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Steve Cosentino | Plein Air painter

American painter Steve Cosentino was born in New York City, the place where he continues to call home.
Steven studied at the Art Students League with Rudolf Baranik and went on to teach at the League in the early 1990s.
- "As a child I lived in a building much like the ones depicted in these paintings".


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Vishma Maharaj, 1984 | Le squisite opere di vetro colorato

Vishma Maharaj è un'artista multimediale Americana che segue i propri sogni, interpretandoli su carta, per mezzo della Intelligenza Artificiale.
- "Sono una viaggiatrice dell'anima che condivide la propria esperienza attraverso la mia visione e prospettiva.
Sono la ragazzina che correva lungo la riva del mare lanciando stelle marine ed esprimendo desideri... che un giorno creerò cose che le persone adorerebbero.
Quei piccoli semi ora sono ciò di cui sono fatte le piante dei miei sogni..."


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Bruce Cohen, 1953

Bruce Cohen is known for engaging his viewers with intriguing interiors in his distinctive, crisp, realist style.
Influenced by Dutch still-life painting and Surrealism he orchestrates compositions which include fruit, books, vases and always flowers from his garden.
These items are placed in geometric interiors devoid of human beings but haunted by a human presence.


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Beata Sasik | The secret gardens

Beata Sasik is an oil painter in New Orleans.
- "I like to think about myself as an expressionist even though my style of work probably best fall into the category of Contemporary Impressionism.
Well, whatever it may be you can definitely call me a Colorist.
When I paint I am taken by the transcendental vibrant color and the contrast of light and dark that are the reflection of emotion and energy of the creative process".


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David Durall, 1970 | AI Art

David Durall using Artificial intelligence (AI) to share beauty with the world.
He studied at Eastern Illinois University, Southern Illinois at Carbondale.
"I got my masters in Art History my paper was on Bonnard and Vuillard and how the did for interiors what Monet and others did for outside scenes working in plein air, although Bonnard landscapes look like an opal exploded He, not Lautrec invented the French poster".
David Durall lives in Chicago, Illinois.


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Emily Dickinson | Che sia io la tua estate, 1858

Che sia io la tua estate
Quando l'estate sarà lontana!
E la tua musica, quando allodola
e pettirosso taceranno!

Joseph DeCamp | Farawell

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Frederick Arthur Bridgman | Il "Gérôme" americano

Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847-1928) è stato un pittore Statunitense.
Figlio di un medico, Bridgman divenne uno dei più noti e apprezzati pittori degli Stati Uniti, e fu conosciuto come uno dei più talentuosi pittori orientalisti.
La sua carriera cominciò lavorando come disegnatore a New York City per l'American Bank Note Company.
Negli stessi anni, 1864-1865, studiò arte alla Brooklyn Art Association ed alla National Academy of Design, poi partì per Parigi, nel 1866, dove si stabilì, divenendo l'anno successivo, allievo di Jean-Léon Gérôme all'École des Beaux-Arts.


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Alex Tabet, 1988 | Figurative painter

Born in San Antonio, Texas, Alex Tabet is predominantly a portrait, figure painter and an occasional still life painter.
As a young boy, Alex began exploring art by studying art books and taking online lessons.
In early 2019, he began studying figure painting from life in oil with Julia Diller at the Atelier of Fine Art, in Los Angeles.


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Maya Angelou / René Magritte | I know why the caged bird sings, 1969

The free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wings
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.


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Jeff Stanford, 1955

Photographer and artist and always ready to learn something new.
Studied Art at the University of the Arts In Philadelphia at the most exciting time at the end of the 1970s and begining of the 1980s in the city center.
Met so many amazing artists who have inspired me all my life.
Live now in Stockholm, Sweden.


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Paige Bradley, 1974 | Figurative sculptor

Born in Carmel, California Paige Bradley knew she would be an artist by the age of nine.
Immersed in nature and art, Bradley’s fascination with the human figure began early.
She believed that through the figure an artist could speak a universal language that is timeless and essential.
Paige began drawing from the model by the age of ten and by fifteen was studying intensely at university campuses during the summer months.


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Bob Dylan, 1941 | Paintings by the Music Legend

Not only is Bob Dylan one of the most iconic musicians of the modern era, a filmmaker and a best-selling author, he is also a painter, a sculptor since the 1960s.
Dylan has been awarded America’s Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Arts, the Pulitzer Prize, Sweden’s Polar Music Prize and France’s Officer de la Legion d’honneur.
He has won an Oscar and eleven Grammy Awards.


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Tracey Sylvester Harris, 1966

In her paintings, Tracey Sylvester Harris presents a dazzling aqueous vision that merges the past with the present.
Aptly called "Sunshine Noir", T.S. Harris’ paintings speak to the central issues of human existence - desire and loss, impermanence and beauty, and the many dimensions of our connections with others.
Inspired by snapshots and film stills from the mid-century, the paintings are colorful yet bittersweet, depicting fleeting moments captured almost a lifetime ago.


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Jill Maytorena | Mixed media painter

Jill Maytorena's portraits reveal figures who emerge through a glow of pastels and vibrant patterns.
She has a unique style of capturing beauty through textural representations and forms.
This series of artworks discovers the presence of patterns that are introspective and exploratory.
Sewing patterns, patterned fabrics and papers, charcoals, and soft pastels blend in collaged layers to illuminate the topography of her figurative art.


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Florine Stettheimer | Rococo-inspired modernist painter

Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) was an American modernist painter, feminist, theatrical designer, poet and salonnière.
Stettheimer developed a feminine, theatrical painting style depicting her friends, family, and experiences in New York City.
She made the first feminist nude self-portrait and paintings depicting controversies of race and sexual preference.
She and her sisters hosted a salon that attracted members of the avant-garde.


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Stephen Gjertson, 1949 | Classical realism painter

Stephen Gjertson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Trained by Richard Lack (1928-2009) at Atelier Lack during the early 70's, Gjertson has spent twenty years creating works that reflect his love of nature and family, and his deeply held religious convictions.
His style is natural and personal, revealing his respect for, and knowledge of, both the academic and impressionist traditions.


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Mark Stock | The Butlers in Love

Mark Stock (1951-2014) was an American painter.
He was born in Frankfurt, Germany.
The son of an Army officer, Stock lived in many states across America before settling in St. Petersburg, Florida.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Florida in Tampa, where he studied under Theo Wujcik.
Upon graduating in 1976, Stock was hired to work at Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles as a lithographer.


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Danny Day, 1964 | Romantic Realism painter

Danny Day has established a reputation worldwide for the high quality of his original works of art.
Danny has made it a lifelong quest to master and refine his version of realism, perfecting the "master’s technique" of oils on canvas.
Rich color and eye popping clarity are the hallmarks embodied in his works, which range in genre from sports to wildlife, auto racing, and lush romantic portraits.
Danny has also added commercial photography to his repertoire.


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James Jebusa Shannon | Portrait / Genre painter

Sir James Jebusa Shannon RA (1862-1923) was an Anglo-American artist.
Shannon was born in Auburn, New York, and at the age of eight was taken by his parents to Canada.
When he was sixteen, he went to England, where he studied at South Kensington, and after three years won the gold medal for figure painting.


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Louis Guglielmi | Magic Realist painter

Osvaldo Louis Guglielmi (1906-1956) was an American painter.
He was well known in New York, but soon forgotten after his death, as abstract expressionism came to overshadow artists like him.
There are elements of precisionism, surrealism, geometric abstraction, regionalism and social realism in his work.
His paintings often commented on poverty and other social and political themes; bleakness and death appear regularly in his pre-war works. With Walter Quirt and James Guy, he was a prominent exponent of "social surrealism".


After the war, his painting became more planar and abstract, with elements of cubism, and he disavowed the personal sadness in his earlier works in favor of expressing the "exuberance and organic means of life itself".
The New York Times also attributed his decline to his being "a relentless borrower, an irrepressible eclectic who seemed to prey voraciously on the styles of others".
Born in Cairo, Egypt, as a child he lived in Milan and Geneva while his Italian father, a professional violinist, toured the world.
In 1914 his parents brought him to the United States, where they lived in Italian Harlem, New York.


He was interested in sculpture at a young age and worked at a casting factory.
He attended the National Academy of Design in the evening beginning in 1920, while also attending high school, and attended full-time from 1923 to 1926.
The next year he became a naturalized citizen.

The Great Depression brought financial hardship, but the difficult times inspired his artwork.
From 1935 to 1939, he worked with the Federal Art Project, which supported artists during the Depression.


In the 1930s he spent many summers at the MacDowell Colony for artists in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
Guglielmi had his first one-man show in 1938, exhibiting his new work Mental Geography.
Inspired by the Spanish Civil War-depicting a bombed-out Brooklyn Bridge -it was a warning that European fascism might spread.

Guglielmi was part of the 1943 "American Realists and Magic Realists" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
He was with the Army Corps of Engineers in the war between 1943 and 1945, and did not paint.


In the 1950s, he held positions at Louisiana State University, first as a visiting artist and then as an associate professor.
He died in 1956 of a heart attack in Amagansett, New York.
Guglielmi's work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art. | Source: © Wikipedia








Osvaldo Louis Guglielmi (1906-1956) è stato un pittore Americano.
Era molto conosciuto a New York, ma presto dimenticato dopo la sua morte, poiché l'espressionismo astratto arrivò a mettere in ombra artisti come lui.
Ci sono elementi di precisione, surrealismo, astrazione geometrica, regionalismo e realismo sociale nel suo lavoro.
I suoi dipinti spesso commentavano la povertà ed altri temi sociali e politici; desolazione e morte appaiono regolarmente nelle sue opere prebelliche.
Con Walter Quirt e James Guy fu un esponente di spicco del "surrealismo sociale".


Dopo la guerra, la sua pittura divenne più planare e astratta, con elementi di cubismo, e rinnegò la tristezza personale nelle sue opere precedenti in favore dell'espressione "dell'esuberanza e dei mezzi organici della vita stessa".
Anche il New York Times attribuì il suo declino al suo essere "un mutuatario implacabile, un eclettico irrefrenabile che sembrava predare voracemente lo stile degli altri".
Nato al Cairo, in Egitto, da bambino ha vissuto a Milano e Ginevra, mentre suo padre italiano, violinista professionista, girava il mondo.
Nel 1914 i suoi genitori lo portarono negli Stati Uniti, dove vissero ad Italian Harlem, New York.
Si interessò alla scultura in giovane età e lavorò in una fabbrica di fusione.


Frequentò serale l'Accademia Nazionale di Design a partire dal 1920, frequentando contemporaneamente anche il liceo, che frequentò a tempo pieno dal 1923 al 1926.
L'anno successivo divenne cittadino naturalizzato.
La Grande Depressione portò difficoltà finanziarie, ma i tempi difficili ispirarono le sue opere d'arte.

Dal 1935 al 1939 lavorò con il Federal Art Project, che sostenne gli artisti durante la Depressione.
Negli anni '30 trascorse molte estati alla MacDowell Colony per artisti a Peterborough, nel New Hampshire.
Guglielmi tenne la sua prima mostra personale nel 1938, esponendo la sua nuova opera Geografia mentale.


Ispirato alla guerra civile spagnola, raffigurante un ponte di Brooklyn bombardato, era un avvertimento che il fascismo europeo avrebbe potuto diffondersi.
Guglielmi fece parte della mostra "American Realists and Magic Realists" del 1943 al Museum of Modern Art.
Era con il Corpo degli Ingegneri dell'Esercito nella guerra tra il 1943 e il 1945 e non dipingeva.
Negli anni '50 ricoprì incarichi presso la Louisiana State University, prima come artista in visita e poi come professore associato.


Morì nel 1956 per un attacco di cuore ad Amagansett, New York.
Il lavoro di Guglielmi è nella collezione dell'Art Institute of Chicago, del Detroit Institute of Arts, del Metropolitan Museum of Art, del Museum of Modern Art, del San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, lo Smithsonian American Art Museum ed il Whitney Museum of American Art.