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"In history, many more things have been lost than left behind. This is unlikely to change in the future. So it probably doesn't matter then if I add one more painting, because it will not change this fact regardless of whether the painting remains or disappears."
Shinji Asano
Music: Goldmund "Havelock"
"In history, many more things have been lost than left behind. This is unlikely to change in the future. So it probably doesn't matter then if I add one more painting, because it will not change this fact regardless of whether the painting remains or disappears."
Shinji Asano
Music: Goldmund "Havelock"
![Henri Le Sidaner
Henri Eugène Augustin Le Sidaner (7 August 1862 – July 1939) was an intimist painter.
Sidaner was born to a French family in Port Louis, Mauritius. In 1870 he and his family settled in Dunkirk. Le Sidaner received most of his tutelage from the École des Beaux-Arts under the instruction of Alexandre Cabanel but later broke away due to artistic differences.
Between 1885 and 1894 Le Sidaner lived the year round at the Etaples art colony and was joined there by his childhood friend Eugène Chigot (1860–1923), who shared his interest in atmospheric light. Later Le Sidaner traveled extensively throughout France. He also visited many cities around the globe, as well as villages throughout Europe. He exhibited at the Salon, the Galeries Georges Petit in Paris and the Goupil Gallery in London, and settled in Gerberoy.
Marcel Prousts mention of Le Sidaners work in his novel In Search of Lost Time confirms its later reputation. In Sodom and Gomorrah, the narrator mentions that an eminent barrister from Paris had devoted his income to collecting the paintings of the highly distinguished but not great Le Sidaner.
[from Wikipedia]
Music: The Edge from Texhnolyze Henri Le Sidaner](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yJGEpc5BpVM/mqdefault.jpg)
![Theodor Kittelsen
Theodor Severin Kittelsen (April 27, 1857 January 21, 1914) was a Norwegian artist. He is one of the most popular artists in Norway. Kittelsen became famous for his nature paintings, as well as for his illustrations of fairy tales and legends, especially of trolls.
Kittelsen was born in the coastal town of Kragerø in Telemark county, Norway. His father died at an early age, leaving a wife and 8 children in straightened circumstances. Theodor was only 11 years old when he was apprenticed to a watchmaker. When at the age of 17 his talent was discovered by Diderich Maria Aall, he became a pupil at Wilhelm von Hannos drawing school in Christiania (now Oslo). Because of generous financial support by Aall he later studied in Munich. However, in 1879 Diderich Aall could no longer manage to support him, so Kittelsen had to earn his money as a draftsman for German newspapers and magazines.
In 1882 Kittelsen was granted a state scholarship to study in Paris. In 1887 he returned back to Norway for good. When back in Norway, he found nature to be a great inspiration. He spent the next two years in Lofoten where he lived with his sister and brother-in-law at Skomvær Lighthouse. Kittelsen also started to write texts to his drawings here.
Theodor Kittelsen and his family settled in a home and artist studio which he called Lauvlia near Prestfoss during 1899. Kittelsen spent his best artistic years here. During this period, Kittelsen was hired to illustrate Norwegian Folktales (Norwegian: Norske Folkeeventyr) by the Norwegian folklore collector Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. In 1908 he was made Knight of the The Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav. However, he was forced to sell and leave Lauvlia in 1910 as his health began to fail. He was granted an artists stipend in 1911 but died a broken man in 1914.
Kittelsens style could be classified between Neo-Romantic and naive painting. As a national artist he is highly respected and well known in Norway, but doesnt receive much international attention, which is the reason that his name is often not included in registers of internationally recognized painters and artists.
Lauvlia, his former home, is located north of Prestfoss along Route 287, with scenic view of Lake Soneren. The surrounding area, in particular Mount Andersnatten which overlooks the lake a few kilometres north, inspired some of Kittelsens most famous landscapes. Today Lauvlia is a private museum featuring an exhibition of Kittelsens original work. Lauvlia is decorated with Kittelsens own woodcarvings and murals. A new exhibition of original Kittelsen works is opened each year with painting and drawing activities arranged for children. The paintings exhibited are rotated each year.
[from Wikipedia]
Music: Steve Roach Your Own Eyes Theodor Kittelsen](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yhU2wJ-a_pM/mqdefault.jpg)
![Akira Kusaka
Akira Kusaka is an illustrator / graphic designer who lives in Osaka, Japan. He creates for advertisements, book covers, children’s picture book, web design, and more.
His all works are all created digitally yet with a rustic textures. Other than the role of an illustrator, he is a trombone player in two man band called ”repair” focusing on art project of poetry, picture and music. Hence you may notice the artworks are always surrounded by music theme and poetic vibes.
[from: https://phavourite.co/collections/akira-kusaka/]
Music: Alio Die & Lingua Fungi Lento Akira Kusaka](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yyQ6ASfLr9A/mqdefault.jpg)
![Brian Cheung
Brian Cheung is a visual artist, illustrator, graphic designer and sometimes photographer based in Melbourne, Australia.
Brians practice encompasses illustration, drawing, painting, lettering, graphic design and photography; most often relying on simple analogue mediums with an emphasis towards process and technique. Themes of place, space and surroundings are repeatedly explored, fuelled by curiosity, itchy feet and a fear of complacency.
[from:http://www.briancheung.net/about]
Music: Vidna Obmana A Scenic Fall Brian Cheung](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yzqJS3YYLrI/mqdefault.jpg)

![Jake Baddeley
There are Two lights. One that lights the room, and the one in your head. I paint the latter one. My paintings are lit by the light of imagination, the real light.
The places I visit in my work are a product of my dreams, that are also bathed in this light. It is an emotional light, that can convey a feeling, a mood or an idea. It is the light of nostalgia, of a distant
memory, the light of the magical garden of childhood.
An image may come to me completed, can I hold it in my head, finish the painting before it fades? I don’t like to ask too many questions, to edit or filter. If I do, I am always left with just dust in my hands, or a less interesting painting.
I listen to the still voice within, the intuition, for guidance. The thinking I leave to the viewer. Meaning, might sometimes be wanting, or reason obscure, but there is often a power, a luminosity in a successful work that resists all clarification. I would never exchange that for the most carefully composed idea.
Jake was born in Nottingham, England, in 1964, and has been drawing since his early childhood. After finishing his education as an illustrator at the University of London in 1988 he decides to travel around Europe, which leads him to the Netherlands for the first time. During these travels he meets his wife Vanessa and in 1990 he decides to live in The Hague and to work as an illustrator. Inspired by the Dutch Masters he starts working with oil paint in 1992.
In 1996 he has his first solo exhibition. This exhibition is, much to his own surprise, such a success that it offers him the opportunity to paint on a full time base. Ever since he has had successful solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally and his work has found it’s way into many private and corporate collections.
Jake draws his inspirations from many sources: the Ancient Greeks, the Italian Renaissance Masters, the Dutch Masters, iconography, mythology, psychology and philosophy. But most of all he relies on his own subconscious and intuition which has proven many times to have a logic and curious independence of its own.
[from:https://www.jakebaddeley.com/about-jake/]
Music: Alio Die Il Portale Dellinvisibile Jake Baddeley](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zvkn1asIWsU/mqdefault.jpg)