Padres de la Pintura

Hombre en Turbante por
Jan van Eyck

Que dilema ¿No?
Por ejemplo se le atribuye al flamenco Jan van EYCK (1390-1441), el Título de “Padre de la Pintura Moderna”. Y eso porque también se le consideró la invención de la pintura al óleo. Diversos estudios posteriores, comprobaron que la pintura al óleo, existía con anterioridad a este gran pintor.

Pero de lo que no existe duda, es de que Jan van EYCK, llevó el procedimiento hasta un grado extraordinario de perfección, y gracias a él, tenemos a la pintura al óleo tal como la que usamos hoy en día.
Recordemos de que por esos años, 1422 en adelante, no existían los famosos “Tubitos”, y cada pintor se las ingeniaba para obtener sus pigmentos, resinas y otros elementos químicos, biológicos o naturales, para conseguir sus colores.


Otro “Padre” de la pintura, es Joachim PATINIR (1480-1524), Flamenco también. Se le considera el Padre del Paisajismo como género independiente y en el año 2007, el Museo Del Prado, en España, le ha dedicado su Primera Exposición Antológica.


PATINIR, permitió que sus paisajes, disminuyeran el protagonismo de las figuras, que a menudo eran pintadas por otros artistas. Sus inmensas vistas combinaban la observación del detalle naturista con la fantasía lírica.


Padres del impresionismo: COROT, MONET ,RENOIR, PISSARRO, etc…


Bueno, padres en la historia hay muchos, esta es sólo una Página.

JOSEF TRAUB BAUER

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Nahmad Art Collection

Based in Monaco, the Nahmad family has been collecting great art for two generations, ranging from Impressionism to Surrealism and beyond; indeed, now in its second generation, their patronage has seen the family name appear frequently in some of the more spectacular auctions of recent times. 


Now, for the first time ever, one hundred major pieces from what is thought to be a one-of-a-kind private collection are to go on show in an exclusive exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zürich.

Picasso, with a breathtaking selection of work from all phases of his career, is one of the best-represented artists in the collection; but there are also Matisse, Modigliani and Kandinsky, with whole series of brilliant pieces; and Claude Monet, one of the ancestors of the modernist movement, with late, luminous images of his travels in the south.


But although the Nahmad Collection is ostensibly committed to the orthodox canon, it has its eclectic touches too, including works by proponents of late Impressionism (Renoir, Degas and Seurat) at the end of the 19th century, through advocates of Cubism and Abstract Art all the way to the Surrealists: Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst rub shoulders with exceptional pieces by Joan Miró, for a truly astonishing tour of some great moments in modern art. The Nahmad Collection!

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Renoir painting unjustly taken before Holocaust

In 1956, steel magnate Newton Korhumel and his wife, Irene, bought a florid country landscape by French impressionist master Pierre-Auguste Renoir at a New York gallery. The painting hung proudly in their Lake Forest home.


Now, there's a question as to whether the couple ever truly owned the painting.


Irene Korhumel died in December, nine years after her husband. The executor of their estate turned to Christie's auction house in Chicago to sell the painting, created by an artist whose work routinely fetches millions of dollars.


But any potential sale is on hold, awaiting a possible claim by the heirs of a German textile mogul who, like many other Jews in mid-20th century Europe, lost his art collection to the Nazi onslaught, said Olaf Ossmann, a Swiss lawyer who represents the mogul's heirs.

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Renoir painting owned by Lake Forest family may have been unjustly taken before Holocaust - chicagotribune.com