Mark Spain, 1962 | Figurative painter

Mark Spain attended a three-year course at Medway College of Art and Design studying graphics, Illustrations, Life Drawing and Printmaking.

His first work came as a freelance illustrator producing originals for posters, book covers and greeting cards.

His technique included airbrushing to create a highly refined and polished look. In 1984 his interest in printmaking as an alternative discipline became established and he set up a studio in Kent to concentrate on making original etchings.

Michael and Inessa Garmash | Romantic Impressionist painters

Michael and Inessa Garmash have created beautiful paintings, stained-glass windows, mosaics and drawings exhibited all over Europe.
Michael Garmash began a painting of their daughter for a project at school several years after their marriage. However, their two-year-old found the painting during his absence and painted her own version of the subject. Inessa Garmash, not wanting Michael to be upset, fixed the painting, packed it up and gave it to him to submit. Michael handed the painting over for review and was told it was his best work ever. He was surprised to see the "new" painting and immediately recognized his wife's hand.

Mark Spain, 1962 | Figurative painter | VideoArt

Mark Spain** is an British artist** from Kent, best known for working in the Figurative style.

Spain has exhibited in numerous exhibitions and one man shows including the prestigious Chelsea and Hampton Court Flower Show, The 20th Century British Art Fair and The Barbican Contemporary Print Fair.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Spain see:

• Mark Spain, 1962 | Figurative painter ⏭
• Mark Spain, 1962 | Figurative painter | Flamenco Dancers ⏭

Alexander Hodyukov, 1966 | Impressionist painter | Landscapes

Alexander Hodyukov / Ходюков Александр is an Belarusian painter, known for work in Impresionist style🎨.

Hodyukov was born in Vitsyebsk, Bielorussia.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works see:

Alexander Hodyukov, 1966 | Impressionist painter | Figures🎨

Sol Halabi, 1977

Sol Halabi is an Argentian artist who paints in mixed media including tar and beeswax.
- Specialist Draftsman. Monserrat National College. National University of Cordoba. Cordoba, Argentina.
2000 - Professor and Expert in Fine Arts, Provincial School of Fine Arts "Figueroa Alcorta". Cordoba, Argentina.
2002 - Fine Art Painting BA. College of Arts. National University of Cordoba, Argentina.

Erté (Romain de Tirtoff)

Romain de Tirtoff [1892-1990] was a Russian-born French painter and designer known by the pseudonym Erté, a French pronunciation of initials R.T. Tirtoff was born as Roman Petrov de Tyrtov [Роман Петрович Тыртов] in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire in a very distinguished family with roots traced back to 1548.

His father Pyotr Ivanovich de Tyrtov was a Fleet Admiral.

In 1910-1912 Romain moved to Paris to pursue a career as a designer. This decision was made over strong objections of his father, who wanted Romain to continue a family tradition and to become a naval officer. Romain assumed the pseudonym to avoid disgracing the family.

In 1915 he got his first significant contract with Harper's Bazaar magazine, and he went on to an illustrious career that included designing costumes and stage sets.

Erté is perhaps most famous for his elegant fashion designs which capture the art deco period in which he worked. His delicate figures and sophisticated, glamorous designs are instantly recognizable, and his ideas and art influence fashion into the 21st century.

Alexander Hodyukov, 1966 | Impressionist painter | Figures

Ходюков Александр🎨 was born in the city of Vitebsk. Here he lives and works.

His works were performed in different directions: realism, impressionism, art nouveau.

They can be seen not only landscapes, still lifes, seascapes and portraits, and surreal worlds in the style of fantasy and surrealism, harmony and beauty in the nude.

Technique works too wide: oil, watercolor, acrylic.

Albert Joseph Moore | Academic painter

Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893), known for his depictions of langorous female figures set against the luxury and decadence of the classical world, was the youngest of the fourteen children of the artist William Moore of York who in the first half of the 19th century enjoyed a considerable reputation in the North of England as a painter of portraits and landscape.

Ignacio Larra, 1954 ~ Figurativ Mural painter

The modern Spanish painter Venezuelan in San Juan County (Caracas) Venezuela, but in the age of 14 with his parents emigrated to Spain where he lives so far.

Margarita Georgiadis, 1968 ~ Narrative painter

Margarita Georgiadis was born in Sydney, Australia. She educated herself in philosophy and physics. This research underpins her work, to such an extent that she fondly compares painting to writing. Georgiadis had an epiphany after the passing of her father.

Albert Bierstadt | Hudson River School

German-born American painter Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), recognized as the foremost painter of the american frontier during the nineteenth-century, was born in Solingen, Germany, in 1830.

At the age of two, he and his family emigrated to the United States, settling in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Edgar Degas | The Ballet dancers

Among the supreme masterpieces of the century are Degas's pictures of the ballet and its dancers.

The impulse towards painting the contemporary scene came to him not only from Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) and Manet (1832-1883) but from his friend, the critic Duranty, the exponent of the aesthetics of naturalism.

Yet in the particular direction of his tastes and his conception of design he was entirely individual.

To study and convey movement was a chosen task, first undertaken on the race course and then in his many pictures of the Opera, viewed from behind the scenes, in the wings, or from the orchestra stalls during a performance.

Albert Lynch ~ La Belle Époque

Albert Lynch [1851-1912] settled in Paris, where he studied at l'École des Beaux-Arts. Lynch worked under the guidance of painters Jules Achille Noël, Gabriel Ferrier and Henri Lehmann. He showed his artwork in the Salon of French artists which he won in 1890 and 1892 and in the World's Fair of 1900 during which he received a gold medal.

Cecil Kennedy ~ Flowers painter

Cecil Kennedy [1905-1997] was a painter in oils who specialised in flowers becoming one of the popular British flower painters of his time. After training at art school, Kennedy studied under a number of artists, the most influential being Nieco Jungmann.

Igor Venski, 1962 ~ Impressionist painter

Venski was born on 6 June 1962 in Krasnodar, Russia, and he began drawing and painting very early in his youth. He studied painting at Krasnodar School of Fine Arts. Igor Venski is adhering to the aesthetic principles and the classical traditions. The artistic formula he employs is that of romantic impressionism with a marked infusion of realistic elements. Sometimes he paints in manner such as of post modernism.

Carsten Witte, 1964 | Fashion photographer

The Hamburg native has an extensive portfolio ranging from fashion, beauty, advertising and art.

He specializes in black and white photography and believes that all his photo's hold a story.

Carsten's unusual eye evokes that dynamic shot that is intriguing, even eerie in some of his work, yet his photos always seem to brilliantly capture the essence of beauty.

The Hamburg native has an extensive portfolio ranging from fashion, beauty, advertising and art.

He specializes in black and white photography and believes that all his photo's hold a story.

Carsten's unusual eye evokes that dynamic shot that is intriguing, even eerie in some of his work, yet his photos always seem to brilliantly capture the essence of beauty. His nude shots are all very artistic, and beautifully done.

Raymond Leech, 1949 | Impressionist painter

Raymond Leech was born at Great Yarmouth in East Angila and spent his childhood by the seaside.

He was influenced to take up an artistic career by his father, who taught him to draw.

In particular, he was inspired by the work of the Newlyn School, the french impressionists, Edgar Degas 1834-1917, Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841-1919 and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864-1901.

Stanislav Sidorov, 1954 | Impressionist painter

Станислав Сидоров was born in the city of Blagoveshchensk, in the Far East of Russia.

This Town is the capital of the Amur Region and has a unique location directly on the border with China.

Stanislav came from a family of artist's who nurtured and encouraged his creative talent.

He started his art education as a child in the Creative school for Gifted kids then, 4 years in college, then 6 years In the Vladivostok University of Fine Art with formal studies focused on the traditions of the Russian Realistic School of painting characterized by artist's of the 19th century.

Anna Bocek 1973

Anna Bocek, born 1973. Study at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland, Faculty of Painting Set Design. Diploma in 1999. Undoubtedly, such mainspring of art for me is theatre - the most important source of inspiration and spiritual experiences both, as a viewer and an artist. Both aspects are equally important for me anyway. 

Paul Knight 1965 ~ Realist painter

Born in 1965, Paul Knight currently studying Fine Art at Nottingham University.

Michelle Seo | Pencil portraits painter

Humphrey Bogart

Seo Hongmin is an American** Pencil artist, currently living in Los Angeles..

She started the project “Golden Era” at the end of July 2009. First portraits included drawings of portraits of Hollywood actresses of the past.
In particular, Greta Garbo, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor, Julia Roberts and Vivian Leigh. Then, came other works of art -Princess Diana, Michael Jackson, Shirley Temple, Nicolas Cage, and Audrey Hepburn…

Josephine Wall, 1947 | Fantasy painter

From childhood Josephine has had a passion for light and colour, fantasy and visual storytelling. The life of a painter was clearly her destiny! Enchanting and detailed images flow freely from her imagination in an endless cascade of ideas.
Her first employment after leaving Art College was at Poole Pottery, where she painted the dynamic and boldly coloured designs of the now famous Delphis ware - very collectable and realising high prices at specialist auctions. In addition to her main love of painting, she directs her creative energies into pottery figures, sculpture and reproduction stained glass panels.
She has even customised items of clothing.

Juan Gris | Cubist painter

Juan Gris, original name José Victoriano González (1887-1927), Spanish painter whose lucidly composed still lifes are major works of the style called Synthetic Cubism.

Gris studied engineering at the Madrid School of Arts and Manufactures from 1902-1904, but he soon began making drawings for newspapers in the sensuously curvilinear Art Nouveau style.

He moved to Paris in 1906 and settled at the Bateau-Lavoir, an artists’ dwelling where his compatriot Pablo Picasso lived. Gris was thus in touch with the evolution of Cubism, a style initiated by Picasso and Georges Braque around 1907.

Sergey Kustarev / Сергей Кустарев, 1973 | Realist painter

Сергей Кустарев born in Bryansk, Russia.

1993 - graduated from the Bryansk Art College.

1994 / 1999 - volunteer in the artistic-industrial academy Mukhina.

2002 - member of the Union of Artists.

Technique - Realistic paintings in conjunction with interior decoration, simulating metal.

His works are in private collections in Russia and abroad.

Ancient Greek sculpture

The origins of greek sculpture have been ascribed the wooden cult statues that were described by Pausanias as xoana.

No such statue survives, and the descriptions of them are vague despite the fact that some were objects of veneration for hundreds of years.

The first piece of Greek statuary to be reassembled since is probably the Lefkandi Centaur (Eretria Mus.) found on Euboia.

Max Gasparini, 1970 | Portrait painter

Il pittore Italiano Max Gasparini è nato a Rovato. Dalla pittura classica e realistica di oggetti, i paesaggi e ritratti, realizzati con tecnica minuziosa, l'autore è arrivato a liberare il gesto "quasi" per caso. E' stata una folgorazione.

I quadri hanno cominciato a prendere forma senza volontà nè studio, eliminando l'iter d'ideazione, progettazione, bozzetto. L'opera nasce da sè, prende forma solo parzialmente controllabile.

Cheri Blum | Faux painting

Cheri Blum who was born in Maryland on 1969 and passed away at her home in Georgetown on November 4, 2003, at the age of 34.

Cheri's artwork, published by Wild Apple Graphics since 1996 and licensed by Wild Apple Licensing since 1999, has been highly successful in both open edition prints and licensed products from more than 40 companies.

Cheri Blum (1969-2003) began her career as an illustrator and muralist, creating trompe l’oeil, faux painting and decorative furniture finishes.

Zhang Yaxi, 1968 | Urban sculptress

Contemporary Chinese🎨 sculptor Zhang Yaxi is a professional sculptor in Chongqing. Her training and education is that of a typical young Chinese sculptor today -she has created monumental sculptures up to 7 metres in height, and her sculpture has been exhibited in several international sculpture symposia and national sculpture exhibitions as well as being commissioned for public and corporate spaces.

Shown below, Yaxi is working on one of her monumental works entitled The Gate of Life, a monumental urban sculpture in bronze created during the China Changchun International Sculpture Symposium 2001. In a more ephemeral vein, browse to see Pregnant, a monumental snow sculpture created on a frozen lake in Harbin, China.

Robert Cannon 1969 | Terraform Sculpture

Robert Cannon, born in Flemington, New Jersey, May 10, 1969, is an american sculptor. He holds a BA with distinction from Yale University. While attending Yale, Cannon studied under the American Sculptor Alice Aycock. Nature is the inspiration and foundation for Cannon’s terraform sculptures. Terraform, literally translates to "Earth-shaping", the process of deliberate modification of the atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to those of Earth to make it habitable by humans.

Deidre But-Husaim, 1959 ~ Futurist / Hyperrealist painter

Deidre But-Husaim is a visual artist based in Adelaide who has painting at the core of her practice. She attended Adelaide Central School of Art and Adelaide Centre for the Arts. She paints with oil on canvas (linen), her work is mostly figurative.

Ottorino De Lucchi, 1951

Il pittore Italiano Ottorino De Lucchi è nato a Ferrara. Si è laureato in Chimica 1975 e Farmacia 1977 presso l’Università di Padova. E’ membro della Società Chimica Italiana dal 1977, dove ha ricoperto la carica di Presidente della Divisione di Chimica Organica e dal 1979 è membro dell’American Chemical Society. Nel 1984 ha ricevuto la medaglia Ciamician dalla Società Chimica Italiana, nel 1993 il premio Federchimica e nel 1997 il prestigioso Zeneca lecture prize, presso Wilmington, USA.

Jeff Legg, 1959 | Still Life painter

Jeff C. Legg’s artistic interests developed in childhood and by age 13, he was apprentice to a well known regional artist and college art professor Darrel Dishman. This nearly four years of mentoring under Mr. Dishman laid the foundation for his drawing and painting skills which led him to study at the Atelier Lack in Minneapolis and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

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.