Ming Feng, 1957 | Impressionist painter

Award winning Artist Ming Feng was born in Guangzhou, China.

He was admitted to the Guangzhou municipal Teenage Art School and graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1986.

There, he studied artistic theories and Chinese and Western art philosophy.

Before arriving in the United States, Ming achieved prominence as an acclaimed artist in his native China.

First, he worked as a stage designer with the Modern Drama Troupe of Guangzhou.

Later, he worked for the Guangzhou Art Design company where he created layouts, advertisement designs, product placards, and book illustrations.

Jacob Maris | The Hague School

Jacob Hendricus Maris (1837-1899) was a Dutch painter, who with his brothers Willem and Matthijs belonged to what has come to be known as the Hague School of painters.

He was considered to be the most important and influential Dutch landscape painter of the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

His first teacher was painter J.A.B. Stroebel who taught him the art of painting from 1849 to 1852.

Coderch & Malavia | Figurative sculptors

Coderch and Malavia is a sculpture project in which the human body is at the core of the plastic discourse.

A universe of meaningful forms centred on the idealised human figure. And a clear horizon: Beauty as an everyday tool.

Joan Coderch and Javier Malavia came together in 2015 to carry out sculptural work featuring a refined technique, which is present from the modelling in the studio to the final piece cast in bronze.

Claude Monet's Venice

The canvases Monet painted during his sole voyage to Venice, in the fall of 1908, are among the most popular and the best known of his art works.

However, their number is relatively small: 37 canvases featuring a dozen different views, taken within short distance of one another.

"Although I am enthusiastic about Venice, and though I've started a few canvases, I'm afraid I will only bring back beginnings that will be nothing else but souvenirs for me", Monet wrote to the art seller Gaston Bernheim on October 25.

Barbara Krafft | Portrait painter

Maria Barbara Krafft (1764-1825) was an Austrian painter, best remembered today for her widely reproduced posthumous portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

She was born in Iglau (now Jihlava, in the Czech Republic) where her father, the Austrian Imperial court painter Johann Nepomuk Steiner, was working at the time.

She was taught painting by her father and accompanied him to Vienna, where she exhibited her first painting in 1786 at the Academy of Fine Arts.

Barbara Krafft | Posthumous Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Salzburg, 1756 - Vienna, 1791), 1819

Josef Büche | Portrait / Genre painter

Josef Büche (February 29, 1848 in Vienna - August 13, 1917 in Linz-Urfahr) was an Austrian portrait painter.

Born the son of a painter, Büche studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Eduard von Engerth and Carl Wurzinger.

He received an overall study award.

Dominik Skutecký | Genre painter

Dominik Skutecký (1849-1921) was a Slovakian painter of Jewish ancestry.

Alternate forms of his name include David, Domenico, Döme, Skutezky, Skuteczky and Skutetzky.

He specialized in landscapes, portraits and genre scenes.

After his father's death in 1859, his family moved to Vienna, where he began his artistic studies with the sculptor Johann Meixner.

The Ladies of the Baroque | Part 3

Elisabetta Sirani

Italian painter, 1638-1665

Elisabetta Sirani was an Italian Baroque painter and printmaker who died in still unexplained circumstances at the early age of 27.

She was the most famous woman artist in early modern Bologna and established an academy for other women artists.

Sirani produced over 200 paintings, 15 etchings, and hundreds of drawings, making her an extremely prolific artist, especially considering her early death.

Claude Monet | L'idillio di Giverny: tra covoni, giardini e cattedrali

Dopo la mostra organizzata da Petit, Monet poté godere del sostegno economico e morale di un pubblico finalmente svincolatosi dalle pastoie della pittura accademica.

La gloria, tuttavia, non offuscò né la sua umiltà né le sue ambizioni pittoriche, finalizzate a rendere «l'immediatezza, l'atmosfera soprattutto e la stessa luce diffusa ovunque».

Volendo indagare in maniera più accurata i problemi della luce e dalle sensazioni di colore, dunque, Monet intraprese le cosiddette serie, nelle quali uno stesso soggetto viene ripreso in decine e decine di tele, in modo tale che l'unico fattore cangiante è proprio la luce: si trattava di una escogitazione pittorica ottimale per dimostrare come la sola luce riuscisse a generare percezioni visive sempre mutevoli e stimolanti.

Claude Monet and his Muse, Camille

Camille Doncieux (15 January 1847 - 5 September 1879) was model, lover and wife of French painter Claude Monet (1840-1926), whose early paintings of her gave him his first taste of commercial and critical success.

But when Camille died young, at 32 years, after a long illness following the birth of their second child, the woman who replaced her in Monet's life was determined to obliterate her memory.

Alice, Monet's second wife, was consumed by jealousy of her departed rival and destroyed all photographic records of Camille.

Karl Gussow | Genre painter

Karl Gussow (25 February 1843, Havelberg - 27 March 1907, Munich) was a German painter and university professor.

His early inclination to art was encouraged by his family so, as soon as he completed his secondary schooling, he was enrolled at the newly founded Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar.

This led to studying the Dutch Masters in the studios of the history and genre painter, Arthur von Ramberg.

Domenico Fetti | Baroque painter

Biography from: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Domenico Fetti (1589-1623) was born in 1589, almost certainly in Rome, and is known to have been educated at the Collegio Romano.

He probably received his initial artistic training from his father, Pietro Fetti, a painter, perhaps from Ferrara, about whom very little is known.

Contemporary sources refer to Domenico Fetti as a student of Ludovico Cardi, called Il Cigoli (1559-1613).

Domenico could have entered Cigoli's shop as early as 1604, the year in which the Florentine painter came to Rome.

Walter Firle | Genre painter

Walter Firle or Walther Firle (1859-1929) was a portrait and genre painter.

Walter Firle received lessons in painting from an early age.

In 1879 he attended the Munich Academy of Art, where he was a student of Alois Gabl, Ludwig von Löfftz and Gabriel von Hackl.

During a stay in Italy the artist created numerous landscapes as well as beach and town views.

Anthony de Mello: "La vita è quella cosa che ci accade mentre siamo occupati a fare altri progetti"

• "La vita è quella cosa che ci accade mentre siamo occupati a fare altri progetti. Siamo intenti a far colpo sugli altri. Siamo indaffarati per vincere le olimpiadi, per avere successo. E la vita ci scivola via dalle mani".

• "Nel momento in cui trasformi un bambino nella fotocopia di un altro individuo, tu calpesti e spegni la scintilla di originalità con cui è venuto al mondo".

• "La solitudine non si cura con la compagnia umana. La solitudine si cura attraverso il contatto con la realtà".

Paige Bradley | Expansion Third Life welectricity

The Ladies of the Baroque | Part 2

Ginevra Cantofoli

Italian painter, 1618-1672

Ginevra Cantofoli trained under Giovanni Andrea Sirani, the father of Elisabetta Sirani, in Bologna.

Although a generation older than Elisabetta Sirani, Cantofoli was described by Carlo Cesare Malvasia, Cesare Masini and Marcello Oretti as Elisabetta's student.

Ginevra Cantofoli | Woman in a Turban, 1650 | Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica di Palazzo Barberini, Roma.

Rob Hefferan, 1967 | Moonlight Lovers

Rob Hefferan is an exceptionally talented figurative artist.

His varied body of work celebrates the joyous and multifaceted forms that human beings express with limitless imagination and wit.

Rob captures the personality of each of his subjects with honesty, integrity and above all, a sacred appreciation for the unique spirit embodied within us all.

His heartfelt response to humanity is woven into the very fabric of each outstanding portrait, earning him the reputation of one of the finest contemporary realists of his generation.

Orsola Caccia (1596-1676) | Mannerist painter

Orsola Maddalena Caccia, born Theodora Caccia (1596-1676) was an Italian Mannerist painter and Catholic nun.

She painted religious images, altarpieces, and still lifes.

The daughter of painter Guglielmo Caccia and Laura Olivia, she was baptized Theodora Orsola on December 4, 1596.

In 1620, she entered the Ursulines convent at Bianzè, where she changed her name to Orsola Maddalena after she took her vows.

Park Im Gyu 박임규 | Watercolor painter

Park Im Gyu (Korean: 박임규) is an South Korean Artist who is renowned for his delicate brushstrokes and precise character descriptions through pencil and watercolor.

Park Im Gyu was born in Hamyang County, a county in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.

Currently lives and works in Ulsan Metropolitan City.

Heather Arenas, 1969 | Impressionist painter

Heather Arenas, born New Jersey, is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Myakka City, Florida.

Arenas began her professional art career by participating in various life drawing and plein air events across the US but primarily in Colorado.

She was fortunate to paint alongside several outstanding artists in their fields giving her a sensibility for different techniques.

Arenas primarily focuses on the medium of oil paintings on aluminum and wood panels, as well as charcoal drawings on paper.

Jack Butler Yeats RHA | Expressionist painter

Jack Butler Yeats RHA (29 August 1871 - 28 March 1957) was an Irish artist and Olympic medalist. W. B. Yeats was his brother.

Butler's early style was that of an illustrator; he only began to work regularly in oils in 1906.

His early pictures are simple lyrical depictions of landscapes and figures, predominantly from the west of Ireland - especially of his boyhood home of Sligo.

Yeats's work contains elements of Romanticism.

He later would adopt the style of Expressionism.

Ewa Czarniecka, 1975 | Impressionist painter

Ewa Czarniecka is a Polish born Artist from the small South-Eastern village of Krasiczyn.

Naturally one of her early influences was the work of Bronislow Linke which she first discovered aged 13, when she would try and mimic his artwork to recreate the overwhelming feeling she felt to see it for the first time.

For years Ewa used pen and paper to express her thoughts, spending hours everyday writing in a journal.

Margaret Keane | Big eyes

Andy Warhol said:

"I think what Keane has done is terrific! If it were bad, so many people wouldn’t like it".

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Margaret Keane (born Peggy Doris Hawkins, September 15, 1927 - June 26, 2022) always loved to paint and draw since an early age.

She first made her paintings famous in San Francisco’s North Beach in the 1950s.

Margaret’s work drew little accolades from art critics but was loved and admired by the world.

Margaret went on to become one of the most successful living artists in the early 60s to present day.