01Oct 2022 by kike_K No Comments
Gunnar Widforss

Gunnar Widforss

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Gunnar Widforss (1879-1934) was a Swedish artist who developed the well-known part of his paintwork in the United States. Proficient water-colourist, tireless traveller, he settled in California in 1921 and was entrusted painting a series of landscapes, he was asked to depict the National Park of Yosemite Valley first and then Yellowstone, which he travels long. Once there, he paints most of his watercolour and drawings, leading a lonely, adventurous life. He worked in many national American parks. The most complete and beautiful series of painting is the one devoted to the Grand Canyon, with spectacular rocky landscapes and changing or contrasted effects of light.  There are a number of painters attracted to these places and nearly all of them much enjoyed the solitude and a way of painting surrounded…
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15Sep 2022 by kike_K No Comments
The Small Tramps by Fernand Pelez

The Small Tramps by Fernand Pelez

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The French artist, of Spanish origin, Fernand Pelez (1843-1913) is little known. Another painter born in the 19th century one absolutely needs to re-discover; that’s why we advise to pay a visit to the Petit Palais in Paris. Influenced by the boldest realism, he devoted most of his works to tramps and under-privileged people (paying particular attention to children).  We find today that both academicism and Pelez’s neat technique are against those pathetic characters, that sordid environment but we need to point out that at no time did he commit himself to sentimentalism like other painters such as Bouguereau. Some of Pelez’s paintings are unforgettable like the one with a young flower-seller, who sleeps completely exhausted on a step. The picture of the ‘petit misère’ begging in a doorway is…
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31Jul 2022 by kike_K No Comments
Anna Bilinska

Anna Bilinska

Painting
She was quite young and showed clearly she was proficient into painting, but the Fate did not want the life of the Polish artist Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowicz (1854-1893) to last long enough for us to see any mature paintwork. She was lucky anyway, the environment, the family allowed an early calling so she travelled to Paris in 1882 to enroll in the well-known ‘Académie Julian’, the only renowned art academy in Paris which allowed the women to enroll.   Anna Bilinska is mainly known because of her portraits but I much prefer three self-portraits (made using oil paints, one of them still unfinished). She has depicted herself looking straight at the viewers, holding an artist’s palette, a set of paintbrushes,  no doubt proud of her craft.   Few things are as pleasant as…
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