Anna Razumovskaya | Ballet dancers

Anna Razumovskaya is an Russian painter, known for working in the Figurative style. Razumovskaya was born in Rostov-on-Don, a port city and the administrative center of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Razumovskaya see:

• Anna Razumovskaya | Romantic Figurative painter
• Anna Razumovskaya | Portraits

Jules Tavernier | Hawaii’s Volcano School

Jules Tavernier (27 April 1844 - 18 May 1889) was a French painter, illustrator, and an important member of Hawaii’s Volcano School.
He was born on 27 April 1844 in Paris. He studied with the French painter, Félix Joseph Barrias (1822-1907, but left France in the 1870s, never to return. Tavernier was employed as an illustrator by Harper's Magazine, which sent him, along with Paul Frenzeny, on a year-long coast-to-coast sketching tour in 1873. Eventually, he continued westward to Hawaii, where he made a name for himself as a landscape painter. He was fascinated by Hawaii’s erupting volcanoes-a subject that was to pre-occupy him for the rest of his life, which was spent in Hawaii, Canada and the western United States. Tavernier died on 18 May 1889 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Brahim Achir, 1956 | Surrealismo Visionario

Brahim Achir nasce in Algeria il 21 gennaio 1956.

Nel 1976 consegue in Algeria il diploma di laurea di perito tecnico superiore.

Vinta una borsa di studio, si trasferisce in Italia dove studia presso l’Accademia Navale di Livorno (anno 1977-78) che però lascia per dedicarsi alla pittura ed alla poesia.

Nel 1979 torna a Roma per proseguire la sua ricerca pittorica, esponendo in diverse mostre collettive e personali.

Giorgio De Chirico | The Metaphysical Art Movement

Giorgio de Chirico, (born July 10, 1888, Vólos, Greece - died Nov. 19, 1978, Rome, Italy), Italian painter who, with Carlo Carrà and Giorgio Morandi, founded the style of Metaphysical painting.

After studying art in Athens and Florence, de Chirico moved to Germany in 1906 and entered the Munich Academy of Fine Arts.

His early style was influenced by Arnold Böcklin’s and Max Klinger’s paintings, which juxtapose the fantastic with the commonplace.

Howard Rogers, 1932 | Figurative painter

Master Artist Howard Rogers is well known for his paintings of rugged cowboys and their horses, paintings of beautiful figures and for his lyrical figurative bronzes.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and sculpting works by Howard Rogers see Howard Rogers, 1932 | Bronze figurative sculptures.

Lotta Blokker, 1980 | Figurative sculptor

When Lotta Blokker (Amsterdam 1980) first encountered the work of the french sculptor Auguste Rodin, during a secondary school excursion to the Musée Rodin in Paris, Lotta Blokker felt that her destiny had been determined. "This is it", she thought, looking at Rodin’s works. At the age of nineteen she travelled to Italy to study sculpture at the Florence Academy of Art.

Her talent was obvious and she started teaching even before she had graduated. The programme had a strong focus on learning the technique of sculpting. Observing, interpreting, drawing, modelling: the hand should follow the eye.

Aert van der Neer | Dutch Baroque Era painter

Aert van der Neer, Aert also called Aernout (born 1603/04, Gorinchem [also called Gorkum, or Gorcum] or Amsterdam, Netherlands - died November 9, 1677, Amsterdam) Dutch painter of the Baroque period, famous for his nocturnal landscapes and winter scenes. His mastery of light effects is revealed in his many darkened landscapes lit by a full moon or a burning building as well as by his sensitivity to the appearance of light on water and ice.

Eric Roux-Fontaine, 1966 | Magical Realism painter

Eric Roux-Fontaine was born in the Savoy Region of France. He enrolled at the Fine Art School of Saint-Etienne at the young age of 17 and graduated Summa Cum Laude 5 years later. Since his first solo exhibition in 1991, he has enjoyed sellout shows and overwhelming success throughout Europe. In 1995, the Musée des Beaux-arts of the city of Chambéry and the Musée Paul Dini of the city of Villefranche-sur-Saône acquired works which to date are part of their permanent collections.

Philip Jackson, 1944 | Abstract /Impressionist sculptor

"My sculptures are essentially an impressionistic rendering of the figure.

Where you see the figure seemingly grow out of the ground, the texture resembles tree bark, rock, or lava flow.

As the eye moves up the sculpture, the finish becomes gentler and more delicately worked, culminating in the hands and the mask, both of which are precisely observed and modeled" - Philip Jackson.

Erich Fried /Lotta Blokker | It is what it is /É quel che è..

What It Is

It is madness

says reason

It is what it is

says love

Peter Gric, 1968 | Realismo fantastico

Peter Gric è un pittore Ceco naturalizzato Austriaco.

Emigrò in Austria nel 1980, studiò in seguito (1988-93) all'Accademia delle Belle Arti di Vienna, dove fu allievo di Arik Brauer.

Tra il 1995 e il 96 svolse vari servizi alternativi.

Nel 2007 si esibisce alla Galerie 10 - Wiener Schule des Phantastischen Realismus.

Mike Wise, 1973 | Plein Air painter

Mike Wise is an Impressionist oil painter best known for his landscapes. His approach to representational art is based in abstract design with loose brushwork and sculptural smears of the palette knife bringing movement and energy to a piece. The intended result is a painting rich in color and texture with a distinct three-dimensional feel that draws the viewer deep into the painted image.

Mike works in what was once an old barn that he converted to a modern art studio. The natural beauty that surrounds him at home on Whidbey Island, as well as having his family around and a lot of good music in the studio while he paints, influences his creative process. 

Wise is a member of Oil Painters of America (OPA) and the American Impressionist Society (AIS).

Claude Monet | Iris, 1914-1917

Iris è un dipinto di Claude Monet. Eseguito probabilmente tra il 1914 e il 1917, è conservato nella National Gallery di Londra.

Eric Bowman, 1960 | Plein Air / Figurative painter

Award winning artist Eric Bowman was born in Pasadena and grew up in Orange County, CA (back when it actually had orange groves).

Essentially a self-taught artist, Eric had a knack for drawing as far back as he can remember, always the class artist throughout his elementary and high school years.

Various art-related jobs such as silk screen T-shirt printer or surfboard airbrush technician led to a lengthy and successful career as a commercial artist, eventually transitioning to fine art painting.

As a painter, Eric has garnered many awards in national and regional exhibitions in some of the country's most prestigious galleries and museums.

His paintings are in collections around the world, including England, Australia, Canada and Mexico.

C.M. Cooper | Ballet dancers

C.M. Cooper* is an American painter, known for working in the Figurative style. C.M. Cooper* was born and raised in Southern California.

Cooper's paintings are marked by a wonderful sense of light and delicate color sensitivity. Her images are filled with a raw sense of emotion and feeling.

She is a full time gallery painter and art instructor.

For biographical notes and other works by C.M. Cooper see C.M. Cooper | Impressionist /Figurative painter.

Fabio Calvetti, 1956 | Figurative /Abstract painter

Fabio Calvetti was born in 1956 in Certaldo, near Florence, where he still lives.

He graduated in a School of Arts and, then, in the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, in painting.

His activity abroad is intense, being based on exhibitions in Italy, the U.S.A., in Germany, Spain, Belgium and, above all in Japan and France.

Bruno Di Maio, 1944 | Ballet dancers

Bruno Di Maio, one of the Italys best Figurative artists, lives and works in Tuscany, Italy.

Di Maio was born in North Africa to Italian parents.

His work reflects his great love for Renaissance paintings, yet at the same time a strong desire for expressive autonomy.

Di Maio tries, successfully, in his allegorical and surrealistic interpretation of present, to give life to the recollect quality of the past.

The originality of his vision is seen in the sumptuous subject matter, the quality of his chiaroscuro and the dramatic light effect on the figures and objects in his paintings.

Erich Fried / Igor Mitoraj | Non so cosa sia l'amore / I don’t know what love is..

Non so cosa sia l'amore
ma forse
è qualcosa come:
Se lei ritorna a casa da un paese straniero
e mi dice con orgoglio:
"Ho visto un topo d'acqua"
e io mi ricordo di queste parole
quando la notte mi sveglio
e il giorno dopo al lavoro
e ho nostalgia
di ascoltarla

Nelina Trubach-Moshnikova, 1960

Tрубач-Мошникова Нелина Ивановна è nata in Bielorussia.

Nel 1982 si è diplomata alla Scuola d'Arte di Minsk con la prof. А.К.Глебова.

Dal 1983 vive e lavora a Yalta.

Lavora in stile impressionista ed espressionista.

Ha partecipato in mostre internazionali ed ucraini.

Membro dell'Unione Nazionale degli Artisti di Ucraina.

Alex Lashkevich, 1964 | Neo-Impressionist painter

Alex Lashkevich /Алексей Лашкевич was born in Leningrad. He graduated from the Art School at the Academy im.Iogansona Hudozhestv 1982.

In 1989 graduated with honors from the Repin Academy of Fine Arts (Faculty of Architecture). In 1988. posted on the UNESCO project in Alaska (Anchorage).

Sophie Morisse, 1962 | Magic Realism painter

Sophie Morisse was born in 1962 to Mers-les-Bains (France). Live at present in Haute-Normandie.

She has studied during five years in the School of Fine Arts of Rouen, until 1987.

Her professor was then the painter and a sculptor Philippe Garel.

Received the Prize of the city of Poitiers and that of Saint Grégoire in 2001.

The same year, the birth of her daughter Thaïs, first name of Egyptian origin.

Expose in whole France, in particular in Paris region and in Giverny, Metz, Rouen, Nantes …

John Singer Sargent | Portrait of Antonio Mancini, 1902

John Singer Sargent:

“I have meet in Italy the great living painter”!

The “Portrait of Antonio Mancini” was created by the esteemed artist John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925) in the year 1902.

Rendered in oil on canvas, the artwork is a fine example of the Realism art movement.

It measures 66.67 by 50.16 cm and belongs to the genre of portrait painting.

Bruno Catalano, 1960 | Symbolist / Surrealist sculptor

Bruno Catalano (Khouribga, 1960) is a French Italian sculptor, most renown for creating sculptures of figures with substantial sections missing.

Originally from Morocco, Bruno is the third and last child of a Sicilian family.

In 1970 the Catalano family left Morocco for France.

In 1982 he started working at the Société Nationale maritime Corse Méditerranée.

Gabriela Garza Padilla, 1965 | Neo-Surrealist painter

Gabriela Garza Padilla was born in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, an industrialized city in Northern Mexico.

At the age of 14 she began to paint as a hobby.

When she finished high school specializing in Math and Physics, she decided that her path was to be a professional artist and wanted to move to Mexico City to study for a Bachelor's Degree in Arts at the Academia de San Carlos.

Anna Wypych, 1986 | Figurative Symbolist painter

"I take Inspiration from what I see around me, but my personal thoughts are only the starting point and inspiration for the research on the man and his condition".

Anna Wypych’s works of art transcend the commonplace, to enter the realm of the otherworldly.

The starting point of her work and also the main theme, is always a man, but Anna Wypych goes beyond physicality, as if she wants more to capture the spirit, than the body.

She develops images that evoke moods, dreams, and feelings inspired by real life, and which create a remarkably compelling narrative.

The physical nudity and sincerity of her characters has emerged as a hallmark of her work.

Marc Dalessio, 1972 | Pittore naturalista

Marc Dalessio è un pittore naturalista di formazione classica che in giovane età si è affermato come uno dei più importanti pittori plein-air che lavorano oggi.

La pittura calda ed attenta di Dalessio indaga la realtà delle cose, della natura che lo circonda, attraverso punti di vista a volte inusuali.

E’un artista saldamente radicato alla tradizione pittorica del XIX sec.

Dalessio nasce in California ed a soli vent’anni, appena conclusi gli studi in Arte e Biologia, si trasferisce a Firenze, al fine di perfezionare le tecniche pittoriche classiche.

Essam Marouf, 1958 | Abstract Minimalist painter

"… I see my art as more universal. It’s mixed from Egypt, Italy, Holland and the world. It is not a cultural statement, it is a human story…"

"With minimalism in form and colour I try to give my paintings the inner power and spiritual energy.

The two factors that give - in my eyes- paintings their inconceivable power" - Essam Marouf.

Essam Marouf was born in Cairo, studied painting from 1976 at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Helwan University in Cairo and graduated in 1981 at the Mural Painting Section.

From 1982 until 1985 Essam Marouf studied at Accademia di Belle Arti in Roma.

He lives and works between Cairo and Amsterdam.

Retro Atelier | Ritorno al fascino che fù

Retro Atelier is a Ukraine-based collective that creates stunning conceptual photography inspired by days gone by.

Its collection features a wide array of series from Art Nouveau-inspired images to unique styles reminiscent of early Art Deco, Pin-Up and glamor photography.

Of the company’s work, Retro Atelier says, “the styles of bygone days, vintage photographs, painting, cinematography and our love for these kinds of art made the work, we moved from dreams to actions”.

Haddon Hubbard | Pin-up painter

Haddon Hubbard "Sunny" Sundblom (1899-1976) was an American artist of Finnish and Swedish descent, best known for the images of Santa Claus he created for The Coca-Cola Company.

Sundblom's friend Lou Prentice was the original model for the illustrator's Santa.

Sundblom was born in Muskegon, Michigan to a Swedish-speaking family.

His father, Karl Wilhelm Sundblom, came from the farm Norrgårds in the village of Sonboda in Föglö of the Swedish-speaking part of Åland Islands, then part of the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland now Finland, and his mother Karin Andersson was from Sweden.

Betsy Brown | Architectural /Landscape painter

New Orleans painter Betsy Brown is delighting us for years. Her unique ability for diversity is part of her large appeal. She can take us to the quaint towns of Yarmouth and Asheville with their sense of family heritage. Betsy brings us to the sultry streets of New Orleans where one can almost hear the mellow sounds of Carmen Leggio’s tenor sax. Alluring European landscapes capture our eyes with the way she creates the magic of distance and the penetrating effect of color and light.

Perhaps it is her attention to detail or the broader effect. Whatever the reason, what touches Betsy personally seems to affect so many others drawn to her work.

Sergio Cozzuol, 1941 | Venice painting

Italian painter Sergio Cozzuol was born in Pola in 1941 and later moved to Genoa. He began his studies under the guide of Professor Giuseppe Rigon, a famous scenographer at “La Scala”, the opera theatre in Milan. Then he attended the School of Arts in Vicenza, northern Italy, with Professors Giuseppe De Pellegrini and Otello De Maria. Sergio Cozzuol paints miniatures on precious materials such as gold, ivory or copper paying great attention even to the smallest detail. His work seems to date back to 18th century; he uses soft tones which can be suddenly enlightened by a ray of sun or obscured by the grey and foggy skies of the northern towns. Indeed, he can be considered a follower of Impressionism, a movement of the 1860s.

Mark Arian, 1947 | Romantic Figurative painter | Part. 1

Combining archetypal elements of drama, romance and spirituality, Arian’s juxtaposition of exquisite figurative rendering with a fiery expression of timeless classical themes give his paintings an evocative and transcendent quality.

His work has been exhibited in top galleries in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Bombay, Paris, and Viareggio, Italy.

His collector list includes such luminaries as the former Princess of Iran, the Prince of Saudi Arabia, George Harrison and Michael Jackson. Jay Rockefeller

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Mark Arian see Mark Arian, 1947 | Romantic Figurative painter.

Lucia Sarto, 1950 | Romantic Impressionist painter | Part. 2

Lucia Sarto🎨 is an Italian award winning🎨 painter. Lucia Sarto🎨 was born in the province of Udine -Italy, in 1950.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and early works by Sarto🎨 see:

Lucia Sarto, 1950 | Romantic Impressionist painter.

Anna Homchik, 1976 | Still life painter

Anna Homchik was born in an artist family in the South of Ukraine.

She studied at the Lviv Academy of Arts.

She had a resonable amount of individual exhibitions and simultaneously she is taking part on group exhibitions and creative actions of young artists.

Her works of art can be found at many galleries and private collections in Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, Budapest, Kyiv, New-York, Toronto and Sydney.

The gifted and restless artist travels all around the world, and that is where she gathers inspiration for procreation.

Her paintings truly convey happiness, freedom, cloudless skies.

Rick Reinert | Impressionist painter

Rick Reinert's formal art education took place in the early 1970's at Western Kentucky University. His arts education continued to evolve over the years, and he exhibited large, expressionistic works in one-man shows throughout Germany and Canada.

After his initial success, Reinert took time off to establish two small businesses and to raise his family. Through a series of circumstances related to his business, Reinert became a highly visable and vocal proponent of campaign finance reform, and was the subject of a number of articles including a cover story in Time Magazine in Feb. 2000. During this time, his commitment to painting was renewed, and he began creating art again. He painted through the night and slowly established the unique and passionate style that he is known for today.

Peter Holme III | Photo Manipulation Artist

The Colorado photographer and design artist Peter Holme III has done a wonderful work in manipulation of his photographs. He has lots of collections in his portfolio, where you can find out his amazing works.

Pierre Chevassu | Symbolist Portrait painter

Pierre Chevassu has a personal way of representing women a symbolic subjects. The smoothness of their faces their sweetness, often reflecting beautiful eyes, neat hair, all worked in a colourful way, giving Chevassu paintings an elegance and great gentleness.

These women, with their timeless, enigmatic faces, the looks and secret thoughts which seem to defy time, explain Chevassu’s passion and success with his public. Chevassu has won numerous awards and currently has several permanent exhibitions both in France and Canada.

Alphonse Mucha | Master of Art Nouveau

Alphonse Mucha was born in what is now the Czech Republic in 1860 and moved to Paris in 1890 where he became the star of the poster-art movement under the patronage of the Sarah Bernhardt.

After World War I he returned to Czechoslovakia and became the father of a slavic arts and crafts movement which combined elements of art nouveau with classic national themes.

In addition to commercial art, jewelry design, interior decoration, sculpture and stage design, Mucha experimented with lettering and calligraphy to produce excellent source material for unique typefaces. Mucha's style is virtually synonymous with French Art Nouveau and he is one of the most imitated artists and designers of all time.