Bruce Wolfe, 1941 | Figurative sculptor / painter

Bruce Wolfe is a master of the arts who specializes in life-sized bronze sculpture, bronze busts, figurative art, painting, illustration and drawing.

Bruce Wolfe’s career in sculpture spans forty years of receiving commissions to do busts and figurative portraits of many notable personalities.

He studied art at San Jose State University and the Art Institute of San Francisco.

He also studied with Bettina Steinke and Bruno Lucchesi*.

Claude Monet | The Gardens

A passionate horticulturalist, Claude Monet's garden became a work of art as well as a subject for his paintings.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other Gardens painting by Monet see:

• Monet: My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece! ➻
• Monet: My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece | Part.1 ➻
• Monet: My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece | Part.2 ➻
• Monet: My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece | Part.3 ➻

Giverny Monet's Garden

You Ask me Why I Buy Rice and Flowers?
I buy rice to live and I buy flowers to have something to live for.
Confucius

Mi chiedi perché compro riso e fiori?

Compro il riso per vivere e i fiori per avere una ragione per cui vivere. 

Confucio

Umberto Boccioni | Futurist painter

Boccioni nasce (1882-1916) a Reggio Calabria e muore molto giovane a Verona, nel 1916. Formatosi come artista con il Puntinismo, sviluppa ulteriormente le sue capacità indirizzandole sul rapporto tra l'arte visiva e la psicologia.

È un artista molto colto ed informato sui movimenti delle prime avanguardie ed è tra i fondatori del Futurismo. Oltre che pittore è anche scultore ed è alla continua ricerca di delicate variazioni formali sostenute da una sostanziosa riflessione estetica. I suoi colori sono gioiosi ed i suoi volumi armoniosi e provocano emozioni.

La sua famiglia, di origine romagnola, si sposta prima a Padova (1888), poi a Catania (1897), dove Umberto si diploma ad un Istituto Tecnico. È qui che, ancora molto giovane, offre la sua collaborazione intellettuale a qualche giornale locale.

François Bard, 1959 | Figurative painter

François Bard is a French painter🎨 born in Lille (France).

He lives and works in Paris.

He has studied painting at the Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) in Paris, and graduated in 1980.

He has been selected to be a resident at the Casa de Velazquez (Spain) from 1988-1990.

He won the first Belmondo Prize in 1990.

From 1990-2000 he has been an oil painting professor at the Beaux-Arts Ateliers of the city of Paris.

Since September 2011, François Bard has been represented by a new gallery, the Olivier Waltman Gallery in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris (France).

Stephen Shortridge, 1951 | Romantic Impressionist painter

Stephen Charles Shortridge is a romantic impressionist who is experiencing much success with his vibrant brush strokes and his hand-enhanced giclees.

Shortridge, the artist, may be more familiar to you as an actor.

Theatrically he has starred as a series regular in "Welcome Back Kotter" as the southern sweathog 'Beau' and co-starred with Debbie Reynolds on the ABC show, "Aloha Paradise".

Katarina Alivojvodic, 1973

Katarina Ali was born in Zemun, Yugoslavia.

In 1993 she graduated in Industrial Design from the School of Design in Belgrade and in 1999 she graduated in Graphic Planning from the Academy of Beautiful Arts and Design in Belgrade.

Ilya Ibryaev / Илья Ибряев, 1955 | Watercolour painter

Russian* watercolorist Ilya Viktorovich Ibryaev was born in the old city of Nizhni Novgorod. Now the artist lives in Moscow.
Ilya Ibryaev finished Art School, painting department. Then he graduated from MVHPU (former Stroganov) - Department of Ceramics.
Ilya Ibryaev is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia. Ilya Ibryaev is a participant of Russian and international exhibitions.

Monet: My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece! | Part.3

We continue to familiarize with a Famous gardens of impressionist painter* Claude Monet in Giverny, house, water garden and flower garden.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other Gardens painting by Monet see:

• Monet: My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece! ➻
• Monet: My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece | Part.1 ➻
• Monet: My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece | Part.2 ➻

Pierre Deval | Figurative painter

Pierre Jean Charles Deval (1897-1993) was a French painter of the 20th century. He began to study art seriously in Paris as student of painter Émile-René Ménard and Lucien Simon. Deval had his first show of drawings, portraits of young women, at the Lyon salon of 1918.

In 1921, he became a friend of the french surrealist poet Jacques Rigaut, who introduced him into the circle of the Dadaism, and of Tristan Tzara, and writers André Breton and Louis Aragon.

Jean Bailly, 1940

Jean is born in Alger. After an infancy in Orléans, he lives in Paris till 1966.

Since that time, he came back to his childhood area. Set up as a kinesitherapist, he devotes his free time to the painting.

Then he decides to fully dedicate himself to his art and works as a free lance artist.

He participates on a regular basis to the Parish “Salons” and is very often awarded.

He takes part in collective shows in France and abroad (Germany, Canada, China, Japan, Mongolia, Norway, The Netherlands) as well as solo exhibitions.

Bailly’s paintings are in private collections as well as official ones: Wichita museum(Kansas, USA), Orléans Fine Arts museum, Meudon town hall, Albigny sur Saône town hall, Loiret Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Loiret General Council.

Lee Kang-Bin, 1991 | Coffee art

South Korean barista Lee Kang-bin is taking coffee art to the next level, creating miniature imitations of famous paintings on foamy cups of java at his central Seoul cafe.

With meticulous strokes of tiny brushes and spoons, Lee, 26, recreates the likes of Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" and Edvard Munch's "The Scream" using thick cream stained with food coloring atop a cup of coffee.

The result of the painstaking 15-minute process is a 10,000 won ($8.71) cup of cold coffee that has won Lee thousands of fans at his cafe and online.

Andrey Remnev | Андрей Ремнев, 1962 | Magic Realism painter

Russian* artist Андрей Ремнев* creates unique artworks that combine traditional style paintings with contemporary themes.

Remnev* was born in Yakhroma, a town not far from Moscow.

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

• Andrey Remnev / Андрей Ремнев, 1962 | Magic Realism painter ➻

Monet: My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece | Part.2

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Claude Monet* noticed the village of Giverny while looking out of a train window. He made up his mind to move there and rented a house and the area surrounding it.
In 1890 he had enough money to buy the house and land outright and set out to create the magnificent gardens he wanted to paint.

Monet: My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece | Part.1

When Claude Monet* and his family settled in Giverny* in 1883 the piece of land sloping gently down from the house to the road was planted with an orchard and enclosed by high stone walls.

A central alley bordered with pines separated it into two parts. Monet had the pines cut down, keeping only the two yews closest to the house to please Alice.

From this Clos Normand of about one hectare, Monet made a garden full of perspectives, symmetries and colours.