Yuri Krotov, 1964 | Landscapes

Yuri Krotov / Юрий Кротов was born in Grivenskaya Cossack Settlement, Krasnodar Territory, located close to the Azov Sea. At the age of 8 he met a local painter G.A. Polugaev who became his mentor.

With Polugaev, Krotov traveled to Moscow and enrolled in Moscow High School of Art under the Surikov Art Institute.

After high school he served in the Soviet Army for 2 years before attending the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov.

His style of impressionist painting blossomed on trips to France, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, Monaco and other European countries.

Vlaho Bukovac | Post-Impressionist painter

Vlaho Bukovac (1855-1922) was born in Cavtat, near Dubrovnik. He showed inclination to drawing in his early childhood, but because of his family's poverty he could not continue his education.

At the age of eleven his uncle took him to the United States, where he spent four hard years. His uncle soon died.

In 1871, he returned to Dubrovnik and embarked as an apprentice on a merchant ship that sailed on regular line Istanbul- Odessa-Liverpool.

In 1873 he went to Latin America, where he worked as a letter drawer in a coach factory in Peru. Three years later he returned to Cavtat.

He found a sponsor in the person of Medo Pucic, a poet who recommended him to the archbishop Strossmayer, a very famous and influential Croatian at that time.

Leonardo da Vinci | Della figura che va contro il vento

Trattato della Pittura - Parte terza | Capitoli 398-432

Il Testo Integrale

Indice

398. Discorso sopra il pratico.

399. Della pratica cercata con gran sollecitudine dal pittore.

400. Del giudicare il pittore le sue opere e quelle d'altrui.

401. Del giudicare il pittore la sua pittura.

402. Come lo specchio è il maestro de' pittori.

403. Come si deve conoscere una buona pittura e che qualità deve avere per essere buona.

404. Come la vera pittura stia nella superficie dello specchio piano.

405. Qual pittura è piú laudabile.

406. Qual è il primo obietto intenzionale del pittore.

Lo Chan Peng 羅展鵬, 1983

Lo Chan Peng was born in Chiayi, Taiwan and graduated Fine Art Department of Chinese Culture University.

Lo Chan-Peng had won many domestic art contests, and became well-known with “Strawberry Journal” series, which honestly records the sub-culture of young generation.

Lo uses his paintings to express what he observed from the real world, which not only depicts the mindset of young generations nowadays, but can be seen as a kind of self-dissect.

Leonardo da Vinci | Delle diciotto operazioni dell'uomo

Trattato della Pittura - Parte terza | Capitoli 359-397

Il Testo Integrale

Indice

359. Delle diciotto operazioni dell'uomo.

360. Della disposizione delle membra secondo le figure.

361. Della qualità delle membra secondo l'età.

362. Della varietà de' visi.

363. Della membrificazione degli animali.

364. Come la figura non sarà laudabile s'essa non mostra la passione dell'animo.

365. Come le mani e le braccia in tutte le loro operazioni hanno da dimostrare l'intenzione del loro motore il piú che si può.

366. De' moti appropriati alla mente del mobile.

367. Come gli atti mentali muovano la persona in primo grado di facilità e comodità.

Leonardo da Vinci | Della grazia delle membra

Trattato della Pittura - Parte terza | Capitoli 316-358

Il Testo Integrale

Indice

316. Della grazia delle membra.

317. Della comodità delle membra.

318. D'una figura sola fuori dell'istoria.

319. Quali sono le principali importanze che appartengono alla figura.

320. Del bilicare il peso intorno al centro della gravità de' corpi.

321. Delle figure che hanno a maneggiare o portar pesi.

322. Delle attitudini degli uomini.

323. Varietà d'attitudini.

324. Delle attitudini delle figure.

325. Dell'attenzione de' circostanti ad un caso notando.

326. Qualità de' nudi.

327. Come i muscoli sono corti e grossi.

Othello and Desdemona: "Heaven is my judge"

Othello (The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) (ca. 1603) by William Shakespeare is a concentrated, tightly constructed domestic tragedy, with almost no subplot for relief, centered on five or six central characters.

Othello is commonly considered one of Shakespeare's great tragedies and one of his finest works.

Act I

In following him, I follow but myself.

• Iago, scene I

Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,

But seeming so, for my peculiar end:

For when my outward action doth demonstrate

The native act and figure of my heart

In compliment extern, 'tis not long after

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve

For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

• Iago, scene I

Lord Frederic Leighton (1830-1896) | Desdemona (Othello) 1888

Valeria Corvino, 1953

Valeria Corvino was born in Naples and trained through the study of the amazing artistic wealth of her hometown.

Roman sculpture, capricious Baroque, everyday familiarity with fragments of antiquity, the architectural palimpsest of its territory are its first "masters", together with a completely Mediterranean passion for the secrets of the anatomy and the beauty of the human body.

After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, he studied the problems of composition working on photography, and therefore on cuts, the zoomed image, the play of light and shadows.

Combining pictorial training, the passion for sculptural volumes, the secrets of photographic framing, he comes to perfect his innate propensity for balance and harmony.