Paintings of Children by Garmashs

Mr. Mikhail (Michael) Garmash (1969 Lugansk, Ukraine) and Mrs. Inessa Garmash (1972 Lipetsk, Russia) are two award winning Russian painters, known for working in the Romantic /Impressionist /Figurative style.

Both work on the same piece, which is extraordinarily unique in the art industry.

Several years after their marriage, Michael began a painting of their daughter for a project at school.

However, their two-year old found the painting during his absence and painted her own version of the subject.

Pakayla Biehn, 1986 | Surrealist painter

Pakayla Rae Biehn is a young and talented artist born and raised in California. She uses oil and acrylic to create incredible paintings that look like pictures.

Her talent is definitely polyhedric expressed with several techniques and approaches, from painting to installation to design.

Ilham Mirzayev, 1965 | Abstract painter

Ilham Mirzayev Maharram was born in Nakhchivan, the Azerbaijan Republic.

• 1980 - 1984 Studied at the State Arts School named Azim Azimzadeh.
• 1984 - 1986 Served in the Soviet Army.
• 1986 - Began creative work - painting.
• 1989 - Member of the Artists’ Union of USSR / youth group.
• 1991 - Member of the Artists’ Union of USSR / after disintegration of USSR in 1991 - Member of the Artists’ Union of Azerbaijan.
• 1992 - Production Designer of Turkish playwright A. Nelsin "The letter from Takhtali village" / Nakhchivan State Drama Theatre.

Romona Youngquist, 1960 | Plein air painter

"My lifestyle hasn’t changed much since early childhood. I live on a little farm with my family in the middle of Oregon wine country; I still hang out in the woods with the dogs and my own kids; and I still collect a wide range of critters. When I’m not painting outside, I paint in my studio in order to keep an eye on my kids and pets, while listening to my favorite Bach, Handel and Mozart" - Romona Youngquist.

Zhang Jing Sheng 张京生, 1940 | Plein air /Palette knife painter

Zhang Jing Sheng 张京生 is a professor and tutor for graduate students at the Tianjin Fine Arts Academy. He received State Allowance.
In 1967, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Central Fine Arts Academy. He won the silver prize at 'The Chine Fine Arts Exhibition'.

Between 1989 and 1990 he went to America to visit scholars and hold an exhibition, at the request of the Tao Sen University.

Lionello Balestrieri | Triptych of Chopin, 1904

Lionello Balestrieri | Chopin Triptych, 1904 | Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

The Balestrieri's Triptych of Chopin is a series of three panel painting:

╰┈➤ Chopin and George Sand;

╰┈➤ Chopin at Piano;

╰┈➤ Chopin Dying.

Location: Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema | The Roses of Heliogabalus, 1888

"The Roses of Heliogabalus" is an 1888 painting by the Dutch-born British artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912). It is currently owned by the Spanish-Mexican billionaire businessman and art collector Juan Antonio Pérez Simón.

The painting measures 132.7 × 214.4 centimetres (52.2 × 84.4 in). It shows a group of Roman diners at a banquet, being swamped by drifts of pink rose petals falling from a false ceiling above. The Roman emperor Elagabalus reclines on a platform behind them, wearing a golden robe and a tiara, watching the spectacle with other garlanded guests.

Alexander Gorbikov, 1966 | Plein air painter

Александр Горбиков was born in Stavropol, Russia. In 1998 he has graduated Repin Academy of painting, a sculpture and architecture in St. Petersburg. Is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, the International Federation of Artists. Now Александр lives and works in a Stavropol.

Karen Tarlton, 1965 | Storia d'amore sotto la pioggia

Le opere di Karen Tarlton sono altamente collezionabili e sono esposte in gallerie e case negli Stati Uniti ed in Europa.

Riconosciuta e acclamata in tutto il mondo, il suo lavoro è attualmente in mostra alla Gallerie Severn a Metairie, Louisiana ed al Tupelo Honey Cafe, Arlington, Virginia.

Inoltre, è stata premiata con la copertina dei numeri di dicembre 2014 e 2016 di Pink Magazine, la copertina del 2016 di Sasee Magazine ed è apparsa in molti altri, tra cui Gallerie d'arte e artisti del sud, ed è stata premiata come EMERGENTE ARTIST di Art Business News Magazine nel settembre 2009.

Shawn Mackey, 1984 | Abstract Romantic painter

Shawn Mackey was born in Edmonton, Canada. Growing up in the long cold winters of Canada, he had ample time to draw and let his creativity flourish. Mackey’s parents, who were both teachers, would bring home boxes of scrap photocopy paper for him to draw on. He would cover hundreds of sheets with pictures of everything from Italian sports cars, to the elaborate floor plans of luxury mansions, to a variety of superheroes and cartoon characters pulled from his own imagination.

Romantic paintings by the Garmashs

The Garmashs incredible talent is only matched by their love and career stories.

Mr. and Mrs. Garmash are considered two of the finest Romantic Impressionists of our day.

Their incredible talent is only matched by their love and career stories.

In similar fashion to the determination of his artwork, Mr. Garmash courted his future wife, after seeing her for but a moment, by painting her image all over her hometown while she slept.

Ms. Garmash, born Inessa Kitaichik, immediately recognized the passion with which this man cared so dearly and married him shortly thereafter.

Safet Zec, 1943 | Poetic Realism painter

Bosnian painter and engraver Safet Zec was born in Rogatica, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

After completing Art High School in Sarajevo, he continued his studies in Belgrade where he graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1969.

"I am a figurative artist, but I am also a contemporary one", said Safet Zec.

"The way we look at the world has changed and I try to reflect this in my paintings".

Fulvio De Marinis, 1971 | Figurative painter

Fulvio De Marinis born in Naples, Italy. He graduated from the Secondary School of Art and attended the Academy of Arts in Naples.

De Marinis is a painter inspired by classical painting, but his works are extremely topical, through the representation of places, colours, and customs of the present day.

His characters and still-lives are distinguishable in the use of delicate tones and light shades, proving his technical qualification and ability to express moods of the characters represented.

Despite his young age, his paintings are requested by collectors and prestigious galleries.

Konstantin Korovin | Paris painting

"Paris was a shock for me … Impressionists… in them I found everything I was scolded for back home in Moscow", wrote Konstantin Korovin (1861-1939), Russian Impressionist painter.

Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin / Константи́н Алексе́евич Коро́вин was born in Moscow to a merchant family officially registered as "peasants of Vladimir Gubernia".

His father, Aleksey Mikhailovich Korovin, earned a university degree and was more interested in arts and music than in the family business established by Konstantin's grandfather.

Félix Vallotton | Plein Air and Landscapes

The following collection include Plein Air and Landscape paintings by Swiss-born French Nabi painter Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 - December 29, 1925).

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

• Félix Vallotton | Les Nabis Group ➦
• Félix Vallotton | Nabi painter | Figures and Portraits ➦
• Felix Vallotton | Nabi painter | Still Life ➦

Ippolito Caffi between Venice and the Orient

150 years ago during the Battle of Lissa, Ippolito Caffi (1809-1866) lost his life on the sinking ship Re d’Italia, on which he had embarked to document the events of the war through his swift and accurate drawings.

Caffi, born in Belluno but Venetian by choice, was an extraordinary painter and reporter, a restless observer of society and a convinced patriot. 150 years ago (almost a sign of fate!) the Veneto and Venice were annexed to Italy.

Felix Vallotton | Still Life

The following collection include Still-life paintings by Swiss-born French Nabi painter Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 - December 29, 1925).

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

• Félix Vallotton | Les Nabis Group ➦
• Félix Vallotton | Nabi painter | Figures and Portraits ➦
• Félix Vallotton | Nabi painter | Plein Air and Landscapes ➦

Félix Vallotton | Figures and Portraits

Félix Edouard Vallotton (1865-1925) was a Swiss /French painter and printmaker associated with Les Nabis.

Vallotton was recognized as a very accomplished portrait painter, and painted portraits of many of the leading figures in the arts of his time.

His early work included a portrait of his fellow Nabi Édouard Vuillard.

The portraits of Vallotton featured both precision and a certain cold realism.

Nancy Seamons Crookston, 1948 | Plein Air painter

Nancy Seamons Crookston is a California-based artist awarded the title of Master Oil Painter of America. She loves capturing the human figure in moments of stillness and reflection, as well as painting plein air, whether it’s the Rocky Mountains of her birth town in Utah, or a city scape of San Francisco. Her paintings are often described as peaceful and calming.

20th / 21st Century Artists | Sitemap

"All of us have started from Cezanne" - Fernand Leger.

"When religion, science, and morality are shaken - when external supports threaten to collapse then man’s gaze turns away from the outside world towards himself" - Vasily Kandinsky.

"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them" - Picasso.

"I have not painted a woman - I have painted a painting!" - Matisse.

"Painting, after all, has never been a mirror of the external world, it has never been like a photograph. It has been a creation of signs which were always rightly read by contemporaries…" - Daniel Kahnweiler.

Peter Gric, 1968 ~ Magic Realism painter

Cecil Kennedy | Still Life