Oscar Pardo, 1967 | Abstract Figurative painter

Spanish self-taught artist and painter Oscar Álvarez Pardo was born, living and working in Zaragoza, Spain.

In my watercolors, after years of dedication and learning to master this so difficult medium, there is an initial stage devoted to a hard work essentially realistic... mainly portraits and seascapes become a constant in my work. In what could be a second stage I begin to introducer the fantasy in my paintings, realistic work alternating with others of fantástco court.

Paul Gauguin | Post-Impressionist painter

Paul Gauguin, in full Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin (born June 7, 1848, Paris, France-died May 8, 1903, Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia) French painter, printmaker and sculptor who sought to achieve a "primitive” expression of spiritual and emotional states in his work.

The artist, whose work has been categorized as Post-Impressionist, Synthetist and Symbolist, is particularly well known for his creative relationship with Vincent van Gogh as well as for his self-imposed exile in Tahiti, French Polynesia.

His artistic experiments influenced many avant-garde developments in the early 20th century.

Paul Gauguin | Barbarian poems, 1896 | Art in Detail

Original Title: Poèmes Barbares

Painter: Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

Date: 1896; French Polynesia

Style: Cloisonnism

Period: 2nd Tahiti period

Genre: Portrait

Media: Oil, canvas

Dimensions: 47 x 63 cm

Location: Fogg Museum (Harvard Art Museums), Cambridge, MA, US

Christian Della Giustina, 1959 | Sculptor and 3D painter

Born in Gonesse-France and of Italian origin (from Venice), Christian Della Giustina grew up in an artistic atmosphere.

He makes masterpieces in bronze.

His coloured patinas catch the light and touch the emotion.

To reinvent and model life, to transform it with his sensitivity and emotions: that is Christian Della Giustina's aspiration.

He uses small formats for his work, a human dimension.

Caravaggio | The Hands

Revolutionary in his way of painting, Caravaggio personifies in every aspect of his eventful life the romantic figure of the damned artist.

Born in Milan, he worked mainly in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and works by Michelangelo Merisi, called Caravaggio see:

• Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter ➺

Other from Caravaggio:

• Caravaggio | The crowning with thorns, 1607 | Art in Detail ➺
• Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter | The Hands | Art in Detail ➺
• Caravaggio | The Fortune teller, 1630 ➺
• Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter | Quotes /Aforismi ➺
• Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter | The Portraits | Art in Detail ➺
• Caravaggio | Art in Detail ➺

Caravaggio | The Portraits

The following portraits are details of the paintings by the Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610).

Nelson Molina, 1958 | Cityscape painter

Nelson Molina is an Brazilian painter, known for working in the Impressionism style. Nelson Molina was born in the city of Sorocaba, state of São Paulo, Brazil.

A very personal technique, the strong tooled who made school, it's his identity.

His artworks are exhibited extensively in public and private exhibition spaces in Brazil and abroad.

Valentin de Boulogne | The Crowning with Thorns, 1620 | Art in Detail

This masterpiece of Baroque naturalism is among the first known works painted by Valentin de Boulogne, Caravaggio’s most accomplished French follower and arguably his greatest acolyte. Painted in Rome in 1615 or shortly thereafter, it shows to what extent and how quickly the Frenchman had absorbed Caravaggio’s radical innovations.

Witali Zuk /Виталий Жук, 1973 | Fantasy Art

Bиталий Жук (Vitus) was born in 1973.

At the moment he lives and works in Minsk.

Witaly graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Ilya Repin in St. Petersburg.

Witalys' picture differs good choice of colors and the wonderful play of light.

Witaly attaches great the value of detail in his works, which create an unforgettable atmosphere of the picture.

Gaetano Bellei | Academic / Genre painter

The Italian master Gaetano Bellei was born in Modena in 1857, died in the same city in March 1922.

A student of Adeodato Malatesta and companion of John Muzzioli.

Twenty-four he won the Retired Potetti that allowed him to travel to Rome for some time learning about yourself.

José Puyet | Modern Impressionist painter

José Puyet Padilla (1922-2004) was an Spanish modern impressionist painter, whose popularity spread throughout Spain and the United States.

Early life

Puyet was born in Malaga, Spain. He was grandson of teacher José Padilla, a spanish artist who began painting in the nineteenth century. As a child, Puyet learned to paint by watching his grandfather, whose company he preferred to that of children his own age.

By age eight, he had started working in pencils and oils. At age 20, Puyet entered the Spanish military, due to World War II, and was sent to the exclave of Melilla. The experience deepened his observations of new personages and atmospheres.

Tina Cassati | Surrealist Fashion

Berlin based artist Tina Cassati, makes COSTUMES (sculpture le mode and giardino di arte), ruffs, hats-, bags- and shoes-, jewelry objects into modern surreale digital-photo-art worlds and illustrations.

She paints, sews, draws, photographs, digital collage (mixed media, collage, illustration). She does not care about genres. Her work is influenced by Renaissance, Baroque, Traditional Clothing (Folk Costumes) fairy tales. To her, fashion is fine art.

Jeffrey Randolph Richter

Jeffrey Randolph Richter: While I have been interested in art for as long as I can remember, I did not have a chance to begin developing my talent until my third year of high school. It was in this class that I gained experience with drawing and painting mediums.

I began attending East Central College in Union, MO, in the fall of 1999. While there I was able to expand my skills through a wide variety of classes, including drawing, painting, printmaking, figure drawing, design, and business of art.

Licio Passon, 1965 | Venice painting

Licio Passon was born in Udine, Italy. To comprehend the artistic life of Licio Passon you can’t neglect his belonging to his homeland of the Friuli region and his truest and most profound values of a rustic life that he has made his own and not revisited as a faded memory. The people who have formed him have been his parents who well knew the hardship of the fields.

Rob Gonsalves | Magic realism painter

Robert "Rob" Gonsalves (1959-2017) was an award winning Canadian painter of magic realism -surrealism.

He produces original works, limited edition prints and illustrations for his own books.