understands the art of painting, having perfected his talent in Italy and abroad.

Faraone fined tuned his skills in the Impressionist style by painting in the same places where French Impressionism was born.

Theodore Wores | Impressionist painter

Theodore Wores (August 1, 1859 - September 11, 1939) was an American painter born in San Francisco, son of Joseph Wores and Gertrude Liebke.

His father worked as a hat manufacturer in San Francisco. Wores began his art training at age twelve in the studio of Joseph Harrington, who taught him color, composition, drawing and perspective.

When the San Francisco School of Design opened in 1874, Wores was one of the first pupils to enroll.

Frank Myers Boggs (1855-1926)

American-born French painter Frank Myers Boggs was born in Ohio and raised in New York City, where he began his career as an engraver for "Harper's" magazine.

He went to Paris in 1876 and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts with Jean Léon Gérôme, who encouraged him to practice landscape painting rather than figure painting in the academic tradition. Two years later he returned to New York City and set up a studio on Shelter Island.

Vincent van Gogh | The Olive Trees series

Vincent van Gogh painted at least 15 paintings of olive trees, mostly in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in 1889. At his own request, he lived at an asylum there from May 1889 through May 1890 painting the gardens of the asylum and, when he had permission to venture outside its walls, nearby olive trees, cypresses and wheat fields.

One painting, "Olive Trees in a Mountainous Landscape", was a complement to "The Starry Night".

The olive tree paintings had special significance for van Gogh.

Vincent van Gogh | Couple Walking among Olive Trees in a Mountainous Landscape with Crescent Moon 1890 | Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo