Franz's Kafka Memorial, Prague 2003 | Public Art

Si tratta di una statua di bronzo dedicata a Franz Kafka 1883-1924, scrittore ed aforista boemo di lingua tedesca, una delle maggiori figure della letteratura del XX secolo. Fu cittadino dell'impero Austro-Ungarico fino al 1918 e, successivamente, cecoslovacco.

La scultura è stata inaugurata nel 2003 e nel 2004 ha vinto il premio Grand Prix dell’Associazione degli Architetti per la categoria Opera d’arte nell’architettura.

Helene Knoop ,1979 | Apollo and the Muses

Helene Knoop, Norwegian painter, lives and works in Oslo, Norway. Her oil paintings are authentic representations of humans with a sensual touch where the light comes from the inside.
Knoop handcrafts every painting, creating high quality paintings using a long process often up to a year until completion. Her paintings are within a classical manner with influences from the Renaissance and Symbolism.
She uses materials like the Old Masters did; oil painting on canvas, and she paints from life.

Apollon - Apollo and the Muses

Ernest Hemingway | Il vecchio e il mare, 1952

"Il vecchio e il mare" fu pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1952.

Vinse il premio Pulitzer nel 1953 ed il Premio Nobel nel 1954.

Motivazione: "Maestria nel formare lo stile dell'arte della narrazione moderna".

Trama

Santiago è un vecchio pescatore che da 84 giorni non riesce a pescare neanche un pesce.

Ernest Hemingway at the bar in El Floridita, Havana by Cuban sculptor José Villa Soberón, 2003

Lorenzo Quinn, 1966 | Figurative sculptor

Contemporary Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn is a leading figurative sculptor whose work is inspired by such masters as Michelangelo, Bernini and Rodin.

Exhibited internationally, his monumental public art and smaller, more intimate pieces transmit his passion for eternal values and authentic emotions.

He is best known for expressive recreations of human hands:

"I wanted to sculpt what is considered the hardest and most technically challenging part of the human body", he asserts.

"The hand holds so much power - the power to love, to hate, to create, to destroy".

Lesley Harrison ~ Wildlife painter

Painting Animals that touch the heart, by popular wildlife artist Lesley Harrison, American painter, will help artists portray the emotion and "feelings" of certain popular animals, as well as the wonderful textures of luxuriously soft fur and glistening eyes. Lesley Harrison's, California girlhood was shaped by animals and art. "I was born loving animals, she says. "It seems to be in my blood". She remembers an ongoing menagerie from cats to chickens.

Boris Indrikov /Борис Индриков, 1967 | Unicorn Dream

Борис Индриков is an Russian painter🎨, known for working in the Magical Realism style.
Boris Indrikov was born in was born in Leningrad and lives and works in Moscow.

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

Boris Indrikov /Борис Индриков, 1967 | Magical Realism painter🎨

Charles Warren Mundy, 1945 | Still life

Charles Warren Mundy, b. 1945, Indianapolis, Indiana.

- Master Signature Member, Oil Painters of America.

- Master Status, American Impressionist Society.

- Signature Member, American Society of Marine Artists.

For biographical notes and other works by Charles Warren Mundy see:

• Light and Shadow - From Venice to Paris ⇝
• Charles Warren Mundy, 1945 | Impressionist / Plein air painter ⇝

Bartolomeo Veneto | High Renaissance painter

Bartolomeo Veneto (1502-1555) was an Italian painter who worked in Venice, the Veneto and Lombardy.

During his time in Venice, he studied under Gentile Bellini.

The little information available about Bartolomeo's life has been derived from his signatures, dates, and inscriptions.

His best known works are portraits or pictures with portrait-like character.

Bartolomeo's later works, and especially those done on commission in Milan, indicate an influence from the artist Leonardo da Vinci.

Andres Barrioquinto, 1975 ~ Surrealist painter

Andres Barrioquinto, Filipino painter, was born in Manila but his family kept on switching residencies due to the nature of his father’s job who was a writer/editor. He spent his teenage years in Hong Kong, studying at Royden House School. Then he went back to Manila to get his college education.

Eric Montoya, 1968 ~ Surrealist painter

Eric Montoya is an American painter who has had several gallery and museum exhibitions. Continued education through Seattle Art Museum lectures and UW Experimental courses, Technology Project Manager for The Ackerley Group 1996-2001, Journeyman Pictorial Painter, The Ackerley Group 1987 through 1996. Art Institute of Seattle, 1987. "In my work I tend to blend the boundaries between man and nature".

Karen Wallis | Mist of Dreams

Karen Wallis, british painter, was born in Middlesbrough and studied at Teesside University and Durham University.

For many years she combined art and design and teaching but now devotes herself entirely to painting.

Karen paints in oils and acrylics using several glazes of thin paint overlaid with impasto to create hazy and evocative images.

The concept of combining fine art and abstract elements creates a unique image which is traditional in manner, but has a very contemporary edge.

Elvira Amrhein, 1957 ~ L'Ange Rebelle

Amrhein transports her viewers to mystical, ethereal realms with her intriguing paintings. Born to an artistic family, Amrhein now lives in France. Previously a hobbyist, she became a full-time painter in 2002. Amrhein’s paintings expertly fuse light and texture with elements of spirituality and melancholy, and have won many awards in France.

Lovilla Chantal | Romantic Venice

Vi presento i dipinti dell'artista figurativo Lovilla Chantal /Ловилла Шанталь con tema principale la Venezia.

Lovilla Chantal risulta essere l'alias di un pittore Italiano che riscosse un enorme successo grazie alla sua individuale tecnica moderna. Comunque, non vi è dubbio alcuno: l'autore possiede un innato senso del colore ed abilità nel utilizzare e mettere insieme stili e tecniche diverse.

Robert Heindel | Ballet dancers

Robert Heindel (October 1, 1938 - July 3, 2005)* was an American painter*, illustrator, and stage designer best known for his paintings of dance and performing arts.
Heindel created over 1300 paintings and drawings of dance and performing arts during a twenty-five year period in the late twentieth century.
He was described as the best painter of dance of his time.

Robert Heindel | The Royal Ballet dancers

Robert Heindel (1938-2005), American painter and illustrator was born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1938.

Heindel´s reputation for capturing the spirit of dance and dancers is legendary. ´Opera House´, the magazine of The Royal Ballet, proclaimed ´from the toil and sweat of the gruelling preparation to the theatrics and spectacle of costume and colour, it´s not difficult to spot a Heindel. The artist´s talent is a singular ability to pour movement and emotion onto the canvas or blank sheet before him´.

Joseph Lorusso, 1966 | Figurative painter

American painter Joseph Lorusso was born in Chicago, Illinois and received his formal training at the American Academy of Art.

He went on to receive his B.F.A. degree from the Kansas City Art Institute.

Born of Italian descent, Lorusso was exposed to art at an early age.

Through several early trips to Italy, his parents introduced him to the works of the Italian Masters.

Lorusso would look to these influences throughout his early artistic development and they are still evident in his work today.

Steve De La Mare | Fantasy painter

Steve creates concepts and visualizations internationally, backed by a wealth of artistic and brand experience.

Born in the tranquil Channel Island of Guernsey, between England and France, British painter and designer Stephen De La Mare studied in London as a Set, Costume and Lighting Designer for the Theatre; he continues to be actively involved in Theatre on both an amateur and professional level.

De La Mare combined his Theatre and Art together by exchanging a comfortable chair for scaffolding.

Valery Vetshteyn, 1966 | Figurative painter

Valery Vetshtein / Валерий Ветштейн was born in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Currently lives in Krivoy Rog (Ukraine).

Vetshtein is a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1993.

Valery Vetshtein's works were exhibited at The Meisner Gallery and Showroom in Farmingdale, NY in 2002.

Antinoo, il fascino della bellezza | Mostra alla Villa Adriana di Tivoli

Dal 5 Aprile al 4 novembre 2012, la Villa Adriana di Tivoli, circa 28 km da Roma, aprirà al pubblico in occasione della mostra "Antinoo, il fascino della bellezza".
La Villa Adriana, residenza dell'imperatore Adriano riscoperta nel 1450, è uno dei 47 siti italiani inseriti dall'Unesco nella World Heritage Listè.

Goyo Dominguez, 1960 ~ Romantic/Realist painter

Goyo Dominguez, Spanish-born British painter, is a romantic realist who paints figuratively with a unique sense of vision, beauty and imagination. His compositions, depicted with great technical skill and style, are compelling and serene, often with enchanting subject matters.

Jane Whiting Chrzanoska, 1948 | Surrealist painter

Jane Whiting Chrzanoska, American painter, began drawing and painting at such an early age that by 14 she felt confident enough to attempt her first mural, an 8’x12’ depiction of Napoleon at Waterloo on her bedroom wall.
Two years later she convinced he best friend to provide he own bedroom wall so that Jane could paint “The Ride of the Valkyries” from Wagner’s Ring Cycle.

Craig Tracy, 1967 | Fine-Art Bodypainting

Never one to be satisfied with conventional art, Craig Tracy has created mesmerizing images using human bodies as his canvases since 2001.

Tracy was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The city’s colorful and vibrant culture played an integral role in developing Tracy’s passion for art, including his family’s tradition of painting each other’s faces in celebration of Mardi Gras. His parents nurtured his individuality and creativity, with Tracy attributing their "Flower Power" and “Power to the People” mentalities as being responsible for how he views art and life.

Tracy received his first airbrush at the age of 15 from his parents, and one year later, at the age of 16, he took his first steps into the professional art world by working nights and weekends as an airbrush artist.

The experience taught him how to paint detailed works on a myriad of surfaces. He would later hone his artistic abilities by attending and graduating from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale in Florida.

The gallery allows even the most seasoned art collectors and novices alike to see and experience first hand what Body-painting is ultimately capable of expressing.

Kaspar von Zumbusch | Beethoven Monument, Vienna, 1880

Kaspar [Clemens Eduard] Zumbusch (1830-1915), 1888 Ritter von Zumbusch (a nobiliary particle), was a German sculptor, born at Herzebrock, Westphalia, who became a pre-eminent sculptor of neo-Baroque monuments in Vienna.

He went at the age of eighteen to study in Munich at first unsuccessfully at the Academy and then Polytechische Schule under Johann Halbig.

He continued his studies in Rome.

He won the competition in 1866 for a monument to Maximilian II of Bavaria, for the Maximilianstraße, Munich (unveiled 1875).

In 1873 he was called to Vienna as professor in the academy, a post he held until he was made Professor Emeritus in 1901.

Goyo Dominguez, 1960 | Romantic / Abstract painter

Goyo Dominguez🎨's compositions, depicted with great technical skill and style, are compelling and serene, often with enchanting subject matters.

His fascination with works of the 16th and 17th centuries inspires his favourite themes; still life, the human body and landscape.

The intriguing result is a contemporary fusion of Renaissance Europe and the Classical World, often combined with elements of the abstract, transcending the classical past and the present day.

Rachel Ferguson | Figurative painter

Rachel Ferguson, american painter: "Solitude is a form of self protection. It is a place where one can avoid responsibilities to others and deny any need for approval. It allows time to escape from the demands of day to day life. It is simple, contained and still.
My paintings are meant to convey the comfort of solitude, but they also reveal its limits. The figures are confined by the space they occupy and their bodies are rendered inactive by their thoughts.
Ultimately, the security their contained poses suggest should lead one to think of entrapment. My work attempts to communicate both a dependence on solitude and a yearning for some outside force to break it".

Craig Tracy ~ Body Art painter

Born and Raised in New Orleans La, Craig Tracy, American painter, has always been an Artist. Craig credits New Orleans with it's authentic and vibrant culture as a significant factor in what is at the heart of his passion, creativity and bliss. His parents and their “Hippie” nonconformist principles were instilled firmly in the young artist. Coincidentally, it was that same hippie movement that re-ignited the soon to be interest and practice of Bodypainting in the western world. 

James Coleman, 1949 | Walt Disney Fine Art

James Coleman, American painter, was born in Hollywood, California in 1949. As a youth, his creative abilities seemed to dominate his world.

Though he lacked the athletic skills of his young friends, he more than made up for it with imagination and ingenuity. As a young man, his interest in filmmaking and fine art would mark the beginning of a long, successful career in animated films.

Thomas Blackshear ~ Visionary painter

Thomas Blackshear, African-American painter, is an artist who is best known for his emotionally powerful Christian and ebony themes. Blackshear is considered to be one of the world's most talented artists because of his versatility, consummate skill, and extraordinary sense of color, style, and design.

Intimacy

Mark Newman, 1962 | Figurative sculptor

Born in 1962, Mark Newman is an American sculptor🎨 who has a career of 19 years behind, if we calculate only his professional activities. Newman has a remarkable style expressed through art, through his vivid looking sculptures that appear to be freakishly alive! He spends a lot of time in his studio where he molds some of the best sculptures the modern world has seen. Newman believes in practice, drawing, observing forms and people and getting inspired by other artists.

Cesar Santos, 1982

Cesar Santos is a Cuban-born American painter, best known for images that transmit the impression of paintings of the past, but are also imbued with contemporary, fresh concepts and his own philosophy.

His work shows a wide range of influences, including sources as diverse as the Renaissance, Nineteenth Century academic work, and contemporary society.

His artistic energy drives him to arrange elusive figures and objects in conceptual designs, yet rendering them in a believable and convincing way.

Umberto Mazzone, 1941

Umberto Mazzone, pittore italiano, è nato a Catania. Attualmente vive e opera a Bevagna (PG), proseguendo un lungo percorso artistico, iniziato a soli dieci anni.

Proprio a quell’età, stimolato dalla sua insegnante di disegno, si accosta al variegato mondo dell’arte, che cattura la sua giovane fantasia, consentendogli di scoprire le sue possibilità fantastiche e umane, attraverso segni ed i colori.

Da allora segue una ricerca artistica, lievitata dagli studi classici e soprattutto dal mondo greco e orientale, che lo porterà a sperimentazioni sempre nuove, legate ai valori di quelle civiltà che ci hanno segnato sia come popoli, che come individui.

Sergey Ignatenko, 1975 | Night's Dream

Сергей Игнатенко was born in Gomel, the Republic of Belarus.

At the young age of eleven Sergey Ignatenko was accepted into art school. As a child, he fiddled with paint and paintbrush and made figurative pictures with his mother's and sister's portraits. They were his models.

During his training he participated in numerous local and national exhibitions and competitions.

Graduating from the school in 1990, Ignatenko was accepted into the Gomel Art College painting department, from which he graduated in 1995.

Claudio Sacchi, 1953 | Figurative painter

Italian painter🎨 Claudio Sacchi was born in Pesaro, Italy. He attended the Art School in Urbino, and continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.
Major influences in his artistic education were his encounters with Pietro Annigoni🎨 and with Enrico Del Bono. Since 1977 his work has been included in the archive of the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence, in the section on twentieth-century Italian art.

Tina Blondell, 1953 | Visionary / Figurative painter

Austrian-American painter🎨 Tina Blondell was born in Salzburg, Austria, to an American father and austrian mother who encouraged her early interest in art.
Crucial to her education as an artist, was her first-hand encounters with art in Italy, where she lived until 1971, particularly the work of Caravaggio🎨 and of Artemisia Gentileschi🎨.

Marek Langowski ~ The dance of light in Venice

Marek Langowski is a polish painter, who is creating his works since 1981. You can find his pieces all around the world. Marek was born in Aleksandrow Lódzki. He lives and works in Belchatow, near Lodz. The biggest passions of Marek are family loving, painting and photography.

Gala, la passione surreale di Salvador Dali

Gala, Elena Ivanovna Diakonova (1894-1982), moglie del poeta Paul Eluard, conosciuta nel 1929, fu la prima amante e poi moglie di Salvador Dalí 1904-1989, il pittore spagnolo degli "orologi molli"e delle "giraffe in fiamme".

L'incontro con la moglie di Eluard, Gala, sarà folgorante tanto che, nell'estate dello stesso anno la conduce nella sua terra natale per dichiararle il suo amore.

Tuman Zhumabaev, 1962 | Impressionist painter

Туман Жумабаев is one of the most prominent artist living in Russia today.

Recently, he had a painting acquired by the Hermitage for its permanent collection.

Arrived in Leningrad from Kyrgyzstan. In 1981-1985 he studied at the Serov Art College; in 1991 he graduated from the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, under the tuition of Profession Yu. M. Neprintsev.

Gerardine Jacoba ~ Still life painter of flowers

Came from an artistic family, the still life Dutch painter Gerardina Jacoba Van de Sande Bakhuyzen [1826-1895], was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. Her father was the painter Hendrik Van de Sande Bakhuyzen, and her brother was the painter Julius Jacobus Van de Sande Bakhuyzen.

Gerardina was taught by her father, as were all her numerous sisters. She achieved great success with her oils and watercolours of flowers and still lives, winning numerous medals between 1870-1880, in which year she had an exhibition at the Grafton Gallery in London.

Andre Kohn, 1972 | White umbrellas

Андрей Конь is a Russian-born American painter.

Raised by an artistically gifted family near the Caspian Sea in southern Russia, Andre Kohn’s childhood was marked by the natural splendor of mountains and sea, and by an unfettered access to all the creative arts.

Almudena Pintado, 1969 ~ Abstract Mixed media painter

Almudena Pintado, self-taught spanish painter, born in Benavente, Spain in 1969. CIALEC member (International Centre for Art and Literature "E. Córdoba"). Develops his work in the abstract style and mixed media on canvas or wood. 

Kathryn Morris Trotter ~ Paris in the rain

Kathryn Morris Trotter, american painter, a native Mississippian, claims that painting is her greatest passion. After graduating from The University of Texas in Austin, Trotter had an innate curiosity about life, travel, and the ineffable creative world. Her passion propelled her ventures into the corporate world of fashion, interiors and textile design, which have been highly influential in her subject and style of painting.

Mary Baxter St. Clair | Magical Fantasy painter

Mary Baxter St. Clair, american painter, entered the world with a brush in her hand.

Others remark that she paints with fairy dust.

All are touched by her sense of wonder and marvel at her beautifully detailed paintings of wide-eyed children, ethereal angels, elusive fairies and piquant pixies, richly dressed in brilliant colors.

Jean Marc Janiaczyk, 1966 ~ Realist/Impressionist painter

Jean Marc Janiaczyk, French painter, since his childhood he draws, in 1991 at the age of 24 he began to paint. Many years to draw, gave him a solid foundation in drawing. He paints only with oil colors. He started with a very difficult technique: Hyperrealism.

Henri Matisse | Odalisque series

In 1917 Matisse relocated to Cimiez on the French Riviera, a suburb of the city of Nice.

His work of the decade or so following this relocation shows a relaxation and a softening of his approach.

This "return to order" is characteristic of much art of the post-World War I period and can be compared with the neoclassicism of Picasso and Stravinsky as well as the return to traditionalism of Derain.

Ennio Montariello, 1960 ~ Figurative painter

Nato a Napoli nel 1960, il pittore italiano Ennio Montariello vive a Campello sul Clitunno (Pg). Nel 1978 si diploma presso il Liceo Artistico di Napoli. Nel 1982 e 1983 si diploma agli Stages Internazionali di pittura di Anacapri di Napoli. Questioni delle arti: incontri internazionali, tenuti da Gillo Dorfles, Joe Tilson, Gianni Pisani, Enrico Baj, Giulio Carlo Argan, Achille Bonito Oliva, Filiberto Menna, Lea Vergine, Francesco Vincitorio, Mimma Russo.

Childe Hassam | Flag series / La serie delle bandiere

The most distinctive and famous works of american painter Childe Hassam's later life compose the set of about thirty paintings known as the "Flag series".
Flag paintings by Hassam are in the collections of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Historical Society and the National Gallery of Art.
Claude Monet, among other french painter, had also painted flag-themed works - The Rue Montorgueil, Paris 1878.

Claude Monet | The Rue Montorgueil, 1878

The Rue Montorgueil, Paris, was painted by Claude Monet (1840-1926) on 30 June 1878 for a festival declared that year by the government celebrating "peace and work".
This was one of the events organised for the third Universal Exhibition in Paris a few weeks after it opened, and intended to be a symbol of France’s recovery after the defeat of 1870.

Gustave Caillebotte | Impressionist painter

Gustave Caillebotte, (born August 19, 1848, Paris, France - died February 21, 1894, Gennevilliers), French painter, art collector, and impresario who combined aspects of the academic and Impressionist styles in a unique synthesis.

Born into a wealthy family, Caillebotte trained to be an engineer but became interested in painting and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He met Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet in 1874 and showed his works at the Impressionist exhibition of 1876 and its successors.