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Helene Beland, 1949 | Realist painter

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Born in Montreal, Qc, Canada, Helene Béland makes traditional studies in Montreal. In 1975, Béland obtains a diploma of study collegial in arts.
Then of 1979-1981 the artist continues his artistic formation at the painting and art school "Mission Renaissance School of Drawing" of Los Angeles under the direction of Larry Gluck, professional painter American. Helene Béland also studied art at the University from Quebec in Montreal.
Helene Béland controls the different techniques such as the charcoal, the pastel, oil and the "sanguine".


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Allan R Banks | Plein Air/Figure painter

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A native of Dearborn, Michigan, Allan R. Banks is a highly accomplished artist whose credentials speak for themselves. He was the recipient of the Elizabeth T. Greenshields Memorial Fellowship in 1972 and 1973, the Stacey Award🎨 in 1974 and later, an Ohio Arts Council Award🎨.
Comprehensive classical training under Richard Lack and later R.H. Ives Gammell at his private studios in Williamstown, Massachusetts, contributed substantially to the development of Banks’ work. Visits to Europe brought about a further development in the direction of his art and a rediscovery of the role of Plein-Air painting🎨.


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Marina Podgaevskaya, 1963 | Ballet dancers

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Marina Podgaevskaya🎨 / Марина Подгаевская, is an Russian painter🎨.
Marina Podgaevskaya 🎨 was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
In 1998 she finished the studio school specializing in Old Masters painting techniques. She has created more than 2000 paintings.
For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Podgaevskaya see:


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Michał Świder (1962-2019)

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On February 6, 2019, the Polish painter Michał Świder died in Czernichów. He was 57 years old. Michał Świder (born in 1962 in Sędziszów Małopolski) Michał Świder graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1990.
He studied graphics and painting with Zbysław Marek Maciejewski and Janina Kraupe-Świderska. After graduation, he was a lecturer at his home Academy of Fine Arts for a short time.
The allegorical figures from his frescoes and canvasses move with with refined elegance, lightly and quietly; they are slightly idealised pure and angelical. They are very much alike: similar gestures, mimicry, dress, the same narrow, almondlike eyes.


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William Whitaker | Drawing

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Mr. William (Bill) Whitaker (1943-2018) is one of the most respected living classical-realist figure artists in the Western United States.
Whitaker describes his training as being "Most influenced by the academicians of the last century for their craftsmanship, by the impressionists for their color and life, and by the abstract expressionists for their boldness".


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William Whitaker | Academic painter

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The only son of an artist father, William Whitaker (1943-2018), American painter, grew up in the special world of the working artist.
He had access to the finest art materials and was painting in watercolor and oil at the age of six.
His fondest early memories are of the sights sounds and smells of the art studio.
Whitaker loves to paint from life in an old fashioned studio. No matter what direction his art takes him, he always comes back to the model in the studio, the form bathed in the beautiful quiet cool light coming down from a high north window.


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Maria Ilieva, 1973 | Portrait / Still life painter

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Maria Ilieva was born in Sofia, Bulgaria.
In 1991, she graduated from National School of Fine Arts, and in 1997, the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, with speciality Mural Painting.
Since 1997, Maria Ilieva is a member of the Association of Bulgarian Artists.
She works in the field of the murals, portraits, still lifes, illustrations and fine arts painting.
Her works are property of private collections in Germany, United Kingdom, France, Japan, Russia and USA.


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Jose Roosevelt, 1958 | Surrealist painter / Illustrator

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José Roosevelt was born in Rio de Janeiro. When he was only 15 years old he decided to take up painting, being fascinated by the surrealism of Dali🎨, and the then emerging fantasy art.
He taught himself primarily through visiting museums and art galleries and read extensively about the history of painting and its techniques. Initially he began by writing and illustrating graphic novels, but from about 1977 painting became Roosevelt's main focus.
His first solo exhibition was held in Brasília in 1979 in which he displayed thirty surrealist pictures🎨, mostly painted in acrylic on canvas.
In 1987 he had an exhibition at the Galerie Bleue in Switzerland and then travelled around Europe for a year visiting museums and art collections, going to Paris, Florence and Rome. Arising out of this, he moved to Switzerland in 1990, set up a studio and began creating his now well known oil paintings.


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Alejandro Rosemberg, 1981 | Realist painter

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Alejandro Rosemberg  is an Argentinian artist living in Beunos Aires, where he paints and teaches classical techniques. He has a deep interest in art from his early childhood, and obtained a fine arts degree at the National University of Cordoba, Argentina, where he studied figure drawing and painting.
Rosemberg continued his study of classical painting based on the Italian Great Masters Tradition with Maestro Claudio Bogino.
His works have been exhibited worldwide, many of his pieces are sold and owned by some of the most renowned private Art Collectors.


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