Joo Seok Ju [Joseokju] Impressionist Figurative painter

Joo Seok Ju, si firma Joseokju, è un pittore Coreano, che vive a Seoul da quando aveva 12 anni. 

Dipinge ad olio ed è ispirato dai principi di base adottati dai grandi impressionisti.

Jeff Rowland, 1964 | Romantic painter of Rain

Jeff Rowland is a professional British painter** who entered the fine art industry in 1984 having studied art at North Tyneside College. He had further studied at Newcastle in 2000 where he earned an HND in advertising / illustration.

During this time Jeff Rowland had undertaken many works and also went on to win an award** from the NEPA (North East Print Association).

Svetlana Ivanchenko | Abstract painter

Cветлана Иванченко is an Ukrainian painter.
Technique: Sand shell mosaic.
Unique sand and shell mosaic is stored in all the wilderness shades of natural materials.
Art, which combines the captivating beauty of native wildlife. Unfathomable stretch of imagination the author leaves no one indifferent, again emphasizing the originality of talent of the Ukrainian people.
Svetlana was born and raised in the Black Sea in Yalta. She studied at the Yalta Art School, graduated Glukhovsky Pedagogical Institute, named by Sergeyev-Tsensky, specialtized in Fine Art. She lives and works in the city of Dnipropetrovsk. Her works adorn private collections in Ukraine, Russia, Germany and Israel.

Kahlil Gibran | Sulla Parola

Ed allora uno studioso disse:

Spiegaci la Parola.

E lui rispose dicendo:

Voi parlate quando avete perduto la pace con i vostri pensieri;

E quando non potete più sopportare la solitudine del cuore voi vivete sulle labbra,

e il suono vi è di svago e passatempo.

George Lundeen | Departure

Pere Pruna | Portrait /Figurative painter

Pere Pruna Ocerans (Barcelona, 1904-1977) painter and Illustrator after 1940 spent long seasons in Sitges, where he painted many female portraits and decorated the baptistery and the Virgen de Montserrat's chapel in the Sitges Parish Church.

He was a Picasso🎨 student, through who he kept in touch with the intellectual avant-garde of Paris. He exhibited his works in several countries. He focused on portraits and especially in the feminine figure, with mythology scenes.

Willem Haenraets ~ Floral Still Life

Willem Haenraets 1940 is an Hollandaise painter. - "I was born in Heerlen, which is a town in the south of the Netherlands. When I was sixteen, I started my education at the City Acadamy at Maastricht. After I graduated, I was awarded a scolarship to study at the Belgium National Institute for Fine Arts at Antwerp and I became a student of Professor Sarina (Atelier Opsomer) and Professor Vaarten. During my life I exhibitioned successfully in the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Japan and the United States. Since three years I live with my wife Thea in Spain, in the vicinity of Alicante".

Willem Haenraets ~ The Idyllic Garden

Willem Haenraets 1940, is an Hollandaise painter, known for the Plein-air watercolors street scenes. With soft colors, the artist conjures up a romantic world of beautiful illusion on his canvasses in the Impressionist style.

Mustafa Özbakir, 1982

Mustafa Özbakir, Turkish painter, was born in Adana. He graduated from the workshop of Cebrail Ötgün in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Mersin University in 2005. In the same year, he won a merit award in the 66th State Painting and Sculpture Competition. In 2006, he received first prize in the Second Painting Competition, which was held in the name of mayor in Ümraniye. In 2008, he received a merit award in the 69th State Painting and Sculpture Competition. Currently, Özbakır continues to paint at his workshop in Adana.

Carl Heinrich Bloch | Post-Romantic painter

Carl Heinrich Bloch (May 23, 1834 - February 22, 1890) was a Danish painter.

He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and studied with Wilhelm Marstrand at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi) there.

Bloch's parents wanted their son to enter a respectable profession - an officer in the Navy.

This, however, was not what Carl wanted.

Kay Ruane, 1956 | Outside the window

Kay Ruane is an American painter.

For years I've been drawing figures inside a room with micro landscapes out the windows. I think of the drawings as dioramas, or tiny graphite worlds.

At first these drawings were formal in imagery, as well as strictly black and white. Recently, I'm paying a lot more attention to details like the kind of flower, the title of a book on the table or a painting on the wall.

I want these details to relate to specific themes in each drawing, with a dose of humor and sexuality.

Gil Bruvel, 1959 | Visionary painter / sculptor

Award winning🎨 painter Gil Bruvel creates works of art with quality reminiscent of the Old Masters in a distinct Visionary style. Born in Sydney, Australia, Gil Bruvel's French-born parents moved the family back to the south of France when he was 4 years old.
Gil's father, being a cabinetmaker, introduced the budding artist to the inner workings of a wood workshop including furniture design, its practical function, and every aspect of hand crafting each piece.

Thereafter he set up his studio in St. Remy de Provence until 1986 when he first made his way to the United States, making it his permanent residence in 1990.
At that time he started to experiment more with sculptures in bronze, mixed media and digital modeling as well as continuing to learn about creative processes in artistic expression.

He is currently creating functional art, sculptures and paintings.

Gil Bruvel has been exhibiting his work since 1974 in various places around the world and including: France, Monaco, England, Denmark, The Netherlands, Hungary, Japan, Singapore, New York, Florida, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Hawaii.

His work has received many awards and his collectors span the globe.

Kahlil Gibran: "Sulla conoscenza"..

E un uomo disse:

Parlaci della Conoscenza.

E lui rispose dicendo:

Il vostro cuore conosce nel silenzio i segreti dei giorni e delle notti.

Ma il vostro orecchio è assetato dal rumore di quanto il cuore conosce.

Vorreste esprimere ciò che avete sempre pensato.

Vorreste toccare con mano il corpo nudo dei vostri sogni.

Vladimir Kush 1965 | Russian Surrealist painter

Adam Martinakis, 1972 | Surrealist Digital painter

Polish painter Adam Martinakis was born in Lubań. Since 1982 lives and works in Athens, Greece.

Studied in T.E.I. Of Athens, Faculty of Interior Architecture, Decorative Arts and Industrial Design.

Since 2000 has been working on digital arts: digital image, 3D animation, graphics, web design, video and multimedia.

Since 2006 is teaching digital graphics on Hellenic American Educational Foundation, Athens College.

Luci d'Inverno | I paesaggi Led di Giappone

Uno dei posti più belli del Giappone è sicuramente il giardino botanico Nabano No Sato dell’isola Negashima, un giardino fiorito con delle giganti serre, che si trova nel quartiere di Kuwana città.

Durante i mesi invernali, in occasione del Festival Invernale delle Luminarie, il parco ed il famoso tunnel della luce, vengono illuminati da decorazioni, milioni di Led, luci e colori che creando dei spettacolari paesaggi, mentre il cielo si illumina di vari arcobaleni. Quest'anno il festival sarà aperto fino al 31 marzo del 2013.

Xing Jianjian, 1959 | Figurative painter

Xing Jianjian's creations incorporate elements of expressionism and symbolism in the delicate and subtle classical realism, so the presentation of his works is not only beautiful and delicate, but also lyrical and allegorical.

In 1986, Chinese painter Xing Jianjian / 邢健健 graduated from Nanjing University of the Arts majoring in oil painting with a bachelor's degree and stayed on as a teacher there.

Talon Abraxas, 1980 | Surrealist / Symbolist painter

Talon Abraxas, is an British painter🎨, born in South London, England. A self-taught artist, he is known for works that consist of a combination of traditional and digital images, creating surreal landscapes that have a believable dream-like quality.

Inspiration is drawn from mystical artists and thinkers such as Austin Osman Spare, Jean Delville, Hieronymus Bosch, HR Giger, Beksinski and Aleister Crowley.

He considers himself a symbolist painter, writer and occultist committed to spiritual esotericism. His vision is of the artist as a spontaneously developed initiate whose mission is to send light, spirituality and mysticism into the world.

Eugene Paprocki, 1971 | The impressionist city

Eugene J. Paprocki🎨 is a Chicago born painter who has been featured in 14 one-man exhibitions in two continents. He has always dabbled in painting, even in his childhood.

He formally studied Fine Art at Loyola University in Chicago. To augment his already considerable skill, he traveled the world extensively, visiting the work of the great masters.

Talon Abraxas, 1980 | Surrealist painter

British painter🎨 Talon Abraxas was born in South London. A self-taught artist, he is known for works that consist of a combination of traditional and digital images, creating surreal landscapes that have a believable dream-like quality.

Inspiration is drawn from mystical artists and thinkers such as Austin Osman Spare, Jean Delville, Hieronymus Bosch, HR Giger, Beksinski and Aleister Crowley.

He considers himself a symbolist painter, writer and occultist committed to spiritual esotericism.

His vision is of the artist as a spontaneously developed initiate whose mission is to send light, spirituality and mysticism into the world.

Megan Noel | Watercolour painter

Megan Noël is an American painter🎨, illustrator, textile and mixed media artist working in the Northwest. For many years she has been known for her beadwork, but in recent years has chosen to focus more on her equally intricate painting and illustrations.

Her favorite media are watercolor and pen and ink. Her paintings and illustrations range from dreamy and surreal to delicate and whimsical. She seeks not to create masterpieces to grace the walls of museums, but rather to create smaller more intimate works to fit into the lives of readers and writers, poets and dreamers, mother, fathers, and everyday folk.

Kirk Reinert, 1955 | Fantasy painter

Kirk Reinert is an American master in the genres of Fantasy, horror, and science fiction. Kirk discovered that drawing was a natural talent at a very early age having been introduced to art by his grandfather, a sports cartoonist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and his uncle, an animator.

Kirk graduated from Cooper School of Art with a degree in production art and design but is a self-taught painter. Upon graduation, he worked in advertising as an illustrator and designer and after 3 1/2 years went on to establish his own studio in 1981.

Frankief | Abstract Fractal Art

Frankief, real name Frankie, is an American Abstract Digital painter.

Frankief from Watkins Colorado, is known for her amazing 3D Fractal artwork.

Karl Kaufmann | Landscape painter

Karl Kaufmann (1843-1902) started his artistic education at the Academy of Vienna. He subsequently travelled through European countries, such as Norway, the Netherlands, Germany or Italy.

Kaufmann developed a sensitive feeling for environments and atmospheres, which helped him to specialise in landscape and architectural painting.

One special feature of his oeuvre is his habit to sign his works with pseudonyms.

For instance, the names 'B. Lambert', 'Charles Marchand' or 'C. Charpentier' are well-known signatures by Kaufmann. The majority of his works belongs to private collections.

Louise Rayner | Watercolour Cityscape painter

Louise Ingram Rayner (21 June 1832 - 8 October 1924) was a British** watercolour artist.

• Family

Rayner was born in Matlock Bath in Derbyshire. Her parents Samuel Rayner and Ann Rayner (née Manser) were both noted artists, Samuel having been accepted for exhibition at the Royal Academy when he was 15. Four of Louise's sisters - Ann ("Nancy"), Margaret, Rose and Frances - and her brother Richard were also artists.

Pablo Picasso: "Non giudicare sbagliato ciò che non conosci.."

❝Non giudicare sbagliato ciò che non conosci, prendi l'occasione per comprendere!❞

Juarez Machado | Le serigrafie

Juarez Machado è un pittore Brasiliano, noto per le sue Figure in Art Déco style.

Parte della sua produzione sono anche le Serigrafie che vi presento.

Oltre a dedicarsi alla pittura, è anche scultore, disegnatore, caricaturista, mimo, designer, scenografo, scrittore, fotografo e attore.

Nel 1954 si trasferisce a Curitiba, dove s'iscrive alla Scuola di Musica e Belle Arti di Paraná.

D'Annunzio / Antonio Sgarbossa | Rimani / Stay!

Rimani! Riposati accanto a me.
Non te ne andare.
Io ti veglierò. Io ti proteggerò.
Ti pentirai di tutto fuorchè d'essere venuto a me, liberamente, fieramente.
Ti amo. Non ho nessun pensiero che non sia tuo;
non ho nel sangue nessun desiderio che non sia per te.
Lo sai. Non vedo nella mia vita altro compagno, non vedo altra gioia
Rimani.
Riposati. Non temere di nulla.
Dormi stanotte sul mio cuore....

Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938) Scrittore, poeta, drammaturgo, militare, politico e giornalista italiano.

Antonio Sgarbossa, 1945 | Dreaming In Venice

Antonio Sgarbossa was born in Fontana Viva, Italy

He started his artistic career at the age of twelve, attending an artistic ceramics workshop in Bassano.

In 1971 he moved to Nouchatel, in Switzerland, where he lived for a few years. It was here with a group of European artists that he gave life to an art studio, named the "La Soffitta" (Attic) and was first recognized for his work.

Antonio Sgarbossa, 1945 | Waiting...

Antonio Sgarbossa is an Italian painter, known for working in the Figurative style.
Sgarbossa was born in Fontana Viva, Italy, the 18th of July 1945. He started to use oil colors when he was really young and a few time later, his parents decided to send him to study in a workshop the technique of painting pot dishes.

Anton Yakutovych, 1957 | Magic Realism painter

Born in Kiev, Anton Yakutovych [Антон Якутович] Ukrainian painter, lives and works in Paris.
He grew up in an artists' family, and graduated from the National Academy of the Arts and Architecture of Kiev.
Anton has been practicing drawing, etching, lithography and painting since his early childhood.
For him, these disciplines are complementary and about them he says: «graphic arts maintain rigour, painting, a spirit of freedom ".

John Collier | Pre-Raphaelite painter

The Honourable John Maler Collier, called 'Jack' by his family and friends, was a leading British painter and an writer.

He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation.

Both his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry Huxley.

He studied painting at the Munich Academy where he enrolled on 14 April 1875 at the age of 25.

Franco Gentilini (1909-1981)

Italian painter Franco Gentilini was born in 1909 in Faenza (RA), Italy. Worked as a ceramist in Faenza and collaborated with Giovanni Romagnoli and Giorgio Morandi in Bologna.

He took part in numerous editions of the Venice Biennale, beginning with the acceptance of his work for the 17th Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Città of Venice in 1930, when he also visited Paris.

Sebastian Krüger, 1963 | New Pop Art

Sebastian Krüger is a German painter and caricaturist.

His primary medium is acrylic paint, and his caricatures are hyper-realistic in detail, yet also extremely grotesque in their distortion.

The Times praised him for "capturing the essence of his subjects" in his renderings.

He is well known for his lifelike depictions of The Rolling Stones, in particular, Keith Richards.

Fernando Amorsolo | Pittore di genere

Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto, semplicemente noto come Fernando Amorsolo (Manila, 30 maggio 1892 - Manila, 24 aprile 1972) è stato un pittore Filippino, considerato uno dei protagonisti assoluti dello scenario artistico filippino del XX secolo.

Tra i pionieri della pittura nel Paese, assieme a Juan Luna e Fernando Zóbel, Amorsolo fu ritrattista e pittore di paesaggi rurali filippini, particolarmente noto per il suo tocco “artigianale” e la maestria nell'uso della luce e dell'ombra.

Nativo del quartiere di Paco, terminò i propri studi presso il Liceo de Manila Art School nel 1909.

Paul Signac | Neo-impressionist painter

French painter Paul Signac (1863-1935) was born in Paris.

He followed a course of training in architecture before deciding at the age of 18 to pursue a career as a painter.

He sailed around the coasts of Europe, painting the landscapes he encountered.

He also painted scenes of cities in France in his later years.

Clarence Holbrook Carter (1904-2000)

Clarence Holbrook Carter born in Portsmouth, Ohio, was an American painter.

Carter's work is found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; the James A. Michener Art Museum; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; and many others.

Zuckerberg ammete lo sbaglio. Ritorna la vecchia grafica per i Profili Facebook!!

Dopo le proteste degli utenti che riguardavano il Timeline/Diario per i profili, introdotto lo scorso dicembre, Facebook sta provvedendo di tornare alle origini, testando un nuovo look per il Timeline/Diario, molto assomigliante al precedente, riportando la Timeline/Diario ad una sola colonna. Infatti, sullo stesso Facebook, la pagina "Odio la Timeline di Facebook e voglio cambiarla subito" raccolse migliaia di commenti ed altretanto "mi piace".
La notizia che Facebook starebbe testando un nuovo look per i profili degli utenti è stata annunciata dal blog statunitense Mashable.com.

 Mark Elliot Zuckerberg 1984 | American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur

Lyonel Feininger | Cubist/Expressionist painter

Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956), American-born German painter, was the son of a concert violinist and a singer and pianist from Germany.

In 1887 Feininger followed his parents to Europe, where he attended the drawing and painting class at the "Gewerbeschule" in Hamburg and then studied at the "Königliche Kunst-Akademie" in Berlin from 1888-1892.

For one year he subsequently attended the private art school of the Italian sculptor Filippo Colarossi in Paris.

Kandinsky a Pisa | In esposizione 50 opere

Attraverso 50 opere provenienti in gran parte dal Museo di Stato Russo di San Pietroburgo e da collezioni private, il Palazzo Blu di Pisa, fino a 3 febbraio del 2013, ospiterà la magnifica produzione artistica del padre dell'Astrattismo, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944).

L'esposizione, tra inediti e capolavori, ripercorre 20 anni di produzione del celebre pittore russo, quella tra il 1901-1922, quando Kandinsky accettò di insegnare al Bauhaus School insieme a Paul Klee (1879-1940), incarico offertogli da Walter Adolph Gropius (1883-1969), uno dei maestri del Movimento Moderno in Architettura.

Fabian Perez, 1967 | Flamenco Dancers

Growing up in Argentina, Fabian Perez - Argentine painter, developed a fondness for art through his parents, who possessed strong creative sides but were never professional artists. His mother drew, and it rubbed off on Perez, who excelled in art classes and painted murals on the walls of his school at his teachers' requests.

La Cappella Sistina compie 500 anni

Giulio II inaugurò la conclusione della volta della Cappella Sistina celebrando i vespri del 31 ottobre 1512.
Ieri sera alle 18.00, con la Celebrazione della Solennità di Tutti i Santi nella Cappella Sistina, Benedetto XVI, ripeteva lo stesso gesto in omaggio al capolavoro assoluto di Michelangelo a 500 anni di distanza esatti.

Sir Edward Burne-Jones | Pittore Preraffaellita

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898), pittore Britannico, fu il rappresentante più significativo della scuola Pre-Raffaellita in Inghilterra od anche gli ultimi romantici.

"Io aspiro ad un quadro come un bellissimo romantico sogno, di qualcosa che mai è stato e mai sarà - in una luce migliore di qualsiasi altra luce mai mostrata - in una terra che nessuno può definire, o ricordare, solo desiderare".

Due sue opere, la Crocifissione e l'Albero della vita, sono conservate nella chiesa romana di S.Paolo.

Julianna Pasadena | Figurative painter

Achieving both national and international recognition, American painter Julianna Pasadena, has traveled throughout Italy, Holland, Turkey, India, Spain, Austria, et. al. allowing Julianna to understand the cultural milieu in which the Masters lived and to study their works directly.

Julianna is the quintessential Renaissance woman in that her work is a creative blending of the classical and the contemporary.

Papa Wojtyła back in Vatican with Tomasz Rut

The art of Tomasz Rut, recently included in the Vatican Collection and blessed by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, continues to expand the realm of contemporary figurative painting to the limits achieved only by the greatest art masters in history.

Painted earlier this year to commemorate the beatification of John Paul II, the two originals on canvas: "Nolite Timere" and "Be Not Afraid" pay tribute to the beloved late Pope and depict John Paul II as the Saint and as the charismatic leader of the world accompanied by another legendary figure behind the political changes of the twentieth century, the first President of democratic Poland, Lech Walesa.

Be Not Afraid | Tomasz Rut, 1961

Tomasz Rut in the Vatican Collection

On wednesday, October 12.2011, during Tomasz Rut's audience with His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI , attended by thousands of spectators from around the world at the St. Peter's square in the Vatican, two large paintings by Tomasz Rut became part of the collection at St. Peter's cathedral after being blessed by the Holy Father.

Mark Keller ~ Figurative painter

Mark Keller, American painter, is a self-taught artist from San Francisco who provokes the imagination with masterful subtlety and grace. Multi-award winning with widespread International acclaim, Mark’s work is about telling stories - intrigue for the audience to unfold.
The depth and superb execution of his work, full of cryptic clues and mystery, has established him as one of the world’s leading artists. From Buenos Aires tango bars to New York street musicians he evokes audible and visual emotions like few others.

Renso Castaneda, 1970 | Figurative painter

Renso Zevallos Castaneda, Peruvian painter, was born in Lima. Graduateded of the National School autonomous superior of Beautiful Arts of Peru in the specialty of Painting of 1989-95.

- "I started to paint a long time ago, I don not remember exactly when, what I remember is always there were paintings in my home.. why?

My mother is an artist like my father, my uncle, my aunt… unfortunately not too much people knows about them, well it was impossible to choose another thing to do, I always enjoyed make copies from famous artists and now I like to do realistic paintings to imitate the texture of the skin, the shadows, the lights. I feel a great satisfaction when I finish a painting besides it is not a easy work to do".

Juan Medina, 1950 | Hyperrealist / Surrealist painter

Mexican painter Juan Medina was born in Mexico City. In the beginning it was shape, then came light, afterwards color and finally texture; as in the architectonic creation, the genesis of Juan Medina’s pictorial work rests on a solid structure of techniques and concepts that weave in plastic dimensions his memories made of oil and canvas.
With time, the step from watercolor to oil was the resource that allowed him to approach with mastery the conscience of time encrusted in stone, wood, mirrors and all model object that transfers Renaissance rhetoric without moralizing it.