WOMEN WITH A PASSION FOR ART

The first female artist I  want to introduce in the series Women with a Passion for Art is Maria Yakunchikova. After seeing one of her paintings called Reflection of an Intimate World I immediately fell in love with it.  Therefore I like to share some of her paintings with you. Enjoy!

Maria Vasilievna Yakunchikova-Weber was a Russian painter, graphic artist, and embroiderer. Yakunchikova was associated with the Abramtsevo artists, especially with her teacher Elena Polenova. Polenova ,whose revival of traditional handicrafts inspired Maria to embroider and to execute pokerwork.

Apple Trees in Bloom 1899

Between 1887 and 1889 she began to collect folk art. Landscape art remained her favourite genre. She was  inspired to plein air painting by Elena Polenova.

View from the Old House’s Window
– 1897

Maira Yakunchikova died on December 27, 1902 near Geneva, Switzerland. She was just 32 years old.

Reflection of an intimate world
– 1894

The Terrace – 1899

Street with snow in Meudon, 1893

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“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.”

Marc Chagall

Photo: Marc and Bella Chagall, 1923, by Hugo Erfurth

Marc and Bella in Marc’s Studio.

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Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker.

“There is nothing more surreal, nothing more abstract than reality.”

Natura Morta, Giorgio Morandi

“Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.”

The paintings of this artist are subtle still life arrangements of bottles, jugs, kitchen utensils, and bowls that are devoid of any extraneous detail. The artist would peel off labels to be able to concentrate on the form of the subject matter itself.

The Italian Painter in his atelier

“I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that… the objective world… never really exists as we see and understand it… has no intrinsic meaning of its own, such as the meanings that we attach to it.”

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“It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.”
Andre Breton

Photo by Henry Cartier -Bresson.

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“An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.”
Henri Matisse

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“All good ideas arrive by chance.”

Gala Éluard, 1924
Max Ernst

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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin

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“The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.”

René Magritte

Rene Magritte (1898-1967)
The Lovers
Oil on canvas
1928

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“My goal is never to copy. Create a new style, clear luminous colors and feel the elegance of the models.”

Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980)

Tamara de Lempicka
The Green Turban
1929

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“I didn’t expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I’m living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.”
― Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse by Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Dessert: Harmony in Red, 1908

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