EMIL NOLDE

7 August 1867, Nolde, Denmark - 13 April 1956, Neukirchen, Germany

Born as Emil Hansen, later adopted the name of is natal place.

Painter and printmaker, one of the first expressionists in Germany.

From 1906 he became member of the revolutionary expressionist group Die Brucke, of Dresden.

Also supporter of the National Socialist German Worker's Party. During his life he expressed anti-semitic and negative opinions about jewish artists.

"Dance around the Golden Calf"

"Paradise lost", 1921

"Holiday guests", 1911

Family portrait, 1947

"Crucifixion", 1909

"Excited people"

"The last supper"

"Skater", watercolour on paper

HOWARD HODGKIN

6 August 1932 - 9 March 2017, London, UK

Educated at Bryanston School, the Camberwell Art School and later at the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham.

This artist produces lively abstracts and, I may say, as a painter he is more a colorist.

GEORGE TOOKER

5 August 1920, New York - 27 March 2011, Vermont, USA

Figurative painter painting with magic realism, photorealism and surrealism.

In 1968 he was elected to the National Academy of Design and Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

"Doors", 1953, egg tempera

"Embrace of Peace I", 1986

SELF PORTRAITS

Gauguin

Andy Wahrol

David Hockney, 1954

Gauguin

Gauguin

Picasso, 1901

Andy Warhol

David Hockney, 1955

Picasso, 1938

Andy Warhol, 1928-1987

Picasso

COLETTE

28 Janvier 1873, Saint Sauveur en Puisaye - 3 Aout 1954, Paris, France

Dans l'anniversaire de sa mort je pense à son livre "Dialogue des bêtes".

Elle disait qu'en écrivant sur des bêtes elle se reposait des humains. Elle savait s'échapper à la banalité, comme un oiseau s'échappe de sa cage.

Pour écrire ce livre, elle s'évade avec un chien et un chat, ses meilleurs compagnons et part à la campagne.

Elle pensait comme Montaigne que si les animaux n'ont pas d'esprit, ils ont une âme.

Elle savait voir les animaux dans leur naturel, elle les aimait pour ce qu'ils sont.

Quelqu'un a dit que Colette était le seul écrivain français à qui le dieu Pan parlait à l'oreille.

Colette et les bêtes

 Le chat dessiné par Colette

Avec son chien

"Dialogues de bêtes"

 Portrait avec son chat, 1896

GUSTAVE VAN DE WOESTYNE

2 August 1881, Gent - 21 April 1947, Uccle, Belgium

Expressionist painter, printmaker, illustrator and draftsman.

During the first years of his artistic life he got lots of influence from raphaelists and symbolists.

"Le mauvais semeur", 1908

"Fugue"

"The children"

ANTÓNIO JÚLIO DUARTE

1965, Lisboa, Portugal

Em 2012 tive oportunidade de ver o trabalho deste fotógrafo numa exposição a que ele deu o nome de Canil.

Deu para perceber que cada foto não é só uma imagem, está o homem sensível por detrás da câmara.

Ele entrou nessas instituições que recolhem os abandonados, rejeitados ou que nunca encontraram um dono.

Formou-se em fotografia na Ar.Co, em Lisboa, e estudou também no Royal College of Arts, em Londres. Expõe regularmente em Portugal e no estrangeiro.

É também autor de diversos livros de fotografia desde 1995.

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