Apostolos Geralis / Απόστολος Γεραλής | Academic Genre painter

Apostolos Geralis /Απόστολος Γεραλής (1886-1983) was born on the island of Mytelene and died in Athens, Greece.
In 1896 he enrolled at The School of Fine Arts, Athens, where he studied painting under Dimitrios Geraniotis, Spyros Vikatos, Georgios Jakobides and Georgios Roilos.
Between 1910-1915 he held a teaching position at the Pancyprian Gymnasium, Nicosia and later, between1919-1920 he continued his studies in Paris, at The Julian Academy.

Kevin Sloan | Allegorical Realism painter

Kevin Sloan draws upon the diverse imagery acquired from his extensive travels around the world to create the unique magic realism paintings that have made him such a well-known, collected artist. With a portfolio of fine art that can be found in numerous public and private collections, his distinctive, provocative and occasionally humorous imagery create truly unique allegorical still lifes and landscapes.

Erin Hanson, 1981 | Impressionist / Expressionist / Abstract painter

Hanging precariously and horizontally from red sandstone, hundreds of feet above the ground, may not seem like it would inspire the creation of beautiful oil paintings, but that is exactly what happened with Erin Hanson.

After a lifetime of experimenting in different styles and mediums, it wasn’t until Hanson began rock climbing at Red Rock Canyon that her painting style was consolidated by a single inspiration and force of nature.

Arturo Martini | Symbolist sculptor

Arturo Martini, (born August 11, 1889, Treviso, Italy - died March 22, 1947, Milan), Italian sculptor and painter who was active between the World Wars. He is known for figurative sculptures executed in a wide variety of styles and materials.

Martini was trained in goldsmithing and in ceramics and worked for a time as a potter.

In 1905 he began sculpting; he attended art classes in Italy at Treviso and Venice before traveling to Munich, Germany, where he studied under the academic sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand in 1909.

Diane Leonard | Plein Air Impressionist painter

Diane Leonard is an award winning artist, and one of America’s most highly respected contemporary impressionists.
A self-taught artist, Diane began painting in her early twenties while she lived in Boston.
She has enjoyed great success with her artwork, including numerous One-Woman Shows here in the U.S. and Japan.
She has studied with two renowned painters, Bettina Steinke and Helen Van Wyk.

Theodoros Pantaleon, 1945 | Surrealist painter

Theodoros Pantaleon / Πανταλεων Θόδωρος was born in Athens.

He studied graphic arts at the Athens Technological Institute Doxiadis School taught by A. Tassos, A. Asteriadis, I. Dekoulakos, G. Georgiadis and S. Lydakis. He lives and works in Athens.

In his works, he uses typical elements of surrealism, while he adds elements of mannerism with portraits where he uses dreamy and imaginary sets.

David Farres, 1955 | Figurative / Cityscape painter

David Farrés Calvo was born in Badalona, Barcellona, Spain.

"David Farrés trained in the studio of renowned painter Manuel Sanchez Almendros (director of the Academy longed Mediterranean in Barcelona who founded the failed Joaquim Torrents Lladó).

It belongs to the "Cercle Artistic de Sant Lluc" of Barcelona, founded in 1893 Great artists have been associated with this circle as Joan Miró and Antoni Gaudi.

Charles-Clos Olsommer | Symbolist / Art Nouveau painter

Of French origin, Charles-Clos Olsommer (born March 17, 1883 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland died June 3, 1966) in Sierre, Switzerland, is naturalized in Neuchâtel in 1899.
He studied painting at the Art School in La Chaux-de-Fonds from 1901 to 1902 Professor Charles L'Eplattenier.
He attended the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich (1902-1903) and the School of Fine Arts of Geneva (1904-1905). He settled permanently in Veyras in 1912. He created there, in a style out of common, the totality of his works.

Ippolito Caffi | Romantic / Visionary Landscape painter

Italian painter Ippolito Coffi (1809-1866) was the most modern and original architectural subjects, seascapes and urban vedute artist of his time, and his paintings are so special in immortalising the soul of the places and peoples he encountered during his many trips.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Ippolito Caffi see part 1.

• Ippolito Caffi in Venice | 150th anniversary of his death ➦
• Ippolito Caffi | Carnival night in via del Corso in Rome, 1845-1847 ➦
• Ippolito Caffi | The ruins of the Colosseum in Rom ➦

Massimo Fedele, 1964 | Abstract Figurative painter /sculptor

Massimo Fedele was born in Turin, Italy. After a few months his family moved to Apulia, in San Vito dei Normanni (Brindisi) where he still lives and works. After obtaining a diploma from the local Technical and Commercial Institute, he realised he was not on the right track.

Leonard Cohen / Jack Vettriano | Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the wedding now

dance me on and on dance me very tenderly

and dance me very long we’re both of us beneath our love

we’re both of us above

dance me to the end of love

Andrius Kovelinas,1958

Andrius Kovelinas è da molti anni in prima linea nel panorama dell'arte contemporanea internazionale.

Più recentemente ha vinto l'ambito secondo premio alla più prestigiosa biennale dell'Accademia d'Arte Anglo-Italiana al Museo d'Arte di Chianciano, in Italia, con il suo dipinto 'Red Dance'. Vive in Irlanda da quasi 10 anni.

Il suo stile e la sua immaginazione straordinari sono stati in mostra alla Green Gallery poco dopo aver messo piede su queste coste.

Per molti anni Andrius aveva viaggiato in tutta Europa producendo le sue opere magistrali ovunque andasse Mostre personali più recenti: 2012, Galleria La Vittoria, Roma, Italia

Andrius ha vinto il secondo premio alla più prestigiosa biennale dell'Accademia d'Arte Anglo-Italiana al Museo d'Arte di Chianciano, Italia per il suo lavoro 'Red Dance'.

Abdalieva Akzhan,1975 | VideoArt

Abdalieva Akzhan /Aбдалиева Aкжана is an painter from Alma-Ta, Kazakhstan, known for working in the Figurative style. For biographical notes -in english and italian- and works see Abdalieva Akzhan ~ Figurative painter

Lilliana Comes | Symbolist Figurative painter

Daughter of an artist -her father was a sculptor, painter-, Lilliana Comes graduates from Istituto d’Arte di Napoli “Filippo Palizzi”, where she studies under sculptor Lelio Gelli and painter Enrico Cajati. She has her works displayed in many exhibitions, both individual and collective, in places such as Copenaghen, Berlin, Bern, London, New York, and at the International Boat Show of Qingdao (China) with the Mediterranean series.

Yannis Koutrikas, 1954 | Expressionist painter

Greek🎨 painter and sculptor Γιάννης Κούτρικας was born in Kalamata. From 1966-1978 he lived in Chicago, USA where studied Biology at the University of Illinois.

On his return to Greece, he studied painting in the National School of Fine Arts in Athens (1982-1987) under the supervision of Dimitris Mytaras. After graduating, he won a scholarship by the State Scholarship Institute for the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux - Arts in Paris.

Marco Busoni, 1962 | Surreal figure /Plein air painter

- The focal point of my artistic production is light. Painting and taking photos are two aspects of the same inspiration that I have form natural light in its spectacular and evanescent exhibitions.

In bright and sunny days or just before a thunderstorm brakes, sometimes I feel a compelling need to cache the beauty that I see around me. Photography is cure to this need a hunt made without caring of the heavy weight of my backpack full of lenses, a struggle of technology and passion.

Nikolay Reznichenko, 1958 | Surrealist Figurative painter

Russian painter Николай Резниченко was born Saratov region.

Throughout his life he has had various experiences and occupations which have enriched him, in a variety of ways, as an artist, and made him what he presently is.

After graduating from an art college, Николай entered nautical one in Kerch.

He was on his military duty in Kiev, afterwards there followed the period of studying architecture and arts in Krasnodar.

Christine Peloquin | Abstract painter

Christine Peloquin is a 2-D mixed media artist who has been selling her artwork for 30 years.

She is currently showing her work at Arts on Douglas Gallery in New Smyrna Beach, Bennett Galleries in Knoxville, TN, and Studio E Gallery in Palm Beach Gardens.

She has also shown in numerous galleries around the country including Atelier Galleries in Asheville, NC and Charleston, SC, Matre Gallery, Atlanta, GA, Longstreth-Goldberg Gallery in Naples, Hanson Gallery, Knoxville, TN, Loretta Goodwin Gallery, Birmingham, AL, Blue Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Orlando Museum of Art Gift Shop and Kristal Gallery, Sugarbush, VT to name a few.

Charles Bukowski | Che cosa diranno i vicini?

I miei genitori erano sempre dietro a

chiederlo,

naturalmente non mi importava un fico di

che cosa diranno i vicini.

mi facevano pena i vicini,

codardi che spiavano da dietro le

tendine.

Waldemar J. Marszałek

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | The Umbrellas, 1881-1886

Renoir's 'Umbrellas' shows a bustling Paris street in the rain. The composition of the painting does not focus on the centre of the picture which is a tangle of hands. It even cuts of figures at either edge like a photographic snapshot. This kind of unconventional arrangement was something that several of the Impressionists, including Renoir and Degas, enjoyed experimenting with.

Salustiano Garcia Cruz, 1965

Spanish painter Salustiano García Cruz graduated from the University of Seville.

The paintings of this artist are red or white pictures in a pure concept of Renaissance style, transmitting calm through a detailed study of form and a clear brush stroke.

The characters are lone busts and faces over an empty and monochrome space, appearing like in dreams where everything turns red.

Loui Jover, 1967 | Abstract /Surrealist painter

Loui Jover is an Australian based painter with a unique style of art. He basically uses ink on pages from vintage books to create eye-catching and emotionally charged images of women’s faces. His images also incorporate couples in intensely emotional states. His works have been hailed as truly creative and emotional. As an avid artist who draws every single day creating books of cartoons and drawings, Loui has travelled extensively all over Europe and Asia.

Johan Messely, 1953 | The Secret Gardens

Johan Messely is a painter from Belgium. Johan Messely grew up in the artistic world of his father Paul Messely,1927, also a painter, who served as his great example and motivation.

After his studies into technical engineering and later photography, Johan settled as a professional photographer in Menen, Belgium, but eventually decided to turn painting from being just a hobby into his main occupation.

Johan aims to create scenes in which the subtle play between light and shadow takes the central stage.

Alex Bertaina, 1963 | Venice painting

"Maybe my sky and my sea are united, as our existence,

between transport towards nature and departure from it and they shall treat these wounds" - Alex Bertaina

Alex Bertaina is an Italian painter, born in Turin. He lives and work in Cuneo, in North West Italy.

- "I am an autodidact painter. Since I was a child drawing has been to me a prime channel of expression, I remember that at school I enjoyed drawing pictures from the incomprehensible scribbling made by my classmates.

Emilio Greco | Figurative sculptor

Emilio Greco born (1913-1995), Italian sculptor and draughtsman, mainly of female figures and portrait busts.

Born in Catania, Sicily. At the age of thirteen entered the workshop of a stone mason, learning to carve crosses and figures for cemeteries; also began making sculpture on his own account and studied briefly at the Palermo Academy 1934.

Carmelo Blandino, 1966 | Abstract Symbolism painter

“My works are entrusted with the messages of Ages, created to impart healing and creative inspiration through beauty”.

Born to Sicilian parents in Tübingen, Germany, and with a childhood spent in the cities of Montreal and Modica, Sicily, Carmelo Blandino’s life journey has spanned continents and oceans.

It has now brought him to the US, where he has studios and residences in both Connecticut and Wisconsin. Blandino grows his inspirational vocabulary by taking the essentialness of Home to each and every place he has made his bed, wherever he has set up easel and wielded paintbrush.

Nefertiti, la Dea dell'Egitto

Il pezzo più pregiato della collezione di reperti archeologici egizi è senza dubbio il busto della regina Nefertiti.
C'è chi afferma che valga da solo un viaggio a Berlino.

Nefertiti, che per gli egiziani "la bella che è arrivata", identifica la regina egiziana (XIV secolo a.C.), sposa di Amenophis IV (Akhenaton, 1364-1347 a.C.).

Non si limitò ad interpretare il ruolo di grande sposa reale, poiché il faraone l’aveva coinvolta nella gestione del potere, e la sua influenza sulla guida politica del regno fu notevolissima.

Salvatore Alessi, 1974 | Figurative painter

Salvatore Alessi was born in Sicily. After the Art school, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo, specializing in scenography. Then he started working as a scenographer: he made theatrical sets for the Politeama Theatre of Palermo, and the Massimo of Catania. At the same time pursuing his passion for painting and also deals with film. He starts working as an assistant designer for several films.

Chien Chung-Wei 簡忠威, 1968 | Romantic Cityscape painter

Chien Chung-Wei 簡忠威aimed to be a painter at age 10. He earned the master degree in Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University and was selected as one of the 30 painters in One Hundred Years of Watercolor in Taiwan in 2009. In 2010, he set up the world’s first live demonstration teaching system in Chung-Wei Chien’s Art Studio for teaching watercolor. In 2014, he was selected in the 147th AWS Annual International Exhibition and the 94th NWS Annual International Exhibition; which made him the first Taiwanese painter get selected in the AWS and NWS annual exhibition. In addition, he was also accepted as the signature member in NWS in the same year.

Arthur Braginsky, 1965 | Abstract | Figurative painter

Arthur Braginsky is an award-winning artist based in Hungary whose paintings have been exhibited nationally, as well as in France, Austria, Russia, Belgium.

In 1982 graduated from Mukachevo art school.

Later studied in Lviv I.

Fedorov polygraphic Institute.

Since 1987 to 1989 has been working as a lights artist in regional philharmonic (Uzhgorod), later – in Russian dramatic theater as a decorator (properties artist).

Since 1994 till now he takes part in international planners in Hungary and in Ukraine.

Marilyn Monroe 1926-1962

Thierry Duval, 1957 | Watercolor Paris painting

Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France. His watercolors are characterized by a strong light and precision in drawing, being almost or hyperrealist in the results mainly in his Paris watercolors. By using glazing technique he works in several steps up to get the final, very realistic result. As was said, light is strong in almost all his artworks.

Edward Robert Hughes | Pre-Raphaelite painter

Edward Robert Hughes RWS (5 November 1851 - 23 April 1914) was an British painter who worked prominently in watercolours. He was influenced by his uncle, and eminent Pre-Raphaelite, Arthur Hughes.

Having settled on his career choice, Edward Hughes attended Heatherley's in London to prepare himself for the chance of auditioning for the Royal Academy School. Hughes became a student at the Royal Academy School in 1868. While Pre-Raphaelitism played an influential part in shaping Hughes work, Aestheticism is also seen in his paintings.

William Merritt Chase | Impressionist painter

Born in Indiana, William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) showed artistic talent as a young boy.

His family arranged for him to begin formal training in art at the age of eighteen with a local portrait painter in Indianapolis.

In 1869 Chase went to New York, where for two years he was a student at the National Academy of Design.

Ippolito Caffi | The ruins of the Colosseum in Rom

Ippolito Caffi (1809-1866) was an Italian visionary landscape painter of the 19th century.

Compared to Canaletto for his undoubted perspective skills, Ippolito Caffi actually 'exceeds' the great eighteenth-century master bringing the genre of landscape painting on to a contemporary level thanks to his ability to represent the air in painting and a thorough study on the effects of light.

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

• Ippolito Caffi in Venice | 150th anniversary of his death ➦
• Ippolito Caffi | Carnival night in via del Corso in Rome, 1845-1847 ➦

Hans Zatzka | Water Lilies

Austrian painter with an academic style, Hans Zatzka (1859-1945) is also known under the pseudonyms of Zabateri, P.Ronsard, Bernard Zatzka and Joseph Bernard.

He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1877 to 1882, where he took lessons with Christian Griepenkerl, Carl Wurzinger and Carl Von Blaas.

In 1880, the twenty years old painter received his first reward, the Goldene Füger-Medaillen.

The Garmash | Romantic Impressionist | Part. 4

Mikhail (Michael) Garmash (1969 Lugansk, Ukraine) ed Inessa Garmash (1972 Lipetsk, Russia) are two award winning Russian painters, known for working in the Romantic /Impressionist /Figurative style.

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

• Michael and Inessa Garmash | Romantic Impressionist painters ➦

For other works by Garmashs' see:

• Mr. and Mrs. Garmash | Romantic Impressionist /Plein Air painters ➦
• The Garmash | Romantic Impressionist / Plein Air painters ➦