Artists

06-02-2007

Robbie Duff Scott - Umbertide, Italy

Robbie Duff-Scott was born in 1959. He is self taught as an artist. He lives and works in Umbria. His paintings speak of flesh and melancholy, of the evidence of absence, of memory with desire, of flight and failing.
Every painting is the scene of love or crime. Sad is the felon’s love for the scratched wall.

28-12-2006

Pavel Machotka - Montone, Italy

Pavel Machotka, born in Prague and educated in the U.S., trained as a landscape painter under Terry St. John, who had revived the plein air tradition in California. He has painted the landscapes of northern California, southern France, Tuscany and Umbria, and in the mid ‘nineties turned increasingly to the figure. He is also a writer on the psychology of art and a specialist in the works of Cézanne.

His books include The Nude: Perception and Personality; Cézanne: Landscape into Art; Style and Psyche: The Art of Lundy Siegriest and Terry St. John; Painting and Our Inner World, and On Site with Paul Cézanne (translated into French as Les sites cézanniens en Provence). He is about to publish, again in English and in French, Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, a major study of the painter’s work.

He lives in Umbria, exhibits principally in Italy, and is represented by the Galleria La Loggia in Sansepolcro. In his essay on Machotka’s 2002 retrospective the critic Emidio de Albentiis said, “ These nudes by Pavel Machotka reduce the spectator to silence…” (in the original Italian: “ Questo insieme di nudi di Pavel Machotka inducono lo spettatore al silenzio…")

Website: http://www.machotka.com

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