Elen Zelin /Элен Зелин | Abstract Figurative painter

Ukrainian-born painter Elen Zelin /Элен Зелин was born in Odessa, one of the main cultural centers of the coasts of the Black Sea and the former Soviet Union.
From an early age she studied the basic principles of Visual Art at Odessa Art School. In 1978 she graduated from Odessa Pedagogical University, majoring in Fine Art and Graphics.
Since 1989 worked in Greece. Her works are found in many galleries and private collections.
She is an active member of the Fine Arts Chamber of Greece. Since 2011 lives and creates her unique Art in New York.

Khalil Gibran | Sulla libertà / Freedom

Alle porte della città e presso il focolare vi ho veduto, prostrati, adorare la vostra libertà,

Così come gli schiavi si umiliano in lodi davanti al tiranno che li uccide.

Sì, al bosco sacro e all'ombra della rocca ho visto che per il più libero di voi la libertà non era che schiavitù e oppressione.

Bellor 1911-2000 | Belgian Symbolist painter

Andy Warhol | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1982

Andy Warhol saw the famous portrait of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by J. H. Wilhelm Tischbein during a visit to the Städel.

As the quintessence of German culture, it inspired him to create this work and other prints, some of which are likewise in the Städel collection.

In 1962 Warhol - a key figure of American Pop Art - began reproducing press photos of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley with the silkscreen technique.

Andy Warhol | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1982 | Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Pablo Picasso | Il Guernica, 1937

• Artist: Pablo Picasso
• Date: 1937 (May 1st-June 4th, Paris)
• Medium: Oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 349 cm × 776 cm (137.4 in × 305.5 in)
• Location: Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
• Entry date: 1992
• On display in: Room 206.06

Pablo Picasso | Cubist painter / sculptor

The artistic genius of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)🎨 has impacted the development of modern and contemporary art with unparalleled magnitude.

His prolific output includes over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theater sets and costumes that convey myriad intellectual, political, social and amorous messages.

Winslow Homer | Summer Night / Notte d'estate, 1890

Winslow Homer started his career as a graphic reporter during the American Civil War, before going on to paint scenes of army life and the rural world with the Naturalist precision which then prevailed in American painting.

After a stay in Paris, Homer used an Impressionist palette for a while then developed a personal style midway between Realism and Symbolism.

Summer Night perfectly expresses this synthesis and may be considered one of the first masterpieces of American art still in search of its identity.

Michelangelo | The Last Judgment, 1535-1541

The mighty composition, painted by Michelangelo between 1536-1541, is centred around the dominant figure of Christ, captured in the moment preceding that when the verdict of the Last Judgement is uttered (Matthew 25:31-46). His calm imperious gesture seems to both command attention and placate the surrounding agitation. It starts a wide slow rotary movement in which all the figures are involved.

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.