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The Garmash | Romantic Impressionist | Part. 4


Mikhail (Michael) Garmash (1969 Lugansk, Ukraine) ed Inessa Garmash (1972 Lipetsk, Russia) are two award winning Russian painters, known for working in the Romantic /Impressionist /Figurative style.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Garmashs' see:

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Pakayla Biehn, 1986 | Surrealist painter


Pakayla Rae Biehn is a young and talented artist born and raised in California. She uses oil and acrylic to create incredible paintings that look like pictures.
Her talent is definitely polyhedric expressed with several techniques and approaches, from painting to installation to design.


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Ilham Mirzayev, 1965 | Abstract painter


Ilham Mirzayev Maharram was born in Nakhchivan, the Azerbaijan Republic.
  • 1980 - 1984 Studied at the State Arts School named Azim Azimzadeh.
  • 1984 - 1986 Served in the Soviet Army.
  • 1986 - Began creative work - painting.
  • 1989 - Member of the Artists’ Union of USSR / youth group.
  • 1991 - Member of the Artists’ Union of USSR / after disintegration of USSR in 1991 - Member of the Artists’ Union of Azerbaijan.
  • 1992 - Production Designer of Turkish playwright A. Nelsin "The letter from Takhtali village" / Nakhchivan State Drama Theatre.

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Romona Youngquist, 1960 | Plein air painter


"My lifestyle hasn’t changed much since early childhood. I live on a little farm with my family in the middle of Oregon wine country; I still hang out in the woods with the dogs and my own kids; and I still collect a wide range of critters. When I’m not painting outside, I paint in my studio in order to keep an eye on my kids and pets, while listening to my favorite Bach, Handel and Mozart" - Romona Youngquist.


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Zhang Jing Sheng 张京生, 1940 | Plein air /Palette knife painter



Zhang Jing Sheng 张京生 is a professor and tutor for graduate students at the Tianjin Fine Arts Academy. He received State Allowance.
In 1967, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Central Fine Arts Academy. He won the silver prize at 'The Chine Fine Arts Exhibition'.
Between 1989 and 1990 he went to America to visit scholars and hold an exhibition, at the request of the Tao Sen University.

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Lionello Balestrieri | Triptych of Chopin / Il trittico di Chopin, 1904

Lionello Balestrieri | Chopin Triptych | Chopin and George Sand 
| Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

The Balestrieri's Triptych of Chopin is a series of three panel painting:
  • Chopin and George Sand;
  • Chopin at Piano;
  • Chopin Dying.
Location: Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA.
Gift of: Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Holliday, Sr.


Italian painter Lionello Balestrieri (Cetona, Siena, Italy September 12, 1872 - October 25, 1958) was a President of the Society of Italian Artists working in Paris, elected in 1906.

Balestrieri was best known for his works depicting the life of bohemians and musicians and for many years directed the Museum of Industrial Art in Naples.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Balestrieri see:

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Lionello Balestrieri | Genre / Impressionist painter

Lionello Balestrieri was born in Cetona in 1872 into a family of humble origins. When his family moved to Rome he enrolled at the Istituto di Belle Arti and then at the same institution at Naples where he was taught by Domenico Morelli and, privately, by Gioacchino Toma.
In 1897 he moved to Paris where he earned his living as an illustrator.
As a result of his friendship with the musician Giuseppe Vannicola he became so drawn to the musical circle that the subject matter of his art was mainly either musicians or music.


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Luca Postiglione | Genre painter

Luca Postiglione (Naples, October 18, 1876 - 1936) was an Italian painter, mainly of portraits, historic and genre subjects, in a Realist style.
Luca Postiglione was born in a family of painters. He was the son of the painter Luigi Postiglione.
His uncle, Salvatore Postiglione (1861-1906) was also a painter and his teacher.
Luigi's grand-uncle, Raffaele (1818-1897) was a professor at the Neapolitan Institute of Fine Arts.


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Salvatore Postiglione | Genre /Portrait painter


Salvatore Postiglione (1861-1906) was born to father Luigi (1812-1881), who was a painter of sacred subjects. His brother, also named Luigi Postiglione and his nephew, and Luigi's son, Lucawere also painters. He studied at the Neapolitan Institute of Fine Arts under his uncle, Raffaele and Domenico Morelli.


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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema | The Roses of Heliogabalus, 1888


"The Roses of Heliogabalus" is an 1888 painting by the Dutch-born British artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912). It is currently owned by the Spanish-Mexican billionaire businessman and art collector Juan Antonio Pérez Simón.

The painting measures 132.7 × 214.4 centimetres (52.2 × 84.4 in). It shows a group of Roman diners at a banquet, being swamped by drifts of pink rose petals falling from a false ceiling above. The Roman emperor Elagabalus reclines on a platform behind them, wearing a golden robe and a tiara, watching the spectacle with other garlanded guests.


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Alexander Gorbikov, 1966 | Plein air painter



Александр Горбиков was born in Stavropol, Russia. In 1998 he has graduated Repin Academy of painting, a sculpture and architecture in St. Petersburg. Is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, the International Federation of Artists. Now Александр lives and works in a Stavropol.
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Karen Tarlton, 1965 | Rainy Romance in the City | VideoArt


"La pittura è poesia silenziosa, la poesia è pittura che parla".

Simonide di Ceo

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Shawn Mackey, 1984 | Abstract Romantic painter



Shawn Mackey was born in Edmonton, Canada. Growing up in the long cold winters of Canada, he had ample time to draw and let his creativity flourish. Mackey’s parents, who were both teachers, would bring home boxes of scrap photocopy paper for him to draw on. He would cover hundreds of sheets with pictures of everything from Italian sports cars, to the elaborate floor plans of luxury mansions, to a variety of superheroes and cartoon characters pulled from his own imagination.

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The Garmash | Romantic Impressionist / Plein Air painters



The Garmash’s incredible talent is only matched by their love and career stories.
Michael and Inessa won several International awards for their portrait work and are considered to be one of the most important figurative artists working on the US market.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Garmashs' see:
For more works by Garmashs' see:
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Safet Zec, 1943 | Allegories of Fate


Bosnian painter and engraver Safet Zec was born in Rogatica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. After completing Art High School in Sarajevo, he continued his studies in Belgrade where he graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1969.


'I am a figurative artist, but I am also a contemporary one', said Safet Zec.
'The way we look at the world has changed and I try to reflect this in my paintings.
We are bombarded with images as never before.
What I aim to do is to make us stop and look more closely, to appreciate the diversity, the beauty of even everyday things'.

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Fulvio De Marinis, 1971 | Figurative painter

Fulvio De Marinis born in Naples, Italy. He graduated from the Secondary School of Art and attended the Academy of Arts in Naples.
De Marinis is a painter inspired by classical painting, but his works are extremely topical, through the representation of places, colours, and customs of the present day.
His characters and still-lives are distinguishable in the use of delicate tones and light shades, proving his technical qualification and ability to express moods of the characters represented.
Despite his young age, his paintings are requested by collectors and prestigious galleries.


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Konstantin Korovin (1861-1939) | Paris painting


"Paris was a shock for me … Impressionists… in them I found everything I was scolded for back home in Moscow
", wrote Konstantin Korovin, Russian🎨 Impressionist painter.
Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin / Константи́н Алексе́евич Коро́вин was born in Moscow to a merchant family officially registered as "peasants of Vladimir Gubernia".
His father, Aleksey Mikhailovich Korovin, earned a university degree and was more interested in arts and music than in the family business established by Konstantin's grandfather.

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Félix Vallotton | Plein Air and Landscapes


The following collection include Plein Air and Landscape paintings by Swiss-born French Nabi painter Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 - December 29, 1925).

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works see:


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Ippolito Caffi | Carnival night in via del Corso in Rome, 1845-1847


The origins of carnival date back to the Roman Saturnalia, festivities and Religious ancient Rome characterized by public amusements, orgiastic rites, sacrifices, dances and the presence of masks.
The Roman Carnival has however its maximum explosion, in the Middle Ages, after the election of Pope Paul II, who, after the transfer of the papal residence at Palazzo Venezia, concentrated in the historic center and particularly in Via Lata (now the Via del Corso), most of the carnival festivities.
The main form of the Roman carnival was Rugantino, but there were also various Norcini, Aquilani and Meo Patacca and General Damn.


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Ippolito Caffi in Venice | 150th anniversary of his death


Ippolito Caffi, between Venice and the Orient

Exhibition
Museo Correr, Venice, Italy
From May 28 to November 20, 2016
150 years ago during the Battle of Lissa, Ippolito Caffi (1809-1866) lost his life on the sinking ship Re d’Italia, on which he had embarked to document the events of the war through his swift and accurate drawings.
Caffi, born in Belluno but Venetian by choice, was an extraordinary painter and reporter, a restless observer of society and a convinced patriot. 150 years ago (almost a sign of fate!) the Veneto and Venice were annexed to Italy.


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Felix Vallotton | Still Life


The following collection include Still-life paintings by Swiss-born French Nabi painter Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 - December 29, 1925).

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works see:
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Félix Vallotton | Figures and Portraits

Félix Edouard Vallotton (1865-1925) was a Swiss /French painter and printmaker associated with Les Nabis.
Vallotton was recognized as a very accomplished portrait painter, and painted portraits of many of the leading figures in the arts of his time.
His early work included a portrait of his fellow Nabi Édouard Vuillard.
The portraits of Vallotton featured both precision and a certain cold realism.


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Nancy Seamons Crookston, 1948 | Plein Air painter


Nancy Seamons Crookston is a California-based artist awarded the title of Master Oil Painter of America. She loves capturing the human figure in moments of stillness and reflection, as well as painting plein air, whether it’s the Rocky Mountains of her birth town in Utah, or a city scape of San Francisco. Her paintings are often described as peaceful and calming.


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20th / 21st Century Artists | Sitemap

"All of us have started from Cezanne" - Fernand Leger.
"When religion, science, and morality are shaken - when external supports threaten to collapse then man’s gaze turns away from the outside world towards himself" - Vasily Kandinsky.
"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them" - Picasso.
"I have not painted a woman - I have painted a painting!" - Matisse.
"Painting, after all, has never been a mirror of the external world, it has never been like a photograph. It has been a creation of signs which were always rightly read by contemporaries…" - Daniel Kahnweiler.
"Our Ideas and our ideals must be clad in hair shirts - they must be fed on locusts and wild honey, not on history - if we are ever to escape the exhaustion of our European bad taste" - Franz Marc.


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Cecil Kennedy | Still Life

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy 1905-1997 | British flowers painter