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What I hear, I hear, What I see, I remember, What I do, I understand
This philosophy guides me to begin this Art Blog to give to my visitors the chance to see, at a glance, the art culture of different artists from different countries through their art works with the purpose to entertain, educating the mind and stir the heart
Painting, illustration, photography, design, music, film, architecture etc shall be here
Welcome
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28 de dezembro de 2020

LUCIO RANUCCI
1925-2017, Perledeo, Italia
Foi pintor, escritor, jornalista e director teatral.
Viveu mais de 30 anos pela maior parte dos Países da América do Sul e isso ficou bem expresso na sua obra que só terminou com a sua morte.
Deixou um grande mural (13 x 4) no aeroporto de San José, Costa Rica.























12 de dezembro de 2020

SIMON QUADRAT
1946, London, England, United Kingdom
Lawyer, pianist and painter.
His parents left Nazi Germany prior to World War II.
Like his mother, he is a classical pianist.
Law degree at Bristol University he became member of the Inner Temple until 2000. Then, the artistic  talent pressed him to take the decision to become a full time painter.



"Boy and canary"


"Family outing"


"Sisters by the Sea"


"On the river"


"Interior with two women"


"The card player"


"Circus horse dances the polka"


"The cyclist"


"The Solitary Diners"


"Young woman in bedroom"

25 de novembro de 2020

NUDE BATHERS
The theme nude bathers, specially female ones, began on the XIX and early XX Centuries to be used as a strategy to show the nude figures.
Here some of those examples.

Auguste Renoir, 
"The large bathers"


Edgar Degas, "The tub", 1886


Giorgio de Chirico, "Bathers on the beach", 1934


Henri Matisse, "Bathers with a turtle",1908


Jean Metzinger, "The  bathers", 1913


Konstantin Somov, “Bathers in the Sun”, 1930


Maurice Denis, 
"Wave", 1916


Pablo Picasso, 
"Three  bathers", 1920


Paul Cézanne, 
"Bathers"


Paul Gauguin, 
"The  bathers",1897


Pierre Bonnard, "The bath
", 1925

18 de novembro de 2020

ROGÉRIO RIBEIRO
1930-2008, Estremoz, Portugal
Estudou na Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa onde chegou a professor, ao mesmo tempo que pintor, desenhador,  gravador, designer e autor de painéis de cerâmica e cartões de tapeçaria.
Fundou a Sociedade Cooperativa de Gravadores Portugueses
Desde 1993 até à sua morte foi diretor da Casa da Cerca-Centro de Arte Contemporânea em Almada.



"Briga",  Cartão para tapeçaria de Portalegre


Linóleo gravura, 1958


"Um quadro azul", 1993


"Vendedores de cavalos"


"A vida mágica da sementinha", ilustração


"Cão voador", 1990


"Família", 1951


Ilustração para livro, 1956


"Rainha surpreendida pelo Mensageiro"

30 de outubro de 2020

DIDIER LOURENÇO
1968, Premià de Mar, Spain
He is a self-taught artist sharing his talent between lithographs, oil paintings and sculpture.
In 1991 he won a second prize at the XXXIII Premio de Pintura Joven, in Barcelona and many others came until now.



"Shall we dance"


"Meva"


"Bicicletes"


"Calma"


"Cara"


"Gelos"


"As you sleep"


"Paseig de nit"