Sergiy Lyacevitch, 1981

Sergiy Lyacevitch è un pittore figurativo impressionista che vive e lavora in Ucraina.

Lyacevitch per i suoi quadri usa dei soggetti classici - le ballerine, la bellezza della donna e Parigi come cornice di sfondo per le sue figure.

Heinrich Hermanns | Cityscapes painter

Heinrich Hermanns (1862-1942) was a German lithographer and landscape painter.

He was also known for architectural paintings and vedute and was associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.

Born in Düsseldorf, Hermanns completed his primary education in 1883 and went on to study at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Eugen Dücker, Heinrich Lauenstein, Georg Heinrich Crola and Johann Peter Theodor Janssen.

William Brymner | Impressionist painter

William Brymner, CMG RCA (1855-1925) was a Canadian figure and landscape painter and educator.

In addition to playing a key role in the development of Impressionism in Canada, Brymner taught numerous artists who became leading figures in Canadian modern art.

Simon Maris | Neo-Impressionist painter

Simon Willem Maris (1873-1935) was a Dutch painter best known as a portrait artist.

He was the son of Dutch landscape painter Willem Maris of the Hague School.

He was born in The Hague. Simon Maris was a student of his father Willem Maris and subsequently studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Arts of Antwerp.

Isabella, also known as Young Woman with a Fan, is a 1906 painting by Simon Maris.

It is currently in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Tête de jeune fille coiffée d'un chapeau de jardin, 1895

"I have taken up again, never to abandon it, my old style, soft and light of touch", Renoir wrote to his dealer Durand-Ruel in 1888, full of enthusiasm for his latest efforts.

"This is to give you some idea of my new and final manner of painting - like Fragonard, but not so good" (quoted in J. House, Renoir in the Barnes Foundation, New Haven, 2012, p. 121).

Renoir's new approach represented a sea-change after the controversial Ingres-inspired method he cultivated in the previous decade.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Tête de jeune fille coiffée d'un chapeau de jardin, 1895 | Christie's

150 years of the First Impressionist Exhibition, 1874-2024

150 years ago, on April 15, 1874, a group of artists called the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc. organized an exhibition in Paris that launched the movement called Impressionism.

Its founding members included Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro, among others.

Thirty-one artists had gathered to hold their own art fair, outside the official Salon, in a declaration of independence that marked the birth of a groundbreaking art movement.

Claude Monet | Impression, Sunrise, 1872 | Paris, Musée Marmottan Monet

Winifred Nicholson | Colourist painter

Rosa Winifred Nicholson (née Roberts, 1893-1981) was a British painter.

She was married to the painter Ben Nicholson, and was thus the daughter-in-law of the painter William Nicholson and his wife, the painter Mabel Pryde.

She was the mother of the painter Kate Nicholson.

Winifred Nicholson was a colourist who developed a personal impressionistic style, concentrating on domestic still life objects and landscapes.

Arcadi Mas i Fondevila | Luminist painter

Arcadi Mas i Fondevila, or Fontdevila (1852-1934), was a Catalan painter and graphic artist.

He was the son of a tailor.

His father recognized his artistic talent at an early age and enrolled him at the Escola de la Llotja, where he studied with Claudi Lorenzale and Antoni Caba.

At the age of twenty, he held his first exhibition at the salon of the "Associació Artística de Barcelona".

H. A. Brendekilde | Udslidt (Worn Out), 1889

Hans Andersen Brendekilde's (Danish painter, 1857-1942) most famous painting is Udslidt (Worn Out).

He painted it for the World Exposition in Paris 1889, the 100 years celebration of the French Revolution.

In the catalogue it is called Au Secours.

It was exhibited in Copenhagen 1890, Munich 1891 (Zu Hülfe) and Chicago 1893 (Worn Out).

Hans Andersen Brendekilde | Worn out, 1889 (detail) | Funen's Art Museum

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Tête de jeune fille, 1882

Painted in 1882, "Tête de jeune fille" dates from a key period of transition within Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s career.

It was at the beginning of that year that the pioneering Impressionist dealer Paul Durand-Ruel had begun to purchase Renoir’s work, granting the artist a new level of professional and financial security, which in turn enabled him to travel abroad for the first time.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Tête de jeune fille, 1882 | Christie's

Barbara Schilling, 1955

Barbara Schilling OPA, AIS is an impressionist oil painter from Michigan.

Her work is loose and fresh, mostly painted alla prima style.

She is known for both her landscapes and her still life/floral paintings.

She has won many awards and shown in many juried competitions.

Phyllis Shafer, 1958

American painter Phyllis Shafer lives and works in the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin region.

Although her formative years as an artist were spent in New York and the San Francisco Bay area, over the past two decades she has worked primarily in the American West to develop a style of landscape painting that is uniquely her own.

Shafer’s profound love for her subject matter is unquestionably authentic, reminiscent of another extraordinary artist of the American West, Georgia O’Keeffe.

Ryan Jensen | Plein Air painter

Ryan Jensen, born in the San Francisco Bay Area, moved around a bit growing up.

But his earliest memories are of family and include his father, a painter, and his mother, a graphic designer, arched together over a drafting board in their in-home studio; or his father's paint-covered hands on the steering wheel as he drove his son to school.

On the mornings Ryan's father left early for work, there would be a sticky-note sketch on the kitchen table, usually a comical depiction that always made Ryan laugh. Jensen began to sketch as a child and never stopped.

Hans Versfelt, 1968 | Impressionist painter

Dutch painter Hans Versfelt is an Impressionist.

He goes out almost every day with a painting box. He records what he finds.

Versfelt was born in 1968 and currently resides in Breda.

Hans Versfelt started his studies at the Minerva Academy in Groningen but stopped after a year.

After a few years he studied again at the Academy for Art and Design St. Joost in Breda and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.

John Patchett, 1946 | Pastel painter

Born in Deal, Kent, John Patchett is a well-known East Anglian professional artist, who is a member of the East Anglian Institute of Artists and whose pastel paintings are much sought after, both in England and abroad.

After attending Grimsby School of Art, Kingston-upon-Thames College of Art and Brighton College of Art, John settled in Australia where he lived for 19 years.

In 1994, he returned to this country, settling in East Anglia where he has easy access to some of his favourite locations.

René Jansen (1956-2022)

René Jansen was an Impressionist painter of portraits, still lifes and landscapes.

A great draftsman and painter, who shows stilled moments in an intense manner with a skilful and passionate play of light, color and form.

René Jansen has already established his name as a painter for a long time.

His famous still lifes are characterized by 'coincidentally setups'.

He prefers his compositions to emerge spontaneously and randomly.

Ronald Soeliman | Plein-air painter

Dutch artist Ronald Soeliman (1965-2020) used palette knives when he painted.

The oil paints are thickly applied to the canvas whereby the use of a palette knife gives extra textural feel to the surface.

Sometimes he uses palette knives to suggest small branches in the wet paint.

Often it seems as if he models the paint straight on the canvas itself.

Boris Nikolaev | Romantic painter

Николаев Борис Павлович (1925-2017) was an Russian artist, master of landscape and realistic portrait, author of monumental paintings on the theme of war hardships and romantic cityscapes of post-war Leningrad.

Nikolayev Boris Pavlovich was born on February 14, 1925 in Novosibirsk. Soon the family moved to Leningrad.

The fascination with drawing leads Boris Nikolaev to the studio of the Leningrad House of artistic education of children.

Andrii Frolov | Romantic Impressionist painter

"I am an artist from Ukraine.

The reality around us can be very overloaded with details and meanings, and my main goal is to find the key to conveying all the diversity with minimal means, the shortest possible path to the viewer, and I am grateful for the opportunity to convey my work to viewers around the world!"

Childe Hassam | Poppies on the Isles of Shoals, 1890

Throughout his career, Frederick Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935) made several extended trips to Europe, where he was inspired by the sights and the many artists he met there.

A Back Road, completed the year after his first European tour, demonstrates a compositional daring and freedom of brushwork that were still unusual in American art of this period.

Influenced by the work of the nineteenth-century French Barbizon School, Hassam emphasized heavy brushstrokes and intense lighting effects.

Childe Hassam | Poppies on the Isles of Shoals, 1890 | Brooklyn Museum