Rosanne Pomerleau, 1958 | Figurative painter

Born in Ascot Corner.

Training: Self-taught painter.

Achievements: Solo and group exhibitions in Canada and the United States.

Honours: Prize of Excellence in 1986, silver medal in watercolour and Prize for Excellence in pastel at the Amsterdam Art International Exhibition in California, U.S.A.

The Selected works of art were exhibited in San Francisco in October 1998.

Member of the American Society of Portrait Artists since 1998.

Collections: Her work is part of public and private collections all over the world.

Tarcsay Bela, 1952 | Abstract painter

Béla Tarcsay was born in Nagykanizsa, Hungary. He lives in Szeged since 2000.

He is dealing with fine arts since 1994.

He intends to show in his paintings his love of nature.

He got his knowledge in fine arts in a self-educated manner. Beside oil paintings he makes attempts at graphics and pastel technique.

Willem Haenraets / William Shakespeare | Romantic Rhythm

Il mio occhio s'è fatto pittore ed ha tracciato

L'immagine tua bella sul quadro del mio cuore;

il mio corpo è cornice in cui è racchiusa,

Prospettica, eccellente arte pittorica,

Ché attraverso il pittore devi vederne l'arte

Per trovar dove sia la tua autentica immagine dipinta,

Pablo Picasso | Produzione artistica

Periodo blu

Partendo dal 1901 lo stile pittorico di Picasso incominciò a presentare tratti originali e nuove soluzioni artistiche; in quell'anno, infatti, ha inizio il cosiddetto «periodo blu», che si protrae sino alla primavera del 1904.

Questa fase artistica picassiana, come già accennato, scaturì in seguito alla morte suicida dell'amico Carlos Casagemas, come affermato dallo stesso maestro andaluso:

«Quando mi resi conto che Casagemas era morto, incominciai a dipingere in blu» - Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso | La nascita del cubismo

Dopo un'ulteriore vacanza a Horta de Ebro nell'estate 1909, Picasso una volta ritornato a Parigi decise di allontanarsi dal pur pittoresco squallore di Montmartre e di affittare - insieme con Fernarde e il loro gatto siamese - un appartamento al numero 11 di boulevard de Clichy, nei pressi di place Pigalle.

Qui si dedicò con assoluta e piena dedizione ai propri quadri cubisti, dando vita a opere quali La femme assise (1909) e Ragazza con mandolino (1910) e i ritratti effigianti Georges Braque (1909), Ambroise Vollard (1909-10) e Daniel-Heinrich Kahnweiler (1910).

Con queste tele Picasso, meditando sulla lezione di Cézanne, intendeva studiare il rapporto tra forma e spazio mediante il trattamento schematico dei piani e la scomposizione dei volumi: da queste premesse prese forma una fase che i critici d'arte definiranno «cubismo analitico».

Odilon Redon | Hommage a Goya, 1885 | The series

Homage to Goya (Hommage à Goya) is an portfolio of 6 lithographs on chine appliqué reveal Redon's admiration for the Spanish painter and printmaker, who died in 1828.

Title: Hommage a Goya

Autor: Odilon Redon (1840-1916)

Date: 1885

Style: Symbolism

Genre: Mythological painting

Media: Oil on cardboard, mounted on canvas

Location: Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection, Berlin

Odilon Redon | Apollo's Chariot, 1905-1916 | The Series

In 1878 Redon*, in a study of Delacroix*, praised that artist's ceiling in the Louvre showing the Chariot of Apollo, and in the same year he noted in his journal his admiration for a painting of Phaethon by Gustave Moreau*.

Between 1905 and 1916 Redon* devoted a number of oils, pastels and watercolors to the theme of horses of the sun, driven, according to classical mythology, by the god Apollo or his son Phaëthon.

Tenaya Sims | Figurative painter

Tenaya Sims received a BFA in painting and drawing at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

After working several years as a graphic artist in the video games industry for Activision, he began his classical studies at the Jeff Watts🎨 Atelier in Encinitas, CA.

He then moved to Seattle where he has completed four years of full-time study in the Gage Classical Atelier.

Rosso Fiorentino | Pietà, 1538-1540

This is the only easel painting that can be dated with certainty to Rosso's stay in France in 1530-40.

The cushions beneath Christ's body bear the blue alerions on an orange background of the coat of arms of Constable Anne de Montmorency, from whose château at Ecouen the Pietà was taken to the Louvre in the late 18th century.

The marks visible on the bodies of Christ and St John are due to an initial, reversed composition - vsible under X-ray photography - which Rosso had blacked out.

Rosso Fiorentino | Mannerist painter

Italian painter and decorator, Rosso Fiorentino (1494-1540), original name Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, was an exponent of the expressive style that is often called early, or Florentine Mannerism, and one of the founders of the Fontainebleau school.

Pontormo | Sacra famiglia, 1515 | Art in Detail

Jacopo Carucci🎨 (May 24, 1494 - January 2, 1557), usually known as simply Pontormo🎨, was not only an painter but also an sculptor from the Florentine School.

To him was attributed: The Holy Family, 1515, terracotta, h. 44 cm, exhibit in the Bode-Museum, Berlin, Germany.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and works by Pontormo see:

• Pontormo | Mannerist painter🎨

Vitaly Tikhov | Social realist painter

Тихов Виталий Гаврилович (1876-1939) was an Ukrainian painter, one of the best and most talented students in Vladimir Makovsky's studio.

In the early 1910s his magnificent, large-format "bath-house" paintings were especially successful and much admired, and for these he was twice awarded the graduation Gold Medal of the Academy of Fine Arts, having studied there on two separate occasions.

Michelangelo | Bacchus, 1496-1497

Bacchus (1496-1497) is a marble sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet Michelangelo. The statue is somewhat over life-size and depicts Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, in a reeling pose suggestive of drunkenness. Commissioned by Raffaele Riario, a high-ranking Cardinal and collector of antique sculpture, it was rejected by him and was bought instead by Jacopo Galli, Riario’s banker and a friend to Michelangelo. Along with the Pietà the Bacchus is one of only two surviving sculptures from the artist's first period in Rome.

Michelangelo | David, 1501-1504

David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501-1504 by Michelangelo.

It is a 5.17-metre (17.0 ft)[a] marble statue of a standing male. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence.

Originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral, the statue was placed instead in a public square, outside the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic government in Florence, where it was unveiled on 8 September 1504.

Cesare Augusto Detti | Genre painter

A painter from Spoleto who moved to Paris during the Belle Epoque, Cesare Augusto Detti (1847-1914) was an Italian artist, best known for his historical genre paintings in the nineteenth century.

Some of his works are included in the collections of the Uffizi and Galleria Borghese of Rome.

His father, Davide Detti, was an engineer and an amateur painter. As a result, his early interest in art was encouraged.

In 1861, he made the acquaintance of Francesco Coghetti, a painter from Rome who was creating murals at the Teatro Nuovo (now known as the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti).