Antoine Blanchard | Paris painting

Antoine Blanchard is the pseudonym of the French painter, Marcel Masson [1910-1988]. Blanchard was often introduced to collectors as the foremost artist of Parisian street scenes of his day. Like his predecessors, the French masters Galien-Laloue, Cortes, Loir, Utrillo and Francois Gerome, Blanchard has made an impact on contemporary art.Born in 1910 in a small village near Blois in the Loire Valley, Blanchard was encouraged at a young age to enter the arts. His parents first sent him as a young boy to an art school in Blois, and then relocated the entire family to Rennes in Brittany so that young Antoine could study there at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Three years later, in 1932, the young artist moved to Paris in order to Study at its world famous Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Upon completion of his studies, Blanchard was awarded the Prix de Rome, an honor rarely given to an artist of his young age.

Amaldus Nielsen | Naturalist painter

Amaldus Clarin Nielsen (1838-1932) was a Norwegian painter.

Early life

He was born in Halse as a son of shipmaster and merchant Niels Clemetsen Nielsen (1795-1845) and his wife Andrea Marie Møller (1802-1866).

He grew up in Mandal in Vest-Agder county, Norway.

He lived most of his childhood and adolescence without a father.

He received some tuition from a traveling drawing teacher and traveled to Copenhagen to study in 1854.

Djordje Prudnikoff | Pittore figurativo

Djordje Prudnikoff (1939-2017) è stato un pittore, grafico e designer Russo-Serbo. Prudnikoff è nato a Užice ed è stato affermato come uno degli artisti contemporanei più originali emergenti dall'ex Jugoslavia.

Nel 1946 la famiglia si trasferì a Belgrado.

Dopo aver completato le scuole superiori, Prudnikoff fu ammesso all’Accademia delle Belle Arti. Pochi mesi dopo la abbandonò per iscriversi all’Accademia delle Arti Applicate dove si diplomò nella classe del Professor Mihailo Petrov.

Durante i suoi studi Prudnikoff venne premiato diverse volte per meriti nel campo del “graphic design”.

Ernst Lorenz Murowana | Romantic painter

Ernst Hugo Lorenz-Murowana (1872-1950) was an German painter, active in Berlin.

His paintings show predominantly nocturnes views of Berlin, Potsdam, landscapes of Pomerania and from the Baltic Sea, flowers and interiors.

He worked as a painter as well as restorer, and used to live and work in Berlin until his death in 1950.

As he was born in Wielkopolska it is often mistakenly portrayed as a Polish painter.

Jacques Le Nantec, 1940 | Scultore figurativo

Jacques Le Nantec, vero nome Jacques Métayer - è uno scultore Francese nato a Nantes.

Alla età di tredici anni, ripristinò una statuetta rotta e scoprì la passione per la scultura.

Nell’ottobre del 1957, ad Annecy espose le sue prime quindici opere, tra cui due a grandezza naturale.

L'arte visionaria di Anne Bachelier, 1949

Anne Bachelier è nata in Louvigne du Desert, Francia.

Ha studiato presso la Ecole des Beaux Arts, La Seyne-sur-Mer tra il 1966-1970.

L'artista cattura il suo pubblico con avvincenti immagini estremamente fantasiose che sono uniche per inventiva ed immediatamente riconoscibili.

Le sue metafisiche fantasie oniriche evocano sentimenti potenti ma anche pacifici e protettivi.

Odysseas Oikonomou, 1967 | Children portrait painter

Albanian-born Greek painter Odysseas Oikonomou /Οδυσσέας Οικονόμου was born in Dhuvjan, Albania to Greek parents.

He paints from the age of five years old.

At the age of 14 years old, ending eight-year primary school, and after double competition (in Gjirokaster, Berat,) wins a place in the Artistic Liceu "Ajet Xhindole" in Berat.

After a four-year studying, ending in 1985 with excellent the school.

His first teacher was the eminent painter Sotir Capo «Artist i Merituar».

In 1990 he graduated from the Pedagogical Institute of Gjirokastra «Eqerem Çabej».

Adam Miller, 1979 | Renaissance / Baroque style painter

Adam Miller's paintings explore the intersection between mythology, ecology and humanism.

Visually inspired by baroque and Hellenistic narrative painting they take a polytheistic approach to contemporary folklore, questions of progress and the experience of human narrative in the face of technological change and the struggle to find meaning in a world poised between expansion and decay.

Miller's work is mannerist in it's use of the human form as a vehicle of feeling and thought beyond the literal representation of a particular person.

Edouard Vuillard | Les Nabis Group

Édouard Vuillard, in full Jean-Édouard Vuillard (born Nov. 11, 1868, Cuiseaux, France-died June 21, 1940, La Baule), French painter, printmaker, and decorator who was a member of the Nabis group of painters in the 1890s.

He is particularly known for his depictions of intimate interior scenes.

Vuillard studied art from 1886-1888 at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Plinio Nomellini | Divisionist painter

Plinio Nomellini (Livorno, 1866 - Florence, 1943) was an Italian painter. Nomellini was born in Livorno in 1866. In 1885 he enrolled at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under Giovanni Fattori and formed friendships with Telemaco Signorini and Silvestro Lega as well as Giuseppe Pellizza some time later.

He took part in the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889 and moved to Genoa, where he adopted Divisionism, the following year.

He exhibited a piece inspired by the Genoese workers’ strikes at the 1st Brera Triennale in 1891 and was arrested on charges of anarchism in 1894.

Raj Chaudhuri | New Orientalist painter

Raj Chaudhuri describes himself as one of the "New Orientalists", a traveling painter in the modern world.

Storytelling is his focus, creating exotic imagery from ceremonial camel races to paintings utilizing bright flashes of color such as "Rajasthani Women Waiting for a Bus" which recently won Raj an Honorable Mention Award at the 15th Annual American Impressionist Society National Juried Show.

Gaetano Cellini | Humanity Against Evil / L'umanità contro il male, 1908

L’umanità contro il male /Humanity against Evil, now at Rome’s National Gallery of Modern Art (GNAM), was one of the first works by Ravenna-born sculptor Gaetano Cellini (1873-1937).

Cellini presented the plaster model at the Milan Expo of 1906, for which he won the prestigious "Premio Fumagalli dell'Accademia di Brera".

On the base, he inscribed the title of the work and a couplet explaining its meaning:

"Thus I’ll extirpate using my teeth and nails

the eternal pain that stings my heart".

André Rieu, 1949 | King of Waltz

André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu is a Dutch violinist and conductor best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra.

Together they have turned classical and waltz music into a worldwide concert touring act, as successful as some of the biggest global pop and rock music acts.

For his work, Rieu has been awarded such honours as the Order of the Netherlands Lion by the Netherlands, the Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France, and the Honorary Medal by his native Province of Limburg.

Lyudmila Agrich | Ballet dancer

Ukrainian-born Lyudmila Agrich moved to Denver almost 20 years ago and has made a name for herself in the Colorado art scene with her unparalleled palette knife mastery.

For biographical notes and other works by Agrich see Lyudmila Agrich | Impressionism Expressionist painter.

Lyudmila Agrich | Impressionism Expressionist painter

Lyudmila Agrich was born in Russia. After changing her place of residency several times, her family finally settled down in the beautiful city of Odessa in Ukraine by the Black Sea. As a child she got all attention and love from her parents. They were always encouraging in all of her creative expressions. As a result she spent several years in musical school and the school of fine arts for children.

Gino Severini | Cubo-Futurism painter

Gino Severini, (born April 7, 1883, Cortona, Italy-died February 27, 1966, Paris, France) Italian painter who synthesized the styles of Futurism and Cubism.

Severini began his painting career in 1900 as a student of Giacomo Balla, an Italian pointillist painter who later became a prominent Futurist.

Stimulated by Balla’s account of the new painting in France, Severini moved to Paris in 1906 and met leading members of the French avant-garde, such as the Cubist painters Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso and the writer Guillaume Apollinaire.

Giacomo Balla | Futurist painter

Giacomo Balla (1871-1958) Italian artist and founding member of the Futurist movement in painting.

Balla had little formal art training, having attended briefly an academy in Turin. He moved to Rome in his twenties.

As a young artist, he was greatly influenced by French Neo-Impressionism during a sojourn he made in Paris in 1900. Upon his return to Rome, he adopted the Neo-Impressionist style and imparted it to two younger artists, Umberto Boccioni and Gino Severini. Balla’s early works reflect contemporary French trends but also hint at his lifelong interest in rendering light and its effects.

Adebanji Alade ROI, 1972 | Figurative / Cityscape painter

Adebanji Alade - ROI (Member of The Royal Institute Of Oil Painters) was born in Nigeria, and trained at Yaba College of Technology (a renowned art college in Nigeria). He extended his studies at Heatherly’s School of Fine Art in Chelsea in the UK.

Adebanji is a professional artist working in Chelsea, London. He is primarily a figurative and portrait artist with a fascination for painting and sketching people and draws inspiration from the people he sees travelling on public transport.  Adebanji, along with five other acrylic painters, was one of the first to try our new Artists’ Acrylic colours.

Hashim Akib, 1967 | Cityscape painter

Award winning artist Hashim Akib is born in England.

Working as an illustrator for over 15 years has provided valuable experience in developing a backbone of drawing, conceptual ideas and painting techniques. 

My client list varies from The Times newspapers, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Time magazine, ad campaign for Smirnoff, a stamp for Royal Mail and concepts for a product range for W.H.Smith.

Mark Lague, 1964 | Cityscape painter

Mark Lague has developed an international reputation and has won numerous awards, both in his native Canada and in the United States.
A dedicated painter, Mark Lague was born in Lachine Quebec in 1964 and he has had a fascination with drawing since childhood, a skill he practices constantly, even to this day. Upon graduation from Montreal's Concordia University in Design, Mark embarked on a 13-year career in the animation industry, working primarily as a background designer and art director.

Omar Ortiz, 1977 | Arte in dettagli

Omar Ortiz è nato a Guadalajara, Jalisco, Messico, dove vive tuttora. Fin da ragazzo si è interessato al disegno e all'illustrazione.

Ha studiato per una laurea in Graphic Design, dove ha appreso diverse tecniche come il disegno a mano, pastelli, carboncino, acquerelli, acrilici e aerografia.

Quando finì il college decise di guadagnarsi da vivere con la pittura.

Nel 2002 ha frequentato i suoi primi corsi di pittura ad olio con l'artista Carmen Alarcón, che considera la sua principale insegnante.

Omar Ortiz attualmente lavora con la pittura ad olio perché la considera la tecnica più nobile.

Fidel Molina, 1971 | Figurative /Cityscape painter

Son of the painter Luis Molina, Fidel Molina (Madrid, July 3, 1971) graduated in the speciality of Design for the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid.

He combines his work as painter with that of designer and illustrator, being able to see their creations in both film and television and Internet advertising campaigns.

His paintings and illustrations have appeared numerous times in different publications.

Kevin Mizner, 1962 | Plein Air painter

Kevin Mizner has been painting scenes of Maine for well over thirty years. His realist style has evolved into a synthesis of classical landscape techniques with the sensibility of impressionism.
Kevin takes advantage of the everyday beauty of Maine: The Lobstermen plying their trade along the coast, or the rolling fields, farms and woods of Maine's interior. In his Americana paintings, he evokes a sense of the working people of Maine's history. All are given a bold color-filled look that typifies Kevin's paintings.

Michael Tolleson,1957 | Autistic Savant Artist

Michael Tolleson is an Autistic Savant Artist, who has no formal art training, but instead relies on the use of the huge amount of stored information that his Asperger’s mind has observed and retained.

During his art career of only 4 years of painting, he has painted more than 600 paintings, and each painting is usually completed in less than one hour of painting time regardless of size.

He states that he feels trance-like during the actual act of painting, and is reluctant to take credit for the finished work as he feels the autism is actually the artist.

Anna Razumovskaya | Venetian Graces | Art in Detail

Anna Razumovskaya is an Russian painter, known for working in the Impressionist /Figurative style. With solo exhibitions in New York, Paris, Toronto, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin and numerous works in private collections across the globe, Razumovskaya has become one of the most exciting and collectable artists on the contemporary scene.

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

• Anna Razumovskaya | Romantic Figurative painter;
• Anna Razumovskaya | Portraits;
• Anna Razumovskaya | Ballet dancer.

Antonella Lucarella Masetti, 1954

Antonella Masetti Lucarella was born in Taranto Italy.

She actually lives and works in Milan. She works using mixed techniques.

Talking about her practice, the artist says she has chosen to create "Italian" art, despite the fashion of the times.

Her paintings have a timeless beauty and the artist has reached international fame.

Seth Couture, 1974 | Abstract Impressionist painter

Californian painter Seth Couture is an Artist residing in El Dorado Hills, CA.

His works include acrylic paintings on canvas, as well as Charcoal and Pastels.

Seth’s life and art career are anything but normal.

As a teenager, he left an abusive home and put himself through high school.

After graduation, he made his way to California, where the noted painter Tom X took him under his wing.

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