Sandra Bierman, 1938 ~ Figurative painter

American painter Sandra Bierman, grandmother of five, was born in Brooklyn, New York, but from age 4 grew up in Oklahoma, Texas and Maryland. Her father was a Swedish immigrant and her mother a Texas farm girl. She was nurtured as a child by her part-Cherokee grandmother. Art scholarships began at age 11. Sandra is married to retired physics professor Arthur Bierman, and they have lived in Boulder, Colorado since 1988. Her oils are widely collected and are published and distributed worldwide.
Influences: 16th Century Italian masters, Mexican masters, Chinese and Japanese classical art.

Marco Rubiero, 1976

Nato a Cavarzere il 22 maggio 1976, Marco Rubiero vive da sempre ad Adria (Rovigo). Nel 2002 inizia a dedicarsi al disegno e allo studio della figura umana. Nel 2003 frequenta nella città di Venezia, un corso di pittura, alla scuola di grafica Internazionale. Nel 2004 presso l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia frequenta il corso libero di nudo per qualche lezione. Numerose sono le sue mostre in Italia e all’estero e i suoi quadri sono entrati a far parte di collezioni pubbliche e private. L’esposizione permanente dell’artista è nel suo studio d’arte in Loc. Botti Barbarighe 10 Comune di Cavarzere (Venezia).

Giotto ~ The allegories of Vices / Le allegorie dei Vizi, 1303-1305

L'ira - La Cappella degli Scrovegni

In the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, between 1303-1305, Italian painter and architect from Florence Giotto di Bondone (1266/7 - 1337), painted 14 allegories, in monochrome - seven allegorical representations of virtues and seven allegorical representations of vices.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- see: Giotto ~ The allegories of Virtues / Le allegorie delle Virtù, 1303-1305 ➦

La Temperanza e l'Ira

Joanna Sierko-Filipowska, 1960

Polish artist Joanna Sierko-Filipowska was born in 1960 in Bialystok. In 1985 she graduated Graphic Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with an honors degree. Artworks of Joanna Sierko invite the viewer into an illusory magic world, full of internal harmony, as well as memories of great holidays from a distant childhood. Looking at her paintings, we can go back there even for a moment.

Georgios Iakovidis | Genre/Portrait painter

Greek painter Γεώργιος Ιακωβίδης [1853-1932] founded and was the first curator of the National Gallery of Greece in Athens. Georgios Jakobides was one of the main representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School. He was one of the thirty “immortal” members of Athen’s Academy when firstly created, in 1926. His paintings, over 200, are found in the National Gallery of Athens, private collections and in museums and art galleries around the world including art galleries in Germany and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Patricia-Lysiane Beck

With Patricia-Lysiane Beck, creation comes to life in the magical universe of places of encounters: old bistrots, restaurants, hotel halls. In her paintings, enthusiasm and joy reach out in pure spontaneity. The emotions surrounding nostalgic places of tradition fire our imagination and in the halo of the atmosphere, transport us into light and movement. Patricia-Lysiane Beck stirs her performances with intense passion, at the tireless rhythm of life in the beauty of the moment.

Jean-Claude Desplanques, 1936

Ancien élève à l’école des Beaux Arts, Jean-Claude Desplanques se consacre à la peinture depuis 1960. Né en Normandie en 1936, il se passionne pour le dessin dès l’âge de huit ans. Ses créatures mythiques, ses personnages mystérieux et sublimes, nous emmènent vers son univers pictural riche et fantastique, parfois théâtral, où la beauté règne.

Aung Kyaw Htet, 1965 | Figurative painter

Aung Kyaw Htet paints the faces of monks and nuns in great detail to show their humanity. This is in contradiction to most Burmese artists who usually omit facial details to focus on monks as symbols of religion rather than as human individuals.
Aung Kyaw Htet was born in Myaungmya and studied at the State School of Fine Arts in Rangoon.
He is a devout Buddhist and grew up in a small village, two factors which have a strong influence on his art.
His paintings of religious life in Burma show monks and nuns in a realistic manner, though non-essential objects are omitted from the paintings in order to draw attention to the individuals.

Pascale Pratte, 1974 | Abstract / Mixed Media painter

Canadian painter** Pascale Pratte began her artistic career at a very young age, initially selling her handmade greeting cards in Old Montreal at age of 10.

Four years later, her cards had grown so popular that they could be found throughout Quebec, in France, as well as in Belgium. At the age of 27, Pascale Pratte received her second wave of success, this time as a painter.

Thierry Garnier-Lafond, 1960 | Surrealist / Symbolist painter

Thierry Garnier-Lafond is an Algerian painter.
From 1978-1981: diploma of the College of Decorative arts of Poitiers;
From 1982-1984: graphic designer freelance in region Poitou-Charentes;
From 1984-2009: Painter, graphic designer in the press and the printing office and on Web.

Manage at once his two activities of graphic designer and painter for 25 years. Some of his paintings are present in numerous collections deprived in France, Italy, Slovenia and USA.

Paul Jaarsma, 1957

My name is Paul Jaarsma, born in Melbourne, Australia on the 1957. I had many occupations, before I dare to live as a professional artist. My career started as a merchant navy officer at Shell Tankers. After seven years on the high seas. I switched to a quit different profession: Owner and sport instructor of a fitness centre.

Marie-Guillemine Benoist | Neoclassical painter

Marie Guillemine Benoist (1768-1826) was born in Paris.

Her training as an artist began in 1781 under Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and she entered Jacques-Louis David's atelier in 1786 along with her sister Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux.

The poet Charles-Albert Demoustier, who met her in 1784, was inspired by her in creating the character Émile in his work Lettres à Émilie sur la mythologie (1801).

Hernán Valdovinos, 1948 | Magical Realism painter

Hernán Valdovinos was born in Santiago, Chile.

At an early age, he studied art with his mother, Maruja Prats, who is herself an original and respected artist and graduated from the University of Chile's Fine Arts Institute.

At the age of nine, Valdovinos went on to study painting and sculpture with Kurt Herdan and Tótila Albert and showed his individual work for the first time through their gallery.

Valerie Maugeri, 1967 | Abstract / Mixed media painter

Valerie Maugeri was born in Paris. A self taught artist she creates her colorful creations in his studio in Essonne. Valerie Maugeri worked in the art that combines painting and collage, with plenty of things that can be considered for a long time.
In her work at first bright colors catch the eye, and then hidden in the picture details, which are sometimes not drawn with a brush, and set up manually. Perhaps the bright colors in his paintings of Valerie brought their long journeys, where “Ochre and Purple” is the spirit of Asia and the East.

Erwin Guillermo, 1951 | Expressionist painter

Guillermo was born in Guatemala City in 1951. He is actually one of the best representatives of Guatemalan Art. His style: expressionist, figurative, and symbolic glows in themes such as, traditions, politics, festivities, popular icons, social contradictions; like anguish, despair, and love. Colorful works where fruits, animals, the exuberance of the Guatemalan Tropics, and a particularly stylized sensuality of the human figure, mesh to transmit emotions and establish a dialogue between spectator and the artist. He lives and works in Guatemala City and studied art at The National School of Arts. He has shown internationally in places such as Germany, London, Taiwan, New York, San Antonio; Texas, Mexico, and Central America. He has also received numerous prizes, awards and distinctions for his work.