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20Aug 2025 by kike_K No Comments

Adriaen Coorte

Painting

The Dutch Adriaen Coorte (1665-1707) is one of these refined, delicate painters who was unfairly forgotten and confined to anonymity. Intimate and honest, he painted constantly still-life, asparagus bunches, sea shells, fruit bowls of small, even tiny format. It is said that he worked onto old paper sheets from books of account, subsequently gluing these papers to some cardboard or some wood board. We realise Coorte was a modest artist, always true to himself.

Charles Bell

Illustration

Tin toys or slot machines, both high plasticity items, could not go unnoticed by this first generation of photorealistic American artists in the 1970s. All these objects are Charles Bell’s hallmark (1935-1995), the most outstanding and identifiable of the lot.Those ítems are of interest nowadays, so the bottles of Ketchup, the old Chevrolets or urbanizable perspectives by Ralph Goings, John Salt and Richard Estes, that says little in favor of the current hyperrealistic artists, by the way. Everything is perceived nowadays as cultural icons although those weren’t icons at the time; they were just normal, everyday things which went unnoticed most of the time. Nobody had any aesthetic interest in those items, nobody but Charles Bell and a bunch of artists.

Margaret Mee

Illustration

MARGARET MEE (1909-1988)The botanic art is a matter the British people have always considered very seriously. They have a well-known prestigious national institution: the Botanical Arts & Artists, entrusted to preserve and promote the tradition and many new artists constantly arise and produced exquisite quality works with a perfect balance between science and aesthetic joy.Margaret Mee's life could have been used to write a great novel and to shoot an unforgettable movie. The perfect wild English lady who is a bit eccentric too such as Katherine Hepburn in 'The Queen of Africa' working as a painter and moving to the Brasilian Amazone rainforest. She embarked on a trip into the jungle and for weeks she painted orchids with an only companion, (our much admired Bogart), surrounded by danger, with a…