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Exeter (Devon, UK - 2011) Art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something - Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor & Park) The chisel artist Alexandro Farto aka Vhils (15/02/1987, Aquarius), born in Lisbon , is a Portuguese graffiti and street artist, Vhils is his tag name.  He studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art * in London, lives and works in London and Lisbon. He started out quite young as a graffiti artist, painting trains and walls in the suburbs of Lisbon.  He said Graffiti was my first art school and calls his art creative destruction . Considered one of the top urban artists in the world, he uses a unique technique that involves carving into and chiseling away at the walls to create stunning portraits and abstract designs. Since 2005, he has presented his work in over 30 countries around the world in exhibitions, events and other contexts. *  in 2003, it was absorbed by Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design Favourite masterpie...

Fisherman on an autumn river (1523) The 1st virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes - Eugène Delacroix Tang Yin's traditional paintings T'ang Yin or Tang Yin, romanised (1470-1524), also known as Tang Bohu (courtesy name) was a Chinese painter, calligrapher, poet of the Ming dynasty period (1368-644) and one of the most famous painters in the history of Chinese art. He came from a merchant family, excelled in his studies and was a pupil of the great Shen Zhou (1427-1509).  He was a bright scholar, wrongly accused of cheating in an exam.  Unable to work for the government, he turned to poetry and art, and led him to earn a living selling his paintings.  His life story has become a part of popular lore. These 4 painters are known traditionally as the 4 Masters of the Ming Dynasty: Tang Yin, Wen Zhengming (1470-1559), Shen Zhou and Qiu Ying (1494-1551). Favourite masterpieces Beauty and Beast Clearing after Snow at the Han Pass Contemplating on a Donkey Ride...

Old woman in the wood Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Art is the reflection sent back by the human soul dazzled by the splendor of beauty - Victor Hugo Arthur Rackham's fairy illustrations I discovered a wonderful illustration Old woman in the wood by Arthur Rackham in in a FT Weekend Magazine . Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), born in England, was a British illustrator and artist, known for his imaginative watercolour illustrations for classic fiction and children's literature ( The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales , Peter Pan , Alice in Wonderland , ...) and also for books for adults * like: A midsummer night's dream (1908), Undine (1909), The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie (1911), Edgar Allan Poe short stories... He illustrated more than 60 books. From 1884, he studied in evening classes at the Lambeth School of Art for 7 years, while also working full-time in an insurance office. He became famous for illustrating the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales and Hans Chritian Andersen . In ...

Cherry blossom screen In art, there is neither past nor future.  The art that is not in the present will never be - Picasso Sakai Hōitsu's poetry of Nature Sakai Hōitsu (1761-1829) born Sakai Tadamoto was a Japanese painter, poet of the Rinpa school , and also a master of ink, of the late Edo period (= Tokugawa period, 1603-1867) * .  Known for his revival of the art of Rinpa-school master Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716) and for his polychrome paintings in the Rinpa style. Suzuki Kiitsu (1796-1858) studied painting under Sakai Hōitsu and became also one of the great masters of the Rinpa school. In 1797, due to his poor health, he became a holy Buddhist monk at the Tsukiji Hongan-ji temple . In 1815, to commemorate an exhibition of Ogata Korin 's paintings on the centennial of his death, he published One Hundred Paintings by Korin , woodblock print reproductions of paintings by the master. Flowering Plants of Summer and Autumn , painting on a pair of two-folded screens is his famo...

Edge of September Colour was not given to us in order that we imitate Nature.  It was given to us so that we can express our emotions  -  Henri Matisse Ronnie Landfield's lyrical abstraction Ronnie Landfield  (b. 1947), from the The Bronx in  New York , is an American abstract painter, known for his abstract landscape paintings, and have become icons of the modernist Color Field movement * . He cited these artists that were important influences on his work: Monet  (1840-1926),  Van Gogh  (1853-1890),  Matisse  (1869-1954),  Miro  (1893-1983) and especially  Picasso  (1881-1973) the American Abstract Expressionists:  Barnett Newman ,  Clyfford Still ,  Jackson Pollock ,  Mark Rothko ,  Robert Motherwell ,  Willem de Kooning ... and the Chinese Landscape Painting  Shan Shui  (shan = mountain, shui = water). Had more than 65 solo exhibitions and more than 200 group exhibitions...

Summer evening on Skagen's Southern Beach with Anna Ancher and Marie Kroyer walking together (1893) Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks - Plutarch Peder Severin Krøyer's blue hour From 28th January to 25th July 2021, for the 1st time in France, Marmottant Monet Museum in Paris organised an exhibition L'heure bleue of Peder Severin Krøyer . Peder Severin Krøyer (1851-1909), born in Stavanger (Norway) was a Norwegian-Danish painter and sculptor, one of the leader of the Skagen Painters , a community of Danish and Nordic artists who lived, gathered or worked in Skagen , Denmark. Child prodigy, he was 14 years old when he first enrolled to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.  He was already highly respected as a portrait painter, which was a very prestigious genre. As student, he made many trips abroad, including France and was influenced by the French Impressionists and their ability to capture the quality of light. Was a student of Le...

Le port au soleil couchant (Saint-Tropez) - 1892 A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind - Eugene Ionesco Paul Signac's pointillism After the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, in 2021, I made a list of art exhibitions that might interest me.  So, I discovered Paul Signac , Peder Severin Krøyer, Katsushika Hokusai , James Tisso, Van Dyck, Vhils and Vincenzo Gemito ... In 2021, from 19th May to 19th July, Jacquemart-André Museum  in Paris organised a beautiful exhibition about Paul Signac (1863-1935), known for his luminous neo-impressionist landscapes and the principal theorist of divisionism, along with Georges Seurat (1859-1891). This special exhibition presented 25 paintings by Paul Signac, together with 20 paintings by Seurat, Pissarro , Cross and more. Paul Signac was a French painter, best known for developing the technique called pointillism, a form of painting in which, an artist creates a larger image from small, distinct and colorful dots.  According...

gorgeous decorative panel Le jour (1910) for the library at the Abbaye de Frontfroide Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful - Emmanuel Kant Odilon Redon's symbolism I discovered this artist during an exhibition Années 1900 at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais , located in the heart of Paris on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées (currently closed for renovations, temporarily relocate to the base of the Eiffel Tower , from September 2020 to Spring 2024: stay there until the end of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games ). I was really attracted by his paintings and colors, a little mysterious, especially his Yellow tree painted in 1900-1901, as well as his gorgeous decorative panel Le jour (1910) for the library at the Abbaye de Frontfroide , near Narbonne , in Southern France. Also love some of his other artworks: charcoal drawings, in particular L'araignée souriante ( The smiling spider , 1881), influenced...

Third Space at ICA* University of Pennsylvania (2009) What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart - Raoul Dufy Odili Donald Odita's colors Odili Donald Odita (18/02/1966, Aquarius) is Nigerian-American abstract painter, currently lives and works in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania).  His family moved to the US to avoid the Nigerian Civil War. Known for his vibrant, large-scale, abstract paintings, he explores colour both in the figurative historical context and in the sociopolitical sense. Has received grants in 1994 from the Penny McCall Foundation , in 2001 from the Joan Mitchell Foundation , and in 2007 from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation . His famous large-scale artworks in 2011, at the United States Mission to the United Nations (New York) in 2012, at the Savannah College of Art and Design (Georgia) in 2015, at the Nasher Museum of Art of Duke University , Durham (North Carolina) in 2015, at Yale University School of Art , New Hav...

Wilderness at Delimbo Gallery (2018) Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing - Goethe MOMO's graffiti MOMO (b. 1974) is an American street artist from San Francisco , currently based in New Orleans .  He is well known throughout the world, working in public spaces with homemade tools, for his post-graffiti murals and studio painting (huge, playful, complex and abstract paintings with bright colours and shapes). His famous urban art murals in 2015, at the very heart of Boston 's iconic John Hancock Building in 2015, at the Sonesta hotel in Philadelphia in 2016, at Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art in Brussels in 2018, at The Gold Coast Arts Centre in Sydney in 2019, for the Museum of Fine Arts Nancy in Nancy (France) in 2019, for Les Abattoirs Museum Toulouse in Toulouse (France) in 2020, in Downtown Jacksonville (Florida) and also commissioned for murals by Facebook, Pepsi,...

Nadine Tallier (future Nadine de Rothschild) Drawing and colour are by no means 2 different things.  As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest - Paul Cézanne Jean-Gabriel Domergue's female Parisians I discovered this artist thanks to Nadine de Rothschild 's book Femme un jour, femme toujours : very interesting et funny with many anecdotes about famous artists; as an actress herself, she was in close contact with many celebrities... icons like Gabrielle Chanel , Jackie Kennedy , Lady Di , Romy Schneider ... (no less!). She also shares for every age of life, her skin care recipes, makeup tips (learnt from a professional makeup artist), diets and healthy lifestyle. Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962) was a French painter, carver and drawer, from Bordeaux (the 6th biggest city in France and the great port of southwest France, was then the 1st port of France). He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris . At 17 years old, he already exhibite...

Umezawa manor in Sagami Province, from the series 36 Views of Mount Fuji Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art - Auguste Renoir The old fool of drawing The Grand Palais (located in the heart of Paris on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées) organised a huge exhibition about Katsushika Hokusai from October 2014 to January 2015. Another exhibition Hokusai: Inspiration and influence took place in the Seattle Art Museum from October 2023 to January 2024. There were also an international touring exhibitions Beyond the Great Wave: works by Hokusai from the British Museum from October 2023 to January 2024 (also at the Suntory Museum of Art in Tokyo in 2022 and at the Bowers Museum in USA in 2023-24). He is considered as the most famous Japanese artist in the Western countries and one of the greatest masters in the history of art. Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was a brillant Japanese painter, drawer, carver and ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo pe...

Lisbon seen from Ginjal (1881) Painting begins where language fails - Gao Xingjian Alfredo Keil's anthem Alfredo Keil born Alfredo Cristiano Keil (1850-1907), of German origin, was a Portuguese musician, painter, poet and art collector.  He composed A Portuguesa , the Portuguese national anthem, written by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça (1856-1931, Aquarius) during the resurgent nationalist movement ignited by the 1890 British ultimatum to Portugal. He studied in Munich and Nuremberg with the German romantic painters Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805-1874) and August von Kreling (1819-1876).  Returning to Portugal, he continued his studies and became a well known romantic painter.  He was also a contemporary of the naturalist generation, with his melancholic intimate scenes and landscapes like his famous and great painting Lisbon seen from Ginjal (1881). He was considered the last important Portuguese painter in the romantic style. In his honour, a statue of his bust stands in ...

Art was an additional emotion applied to skillful technique - Charlie Chaplin The eternal feminine beauty Golden Tears , also known as Freya's Tears' , a famous oil painting with gold leaf, is often attributed to Gustav Klimt but was actually painted by French artist Anne-Marie Zilberman who was influenced by his work. We have little information about her.  We know that after studying Graphic Arts in Paris , she designed advertising posters and then became a stylist (Chakok, Gérard Darel, Kenzo, Galeries Lafayette ...). She  has also created illustrated posters for the Légendaire, festival du Conte & de l'Imaginaire (festival of tales and legends) for 20 years. She likes to represent soft and nostalgic female figures, the eternal feminine beauty. The magnificent and famous painting Golden tears actually is an inspiration from a mythological goddess, Freya (Njörd's daughter, the god of the wind and sea), the most famous of the Nordic goddesses.  She is the goddes...

Jimson weed/White flower n° 1 - 1932 Red canna - 1924 Colour, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation - Henri Matisse Georgia O'Keeffe's flowers The first time, I've discovered this artist was in an article in my dad's magazine Sélection Reader's Digest : I was mesmerized by her magnificent huge white irises and pink tulips that captivated me. Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), an American painter, is considered to be one  of the main founders of modern art and significant artists of the 20th century.  She is best known for her large-format paintings of flowers and for her depictions of New York skyscrapers and landscapes of the Northern New Mexico desert. Grew up on a farm in Wisconsin, she loved art lessons at home with her 6 brothers and sisters. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York , where she learned the techniques of traditional painting. In 1908, she won the League's William Merritt Chase still-l...

masterpiece by Avivi (most beautiful chubby toddler of 3 years)   Only artists and children see life as it is  - Hugo von Hofmannsthal The amazing painting above is done by Aviv  (2014) a toddler of 3 years old (the most beautiful chubby baby I ever seen, and since newborn!)😍 He is just as good as famous painters like Paul Jenkins , world-renowned U.S. painter, a major artistic figure associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement Ronnie Landfield , native New Yorker, a lyrical abstractionist painter Joan Mitchell , a legendary American Abstract Expressionist artist MOMO , a San Francisco-born street artist, living in Tokyo, best known for his huge, playful, complex and brightly colored abstract murals Yago Hortal , a contemporary Spanish painter known for his vibrant paintings inspired by Abstract Expressionism ... by famous artists...

Barcelona artist Yago Hortal 's vibrant acrylic neon paintings Color itself speaks its own language.  You cannot live without it - Van Gogh The vibrant neon colors Yago Hortal is a Spanish (b.1983), a Berlin based Abstract Expressionist painter from Barcelona, and known for his vibrant paintings. Since 2008, he exhibits mainly in Barcelona, New York, Berlin, Majorque and Salzburg. Participates in group exhibition since 2005: Barcelona, Munich, Sevilla, Valencia, Los Angeles, Majorque, Berlin, Wisconsin, Tilburg...