Favorite Artists: Giovanni Boldini
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Uploaded by bestjonbon on Mar 18, 2009
Giovanni Boldini was born in Ferrara on the last day of the year in 1842. His father, an artist and art restorer, taught the precocious young man to paint. Boldoni went to Florence to enter the Accademia di Belle Arti when he was 19. That's where he met a lot of his friends, Tuscan realist artists who called themselves the "Macchiaoli." Their influence, plus the influence of Manet, Degas, and Courbet whom he met on an 1867 visit to Paris, did a lot to color his later paintings. He enjoyed Paris so much that he moved there permanently in 1871. His scenes of Paris and sensual portraits of the elegantly dressed women who lived there helped him become one of the top portrait painters of the day. The opening male portrait after the titles is famous Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. Though Boldini made occasional trips to London, he spent most of his long artistic life in France. Though he eventually grew too blind to paint, he still loved to hang out with the ladies. He didn't marry until he was 86. He died in Paris in 1931 when he was 88 years old. Two years later, Time magazine called him the "Master of Swish." For music, we have Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi's "Flute Concert in G Minor, Op. 10. No. 2."
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This man should have an entire museum erected in his name that's dedicated exclusively to displaying his art!
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que soltura dibuja con el color espectacular!!!
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Where did you find all these pix?
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Wow! Such life! Such feeling!
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love it...
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lovey women, great portraits, wonderful use of color! Thanks John!
ciao ciao!
donni
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Nothing to say except another awesome
presentation of another great artist.
Peace
NYCity99 3 years ago
Thank you!
bestjonbon 3 years ago
Fantastic! I love his portraits, they radiate a sort of freedom...
adnauseam7 3 years ago
Yes, his women are kind of splashed onto the canvas. Truly innovative!
bestjonbon 3 years ago