Hendrick Goltzius | Mannerist painter

Hendrik Goltzius, (born 1558, Mulebrecht, Neth. - died Jan. 1, 1617, Haarlem), printmaker and painter, the leading figure of the Mannerist school🎨 of Dutch🎨 engravers.

Through his engravings, he helped to introduce the style of such artists as Bartholomaeus Spranger🎨 and Annibale Carracci🎨 to the northern Netherlands.

Goltzius’s great-grandfather and grandfather were both painters, and his father was a stained-glass painter. He was taught the art by his father as a child and was then instructed in copperplate engraving by Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert in Haarlem.

Goltzius’s marriage in 1579 to Margaretha Jansdr., a rich widow, enabled him to set up an independent business in Haarlem, where he spent the rest of his life except for a tour of Germany and Italy in 1590. Owing to his technical facility, he developed into one of the great masters of engraving in Holland.

Vicente Romero Redondo, 1956 | Figurative painter

Spanish painter Vicente Romero Redondo was born in Madrid as the eldest of four sons. Due to the work of his father, he grew up in many different towns all over Spain.

The family moved back to Madrid when he was 15 years old.

During his childhood, his parents thought he would dedicate his life to painting, as his caricatures of schoolmates and teachers were famous in every school where he studied and one would rarely see him without a pencil and a notepad in his hands.

Romero achieved his dream: he began studies at the High School for Art San Fernando, the most prestigious art school in Spain - Salvador Dali studied there from 1922-1926.

Miroslav Yotov, 1977 | Figurative / Surrealist painter

Miroslav Yotov was born in Isperih, Bulgaria. Yotov or Cirk as he is fondly known to his friends is an enterprising and versatile young artist whose work and scope embraces an amalgam of styles that highlight his unique individualism and view of the world.

His style is unique - because of its Bulgarian accent and emotion, the brush strokes are well articulated and on occasions lustful, as if he is trying to seduce the viewer. This particular idiosyncrasy has won him accolades and admiration from his peers, critics and connoisseurs.

He has participated in several exhibitions in Bulgaria including major ones in Shumen, Isperih and Divdiadovo.

His paintings are well sort after by the discerning connoisseurs, young professionals and entrepreneurs with a sophisticated taste for vibrant and captivating colors and that unique Balkan perspective.

Thomas Kinkade | The Painter of Light

Thomas Kinkade, (1958-2012), American artist who built a successful industry on his light-infused paintings of tranquil idyllic scenes.

Kinkade studied art history and took studio classes for two years at the University of California, Berkeley, before transferring to the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. It was there that he began experimenting with techniques to create the effects of light and atmosphere in his paintings.

Thomas Kinkade | Memories of Christmas

The look of Christmas, with its trees and garlands and twinkling lights, is of course well known.

But for Thomas Kinkade, the challenge in painting Christmas scenes was capturing the spirit of the holiday - the warmth, the joy, the good fellowship and family feeling.

He loved the contrast of the cold gleam of moonlight on snow with the warm radiance of golden light pouring through the windows of a festively decorated cottage. That golden glow is truly the light of love.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti | The Day-Dream

The thronged boughs of the shadowy sycamore

Still bear young leaflets half the summer through;

⁠From when the robin 'gainst the unhidden blue

Perched dark, till now, deep in the leafy core,

The embowered throstle's urgent wood-notes soar

⁠Through summer silence. Still the leaves come new;

⁠Yet never rosy-sheathed as those which drew

Their spiral tongues from spring-buds heretofore.

Théo Van Rysselberghe

Théo van Rysselberghe (Gand, 23 novembre 1862 – Le Lavandou, 13 dicembre 1926) è stato un pittore Belga, uno dei maggiori rappresentanti belgi del Puntinismo.

Biografia

Theo Van Rysselberghe era figlio minore di François Vanrysselberghe (1820-1893), carpentiere ed imprenditore di Gand, nonché fratello di Octave Van Rysselberghe, architetto.

Terminati gli studi all'Accademia di Belle arti di Gand e di Bruxelles, sotto la direzione di Jean-François Portaels, nel 1881 partecipò per la prima volta ad una mostra, al Salon di Bruxelles. Due anni dopo, assieme all'amico Octave Maus, fu uno dei fondatori del gruppo d'avanguardia Les XX (I Venti), un sodalizio che aveva sostituito il precedente gruppo di artisti La Chrysalide.

Kenne Gregoire, 1951 | New realism Painter / Sculptor

Dutch artist🎨 Kenne Grégoire has studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam from 1967-1973.

In 1973 he won the Silver Prix de Rome.

At the invitation of the Italian Ministry of Culture in 1976 he made a study trip to Italy. Kennedale is nominated for the project Beacons on the water of the center Visual Arts Ontario i.s.m. HSRO.

Amongst the work of Kenne Grégoire we may find still lifes, but also buildings, landscapes and theatre scenes from the Commedia dell'Arte. There is beauty, but also sadness, decay and deterioration.

Debra Hill | Fantasy painter

Australian artist Debra Hill acquired her art education at Sydney University and Paddington Art School.

She subsequently took to travelling seeking life experience from different cultures, settling for a time in Mexico where the colorful culture brought her imagination to life. Since then her paintings have been infused with an almost carnival quality. Executed in oils, her paintings exhibit her skill as both an accomplished painter as well as a designer.

Since taking up residence in New York in 1994 her work has found its way into the spotlight as the art used for Earth Day 1995, along with Peter Max.

Alicia Brizzio | Figurative painter

Argentine painter Alicia Brizzio was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

Lives in Buenos Aires City since 1992. Attended numerous courses and workshops on different oil, acrylic and pastel techniques.

She received her CPA and in parallel she started painting by herself

She attended intensive seminars to Painters featured both national and international, and then further refined, with outstanding teachers such as Axel Amuchastegui, Marcos Borio, Adelia Dalessandro and Ricardo Celma.

Since 2005 she teaches drawing and painting while continuing dedicated to creating their own works.