Wu Tao Tzu had the greatest influence on the painting of the Far East. What Michelangelo Buonarroti was to the West, he was to the Far East. His life coincided with the “golden age of Chinese culture”, during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong (712-756) of the Tang dynasty. He was born around 689 in a … Read more
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 – 1851) is one of the most famous British artists of all time. The gallery of contemporary art in Margate bears his name, and recently a film about the later period of his life was made, nominated for an Oscar award. However, Turner is an artist who is not easy … Read more
My most beautiful work of art is my garden in Giverny. Claude Monet Claude Oscar Monet (1840-1926) is one of the most important and, according to many, the most consistent representative of French Impressionism. Moreover, the entire movement was named after Monet’s painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, solei levant). He was also called a painter of … Read more
A person’s happiness is based on their ability to identify with nature, to notice it and communicate with it. L.N. Tolstoy The landscape Sunny Day belongs to Levitan’s earliest preserved works, with which he presented himself at the exhibition of painting students in 1877, at the age of seventeen. The scenes, colors, scents, and sounds … Read more
Croatian painter Celestin Mato Medović belongs to the forefront of our great artists of the 19th century. He is highly esteemed as a portraitist, excelling in historical and mythological depictions, but he is also considered a pioneer of landscape painting. Medović is part of a glorious generation of our artists who honed their skills at … Read more
