Scultura vegetale ~ L'arte Topiaria

L'Arte Topiaria, ars Topiaria in latino, o Hedge sculptur, nata all'epoca dell'Antica Roma, è una forma della Scultura Vegetale. Consiste nel potare alberi e arbusti al fine di dare loro una forma geometrica, diversa da quella naturalmente assunta dalla pianta, per scopi ornamentali.

Marcos Damascena, 1981 | Realist painter

Marcos Damascena was born in Poções Bahia and rooted in São Paulo, where he began his artistic career studying with what was considered the biggest names in art education in his country.

He studied drawing technique and live figure drawing with professor Luis Alberto, in the Association Paulista of Fine Arts. Afterwards, he studied the theory of color and anatomy of animals, with emphasis on the study of horses with the master, Jorge Abraham Esteves.

His talent developed with surprising speed.

Inmaculada Juárez, 1975 | Portrait painter

Inmaculada Juárez is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist, known for working in the Figurative style.

Juarez was born in Mota del Marqués (Valladolid) Spain and presently residing in Madrid.

Juarez works are so realist with a sense of warmth and are full of emotions.

Gilles Charest, 1947 | Still Life painter

Gilles Charest was born in Montreal, Canada.

He studied education, literature, and administration at the University of Montreal.

He taught for a few years before changing his career in 1975 when, along with two associates, he founded an advertising agency and assumed the role of creative director.

Yasmina Alaoui, 1977 | Body Painter

Artist Yasmina Alaoui and photographer Marco Guerra love to tantalize their audience.

In their life-sized photographic series "one thousand and one dreams", statuesque bodies apear frozen in time, covered from head to toe in meticulously detailed, contemporary Arabic Henna patters.

Captivated by the realism and sculptural quality of each human form, the viewer becomes lost in an illusion.

Duma Arantes 1973 ~ Fashion painter

Duma lives and works in Oeiras, Portugal where she studied advertising in IADE -Visual Arts, Design Marketig Institute and also Painting and Drawing at the National Society of Fine Arts, in Lisbon. 

Edward Hopper (1882-1967)

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Edward Hopper was born in Nyack, New York, a town located on the west side of the Hudson River, to a middle-class family that encouraged his artistic abilities.

After graduating from high school, he studied briefly at the Correspondence School of Illustrating in New York City (1899-1900), and then he enrolled in classes at the New York School of Art (1900-1906).

In his shift from illustration to the fine arts, he studied with William Merritt Chase, a leading American Impressionist painter, and with Robert Henri, who exhorted his students to paint the everyday conditions of their own world in a realistic manner.

Bruno Torfs | Sculpture Garden

Bruno Torfs is an artist, born in South America and moved to Australia after traveling Europe up and down, wanting to bring his dream to life.

The Victorian village of Marysville, 95 km from Melbourne, was the perfect place to develop Bruno’s wish to create a sculpture garden.

He bought a property, including a generous piece of sub-alpine forest, and after five months of hard work, he opened to the public Bruno’s Art Sculpture Garden.

Klein Yves | Abstract / Nouveau réalisme painter

Yves Klein (28 April 1928 - 6 June 1962) was a French artist** considered an important figure in post-war European art.

He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany.

Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art.

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