Laila Bell | Figurative sculptor

Laila Bell is a Danish born artist working and teaching in Byron Bay Australia.

Laila was born north of Copenhagen, Denmark.

From an early age she knew the path in her life would be too express herself in some form of art.

This desire brought her to study full time for 5 years at Copenhagen Art School, examining many different mediums and learning the classical way of drawing and studying the figure.

Hodges Soileau, 1943 | Plein Air painter

American painter Hodges Soileau is a native of Southwest Louisiana with a career that has taken him to live in many parts of the country.

His Cajun accent is all but gone, but his cultural ties remain strong. His most successful 25 year illustration career has presented him with opportunities to work with major publishing houses in New York City gracing the covers of more than 300 books.

Hodges was a 23 year member of the prestigious Society of Illustrators in New York City. During this time, he received many citations of merit for work exhibited in annual shows.

He was selected to execute the painting for the Illustrators 29th Annual Call for Entries, and chaired 35 annual exhibitions.

Louise Breslau | Impressionist painter

Louise Catherine Breslau (1856-1927) was a German-born Swiss painter, printmaker and pastel artist active in France.

She trained at the Académie Julian in Paris and exhibited at the salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the late nineteenth-century.

In 1874, after having taken drawing lessons from a local Swiss artist, Eduard Pfyffer (1836-1899), Breslau knew that she would have to leave Switzerland if she wanted to realize her dream of seriously studying art.

Joan Miró | Surrealist painter

Joan Miró i Ferrà (1893-1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona.

Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride.

In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and famously declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.

Henry Lerolle (1848-1929)

Henry Lerolle was a French painter🎨, art collector and patron, born in Paris. He studied at Académie Suisse and in the studio of Louis Lamothe.

His work was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1868, 1885 and 1895.

In 1889 Lerolle painted the murals "The Crowning of Science" and "The Teaching of Science" in the Hôtel de Ville, Paris.

Fred Calleri, 1964 | Romantic Figurative painter

Fred Calleri’s experience at The Maryland Institute College of Art 1988-1993 was a watershed event artistically.

The excellent training he received opened the window to all fields of art.

Ironically, Fred took one painting class in college and only became seriously interested in professionally painting after the birth of his son in 1997.

After an extensive period in Graphic Design and Marketing, Calleri decided to move to Flagstaff and take advantage of the history, scenery, people and especially the astounding light offered in the western regions of the U.S.A recent move has brought Calleri to Santa Barbara, CA.

Daniel Ridgway Knight (1839-1924)

Daniel Ridgway Knight was an American artist🎨 born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He painted peasant women out of doors with great popular success.

Born: March 15, 1839, Pennsylvania, United States.

Died: March 9, 1924, Paris, France.

On view: Huntington Museum of Art, Berkshire Museum, High Museum of Art.

Periods: American Realism, Realism.

Art forms: Painting.

Children: Louis Aston Knight🎨.

Louis Aston Knight (1873-1948)

Louis Aston Knight was a French-born American🎨 artist noted for his paintings of landscapes. One of his paintings, The Afterglow, was purchased by U.S. President Warren G. Harding in 1922 to hang in the White House.

Aston Knight, the son of Daniel Ridgway Knight🎨 and Rebecca Morris Webster Knight, was born in Paris in 1873.

He was raised in Europe and received his early training with his father. He later continued his studies with Tony Robert-Fleury and Jules Lefebvre🎨.

Fyodor Antonovich Moller | Academic painter

Фёдор Антонович Моллер (1812-1874) was at one time a very famous painter.

Born to a German Otto Friedrich, Russian artist Fyodor Antonovich Moller did not get lost in a generous talent for national culture of the mid XIX century.

Son of a sailor high rank (and later Secretary of the Navy) by F. Moller and he was preparing for a naval career.

The pupil of the Sea Cadet Corps already in 1826 was made an officer.

But the awakened interest in painting and undoubted talent of the young naval officer "forced" him to attend the Academy of Fine Arts, where he soon becomes one of the favorite students Bryullov.

Henry H. La Thangue RA (1859-1929)

Henry Herbert La Thangue RA🎨 was an English🎨 realist rural landscape painter associated with the Newlyn School.

Early life

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La Thangue was born in Croydon, Surrey, a suburb of London, and was schooled at Dulwich College where he met fellow painters Stanhope Forbes🎨 and Frederick Goodall. He studied painting first at the Lambeth School of Art and then, from 1874-79, at the Royal Academy, London, winning a gold medal for his work in 1879.

Renoir at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Famed for his sensual figures and charming scenes of pretty women, Pierre Auguste Renoir was a far more complex and thoughtful painter than generally assumed.

He was a founding member of the Impressionist movement, nevertheless he ceased to exhibit with the group after 1877.

From the 1880s until well into the twentieth century, he developed a monumental, classically inspired style that influenced such avant-garde giants as Pablo Picasso.

Pat Erickson | Figurative / Wildlife painter | Page 1

American fine artist Pat Erickson🎨 from Everett, WA, grew up in Northern California. Since childhood her interests were equally divided between wildlife biology and art.

She entered college as a zoology major, but after a couple years the pull of her creative side led her to a Bachelors in Fine Art. She left California for Colorado in 1989 and started concentrating on both wildlife and western subjects for her pieces.

She has since re-located to the Desert Southwest. She is well known for her highly detailed portrayal of both horses and other wildlife in watercolor and prismacolor pencil.

Nick Alm, 1985 | Figurative painter

Swedish painter Nick Alm started out as an illustrator in 1999, but changed course when he discovered the joy of painting. In 2007 he got accepted to the Florence Academy of Art🎨 to study the figure from life in the classical manner. Here he also became a teaching assistant.

After graduation Nick received a scholarship to join The Hudson River Fellowship to paint landscapes. During the stay he also explored the great art museums in New York City. A big part of 2011 was spent together with Odd Nerdrum🎨 in Norway and France before moving back to Sweden.

Giovanni Segantini | Divisionist painter

Giovanni Segantini (1858-1899) was an Italian painter known for his large pastoral landscapes of the Alps.

He was one of the most famous artists in Europe in the late 19th century, and his paintings were collected by major museums.

In later life he combined a Divisionist painting style with Symbolist images of nature.

He was active in Switzerland for most of his life.

Alesya von Meer, 1983

German painter Alesya von Meer was born in the city of Almaty. She graduated in 2005 in Odessa - architecture and business administration at the State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture.

The creations of the artist are constructed with colored pencil and gouache, and are often decorated with gold colors. In a fascinating miniature art she creates small areas and then combines them into one whole.

Luxuriant vines and flowers appear on the images, which often represent mystical beings in intoxicating sensuality and capture the attention of the audience quickly.

David Graeme Baker, 1968 | Figurative painter

David Graeme Baker was born in South Africa, the son of a surgeon and a very creative mother. Her talents as a crafter inspired in David the attitude that if one wants something, one can easily make it oneself.

In other words, he was raised in a house that valued attention to small details and excellent work. While it’s now easy to see this in his paintings, there were no distinct signs when David was young that he would grow up and be an artist.

As a child he doodled a lot, borrowed figure drawing books from the library, and loved his grade school art class however, his high school had no art program, so it took a while at university to come back around to art making.

Robert Henri: "Art cannot be separated from life"

"Art, when properly understood, is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything well".

"L'arte, se correttamente intesa, è la provincia di ogni essere umano. È semplicemente una questione di fare cose, tutte belle".

Vincent Xeus, 1981 | Figurative painter

Vincent Xeus is a torrential force on the international art scene that permeates and defines our contemporary culture. His relentless pursuit on re-evaluating and re-inventing fresh aesthetic visions is one of the most vital and remarkable characteristics of his creation.

Oscillating between figuration and abstraction, his work embraces, yet challenges the traditions of painting with an exploration of contemporary practices and observations. Xeus reminds the audience to continually adjust perceptions and to formulate new syntheses built upon the past.

Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933) | Impressionist painter

Lilla Cabot Perry, original name Lilla Cabot, American artist🎨 who emulated the innovations of French Impressionism in her own art.

She was also a major promoter of Impressionism in the United States.

Lilla Cabot was a descendant not only of the Boston Brahmin Cabot family but also of the equally distinguished Lowells.

Frits Thaulow | Pittore di Skagen

Frits Thaulow (1847-1906) è stato un pittore Impressionista Norvegese, noto soprattutto per le sue raffigurazioni naturalistiche del paesaggio.

Frits Thaulow fu tra i pittori più anziani del grande gruppo di artisti che affollò le gallerie norvegesi verso la fine dell'800, questo lo rese un pioniere ed una chiave importante per le generazioni successive alla sua.

Nacque a Christiania nel 1847 da una famiglia di farmacisti, agiati ed economicamente spensierati, tanto da permettergli di spostarsi subito ad una scuola prestigiosa a Copenaghen, dove rimase dal 1870-1872, per poi iscriversi successivamente al Baden School of Art di Karlsruhe.