Friday, May 31, 2024

Manuel Ocaranza
(1841 - 1882)
 
 Manuel Egidio Ocaranza was a Mexican painter, related to costumbrism. Considered one of the first modern artists in Mexico in the 19th century. Part of his work is exhibited at the National Museum of Art in Mexico City.

Wikipedia only in Spanish:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Ocaranza



The love of the Humming Bird
1869
Oil on canvas
100 x 145 cm
Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City

Thursday, May 30, 2024

 <b>Federico Zandomeneghi</b>
(1841 - 1917)
 
Federico Zandomeneghi was an Italian Impressionist painter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Zandomeneghi



Maiden with a bunch of flowers
1903
Oil on canvas
Pinacoteca Metropolitana "Corrado Giaquinto”, Bari, Italy

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Vlaho Bukovac
(1855 - 1922)
 
Vlaho Bukovac was a Croatian painter and academic. His life and work were eclectic, for the artist pursued his career in a variety of locales and his style changed greatly over the course of that career. He is probably best known for his 1887 nude Une fleur (A Flower), which he created during his French period and which received attention in various reviews and publications during his lifetime. Bukovac was the court painter for Obrenović dynasty, Karađorđević dynasty and Petrović-Njegoš dynasty. In Zagreb, he is probably best known as the painter of the 1895 theatre curtain in the Croatian National Theatre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlaho_Bukovac


Mrs Richard Le Doux
1892
Oil on Canvas
111 x 200 cm
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
 
The Artist visited the home of the Le Doux family in Marfield, West Derby, Liverpool both in 1891 and 1892. On the second occasion he stayed for a month and painted Mrs Richard le Doux as well as her husband. Mr Le Doux owned a considerable collection of his work, including another seated portrait of Mrs Le Doux, all of which are now lost, except this piece. This painting was shown in the Paris Salon where is was extensively reviewed.

Monday, May 27, 2024

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
(1796 - 1875)
 
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste-Camille_Corot
 

The Crown of Flowers
1865 - 1870
Oil on Canvas
64,8 x 43,2 cm
Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, Maryland.
https://collection.artbma.org/objects/38286/the-crown-of-flowers
Tom Roberts
(1856 - 1931)
 
Thomas William Roberts was an English-born Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Roberts



Mrs L. A. Abrahams
1888
Oil on canvas
41 x 36 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
https://digital.nga.gov.au/archive/exhibition/roberts/default.cfm%3Firn=267106&bioartistirn=24504&mystartrow=37&realstartrow=37&mnuid=srch&viewid=2.html
 
Roberts painted a number of ‘friendship’ portraits – his "Smike Streeton age twenty-four", of 1891 which he retained until his death, is the most famous – but this painting is unique in his oeuvre. Its genre format and intimate ‘cabinet’ size were perfect for his homage to friendship: three cups and saucers have been laid out on the Japanese tray, and he has even scraped away the sitter’s hat, originally included, to make her seem more ‘at home’ in his interior.

Sunday, May 26, 2024

Lilla Cabot Perry
(1848 -1933)


Lilla Cabot Perry was an American artist who worked in the American Impressionist style, rendering portraits and landscapes in the free form manner of her mentor, Claude Monet. Perry was an early advocate of the French Impressionist style and contributed to its reception in the United States. Perry's early work was shaped by her exposure to the Boston School of artists and her travels in Europe and Japan. She was also greatly influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson's philosophies and her friendship with Camille Pissarro. Although it was not until the age of thirty-six that Perry received formal training, her work with artists of the Impressionist, Realist, Symbolist, and German Social Realist movements greatly affected the style of her oeuvre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilla_Cabot_Perry

Lady With a Bowl of Violets
1910
Oil on Canvas
102,2 x 76,2 cm
NMWA. National Museum of Women in the Arts
https://nmwa.org/art/collection/lady-bowl-violets/

Painted after the Perry family returned from Tokyo, this composition features a Japanese woodblock print and simple floral arrangement behind the sitter’s head. The artist dramatically cropped both the print and flowers in a manner reminiscent of traditional Japanese art. Such art also inspired the curious and daring compositional emptiness of the left side of the picture.

Friday, May 24, 2024

 Ettore Tito
(1859 - 1941)
 
Ettore Tito was an Italian artist particularly known for his paintings of contemporary life and landscapes in Venice and the surrounding region. He trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice and from 1894 to 1927 was the Professor of Painting there. Tito exhibited widely and was awarded the Grand Prize in painting at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. In 1926 he was made a member of the Royal Academy of Italy. Tito was born in Castellammare di Stabia in the province of Naples and died in Venice, the city which was his home for most of his life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Tito

Light blue
1909
Oil on canvas
85 x 50 cm
Collezione Fondazione Cariparma

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