Moussin Irjan, 1977

Moussin Irjan is an artist born in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan.

Winner of the Moscow international competition of painting "Russian Art Week". Awarded🎨 1st place in the foreign versions of the jury.

In the category of "Profi" nomination "Realistic painting" competitive work: "Girl Clown", oil on canvas, 40x40 cm. Professional activities since 2007.

Education:

From 1992-1995 studied at the Art College of the Alma-Ata.

From 1995-1999 studied at the Academy of Arts of Repin in St. Petersburg.

From 2001-2004 studied at the Art School "RHoK" in Brussels.

From 2006-2007 studied at the Academy of Arts in Antwerp.

Cayetano de Arquer Buigas (1932-2012)

Cayetano de Arquer Buigas🎨 (January 11th, 1932-September 13, 2012) was and stands as perhaps one of the most emblematic inheritors of 19th-century Catalan and French Impressionist style🎨 (seen in artists such as Ramón Casas and Eduard Degás🎨). With his elegant, restrained color palette and compelling balance between composition and subject choices, Buigas’s output has afforded him the status of a beloved, enduring master.

Luigi Bechi (1830-1919) | Genre painter

Luigi Bechi was an Italian painter🎨, born in Florence. As a young Italian patriot, he joined in the war for independence.

In the campaign of 1859 against Austria, he joined as a simple soldier in the artillery in the fifth army corps and in 1866, he fought with Garibaldi in the Trentino, and was wounded and made prisoner in the Battle of Bezzecca.

He trained under Giuseppe Bezzuoli and Enrico Pollastrini in Florence.

Stojan Milanov, 1963 | Abstract painter

Stojan Milanov was born in Belgrade.

He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade and has been painting since 1985.

He is a member of the Association of Fine and Applied arts of Serbia.

Since 1985, he has been professionally engaged in painting, a member of The Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia (ULUPUDS) and The Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS), freelance artist.

Thomas Danthony, 1988 | Surreal Spaces

Born in Montpellier, in the South of France, Thomas Danthony is a designer and illustrator based in London.

Danthony graduated from a Master in Product Design. He dedicates himself to illustration after moving to London. Since then, Thomas Danthony as freelance for the Press and for advertising on difference projects, for european but also american clients such as Google, Arte, Netflix or Liberty.

German Aracil, 1965 | Figurative painter

Spanish artist🎨, German Aracil was born in Alicante. In 1985 he began his studies at the San Carlos School of Fine Art in Valencia, Spain.

Aracil's first one-man show was held in his home town of Alicante, followed in 1990 by exhibitions in New York, Miami, USA. Subsequently, German Aracil has exhibited his work with great success in Spain, Portugal, Japan, Germany, France, South America and the USA.

Martin Llamedo, 1980 | Figurative painter

Martin Llamedo was born in Argentina, where he currently lives and paints. At a young age he studied ceramic and sculpture with Hector Alves.

During his time at the university he was taught by Domingo Florio, Carlos Carmona, Alfredo Portillos, Julio Flores, Salvador Constanzo, and art theory by Castillo, Magaz, Dragosky and Laurenzi.

Plein Air painting style

Renoir🎨 - Monet🎨 painting in his garden at Argenteuil, 1873

En Plein Air painting, in its strictest sense, the practice of painting landscape pictures out-of-doors; more loosely, the achievement of an intense impression of the open air (French: plein air) in a landscape painting.

Until the time of the painters of the Barbizon school in mid-19th-century France, it was normal practice to execute rough sketches of landscape subjects in the open air and produce finished paintings in the studio. Part of this was a matter of convenience.

Before the invention of the collapsible tin paint tube, widely marketed by the colour merchants Winsor Newton in 1841, painters purchased their colours in the form of ground pigment and mixed them fresh with an appropriate medium such as oil.

Giovanni Lomi (1889-1969) | Post-Macchiaioli painter

Italian painter🎨 and a great operatic singer Giovanni Lomi (1889-1969) was born in Livorno, where he lived since his childhood in economic straits.

Orphaned at a young age, after a period spent at the Institute G. Lomi Paesaggio rustico Giovanni Pascoli, was entrusted to a peasant family, where he held various jobs, but he could not surrender to his passion for design, that became his purpose in life.

Flemish Art History and Sitemap

Peter Paul Rubens | Old Woman and Boy with Candles, 1616-1617

Flemish painting flourished from the early 15th century until the 17th century, gradually becoming distinct from the painting of the rest of the Low Countries, especially the modern Netherlands.

In the early period, up to about 1520, the painting of the whole area is (especially in the Anglophone world) typically considered as a whole, as Early Netherlandish painting.

This was dominated by the Flemish south, but painters from the north were also important.

Slava Groshev, 1967

Russian painter🎨 Слава Грошев is quite simply an outstanding artist producing masterworks that should grace any serious collection of art. A Moscow native Слава Грошев trained both there and in Montreal, Canada.

Ever since he has been producing work on a range of subjects, including not only religious themes, but more traditional landscapes and realist figure work that often comes with a twist.

Auguste Toulmouche (1829-1890)

Auguste Toulmouche was a French painter🎨 known for his luxurious portraits of Parisian women.

Auguste Toulmouche was born in Nantes to Émile Toulmouche, a well-to-do broker, and Rose Sophie Mercier.

He studied drawing and sculpture locally with the sculptor Amédée Ménard and painting with the portraitist Biron before moving to Paris in 1846 to study with the painter Charles Gleyre.

He was said to be one of Gleyre's favored students, and he exhibited his first paintings at the Paris Salon in 1848 when he was just 19.

Hans Thoma | The Twelve Months

Hans Thoma | January

Born in the Black Forest to a family of manual laborers, German painter, Hans Thoma (1839-1924) studied lithography in Basel in 1853, and after 1855 worked in Furtwangen with a miniaturist, painting watches and jewelry cases.

He entered the Karlsruhe Kunstschule in 1858 where his teachers included Ludwig Des Coudres, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, and Hans Canon. His major interest during this period was landscape.

Gustav Pope (1831-1910) | Victorian era painter

Gustav Pope was a British painter🎨 of Austrian origin. Active in the Victorian era, he incorporated several styles on his work, but in his mature style he showed influences of the second wave of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Jeanne Saint Chéron, 1973 | Ballet dancers

French painter🎨 Jeanne Saint Chéron is self-taught. His inspirations are mainly drawn from the horse world, fascinated by both the explosive power and the refined elegance of the animal.

Rich in symbols, touching fantasy and allegory his work can be summarized in the equestrian art where animal. This is the art of transporting us beyond appearances.

Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Via Crucis

Roberto Ferri is an Italian artist🎨 and painter from Taranto, Italy, who is deeply inspired by Baroque painters🎨 -Caravaggio in particular- and other old masters of Romanticism, the Academy and Symbolism.

In 1996, he graduated from the Liceo Artistico Lisippo Taranto, a local art school in his hometown.

Pierre Grisot (1911-1995) | Ballet dancers

Pierre Grisot was born in Paris. He was a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and exhibited frequently in Paris, in particular at the Salon des Independants and with the group of The Paris School, showing together with the contemporary artists Vlaminck🎨, Raoul Dufy🎨 and Villon.

Léon Zeytline (1885-1962) | Paris painting

Léon Zeytline / Леон Цейтлин was a Russian painter🎨 whom moved from Moscow to the capital of France at the beginning of the 20th century.

He started depicting daily life of Paris during the 1920's, illustrating the numerous and famous squares and boulevards, such as the "Boulevard de l'Opéra" and "Les Champs Elysées" for example.

Swiss Art History and Sitemap

Alberto Giacometti | Surrealist/Existentialist/Figure sculptor

Switzerland lies at the crossroads of several major European cultures. Three of the continent's major languages, German, French and Italian, are national languages of Switzerland, along with Romansh, spoken by a small minority.

Therefore, Swiss culture is characterized by diversity, which is reflected in a wide range of traditional customs. The 26 cantons also account for the large cultural diversity.

Edgar Degas | Art Quotes

• "Art is not what you see, but what you make others see".
• "L'arte non è ciò che vedi, ma ciò che fai vedere agli altri".
• "Bisogna rifare dieci volte, cento volte lo stesso soggetto. Niente, in arte, deve sembrare dovuto al caso".
• "Do it again, ten times, a hundred times. Nothing in art must seem to be an accident, not even movement".