Tra il vecchio e il nuovo,
la sorte dona
queste ore liete;
e il passato impone
d’aver fiducia
a guardare avanti
e a guardare indietro.
Andy Warhol | Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 1982
George Bodine | Figurative / Cityscape painter
Professional artist George Bodine paints landscapes, cityscapes and people.
Recently, he has been travelling extensively in Europe, and his paintings reflect his unique vision here and abroad.
He paints almost exclusively in oils, many of which are from small, niche manufacturers.
George often hand stretches Belgian linen sized with rabbit-skin glue and primed with white lead, techniques dating from the 16th. century.
Nadezda Streltsova, 1973 | Ballet dancers
Надежда Стрельцова was born in Leningrad, St. Petersburg.
1983-1991 studied at the Art School at the Institute Repin in St. Petersburg (Academy of Arts).
1992-1998 studied at the State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Repin in the studio of prof. Непринцева and Еремеева and Eremeeva.
Gabriele D'Annunzio | Rimani! / Stay!
Rimani! Riposati accanto a me.
Non te ne andare.
Io ti veglierò. Io ti proteggerò.
Ti pentirai di tutto fuorchè d'essere venuto a me, liberamente, fieramente.
Ti amo. Non ho nessun pensiero che non sia tuo;
non ho nel sangue nessun desiderio che non sia per te.
Antonio Sgarbossa, 1945
Antonio Sgarbossa, 1945 | Waiting...
Antonio Sgarbossa is an Italian painter, known for working in the Figurative style.
Antonio Sgarbossa was born in Fontaniva.
His work experience began at the age of 12 when a ceramics workshop opened near his house.
There, young painters painted views of tourist destinations on the ceramic plates, especially Venice, the most famous and most visited city in the Veneto.
Erté (Romain de Tirtoff)
Romain de Tirtoff (1892-1990) was a Russian-born French painter and designer known by the pseudonym Erté, a French pronunciation of initials R.T. Tirtoff was born as Roman Petrov de Tyrtov /Роман Петрович Тыртов in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire in a very distinguished family with roots traced back to 1548.
His father Pyotr Ivanovich de Tyrtov was a Fleet Admiral.
In 1910-1912 Romain moved to Paris to pursue a career as a designer.
This decision was made over strong objections of his father, who wanted Romain to continue a family tradition and to become a naval officer.
Le Nain Brothers | The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1640
A group gathers around a manger to adore the newborn Christ.
On the right, the Virgin Mary and Joseph gaze reverently at the infant, alongside two small angels.
On the left are two young boys and an old, barefooted man: they are the shepherds mentioned in the Gospel of Luke (2: 8-20).
Le Nain Brothers (fl. 17th century) | The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1640 | The National Gallery, London
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Citazioni di Giorgio De Chirico
• "Un'opera d'arte per divenire immortale deve sempre superare i limiti dell'umano senza preoccuparsi né del buon senso né della logica".
• "L'arte deve creare sensazioni sconosciute in passato; spogliare l'arte dal comune e dall'accettato... sopprimere completamente l'uomo quale guida o come mezzo per esprimere dei simboli, delle sensazioni, dei pensieri, liberare la pittura una volta per tutte dall'antropomorfismo... vedere ogni cosa, anche l'uomo, nella sua qualità di cosa.".
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Frida Kahlo | You rain on me - I sky you, | Tu mi piovi, Io ti cielo, 1947
You rain on me - I sky you
You’re the fineness, childhood,
life - my love - little boy - old man
mother and center - blue - tender-
ness - I hand you my
universe and you live me
It is you whom I love today.
- I love you with all my loves
Romain de Tirtoff | Art Déco fashion illustrator
Nessun altro stilista ha avuto un'influenza maggiore di Erté nel XX secolo.
Le sue creazioni sgargianti hanno caratterizzato uno dei decenni più opulenti ed iconici della storia: gli anni '20.
Attraversando molti ambiti della cultura visiva, tra cui illustrazioni per riviste di moda, costumi per l'opera e il balletto, scultura e scenografia per il teatro, lo stile inconfondibile di Erté ha segnato l'era moderna.
Martha Medeiros | Lentamente muore / Die slowly / A morte devagar, 2000
Lentamente muore
chi diventa schiavo dell’abitudine,
ripetendo ogni giorno gli stessi percorsi,
chi non cambia la marca o colore dei vestiti,
chi non rischia,
chi non parla a chi non conosce.
When Christmas was prohibit
While Christmas is celebrated globally, throughout history, various nations and regions have banned Christmas celebrations for religious, political, or ideological reasons.
These bans ranged from 17th-century religious reformations to 20th-century state-sponsored atheism.
Even today, in 2025, there are nations that maintain strict bans or significant restrictions on Christmas celebrations.
A 1931 edition of the Soviet magazine Bezbozhnik, published by the League of Militant Atheists, depicting an Orthodox Christian priest being forbidden to take home a tree for the celebration of Christmastide, which was banned under the Marxist-Leninist doctrine of state atheism.
Norman Rockwell's Silent Night: A Visual Symphony of Holiday Humanity
Norman Rockwell's (1894-1978) skilled hand captured the most heartwarming holiday moments as no one else could.
Over his career, he produced nearly 30 Christmas-themed covers for The Saturday Evening Post, The Literary Digest and numerous others for publications like McCall's and Boys' Life, as well as for cards and advertisements.
Ekaterina Vassilenko Searcy | Ballet dancers
Ekaterina Vassilenko Searcy /Екатерина Василенко Сирси is a Russian-born American figurative and portrait painter, living and working in San Diego, California.
Her drawings and oil paintings respect the technique and style of old masters of Renaissance and baroque period of Italian, Flemish, French and Russian masters.
Carmelo Blandino, 1966 | Abstract flowers
"My works are entrusted with the messages of Ages, created to impart healing and creative inspiration through beauty" - Carmelo Blandino.
Born to Sicilian parents in Tübingen, Germany, and with a childhood spent in the cities of Montreal and Modica, Sicily, Carmelo Blandino’s life journey has spanned continents and oceans.
It has now brought him to the US, where he has studios and residences in both Connecticut and Wisconsin.
Blandino grows his inspirational vocabulary by taking the essentialness of Home to each and every place he has made his bed, wherever he has set up easel and wielded paintbrush.
Charles-Clos Olsommer | Art Nouveau painter
Of French origin, Charles-Clos Olsommer (1883-1966) in Sierre, Switzerland, is naturalized in Neuchâtel in 1899.
He studied painting at the Art School in La Chaux-de-Fonds from 1901-1902 Professor Charles L'Eplattenier.
He attended the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich (1902-1903) and the School of Fine Arts of Geneva (1904-1905).
He settled permanently in Veyras in 1912. He created there, in a style out of common, the totality of his works.
Nikolay Reznichenko, 1958 | Figurative painter
Russian painter Николай Резниченко was born Saratov region.
Throughout his life he has had various experiences and occupations which have enriched him, in a variety of ways, as an artist, and made him what he presently is.
After graduating from an art college, Николай entered nautical one in Kerch.
He was on his military duty in Kiev, afterwards there followed the period of studying architecture and arts in Krasnodar.
Apostolos Geralis | Genre painter
Apostolos Geralis /Απόστολος Γεραλής (1886-1983) was born on the island of Mytelene and died in Athens, Greece.
In 1896 he enrolled at The School of Fine Arts, Athens, where he studied painting under Dimitrios Geraniotis, Spyros Vikatos, Georgios Jakobides and Georgios Roilos.
Between 1910-1915 he held a teaching position at the Pancyprian Gymnasium, Nicosia and later, between 1919-1920 he continued his studies in Paris, at The Julian Academy.
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.
Georgios Jakobides | Genre painter
Greek painter Γεώργιος Ιακωβίδης / Georgios Jakobides (1853-1932) founded and was the first curator of the National Gallery of Greece in Athens.
Georgios Jakobides was one of the main representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School.
He was one of the thirty "immortal" members of Athen’s Academy when firstly created, in 1926.
His paintings, over 200, are found in the National Gallery of Athens, private collections and in museums and art galleries around the world including art galleries in Germany and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Vasily Polenov | Woman walking in a forest park, 1883
Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov / Васи́лий Дми́триевич Поле́нов (1844-1927) was born in Saint-Petersburg.
His family placed great emphasis on the importance of art and culture.
Indeed his father, Dmitri Vassilievitch Polenov (1806-1872) was a connoisseur of the artistic world, and his mother, Maria Alexeievna Voeïkova (1816-1895) a gifted portraitist of the Brullov school.
He spent his childhood in Saint-Petersburg, a major cultural center and Carely, in the Olonentsky countryside.
Christine Peloquin | Mixed media painter
Christine Peloquin is a 2-D mixed media artist who has been selling her artwork for 30 years.
She is currently showing her work at Arts on Douglas Gallery in New Smyrna Beach, Bennett Galleries in Knoxville, TN, and Studio E Gallery in Palm Beach Gardens.
She has also shown in numerous galleries around the country including Atelier Galleries in Asheville, NC and Charleston, SC, Matre Gallery, Atlanta, GA, Longstreth-Goldberg Gallery in Naples, Hanson Gallery, Knoxville, TN, Loretta Goodwin Gallery, Birmingham, AL, Blue Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Orlando Museum of Art Gift Shop and Kristal Gallery, Sugarbush, VT to name a few.
Erin Hanson, 1981 | Impressionist painter
Hanging precariously and horizontally from red sandstone, hundreds of feet above the ground, may not seem like it would inspire the creation of beautiful oil paintings, but that is exactly what happened with Erin Hanson.
After a lifetime of experimenting in different styles and mediums, it wasn’t until Hanson began rock climbing at Red Rock Canyon that her painting style was consolidated by a single inspiration and force of nature.
Max Leiva, 1966 | Figurative sculptor
"I'm fascinated by the human essence, our very condition, our fragility and behavior in society" - Max Leiva.
Max Leiva is a contemporary Guatemalan artist known for his expressive figurative sculptures.
The artist graduate of the country’s National School of Fine Arts, spends his working time between his home country and Mexico.
The globe-trotting artist, who spent time at the University of Silpakorn in Thailand under a UNESCO scholarship, states that Guatemala lacks sufficient foundry facilities required to undertake his work.
Matt Abraxas, 1974 | Figurative painter
- "Being an artist of any medium usually goes hand-in-hand with being a frequent ponderer.
It’s this reverie of deep questions and contrarian considerations that often leads one to pursuing art.
Maybe it’s because art allows for nebulous thoughts to take satisfactory form rather than burn and rot the soul" - Matt Abraxas.
Regina Hona, 1956 | Seascapes painter
Regina Hona is an Australian artist, art show judge and tutor who's speciality is painting portraiture and water subjects.
Regina has held many group and solo exhibitions and has been winning many major awards since 1999.
Her works have been printed in several issues of the Australian Artist Magazine and a feature article published in the International Artist Magazine.
Although she is predominantly known for her seascapes and landscapes, she is equally at home painting portraits, still life and other subjects.
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20th / 21st Century Artists | Sitemap
Art of the 20th and 21st centuries is marked by a rapid succession of diverse and often radical art movements that broke from tradition to explore new mediums, styles, and concepts.
These movements reflect the significant social, political, and technological changes of their times.
20th Century Art Movements
The 20th century saw the United States emerge as a global hub for visual expression, with artists exploring both realism and abstraction, and a focus on expressing a spiritual response to the changed conditions of life.
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Safet Zec, 1943 | Poetic Realism painter
"I want my art to contribute to the strengthening of the much-needed moral renewal, which alone can break this unbearable veil of indifference".
"The way we look at the world has changed and I try to reflect this in my paintings" - Safet Zec.
Bosnian painter and engraver Safet Zec was born in Rogatica, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
After graduating from the Secondary School of Arts in Sarajevo, he continued his studies of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, where he graduated in 1969 and completed his specialization in 1972.
Miloslava Vrbova-Štefková | Ballet dancers
Czech artist Miloslava Vrbova-Štefková (1909-1991) was an traditionalist post-impressionist painter.
During the 1937-1938 Miloslava Vrbova-Štefková studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Czech Abstract painter František Kupka (1871-1957).
Besides the dancers, the ballet scenes and portraits, Miloslava Vrbova also painted landscapes and the Prague urban motifs, religious scenes (the Crucifixion in the church Žinkovie), still lifes and flowers.
Licio Passon, 1965 | Venice painter
Licio Passon was born in Udine, Italy.
To comprehend the artistic life of Licio Passon you can’t neglect his belonging to his homeland of the Friuli region and his truest and most profound values of a rustic life that he has made his own and not revisited as a faded memory.
The people who have formed him have been his parents who well knew the hardship of the fields.
Alexei Antonov, 1957 | Surrealist still life
Aлексей Антонов is a Russian artist who has studied art in Russia, Azerbaijan and Italy, and has been living in the US since 1990.
TAlexei Antonov has created a stunning collection of still life paintings that embody hyper realism and classic work of Renaissance masters.
Antonov was literally born an artist, began to draw, as he remembers - since the age of three.
The first drawings were made by mom’s lipstick, right on the wallpaper.
Helen Allingham RWS | Victorian era painter
Helen Allingham RWS (née Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson; 26 September 1848 - 28 September 1926) was an British* watercolour painter and illustrator of the Victorian era.
Biography
Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson was born at Swadlincote in Derbyshire, the daughter of Alexander Henry Paterson, a medical doctor, and Mary Herford Paterson.
Helen Paterson was the eldest of seven children. The family moved to Altrincham in Cheshire when she was one year old.
In 1862 her father and her 3-year-old sister Isabel died of diphtheria during an epidemic.
The family then moved to Birmingham, where some of Alexander Paterson's family lived.
George Lundeen, 1948 | Departure / La partenza, 1986
"Departure", installed in the park near the library in Loveland, CO, is a life size bronze sculpture by the American artist, George Lundeen.
According to the artist, "The original piece came from a sketch I did in the Rome train station.
There were a couple of kids across from me on the marble floor.
It became the first life-size piece I ever did".
Romee Kanis, 1953 | Figurative sculptor
Romee Kanis was born in Jutphaas.
Currently she lives in St. Maartensbrug in Zijpe in a farmhouse, where her sculpture garden and her studio are located and she also works in her workshop in Schermerhorn.
At age 18, Romee began in Spain and France with drawing portraits.
On the Place du Tertre in Paris and by working in the major cities of Europe, she got a good look at the people around her.
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Non solo, l’indirizzo URL del proprio Profilo ma anche l’indirizzo delle Pagine Fan può essere modificato con questo metodo.
Classical Realism by William Whitaker Jr.
American painter William Whitaker Jr. (1943-2018) is an artist who has been at the forefront of painting's representational revival during recent years.
The only son of an artist father, William Whitaker Jr. grew up in the special world of the working artist.
He had access to the finest art materials and was painting in watercolor and oil at the age of six.
His fondest early memories are of the sights sounds and smells of the art studio.
Whitaker loves to paint from life in an old fashioned studio.
Frida Kahlo: “Vorrei essere ciò che ho voglia di essere”
Vorrei poter fare tutto ciò che mi piace dietro il sipario della "follia".
Allora: disporrei fiori, tutto il giorno,
dipingerei; dolore, amore e tenerezza,
riderei quanto mi pare della stupidità degli altri, e tutti direbbero: "Poverina, è pazza!"
Alexander Saidov, 1970 | The Garden of Eden
The compositions in Alexander Saidov's paintings are thought out to the smallest detail and every part of his imaginary world seems real.
While painting his pieces, the artist almost becomes a storyteller, who sounds so convincing that viewers start perceiving everything depicted not as a fantasy, but as real world, with its own course of life.
In some artworks, fantasy worlds are based on myths, legends, and religious texts, which are familiar to a wide range of viewers.
Tina Cassati | Surreal fashion
Berlin based artist Tina Cassati, makes costumes (sculpture le mode and giardino di arte), ruffs, hats-, bags - and shoes-, jewelry objects into modern surreale digital-photo-art worlds and illustrations.
She paints, sews, draws, photographs, digital collage - mixed media, collage, illustration.
She does not care about genres.
Her work is influenced by Renaissance, Baroque, Traditional Clothing (Folk Costumes) fairy tales. To her, fashion is fine art.
Sarah Myers, 1980 | Figurative sculptor
Sarah Myers lives and works in Arizona.
As a child her fascination for the artwork in museums - and even for ancient artifacts - formed her feeling that art was the language of a world filled with splendor and possibility.
She continues this today with her love of human expressions, depicting heads, hands, movement, vitality in a range of mediums from line drawing and painting to ceramic sculpture.
William Dyce | Pre-Raphaelite painter
Prof William Dyce FRSE RSA RA (1806-1864) pioneer of state art education in Great Britain.
Dyce studied at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh and the Royal Academy schools, London.
One of the first British students of early Italian Renaissance painting, he visited Italy in 1825 and 1827-1828, meeting in Rome a group of young German painters, the Nazarenes.
Claude Monet | The Houses of Parliament, 1900-1905
Claude Monet painted a series of oil paintings of the Palace of Westminster, home of the British Parliament, in the fall of 1899 and the early months of 1900 and 1901 during stays in London.
All of the series' paintings share the same viewpoint from Monet's window or a terrace at St Thomas' Hospital overlooking the Thames and the approximate canvas size of 81 cm x 92 cm (32 in x 36 3/8 in).
They are however painted during different times of the day and weather circumstances.
Laura Lee Zanghetti | Figurative painter
Laura Lee Zanghetti is an Award winning self taught artist who mainly works in oils.
She paints full time and enjoys a number of different techniques and styles of painting in her home studio in Walpole MA.
Her favorite subjects vary from beach scenes to cityscapes and her latest.... "umbrella ladies".
She's been painting full time for the past 13 years in her home studio in Walpole.
Robert Antoine Pinchon | Post-Impressionist painter
Claude Monet referred to him: "As a surprising touch in the service of a surprising eye".
Among Robert Antoine Pynchons' important works are a series of paintings of the River Seine, mostly around Rouen and landscapes depicting places in or near Upper Normandy.
Robert Antoine Pinchon (1886-1943) was a French Post-Impressionist landscape painter of the Rouen School- l'École de Rouen.
He was consistent throughout his career in his dedication to painting landscapes en plein air.
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Keith Perelli, 1968 | Surrealist painter
Keith Perelli is a figurative artist exploring male portraiture through the lens of personal, social and political issues.
The abstract and surrealist sensibilities in his work stems from both his interest in the work produced and taught at the University of New Orleans by prominent local professors in the field of painting.
His graduate work at the University of Cincinnati in sculpture and installation focused on the on complex social and political ramifications of HIV and and the AIDS crisis of the 80ś and 90ś.
Alex Bertaina, 1963 | Abstract painter
Maybe my sky and my sea are united, as our existence, between transport towards nature and departure from it and they shall treat these wounds" - Alex Bertaina
Alex Bertaina is an Italian painter, born in Turin. He lives and work in Cuneo, in North West Italy.
Gianni Gueggia, 1956 | Expressionist painter
Italian painter Gianni Gueggia was born in Trenzano, Brescia, Italy.
He began exhibiting his works since 1973.
He has participated in numerous national and international awards and received many favors from the critics.
Martin Pate | Ballet Dancers
Martin Pate graduated with honors from Ringling School of Art in 1981.
His figurative works won acclaim in the Sarasota area by such notables as Thornton Utz who declared a life drawing by Martin as the best work in the 1981 student show.
His love of figurative works has led to numerous commissions over the last 30+ years including a 20+ year association with the National Park Service.
Martin's personal paintings and drawings have won awards in local, regional and national shows.
Daria Petrilli, 1970 | Pop-Surrealist Illustrator
Daria Petrilli is an award winning illustrator, born in Rome, Italy.
After graduating with an MA in Communication and Design at the Università La Sapienza, she took on various agency roles as a graphic designer and illustrator in Rome.
Later she moved to London, where she completed a Diploma in Experimental Illustration at the LCC - part of the University of the Arts London, achieving the highest possible grade.
Gerda Wegener | Lili Elbe’s wife in 'The Danish Girl'
Gerda Wegener: The Lady Gaga of the 1920s
The Danish Girl tells the story of the painter Einar Wegener, who had the world’s first gender-reassignment surgery and became Lili Elbe.
But his wife Gerda had a fascinating life and career of her own.
Gerda Wegener | Ulla Poulsen, 1927
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