Christian Krohg | Naturalist / Genre painter

Christian Krohg (1852-1925) was a Norwegian naturalist painter, illustrator, author and journalist. Krohg was inspired by the realism art movement and often chose motives from everyday life.

He was the director and served as the first professor at the Norwegian Academy of Arts from 1909-1925.

Christian Krohg was born at Vestre Aker (now Oslo), Norway. His father was a civil servant, journalist and author.

From 1861, he attended Hartvig Nissen School.

His father had asked him to pursue a legal career. Krohg studied law at the University of Oslo (then Christiania) graduating cand.jur. in 1873, the same year in which his father died.

Jeff Rowland, 1964 | Il pittore Romantico della pioggia

• "Credo che se hai intenzione di fare qualcosa di creativo dovresti arrivare al cuore di esso, e spesso mi siedo fuori a disegnare sotto la pioggia per vedere in prima persona come rimbalza sui tetti delle auto e sul terreno.

La pioggia che cade crea riflessi straordinari da auto e lampioni, e ho sviluppato una tecnica di punteggiatura della vernice con un vecchio pennello da decoratore che riesce a lasciare segni di vernice non vincolati ad un motivo uniforme. I peli spaccati di questa vecchia spazzola permettono ai tratti di diventare pioggia".

Albert Anker (1831-1910) | Genre painter

Albrecht Samuel Anker was a Swiss painter🎨 and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduringly popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life.

Born in Ins as the son of veterinarian Samuel Anker (then a member of the constituent assembly of the Canton of Bern), Anker attended school in Neuchâtel, where he and Auguste Bachelin, later a fellow artist, took early drawing lessons with Louis Wallinger in 1845-48.

Pramod Kurlekar, 1978 | Figurative painter

Born in Satara, Pramod Kurlekar is an professional artist - internationally acclaimed artist from India. He earned a graduate diploma in Art from Kalavishwa Mahavidhyalaya Sangli in the year 2000 with first class.

He had a distinguished sense of color and creativity in his early years. His studies at an art school helped to mold the true artist in him. He has participated in several art events. He took part in a two year fine arts residential program under the great artist Shri. Vasudeo Kamat.

He has received several scholarships during the course of his study. Pramod Kurlekar paintings mainly portrays female subjects and children.

Vladimir Dunjic, 1957 | Abstract/Figurative painter | Page 2

Born in Čačak, Serbian painter Vladimir Dunjić🎨 graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in the class of Professor Mladen Srbinović in 1981.

He has been a member of Ulus (The Serbian Association of Fine Arts) since 1982.

He took part in several solo and group exhibitions, both in Yugoslavia and abroad.

Vladimir Dunjic lives and works in Belgrade.

Jean Raoux | Rococo painter

Jean Raoux, French painter, was born at Montpellier.

After the usual course of training he became a member of the Academy in 1717 as an historical painter.

His reputation had been previously established by the acclaimed decorations executed during his three years in Italy on the palace of Giustiniani Solini in Venice, and by some easel paintings, the Four Ages of Man (National Gallery), commissioned by the grand prior of Vendôme.

Julius LeBlanc Stewart | Un americano al Salone di Parigi

Julius LeBlanc Stewart (1855, Philadelphia - 5 gennaio 1919, Parigi), è stato un artista Americano che ha trascorso la sua carriera a Parigi.

Contemporaneo del pittore espatriato, John Singer Sargent, Stewart è stato soprannominato "il parigino di Philadelphia".

Suo padre, il milionario dello zucchero William Hood Stewart, trasferì la famiglia da Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a Parigi nel 1865, e divenne un illustre collezionista d'arte e uno dei primi mecenati di Marià Fortuny e degli artisti di Barbizon.

Bessie Davidson | An Australian Impressionist in Paris

Bessie Ellen Davidson (1879-1965) was an Australian painter🎨 known for her impressionist, light-filled landscapes and interiors.

Davidson was born on 22 May 1879 in North Adelaide, South Australia, to a family of Scottish and English origin.

In 1904, after her mother's death, she went to Europe to study art in company with Preston.

They spent the first few months in Munich, where Davidson studied briefly at the Künstlerinner Verein, before moving on to Paris.

There she studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, under René-Xavier Prinet🎨, where she met and began a lifelong friendship with Philippe Besnard's future wife, Germaine Desgranges. She also took classes with Raphael Collin, Richard Miller and Gustave Courtois.

Hendrick ter Brugghen | Baroque painter

Hendrik Terbrugghen (1588-1629), Dutch painter, among the earliest northern followers of the Italian painter Caravaggio.

In the early 1590s Terbrugghen’s family moved to Utrecht, a strong Roman Catholic centre, where he studied with Abraham Bloemaert.

Terbrugghen reportedly spent 10 years in Italy, having arrived in Rome about 1604, and thus could have had direct contact with Caravaggio, who left Rome in 1606.

India | Ancient Art History

Each era is unique in its distinctive culture. In the same way Indian art forms have continuously evolved over thousands of years.

In ancient India, various art forms like paintings, architecture and sculpture evolved.

The history of art in ancient India begins with prehistoric rock paintings.

Such rock paintings can be seen in the Bhimbetaka paintings, belonging to the prehistoric age.

Thereafter, an advanced town planning is seen in Harappa and Mohenjodaro, with their centrally planned cities indicating a highly developed architecture.

Another remarkable example of sculpture from Harappan civilization comes in the form of the dancing girl from Mohenjodaro.

Jackie Morris, 1961 | Children's book Illustrator

Jackie Morris is a British🎨 writer and illustrator. She was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal🎨 in 2016 and won it in 2019 for her illustration of "The Lost Words", voted the most beautiful book of 2016 by UK booksellers.

"I was born in Birmingham and lived there until at the age of four my parents moved away to Evesham. Here I grew up and remember little of those times. I do know that from at least the age of six I wanted to be an artist.

I watched my dad drawing a picture of a lapwing, making a bird appear on a piece of paper using only a pencil, and I thought it was some magic that made this happen. So there and then I decided to learn how to conjure birds from paper and colour.

I went to school in Evesham to Prince Henry's High School and I remember walking to school past shop fronts above which elegant buildings grew. I used to get told off at school for drawing and dreaming. Now I get paid to do both".

Vala Ola, 1962 | Figurative sculptor

Vala Ola was born and raised in Iceland. She has lived in the US since 1994. After 8 years in Santa Fe, NM, she relocated to Arizona.

Vala Ola's artistic talent was apparent at age 4, and from the age of thirteen she attended classes drawing models from life.

Graduating from the College of Hamrahlid, she furthered her studies at the Icelandic College of the Arts, and later graduated from The Arts Institute in Bournemouth, England.

Damian Lechoszest, 1976 | Genre painter

Polish painter🎨 Damian Lechoszest was born in Raciborz. At first his great interest was drawing. From the early childhood he liked to copy various characters of comics and fairy tales.

His childish sketches were so good that many people from his nearest neighborhood were very astonished.

At the first school years he took part in many artistic high-level competitions. His artistic works were often rewarded and got good opinions of critics.

George Tooker | Magic realism painter

George Clair Tooker, Jr., American painter (born Aug. 5, 1920, Brooklyn, N.Y. - died March 27, 2011, Hartland, Vt.), created luminous canvasses of social significance that echoed themes of love, death, grief, alienation, aging, isolation and faith.

Tooker’s egg-tempera paintings depicted eerie and haunting situations with mythic overtones. Some of his most chilling offerings include Children and Spastics (1946), sadists bullying three effeminate men; Subway (1950), harried commuters congregating with strangers; The Waiting Room (1957), seemingly catatonic patrons biding their time; and Landscape with Figures (1965-66), the heads of office workers bobbing above a maze of cubicles.

Edna St. Vincent Millay | Love is not blind / L'amore non è cieco

Vincent van Gogh🎨 | The starry night, 1888

Love is not blind. I see with single eye

Your ugliness and other women's grace.

I know the imperfection of your face, -

The eyes too wide apart, the brow too high

For beauty. Learned from earliest youth am I

In loveliness, and cannot so erase

Its letters from my mind, that I may trace

You faultless, I must love until I die.

David Martiashvili, 1978 | Naif painter

Artist at the third generation, David Martiashvili was born in in Tbilisi, Georgia.

He graduated from the "School of the Arts" for gifted children, then - Tbilisi Art Academy.

The artist works in the style of primitivism, with colorful Georgian overtones.

Aesthetics of the school creatively rethought their conscious and became motivated to find new means of expression.

Nancy Guzik, 1944 | Impressionist painter

American painter🎨 Nancy studied at The American Academy of Art in Chicago and The Lyme Academy of Fine Art in Old Lyme, Connecticut. However, it was her close association and ensuing relationship with Richard Schmid🎨, that brought her painting to its full potential. Nancy and Richard married in April of 1998.

Her art has been recognized with many awards🎨, including the 2007 Award of Excellence by the Women Artist of the West, Grand Prize from International Artist Magazine, three Gold Medals from the Palette and Chisel Academy, and First Prize from the Midwest Pastel Society.

Susan Ryder, 1944

British painter Susan Ryder began painting professionally at an early age. Encouraged by her father, Robert Ryder VC, an enthusiastic amateur painter who imbued his daughter with a similar passion, she entered the prestigious Byam Shaw School of Art.

There, her tutor, Bernard Dunstan, introduced her to the work of the post- Impressionist Edouard Vuillard, whose gentle scenes of intimate interiors, domestic spaces and gardens in soft blurred colours proved a significant influence on her painting style and choice of subject for the rest of her career.

Sue was only 18, and still a student, when she first exhibited at the Royal Academy. Shortly after, she married Martin Bates and spent the next decade juggling the demands of her career with that of her young family, painting both interiors and portraits.

Louis Icart | Art Déco painter

Louis Icart's nickname was Helli derived from his initials L.I. Louis Icart (1890-1950), was a French Art Deco painter and designer. Icart was born in 1890 in Toulouse and died in Paris in 1950. He became most well known as an artist in New York in the 1920's.

Icart made over 500 engravings and illustrated more than 30 books.

Life

Louis Justin Laurent Icart was the first son of Jean and Elisabeth Icart. He started drawing early on. His aunt, who was impressed by his talent during a visit, brought him to Paris in 1907, where he dedicated himself to painting, drawing and the production of numerous etchings.

In the studio, where he initially produced frivolous postcards with copies of existing images, he soon designed his own works. Thereupon he received orders for the design of title pages for the magazine La Critique Théâtrale. Fashion houses hired Icart to create fashion sketches, with which he soon became known.

Jose De la Barra, 1956 | Magic Realism painter

Jose De la Barra, Peruvian painter has created a dream-like world through his expressing the internal and external fantasies of his imagination with his precise talents in painting and drawing.

The expressions and the sensual movements that appear in each piece, create mystic allegories about the universe.

By combining his interest in the human form with his desire for symbolic content, he has engendered a language that explains the human condition through a unique perspective.

There is a method through with he develops his art replying on material and composition to develop his personal, magical universe.