FRÉDÉRIC BAZILLE

6 Décembre 1841, Montpellier

28 Novembre 1870, Baune-la-Rolande, France

Il a contribuié pour l'impressionisme, soutenu Monet et aussi inspiré Cézanne.

Il est mort tragiquement dans ses 29 ans, lors de la guerre franco-prussiene sans avoir le temps de nous laissser plus, entrer dans l'aventure de la peinture moderne mais ce qu'il a fait est remarquable.

Il était un dandy, le grand gaillard avec ses pantalons à carreux.

Bazille a commmencé ses études en medicine mais vite il a abandonné pour être artiste, il quite Montpellier et parts à Paris en 1862. Et vite rentre dans le Paris culturel, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Zola, Manet, Renoir, Sisley etc.

Aussi grand melomane il ne rate pas une sortie à l'Opéra, dans les salles de théatre et concerts.

En 1868 son tableau La reunion de famille est accepté au Salon de Paris alors que les paysages de Monet sont, cette fois, refusés.

Cézanne s'est inspiré dans son oeuvre pour concevoir la série de baigneuses .

Frédéric meurt sous le coup des balles allemandes.

Portrait en 1865

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"The fortune teller", 1869

"La Toilette", 1869

"Young woman with Peonies", 1870

"Bathers Summer scene", 1869

"Reunion de famille"

ANTÓNIO SENA DA SILVA

24 Janeiro 1926 - 26 Setembro 2001, Lisboa, Portugal

Formou-se em arquitectura mas com 16 anos já trabalhava. 

Fez de tudo, traduções de livros policiais, crónicas, design gráfico, ilustrações de livros e revistas, figurinos para o cinema e teatro, decoração, fotografia e foi também professor de geometria e design na Escola António Arroio e na Escola Superior de Belas Artes em Lisboa.

Foi um dos principais divulgadores do design em Portugal e o criador do Centro Português de Design.

O que o destinguiu dos outros fotógrafos do seu tempo (Castelo-Lopes, Costa Martins, Victor Palla, Carlos Calvet), foi a relação sempre presente com o desenho e o design. Cada fotografia era como se de uma composição se tratasse.

Lisboa, 1956

Lisboa, 1960

"Peixeiras", 1957

Terreiro do Paço, Lisboa, 1957

1957

JEANNE MOREAU

23 January 1928, Paris, France

31 July 2017, Paris

Her mother was an english dancer who performed at the Folies Bergère.

Began her career in 1947 and won the Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actress in 1960, 1965, 1992 and 1996.

Moreau was the most famous actress in France in the 1960s. The people called her the Grande Dame but, in fact, she was simply herself.

The star film, muse, friend and sometimes lover of Louis Malle, François Truffaut, Luis Buñuel, Orson Welles, Marcello Mastroiani, Miles Davis, Tony Richardson and Pierre Cardin(!).

For me, sensuality means the way she eats a strawberry in the film "Les Amants", 1958.

She loved easily, deeply, but when the fragrance wore off, moved elsewhere. But nobody could say on screen explicitly. Even when she played the lonely grandmother in "Time to leave" (2005), she could still glow with a secret history of passion.

In 2012 she was Candidinha in "Gebo et l'ombre", directed by the portuguese Manoel de Oliveira. It was her last film.

Jeanne Moreau was actress, screenwriter, film director and singer but during her life she admitted that the only thing she was certain of  was what she did not want to do.

Also a singer

In the film "Jules and Jim", François Truffaut

With Miles Davis

In "Viva Maria", with Brigitte Bardot

In "The Bay of Angels", 1963

With Mastroiani in the film "La Notte", 1961

Dans le film "Gebo et l'Ombre", as Candidinha

With Spielberg, both won Cesar Awards, 1995

Won Cesar Awards, 1995

Good bye

LE CHAT dans la publicité

Le chat réunit à lui seule la grâce, la beauté, l'élégance et la sagesse mistérieuse.

Quel autre animal peut se vanter d'avoir été célébré par autant de grands artistes et faire parti des plus belles collections au monde entier?

En effet, le chat a inspiré de nombreux peintres. Le chat blanc de Courbet, le chat noir de Manet, les chats de Steinlen, de Foujita, et aussi de Léonor Fini qui a voué une grande passion à ce félin.

Il est aussi dans les toiles de Titien, Michel-Ange, Bruegel, Vélasquez, Rubens, Van Gogh et Matisse.

Et le chat a été aussi largement présent dans l'art publicitaire dans les derniers siécles. Qui connait pas l'affiche du fameux Dubonnet? 

Et voici quelques exemples.

Dubonnet, 1937

 Le chat blanc de Bonati

 Les laines Roubaix

Publicité café Chat noir, 1920

Savon Le petit Chat

Affiche des Poêles Godin, 1929

Dance of the Hoo-Hoo, de Suckert

The Cat's Meow

Barre de cacao

Harper's, vintage poster

Havana cigar

Ne pas laisser sortir le chat

Poster Le chat noir

Savon de Marseille

 Servus, the best cream for shoes

Telemaster, 1960

Vin des Rochers

Vinho Gatão

HU YONGAI

Born in Beijing, China, in 1945.

The artist is a member of the Chinese Artists Association, the East-West Contemporary Artists Association, USA, and visiting professor at the Fine Arts Faculty of Shangai University.

He divides his time between California and Hong Kong.

He has developed a distinctive personal style, exhibiting the perfect combination of Western and Chinese forms of expression.

His individual exhibitions held in China, USA, Hong Kong, Singapura and Taiwan have received high acclaim.