Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-1789) ~ La Belle Chocolatière, 1743-44 ✿

 La Belle Chocolatière - The Chocolate Girl 1743-44 detail - Pastello su pergamena cm. 82,5 x 52,5

Eseguito a Vienna verso la fine del 1744 0 l'inizio del 1745, fu venduto da Liotard al conte Algarotti a Venezia il 3 febbraio 1745, per la collezione del re di Polonia al costo di 120 zecchini.
Nel suo diario l’Algarotti notava in data 3 febbraio 1745: "p. al Signor Liotard per un qua­dro a pastello di stoubmench 120 zecchini = L. 2640".
Oltre ad una dozzina di incisioni, de “La bella cioccolataia” esiste una versione modellata in porcellana di Sassonia.
Il quadro figura nel catalogo della Galleria di Dresda dal 1765.

Angèle DUBOS (1844 - ? ) ~ La Nouvelle Chanson, 1879 ✿

La Nouvelle Chanson de Mlle Angèle DubosLes salons des artistes français - de la création en 1648 et de l’organisation sous la IIIe République (1870-1940)

Edouard Louis Dubufe (1820-1883) ~ The Turkish Coffee, 1872 ✿

Edouard Louis Dubufe (1820-1883) ~ The Turkish Coffee, 1872 detail

Hans HASSENTEUFEL (1887-1943) ✿

Hans Hassenteufel (1887-1943) was born 1887 in Hamburg. He studied in Hamburg and Munich. He specialised in still lives, life painting and landscapes. He is especially well-known for his paintings of oriental ladies.

Alexander Voronkov ✿

Alexander Voronkov /Aлександр воронков  is a Russian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1961. was born in Barnaul, Altai Territory and graduated from Ryazan Art School. He then worked as a scenery artist in a theatre. In 1984 he entered the Surikov Higher Art School of Moscow. He then worked in the studio-school of Tair Salakhov, Moscow. At this stage in his career his creative talent is developing in two directions, that of 'ideal-realism' in historical painting, stirred by his interest in and devotion to his motherland's history and that of legendary-mythological subjects.

Ann BALCH ✿

Ann BALCH is a canadian painter.
Your works are in private and public collections including the Canadiana Fund State Art Collection; New Brunswick Art Bank; Department of Foreign Affairs, Government of Canada; the Atlantic Lottery Corporation, the City of Moncton and the University of New Brunswick.
Elected and awarded member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolor and the Society of Canadian Artists. 

Steve McCURRY ✿

 Steve McCurry, il fotografo statunitense della prestigiosa agenzia Magnum, divenuto universalmente noto grazie alle sue memorabili immagini scattate per il National Geographic. E' universalmente considerato uno dei più grandi maestri della fotografia dei nostri tempi.

Iman Maleki - Shahrad Malek Fazeli ✿

Iman Maleki/Shahrad Malek Fazeli Iranian realist painter, 1976
He has been fascinated by the art of Painting since he was a child. At the age of 15, he started to learn painting under the mastery of his first and only teacher - Morteza Katouzian - who is the greatest realist painter of Iran. Meanwhile, he began to paint professionally. In 1999 he graduated in Graphic Design from the Art University of Tehran. Since 1998, he has participated in several exhibitions. In the year 2000, he got married and in the following year he established ARA Painting Studio and started to teach painting, considering classical and traditional values.

La tua voce di Catherine La Rose

La tua voce
mi chiamava
La tua voce
eco d'una cattedrale
risonava
La tua voce
nello stomaco vibrava
Saltava al cuore
Riempiva

la mia intima dimora...

~ Catherine La Rose©2014 ~
Tratto da "La tua voce"
Oil by Nick Alm

Di seta e sale di Catherine La Rose

'Cos'è
che mi fa crescere il dubbio
che sei qui
fianco a me
mentre di seta e sale
è il profumo nero
sipario
tra le gambe
che s'apre...'


~ Catherine La Rose©2014 ~

tratto da "Di seta e sale"

paintings by Bruno DI MAIO
L'intera poesia potete leggerla nel sito della poetessa

Emilia Wilk ✿

Emilia Wilk, polish painter, was born in Wałcz County, Poland. "For many years the center of my interest is Art. Even as a 6-year-old girl i paint canvas of my father.  I remember my first painting was a copy of a man. I thought then, that painting is easy. Now I know that I was wrong. My work many times have led me to tears.
The woman figure has always been at the center of her work which she try to capture with a great atmosphere and light.
Education: Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk

Caravaggio (1571-1610) ✿

Conversione di San Paolo, 1601 dettaglio

Alcuni particolari impressionanti di chiari-scuri scelti da me del nostro Caravaggio Caravaggio, pseudonimo di Michelangelo (1571-1610) è stato un pittore italiano. Formatosi a Milano e attivo a Roma, Napoli, Malta e in Sicilia fra il 1593 e il 1610, è uno dei più celebri pittori di tutti i tempi, tuttavia assurto a fama universale solo nel XX secolo, dopo un periodo di oblio. I suoi dipinti, che combinano un'analisi dello stato umano, sia fisico, sia emotivo, con uno scenografico uso della luce, hanno avuto forte influenza sulla pittura barocca.

Man RAY (1890-1976) ✿

Meret Oppenheim, 1933

 Man Ray, nato Emmanuel Rudnitzky (Filadelfia, 27 agosto 1890 – Parigi, 18 novembre 1976), è stato un pittore, fotografo e regista statunitenseesponente del Dadaismo.

António Macedo ✿


António Macedo portuguese realist figurative painter, 1955
He works mainly as a painter and sculptor, with a definite realist style, and he is also known as a portrait painter. Oil Painting is his medium of choice, and his subjects, other than portraits, include the feminine figure, draperies, still-life, symbolic and magic realism, as well as scenes from ordinary life.







ALejandro ROSEMBERG ✿

ALejandro ROSEMBERG es un artista argentino Nacido en Córdoba, en 1981. Alejandro asistió a la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, donde obtuvo un título en Bellas Artes, al mismo tiempo que se formó con el maestro Claudio Bogino en el método clásico de pintura basado en la tradición. de los grandes maestros italianos. Fomentó su educación sobre el color con Graydon Parrish, en la Grand Central Academy de Nueva York.



Maria Gamundi ✿


Maria Gamundi sculptor was born in 1952 in Caracas (Venezuela). She studied at thè Pratt Institute of NewYork and the Scuola del Libro of Urbino. She lives and works in Versilia, dividing her lime between Monteggiori and Pietrasanta. Since 1973 she has held important personal exhibitions in Italy, Europe, the United States and Latin America. Her female exude a sculptural force exalted by her deep knowledge of the materials, as weìl as an instinctive joie de vivre which weìl represents her strong Latin American roots.

George Lambert (1873-1930) ~ The Sonnet, 1907 ✿

 The Sonnet, 1907 detail

Samir MONDAL ✿

Indian watercolour painter, 1952 Samir MONDAL
His most amazing contribution to Indian art of modern times is a continual revival of watercolour and one of the country's most talented and successful watercolour artists.
Born in Balti, a small village in North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, Mondal graduated in fine arts from the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata in 1975. Thereafter he went to Germany for higher studies.

Valery Vetshteyn ✿

Valery Vetshteyn - Валерий Ветштейн is a Ukrainian figurative painter, 1966 born in Baku (Azerbaigian).
Currently lives in Krivoy Rog (Ukraine). Member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1993

Etienne DINET (1861-1929) ✿

Baigneuse dans la palmeraie (detail)
Alphonse-Étienne Dinet (1861-1929) (Nasreddine) was a French engraver and orientalist painter. His paintings are very conservative. They are highly mimetic and indeed ethnographic. He was very influenced by the Arab culture and his understanding of Arab culture and language sets him apart from other oriental artists. He loved the desert culture and employed the use of photography for painting.

Lev TCHISTOVSKY (1902-1969) ✿

Lev TCHISTOVSKY/ Лев Чистовский (1902-1969) was a Russian figurative painter.
Born in 1902 in Pskov, Russia, specializing in female figures. He attended the Fine Art School in St. Petersburg, where he was a pupil of Vassili Savinsky and Alfred Eberling. He also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and later in Florence. In 1920 he met Irene Klestova, an art student from St. Petersburg, in Venice, married her and settled in Paris.

Dan Thompson ✿


Dan Thompson is an American portrait painter and drawing was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and graduated from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC.  He earned his MFA from the Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art, and supplemented his training with several additional years of private study and studio apprenticeships along the east coast of the United States.
His work can be found in public and private collections throughout the United States, and in Canada, Europe, and the Middle East.

C'eravamo eccome se c'eravamo! di Catherine La Rose



'I ricordi hanno
gli occhi accecanti
quando desistono
alla rassegnazione'

~ Catherine La Rose©2015 ~
painting by Melissa Gann
Un connubio aristico con la poetessa Catherine La Rose
e l'artista Melissa Gann

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) ~ Girl under the Japanese Umbrella, 1909 ✿

 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) Girl under the Japanese Umbrella, detail 1909

Paul GAUGUIN (1848-1903) ✿

French Post-Impressionist artist Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). Gauguin is recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinct from Impressionism. Toward the end of his life, he spent ten years in French Polynesia. The paintings from this time depict people or landscapes from that region.

Serge Marshennikov ✿

Serge Marshennikov/ Cергей Маршенников is a Russian realistic figurative artist.
He was born in 1971 in Ufa (Bashkiria, USSR). From the earliest of times, Serge was always drawing, painting and sculpting from any material he could land his hands on. His Mother encouraged Serge to study and from early childhood and he had a succession of private teachers and art studies he attended.

Conda De Satriano ~ Narciso, 1893 ✿

Conda De Satriano Italian painter

✿ Grace MEHAN DEVITO ✿

American painter Grace Mehan DeVito born in southern New England and at a young age realized she had a passion for drawing and painting. She captures the essence of her subjects with her skilled brush strokes creating atmosphere and a sense of timelessness. Grace has recently been awarded the David Leffel Award of Excellence in Painting, Award of Honor Butler Museum of American Art for Inspiring Figures Show, American Artist Magazine Cover Finalist, and ARC Salon Still Life Finalist 3 years in a row. She was a featured artist for American Painting Video Magazine, Winter Issue 2011.

Philippe PARROT (1831-1894) ✿

Philippe Parrot (1831-1894) was a French painter.
Principally employed by decorative and idyllic subjects.  He was born at the village of Excideuil, in the Dordogne, and his early life was a long struggle with poverty. Philippe studied at the Swiss Academy in Paris.