"Mask of pain" by Adolfo Wildt - 1909

“Maschera del dolore”  by Adolfo Wildt (IT, Milan 1868-1931) H 38.2cm – Private collection

At eleven Adolfo Wildt began his

apprenticeship in the workshop of

Giuseppe Grandi in Milan, who

introduced him to the working of marble.

His ability to finish and polish marble

made him famous at the age of eighteen!

 

Picasso's "Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler" - 1910

Picasso wrote of Kahnweiler: “What would have become of us if Kahnweiler hadn't had a business sense?”

 

Collection: Art instituut of Chicago

 

“… an artist works of necessity, …” – Picasso ‘conversation at Boisgeloup’, 1935

 

 

Art collector Leonard Lauder describes the events that brought together early cubist painters Braque and Picasso.

 

An art lover's blogspot > first birthday!

°22/08/2014 - “Anartlovers.blogspot.be” celebrates his first birthday!

In one year we had over 3.000 visitors! Many thanks! Go forward Art lovers!!!

Photo: Ivan Mestrovic (Yugoslavian, 1883-1962). Archangel Gabriel, 1918.

Source: brooklynmuseum

 

Georges Braque - Big trees at Estaque - 1908

“His mind has purposely induced the twilight of reality, and suddenly a universal rebirth is taking place plastically within him and outside him. He expresses a beauty full of tenderness, and the mother-of-pearl of his paintings gives iridescence to our understanding.” – Guillaume Apollinaire on Georges Braque’s Art, November 1908

Photo: http://www.wikiart.org/en/georges-braque/big-trees-at-estaque-1908

Paul Cézanne - 'Still-life with plaster cupid' - 1894

Source: http://courtauld.ac.uk/gallery

'La Loge' by Renior - 1874

"The City Rises" by Boccioni - 1910

 “The Futurist chief concern is the ‘subject’. They want to paint the ‘state of mind’. That is the most dangerous kind of painting imaginable.” - Guillaume Apollinaire 9 feb.1912

"The City Rises" by the Italian Futurist Umberto Boccioni (IT 1882-1916)

“The critic is not a gardener who cultivates only one kind of flower: all nature is his domain.” - Guillaume  Apollinaire, 9 juli 1914