Olga and Aleksey Ivanov | Egg tempera painters

The Ivanovs emigrated from Russia to the United States in 2002. There were a number of reasons for their move.

“We were working with a New York art agency by that time, and due to bureaucracy it was nearly impossible to deliver our art to clients on time”, says Aleksey.

“Also, the tremendous interest in our art in the U.S. gave us a clear message that this is the country where we want to create”.

Cliff Warner, 1961 | Figurative mixed media painter

Cliff Warner is a figurative mixed media artist working with traditional and digital mediums.

Warner studied an art and design foundation at North Staffordshire Polytechnic before heading to Liverpool Polytechnic in 1981 to complete a degree in fine art.

Warner's work primarily explores the themes of solitude and reflection.

Fashion and street photography have also influenced these themes and Warner's personal aesthetic over his career.

John Leslie Breck (1859-1899)

John Leslie Breck was an American artist🎨 who died at the age of 39. During his short life he painted a number of notable works, and is credited with introducing Impressionism to the United States with a show in Boston in 1890.

He died in 1899, reported as death by gas poisoning, and is interred in Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston. His works remain in a number of American museums and private collections.

Theodore Wendel (1859-1932)

Born to German parents in Midway, Ohio, Theodore Wendel studied art at the McMicken School of Design before traveling to Munich, where he enrolled at the Royal Academy in 1876.

There he joined a circle of artists around Frank Duveneck, painting and traveling through Italy during the summers and spending winters at Duveneck’s school of art in Munich until his return to the United States in 1882.

Milo Manara, 1945 | Women Vs. the Covid-19

Durante il lockdown imposto dall'emergenza sanitaria Covid-19, il celebre autore Italiano di fumetti Milo Manara, con una serie di illustrazioni, ha voluto rendere omaggio alle donne in prima linea nella lotta al Coronavirus: Personale sanitario, i rider, i corrieri, le forze dell’ordine, le commesse dei supermercati ecc.

In queste settimane, se l'Italia ha continuato a funzionare, è anche grazie a loro!

William Glackens | Ashcan School painter | Page 2

William Glackens ~ Ashcan School painter | Page 1 || William Glackens ~ Ashcan School painter | Page 3

William J. Glackens, in full William James Glackens (1870-1938), American artist🎨 whose paintings of street scenes and middle-class urban life rejected the dictates of 19th-century academic art and introduced a matter-of-fact realism into the art of the United States.

Louis Ritman (1889-1963)

Louis Ritman was an American impressionist painter.

He is best known for his female figures, painted in a fashion similar to that of his friends Frederick Carl Frieseke, Lawton S. Parker and Richard E. Miller, all American artists who studied and lived in France.

Ritman was born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Russia (now Ukraine), and moved with his family to Chicago around 1900.

Philip Leslie Hale (1865-1931)

Philip Leslie Hale was an American🎨 Impressionist artist, writer and teacher.

Hale was born in Boston, the son of prominent minister Edward Everett Hale, the brother of artist Ellen Day Hale, and was related to Nathan Hale and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston under Edmund Tarbell🎨, and with Kenyon Cox and J. Alden Weir at the Art Students League of New York.

William Glackens (1870-1938)

William Glackens ~ Ashcan School painter (Part. 1) || William Glackens ~ Ashcan School painter (Part. 2)

William Glackens was painter, illustrator and member of The Eight.

At the beginning of his career, Glackens painted scenes of middle-class life and used a rich, dark palette; in later years, he favored still lifes and studio scenes, his colors reflecting the influence of Pierre Auguste Renoir🎨.

William Glackens | Ashcan School painter

William Glackens ~ Ashcan School painter (Part. 2)🎨 || William Glackens ~ Ashcan School painter (Part. 3)🎨

William James Glackens (1870-1938) was an Illustrator and an American🎨 Impressionist painter, one of the founders of the Ashcan School of American art, who is considered to be one of the most influential artists in the history of American Art.

Glackens reacted against the academic restrictions of his period, combining a vivid impressionism with a firm sense of structure in his work.

William Glackens was born in Philadelphia on March 13, 1870. After he completed high school (where John Sloan and Albert C. Barnes were his classmates), he became an artist-reporter for Philadelphia newspapers. He attended night classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, studying with Thomas Anshutz. Glackens shared a studio with Robert Henri; in 1895 they worked their way to Europe on a cattle boat.

Leon Roulette, 1959

Leon Roulette was born in Southern California.

Early in his youth, he found himself especially interested nature and read all he could about naturalist like John Muir who captured young Leon’s imagination.

He received private art instruction at an early age, and eventually graduated California State University of Long Beach with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts.

Vermeer | A Young Woman standing at a Virginal, 1670-1672

The richly dressed lady playing a virginal stands in a prosperous Dutch home with paintings on the wall, a marble-tiled floor, and a skirting of locally produced Delft blue and white tiles. The two paintings on the wall behind her cannot be identified with certainty.

The small landscape on the left and the painting decorating the lid of the virginal resemble works by Vermeer🎨’s Delft colleague Pieter Groenewegen.

The second painting, attributed to Cesar van Everdingen, shows the motif of Cupid holding a card. This figure derives from a contemporary emblem. It may either refer to the idea of faithfulness to one lover or, in conjunction with the virginal, to the traditional association of music and love.

Ernest Ange Duez | Genre painter

Ernest Ange Duez - also known as Ernest-Ange Duez and Ernest Duez, (8 March 1843 - 5 April 1896) was a French painter of genre scenes, portraits, landscapes and religious subjects.

Although he was an admirer of Édouard Manet and owned paintings by Manet, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Berthe Morisot, his palette was more subdued than that of most of the Impressionists, and his technique more controlled.

His style, between that of the conservative Paris Salon and Impressionism, has been called juste milieu, and he has been compared to Alfred Stevens, Giuseppe De Nittis and James Tissot.

Edward Cucuel | Impressionist painter

Born in San Francisco, Edward Alfred Cucuel (1875-1954) was an Impressionist painter of genre and figures in landscapes, often using his family members for models rather than professionals.

A specialty was using a vibrant palette and rich impasto to depict women in sun-dappled landscape settings.

At the age of fourteen, he enrolled at the School of Design in San Francisco, and three years later, in 1892, he went to Paris and studied at the Academie Julian.

In 1893, he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts as a student of Jean-Leon Gerome.

Canaletto | St Mark's Square, Venice - The drawing room of Europe

St Mark's Square, is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as la Piazza ("the Square").

All other urban spaces in the city (except the Piazzetta and the Piazzale Roma) are called campi ("fields").

The Piazzetta ("little Piazza/Square") is an extension of the Piazza towards San Marco basin in its south east corner.

Edgar Degas (1834-1917) | Drawing

Edgar Degas🎨, born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French artist🎨 famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers.

He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism🎨, although he rejected the term, preferring to be called a realist.

Vladimir Gusev, 1957 | Figurative painter

Russian painter Владимир Гусев was born in the Moscow region. The first teacher of drawing and painting in Vladimir was his father, an artist Sergey Gusev.

But becoming a creative young artist connected with his studies at Moscow State Art Institute VI Surikova, from which he graduated in 1981.

Department of Painting. Gusev teachers at the institute were honored artist of the RSFSR Professor Tsyplakov VG and Associate Professor Zabelin VN In 1983. Gusev, VS was admitted to the Union of Artists.

Stojan Milanov, 1963 | Impressionist painter

Serbian painter Stojan Milanov has been a professional painter since 1985 and member of The Applied Artists and Designers Association of Serbia - ULUPUDS since 2005.

In 2005, he was awarded "Artist of the Year" by Simic Galleries, California.

His themes are human figure and urban landscape, technique oil on canvas.

Graduated from the University of Architecture in Belgrade.

He has participated in many collective exhibitions and art meetings.

Wendy Ng | Abstract / Realist painter

"Painting in the traditional form gives me the opportunity to experiment with the qualities of the paint, the juxtaposition of patterns and textures, to achieve a play of balance and to create rich and inviting paintings" - Wendy Ng.

Chinese born artist Wendy Ng got her education in the United States, Belgium and the United Kingdom and currently based in Australia. Her heart has always desired to study art. She was trained in Art and Design at The Wimbledon School of Art, UK, with a Graphic Design and Illustration background in advertising and publishing.

She paints in the traditional form but takes her ideas further by experimenting with patterns and textures creating a balance between Real-life Art and Abstract Art.

Michael Carson, 1972

Influenced by the paintings of Toulouse Lautrec🎨, John Singer Sargent🎨, Norman Rockwell🎨, Malcolm Liepke🎨, and Milt Kobayashi, Michael Carson is primarily a figurative Artist who likes to tell a story.

His figures usually find themselves in bars, nightclubs, cafes, and jazz clubs; even at home in intimate settings.