Art

Într-o lume în care estetica este îmbrăcată în umor negru, cultura urâtului devine o oglindire a timpurilor, preocupărilor și sufletelor noastre. România postmodernă, cu toate paradoxurile sale, acest teritoriu al ambiguității, unde literatura, pictura și sculptura se întâlnesc într-un dans fascinant mortuar al contrastelor, nu face excepție. În...

René Magritte, unul dintre cei mai importanți artiști ai secolului XX, a fost un pictor belgian, reprezentant de frunte al suprarealismului.

Henri Biva (23 January 1848 – 2 February 1929) was a French artist, known for his landscape paintings and still lifes. He focused primarily on the western suburbs of Paris, painting outdoors in the plein-air tradition; his style ranged between Post-Impressionism and Realism with a strong Naturalist component. Biva's pictures are characterized...

Almond Blossoms is a group of several paintings made in 1888 and 1890 by Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Saint-Rémy, southern France of blossoming almond trees. Flowering trees were special to van Gogh. They represented awakening and hope. He enjoyed them aesthetically and found joy in painting flowering trees. The works reflect the influence of...

The Baptism of Christ is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca. Painted in egg tempera on two panels of poplar wood, the dating is controversial – some give it a very early date, perhaps 1439; others much later, around 1460. It is held by the National Gallery, London.

Born in 1744 on the banks of the Bièvre near the Seine, Vallayer-Coster was one of four daughters born to a goldsmith of the royal family et compagnon des Gobelins.[3] One could assume that the artist's family tapestry business had some influence on her interest and skill in the art. Many of her paintings were indeed copied into tapestries by...

Guido Reni (Italian pronunciation: [ˌɡwiːdo ˈrɛːni]; 4 November 1575 – 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, although his works showed a classical manner, similar to Simon Vouet, Nicolas Poussin, and Philippe de Champaigne. He painted primarily religious works, but also mythological and allegorical subjects. Active in Rome,...

Location: The National Gallery, London

Rachel Ruysch (3 June 1664 - 12 October 1750) was a Dutch still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime. Due to a long and successful career that spanned over six decades, she became the best-documented woman painter of the Dutch Golden Age.

Este vorba de bunul meu prieten, domnul Iulian Stancu, unul dintre cei mai enigmatici artiști contemporani români pe care l-aș putea asemăna, oricând, în mod indubitabil, cu Ștefan Luchian sau chiar cu Ipolit Strâmbu (pictori monument despre care am scris, cu multă dăruire, în urmă cu ceva ani).