Igor Belkovsky / Игорь Белковский, 1962

Igor Belkovsky [Игорь Белковский] works in the classical realist style and fluent in technology multilayered paintings by old masters.
His paintings are meticulous execution, beautiful harmonies and attention to detail. When working on a portrait of the artist the most attention has focused face of the portrait and the transfer of its internal state.

Bill Bate, 1962

Born in Liverpool, British painter Bill Bate graduated from St. Martin's school of art with a BA in fine arts.

He works largely with oil and his particular characteristic is the nebulous smokey aurorer surrounding striking life forms which is enhanced only by his exquisite use of brush strokes.

Le Bagnanti nell'Arte

Il tema delle bagnanti "The Bathers" - l’inserimento delle figure nel paesaggio, occupa una parte cospicua nella produzione pittorica dei grandi maestri, diventando fondamentale per la stessa storia dell'Arte.

Le numerosissime tele di Cézanne influenzarono profondamente tutti i protagonisti delle avanguardie, da Matisse a Braque, da Picasso a Moore.

Soprattutto Picasso e Matisse, e tramite loro gran parte dei pittori del Novecento, pur attraverso percorsi diversi, gli saranno debitori di nuove possibilità espressive del linguaggio pittorico.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Guido Borelli, 1952 | Romantic painter

Italian painter Guido Borelli, known world wide for his lyrical landscapes and Italian village scenes has created an exclusive collection of original oil paintings for his February 2011 "The Return of The Master" Art Show.

Inspired by the movement of shadows, Guido's oil paintings reflect nature as their focal points depicting Italian landscapes, homes and villas of Northern Italy and the Alps.

His paintings capture the innocence of lost times and the nostalgia of long ago stories of the old country heard at his Grandfather’s knee.

Vakhtang Kakulia, 1974

Georgian painter Vakhtang Kakulia [Вахтанг Какулия] was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1985-1989 he studied at The School of Art in Tbilisi. In 1991 he entered the Tbilisi State Academy of Art and studied art design, interior and exterior design, monumental art and sculpture. He graduated in 1997. A unique style is evident in Vakhtang Kakulia's paintings. The technical aptitude demonstrated in his paintings is remarkable, and draws on his knowledge of classic painting. His paintings are complex in terms of subject, composition and color.

Théodore Gérard | Genre painter

Belgian painter Théodore Gérard (1829-1895) was an engraver and painter of genre scenes and drew much of his inspiration from the Low Countries.
Gérard studied at the Ghent Academy before moving to Brussels in 1863. Throughout his life he traveled around Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire exhibiting internationally.

Patricia Perrier-Radix, 1962 | Abstract figurative painter

Patricia Perrier-Radix was born in a small village located in the Monts du Lyonnais called Yzeron. As a gifted, self-educated woman, she had been drawing with passion for ages. Now thanks to her very distinct style, she mostly paints very contemporary - sometimes even abstract - figurative compositions with oil paints shaped by palette knives.

Vasko Taškovski, 1937 | Surrealist painter

Macedonian painter Vasko Taškovski finds inspiration from horses to produce surreal fantasies.

Using an array of vivid colors and varying landscapes, the painter transforms the ordinary creature into a robust yet agile stallion.

Most fascinating about Taškovski’s creations are the constructs and forms of the equestrian subjects.

In one of his elaborate paintings, the horse is militantly made of industrial materials, appearing like a giant Trojan horse.

Gennady Privedentsev, 1955 | Surrealist painter

A surrealist artist Gennady Privedentsev / Геннадий Приведенцев was born in Krasnodar City.

Studied at the Kuban State University at the faculty of technical and graphic arts. Graduated from the University in 1981.

A member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 1991.

A participant of the city, regional, zonal, republican, and international exhibitions since 1980.

Laurent Parcelier, 1962 | Impressionist painter

French painter Laurent Parcelier interested in art from an early age, Parcelier attended the Applied Arts School in Dordogne.

His obvious talent soon materialized into the publication of several of his albums called “Le Drole de monde” (“Strange World”).

His fame was beginning to spread and his way seemed all but traced out until the paining contest on the street where he was lent a canvas, paint and brushes.

Paul Cornoyer | Impressionist Painter

American painter Paul Cornoyer [1864-1923] was born in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1889 he went to Paris to study at the Académie Julian under Jules Lefebvre, Benjamin Constant and Louis Blanc. He is best known for his New York City street scenes. These are meticulously observed. His color scheme deliberately limited to the context of each painting.
His work is scattered throughout the country in Art Museums in Brooklyn, Dallas, Kansas City, Newark, and St. Louis. Paul Cornoyer was a much beloved teacher. For most of his life, he taught at the Mechanics Institute in New York, and later in 1917 in East Gloucester, Massachusetts. At the time of his death in 1923 he was involved with setting up an exhibition for the local art association.

Jurgen Gorg, 1951

German painter Jurgen Gorg has established himself as a master craftsman and consummate artist.

His etchings and lithographs reflect his innate talent and imagination.

He studied visual arts in Koblenz, Germany and later at the Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.

Jurgen Gorg captivates us with the lines of his drawings.

Lorraine Christie, 1967 | My complex heart

Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Lorraine Christie - Irish painter, is a classically trained artist, who prefers to say that she is self taught as it has taken her years of living to develop her constantly evolving art. Has been a professional painter since 1990. Noted for her still-life paintings in luscious oils, Christie’s success started in her native Ireland and has spread world-wide, with her works included in many private and corporate collections in Europe, the U.S., Japan and the Republic of South Africa.

Eric Forlee, 1949 | Out of Africa

Chinese painter Eric Forlee was born in Kowing Ton, China. Eric’s paintings of African wildlife continue to express his zeal for life and independence, and he will always relish the challenge of depicting the “Symphony” he calls Africa.

From an early age, he loved art, teaching himself to draw the objects and scenes around him. Eric also was attracted to picture books about the African continent, where his father, whom he had never met, lived.

Unfortunately, at age 14, Eric was no longer permitted draw and paint: artistic activities were now reserved exclusively for the children of privileged, upper-ranking communist party members.

Additionally, the Chinese government listed Eric as an “enemy of the state”, because his parents lived in South Africa.

At age 19, Eric’s situation worsened- because his family had once owned land in China, he was condemned to a labor camp during Mao Tse-tung’s Cultural Revolution.

Rembrandt morì in povertà | Oggi il compleanno ~ 407 anni della nascita

L’opera di Rembrandt van Rijn comprende 300 dipinti, 300 acqueforti e 2000 disegni.

Il più grande artista Olandese nacque 407 anni fa, il 15 luglio 1606 a Leida, figlio di un mugnaio benestante.

A diciotto anni, Rembrandt si recò ad Amsterdam per lavorare con Pieter Lastman, un rinomato pittore.

Sei mesi dopo Rembrandt aprì il proprio studio a Leida.

Sergey Boyev / Сергей Боев, 1973

Maestro del paesaggio urbano, Sergey Boyev è noto soprattutto per i suoi dipinti di strade, viali antichi, marciapiedi colorati.

Sergey Boyev è nato a Kursk, una città della Russia europea.

Si è diplomato presso il dipartimento di arte e grafica della KSPU.

Il talento dell'aspirante autore fu notato presto e già nel 1986 vinse un concorso di disegno per bambini a Stoccarda (Germania).

Marina Dieul, 1971

French painter Marina Dieul was born in France. Her work has received numerous awards and honors, including the Kingston Prize, Salon International Greenhouse Gallery, the Artist Magazine, and has been extensively profiled in International Artist Magazine, among others. "Stroke of Genius" #2 and #3 (published by North Light Books) also features her work.

Lucie Bilodeau, 1967 | Wildlife painter

Canadian by birth, Lucie Bilodeau lives with her husband in the United States, in Massachusetts, where she paints full-time. Her interest in art started at the age of 7. At 14, she became a student of Mission: Renaissance School in Montreal, Canada, to be taught the traditional fine art skills. There she took a series of 6 courses. Among these was an in depth study of the masters: Rembrandt, Monet, Manet, Cézanne and Fantin Latour.

Felipe Santamans, 1951 | Figurative / Still life painter

Spanish painter⏩ Felipe Santamans studied at the prestigious Fine Arts in The Suria Academies and at Barreira Academies of Valencia at the early age of 13. He was a child prodigy. Beginning his work as a painter of oils, he eventually switched to the more challenging medium of pastels. He was part of the famous "Painters of the Riverside" school and he began exhibiting in 1970. He specializes in figures and still-lifes. His pastels are rich and very detailed.

Tytus Brzozowski | Surrealist painter

Polish painter Tytus Brzozowski is an architect and watercolorist.

He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology.

He also studied and worked in Finland where he was searching for severe Nordic art and design. He has been working in Jems Architects for five years.

Evgeny Lushpin / Евгений Лушпин, 1966 | Cityscape painter

Russian painter Евгений Лушпин born in Moscow, is a celebrated contemporary artist whose work graces private collections throughout the United States, Russia and abroad.

Greatly influenced by the Russian Realism School, his inspiring paintings of still life and landscape reflect a complex rendering of texture, illusionistic light and an intricate attention to detail.

Lushpin catches the most precious moments and shows us more than meets the eye.

Degas and Mary Cassatt | A Love story...

From the moment the American Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) made her debut in 1879 with the group of artists known as the Impressionists*, her name has been linked with that of the Frenchman Edgar Degas (1834-1917). 

Cassatt stated that her first encounter with Degas’s art “changed my life,” while Degas, upon seeing Cassatt’s art for the first time, reputedly remarked, “there is someone who feels as I do”. 

It was this shared sensibility as much as Cassatt’s extraordinary talent that drew Degas’s attention.

Sir Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [1874-1965] è stato un politico, storico e giornalista britannico. Sulla scena politica per quasi sessant'anni e conosciuto principalmente per aver guidato la Gran Bretagna durante la seconda guerra mondiale, è stato primo ministro del Regno Unito dal 1940-1945 e successivamente dal 1951-1955. Churchill fu inoltre autore prolifico, vinse il Premio Nobel per la Letteratura nel 1953 per i suoi scritti storici.

Myoe Win Aung, 1972 | Watercolour painter

Burmese painter Myoe Win Aung was born in Yangon and studied under several masters, including U Lun Gywe. He started painting in 1989 and graduated from the State School of Fine Arts in 1992. He now works as a full time artist. As with most painters in Burma today, religious life and Buddhism influence his artistic expression. He has regular shows in Rangoon and has also exhibited in Singapore.

Shin Jong Sik | Watercolor painter

Watercolorist Shin Jong Sik is famous for expressing clean, transparent colors and his still life paintings express colorful, dignified and deep feeling.

Taking flowers, dishes and hemp cloth as materials, he does not compose as they are seen but recomposes with new ideas.

His excellent talent of lighting the hue reaches the vivid expression of emphasizing points of main materials according to hue and the background of his paintings are usually left blank.

Michael Alfano | Figurative and surrealistic sculptures

American sculptor Michael Alfano has been sculpting for over fifteen years. A native of New York, he now lives and works in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. His major influences are Salvador Dali, Jo Davidson, and Jean-Antoine Houdon, as well as Buddhist, Taoist, Sufi and other eastern philosophy and literature. He first studied at the Art Students League of New York, with an emphasis on life-size sculpture from the model. His formal education continued at Boston University and was augmented by internships with several prominent sculptors.

Noell Oszvald, 1991 | Surrealist photographer

Hungarian photographer Noell S. Oszvald is a self-taught photographer and visual artist from Budapest. Her black and white photographs resemble mid-century fashion photography as much as it does the work of her surrealist influences.

Severe contrasts between light and dark create graceful lines and a definite composition for each piece. In this way each image is intriguing, not only for its dreamy content but also because they are simply pleasing to look at.

Perhaps what is most surprising, though, is the fact Oszvald’s relationship with the camera is relatively new. Only twenty-two years old Oszvald has only been using the medium for a little over a year.

Minjae Lee, 1989 | Pop Surrealism painter

Minjae Lee is a young South Korean painter and illustrator, whose work expresses a semi-disturbing inner tension that is tough to ignore, even if you feel that you’d like to. It draws you in with its powerful colors, halting imagery and clever juxtaposition of beauty, innocence and fragility with brash, loud and aggressive.
What characterizes his work overall is drama. The ethereal females that populate most of his work exude a dark, organic tension, and it seems that even the brightest marker colors do not quite manage to save them from some sort of looming peril.

Eduardo Argüelles, 1938 | Abstract figurative painter

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Argüelles is a painter, cardiologist and university professor.
Eduardo began painting at the age of 48 years, and sustains up to today, his status of self-taught artist.
To achieve higher levels of quality with his drawings, Argüelles adept the classic style, briefly transitioned to symbolist painting, leading to his current phase.
Amazed with exquisiteness and perfection, especially of woman.

Christina Nguyen, 1977 | Impressionist Cityscape painter

I wake up, get up and walk through the day trying to keep my eyes open.

Sometimes I get obsessed with places and stories and I fall in love with them as if they had a soul which I think they do.

I like to take my walks in the unknown cities without having a map.

And when the twilight comes, everything feels possible and nothing is quite certain.

Will Cotton, 1965 | Surrealist painter

American painter🎨 William Cotton is an New York based painter, known for his surreal candy landscapes. His primary subjects are candy and women, often in combination. Will Cotton painted landscapes made out of pastries, melting ice cream, candy, and other tantalizing sweets on female models.

He has a professional oven in his studio and makes all of these himself. Then uses them as models for the paintings.

Cotton was born in Melrose, MA, and earned his BFA from the New York Academy of Art. After graduating in the late 1980s, Cotton portrayed pop icons, such as the Nestlé Quick Bunny in his paintings.

Kim Roberti ~ Lovers

Vietnamese-born American painter Kim Roberti immigrated to the United States in 1966 at the age of 16. Since that time she has lived in many areas of the US and other countries around the world. All the while, Kim had a love for art and longed to paint. In 1999 she gave up another career and began the path to becoming an artist.
In the years since, Kim has enjoyed much success by winning numerous awards in local shows while developing a following of collectors. Kim has studied under many artists, most notably David Leffel and Sheri McGraw in Taos, New Mexico. Aside from her painting, Kim also teaches classes in her studio and gallery in Cottonwood, Texas.

Laurie Kaplowitz | Figurative Expressive painter

American painter ▪ Laurie Kaplowitz earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Boston University and her Master of Fine Arts degree from American University. She is a Chancellor Professor in Painting in the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

La Bocca della Verità / The Mouth of Truth, Roma 1485

Il nome "Bocca della verità" compare nel 1485 per rimanere una delle curiosità romane, venendo frequentemente riprodotta in disegni e stampe. Risale al I secolo e la sua funzione di “smascheratore” di bugie è stata introdotta del Medioevo, si utilizzava per giudicare la colpevolezza o l’innocenza di un imputato, che dopo aver introdotto la mano, se riusciva ad estrarla era innocente, al contrario era giudicato colpevole. Tra le leggende che corrono, c’è quella più accreditata, la quale dice che, in caso di una sentenza negativa, il colpevole rischiava che la Bocca della Verità gli troncasse la mano, infatti dietro il mascherone era nascosta una terza persona che era d’accordo con il giudice.

La Bocca della Verità è un antico mascherone in marmo pavonazzetto, inizialmente situato all'esterno del portico della chiesa di Santa Maria in Cosmedin di Roma e successivamente murato nella parete del pronao con i restauri voluti da papa Urbano VIII Barberini nel 1631.

Dorothy Spangler ~ Parisienne Walkways

Inspired by the great impressionist masters, Spangler paints enchanting European scenes. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dorothy Spangler, american painter, has spent most of her life in Northern California, which provides a perfect environment for her love of color and light. After graduating from the College of San Mateo with a major in art, she studied for several years under the distinguished California plein-air painter, William Ward of Los Altos.

Claude Monet | La Gare St Lazare, Parigi 1877

When he painted The Saint-Lazare Station, Monet had just left Argenteuil to settle in Paris. After several years of painting in the countryside, he turned to urban landscapes. At a time when the critics Duranty and Zola exhorted artists to paint their own times, Monet tried to diversify his sources of inspiration and longed to be considered, like Manet, Degas and Caillebotte, a painter of modern life.

David FeBland, 1949

David FeBland was born in London, England and has received professional degrees from The University of Virginia and The University of Manchester, UK.

A fully self-taught artist, FeBland pursued careers in Landscape Architecture and Communication Design as well as hosting a jazz radio program and bicycling through 44 countries before turning his full-time attention to painting in the mid-1980’s.

Nicholas Burdykin [Николай Бурдыкин] 1960

Russian painter Николай Бурдыкин, well known as a master of lyrical architectural landscape.

However, in his work, took quite a mythological theme, which is reflected in works of this exhibition.

The myth for centuries nourished the work of artists. Each generation of artists gave their interpretation of the myth.

Not forgotten this issue and in our vain time.

Referring to the mythological theme, Nicholas Burdykin not trying to illustrate it, and focuses all attention on the mythological characters.

Christian Schloe | Digital Visionary painter

Austrian Visionary painter Christian Schloe works includes digital art, painting, illustration and photography.

The surreal scenes by Christian Schloe feature bizarre moments that draw viewers out of a concrete reality and into a dreamy, fictional world.

In his work, the digital artist creates expressive visual stories filled with soft color palettes, elegant birds and butterflies, soft flower petals, and otherworldly, majestic landscapes.

The illusion of a scratched canvas and worn, aged edges allude to a different time and place where a howling wolf is half human, half animal; a couple dances among the clouds; and a young girl collects drops of moonlight in a bowl.

Sampo Kaikkonen, 1975 | Figurative painter

Sampo Kaikkonen, a Finnish figurative painter living and working in Oulu, Finland.

His paintings respect the technique and style of the old masters.

The atmosphere in the paintings is timeless. There are no symbols of specific era and the landscape is universal.

Beside the dominant human figures another strong factor in his works is emotion which mediates through his themes, expressions and colors.

Pia Erlandsson | Swedish Watercolor painter

Swedish painter Pia Erlandsson works through watercolors to focus on the minute expressions of her subjects. Her fascination with human emotions is evident throughout her ethereal oeuvre.
- I was born in south of Sweden, living in Gothenburg since many years back. I have been working full time as a watercolor artist since 2007.
In my paintings I usually portray people. I want to convey feelings and expressions of universal emotions, communicating different states of the human mind. I try to find the tension and harmony between colors and shapes, and light and darkness, where the water and pigments together create new forms.

William Schneider, 1945 | VideoArt

William Schneider - American painter - has received awards in exhibitions including those of: Academic Artists, The Degas Pastel Society, Oil Painters of America, The Pastel Society of America, Pastel Society of the West Coast, Portrait Society of America, and Salon International.

Igor Mitoraj (Polish, 1944-2014)

Igor Mitoraj (1944-2014) was a Polish artist and sculptor.

Known for his fragmented sculptures of the human body often created for large-scale public installations, he is considered one of the most internationally recognized Polish sculptors.

Biography

Mitoraj was born on 26 March 1944 in Oederan, Germany.

His Polish mother was a forced labourer, while his father was a French officer of Polish extraction.

Robert Coombs, 1970 | Figurative painter

As a young boy, Robert Coombs had received one of the most exciting presents he could remember - a set of watercolor paints.

He was so anxious to use them that he quickly grabbed a pad of paper and sat down to paint anything he could find.

It ended up being a bowl of fruit and he applied the paint straight out of the tube as thick as toothpaste.

Tamara De Lempicka | The Dream | VideoArt

"...I live life

in the margins of society,

and the rules of normal society

don't apply to those

who live on the fringe".

- Tamara De Lempicka (1898-1980)