Augusto Giacometti | Abstract painter

The Swiss painter Augusto Giacometti (1877-1947) made color the focus of his art.

In a magnificent display of color with some 130 exhibits, the Kunstmuseum Bern is mounting an overview of the work of this pioneer of Abstraction.

On show will be loans from leading Swiss and international museums, artworks from private collections that have never been on public view before, as well as pieces from the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection.

GC Myers, 1959 ~ Stylized Symbolic Landscapes

A self-taught painter GC Myers, is a modern painter of “internal” landscapes, evocative compositions that reflect the synthesis of numerous schools of influence- Eastern philosophy, American Regionalist and Modernist paintings, Abstract-Expressionism, Art Nouveau and on and on. His ability to draw from many and diverse sources results in a world of creation that is truly unique, speaking with a vocabulary that is, at once, both personal and universal. Myers’ use of simplistic design, bold coloration and stylized rendering transforms the natural landscape into one that resonates with human emotions and qualities.

Mia Bergeron ~ Figurative painter

New York artist Mia Bergeron’s interest in art was cultivated early on, beginning with continuous exposure to visual works through her parents’ graphic design firm in New York City. As a high school student, Mia pursued the arts both at the curricular and extracurricular levels, and in 1998 she was admitted to the Rhode Island School of Design. After a year of intensive foundation courses, she decided to leave RISD to pursue a more traditional painting program.

I was born in New York City to two graphic designers. In 1998, I was admitted into the Rhode Island School of design. After a year of foundation classes, I left RISD to move to Boston, where I worked at the Museum of Fine Arts. In 2002, I moved to Florence, Italy, to study at the Charles Cecil Studio.

Sergio Lopez, 1983 | Pittore di figure e paesaggi

Sergio Lopez si è laureato all'Accademia d'Arte di San Francisco ed è un pittore esemplare in una varietà di mezzi. La sua conoscenza artistica è aumentata quando ha scoperto il suo amore per la pittura ad olio ed il disegno a carboncino.

Ha riempito album da disegno dopo album da disegno con osservazioni dal vero e disegni della sua immaginazione.

Gli illustratori della Golden Age, i pittori Bravura, gli artisti contemporanei, i concept designer, gli scrittori di graffiti ed i fotografi sono stati alcune delle sue più forti influenze nella sua ricerca della pittura.

Vail Oxley | Impressionist painter

Vail Oxley is a Beijing-based artist that creates impressionist style garden scenes.

Oxley prefers a country ambience reminiscent of Monet's Giverny paintings.

The artist's paintings are gentle themes; painted using a clear, bright palette and soft edged visual style.

Vail Oxley's work has become popular around the world.

Ted Nuttall | Watercolour painter

A graduate of Colorado Institute of Art, Ted Nuttall is a figurative watercolorist whose painting expression was born out of his observation of people, his experience and travels as an illustrator for the United States Air Force, and a twenty-five year career in graphic design.

His work, as a designer, illustrator, and fine artist has won numerous national and regional awards.

Santeri Salokivi | Impressionist painter

Toivo Santeri Salokivi (Turku, September 2, 1886 - Helsinki, March 26, 1940) was a Finnish painter and art teacher, known for his Impressionist style of landscapes.

Salokivi was also a graphic artist.

Salokivi studied at the Turku Drawing School between 1900-1904 and thereafter in Munich and Paris.

Salokivi's trip to Venice in 1911 was also significant for his artistic development.

Salokivi worked as a drawing teacher at the Turku School of Drawing and as a drawing teacher at the Finnish Classical and Real Lyceum from 1914-1917.

Digital Art by Sergey Shaposhnikov

Sergey Shaposhnikov / Сергей Шапошников is an professional photographer from City of St. Petersburg.

Alberto Giacometti | Surrealist sculptor

Giacometti, Alberto (1901-1966) - Sculptor, painter, draughtsman and printmaker, son of Giovanni Giacometti.

Early studies and works, to 1927

He began drawing around 1910-12, followed by painting and sculpting in 1913-15. While at secondary school in Schiers, near Chur (1914-19), he developed his drawing style primarily through portraiture.

In 1919-20 in Geneva he studied painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and sculpture at the Ecole des Arts et Métiers but was more impressed by subsequent visits to Italy (1920-21), where he worked without formal instruction.

Claude Gaveau, 1940 | Abstract painter

Claude Gaveau was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Gaveau was almost born into art, as his grandfather was the creator of the green houses of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.One of his uncles, Emile, was a painter and another, Marcel a cabinetmaker.

At the age of five he remembers the morning when Uncle Marcel put an easel, a canvas and a box of colors in his hands and together they both painted the landscape around geysers.

Claude Gaveau seems to talk about birth date as it was from that day on, when painting became a necessity for him.