Camille Przewodek | Plein Air / Colorist painter

Camille Przewodek was born in Detroit, Michigan. She grew up inspired by her artistically-talented brother to pursue a career in art. After graduating with a degree in painting from Wayne State University, she migrated to the West Coast.

A perennial student, she saw fit to expand her “left brain” education with several semesters of political science at City College of San Francisco.

Later on she decided she’d like to train as a commercial artist so she enrolled at the Academy of Art College, earning a BFA in Illustration. At this point she met her future husband, Dale Axelrod, who introduced her to master painter, teacher and colorist, Henry Hensche.

Laugé Achille | Neo-impressionist painter

French painter Achille Laugé (1861-1944) was an Neo-Impressionist painter born in Arzens.

In 1882, he began his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts under the direction of French artists Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889) and Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921).

In Paris, he met artist Aristide Maillol (French painter, 1861-1944), with whom he shared a studio and maintained a life-long exchange and friendship.

Daniele da Volterra | Descent from the Cross, 1545

Daniele Ricciarelli (c. 1509 - 4 April 1566), better known as Daniele da Volterra, was an Italian painter, Mannerist and sculptor.
Daniele's best-known painting is the Descent from the Cross in the Trinità dei Monti (circa 1545), after drawings by Michelangelo; by an excess of praise this work was at one time grouped with Raphael's Transfiguration and the Last Communion of St. Jerome by Domenichino as the most famous pictures in Rome.

Renato Natali | Post-Macchiaioli painter

Benato Natali (1883-1979) was born in Livorno-Italy, from a modest family, where perhaps the father, hatter by profession, led him to enroll at the School of Arts and Crafts. Not too temperamentally suited to the school system began to devote himself to drawing a self-taught, and even when one of his companions urged him to attend the study of Guglielmo Micheli little and did so against his will.

Beppe Ciardi | Drawing

Giuseppe (known as Beppe) Ciardi (1875-1932) was an Italian painter.

Born in Venice, he was the son of the painter Guglielmo and the brother of Emma, who also became a notable artist.

Beppe Ciardi studied under his father at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts from 1896.

He graduated in 1899 and his participation in the Venice Biennale began the same year with the Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia, where his work continued to be exhibited in later years and was featured in a solo show in 1912.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo | Allegories of the Elements, 1576

Arcimboldo - The four Elements - Air

As he did in "The four seasons", in the series of "The four elements" Arcimboldo assigned to any element a face formed by the most characteristic of any of them. Nevertheless, the series possesses some elements that make it quite different, and even more interesting, than the previous one.
First, and contrary to the previous series, every face is formed by only one kind of element. The face of "The Earth" is formed exclusively by land animals, "The Air" is made of birds, and "The Water" by fish and marine animals.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo | Allegories of the Seasons, 1573

Arcimboldo Giuseppe Spring, 1573

Giuseppe Arcimboldo painted numerous series about "The four seasons" (one in a private collection in Bergamo, painted around 1572; another one, painted in 1573, in the Louvre Museum) being each of them a copy without many variations of the previous one, reflecting the success of the series. The painter represented the hypothetical faces of every season with the most typical element of any of them. Thus the face of the spring is made of flowers, the summer has a face of fruits and a body of wheat, while the autumn is a curious summary of fallen leaves, fruits and mushrooms.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo | Drawing

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, also spelled Arcimboldi (1527-1593) was an Italian painter best known for  working in the Mannerism style and for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books - that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognisable likeness of the portrait subject.
For biographical notes and painting works by Arcimboldi see Part 1 - Painting.

Jimmy Lawlor, 1967 | Surrealist painter

Jimmy Lawlor was born in Wexford. He now lives in Westport, in the magnificent West of Ireland. Lawlor has been exhibiting for over 20 years.
His work is based not only on the Irish sense of humour, but on the vivid realisation that the old way of life will have vanished by our next generation.
His work takes elements from his surroundings and mixes them with the people of the place, in their environment and doing what they love best. In their own way, they have helped create the atmosphere around them, whether they be farmers, business people, students or otherwise.

Thomas Cole | The Voyage of Life, 1842

The Voyage of Life - Childhood (National Gallery of Art)

Thomas Cole's renowned four-part series traces the journey of an archetypal hero along the "River of Life. Confidently assuming control of his destiny and oblivious to the dangers that await him, the voyager boldly strives to reach an aerial castle, emblematic of the daydreams of "Youth and its aspirations for glory and fame. As the traveler approaches his goal, the ever-more-turbulent stream deviates from its course and relentlessly carries him toward the next picture in the series, where nature's fury, evil demons, and self-doubt will threaten his very existence. Only prayer, Cole suggests, can save the voyager from a dark and tragic fate.

Louis Rémy Mignot | Hudson River School

Louis Rémy Mignot (1831-1870) was among the Hudson River School style of painters and did numerous tropical landscapes of Panama and Ecuador as well as scenes of upper New York state and some of the Southern states. Louis Rémy Mignot was short lived, dying at age 39.
Louis Remy Mignot was born in 1831 in Charleston, South Carolina. His father Remy Mignot was a French Catholic immigrant who owned a confectionary shop in Charleston. His boyhood, during which he demonstrated a precocious artistic talent, seems to have been spent in his grandfather's home, near Charleston.

Frederic Edwin Church | Hudson River School

Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) was perhaps the best-known representative of the Hudson River School of landscape painting as well as one its most traveled. Born in Hartford in 1826, he was the privileged son of Joseph Church, a jeweler and banker of that city, who interceded with Connecticut scion and collector Daniel Wadsworth to persuade the landscape painter Thomas Cole to accept his son as a pupil.
 From 1844-1846, Church studied with Cole in his Catskill, New York, studio and accompanied him on sketching sojourns in the Catskill Mountains and the Berkshires of Massachusetts. At one point, the master characterized the student as having "the finest eye for drawing in the world".

Eddy Roos, 1949 | Figurative sculptor

Eddy Roos (Amsterdam, 1949) is a Dutch artist and sculptor. He also choreographed 42 dance films and designs sculpture gardens.

A danced arabesque captured in bronze

The carefully reconstructed old- Dutch Renaissance-garden around the Groningen Verhildersum Manor at Leens forms in its idyllic setting of green lawns and delicately coloured flowerbeds the realization of a dream: from 1977 sculptor Eddy Roos is working on the realization of his own sculpture garden.

Robert Lewis Reid | Impressionist painter

Robert Lewis Reid (July 29, 1862 - December 2, 1929) was an American Impressionist🎨 painter and muralist.

Robert Reid was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston under Otto Grundmann, where he was also later an instructor. In 1884 he moved to New York City, studying at the Art Students League, and in 1885 he went to Paris to study at the Académie Julian under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre🎨. His early pictures were figures of French peasants, painted at Étaples.

Edmund C. Tarbell | Impressionist painter

Edmund Charles Tarbell's (1862-1938) remarkable New Hampshire summer home is emblematic of the painter and his art.

Just as the artist's paintings draw upon traditional styles and motifs to construct an image of genteel New England, Tarbell's house blended the old and the new to create a rarefied atmosphere of history and domesticity.

On canvas, Tarbell repeatedly depicted modern life in terms of the past, arranging his female subjects in quiet interiors surrounded by icons of New England's glorious past, such as gate-leg tables, Chippendale chairs, and incense jars.

Tarbell's sitters read, knit, and drink tea as if in a historical vacuum.

August Gillé | Symbolist painter

August Gillé was a Belgian artist born in Mechelen in 1892 and died in Bonheiden in 1989. He was a painter and sculptor. Got his training in furniture manufacturing at the Academy in Mechelen (1910-1913).

Debuted as a furniture maker and sculptor. After the First World War, he started to focus on his great passion, painting. Then he took classes at the Academy in Mechelen (1919-1920) and Brussels (1922-1925).

As a painter, he evolved from expressionist figuration to spontaneous lyrical abstraction.

Realized approx. 10,000 works: oil paintings on canvas, drawings on paper, studies and sculptures.

Leonardo da Vinci | Della differenza ed ancora similitudine che ha la pittura con la poesia

Trattato della Pittura- Parte prima /19

La pittura ti rappresenta in un subito la sua essenza nella virtú visiva, e per il proprio mezzo, d'onde la impressiva riceve gli obietti naturali, ed ancora nel medesimo tempo, nel quale si compone l'armonica proporzionalità delle parti che compongono il tutto, che contenta il senso; e la poesia riferisce il medesimo, ma con mezzo meno degno dell'occhio, il quale porta nella impressiva piú confusamente e con piú tardità le figurazioni delle cose nominate che non fa l'occhio, vero mezzo infra l'obietto e l'impressiva, il quale immediate conferisce con somma verità le vere superficie e figure di quel che dinanzi se gli appresenta, dalle quali ne nasce la proporzionalità detta armonia, che con dolce concento contenta il senso, non altrimenti che si facciano le proporzionalità di diverse voci al senso dell'udito; il quale ancora è men degno che quello dell'occhio, perché tanto quanto ne nasce, tanto ne muore; ed è sí veloce nel morire come nel nascere.

Maurice Utrillo | Post-Impressionist painter

Maurice Utrillo, (1883-1955), French painter who was noted for his depictions of the houses and streets of the Montmartre district of Paris.

Born out of wedlock, Utrillo was the son of the model and artist Suzanne Valadon.

His father was not known, and he was given his name by a Spanish art critic, Miguel Utrillo. He had no instruction as an artist apart from that given by his mother, who herself was untutored.

Manuel Gil Perez (Spanish, 1925-1957)

Manuel Gil i Pérez was a painter.

He studied at the School of Fine Arts of Sant Carles in Valencia.

In 1951 he received a Count of Cartagena Scholarship with which he made brief stays in France and Italy.

After residing in the United Kingdom for a year, he took charge of the murals at the Ateneu Mercantil in Valencia.

In 1955 he participated in the first Autumn Salon.

In 1957 he founded the Parpalló Group together with Eusebi Sempere, Andreu Alfaro, Salvador SoriaAnd others

His painting can be framed within expressionism, abstraction and neofigurativism.

Jorge Rosensvaig, 1951

Jorge Luis Rosensvaig was born in Barranquilla, Colombia.

He studied architecture at the Universidad Piloto de Colombia in Bogotá (1972-1974) and later Fine Arts at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires (Argentina, 1975-1979).

He completes his education between 1976 and 1983 with the workshops "Drawing and color" - Workshop David Mansur, Drawing with David Loockharta in Barranquilla and Color with Arturo Ludueña in Buenos Aires.

David Shterenberg | Avant-Garde painter

David Petrovich Shterenberg / Давид Петрович Штеренберг (1881-1948) was a Ukrainian-born Russian painter and graphic artist.

He was born to a Jewish family in Zhitomir, Ukraine.

After studying art in Odessa, in 1906 he moved to Paris where he studied in the Académie Vitti in Montparnasse where he was taught, among others, by the painter Kees van Dongen.

He lived in “La Ruche” where, at one time or other, there also lived Modigliani, Chagall and other artists.

Leonardo da Vinci | Qual è di maggior danno alla specie umana, o perder l'occhio o l'orecchio..

Trattato della Pittura- Parte prima /12

Maggior danno ricevono gli animali per la perdita del vedere che dell'udire, per piú cagioni; e prima, che mediante il vedere il cibo è ritrovato, donde si deve nutrire, il quale è necessario a tutti gli animali.

Il secondo, che per il vedere si comprende il bello delle cose create, massime delle cose che inducono all'amore, nel quale il cieco nato non può pigliare per l'udito, perché mai non ebbe notizia che cosa fosse bellezza di alcuna cosa.

E. L. Doctorow | Quotes / Aforismi

• Scrivere è un'esplorazione. Parti dal nulla, ed impari mentre procedi.
• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

• Pianificare di scrivere non è scrivere. Abbozzare, ricercare, parlare con le persone di quello che stai facendo, nessuna di queste cose è scrivere. Scrivere è scrivere. 
• Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

Salvador Dali🎨 - Book Transforming Itself into a Woman, 1940

Leonardo Bazzaro | Naturalist painter

Leonardo Bazzaro (Milan, 1853-1937) was an Italian painter mainly of landscapes and interior vedute.

After picking up the basics in the studio of the painter Gaetano Fasanotti, Bazzaro enrolled at the Brera Academy in Milan, where he was awarded the Fumagalli Prize in 1875.

The following years saw a series of perspective views set in Milanese churches and mansions.

Klimt's Schubert am Klavier, burned by the Nazis in 1945

Gustav Klimt's decorations for Palais Dumba -Vienna University- were his most controversial and radical paintings. These cosmic dream pictures were attacked for their eroticism and atheism in his lifetime – today they might secure his reputation as a great modernist. But together with other paintings, including Schubert at the Piano (above), they are said to have been burned by the SS in 1945.

Jules Combarieau: La musica è l'arte di pensare attraverso i suoni

• La musica è l'arte di pensare attraverso i suoni.
• Music is the art of thinking with sounds.

Duy Huynh, 1975 ~ Symbolist /Surrealist painter

Picasso: Il peggior nemico della creatività è il buon gusto

Pablo Picasso - The serenade, 1942

• Il peggior nemico della creatività è il buon gusto.
• The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Ernst Barlach | Expressionist sculptor | Degenerate Art

Ernst Barlach (1870-1938), outstanding sculptor of the Expressionist movement whose style has often been called “modern Gothic”.

Barlach also experimented with graphic art and playwriting, and his work in all media is notable for its preoccupation with the sufferings of humanity.

Fritz Klimsch | Figurative sculptor

German sculptor Fritz Klimsch (1870-1960) trained at the Königliche Akademische Hochschule für die bildenden Künste (Royal Fine Art Academy) in Berlin in the drawing class taught by the painter Ernst Hancke and in the modelling class under Albert Wolff.

From 1887-1890 he was a pupil of Fritz Schaper's.

While still a student, the young sculptor produced his first important work, winning awards and his first taste of recognition.

Alberto Manfredi | Cubo-futurist painter

Italian painter🎨 and engraver Alberto Manfredi (Reggio Emilia, 1930-2001) after graduating at the University of Bologna was, for many years, professor of etching at the Fine Arts Academy in Florence.

He was one of the most respected and refined painters and print-makers in Italy. Manfredi frequently met Giorgio Morandi and made many portraits of him.

He moved also in literary circles and as a result illustrated over a hundred literary works and 'livres d’artiste'.

He held many exhibitions of his paintings which received critical acclaim (the critic Maccari wrote 'Manfredi is one of the very few painters who still knows how to draw').

As a result of his fine draughtsmanship he became a very accomplished printmaker of etchings, drypoints and linocuts, with a wonderful sense of the use of colour.

His subjects include portraits, landscapes, animals and female figures and a number of catalogues have been published by leading galleries in which he exhibited, in Italy and France.

Martin Johnson Heade | Landscapes

From: Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum

The American painter Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) started out as a portraitist and took up landscape painting late in life.

He spent three years travelling around Europe during his formative years.

This first Grand Tour marked the start of an itinerant lifestyle which he continued to lead throughout his entire existence.

From 1840 to 1859 he lived in Philadelphia, New York, Saint Louis, Chicago, Trenton and Providence.

John Martin | Romantic Landscape painter

John Martin (19 July 1789 - 17 February 1854) was an English Romantic painter, engraver and illustrator. Martin was born in July 1789, in a one-room cottage, at Haydon Bridge, near Hexham in Northumberland, the fourth son of Fenwick Martin, a one-time fencing master. He was apprenticed by his father to a coachbuilder in Newcastle upon Tyne to learn heraldic painting, but owing to a dispute over wages the indentures were cancelled, and he was placed instead under Boniface Musso, an Italian artist, father of the enamel painter Charles Muss.

Stephan Bakałowicz | Academic painter

Stephan Bakałowicz /Степан Бакалович (1857, Warsaw -1947, Rome) was a Polish painter from Warsaw, famous in the Russian Empire. He was noted for his paintings on the subjects of Ancient Rome.

From 1936 he was a member of authorities of Polish Association of Artists - "The Capitol".

Bakałowicz was born in Warsaw, into an artistic Polish family. His father was a painter, his mother an actress and so it was only natural for the boy to be drawn to a career in the arts.

He received his first painting lessons from his father and then went on to study at the Warsaw School of Art before joining the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts in 1876.

Kari-Lise Alexander, 1982 | Pop Surrealism painter

Kari-Lise Alexander’s expressive work explores themes rooted in her Scandinavian heritage.

Innocent maidens float in worlds of their own making, oftentimes losing themselves in their daydreams.

At a young age Kari-Lise was always experimenting with paints, pencils, pastels and anything else she could get her hands on.

In 2000 she studied fine art for two semesters but left college to pursue other interests.

It wasn’t until spring of 2009 that her heart led her back to painting and she hasn’t stopped since.

Francis Danby | The Bristol School of painters

Francis Danby (16 November 1793 - 9 February 1861) was an Irish painter of the Romantic era. His imaginative, dramatic landscapes were comparable to those of John Martin. Danby initially developed his imaginative style while he was the central figure in a group of artists who have come to be known as the Bristol School. His period of greatest success was in London in the 1820s.

Victorine Meurent | Manet’s favorite model / painter

Victorine Meurent was Manet’s favorite model in the 1860s, posing for Street Singer, in the MFA’s collection, as well as for such other renowned works as Olympia and Luncheon on the Grass (both now in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris).

Victorine Louise Meurent (February 18, 1844 - March 17, 1927) was a French painter and a famous model for painters.

Although she is best known as the favourite model of Édouard Manet, she was also an artist in her own right who regularly exhibited at the prestigious Paris Salon.

Victorine Meurent | Autoportrait, 1876 | Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Gabriel Sainz, 1967 | Surrealist painter

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Gabriel Sainz has lived alternately between Buenos Aires and Patagonia. He formalized his training with Antonio López y Golucho (Spain), Guillermo Roux, Juan Doffo y Eduardo Faradje. He received the prestigious Fundación Antorchas scholarship under the directorship of Remo Bianchedi, Marcia Schvartz and María José Herrera.
His works can be found in museums and private collections in Argentina and numerous countries.

Jules René Hervé (1887-1981) | Impressionist painter

Jules René Hervé🎨 was an French🎨 Academic painter, born in Langres, in Eastern France.

Known for his paintings of cityscapes and landscapes, Hervé painted in an Impressionistic style🎨 that captured the shimmering texture of the city and the softer light of the countryside.

Sandro Botticelli's art in detail

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli (1445 - May 17, 1510), was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.

Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century, when he was rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelites who stimulated a reappraisal of his work. Since then, his paintings have been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting.

In addition to the mythological subjects for which he is best known today, Botticelli painted a wide range of religious subjects (including dozens of renditions of the Madonna and Child, many in the round tondo shape) and also some portraits. His best-known works are The Birth of Venus and Primavera, both in the Uffizi in Florence.

Carl Hallström | Romantic Landscape painter

Carl Axel Thure Hallström (1850-1929) was a Swedish artist, a classical Romantic landscape painter. Today his works appear on the northern European auctions.

Eugène Delacroix: "La fredda esattezza non è arte"

• "Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it".

• "on Rubens... Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men".

• "on Titian... There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in his work: what he does is done - through and through; when he paints eyes, they are lit with the fire of life".