Scultura vegetale ~ L'arte Topiaria

L'Arte Topiaria, ars Topiaria in latino, o Hedge sculptur, nata all'epoca dell'Antica Roma, è una forma della Scultura Vegetale. Consiste nel potare alberi e arbusti al fine di dare loro una forma geometrica, diversa da quella naturalmente assunta dalla pianta, per scopi ornamentali.

Marcos Damascena, 1981 | Realist painter

Marcos Damascena was born in Poções Bahia and rooted in São Paulo, where he began his artistic career studying with what was considered the biggest names in art education in his country.

He studied drawing technique and live figure drawing with professor Luis Alberto, in the Association Paulista of Fine Arts. Afterwards, he studied the theory of color and anatomy of animals, with emphasis on the study of horses with the master, Jorge Abraham Esteves.

His talent developed with surprising speed.

Inmaculada Juárez, 1975 | Portrait painter

Inmaculada Juárez is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist, known for working in the Figurative style.

Juarez was born in Mota del Marqués (Valladolid) Spain and presently residing in Madrid.

Juarez works are so realist with a sense of warmth and are full of emotions.

Gilles Charest, 1947 | Still Life painter

Gilles Charest was born in Montreal, Canada.

He studied education, literature, and administration at the University of Montreal.

He taught for a few years before changing his career in 1975 when, along with two associates, he founded an advertising agency and assumed the role of creative director.

Yasmina Alaoui, 1977 | Body Painter

Artist Yasmina Alaoui and photographer Marco Guerra love to tantalize their audience.

In their life-sized photographic series "one thousand and one dreams", statuesque bodies apear frozen in time, covered from head to toe in meticulously detailed, contemporary Arabic Henna patters.

Captivated by the realism and sculptural quality of each human form, the viewer becomes lost in an illusion.

Duma Arantes 1973 ~ Fashion painter

Duma lives and works in Oeiras, Portugal where she studied advertising in IADE -Visual Arts, Design Marketig Institute and also Painting and Drawing at the National Society of Fine Arts, in Lisbon. 

Edward Hopper (1882-1967)

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Edward Hopper was born in Nyack, New York, a town located on the west side of the Hudson River, to a middle-class family that encouraged his artistic abilities.

After graduating from high school, he studied briefly at the Correspondence School of Illustrating in New York City (1899-1900), and then he enrolled in classes at the New York School of Art (1900-1906).

In his shift from illustration to the fine arts, he studied with William Merritt Chase, a leading American Impressionist painter, and with Robert Henri, who exhorted his students to paint the everyday conditions of their own world in a realistic manner.

Bruno Torfs | Sculpture Garden

Bruno Torfs is an artist, born in South America and moved to Australia after traveling Europe up and down, wanting to bring his dream to life.

The Victorian village of Marysville, 95 km from Melbourne, was the perfect place to develop Bruno’s wish to create a sculpture garden.

He bought a property, including a generous piece of sub-alpine forest, and after five months of hard work, he opened to the public Bruno’s Art Sculpture Garden.

Klein Yves | Abstract / Nouveau réalisme painter

Yves Klein (28 April 1928 - 6 June 1962) was a French artist** considered an important figure in post-war European art.

He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany.

Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art.

Fractalius | Il plugin artistico del digitale

A dare questo effetto artistico molto particolare alle nostre foto è il Fractalius, un plugin in grado di generare facilmente degli artwork - immagini digitali, sfondi e degli esotici giochi di luce sotto forma di frattali in poco tempo, con poche e semplici mosse.

Pantelis Zografos, 1949 | Watercolors of Greek Islands

Παντελής Ζωγράφος was born in Athens, Greece, into a family with along tradition of producing fine artists. In greek language, the name of Zografos - Ζωγράφος - means artist: and following the Greek custom, Pantelis took the name of his paternal grandfather, a renowned iconographer.

Raffaello Sanzio | Drawings

Over forty sketches survive for the Disputa in the Stanze, and there may well have been many more originally; over four hundred sheets survive altogether.

He used different drawings to refine his poses and compositions, apparently to a greater extent than most other painters, to judge by the number of variants that survive: "...This is how Raphael himself, who was so rich in inventiveness, used to work, always coming up with four or six ways to show a narrative, each one different from the rest, and all of them full of grace and well done" wrote another writer after his death.

Olivia Beaumont | The Baroque Beasts paintings

I am a full-time artist and reside in a very small town near Savannah, Georgia, though I call California home. Painted portraiture is a long-time study and passion of mine. The Baroque Beast series serves my desire to make portraits using beastly attributes that the viewer can sympathize with on a level of human emotion. I believe society already identifies certain animals as noble, others as witty, still others as fierce. Because portraiture is semi-permanent, I believe this dignifies those characteristics, be they noble or barbaric.

Steven DaLuz, 1953 | Abstract painter

Steven DaLuz, American painter*, is a versatile artist with an eclectic sensibility. His interests are split between abstraction and figurative art.
He is best known for figurative works that straddle impressionism and realism. He may be equally identified with abstract works that are landscape referential-employing metal leaf, oil, and mixed media.

Sophie Wilkins, 1976 | Magic Realism painter

Active on the Montreal and international art scenes, Sophie Wilkins is an artist from Quebec, Canada.

Sophie Wilkins is not only a visual artist but also a storyteller through her works.

She elevates her vision of Mother Nature, endowing it with an almost religious presence and inviting the viewer to reflect on the connection between humanity and the natural world.

Her legacy will endure as a testament to the art’s ability to inspire, transform, and transcend the limitations of reality.

Ben Goossens 1945 ~ Surrealist photographer | Part. 2

Ben Goossens was born in Liezele, Belgium and attended the St Lucas Art School in Brussels where he studied Illustration and Photography.
After four years in Art School, illustration and photography became his obsession. He worked in advertising for 32 years, mostly as an Art Director, where he gained 15 years of Photoshop experience. His source of inspiration in advertising came from surrealist paintings and still does in his work now. His hobby and passion now is creating ‘experimental/surreal photomontages’, these images are very seamless yet painterly dreamscapes. With each shooting he tries to create his own personal image, either simple or complex the idea behind his images is more important than the technique. He believes that the work he makes now is a logical follow-up to what he did professionally.

Paolo Uccello | Early Renaissance painter

Paolo di Dono [1397-1475], detto Paolo Uccello è stato un pittore e mosaicista italiano. Fu tra i protagonisti della scena artistica fiorentina della metà del XV secolo.Secondo quanto racconta Vasari nelle sue Vite, Paolo Uccello "non ebbe altro diletto che d'investigare alcune cose di prospettiva difficili et impossibili".

Sam Weber | Visionary illustrator

Born in Alaska, Sam grew up in Deep River Ontario, Canada. After attending the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, he moved to New York to pursue illustration and attend graduate school at The School of Visual Arts.

In addition to drawing, Sam works part time as assistant art director of the OpEd page at the New York Times, with senior art director Brian Rea.

Current likes include Italian and Japanese comics, David Lynch movies, and hanging out with Jillian.

Timur Tsaku 1971 ~ Surreal Hyperrealist painter

Tsaku was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In 1991, Tsaku returned to his homeland and became an Instructor of painting and drawing at the Tashkent Academy of Art and Theater. In 2001 he returned to Israel to start a new line of works taking its motif in the Old Testament. Tsaku's paintings were acquired for the permanent collections of the Israel Museum and the President's Residence, both in Jerusalem.

Michael Solovyev, 1972

Solovyev was born in the city Sarov, Russia. His childhood was spent in Moscow and later Ivanovo where he attended high school and the art conservatory. In 1991 he graduated from Ivanovo Art College with a degree in Architectural Design. In 1996 Mr. Solovyov graduated from the Ivanovo Textile Academy with a degree in Costume Design. From 1996-2001 he worked in the Kemerovo Regional Drama Theatre as the Chief Set Scenic Designer.

Ricardo Fernandez Ortega 1971 ~ Surrealist painter

Ricardo Fernandez Ortega was born in 1971 in Durango, Mexico. The surreal paintings by Ortega invites us to travel to another time, his style reminds us of the greatest classical masters, however, his painting is modern.

Philippe Guillerm, 1959 | Musical Sculptures

Philippe Guillerm began his professional life in Paris, France, the city where was born and lived for twenty years. Through the years, he has traveled around the world with his wife Jacqueline and their two daughters Monique and Swanne on his forty-eight foot sailboat.

Antoine Jossé, 1970 | Surrealist sculptor and painter

Antoine Josse is a French artist, born in 1970.

His paintings and sculptures express an irrepressible desire for lightness, escapism and to be able to dream the impossible.

The use of captivating and revealing motifs, along with the presence of human beings immersed in a dream-like landscape, convey a unique charm to his work.

His paintings are alluring for their atmosphere, evocative colours, and tumultuous skies.

The minuscule beings are settled in a desolated and dangerous world where the vegetation rapidly spreads, bringing to life dramatic reds, blues and greens, creating spectacular yet enigmatic feelings.

Milen Marinov, 1965

Milen Marinov was born in Varna, Bulgaria. He finished education in the National Academy of Fine Arts - Sofia, Bulgaria between 1988-1993.
Lives and works in Varna, Bulgaria.
Marinov did 12 solo solo exhibitions between 1994-2009 in his home country: Varna, Sofia, Krapetc, Spasovo and Balchik.
In 2007 Marinov did solo exhibition in gallery Atypic Toulouse in France.

Yuri Laptev, 1962 | Surrealist painter

Yuri Laptev is an Ukrainian artist, who created dreamy, imaginative and surreal illustration works.

His works include: Painting, Watercolour, Digital art, Etching and Drawing.

His artworld has been featured in many exhibitions and his presence in several art networks has given them a strong art boost of inspiration and creativity.

He graduated from the Crimean Art College, Samokisha 1986.

Il sito archeologico di Petra

Petra fu rivelata al mondo moderno nel 1812 da Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, un viaggiatore svizzero che, in abiti arabi, si faceva chiamare Cheikh Ibrahim e seguiva la strada che collegava Damasco all'Egitto passando per la Giordania.

Egli aveva sentito dire che nei pressi del villaggio di Wadi Musa si trovavano, in una sorta di fortezza naturale, delle vestigia straordinarie.

La regione apparteneva allora all'Impero ottomano e gli stranieri curiosi di antichità - che erano ritenute "opera degli Infedeli" - erano considerati con grande diffidenza, anche per le tensioni politiche e religiose dell'epoca.

Cristo Redentor | Rio de Janeiro, 1931 | New7Wonders of the World

La statua del Cristo Redentore di Rio de Janeiro è uno dei monumenti più conosciuti al mondo. Il monumento, alto circa 39.6 metri, raffigura un grande Gesù Cristo dalle braccia aperte, a simboleggiare il calore e l'accoglienza del popolo brasiliano verso i visitatori.

Michelangelo | Il risorto, 1520

Il Risorto, conosciuto come il Cristo della Minerva, è una statua marmorea, h. 205 cm, di Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564, realizzata nel 1519-1520 circa, oggi conservata nella Basilica di Santa Maria sopra Minerva a Roma.

Worth1000 | Il sito dei concorsi per l'arte digitale

Worth1000 è un sito di manipolazioni di immagine e concorsi online.

Venne aperto nel 2002, e ad oggi ospita più di 340.000 immagini uniche fra i suoi contest (i primi e più popolari) intitolati "Rejected Transformers", "Invisible World" e "Stupid Protests".

Verso la metà del 2003, iniziò ad ospitare competizioni simili, ma indirizzate verso la fotografia, la redazione testi ed altri contenuti multimediali.

Il sito fu disegnato da Avi Muchnick e Israel Derdik.

La Fontana dei Libri | Roma, 1927

Nel rione romano di Sant'Eustachio, lungo alla via degli Staderari, l'antica strada che deve il suo nome alla presenza dei fabbricanti della Stadera, la bilancia che funziona secondo il principio delle leve, è posizionata, dal 1927, la Fontana dei Libri.

L'opera, realizzata durante l'attuazione del piano di ristrutturazione urbana varato dal Comune di Roma in adesione all'invito del Governo fascista, è situata all'interno di una nicchia marmorea che forma un arco a tutto sesto.

James Wu | Mixed media painter

"I have always been enthusiastic about painting since I was a child.

I started with academy drawing and oil painting when I was 13 years old.

I would say that art is part of my spiritual soul and a very important part of my life.

I’ve learned various chinese ink brush techniques from different masters when I was an undergraduate student at National Taiwan University of Arts in Taipei".

Norman Rockwell | Romantic Realist painter

Norman Percevel Rockwell (1894-1978) was a 20th century American painter and illustrator.

Rockwell was a prolific artist, producing more than 4,000 original works in his lifetime.

His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created.

Gary Jenkins, 1962 | Still life of flowers

Gary Jenkins was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in St. Petersburg, Florida. In 1962 he graduated from the well known four year Ringling School of Art in Sarasota Florida. Upon graduation, he moved to So. California. Gary started his full time art career working as a key line artist for a large greeting card company.
A little later on, he started working for the large national art store chain, Aaron Bros. During the early 1970s while working at that store, Gary painted in his spare time and began to develope his style of oil painting, focusing primarily on Landscapes and Floral painting.

Donatello | Renaissance sculptor

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, universally known as Donatello, was born in Florence around 1386 and died there in 1466.

The powerful expressivity of his art made him the greatest sculptor of the early Renaissance.

Masterpieces from the first phases of his career include the vigilant marble Saint George, made for the guildhall of Orsanmichele (ca. 1417; Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence); the gilt-bronze Saint Louis of Toulouse at the Church of Santa Croce, Florence (ca. 1422-25); and his bronze relief of the Feast of Herod and statuettes of angels on the baptismal font in the Baptistery of Siena (1425-29).

Vincent Van Gogh | Still life

Vincent Van Gogh [1853-1890] painted several versions of landscapes with flowers, as seen in View of Arles with Irises, and paintings of flowers, including Irises, Sunflowers, lilacs and roses. Some reflect his interests in the language of color, and also in Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints.

Vincent Van Gogh | Self-portraits

Vincent Van Gogh did not have money to pay models to pose for portraits nor did he have many people commissioning him to do portraits, so Van Gogh painted his own portrait.

He painted over 30 self-portraits between the years 1886-1889.

His collection of self-portraits places him among the most prolific self-portraitists of all time.

Van Gogh used portrait painting as a method of introspection, a method to make money and a method of developing his skills as an artist.

Zoe Mozert | Pin-up illustrator

Zoë Mozert (1907-1993), born Alice Adelaide Moser, was an American illustrator.

She was one of the early 20th Century's most famous pin-up artists and models.

In 1925 Mozert entered the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art where she studied under Thornton Oakley, a former student of Howard Pyle.

Le Gallerie di Piazza Scala, Milano

Canova - La giustizia, 1792

Situato nel cuore di Milano, il complesso espositivo Gallerie di Piazza Scala propone un viaggio affascinante nell'arte del XIX e XX secolo. Il polo museale si snoda attraverso quattro edifici storici della città. Negli storici Palazzo Anguissola e Palazzo Brentani sono esposti 197 dipinti e sculture che partono da bassorilievi neoclassici di Antonio Canova, per toccare quindi le altre correnti che hanno caratterizzato le arti figurative italiane ottocentesche:
- Il Romanticismo, con Francesco Hayez. Gerolamo Induno e Sebastiano De Albertis, Giuseppe Molteni, Giovanni Migliara, Luigi Bisi, Giuseppe Canella, Angelo Inganni;
- Il Naturalismo con Mosé Bianchi e Lorenzo Gignous;
- Il Divisionismo con Giovanni Segantini, Filippo Carcano, Giovanni Sottocornola, Angelo Morbelli;
- Il Simbolismo con Luigi Rossi, Emilio Gola, Lorenzo Bazzaro, Gaetano Previati, Giulio Aristide Sartorio.
Si aggiungono opere di Telemaco Signorini, Lorenzo Delleani, Federico Zandomeneghi, Vincenzo Irolli, Antonio Mancini.
Entro la fine del 2012, il Palazzo Canonica e Palazzo Beltrami ospiteranno invece la sezione dedicata al Novecento, un percorso da Kandinsky ad Andy Warhol.

Pol Tergejst ~ Flame-shape digital painter

Pol Tergejst is an artist from Ekaterinburk, in Russia, who decided to play with fire, literally. He uses flame shapes to create some kind of flame-shape paintings, he composes different images of them. All this involves a lot of photographing.

Seward Johnson | The Awakening, 1980

The Awakening, is a 21 m statue of a giant embedded in the earth, struggling to free himself, located at National Harbor in Prince George's County, Maryland, USA, just outside the District of Columbia.

The statue consists of five separate aluminum pieces buried in the ground, giving the impression of a distressed giant attempting to free himself from the ground.

The left hand and right foot barely protrude, while the bent left leg and knee jut into the air.

The 5.2 m high right arm and hand reach farther out of the ground. The bearded face, with the mouth in mid-scream, struggles to emerge from the earth.

Giorgione | High Renaissance painter

Giorgione, also called Giorgio da Castelfranco (born c. 1477/78, Castelfranco Veneto, Republic of Venice, Italy - died before November 7, 1510, Venice), extremely influential Italian painter who was one of the initiators of a High Renaissance style in Venetian art.

His qualities of mood and mystery were epitomized in The Tempest (c. 1505), an evocative pastoral scene, which was among the first of its genre in Venetian painting.

Pam Hawkes | Portrait painter

Full-time painter Pam Hawkes was born in Birmingham, England, and still lives in the Midlands. She received her bachelor’s degree in fine art from Coventry University/Solihull College and her master’s in fine art from the University of Central England.

From 1998-2011, Hawkes was Visiting Lecturer in Fine Art at Solihull College and University of Wolverhampton.

Since 2001, Hawkes has exhibited her work in several dozen group and solo shows. Her paintings were included in the 2011 British Art Fair in London and at Catto Gallery and Flying Colours Gallery in 2012. Hawkes was given a solo exhibition in September 2013 at Celia Lendis Gallery, Moreton in the Marsh, England.

Ignacio Zuloaga | Genre /Realist painter

Ignacio Zuloaga, in full Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta (1870, Eibar, Spain - 1945, Madrid), Spanish genre and portrait painter noted for his theatrical paintings of figures from Spanish culture and folklore.

The son of a successful metalworker, Zuloaga was a largely self-taught artist who learned to paint by copying Old Masters in the Prado Museum in Madrid.

Beginning about 1890, he split his time between Paris and Spain.

Brent Lynch ~ Fashion painter

A powerful landscape and figurative painter, Brent Lynch pursues the abstract quality of mood, light, color and composition. The mystery and energy of a landscape or the human form are hallmarks of his work. For over 25 years, Brent has enjoyed an influential and award-winning career in the arts. He was best known for his unique illustrations for event posters representing performance arts such as ballet, opera and theater as well as sporting events including the Olympic Games. Brent is a natural visual story teller. It is through his unique perspective that his personal handwriting shines. He is a highly respected painter and instructor that has received many international awards. His work is represented by galleries found in private and corporate collections both nationally and abroad.

Brenda Burke | Classical realist painter

Award-winning artist** with works in the collection of the British Royal Family and with notable collectors worldwide.
Internationally recognized as a brilliant and sensitive portrait painter, classically trained in Europe, Brenda Burke sees every aspect of life as a creative challenge.

Her collectors avidly wait for each new series she creates, as she applies the various skills of the old masters to create fresh and exciting contemporary masterpieces.

Antonio Basoli ~ Pictorial Alphabet

Antonio Basoli (Castel Guelfo, 1774-1848) was an Italian painter, interior designer, scenic designer, and engraver, active mostly in Bologna. His first teacher was his father, Lelio Andrea Basoli. His education was motivated by an insatiable and constant interest in classic art, classic and contemporary literature, and the works, decorations and inscriptions of Piranesi. He often worked alongside his brothers, Francesco and Luigi Basoli. In 1803 till his death he became docent of ornamentation and the next year, professor at the Accademia delle Arti di Bologna until 1826. During his time at the Accademia he developed a close friendship with fellow pupils Domenico Corsini and Pelagio Palagi. He worked for a time in the studio of Petronio Fancelli.
In 1801-1803, he painted frescoes at a few sites in the Friuli, including casa Muratori in Triesti and a palace in Spilimbergo.