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Juan Fortuny, 1939 | Impressionist / Realist / Figurative painter



Juan Fortuny* is an Spanish painter*, known for working in the Realist, Impressionist* e Figurative style.
Juan Fortuny was born in Badalona, a small fishing town near to Barcelona, on the 20th of April, 1939.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Juan Fortuny see: Juan Fortuny, 1939 | Impressionist / Realist painter ➠.

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Miloslava Vrbova-Stefkova | Ballet dancers


Czech artist Miloslava Vrbova-Štefková (1909-1991) was an traditionalist post-impressionist painter.
During the 1937-1938 Miloslava Vrbova-Štefková studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Czech Abstract painter František Kupka (September 23, 1871 - June 24, 1957).
Besides the dancers, the ballet scenes and portraits, Miloslava Vrbova also painted landscapes and the Prague urban motifs, religious scenes (the Crucifixion in the church Žinkovie), still lifes and flowers.

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Carlo Crivelli | Santa Maria Maddalena, 1470-1473 | Trittico di Montefiore




Santa Maria Maddalena è un dipinto appartenente al registro centrale del Polittico di Montefiore di Carlo Crivelli (1430/5 - 1494)*, realizzato con tecnica a tempera e oro su tavola nel 1471-72 e misura 174 x 54 cm. Il riquadro è custodito chiesa di Santa Lucia, Montefiore dell’Aso, provincia di Ascoli Piceno.
Nel Polo museale di San Francesco a Montefiore restano oggi sei pannelli che sono stati ricomposti a formare un arbitrario trittico, detto Trittico di Montefiore.

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Annick Bouvattier | Pittrice figurativa

Più attratta dalle sfilate che dalle boutique di moda, Annick Bouvattier inizia la sua vita lavorativa nel cinema e nella pubblicità.
Costumista, lavora spesso negli studi di Cinecittà a Roma.
Dei suoi soggiorni in Italia conserva il sapore dei colori caldi, sensuali, profondi: gli ocra solari, i rossi sordi, gli azzurri intensi, i verdi profondi.
Annick Bouvattier è la pittrice dei silenzi, dei piccoli gesti insignificanti compiuti ogni giorno, dei momenti banali, degli sguardi fugaci, delle parole non dette, delle storie senza parole - ma molti collezionisti hanno già sentito quei silenzi.


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Lorenzo Lotto | The Recanati Polyptych / Il Polittico di Recanati, 1506-1508


The Recanati Polyptych is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Lorenzo Lotto*, executed in 1506-1508 and housed in the Civic Museum of Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati, Italy. The work is dated and signed Laurent[ius] Lotus MDVIII.

Lotto began to work on the piece in 1506 as a devotional for the church of San Domenico in Recanati. The work was seen and described complete and in situ by Giorgio Vasari* in his Vite, who said Lotto was still young and followed partly the manner of the Bellini*, partly that of Giorgione*.

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Sarah Myers | Figurative sculptor



Sarah Myers - Art-design, sculpture, handicraft.
"The art of museums inspires me, as does atmospheric design. Since 2003 I often use ceramic clays from formulas invented by my sister Amy Myers - material I mix and knead up by hand.
My sculpture goes from dust to moist clay, then to a figure glowing white-hot in the kiln at degrees ranging from 1940-2305 degrees Fahrenheit... and forward to a sculpture that looks at you, that stands ready or falls asleep, that carries or dances".

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Nadezhda Streltsov / Надежда Стрельцова, 1973 | Ballet dancers


Надежда Стрельцова was born in in Leningrad, St. Petersburg.
1983-1991 studied at the Art School at the Institute Repin in St. Petersburg (Academy of Arts).
1992-1998 studied at the State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Repin in the studio of prof. Непринцева and Еремеева and Eremeeva.
For the thesis "The White Night" was awarded° the grant "The Muse of St. Petersburg" and the State grant of the Ministry of Culture of Russia in 1999.
- In 2002 again awarded* the grant "The young artists of St. Petersburg".
Since 2001 - member of the Union of Artists of Russia.
Her works are in private collections in the USA, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Russia.

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Hanan Milner, 1949 | Figurative painter



Hanan Milner was born in Lithuania, former USSR.
Studied at Tel-Aviv art schools Renanim and TelmaYallin and at the Bezalel art academy in Jerusalem.
Participated in two seminars of the distinguished Austrian artist, Ernst Fuchs Exhibits in galleries in the US, England and Israel.

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Carlo Crivelli | Santa Maria Maddalena, 1476


Mary Magdalene, Carlo Crivelli, c. 1480
tempera on panel, h 152cm × w 49cm.

With Carlo Crivelli, the so-called ‘International Gothic’ style experienced its final flowering in Italy.
This perfectly preserved panel was painted towards the end of his career.

It served as the altarpiece of a provincial church dedicated to Mary Magdalene in the sparsely populated rural area of the Marches where Crivelli lived. | © Rijksmuseum

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Lorenzo Lotto | The Recanati Annunciation / Annunciazione di Recanati, 1534


The Recanati Annunciation is a painting by the Italian Renaissance* painter Lorenzo Lotto, executed around 1534 and housed in the Civic Museum of Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati, Italy.
  • History
The work could date to the artist's sojourn in Venice, from where it would be shipped to the Marche around 1527. Otherwise, it could date to a later period when he moved there to executed other works. Today it is generally assigned to a few time after the Crucifixion of Monte San Giusto (1533-1534).

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Stephanie Clair | Cubist Romantic painter


With the matrimony of emotion, cubes and color, Stephanie Clair, American painter, shares her inspiration from happy, dreamy moments in life that we can all relate to, but so easily forget.
A first love, a last love, a memory, lovers sipping wine, being enlightened, inspired by sweet music... those moments are ours to remember- but the speed of time can erase the memories we all take for granted.

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Michele Byrne | Plein Air / Figurative painter



Michele Byrne is recognized for her figurative plein air work. She lives and works in Reading, Pennsylvania. However, she travels extensively, painting in various locations including, Manhattan, Paris, California, Colorado and Key West, Florida. Michele was a Faculty Demonstrator for the Annual PleinAir Convention in Monterey, CA in April of 2014.

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Rudyard Kipling | Se.. / If..| Lettera al figlio, 1910

Margarita Sikorskaia

Se riesci a conservare il controllo quando tutti
intorno a te lo perdono e te ne fanno una colpa;
se riesci ad aver fiducia in te quando tutti
ne dubitano, ma anche a tener conto del dubbio;
se riesci ad aspettare e non stancarti di aspettare,
o se mentono a tuo riguardo, a non ricambiare in menzogne,
o se ti odiano, a non lasciarti prendere dall’odio,
e tuttavia a non sembrare troppo buono e
a non parlare troppo saggio;

Se riesci a sognare e a non fare del sogno il tuo padrone;
se riesci a pensare e a non fare del pensiero il tuo scopo;
Se riesci a far fronte al Trionfo ed alla Rovina
e trattare allo stesso modo quei due impostori;

Se riesci a sopportare di udire la verità che hai detto
distorta da furfanti per ingannare gli sciocchi
o a contemplare le cose cui hai dedicato la vita, infrante,
e piegarti a ricostruirle con strumenti logori;


If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

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Candace Charlton, 1968 | Abstract Figurative painter


Candace Charlton (Durban, South Africa) studied Fine Art at Rhodes University majoring in Sculpture and History of Art.
Painting full-time since 1997.
In 1998 she held her first solo exhibition which was warmly received by the public.
In 2000 she moved to Europe and lives and works in The Netherlands and in Italy.
The human form, in particular the portrait, is the main focus in Charlton’s work.

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Raffaello Gambogi | Post-Macchiaioli painter



Raffaello Gambogi (Livorno, 1874 - 1943) was an Italian painter*, mainly of urban landscapes and genre scenes*.

In 1891 Gambogi obtained a scholarship to the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, where he studied under Giovanni Fattori*. Among his works, L’uscita della messa was awarded* the Florence Prize in 1896, All’ombra displayed at the Fine Arts Exposition adjacent to the Festa dell’Arte e dei Fiori in Florence.

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Salvador Fuster Vercher, 1966 | Portrait /Cityscape painter


Salvador Fuster Vercher born in Alcoy, is the son of the painter Rafael Fuster he inherited his great mastery of drawing and color.
Salvador Fuster is a painter who, like his progenitor, dominates all painting techniques, and is considered one of the best portrait painters in the current art scene.
His painting is present in great part of the best collections of painting of Europe and America and even the distant Australia counts on portraits and work of this great artist.

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Alexei Antonov, 1957

Alexei Antonov è nato in Russia ed è residente negli Stati Uniti dal 1991, a seguito delle vicende della Perestrojka. La passione per l'arte nasce da quando era bambino.
Ricorda infatti di essere stato attratto dal kit di make-up della madre e di disegnare murales sulla carta da parati con il suo rossetto.
Per tutta la sua infanzia ha continuato disegnare, ed al liceo eccelleva nell'arte e nel canto. Le sue opere sono classificabili nel realismo classico.


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Max Leiva, 1966 | Abstract sculptor


The Guatemalan artist graduate of the country’s National School of Fine Arts, spends his working time between his home country and Mexico.
The globe-trotting artist, who spent time at the University of Silpakorn in Thailand under a UNESCO scholarship, states that Guatemala lacks sufficient foundry facilities required to undertake his work.
After preliminary sketching sessions on paper, small studies of his works are constructed using Plasticine, ceramic clay or gypsum whilst metal frames are used to facilitate the silicone mould-making process.
Patination and finishing are then completed in Leiva’s Guatemalan workshop.

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Ans Markus, 1947 | Fashion painter



Antje Geertje (Ans) Markus is known for her paintings of woman in drapings. Markus is an autodidact with a realistic style. Her first exposition was in 1981, her own atelier and exposition space was opened in 1995. In 2003 a book with a collection of her paintings was released because of her 25-year anniversary as a painter. Markus has a distinctive clothing style. On november 6, 2009 it was announced that Markus was selected as Dutch artist° of the year.

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Valentin De Boulogne | Baroque painter


With the exception of Valentin de Boulogne's baptismal record, bearing a disputed date of either 1591 or 1594, the artist's early life is undocumented. The son of a painter and stained glass worker, Valentin likely received his first training with his father in his native Coulommiers, near Paris. He may subsequently have studied with an artist in Paris or in Fontainebleau. It is not known when he departed for Italy, where he resided the remainder of his short life. Joachim von Sandrart remarked (1675) that Valentin reached Rome before Simon Vouet (1590-1649), who arrived around 1614.

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Alphonse Osbert | Symbolist / Pointillist painter



Alphonse Osbert (23 March 1857 - 11 August 1939) was a French* Symbolist painter.
Educated at the École des Beaux-Arts, his earliest passion was for the great Spanish masters*, particularly Jusepe de Ribera. A shift away from his academic style took place in the late 1880s under the influence of several acquaintances associated with Post-Impressionism* and Symbolism*.

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Eugène Delaplanche | Naturalist sculptor

Eugène Delaplanche (28 February 1836 - 10 January 1891) was a French sculptor, born at Belleville, Seine.
He was a pupil of the neoclassical sculptor Francisque Joseph Duret (French, 1804-1865), gained the Prix de Rome in 1864 (spending 1864-67 at the Villa Medici in Rome), and the medal of honor° in 1878.

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Gigino Falconi, 1933 | Surrealist painter

Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo, Italy) and started to paint when he was sixteen years old, at the same time he attended the Technical Institute for Accountants and obtained a diploma in 1952.
Then he graduated at the Art School of Pescara in 1954. The following year he won the Chair Design’s competition and started teaching in a middle school in Giulianova, an activity that he left in 1975 to devote himself entirely to painting. His first solo exhibition was at the Gallery Il Polittico of Teramo in 1961.


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Alessandro Sicioldr, 1990 | Visionary painter

Alessandro Sicioldr is an Italian painter and illustrator born in Tarquinia, living and working in Perugia. He works mainly with oil paint, pencils and coloured pencils.
His subjects are surreal images coming from unconscious that he represents using a blend of contemporary and traditional techniques.


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Howard Behrens | Palette knife painter




American painter Howard Behrens (August 20, 1933 - April 14, 2014) - the world's most renowned palette knife artist. As a landscape and seascape artist, Behrens has painted the idyllic lakes of Italy to the gardens of New England.
He has had over 150 one-man shows from coast-to-coast since becoming a professional artist in 1980. Behrens was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1933. He grew up near Washington, DC. He began drawing at age seventeen after being confined to bed following a sledding accident.

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Nicola Vietti, 1945 | Figurative painter

Nicola Vietti was born in Marseille to Italian parents emigrated from Apulia in France at the beginning of the century. Numerous solo and group exhibitions. And 'present in catalogs and magazines. He currently lives and works in Milan, after a long period spent in Paris.
The figures of maidens Nicola Vietti, you can look on each side, three-quarter profile, facing away.
The style might defer to their fathers, that should not be forgotten at this point, as the International Botero and Bueno Nicola Vietti that offer a hint of a departure of style attempted with disenchantment.


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Vincent van Gogh | Sunflowers series / La serie dei Girasoli



Paul Gauguin, van Gogh che dipinge i girasoli, 1888, Van Gogh Museum

Sunflowers (original title, in French: Tournesols) are the subject of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh*. The earlier series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, executed a year later in Arles, shows bouquets of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions.

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Helen Allingham RWS | Victorian era painter

Helen Allingham RWS (née Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson; 26 September 1848 - 28 September 1926) was an British* watercolour painter and illustrator of the Victorian era.

Biography

Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson was born at Swadlincote in Derbyshire, the daughter of Alexander Henry Paterson, a medical doctor, and Mary Herford Paterson. Helen Paterson was the eldest of seven children. The family moved to Altrincham in Cheshire when she was one year old.
In 1862 her father and her 3-year-old sister Isabel died of diphtheria during an epidemic.
The family then moved to Birmingham, where some of Alexander Paterson's family lived.


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Masaaki Sasamoto 笹本正明, 1966


Japanese artist Masaaki Sasamoto was born in 1966 in Tokyo. He graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, specializing in Japanese painting.
He has been a permanent participant of solo and group art exhibitions throughout Japan. Masaaki Sasamoto currently lives and works in Yamanashi Prefecture, on the island of Honshu, Japan. The artworks of Masaaki Sasamoto are exhibited at Art Prefectural Gallery of Yamanashi Museum.

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Ricardo Sanz, 1957 | Portrait /Figurative painter


Ricardo Sanz is a San Sebastián painter. His work is contemporary figurative style.
His artistic vocation was forged through his grandfather, owner of the Art Gallery La Perfecta in which he met the great artists of the painting: Sorolla, Zuloaga, Vázquez Diaz, etc.
At fourteen he began his training as a painter with José Camps, while he continued his studies until graduating in History from the University of Deusto and Art History in Madrid.
In Paris and Italy continues his apprenticeship with prominent painters of the time. Finally, he settled in Madrid, where he lives and has his studio since 1980; always linked to San Sebastian, his hometown, where he spends long periods.

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Greek Artists | Sitemap


List of Greek Artists by century and artistic movements definition

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Claudio Bonanni, 1960 | Impressionist Seascape painter



Claudio Bonanni was born in Tivoli, Rome on 29th September 1960. From 1980-1986, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, then he moved to Paris to study painting under the guidance of Pio Santini, of Tivoli, moved to the French capital fifty year before.
Here he deepened the knowledge of the Impressionists, first of all Pissarro.

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Paul Chabas | Academic painter



Paul Émile Chabas (1869-1937) was a French painter🎨 and illustrator and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
He was born in Nantes, and had his artistic training under William-Adolphe Bouguereau🎨 and Tony Robert-Fleury. He first exhibited at the Salon in 1890.
He was awarded a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 and in 1912 received the Médaille d’honneur🎨. His preferred subject was a young girl in a natural setting.

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Ludivine Corominas, 1976 | Still life painter

Ludivine Corominas 1976 | France | Still life

French painter Ludivine Corominas is a self-taught artist, acquired her first notion of art by her father. With many elegance, fines and exquisite delicacy, Ludivine declines colors of rainbow by creating tones and nuances which light up the sun of her brushes.
The redcurrants, the luscious grapes, crystalline transparency, fine porcelains are the principal subjects of this artist: The still life.

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Correggio | Jupiter and Io, 1530


Jupiter and Io is a painting by the Italian late Renaissance artist Antonio Allegri da Correggio.
It is housed in the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna, Austria.

History

The series of Jupiter's Loves was conceived after the success of Venus and Cupid with a Satyr. Correggio painted four canvasses in total, although others had been programmed perhaps.

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Van Gogh series | View of Saintes-Maries



Saintes-Maries is the subject of a series of paintings that Vincent van Gogh made in 1888. When Van Gogh lived in Arles, he took a trip to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer on the Mediterranean sea, where he made several paintings of the seascape and town.
  • Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
In June 1888 Van Gogh took a 30-mile stagecoach trip from Arles to the sea-side fishing village of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer on the coast of the Mediterranean sea. Van Gogh's week-long trip was taken to recover from his health problems and make some seaside paintings and drawings. At that time Saintes-Maries was a small fishing village with under a hundred homes.

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Giorgio Conta, 1978 | Figurative sculptor



Giorgio Conta grew up in an artistic environment where, being his father a well known artist, he came into contact with various personalities from the art and culture world, including the great pianist Arturo Benedetti Michel-angeli, close friend of the family, who expressed the wish to be his Godfather. After having earned his high-school diploma he attended a sculpture school devoting himself to painting and drawing as well.