Myrtille Henrion Picco, 1952 | Neo-Surrealist painter

French painter🎨 Myrtille Henrion Picco was born in Nancy, France. Child, she doodles everywhere and all the time.

But this is the photography in first that attracts her, as enought to do it her job.

She waives this passion when she understands how her look has become analytical, "rectangular" and cold as the metal of her camera. The camera lens separates her to the world.

Olga Darchuk /Ольга Дарчук, 1976 | Abstract / Impressionist painter

Ukrainian artist⏩ Olga Darchuk was born in the city of Krivoy Rog, Dnepropetrovsk region.

Graduated from art school and Krivoy Rog pedagogical University, faculty of artistic graphics.

Still wrote his first five years in the garden of the Krivoy Rog artist, from which it got its first recognition, and her mother, in turn, received a recommendation to send her daughter to art school.

With six years visited the studio of Fine Arts, and in 1986 he enrolled in art school, which successfully disaccustomed 4 years the artist Chumatchenko AN.

Pierre Auguste Renoir | Landscapes

Renoir explored landscape painting throughout his career. Early on he was influenced by painters from the Barbizon school🎨, a group of French artists who advocated naturalistic representation through direct study from nature. Many of the Barbizon artists painted pure landscapes, natural landscapes that show little or no evidence of human activity.
Renoir followed this example by working outdoors, creating both studies as well as completed paintings in plein-air.
The French term plein-air (literally meaning "open air") describes the practice of painting outdoors for the purpose of capturing effects of light and atmosphere.
The popularity of this type of painting increased through the nineteenth century as painting materials became more lightweight and portable and thereby making it easier for artists to paint on site.
Plein-air painting is often characterized by unconcealed brushstrokes, rough surface texture and loosely defined forms. Many of these features are a result of the need to work rather quickly in outdoor environments, though Renoir also utilizes them as a way of rendering atmospheric conditions. | © Philadelphia Museum of Art

William Shakespeare / Maria Amaral | Il mio occhio si è fatto pittore / Mine eye hath played the painter

Il mio occhio si è fatto pittore e ha fissato
i tratti della tua bellezza nel quadro del mio cuore.
Il mio corpo è la cornice in cui essa è racchiusa,
e, in prospettiva, è la migliore arte del pittore:
poiché attraverso il pittore devi vedere la sua abilità,
per scoprire dove giace la tua vera immagine dipinta,
che sempre è appesa nella fucina del mio petto,
le cui finestre sono i tuoi occhi.

Maria Amaral🎨 - Spanish Figurative painter

Mine eye hath played the painter and hath steeled,
Thy beauty's form in table of my heart;
My body is the frame wherein 'tis held,
And perspective that is best painter's art.
For through the painter must you see his skill,
To find where your true image pictured lies,
Which in my bosom's shop is hanging still,
That hath his windows glazed with thine eyes.

Jeremy Mann, 1979 | Cityscape / Figurative painter

Jeremy Mann, American painter🎨, holds a Cum Laude BFA from Ohio University and an MFA with valedictorian honor from Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

In his creative practice, Mann aims to imbue his city, San Francisco, with drama, mood, and personality.

He paints his immediate surroundings with intimate, dynamic expression.

A number of his compositions are inspired by wet pavement that reflects street lamps and neon signs and glitters in the rain.

Jeremy Mann, 1979 | Cityscape / Figurative painter | Part. ²

Jeremy Mann🎨 is an American painter🎨 known for working in the Realistic style.

Ever ambitious, Mann covers a wide range of subjects beyond cityscapes: interior scenes of lone, young women as striking and restless as the city itself; a bold and intriguing self-portrait, masterful still life paintings, and pastoral scenes that recall the landscape of his hometown.

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

• Jeremy Mann, 1979 | Cityscape / Figurative painter🎨.

Konstantin Sterkhov / Константин Стерхов, 1968 | Watercolour painter

A talented Russian🎨 watercolorist Константин Стерхов was born in Russia. Graduated from Repin Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Graphic Department.

- Member of Saint-Petersburg Watercolour Society.

- Member of Watercolor Society of Finland.

- Participant of local and international exhibitions.

- Teaching Art Courses in Russia and abroad.

- Graphic design and projects for different companies.

- Art works in private collections in Russia, Germany, Finland, Austria, Netherland, Italy, India, UK, China, US.

Ricardo Casal, 1957 | Figurative painter

Figurative painter Ricardo Casal was born in Poitiers-France, of a spanish parents. At the 9 years age it re-enters to Beautiful Arts where it follows with assiduity the courses for amateurs: drawing and painting academic, ceramic, dco and photograph.

Paul Serusier | Symbolist / Post-impressionist painter

Paul Sérusier🎨, in full Louis-Paul-Henri Sérusier (born November 9, 1864, Paris-died October 6, 1927, Morlaix, France), French🎨 Post-Impressionist painter and theorist who was instrumental in the formation of the short-lived, but highly influential, late 19th-century art movement known as the Nabis🎨.

The group was noted for its expressive use of colour and pattern in the mode of Paul Gauguin🎨. Sérusier’s early paintings featuring the people and landscapes of Brittany are noteworthy for their muted, contemplative mood, which the artist achieved by using firm contours and blocks of unmodulated colour.

Le Talisman, 1888, Paris, musée d'Orsay.

Alain Bonnefoit, 1937 | Impressionist painter

Painter, engraver and sculptor, Alain Bonnefoit was born in Montmartre, Paris. From 1953 he attended the École des Arts Appliqués, from 1956 the École des Beaux Arts in Paris and from 1959 also the École des Beaux Arts in Brussels Engraving and Sculpture Department. In 1961 he began a two year period in the studio of the sculptor Volti who would become his maestro in both art and life.

In 1964 he arrived at the form of expression that later made him famous: the female figures.

In 1965 he moved to Tuscany but kept on his studio in Paris.

In 1973 he made his first trip to Japan, an experience that affected him deeply, where he discovered and studied the technique of sumi-e. He made repeated visits to the East for further in-depth study and is now a master of the technique.