Ceslovas Cesnakevicius | Surrealist / Digital photographer

Ceslovas Cesnakevicius is an artist from Lithuania. He creates really unusual and attractive shots in the sphere of digital art. His photos are so simple and at the same time so incredibly thought-provoking.

Gleb Goloubetski, 1975 | Impressionist / Cityscape painter

Born in Omsk, Russia, a Siberian town, Gleb Goloubetski / Глеб Голубецкий⏭ displayed noticeable artistic talent and a keen interest in the arts from an early age.

His initial tutorage and inspiration came from his late father, who achieved success as a painter in his own right and who actively encouraged Goloubetski to paint.
Goloubetski’s formal training came from his studies at the highly acclaimed academy in St Petersburg where his work attracted much attention.

Gleb Goloubetski, 1975 | Venice painting

Gleb Goloubetski / Глеб Голубецкий is an Russian painter⏭, known for work in a contemporary impressionist style⏭.

Goloubetski was born in Omsk, Russia, a Siberian Town.

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

• Gleb Goloubetski, 1975 | Impressionist / Cityscape painter.⏭

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | Post-Impressionist painter | Part.³

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)⏭ is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, with Cézanne⏭, Van Gogh⏭ and Gauguin⏭.

He excelled at depicting people in their working environments, with the colour and movement of the gaudy nightlife present but the glamour stripped away.

He was a master at painting crowd scenes where each figure was highly individualized.

At the time they were painted, the individual figures in his larger paintings could be identified by silhouette alone, and the names of many of these characters have been recorded.

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

• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | Post-Impressionist painter ⏭
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | Post-Impressionist painter | Part.² ⏭

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | Post-Impressionist painter | Part.²

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 - 9 September 1901), also known as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec⏭, was a French painter⏭, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, affairs of those times.

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

• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | Post-Impressionist painter⏭

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | Post-Impressionist painter

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, in full Henri-Marie-Raymonde de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa   (born Nov. 24, 1864, Albi, France-died Sept. 9, 1901, Malromé), French artist who observed and documented with great psychological insight the personalities and facets of Parisian nightlife and the French world of entertainment in the 1890s.
His use of free-flowing, expressive line, often becoming pure arabesque, resulted in highly rhythmical compositions (e.g., In the Circus Fernando: The Ringmaster, 1888). The extreme simplification in outline and movement and the use of large colour areas make his posters some of his most powerful works.

Thomas Benjamin Kennington | Victorian / Genre painter

Thomas Benjamin Kennington (7 April 1856 - 10 December 1916) was an English⏭ genre, social realist and portrait painter. He was a founder member of the New English Art Club (NEAC) and the Imperial Arts League.

• Life and works

Kennington was born in Grimsby in Lincolnshire and trained in art at the Liverpool School of Art (winning a gold medal⏭), the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London, and the Académie Julian in Paris, where he studied under Bouguereau⏭ and Robert-Fleury. He later moved to Chelsea in London.

Albert Einstein's letter to Marie Curie, 1911

Marie Skłodowska Curie (7 November 1867 - 4 July 1934) was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes.

She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.

Maya Angelou / Nick Alm | Still I rise / Ancora io mi sollevo!

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Michael Cheval, 1966 | Playhouse of Quintessence

Michael Cheval | Gina Lollobrigida's portrait

“Playhouse of Quintessence” series of paintings embodies Michael Cheval’s philosophical reflections and his attempt to express a certain phenomena via limited means.
At the core of this idea lies the principle of theatrical pantomime where the language of gestures is most important. The task was further complicated b...y the artist’s restriction to use only the face (or the mask) and the hands.

Michael Cheval, 1966 | Absurdist / Surrealist painter

Michael Cheval, born Mikhail Khokhlachev / Михаил Хохлачев is a contemporary artist specializing in Absurdist paintings, drawings and portraits.
He is the co-founder of Cheval Fine Art Inc. and currently resides in New Jersey, United States.
His work is internationally acclaimed and has been exhibited regularly in galleries across the United States and Europe.
Michael Cheval was born in Kotelnikovo, a small town in southern Russia.

Michael Cheval, 1966 | Absurdist / Surrealist painter | VideoArt

Michael Cheval -born Mikhail Khokhlachev, Russian: Михаил Хохлачев; 1966, in Kotelnikovo, Russia, Soviet Union- is a contemporary artist specializing in Absurdist paintings, drawings and portraits.

His work is internationally acclaimed and has been exhibited regularly in galleries across the United States and Europe.

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

• Michael Cheval, 1966 | Absurdist / Surrealist painter ⏭.

David Inshaw, 1943 | Landscape / Pop Art / Romantic painter

David Inshaw -born 21 March 1943 in Wednesfield, Staffordshire, England-, is a British artist⏭ who sprang to public attention in 1973 when his painting The Badminton Game⏭ was exhibited at the ICA Summer Studio exhibition in London.

The painting was subsequently acquired by the Tate Gallery and is one of several paintings from the 1970s that won him critical acclaim and a wide audience.
Others include The Raven, Our days were a joy and our paths through flowers, She did not turn, The Cricket Game, Presentiment and The River Bank (Ophelia).

Charles Levier | Modern Cubist painter

French painter Charles Levier (1920-2003) was born to a French father and American mother in Corsica.
From an early age, he held a fascination with color and form which led him, at age seventeen, to the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs for private studies.
During World War II, Levier served in the French Army in North Africa, later becoming Liaison Officer with the U.S. Office of Strategic Services.

John Singer Sargent | Venice painting

Sargent's Venice work illustrates an artistic double-life

By Roderick Conway Morris, © The New York Times, april 20, 2007

John Singer Sargent⏭ was the most sought-after society painter of the late 19th and early 20th century. But he led a double life.
Throughout the nearly 30 years he was occupied with portraiture, he produced hundreds of landscapes and figure studies not intended for public view, seldom seen outside his studio or beyond his immediate circle of family and friends.