Kurt Anderson, 1957 | Floral / Figurative painter

Anderson is an oil painter who works in many genres - floral, landscape, figurative and portrait.

His paintings have been featured in many of the leading galleries and museums in the country, and they have been awarded top honors in many national competitions including the Oil Painters of America, the Open Market National, and International Artist magazine.

Anderson is the author or co-author of eight books on painting, including his most recent book "Expression by Design - The Art of Kurt Anderson".

Kim Starr, 1956 ~ Morning on Maui

Kim Starr, American painter, is the preeminent painter of Romantic Realism. Her meticulous attention to detail, combined with the artistic sensitivity of earlier masters, results in contemporary works of unparalleled beauty. For much of her life as a painter, Kim Starr created her art in serene and beautiful villages on the islands of Kauai and Maui. Inspired by the tropical paradise surrounding her, she reveals in each of her new works a unique combination of rare artistic vision and painterly technique. Viewers are drawn into the image and surrounded by its elegance. It is obvious that they are in the presence of a modern master.

Bruno Augusto Gavino, 1946 | Venetian Boats

Bruno Augusto Gavino, Italian painter, was born in Napoli, Italy.

An acknowledged master of landscape painting.

He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.

To date, the artist actively participates in numerous exhibitions of contemporary art, successfully running author shows his paintings.

The artworks are in private and public collections of contemporary art in Europe and the USA.

Exhibitions of his works were held in Monaco, Germany, USA, Hong Kong.

Masha Kurbatova / Мария Курбатова, 1969 | Watercolor painter

Мария Курбатова, illustratrice Russa, è nata a Саратов. Nel 1987-1989 ha studiato presso la Новосибирском художественном училище, e poi 2002-2007 presso Новосибирском Институте Искусств. I soggetti preferiti degli acquerelli della Kurbatova sono i personaggi romantici in costume d'epoca, figure e personaggi di fiabe, ballate, poesie - un mondo fantastico di pace, sogni e magia.

Harding Meyer, 1964 | Abstract / Portrait painter

Brazilian**-born painter Harding Meyer lives and works in Berlin and Karlsruhe where he paints these stunning, large-scale oil portraits. Vibrant colors and geometric brush stroke techniques brings life to each massive canvas.

The portraits’ subject maintains a direct stare giving each piece an almost eerie and mysterious ambiance.

The Flamenco Dancers ~ Pat McDonald

Pat McDonald, British painter, was born in Manchester, England.
His painting show big sensibility and beauty.

Koukei Kojima [小島光径] ~ The Cherry Blossoms

Paintings of Japanese artist are blooming irises, river, the trees above the river, streams, where trout splashing… fresh breeze from the river, drizzling warm rain and snow in the winter reigns the silence. The spring cherry blossoms and autumn golden trees silently drop onto the ground. Koukei Kojima paints in the style of "Sansam" so called landscape painting in Japan and dors it very well.

Vincent Van Gogh | Post-Impressionist painter

"What am I before the eyes of others? A useless, an eccentric, a person disagreeable; Suppose that happen, I would then show through my work, Inside the heart of this extravagant, My not be "nobody" - Vincent Van Gogh, dutch painter.

Alonso Pereira | Abstract Figurative painter

In a rigorous process of intense personal research and deep thought, through the use of oil painting technique have created a work in which within a timeless space appear diverse reminiscent forms as the focal point which seek a balance that erases the borderline between the figurative and abstraction, thus this way enveloping and submerging the spectator in an imaginary universe of forms, textures, hues of grays and brow-ochres, signs which have multiple possibilities of interpretation according to each spectator’s personal universe.

Winslow Homer | In Autumn Woods

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is regarded by many as the greatest American painter of the nineteenth century.

Born in Boston and raised in rural Cambridge, he began his career as a commercial printmaker, first in Boston and then in New York, where he settled in 1859.

He briefly studied oil painting in the spring of 1861.

In October of the same year, he was sent to the front in Virginia as an artist-correspondent for the new illustrated journal, Harper's Weekly.

Alan Fearnley, 1942 ~ Retro and Classic Car

Alan Fearnley, British painter, is known for his superb paintings of motor racing and Formula One around the world. Fearnley was born in Yorkshire, and studied at Batley College of Art. His early works established Alan as an artist of unique talent and quality. Over the past 30 or so years Alan had built up a wealth of subject matter, starting with landscapes and moving later into his well known transport and motor racing paintings, the work that started to flow reflected not only his special skills, but also his love and passion for both motoring and motor sport.

Lesley Anne Derks, 1977 | Cityscape painter

Lesley-Anne Derks, Scottish painter, was born in Scotland (Falkirk) and spent her childhood growing up in the industrial town of Grangemouth, with companies such as BP and ICI dominating the skyline with their buildings and plants, lighting up the sky at night with their orange glow. While at school it was this orange glow that would appear in some of her early paintings.

Leonardo Da Vinci | Il Trattato della pittura

"Credo che, invece che definire che cosa sia l'anima, che è una cosa che non si può vedere, molto meglio è studiare quelle cose che si possono conoscere con l'esperienza, poiché solo l'esperienza non falla.

E laddove non si può applicare una delle scienze matematiche, non si può avere la certezza",

scriveva il grande Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519.

Oggi esistono oltre 8.000 fogli di appunti, più di 16.000 pagine, con molte decine di migliaia di disegni lasciati da Leonardo, ma si ritiene che siano solo una piccola parte di ciò che ha scritto e disegnato.

La Monna Lisa di Afghanistan

Lo sguardo enigmatico della Ragazza Afgana [The Afghan Girl] dagli occhi verde ghiaccio, considerata La Monna Lisa dell'Afghanistan, è diventata l'icona della condizione dei profughi in tutto il mondo.
Facente parte del celeberrimo reportage di Steve McCurry, questa fotografia è stata scattata nel 1984 al campo profughi Nasir Bagh in Pakistan, vicino alla città di Peshawar, campo che ospitava i rifugiati fuggiti dall'Afghanistan occupato dai sovietici.

Peihang Huang, 1984 | Pop Art

Peihang Huang / 黃沛涵 was born in Taipei, Taiwan and is a full time artist.

Huang uses vibrant oil paints to create these dreamy, saccharine, and occasionally morbid portraits inspired by Barbie Dolls.

Taiwanese young artist Peihang Huang, as a young generation of the land in chaotic situation both cultural and political, her painting tap aim to Taiwan’s history while linking it to global culture by referencing Western Pop culture to portray her feeling about being Taiwanese.

Paul Boswijk, 1959 ~ Figurative painter

Paul Boswijk, Hollandaise painter, studied at the Art Academy Minerva in Groningen. Everything is in the paintings of Paul to the light. Whether in broad strips through a window enters or filtered through leaves on a face schijnt.Interieurs, hotel rooms, café terraces and in recent years also gardens and landscape, are the environments where Paul's models are. Because there are always people in his paintings. They are not portraits in the sense that only the person depicted is but the model is still an essential part of the schilderij. Paul paints a picture and tries here with no story to tell. Symbolism, deep meanings and high thoughts are with him not to be sought, and he is thus a real realist. De last time he works as many wet-on-wet, where previously a more layered technique was gehanteerd. Dit to as directly as possible result to obtain, though without much form and suggestion from losing.

Bec Winnel | Fashion illustrator

Bec Winnel is an accomplished Australian illustrator and artist. Winnel’s portraiture combines the illustrative precision of a graphic artist with the sophistication and emotiveness of a painter.

The ethereal quality of the her work is the result of carefully accreted layers of pencil, pastel and washes of paint.

Winnel’s work is delicate and otherworldly, and seems to border on the immaterial. Her imagery emerges from the surface like a dream state: soft, plush, and seemingly on the brink of dissolving into thin air.

Richard MacDonald, 1946 | Figurative sculptor | Cirque du Soleil

A native Californian, Richard MacDonald - American sculptor**, was educated at the prestigious Art Center College of Design and received a Bachelor of Professional Arts, Cum Laude.
In the 30 years of his artistic career, Richard MacDonald has achieved international distinction for his sculpture, paintings, and drawings, and has been the recipient of many national and international awards**.
He has also held numerous one-man shows and exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe and the Orient.
His fascination with the human figure and human emotions has led MacDonald to focus on sculpting figures of mimes, dancers and athletes, each of which conveys a sense of joy and pays tribute to the beauty of the human form.

Maksai János, 1954 ~ Figurative painter

Maksai János, Hungarian painter, was born in Debrecen. Learn the bases of painting at free schools of art from 1972. Since 1983 János taken part regularly in the work of international colonies of artists. János paintings were shown in several independent and collective exhibitions: in Budapest, Szentendre, Debrecen, Hajdúszoboszló and Tokaj. János pictures can be found in the homes of collectors in Austria, France, Germany, Poland and Australia. Hi work with oil technique on canvas. "I would like to paint the beauties of the world. I try to tell people in the language of painting in what a wonderful world of nature we are living, we must only behave in a human way for it. I live in Debrecen since 1990. I have been a freelance artist".

André Deymonaz, 1946 ~ Impressionist painter

André Deymonaz, French painter, was born in Casablanca, Morocco. The Deymonaz family settled in Provence, located in the south of France. This became an inspiration for Deymonaz, using light to elevate his subject matter contained the intimate moments of everyday French life.
André Deymonaz is a lover of nature who wants always to reflect its beauty, never to betray it. He approaches numerous themes without fear: market scenes, meeting places, Provence villages and intimate moments of ordinary people. He is capable of transmitting the beauty of the stalls, the atmosphere of the smoky cafes, where one can almost hear the laughs and noisy conversation.

Helen Cottle, 1962 ~ Red umbrella

Helen Cottle, American painter, born in bay side Williamstown, Victoria is a self-taught/self-educated artist who paints in all mediums in a realist/impressionist style. Helens artistic life began in early childhood; she would spend many hours drawing from life always seeking new subject matter. What began as a part time hobby over time evolved into a passion to express herself creativity in whatever medium called on to compliment the chosen subject. Helen was greatly encouraged by her high school art teachers to pursue a career in art and teaching; however she decided not to continue on and study art at university but decided to follow her own path of self education and exploration.

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 Street Scenes

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.