Krishna Ashok, 1964 | Figurative painter

Born in Mangalagiri, in Guntur district, Krishna Ashok, Indian painter, has received his Bachelor in Fine Arts degree from Osmania University, Hyderabad.

He has held several group and solo shows in various parts of the country and abroad.

His major solo shows include those in Shristi Art Gallery, Hyderabad in 2005 and 08; Nehru Centre, Mumbai, 2008; Kalahita Art Foundation, 2007; Karnataka Chitra Kala Parishat, 2005.

His other shows are ITC Windsor, Bangalore, 2011; Vinnyasa Premiere Art Gallery, Chennai, 2008; Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, 2008; Leela Lounges, New York, USA, 2007; Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, Shilparamam, Hyderabad; Chitrakala Parishat, Bangalore, 2005; Coraco, West Indies, 2005; at Hong Kong presented by Gallery Sumukha, in 2005.

Joel Rougie, 1957

Après des études aux Beaux-arts d'Angers, il intègre le fameux atelier Vocreschensky, et y perfectionne son dessin, la composition, et l'utilisation de la matière. Il y apprend aussi à maitriser les techniques de la peinture à l'huile et des glacis dans le respect des traditions. Il réalise sa première exposition personnelle en 1980 à Angers, il a 23 ans, travaillant la journée dans une entreprise, il doit alors peindre la nuit. Il se consacrera exclusivement à la peinture à partir de 1986. 

Federico Andreotti | Genre painter

Federico Andreotti, Italian painter*, was born in Florence and received his artistic training at the Academy in Florence. There he studied with Enrico Pollastrini (1817-1876), the President of the Academy, and Angiolo Tricca (1817-1884).
His academic studies prepared him well for his chosen subject matter: historical figurative works set in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The late 19th century saw a resurgence of interest in this period of elegance and many artists, including Toudouze and Moreau, in France, Marcus Stone, in England and Madrazo, in Spain, also looked to satisfy the growing need for these works.

Valery Star / Валери Стар, 1986 | Body painter

Valery Star was born in Kiev, Ukraine.

I`m professional body painter. The director of body painting studio "ValeryStar studio".

We take up questions and propositions about body painting show, hostess, advertisements, photo shootings with body painting.

Valery Star is a top DJane from Ukraine whose performances are always in a high demand.

She is not only a professional musician, producer but also she stages show-ballet performances, unqiue shows, body-art ballet and Valery is also a head of VALERY STAR Production.

Her body-art projects are well known all over the world, and her tour schedule is constantly packed with dates in many countries on different continents.

In 2012 alone Valery has performed in more than 10 countries in Europe and Asia -Austria, Germany, China, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan.

Jean-Claude Campana, 1941 | It's Carnival time

Jean-Claude Campana is an French painter, who has been painting for more than thirty years, started his career by exhibiting together with Baboulène, Buffet, Hilaire, Brayer...

The approach of these Masters encourages the talent of Campana, who already in his youth, builds up a strong character.

Strengthened by his expérience in surrealism, symbolism and realism, Jean-Claude Campana has been devoted to Venice since about a fifteen years, in a very personal style.

Vito Loli, 1954 | Surrealist painter

Vito Loli, Peruvian painter, is a self-made artist who knows how to effectively combine various techniques and materials to depict his passion for nature and women figures.

Besides, he is committed to fighting for environmental sustainability, particularly in his country, Peru, which has the largest biodiversity in the world in its many species.

Most of his work merges these two passions, achieving very personal images, full of magic and a direct and provoking message.

Through his work, the artist shares his introspective journey, using nature as a metaphor.

Jean-Baptiste Valadié, 1933

Jean-Baptiste Valadie', French painter, was born on 29th December 1933 and has a diploma in applied art. Since 1970, his passion for travelling has taken him all over the world and the regularly exhibits in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, as well as in France and Europe. "The work of art is first and foremost the result of fantasy, dreams, irrationality and sensuality". Several monographs have been dedicated to this major artist specialising in women who also works in lithography, engraving, tapestry, sculpture.

Samantha Keely Smith | oul of the City

Samantha Keely Smith, American painter, working and living in New York.

Her art represents a striving to reconcile the inner world of instinct and the tidal sweep of our emotional life, with an external world that is both beautiful and hostile in its natural grandeur.

Samantha Keely Smith's paintings are landscapes that play at the edge of abstraction, blurring between light-filled fields and non-objective compositions.

Jessilyn Park ~ Symphony of the Soul

Jessilyn Park, American painter, has gone from first time painter in Orlando to internationally recognized, award-winning Artist. She's appearing all over the web, in art festivals, magazine covers and big local events. Her art is well sought after and has caught the eye of many collectors. Jessilyn uses bright colors and likes to capture “love and light”.

Adrian Chesterman, 1955 ~ Fantastic Realism illustrator

Born in London of Scottish descent, Adrian Chesterman, British painter and illustrator, was educated at the William Harvey School in Kent. It was here that he first discovered his burning passion for the visual arts. This flame was further fanned by Rochester College of Design and subsequently at Norwich School of Art where he gained an honorary Bachelor of Arts degree and a place at the Royal College of Art in London for a post-graduate, Master-of-Arts, degree course. Since leaving college, Chesterman has worked in just about every sphere of the two- dimensional art world; Illustrator, portraitist, oil painting, fine artist, lecturer and gallery owner. He is currently living, and painting like a man possessed, in Andalucia. Spain.

Chris Jordan, 1963 ~ Intollerabile bellezza

Con delle bizzarre e monumentali fotografie a colori vivaci, immagini e composizioni suggestive, il fotografo Americano Chris Jordan, denunzia gli effetti della società consumistica improntata ad un frenetico "usa-e-getta", come l'uccello morto, in stato di decomposizione e con la pancia piena zeppa di plastica, che l’uccello ha probabilmente mangiato scambiandolo per cibo!

Alina Sibera ~ Figurative painter

Alina Sibera, Polish painter, graduated Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Faculty of Graphic Arts in Katowice. Graduated in 1977 from book illustrations and graphic design planning. Deals mainly with painting, drawing and pastel. He is a member of the Association of Polish Pastel. Since 1979 he had 14 solo exhibitions and 36 group exhibitions at home and abroad.

Dima Dmitriev, 1974 | Impressionist painter

Дима Дмитриев, Russian painter, was born in Moscow and is the second generation of artists in his family. He moved to Prague, Czech Republic, where he graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design. As his paintings gained attention and praise at fine art exhibitions throughout Europe, Dima became one of the most talked about young artists living in Prague’s flourishing artistic community. Dmitriev has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Europe, North America and Asia.

Lyubomir Kolarov, 1959 | Abstract painter

Lyubomir Kolarov born in Rousse, Bulgaria in 1959.
Lives and works in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Artworks in many private collection is USA, Germany.

Francois Gerome | La Belle Époque

Francois Gerome, French painter, was born in Paris in 1895. Is best known for his impressionist scenes of young women in Paris and scenes of Paris at the turn of the last century. Similar in style and technique to the work of Edouard Cortes, Galien-Laloue and Antoine Blanchard, Gerome has strong auction records. Gerome used oils, typically on canvas or on board. Gerome typically signed his paintings with his first initial and last name.

Susan Seddon-Boulet | Visionary painter

Susan Seddon Boulet (1941-1997) Brazilian-born American painter*, was born in Brazil of British parents who had emigrated from South Africa.

Ms. Boulet's early childhood was spent on a large citrus and cattle ranch. She loved the connection to nature offered by farm life and enjoyed a rich fantasy life fed by folk tales told her by her father and by the farmworkers. Encouraged by her father, she began drawing; her first subjects were the cows and horses of the farm. While Boulet took art classes off and on during her life, beginning in her finishing school years in Lusanne, Switzerland, she never studied art formally. She said, in fact, that she never planned on becoming an artist, the vocation came to her as by accident.

Bayram Salamov / Байрам Саламов, 1965

Bayram Salamov [Байрам Саламов] is born in 1965 in a suburb Gohmug Shaki (Azerbaijan).

In 1988, he graduated from Azerbaijan State Art College. Azim Azim-Zade in Baku.

He worked as a set designer in Sheki Drama Theater. S. Rahmon.

In Togliatti lives since 1990.

In 2001 he was awarded** the "Grand Prix" for his work "Family musician" in the "Picture of the Year", Togliatti held art gallery.

Member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia.

His works are in private collections in Russia, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Canada, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Ireland, England.

Auguste Rodin: "Io non invento. Io riscopro"

"L'artista deve creare una scintilla prima di poter accendere il fuoco e prima che l'arte nasca; l'artista deve essere pronto ad essere consumato dal fuoco della propria creazione".

"Non vi è una perdita di tempo se si utilizza l'esperienza con saggezza".

"Ci sono forze sconosciute in natura; quando ci doniamo totalmente a lei, senza riserve, lei le presta a noi; lei ci mostra queste forme, che i nostri occhi che guardano non vedono, che la nostra intelligenza non capisce o nemmeno sospetta".

Christophe Jacrot ~ Paris under the Rain

Christophe Jacrot, French photographer, lives and works in Paris. He started off in the film industry, before moving on to photography, his first passion. Christophe started photographing the rain by accident. “I had an order for a travel book about Paris, and sun was a pre-requisite for all the photos! But the weather was desperately rotten, and that is how I had the idea of starting the Paris in the rain series. It was a sort of contradiction…”

Roman Urbinskiy /Роман Урбинский, 1977

Roman Urbinskiy [Роман Урбинский] Russian painter, was born in Novosibirsk in 1977. He studied at the Novosibirsk State Architectural Academy - Department of monumental and decorative art. Participated in the publication of the local children’s magazine, and worked in advertising, created varoius images for printing products, taught at school, studied ceramics and painting from time to time. Since 2008 Roman has been engaged in caricature. Winner of three art competitions of cartoonists, participated in exhibitions. The Siberian artist works in different genres of painting - realism, abstractionism, postmodernism. His works are in private collections in Russia, USA, New Zealand, Italy.

Abstract Fractal Art

Fu il matematico Benoît Mandelbrot [1924-2010] a creare il nome frattale nel 1975, quando, cercando un nome che potesse descrivere i suoi oggetti, sfogliando il vocabolario di latino del figlio, s'imbatté nell'aggettivo fractus, che, per la sua risonanza con parole come frattura e frazione, sembrò adattissimo allo scopo. Il suo lavoro fu pubblicato nel libro "Les objets fractals, forn, hasard et dimension", 1975 e più compiutamente nel libro "The fractal geometry of nature" in 1982.

Il successo fu travolgente. Oggi i frattali irrompono in ogni campo: suscitano l'interesse degli scienziati e la curiosità del grande pubblico, al punto che oggetti frattali si trovano comunemente in vendita.

Matthew Cusick, 1970 ~ Paints with Maps

Matthew Cusick, American painter, was born in New York City and graduated from The Cooper Union with a BFA in 1993. His work has been exhibited internationally since 1996, including New York City gallery shows at Andrew Kreps, Kent, and Pavel Zoubok. Cusick was the recipient of a NYFA painting fellowship in 2006 and The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art residency fellowship in 2008. He has been a visiting artist and lecturer at The Cooper Union and at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His work is held in numerous public and private collections including the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art and the Progressive Art Collection.

Leo Stans, 1953 ~ Evening Falls

Leo Stans 1953, American painter, was born and raised in Chaska, Minnesota. 'I am a professional artist who has been creating art full-time for over thirty years. I specialize in wildlife, landscapes, cityscapes, still life and humor, using techniques of traditional fine art. In 1991 I was commissioned to paint “The National Park Series”, which was sold as framed prints. In 2002, seeking fresh artistic direction, I began to paint landscapes of the Southwest and historical street scenes situated in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Brent Heighton, 1954 ~ Romantic Evening

Brent Heighton, Canadian painter, has been a professional artist for over 32 years. His career in fine arts has allowed him to travel throughout the world in search of adventure and subjects to paint. He is an explorer by nature, constantly trying out innovative techniques. He paints with intensity and economy, rarely wasting a motion or brush stroke, and is often called upon to give instruction in the art of painting. Brent Heighton’s watercolors, oils and acrylics have won many awards and are found in corporate and private collections in more than 25 countries.

Juan Soler, 1951 | Parisian Streets

Spanish painter Juan Alberto Soler Miret moved to Madrid very young and started in Art by himself.

As a result of his visits to the Museo del Prado he showed special interest in the work of Dutch and Flemish painters such as Vermeer, Holbein and Dürer, from which it attracts not only the subject, but his mastery of technique and design.

He was also interested in artists as diverse as Botticelli, Salvador Dalì or Ingres, which will undoubtedly mark his later work.

Joseph Edward Southall | Arts and Craft Movement

Joseph Edward Southall (1861-1944) was an British painter associated with the Arts and Crafts movement.

A leading figure in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century revival of painting in tempera, Southall was the leader of the Birmingham Group of Artist-Craftsmen, one of the last outposts of Romanticism in the visual arts, and an important link between the later Pre-Raphaelites and the turn of the century Slade Symbolists.

Jim Hansel, 1960 | Wildlife / Landscape painter

Jim Hansel was born in Chaska, MN. and began painting at the age of 15. He developed his artistic skills while attending the University of Minnesota, where he graduated with a B.F.A. degree in commercial art in 1985.
In 1989, Hansel was a featured artist in the Courage Card Collection.
He was also a semi-finalist in the Minnesota Deer Hunter's Assn. print competition, several times, a finalist in the Colorado Duck Stamp Competition.

Makoto Muramatsu, 1947

Makoto Muramatsu / 村松誠, è un illustratore Giapponese, in special modo di gatti, ma anche di tanti altri animali.

Le espressioni dei suoi animali, un misto di umorismo e dolcezza deliziosamente fusi insieme, fanno riconoscere immediatamente lo stile di Muramatsu, non appena se ne sia visto uno.

Le sue tenere e buffe immagini hanno fatto il giro del mondo, soprattutto sotto forma di puzzle.

Muramatsu ha ricevuto molti premi e riconoscimenti per la sua opera di illustratore.

Casey Baugh, 1984 ~ Figurative painter

Born in 1984 in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, Baugh’s earliest art instruction came around the age of four from his father and aunt who were artists by hobby. By the age of 13, Baugh was producing and selling work professionally. At age 14, he won his first regional competition and at age 17, he had won his first national competition. In the spring of 2004, he conducted his first workshop at the Village Arts of Putney in Vermont. In November of 2008 Baugh's painting titled "Erubescent" was featured on the cover of American Art Collector Magazine along with a powerful 4-page artist profile in the issue. Since then Baugh has made two television appearances and won numerous awards including the cover competition for American Artists Drawing Magazine. At only 26 years of age, Casey Baugh has established himself as a major name in the ever growing "Bridge Art" movement of artists. This innovative group of painters challenge the boundaries of representational art with their unique fusion of traditional painting techniques and contemporary approach and perspectives. His works have been exhibited in galleries world wide in both solo and group shows with Wendt Gallery.

Paul Gauguin | Post-Impressionist painter | Still life

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin [1848-1903] was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist and writer. His bold experimentation with colouring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. He was also an influential proponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms.

Daniel Wall, 1965 | Intense Impressionist painter

Daniel Wall is the originator of Intense Impressionism, which is characterized by unsurpassed intensity and boldness.

Started in the 1980s by Daniel Wall, Intense Impressionist techniques include big, conspicuous strokes created with palette knifes, extreme texture with heavy paints, intensified vibrant colors, and exaggerated striking effects of lights.

Daniel Wall's Intense Impressionist landscape and cityscape paintings are very much loved by the collectors around the world.

Sergey Ivchenko ~ Abstract Expressionist painter

Sergey Ivchenko [Сергей Ивченко] 1954-2008, Russian painter, was born in Frankfurt on the Oder, Germany. 1976 Graduated from Art Institute, Moscow, Russia. 1975-1991: worked in various art studios in the USSR. 1990: as a member of the group of artists took part in the action "Falling of the Berlin wall", Berlin, Germany. 1991 immigrated to Israel. 1992-1994 worked as a computer graphic artist, and then as an Art Director in the "Utopia" company, Haifa.

La nascita di Venere, 1863 | Émile Zola contro Cabanel

Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889), pittore francese, ottenne la grande fama nel 1863, con la Nascita di Venere, acquistata da Napoleone III nel 1863. Lo stesso anno, Cabanel venne nominato professore all'École des Beaux-Arts e membro dell'Académie des Beaux-Arts.

Cabanel, rigorosamente accademico nello stile, pittore di storia, di genere e ritrattista, fu nemico del Naturalismo e dell'Impressionismo, mentre fu attaccato dallo scrittore Émile Zola e da tutti coloro che difendevano la necessità di un'arte meno soave e più realista.

Monet: Ecco il mio atelier!

In una intervista, realizzata nell'aprile del 1880 da Emile Taboureux e pubblicata sul settimanale "Le Vie moderne" il 12 giugno 1880, al giornalista che gli chiedeva di mostrargli il suo studio, Claude Monet rispose:

- "Il mio atelier?

Ma non ho mai avuto un atelier, io, e non capisco come ci si possa chiudere in una stanza.

Per disegnare si, non certo per dipingere".

Quindi, in un gesto eloquente, puntato in direzione di Vétheuil e della Senna aggiunse:

- "Ecco il mio atelier!"

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Monet nel suo giardino, 1873

Kees van Dongen | Fauve painter

Cornelis Theodorus Maria "Kees" van Dongen (1877-1968) was a Dutch-French painter, who was one of the leading Fauves.

He took evening classes in geometric drawing from 1892-1897 at the Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Rotterdam.

In 1895 he began working intermittently for the newspaper Rotterdamsche Nieuwsblad, for which he made, among other things, a series of bright watercolour drawings of Rotterdam’s red-light district and illustrations of Queen Wilhelmina’s coronation.

Paul Cézanne, il pittore più pagato del 2012

Durante il 2012, Paul Cézanne 1839-1906, pittore post-impressionista francese, con il quadro "I giocatori di carte" 1890-1895, olio su tela, cm 47,5x57, è stato giudicato il pittore più pagato del mondo.
A febbraio, il quadro "I giocatori di carte" all'olio del pittore post impressionista, è stato comprato all'asta dalla famiglia reale del Qatar, mentre, il maggio scorso, un acquerello su carta, eseguito da Cézanne tra il 1892-1896 per lo studio preparatorio di 46 centimetri per 30 per il celebre capolavoro, è stato battuto all’asta da Christie’s a New York per 19,12 milioni di dollari - 14 milioni di euro.

I giocatori di carte - Acquerello di Paul Cézanne

Yuqi Wang, 1958 | Portrait painter

Yuqi Wang / 王玉琦 was born in China, 1958. He now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

His work has been collected by many public institutions, including: the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. , the Art Museum of Harvard University, China National Gallery, as well as by private collectors all over the world.

His work has been recognized with awards both nationally and internationally, winning the "Grand Prize" at The International Portrait Competition of the Portrait Society of America and "Second Prize" at The Portrait Competition of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C., among others.

Théo Van Rysselberghe and the Neo-impressionism

Théo (Théophile) van Rysselberghe (1862-1926) discovered the pointillist technique when he saw Georges Seurat's La Grande Jatte at the eighth impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1886.

Together with Henry Van de Velde, Georges Lemmen, Xavier Mellery, Willy Schlobach and Alfred William Finch and Anna Boch he "imported" this style to Belgium.

Seurat was invited to the next salon of Les XX in Brussels in 1887.

Giovanni Dalessi, 1964

Giovanni Dalessi undeniably belongs to the upper segment of Dutch realism.

His meaningful works are loved by a large audience.

Because he is able to put his own personal stamp on time-honored themes such as portrait, still life and landscape, he distinguishes himself from his colleagues.

Giovanni takes the subjects of his paintings from his immediate environment.

Nik Helbig, 1969 | Impressionist painter

Nicole Anne Chew-Helbig, Singaporean painter, was born 1969 in Singapore. Currently working in Austria.

Trained as a Biochemist, and used to own businesses in the service industry in Singapore.

Now is a full-time artist.

Nik's art is impressionistic, acrylics on canvas.

Mostly figurative, with a spiritual/mystical theme.

Danhui Nai ~ Antique roses

Danhui Nai, Chinese painter, was born and raised in mainland China. As the child of a sculptor and a painter it is no small wonder that she showed an interest in art at an early age. After college, Danhui Nai moved to New York City where she worked as a textile designer. She studied at the Fashion institute of Technology at night and also took a summer course in French costume and interior design in Paris. She has a flower garden outside her studio and loves to paint in the garden when weather permits. Her antique roses and other flowers are among her favorite subjects.

Jacques Prévert / Jean Hildebrant | Bussano...

Chi è

Nessuno

E' solo il mio cuore che batte

Che batte troppo forte

Per causa tua.

Jean Hildebrant - American Figurative painter

Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os | Flower painter

Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os (1782-1861), Dutch painter**, was a 19th century flower painter from the Northern Netherlands. According to the RKD he was a son and pupil of the flower painter Jan van Os and a brother of the painters Pieter van Os and Maria Margaretha van Os (1779-1862).
In 1809 he won the first prize of the Society Felix Meritis in Amsterdam for a still life in which genre he later specialized. Van Os became Ridder in de orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw in 1812.

Justyna Kopania | Abstract Palette Knife painter

- "My name is Justyna Kopania. I am a painter. Art is my asylum, life, poetry, music, the best cigar, tasty strong tea, everything.

My Art reflects the world I perceive with all my senses; people I meet and love; nature I admire, and all the things that affect the way I am.

The Man is my main inspiration and This Man is the principal topic of my project. I am focusing on Their psyche, attitudes, as well as Their appearance, manners and all the complex processes that take place both outside and inside the Man'.

Juliana Kolesova

Ульяна Колесова is an award winning graphics designer, illustrator and digital photographer. She received a master's degree in fine art and design from the Moscow School of Applied Arts. She then began her career as a painter and her pieces were displayed and sold in numerous exhibitions throughout Europe. Since that time she has worked as a graphic designer, illustrator and art director for various companies in Moscow in both the advertising and publishing industries.

Valentine Bartholomew

Valentine Bartholomew [1799-1879], British painter, became an early member of the Society of Painters in WaterColours, which he joined in 1835. He had a special talent for flower painting, a branch of art which he pursued with much success, his works being chiefly remarkable for the great care and the large scale on which they were carried out. "Azaleas" and "Camellias" are in the South Kensington Museum. Bartholomew held for many years the post of Flower painter in Ordinary to the Queen from 1837.

Marc Chagall / Jean de La Fontaine | Favole a Colori

Sono 300 le incisioni di Marc Chagall dedicate alle favole di La Fontaine, una suite di esemplari a grandi margini, colorate a mano e firmate dall'artista.

La splendida illustrazione delle Favole di La Fontaine, iniziata da Chagall nel 1927 e conclusasi tre anni dopo, fu eseguita su commissione di Ambroise Vollard.

Nel lontano 1927 "il fatto che Volard avesse scelto Chagall provocò vivaci polemiche... dal fatto che la Fontaine, "parte del patrimonio nazionale francese", venisse illustrato da un russo, un ebreo per giunta forestiero...

Kahlil Gibran / Alexander Khokhlov | Tristezza

Interrogo la tristezza e scopro

che non ha il dono della parola;

eppure, se potesse,

sono convinto che pronuncerebbe

una parola più dolce della gioia...

Alexander Khokhlov - Russian photographer