David Renshaw, 1973 ~ Time of love

David Renshaw, British painter, was born in Southport, England. He always had love of painting from an early age and after finishing school he went to college to study graphic design before starting a career as a picture framer.
During this time David continued to develop his painting skills producing mainly commissioned art and in 2005 he dedicated himself to painting full time. Working from his studio in Southport, David enjoys painting a broad range of subjects using a variety of mediums including Acrylics, Oils and Watercolours. His artwork hangs in private collections worldwide.

Kissing Students fountain ~ Estonia, 1998

Kissing Students [Estonian: Suudlevad Tudengid] has become a symbol of Tartu. Is a fountain and a sculpture in Tartu, Estonia, located at the Tartu Town Hall Square and erected in 1998 and conceived by Mati Karmin 1959, one of Estonia's most renowned contemporary sculptors.

The city is best known for being home to the University of Tartu, founded under King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in 1632. Mainly for this reason, Tartu is also, tongue-in-cheek, known as "Athens of the Emajõgi" or as "Heidelberg of the North".

Raffaello Ossola, 1954 | Surrealist painter

Raffaello Ossola, Swiss painter, was born in Locarno, Switzerland and lived in Italy since 1990. Ossola uses acrylic and has a distinctive style that incorporates elements such as architecture, pools, clouds, rocks, shrubs, and obelisks in surreal landscapes. His style uses characteristic light reflections and projections.

Diaz Alamà, 1986 ~ Concept painter

Spanish painter Jordi Diaz Alamà may describe himself as a traditional painter but there’s nothing remotely traditional with his work. Morality, mortality and sexuality are all recurring themes in his work. His style reminds the viewer of the work of Renaissance masters of long ago with their realism and casual approach to nudity. This Spanish painter is currently based in Barcelona. Alamà was born in Barcelona in 1986. He is a painter and drawing teacher at the School of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona, where she graduated in 2008. After completing the bachelor gets a scholarship and stay for a year in Arauco’s Foundation with the painter Guillermo Muñoz Vera in Madrid (Spain).

Mohammad Tabatabai, 1987 | Figurative painter

Mohammad Tabatabai is an Iranian and international artist, born in Iran, Tehran. His career as a professional painter began during his early age and he received his diploma in painting from Tehran school of Fine arts in 2005.
He graduated in 2011, from University of Tehran with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sculpture.

Awards*:

• Winner of third prize - painting - the Iran’s school of visual arts, 2004.
• Winner of first prize - photography - the Tehran’s school of visual arts, 2005.

Nathaniel Skousen ~ American Figurative painter

Nathaniel Skousen lives in Leavenworth, Washington a small town in the foothills of the Cascades. He lives surrounded by forests, mountains, rivers and rustic barns that continuously feed his artistic imagination. Nathaniel is often found painting the beauty of his surroundings. He enjoys hiking and fly fishing in high mountain destinations as well. While fly-sishing is one of his favorite past times, his mind is continuously drawn to the pursuit of a perfect painting.

Outmane Amadou ~ Minimalism style

Moroccan France-based graphic designer, Outmane Amahou has created a line in Minimalistic style a posters, in which he pays tribute to major Art Movements, and iconic painters throughout history. Instead of focusing on the work of individual artists, Outmane Amahou decided to tackle entire movements in his very ambitious series.
If you have trouble getting your art movement categories straight, then this series of posters by Outmane Amahou would be the perfect study guide.

Minimalism Art Movement, 1960

Piet Mondrian 1872-1944

Minimalism Art Movement, also called ABC Art, Minimal Art, Literalist Art, Reductivism, Rejective Art, emerged in New York in the early 1960s, in which the simplest and fewest elements are used to create the maximum effect.

Tatyana Markovtsev, 1951 | Minimalist painter

Russian painter Татьяна Марковцева is becoming one of the most interesting artists-Minimalists of today.

She is able to express powerful and complex human feelings just via a few elegant lines, capturing a wide variety of human emotions with amazing simplicity and clarity.

Tatyana literally makes viewers feel the lines of her works.

Now, her original Minimalistic style is finding many fans around the world.

Pedro Ruiz, 1957 ~ Conceptual painter

Pedro Ruiz, Colombian painter, was born in Bogotá. At the National School of Beaux Arts in Paris, starts exploring painting and at Stanley William Hayter's studio, Atelier 17, dwells into different printing techniques. His trajectory of exhibits includes important museums in Mexico, Colombia and Spain, as well as prestigious galleries in these three countries as well as the United States.

Karina Llergo Salto ~ Dance through the color of Life

Karina Llergo Salto, American painter, Northbrook, IL - United States. Karina’s passion for creativity has always define her and led her to earned her PHD in Graphic Design. She received Degrees in Multimedia, Animation and Abstract Art.
Karina earned recognition and international awards working as Art Director and freelance for several years witch taught her the visual impact of color and image in space. Due the public recognition of her capability for illustration she started to emerge into the art world. Karina has developed and perfection her particular style developing an elegant but ambitious combination of human figure, with figurative and expressionist compositions, where colors and nature elements are combined to provoke a fresh impact of movement.

Fabian Perez | The Three Tenors

I Tre Tenori (The Three Tenors) è il nome della formazione dei cantanti lirici: Josep Carreras i Coll (spagnolo, 1946), José Plácido Domingo Embil (spagnolo, 1941) e Luciano Pavarotti (italiano, 1935-2007), che hanno tenuto concerti negli anni '90 e nei primi anni 2000, portando la musica classica tra la gente e nelle piazze, fuori dai soliti ambienti accademici.

Fabian Perez, 1967 | The Three Tenors

Iris Scott | Painting with fingers / hands

Finger / hand painting is now fine art at the hands of 28 year old American painter Iris Scott.

Scott creates vibrant paintings with a unique, stylistic Finger painting process, using surgical gloves and placing the oil paint directly on her hands.

Rapidly applying thick oil color with several points of contact rather than one Scott can be classified as a modern Impressionist..with a twist.

Her inspiration is found on the road as her composition-hunting continues to take her abroad. Recently back from Thailand, Iris is now finished making her newest collection of 10+ Thai originals.

Oleg Babkin, 1965 | Portrait in Retrò style painter

Олег Бабкин is a professional Russian🎨 photographer, born in Nizhny Tagil, Russia. The talented photo artist Oleg Babkin makes his beautiful models come to life in the frame, turning every story into history.

His incredible portrait gallery is a hymn of female pure beauty. Most photographs are untitled, so quotes about beautiful women would be a good choice to sign the stunning female portraits.

Malvina Hoffman | Les Saisons Russes

Il talento scultoreo della Malvina Hoffman divenne particolarmente famoso con le sue rappresentazioni della leggendaria ballerina russa Anna Pavlova 1881-1931.

L'ispirazione della Hoffman per creare questi pannelli nacque dopo aver assistito ad una performance dei ballerini russi Anna Pavlova e Mikhail Mordkin nel balletto 'Baccanale Autunnale' Op. 67 di Alexander Glazunov a Londra.

Dopo il ritorno a Parigi, la Hoffman convinse il suo mentore di permetterle di lavorare sulla serie, piuttosto che concentrarsi sulle commissioni ritratto più ordinarie.

Karen Dupré | My Fair Lady | VideoArt

La pittrice Americana, artista auto-didatta, Karen Dupré è nata in California e ha iniziato a dipingere all’età di 9 anni.

Le sue prime opere avevano per oggetto la raffigurazione dei cavalli che si è poi estesa alle figure, ai paesaggi ed alle nature morte.

La Dupré è dotata della particolare abilità di ricreare un gioco di luce sia nella natura che manufatti che dipinge.

Ispirandosi ai pittori del IXX secolo che sfidarono i riferimenti ideali dell’arte, la Dupré tenta un approccio simile attraverso i suoi innumerevoli stili.

Renata Domagalska ~ Red Dream

I`m Renata Domagalska. The most important part of my life is the art - especially the painting... Predominant motif of my expressive figurative painting are women. Women's portraits, nudes, dancers - flamenco, tango, folklore, etc.. My another pet subject is the atmosphere of sunny southern countries, small towns.

Karen Dupré | Femme fatale

Karen Dupré is a self-taught American artist best known for her evocative and versatile paintings that blend realism with dreamlike, Art Deco-inspired elements.

Dupré’s work is adept to capture a fleeting moment in time and seemingly transport the viewer there.

Born in California, her career began at age nine with pastels before she transitioned primarily to acrylics.

Angela Staehling | Vintage garden

Known for capturing the essence of romantic living, Staehling seeks inspiration from her deep-rooted family values, her Italian heritage, and her strong sense of tradition. Educated in America and England, she has years of experience in graphic design, illustration, and painting.
She can't help but create art that captures the romance of the simple things in life. 

Vintage Flowers ~ Retrò Pop-art style

Lo stile che ora si chiama "Arte Retrò" è un genere di Pop art, sviluppato durante gli anni 1940 e 1950, in risposta ad un bisogno di una grafica audace, accattivante e facile da riprodurre. L'Arte pubblicitaria Retrò ha avuto un ritorno di popolarità grazie al suo stile che si distingue dal moderno computer-generated styling.

Guim Tió Zarraluki, 1987 | Abstract painter

Guim Tió Zarraluki is a Spanish painter who creates stunning abstracted portraits illustrations starting from photographs he likes to cover and transform with paint.

The original picture is almost completely buried by a new geological level.

Only a nose, mouth or ear is left untouched, as a trace of the subject’s past life.

The bold act brings a re-birth.

Ernesto Arrisueño, 1957 | Magic Realism painter

Ernesto Arrisueño, Peruvian painter, was born in Lima, a time when migration to Australia was almost exclusively from Britain and Europe. In the past decade however, Australian life has been enriched by migration from many South American countries. Arrisueño studied art in Lima before completing a Bachelor of Architecture degree at Ricardo Palma University.

Throughout the 1980's he exhibited widely in Peru in both individual and group exhibitions. Architectural drawing, for which he had won a number of prizes as a student, developed as a major theme in his work where figures and objects are juxtaposed with beautifully rendered building fragments.

Nino Orlandi, 1946 | Wood sculptor

Italian sculptor Nino Orlandi is a self-taught artist. In spite of his lack of formal education, has mastered a literary genre of sculpture.

His pieces convey immense talent and dimension, apparent in his many works titled The Book of Life, The Magic Mountain and The Book of Dreams.

While Orlandi's books are for the most part blank, showcasing planks of wood in place of words, he has managed to relay intricate stories to his followers.

Victoria Stoyanova, 1968 | Abstract painter

Bulgarian painter Victoria Stoyanova, was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her colorful fantasy paintings reflect the mystery of female beauty, setting light and darkness in harmony and art where human warmth and wisdom dominates.

Her art is kaleidoscopic, setting light and darkness in harmony, and art where human warmth dominates, outlined old traditions, alluding both perennial wisdom and the modern aesthetics imposed by the XX-th century.

Icons and paintings by Victoria are owned by private collectors in Bulgaria, UK, Germany, Greece, Russia, Cyprus, Italy, Austria, USA, Hungary, Japan, Canada, The Nitherlands, Switzerland, New Zealand, Izrael and Lebanon.

Winslow Homer and the Sea

Winslow Homer 1836-1910, American painter, was one of the most authentic and important American artists of the nineteenth century.

He is remembered for his landscapes, many featuring scenes of the sea, boats, and coastlines. His mastery of sketching and watercolor lends to his oil paintings the invigorating spontaneity of direct observation from nature.

His subjects, often deceptively simple on the surface, dealt in their most serious moments with the theme of human struggle within an indifferent universe.

Agostino Arrivabene, 1967 ~ Visionary Surrealist painter

Agostino Arrivabene, a very talented Italian painter, is a painter of decadence, dream and ancient symbologies who uses his own homemade pigments and colors and tries to revive ancient pictorial techniques. Arrivabene was born in Rivolta d’Adda, in the province of Cremona, Italy in 1967. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in 1991. He then travelled to various Italian and international cities seeking out the work of the Old Masters, deepening his knowledge of his craft, and bringing to bear a great influence upon the future development of his own artwork.

Derek Kinzett, 1966 ~ Wire sculptor

British sculptor Derek Kinzett spent his childhood living in Dodington Park, Gloucestershire - England, a breathtaking estate designed and laid out by Capability Brown in 1764. Derek moved with his family to Wiltshire in 1977, and completed his studies in Art and Design at Wiltshire College in 1984. In 2007 he launched 'The Inner Spirit Collection' of hand crafted life size wire sculptures, which has continued to grow in size and content. Described as beyond beautiful, stunning and spiritual, Derek's work has gained recognition and respect for its intricacy and detail, and can be found within private collections throughout the UK, America, Russia and France.

Renata Domagalska ~ Rainy street

Pure colour, movement, expression, strong brushstrokes, strength and subtlety are the characteristics of Renata Domagalska's painting in which the Dance of Colors and Energy of every Blotch make its figures alive. The favorite theme of this Figurative Art is Flamenco Dancing, a Nude Woman and a City Throbbing with Life.

Annette Schmucker, 1957 ~ Abstract painter

Annette Schmucker, German painter, was born in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Bavaria and is a self-taught artist. Schmucker's paintings are bursts of vibrant colours like bright red, blue, yellow and violet mixing together to create dynamic compositions. The earth and space communicate with each other in her extraordinary paintings and invite the viewer to feel the balance. Fire and ice. She creates works of particular brilliance in terms of colour. Annette's colour intensive works are real bundles of energy reflecting the presence of the things in the past or coming in the future.

Gregory Colbert, 1960 ~ Canadian photographer

Born in Toronto, Canada in 1960, Gregory Colbert, Canadian photographer, is a film-maker and photographer best known as the creator of Ashes and Snow, an exhibition of photographic artworks and films housed in the Nomadic Museum.

Paolo and Francesca | Inferno, Canto V | The Divine Comedy

Francesca da Rimini or Francesca da Polenta (1255 - ca. 1285) was the daughter of Guido da Polenta, lord of Ravenna.

She was a historical contemporary of Dante Alighieri, who portrayed her as a character in the Divine Comedy.

Paolo Malatesta (c. 1246-1285) was the third son of Malatesta da Verucchio, lord of Rimini.

He is best known for the story of his affair with Francesca da Polenta, portrayed by Dante in a famous episode of his Inferno (Canto V). He was the brother of Giovanni (Gianciotto) and Malatestino Malatesta.

Auguste Rodin - Paolo e Francesca

Monumento a Dante in Piazza Santa Croce a Firenze, 1865

Michael Page, 1979 ~ Pop Surrealism painter

Michael Page, American painter, art paints oil and acrylic paintings that are abstract and surreal with animals and bright colors.

Living and working in San Francisco, CA, Page creates vibrant dreamscapes using eye-popping colors and a focus on the spirit that breathes inside every living organism, the Pneuma.

With a trademark technique of using bold brush strokes and vibrant color palettes, Page’s paintings seem to jump off the canvas as they question new life, science, and the infinite variations of consciousness.

He has shown his work nationally and internationally throughout both Europe and the United States including the cities of Reykjavik, Berlin, Bristol, Rome and Montreal.

Dmitri Danish, 1966 | Venice Evening

Дмитрий Даниш, Ukrainian painter, known for working in the Impressionist style, was born in Kharkiv.

He was a natural artist from the start.

His mother, an artist herself, was the first to discover Dmitri's talent and began to teach him to draw and paint.

At age 12 he was accepted into a Kharkiv Art School, and by age 15 he was enrolled at the Kharkiv State Art College.

Rogier Van Der Weyden | Northern Renaissance painter

Rogier van der Weyden, original name Rogier de la Pasture (1399/1400, Tournai [Belgium] - 1464, Brussels), Northern Renaissance painter who, with the possible exception of Jan van Eyck, was the most influential northern European artist of his time.

Though most of his work was religious, he produced secular paintings (now lost) and some sensitive portraits.

Rogier was the son of a master cutler, and his childhood must have been spent in the comfortable surroundings of the rising class of merchants and craftsmen.

Tim Thompson, 1951 ~ Seascapes painter

Born in Hull, England, Tim Thompson, British painter, spent his childhood from the age of five in the Channel Islands, where his interest in the sea and sailing first developed. He now lives in Saltash, Cornwall in the UK, with his wife Sharon and his daughters Holly and Gemma.
Tim began his painting career when he was 27 and established his reputation with nautical paintings of subjects from the ships of Drake's era, through to modern racing yachts. He is renowned for his meticulous attention to detail and his ability to create dramatic and atmospheric images.

Petrus Christus | Flemish Primitives

Petrus Christus (1410 circa-1475 circa), è stato un pittore Fiammingo.

Appartenne alla cosiddetta "seconda generazione" del periodo dei Primitivi Fiamminghi, dopo la prima dei fondatori Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden e Robert Campin.

Le notizie sulla sua vita sono scarse: non si conosce neanche quale fosse il suo vero nome (quello di Petrus Christus è stato dedotto dalla sua firma, petr. XPI).

Il catalogo delle sue opere, che conta circa quaranta pezzi, è stato ricostruito in base agli otto dipinti pervenutici, datati tra 1446-1457, che recano la sua firma.

Kathrin Longhurst, 1971 | Figurative painter

Kathrin Longhurst, German-born Australian painter, known for working in the Figurative and Hyperrealist style.

Grew up in Communist East Germany where she started taking life drawing classes at age 14.

Her work is strongly influenced by Socialist Realism and communist propaganda art.

Kathrin spent a decade in Scandinavia visiting galleries in Denmark and Sweden as well as a year in Belgium where her work gained its Art Nouveau influences.

Anna Lea Merritt | American Pre-Raphaelite painter

Anna Lea Merritt [1844-1930] American painter, was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Joseph Lea a manufacturer. She studied art in Italy, Germany and Paris, ultimately settling England in the late 1860s. She married Henry Merrit, artist, and critic, who was twenty two years her senior. Tragically he died three months after the wedding. Anna Merritt edited a selection of her husband’s writings for publication. She built up a thriving practice as a portrait painter, in which artistic sphere she was highly talented, her picture of two little sisters, Jacqueline and Isura Loraine, for example is highly accomplished. In later years she often wintered in Egypt. She lived in Hampshire.

Sara Moon, 1939 | Fashion painter

Bijan Djamalzadeh, Iranian painter, known for his art works signed as “Sara Moon”, was born in Tehran.

The professional pseudonym was decided in the belief that many potential buyers may struggle to understand the "Djamalzadeh" signature, and the name "Sara Moon" just seemed to suit the style of Bijan’s work so well.

From early childhood it was clear that he had inherited the artistic blood of his ancestors, who included official court poets to the Shahs of Persia.

But, even though Bijan’s talent for art was recognised early, his father had other plans for his son’s future.

Roma nun fa la stupida stasera..

Si è spento il 28 febbraio 2013 a Roma, a 95 anni, il maestro Armando Trovajoli, pianista, compositore e direttore d'orchestra italiano, autore di brani celebri come "Roma nun fa la stupida stasera" e delle colonne sonore di oltre 300 film. Nella sua lunghissima carriera di musicista ha suonato con i più qualificati jazzisti del mondo da Duke Ellington a Louis Armstrong e poi Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Stephan Grappelli, Django Reinhardt. Poi, accanto al jazz, si è dedicato al cinema e alla commedia musicale grazie alla lunga collaborazione con Garinei e Giovannini. Tra le sue canzoni più celebri anche “Aggiungi un posto a tavola”.

Georges Armand ~ Fashion painter

Originally from Canada, Georges Armand is the youngest of a family of 6 children with artistic talent. Of self-educated nature, he showed from an early age a fascination for the universe of the visual arts. His adolescent interests were aimed at experimenting different artistic techniques and several art categories. Today, in addition to evoking an obvious care in the fluidity of its feature, it is with an ease that the artist transposes us in his own universe. It is by a fusion between the blend of the textures and lights, emphasized by a contrast wished, that Georges Armand puts the characters of his works in dramatic and aesthetic scenes within a contemporary urban atmosphere.

Alvis Zemzaris, 1961 ~ London at Night

Alvis Zemzaris, Latvian painter and interior designer, was born in Jurmala, Latvia.1975-1980 attends J. Rozentals School of Arts in Riga. 1980-1986 - University of Latvia Faculty of History and Philosophy. Graduation paper in Sociology of Arts. Participates in professional art exhibitions since 1982. 1980 Member of the Association of Young Artists. 1986 The first interior design project that soon is followed by many more. 1997 Member of the Latvian Artists Union. 2002 Member of the Latvian Designers Union.