Vladimir Makovsky | Academic / Genre painter

Vladimir Yegorovich Makovsky / Влади́мир Его́рович Мако́вский (1846-1920) was a Russian painter, art collector and teacher.

Makovsky was the son of collector, Yegor Ivanovich Makovsky, who was one of the founders of the Moscow Art School. Vladimir had two brothers, Nikolay Makovsky and Konstantin Makovsky, and one sister, Alexandra Makovsky, all of whom were famous painters.

Vladimir studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Pre-Raphaelite painter

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, original name Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (born May 12, 1828, London, England-died April 9, 1882, Birchington-on-Sea, Kent) British painter and poet who helped found the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of painters treating religious, moral, and medieval subjects in a nonacademic manner. Dante Gabriel was the most celebrated member of the Rossetti family.

Early life and works

After a general education in the junior department of King’s College (1836-41), Rossetti hesitated between poetry and painting as a vocation. When about 14 he went to "Sass’s", an old-fashioned drawing school in Bloomsbury (central London), and thence, in 1845, to the Royal Academy schools, where he became a full student.

Joe Anna Arnett, 1950 | Plein Air painter

Joe Anna Arnett is a master artist on “Passport and Palette” the art instruction and travel series airing on PBS stations across the country. Joe Anna Arnett earned a BFA degree from the University of Texas.

She then worked for Young and Rubicam Advertising in New York as a senior art director working on such accounts as Merrill Lynch and the US Postal Service

She continued her studies in fine art at the Art Students League of New York for several years.

She not only appears on the show, but also produces and writes for the program. In 1997, she became a Master Artist of the Artists in America Show at the Denver Historical Society Museum.

Luis Cohen Fusé (1944-2019) | Figurative painter

Cohen Fusé born in Buenos Aires (Argentina). Studied Ceramics at the School of Fine Arts - Mar del Plata (Argentina). Graduated in Architecture at the Buenos Aires State University.

Studied engraving and lithography at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona.

In 1988 he signed a contract with the Vorpal Gallery of New York. Participates in exhibitions in the USA: New York and San Francisco, and also in Canada..

William Bouguereau | Breton Knitter / La magliaia bretone, 1871

Curiosi di conoscere la lingua, la religione e le tradizioni conservate in modo univoco degli antenati celtici della Bretagna del VI secolo, folle di turisti culturali si sono recati in questa provincia nel nord-ovest della Francia alla fine del diciannovesimo secolo.

William Bouguereau fece il suo primo viaggio con la sua famiglia nell'estate del 1866 e si ritrovò profondamente commosso dal paesaggio costiero della regione e dalle persone distintive, portandolo a tornare ogni estate fino al 1870, spesso in vacanza nella cittadina di Douarnenez.

A luglio, la loro ultima visita è stata interrotta dalla guerra franco-prussiana che ha spinto Bouguereau a tornare a Parigi a luglio per arruolarsi nella Guardia Nazionale, interrompendo la sua carriera artistica.

Camille Pissarro | Petite bonne flamande dite 'La Rosa', 1896

Petite bonne flamande dite 'La Rosa' / Little Flemish Girl Called Rosa - is one of a small group of paintings that Camille Pissarro painted in 1896, which depict a young Flemish girl, Rosa, who was at the time the Pissarro family’s housemaid.

‘I’m doing a few figure paintings based on la Rosa’ (letter from Pissarro to L. Pissarro, in J. Pissarro and C. Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, Catalogue critique des peintures, vol. III, Paris, 2005, p. 694), Pissarro wrote to his son Lucien on 4 December 1895 from Paris.

Parmigianino | Mannerist | Drawings

Parmigianino is an acclaimed painter of the Italian Mannerists, who also worked in printmaking and Alchemy later in life.

Born Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, he retained his artistic name from his birthplace of Parma, Italy. Taken under the care of his uncles, Michele and Pier Ilario, he learned painting from them at a young age. Parmigianino collaborated with them and even completed commissions his uncles did not fulfill later in life.

In just his early twenties, Parmigianino had already executed frescos in the church of San Giovanni Evangelista in Parma.

Tintoretto at the National Gallery of Art

The Samuel Kress Collection encompasses more than 3,000 works of European art, and is distinguished for its abundance of Italian Renaissance paintings.

The Collection was donated to scores of regional and academic art museums throughout the United States between 1929-1961, with the single largest donation reserved for the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. | © Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York

Tintoretto | The Conversion of Saint Paul, 1544 | National Gallery of Art, Washington

Adolf Kaufmann (1848-1916) | Paysage painter

Adolf Kaufmann was an Austrian landscape and marine artist.

He was initially self-taught, but completed his studies with the animal painter, Émile van Marcke, in Paris and undertook several study trips, throughout Europe and the Middle East.

His residence alternated between Paris, Berlin, Düsseldorf and Munich.

In 1890, he decided to settle in Vienna and opened a studio in the Wieden district. In 1900, together with Carl von Merode and Heinrich Lefler, he opened an "Art School for Ladies".

Rudolf Ernst (1854-1932) | Orientalist painter

Rudolf Ernst was an Austro-French painter, printmaker and ceramics painter who is best known for his orientalist motifs. He exhibited in Paris under the name "Rodolphe Ernst".

He was the son of the architect Leopold Ernst and, encouraged by his father, began studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna at the age of fifteen.

He spent some time in Rome, copying the old masters, and continued his lessons in Vienna with August Eisenmenger and Anselm Feuerbach.

Wilfredo Alicdan, 1965 | Genre painter

Wilfredo Alicdan - born in Dasmariñas, Cavite - is a Filipino figurative artist.

His works are distinguished by their quaint and geometric folk representations, populated by rounded stylized figures usually engaged in traditional and rural activities Alicdan graduated elementary school in 1978 from Francisco E. Barzaga Memorial School in Dasmariñas.

He graduated high school from Immaculate Conception Academy in 1982 with a gold medal for "Artist of the Year" award. He studied fine arts in the Philippine Women's University from 1983-1986.

Talantbek Chekirov, 1971 | Figurative painter

Талантбек Чекиров was born in the Kyrgyz Republic.

He studied from the State College of Art from 1986-1990.

In this period, Chekirov acquired detailed knowledge in the fields of plastic anatomy, graphics and composition, which highlights his work as an artisan.

In 1990, Chekirov completed his education in the domain of the creative arts with majors in theatrical painting and constructive art.

Fantasy art by watercolor artist Amy Brown, 1972

Amy Brown, American painter: - "I've been creating watercolor fantasy art for 30+ years.

I started painting Faeries in 1992.

I'd always been interested in them, but had never considered them to be a career option, until one day when I was not quite twenty-one and working in a small art gallery.

My boss asked me to paint something to fill an empty frame that had been sitting around.

I asked her what I should paint and she said "I don't know, paint a Faery or something".

So I did.

Three days later, the piece sold.

Sir Luke Fildes (1843-1927) | Genre painter

Sir Samuel Luke Fildes KCVO RA was a British painter and illustrator born in Liverpool and trained at the South Kensington and Royal Academy Schools. He was the grandson of the political activist Mary Fildes.

Illustrator

At the age of 17, Fildes became a student at the Warrington School of Art. Fildes moved to the South Kensington Art School where he met Hubert von Herkomer and Frank Holl.

All three men became influenced by the work of Frederick Walker, the leader of the social realist movement in Britain.

Karl Witkowski (Polish/American painter, 1860-1910)

Karol (Karl) Dominik Witkowski was a Polish🎨-American🎨 portraitist and genre painter🎨, better known in the USA as Karl Witkowski. He painted scenes of contemporary daily life in America.

Karol Dominik Witkowski was born to a Polish family in Jazłowiec (Jaslowiec), near Buchach, Czortków (Podole, Poland, now Ukraine).

As young boy he showed unusual talent in making drawings and his parents sent him to school in Chortkiv (12 miles from Yazlovets).

Didier Lourenço, 1968 | Abstract painter

Didier Lourenço was born in Premià de Mar, Barcelona. At the age of 19 he began working in the lithography atelier of his father, where he learned the trade of lithography.

In 1988 Didier made a corner of the atelier his place for painting on canvas and paper. He shared his time between painting and printing lithographs for himself and professional artists.

The atelier would prove to be his best classroom, a place where Didier would build his education in the world of painting. That year he presented his first individual show and also edited his first collection of lithographies.

Alfred Sisley | Stile Artistico

Tra i più grandi protagonisti dell'epopea impressionista, Alfred Sisley fu uno degli interpreti più lucidi e risoluti dei principi in base ai quali era nato il movimento: da «vero impressionista», come disse di lui Camille Pissarro, egli rinunciò alle pennellate fluide e lungamente studiate distintive dei dipinti accademici e adottò tocchi virgolati rapidi e staccati, idonei per cogliere l'estrema mobilità della luce e degli effetti cromatici.

Partendo dal presupposto scientifico che la luce era l'elemento indispensabile della visione, infatti, Sisley comprese che ogni paesaggio assume una gamma cromatica più o meno vivida in relazione alla quantità di luce che lo colpisce ed alla presenza o meno di altri colori che, a loro volta, si accostano o si mescolano, smorzandosi reciprocamente o reciprocamente esaltandosi.

Gulyás László, 1960 | Figurative painter

Gulyás László was born in Budapest, Hungary. He graduated at the Academy of Fine and Applied Arts, where he specialised in graphic design. They he continued his studies as a student of the Academy of Fine Arts between 1983-1987.

He has been member of the National Society of Hungarian Artists since 1987.

The artist developed his individual world of images and acquired the painting techniques of the early masters of painting under the influence of the universal art of Rembrandt. This is what makes him distinct form his contemporaries.

Vladimir Borovikovsky | Portrait of Maria Lopukhina, 1797

Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky (1757-1825) - Russian artist🎨 of Ukrainian background who was the foremost portraitist of the sentimentalist era and a master of ecclesiastic painting.

Borovikovsky lived in Ukraine until he was 31 years old, having learned the trade of painting from his father, a Cossack and a minor member of the nobility who worked as an icon painter. Only a few of his father’s icons and portraits are extant. Though deeply sincere, they are slightly rough in execution.

Amy Werntz, 1979 | Portrait painter

Amy Werntz is a contemporary realist artist currently residing in Dallas, Texas. Originally from the midwest, Amy’s appreciation and interest in art developed as a child, in a family full of talented artists.

She has always been drawn to faces and the human figure.

Through the years her inspiration has evolved to now focus on those around her.

She is fascinated by the postures and expressions of people within their everyday lives.

Amy got her BFA in Interior Design and currently splits her time between design and creating art.