James Coleman, 1949 | Walt Disney Fine Art

James Coleman, American painter, was born in Hollywood, California in 1949. As a youth, his creative abilities seemed to dominate his world.

Though he lacked the athletic skills of his young friends, he more than made up for it with imagination and ingenuity. As a young man, his interest in filmmaking and fine art would mark the beginning of a long, successful career in animated films.

Thomas Blackshear ~ Visionary painter

Thomas Blackshear, African-American painter, is an artist who is best known for his emotionally powerful Christian and ebony themes. Blackshear is considered to be one of the world's most talented artists because of his versatility, consummate skill, and extraordinary sense of color, style, and design.

Intimacy

Mark Newman, 1962 | Figurative sculptor

Born in 1962, Mark Newman is an American sculptor🎨 who has a career of 19 years behind, if we calculate only his professional activities. Newman has a remarkable style expressed through art, through his vivid looking sculptures that appear to be freakishly alive! He spends a lot of time in his studio where he molds some of the best sculptures the modern world has seen. Newman believes in practice, drawing, observing forms and people and getting inspired by other artists.

Cesar Santos, 1982 | Realist painter | Part. 2

Cesar Santos🎨 is a Cuban-born American painter🎨, best known for images that transmit the impression of paintings of the past, but are also imbued with contemporary, fresh concepts and his own philosophy.

His work shows a wide range of influences, including sources as diverse as the Renaissance🎨, Nineteenth Century academic work, and contemporary society. His artistic energy drives him to arrange elusive figures and objects in conceptual designs, yet rendering them in a believable and convincing way.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Santos, see Cesar Santos, 1982 | Realist Portrait / Conceptual painter🎨.

Umberto Mazzone, 1941

Umberto Mazzone, pittore italiano, è nato a Catania. Attualmente vive e opera a Bevagna (PG), proseguendo un lungo percorso artistico, iniziato a soli dieci anni.

Proprio a quell’età, stimolato dalla sua insegnante di disegno, si accosta al variegato mondo dell’arte, che cattura la sua giovane fantasia, consentendogli di scoprire le sue possibilità fantastiche e umane, attraverso segni ed i colori.

Da allora segue una ricerca artistica, lievitata dagli studi classici e soprattutto dal mondo greco e orientale, che lo porterà a sperimentazioni sempre nuove, legate ai valori di quelle civiltà che ci hanno segnato sia come popoli, che come individui.

Sergey Ignatenko, 1975 ~ Night's Dream

Сергей Игнатенко, Belarusian painter, was born in Gomel, the Republic of Belarus.
His career began in art school. As a child, he fiddled with paint and paintbrush and made figurative pictures with his mother's and sister's portraits.
hey were his models. In 1997 he successfully accomplished his studies in A. Hlebaw Minsk High School of Art.

Odysseas Oikonomou, 1967 | Children portrait painter

Albanian-born Greek painter* Odysseas Oikonomou /Οδυσσέας Οικονόμου was born in Dhuvjan, Albania to Greek parents.

He paints from the age of five years old.

At the age of 14 years old, ending eight-year primary school, and after double competition (in Gjirokaster, Berat,) wins a place in the Artistic Liceu "Ajet Xhindole" in Berat.

Claudio Sacchi, 1953 | Figurative painter

Italian painter🎨 Claudio Sacchi was born in Pesaro, Italy. He attended the Art School in Urbino, and continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.
Major influences in his artistic education were his encounters with Pietro Annigoni🎨 and with Enrico Del Bono. Since 1977 his work has been included in the archive of the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence, in the section on twentieth-century Italian art.

Igor Morski, 1960 ~ Surrealist painter

Igor Morski is a Polish painter, illustrator and graphic designer whose surreal work is as thought evoking as they are beautifully rendered. Anyone wishing to glance at his work will find themselves staring. It’s the kind of art that would make a casual observer do a double-take. His work includes, among other fantastic things: a naked, balding, man leaking water from the holes drilled in his body, another one bearing a tied-up giant fly on his back, and a mother and child cat-people. Igo has created many wonderful and spectacular surrealistic illustrations. Igor is known for his huge imagination and creativity to bring to life such an interesting situations which are appreciated by many.

Meadow Gist, 1975 | Impressionist Figurative / Portrait painter

Meadow Gist, a young American painter, is member of both the California Art Club and Oil Painters of America. Gist has studied at Watts Atelier for the past six years, and has taught there for the last three.
She began her art career in the corporate field painting displays and murals for a major retail chain. Her work has been exhibited as a finalist in the International Artist Magazine's Still Lifes and Florals Competition 2006 and as a "Top 50" selection at Salon International 2007.

Howard Rogers, 1932 | Bronze figurative sculptures

Howard Rogers began his fine art career as a highly successful illustrator on the East Coast, working on projects for national magazines and book publishers. He eventually moved west to paint full time, greatly inspired by the landscapes and cowboy lifestyle. Today, he is nationally recognized for his western paintings, although his subjects include figuratives, florals and wildlife.
He is also highly sought after for his lyrical figurative bronzes.

Tony Pavone ~ Last Lover

Born in Ohio from parents of European descent, Tony Pavone's childhood was filled with art, operas, musicals and passion for culture. His artistic abilities became evident when, at the age of 3, he opened his father's anatomy and art books and drew the internal anatomy of the human body. 

Hamish Blakely ~ Flamenco Dancer

Tina Blondell, 1953 | Visionary / Figurative painter

Austrian-American painter🎨 Tina Blondell was born in Salzburg, Austria, to an American father and austrian mother who encouraged her early interest in art.
Crucial to her education as an artist, was her first-hand encounters with art in Italy, where she lived until 1971, particularly the work of Caravaggio🎨 and of Artemisia Gentileschi🎨.

Marek Langowski ~ The dance of light in Venice

Marek Langowski is a polish painter, who is creating his works since 1981. You can find his pieces all around the world. Marek was born in Aleksandrow Lódzki. He lives and works in Belchatow, near Lodz. The biggest passions of Marek are family loving, painting and photography.

Gala, la passione surreale di Salvador Dali

Gala, Elena Ivanovna Diakonova (1894-1982), moglie del poeta Paul Eluard🎨, conosciuta nel 1929, fu la prima amante e poi moglie di Salvador Dalí 1904-1989🎨, il pittore spagnolo degli "orologi molli"e delle "giraffe in fiamme".
L'incontro con la moglie di Eluard🎨, Gala, sarà folgorante tanto che, nell'estate dello stesso anno la conduce nella sua terra natale per dichiararle il suo amore.

Arsen Kurbanov / Арсен Курбанов, 1969 | Portrait painter

Арсен Курбанов was born in Mahachkala, Dagestan. In 1988 he completed coursework at the Jamal Dagestan Art College, receiving a red diploma - a symbol of scholastic excellence. Kurbanov was immediately accepted into the Repin Institute in St. Petersburg, where he studied with the late Neprintsov, graduating in 1994.

Tuman Zhumabaev, 1962 ~ Impressionist painter

Туман Жумабаев is one of the most prominent artist living in Russia today.

Recently, he had a painting acquired by the Hermitage for its permanent collection.

Arrived in Leningrad from Kyrgyzstan. In 1981-1985 he studied at the Serov Art College; in 1991 he graduated from the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, under the tuition of Profession Yu. M. Neprintsev.

Gerardine Jacoba ~ Still life painter of flowers

Came from an artistic family, the still life Dutch painter Gerardina Jacoba Van de Sande Bakhuyzen [1826-1895], was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. Her father was the painter Hendrik Van de Sande Bakhuyzen, and her brother was the painter Julius Jacobus Van de Sande Bakhuyzen.

Gerardina was taught by her father, as were all her numerous sisters. She achieved great success with her oils and watercolours of flowers and still lives, winning numerous medals between 1870-1880, in which year she had an exhibition at the Grafton Gallery in London.

Andre Kohn, 1972 | White umbrellas

Андрей Конь is a Russian-born American painter. Raised by an artistically gifted family near the Caspian Sea in southern Russia, Andre Kohn’s childhood was marked by the natural splendor of mountains and sea, and by an unfettered access to all the creative arts.

Almudena Pintado, 1969 ~ Abstract Mixed media painter

Almudena Pintado, self-taught spanish painter, born in Benavente, Spain in 1969. CIALEC member (International Centre for Art and Literature "E. Córdoba"). Develops his work in the abstract style and mixed media on canvas or wood. 

Kathryn Morris Trotter ~ Paris in the rain

Kathryn Morris Trotter, american painter, a native Mississippian, claims that painting is her greatest passion. After graduating from The University of Texas in Austin, Trotter had an innate curiosity about life, travel, and the ineffable creative world. Her passion propelled her ventures into the corporate world of fashion, interiors and textile design, which have been highly influential in her subject and style of painting.

Mary Baxter St. Clair ~ Magical Fantasy painter

Mary Baxter St. Clair, american painter, entered the world with a brush in her hand. Others remark that she paints with fairy dust. All are touched by her sense of wonder and marvel at her beautifully detailed paintings of wide-eyed children, ethereal angels, elusive fairies and piquant pixies, richly dressed in brilliant colors.

Jean Marc Janiaczyk, 1966 ~ Realist/Impressionist painter

Jean Marc Janiaczyk, French painter, since his childhood he draws, in 1991 at the age of 24 he began to paint. Many years to draw, gave him a solid foundation in drawing. He paints only with oil colors. He started with a very difficult technique: Hyperrealism.

Henri Matisse | Odalisque series

In 1917 Matisse relocated to Cimiez on the French Riviera, a suburb of the city of Nice. His work of the decade or so following this relocation shows a relaxation and a softening of his approach.

This "return to order" is characteristic of much art of the post-World War I period and can be compared with the neoclassicism of Picasso and Stravinsky as well as the return to traditionalism of Derain.

Ennio Montariello, 1960 ~ Figurative painter

Nato a Napoli nel 1960, il pittore italiano Ennio Montariello vive a Campello sul Clitunno (Pg). Nel 1978 si diploma presso il Liceo Artistico di Napoli. Nel 1982 e 1983 si diploma agli Stages Internazionali di pittura di Anacapri di Napoli. Questioni delle arti: incontri internazionali, tenuti da Gillo Dorfles, Joe Tilson, Gianni Pisani, Enrico Baj, Giulio Carlo Argan, Achille Bonito Oliva, Filiberto Menna, Lea Vergine, Francesco Vincitorio, Mimma Russo.

Childe Hassam | Flag series / La serie delle bandiere

The most distinctive and famous works of american painter Childe Hassam's later life compose the set of about thirty paintings known as the "Flag series".
Flag paintings by Hassam are in the collections of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Historical Society and the National Gallery of Art.
Claude Monet, among other french painter, had also painted flag-themed works - The Rue Montorgueil, Paris 1878.

Claude Monet | The Rue Montorgueil, 1878

The Rue Montorgueil, Paris, was painted by Claude Monet (1840-1926) on 30 June 1878 for a festival declared that year by the government celebrating "peace and work".
This was one of the events organised for the third Universal Exhibition in Paris a few weeks after it opened, and intended to be a symbol of France’s recovery after the defeat of 1870.

Gustave Caillebotte | Impressionist painter | Page 1

Gustave Caillebotte, (born August 19, 1848, Paris, France - died February 21, 1894, Gennevilliers), French painter🎨, art collector, and impresario who combined aspects of the academic and Impressionist styles in a unique synthesis.

Born into a wealthy family, Caillebotte trained to be an engineer but became interested in painting and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He met Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet in 1874 and showed his works at the Impressionist exhibition of 1876 and its successors.

Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) | Still life

In October 1888, Jean-Édouard Vuillard🎨 joined the Nabis🎨 and contributed to their exhibitions at the Gallery of Le Barc de Boutteville. Later he shared a studio with other fellow member of the Nabis, Pierre Bonnard🎨 and Maurice Denis.

In the early 1890s he worked for the Théâtre de l'Oeuvre of Lugné-Poë designing settings and programs.

In 1898 Vuillard visited Venice and Florence. The following year he made a trip to London. Later he went to Milan, Venice and Spain. Vuillard also traveled in Brittany and Normandy.

Edouard Vuillard ~ Les Nabis Group

Édouard Vuillard, in full Jean-Édouard Vuillard (born Nov. 11, 1868, Cuiseaux, France-died June 21, 1940, La Baule), French painter, printmaker, and decorator who was a member of the Nabis group of painters in the 1890s. He is particularly known for his depictions of intimate interior scenes.

Paul Hedley, 1947 | Figurative painter

Paul Hedley spending his childhood in Chatham, Kent. He studied art at Medway College of Art from 1966-68, and then later at Maidstone College of Art where he was awarded the Diploma in Art and Design.

Paul Hedley has been painting ever since he can remember. An education based on traditional art techniques of drawing and painting plus the influence the French artists Edgar Degas 1834-1917 and Edouard Vuillard 1868-1940 have influenced the development of his art works.

Victoria Montesinos, 1972 ~ Impressionist Floral's painter

Victoria Montesinos, Mexican painter, was born in Mexico City and has been exhibiting works since 1972 in the U.S., Europe, Mexico and Japan. In late 1983, Victoria moved from Mexico to New York where she had a contract with one of the largest galleries in the United States to develop lithographic works. While there, she studied and worked with a complicated technique to produce high-quality lithographs. During one of the workshops in New York she met the noted Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington 1917-2011 with whom she shared many enriching experiences.

Friedrich Von Amerling | Academic painter

Friedrich von Amerling (14 April 1803 - 14 January 1887) was an Austro-Hungarian portrait painter in the court of Franz Josef.

He was born in Vienna and was court painter between 1835-1880. With Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller he is one of the outstanding Austrian portrait painters of the 19th century.

Shahin Gholizadeh ~ Hollywood stars of the golden age

Digital pastel brushes by Shahin Gholizadeh, Iranian painter, to honour the memory of the great Hollywood stars and songs icons of the 20th century.

Greta Garbo 1905-1990

Gianni Bellini, 1965 ~ Moulin Rouge

Gianni Bellini, italian painter, was born in Carmignano, Italy. A self taught and talented painter, at just fifteen years of age, he started to partecipate in important extemporary, personal and collective art exhibitions in several cities always receiving wonderful reviews and many first place awards. Among the most important exhibitions in which he was protagonist it is just to mention the "Exposition International" in the Palazzo degli Affari of Florence (1991-1992), the exhibition of the "Jacobs Javits Centre" of New York and those at the National Museums of Stockholm and Budapest. In 1992 he affrescoed the main arch of the front of the San Pietro church of Seano near the city of Carmignano.

Ewelina Ladzinska ~ Abstract Figurative painter

Ewelina Ładzińska, polish painter, is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts. Painting becomes a pretext for the creative process, women in the case of Ładzińskiej are the epitome of the elements, trying to harness the seemingly opposite colors are included in the amazing coherent whole feminine features. The artist can show the inside of their models, using the expression, which can be read in each line left to stain or color. Suspended somewhere between abstraction and chaotic perception, touch, gaze and the individual characteristics of the concrete, unambiguous assessment of escape.

Nicola De Luca

Nato nel 1953 a Torre di Ruggero, dove tuttora vive e lavora, Nicola De Luca, pittore Italiano, intraprende negli anni '60 gli studi artistici presso il Liceo Artistico di Reggio Calabria. Nel 1972, dopo aver completato gli studi liceali, si trasferisce a Napoli e si iscrive alla facoltà di Architettura.

Wilfredo Alicdan ~ Figurative painter

Wilfredo born in the town of Dasmarinas, Cavite, Philippines. Retratrar study Filipino women in the Greater Art Institute of Painting. What Wilfredo paintings were known for their picturesque and popular representations of geometric figures populated stylized rounded and engaged in traditional rural gender. Alicdan canvases provide a sense of harmony between the contrast of formal elements, while the use of solid colors and flat backgrounds reinforces the second dimension of his paintings, his use of subtle model imbues his figures with rounded plasticity. Alicdan is a founding member of Anting Anting Group of Artists.
Also, this artist offers a great big heart and supports UNICEF help paying their works to be reproduced as UNICEF cards and raise money for the benefit of all children in the world.

Kay Boyce

British painter and illustrator Kay Boyce was born in Sheffield. As a child she would often spend hours at a time drawing on rolls of wallpaper; this was the beginning of her passion for art. Kay studied illustration at Wrexham College before working as a freelance illustrator. She produced editorial work for Women s Weekly, Bella, My Weekly, Sunday Express and Woman s Own.

Yarek Godfrey, 1957 | Figurative painter

French painter, british and austrian origins, Yarek Godfrey was born in Poland. Living and working in Paris.
- I'm not quite sure we can talk about painting or music. This is a domain of different senses which words can't describe, that's why I'm using often the colors without names to translate the unknown sounds of my soul. I've named this process:"never-ending story" so if I stop working on the painting that's because someone tells me inside:"that's it" - and I never know why...

Jesús Helguera ~ Classical painter

Jesús Enrique Emilio de la Helguera Espinoza [1910-1971], mexican painter, was born to spanish economist Alvaro Garcia Helguera and Maria Espinoza Escarzarga in Chihuahua, Mexico. He lived his childhood in Mexico City and later moved to Córdoba in the state of Veracruz. His family fled from the Mexican Revolution to Ciudad Real, Castilla la Nueva, Spain and thereafter moved to Madrid. Jesús first gained interest in the arts during primary school and would often be found wandering the halls of the Del Prado Museum. At the age of 14, he was admitted to the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes and later studied at the Academia de San Fernando.

Antonio Fuertes, 1940 | Figurative painter

Antonio Fuertes, born in Madrid, is a self-taught painter. He worked in a shop advertising, engaged on the facades of cinemas and theaters in Madrid. In his works often present with Oriental theme Arabic.

He paints men and women in Moroccan landscapes or the Alhambra in Granada in the background.

Ettore Aldo Del Vigo, 1952 ~ Surrealist painter

Ettore Aldo Del Vigo è nato a Basilea in Svizzera. Dopo aver conseguito il diploma di di grafica editoriale in una tipografia specializzata in libri e cataloghi d' arte dove ha modo tra ...gli altri di conoscere Max Ernst uno dei padri del surrealismo si trasferisce in Sardegna dove entra in contatto con vari artisti locali partecipa a numerosi concorsi e collettive d' arte.

Didier Delamonica, 1950 ~ Mystical Fantasy painter

Delamonica born in Lille, in the north of France. His studies include "Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Industries Textiles", commencing with two careers working adjacent during several years, comprising publicite/advertising and painting. He abandoned the the first one. Now, he presents his work in numerous galleries all over France. The works of Delamonica are including a number of private collections in USA and Canada and in Europe.