Charlie Chaplin | Speech to Humanity, 1940

The Great Dictator is a 1940 American political satire, and black comedy film written, directed, produced, scored by, and starring British comedian Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin KBE (1889-1977).

Chaplin spent many months drafting and re-writing the speech for the end of the film, a call for peace from the barber who has been mistaken for Hynkel.

Regrettably Chaplin’s words are as relevant today as they were in 1940.

Derek Boshier | Pop art painter

Biography from the Tate Gallery

British painter, sculptor, photographer and printmaker Derek Boshier ((1937-2024)) studied painting and lithography at Yeovil School of Art in Somerset (1953-7), Guildford College of Art (1957-9) and the Royal College of Art, London (1959-62), where he was one of the students associated with Pop art.

Boshier juxtaposed contrasting styles within his paintings, but he favoured topical subject-matter such as the space race, political events and the Americanisation of Europe.

Vincent van Gogh | The Factory at Asnières, 1887

In the late nineteenth century, the French landscape was becoming increasingly marked by signs of industry.

Van Gogh depicts a glass factory in Asnières, a suburb northwest of Paris where the artist painted frequently in the summer of 1887.

The round objects stacked along the sides of the pathway are balls of glass awaiting melting inside the buildings.

They would have been formed into lantern globes for gas streetlights and interior fixtures. | Source: © The Barnes Foundation

Vincent van Gogh | The Factory at Asnières, Summer, 1887 | The Barnes Foundation

Nikolay Dubovskoy | Romantic painter

Nikolay Nikanorovich Dubovskoy / Николай Никанорович Дубовской (1859-1918) was a Russian landscape painter, associated with the Peredvizhniki.

Together with Isaac Levitan, he helped create what came to be known as the "Landscape of Mood".

He displayed artistic talent at an early age; copying illustrations from Niva and other popular magazines.

Leonardo da Vinci | Dove le ombre ingannano il giudizio..

Trattato della Pittura

Parte quinta | Capitoli 621-650

Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura | Testo Integrale

Indice

621. Qual parte è di mediocre ombra nella superficie di un corpo ombroso.

622. Qual parte della superficie illuminata sarà di maggior chiarezza.

623. Qual ombra principale nelle superficie de' corpi avrà minore o maggior differenza delle parti luminose.

624. Delle ombre fatte nelle parti ombrose de' corpi opachi.

625. Qual corpo piglia più quantità di ombra.

626. Qual corpo piglia più quantità di luce.

Leonardo da Vinci | Delle ombre

Trattato della Pittura

Parte quinta | Capitoli 591-620

Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura | Testo Integrale

Indice

591. Condizione degli obietti oscuri di ciascun'ombra.

592. Qual campo renderà le ombre più oscure.

593. Dove sarà più oscura l'ombra derivativa.

594. Delle ombre.

595. De' termini che circondano le ombre derivative nelle loro percussioni.

Claude Monet | Woman Seated under the Willows, 1880

A woman sits among loosely painted, crescent-shape blades of emerald and lemon-lime green grass, under tall trees in this vertical scene.

The brushstrokes are unconnected and visible, so many of the details difficult to make out.

Facing our left almost in profile, the woman’s form is suggested with thick strokes of eggshell white, periwinkle blue, mint green, and deep pink.

We get the impression of a light-colored dress that pools around her hips and legs, and a hat atop dark hair. Her face is painted with an area of blush peach.

Claude Monet | Woman Seated under the Willows, 1880 | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Elena Barenbaum (Eve Farb)

Illustrator Eve Farb / Ева Фарб - real name Elena Barenbaum / Елена Баренбаум, works both as an illustrator and as a psychologist.

She has a passion for design and Russian fairy tales, and has illustrated multiple books published in Russia, where she is from and lives with her husband and her cat.