martedì 21 febbraio 2012

Umberto Boccioni (Reggio Calabria19 ottobre 1882 – Verona17 agosto 1916) è stato un pittore escultore italiano. Fu teorico e principale esponente del movimento futurista, nonché maggior esponente dell'arte futurista italiana.


Umberto Boccioni (Italian pronunciation: [umˈbɛrto botˈtʃoːni]; 19 October 1882 – 17 August 1916) was an Italian painter and sculptor. Like other Futurists, his work centered on the portrayal of movement (dynamism), speed, and technology. He was born in Reggio CalabriaItaly.

Boccioni The Strengths of a Street ....and Ian ..


lunedì 20 febbraio 2012

Claude Oscar Monet (Parigi14 novembre 1840 – Giverny6 dicembre 1926) è stato un pittore francese, padre dell'Impressionismo.
 "Il solo merito di aver dipinto direttamente di fronte alla natura, cercando di rendere le mie impressioni davanti agli effetti più fuggevoli, e sono desolato di essere stato la causa del nome dato a un gruppo, la maggior parte del quale non aveva nulla di impressionista".
Claude Monet) (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of Frenchimpressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant).

THE JAPANESE FOOTBRIDGE by Claude Monet


Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter,watercolourist and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. He is commonly known as "the painter of light" and his work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism.

Snow Storm Steam-Boat off a Harbour 's Mouth and Ian