Geoffrey Wynne, 1949 | Impressionist Watercolour painter

Born in Stoke, on Trent, Staffordshire, British painter Geoffrey Wynne moved to Spain soon after completing his degree in Fine Art at North Staffordshire University of Fine Art - BA Hons in Fine Art, 1985.
Geoffrey paints in watercolour and draws inspiration from the colour, sparkling light and vibrant culture of the Mediterranean - most notably Venice, Portugal, Morocco, Andalucia and Granada Spain, where he lives and works.

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 | 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 | View of the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, 1843-1857

Ippolito Caffi (1809-1866) modernized the veduta vocabulary inherited from Canaletto, selecting new points of view, and he showed an interest in nocturnal scenes with artificial or lunar illumination, in recording the effects of light and atmosphere at particular times, and in chronicling unusual events such as eclipses and balloon flights.

His most famous work, the Last Hour of Carnevale in Rome (The Candles) (1837; Venice, Ca' Pesaro), displays the originality of his style.

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.

Paintings of Children by Garmashs

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

Both work on the same piece, which is extraordinarily unique in the art industry.

Several years after their marriage, Michael began a painting of their daughter for a project at school.

However, their two-year old found the painting during his absence and painted her own version of the subject.

Pakayla Biehn, 1986 | Surrealist painter

Pakayla Rae Biehn is a young and talented artist born and raised in California. She uses oil and acrylic to create incredible paintings that look like pictures.

Her talent is definitely polyhedric expressed with several techniques and approaches, from painting to installation to design.

Ilham Mirzayev, 1965 | Abstract painter

Ilham Mirzayev Maharram was born in Nakhchivan, the Azerbaijan Republic.

• 1980 - 1984 Studied at the State Arts School named Azim Azimzadeh.
• 1984 - 1986 Served in the Soviet Army.
• 1986 - Began creative work - painting.
• 1989 - Member of the Artists’ Union of USSR / youth group.
• 1991 - Member of the Artists’ Union of USSR / after disintegration of USSR in 1991 - Member of the Artists’ Union of Azerbaijan.
• 1992 - Production Designer of Turkish playwright A. Nelsin "The letter from Takhtali village" / Nakhchivan State Drama Theatre.

Romona Youngquist, 1960 | Plein air painter

"My lifestyle hasn’t changed much since early childhood. I live on a little farm with my family in the middle of Oregon wine country; I still hang out in the woods with the dogs and my own kids; and I still collect a wide range of critters. When I’m not painting outside, I paint in my studio in order to keep an eye on my kids and pets, while listening to my favorite Bach, Handel and Mozart" - Romona Youngquist.

Zhang Jing Sheng 张京生, 1940 | Plein air /Palette knife painter

Zhang Jing Sheng 张京生 is a professor and tutor for graduate students at the Tianjin Fine Arts Academy. He received State Allowance.
In 1967, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Central Fine Arts Academy. He won the silver prize at 'The Chine Fine Arts Exhibition'.

Between 1989 and 1990 he went to America to visit scholars and hold an exhibition, at the request of the Tao Sen University.

Lionello Balestrieri | Triptych of Chopin, 1904

Lionello Balestrieri | Chopin Triptych, 1904 | Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

The Balestrieri's Triptych of Chopin is a series of three panel painting:

╰┈➤ Chopin and George Sand;

╰┈➤ Chopin at Piano;

╰┈➤ Chopin Dying.

Location: Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA.

Alexander Gorbikov, 1966 | Plein air painter

Александр Горбиков was born in Stavropol, Russia. In 1998 he has graduated Repin Academy of painting, a sculpture and architecture in St. Petersburg. Is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, the International Federation of Artists. Now Александр lives and works in a Stavropol.

Karen Tarlton, 1965 | Storia d'amore sotto la pioggia

Le opere di Karen Tarlton sono altamente collezionabili e sono esposte in gallerie e case negli Stati Uniti ed in Europa.

Riconosciuta e acclamata in tutto il mondo, il suo lavoro è attualmente in mostra alla Gallerie Severn a Metairie, Louisiana ed al Tupelo Honey Cafe, Arlington, Virginia.

Inoltre, è stata premiata con la copertina dei numeri di dicembre 2014 e 2016 di Pink Magazine, la copertina del 2016 di Sasee Magazine ed è apparsa in molti altri, tra cui Gallerie d'arte e artisti del sud, ed è stata premiata come EMERGENTE ARTIST di Art Business News Magazine nel settembre 2009.

Romantic paintings by the Garmashs

The Garmashs incredible talent is only matched by their love and career stories.

Mr. and Mrs. Garmash are considered two of the finest Romantic Impressionists of our day.

Their incredible talent is only matched by their love and career stories.

In similar fashion to the determination of his artwork, Mr. Garmash courted his future wife, after seeing her for but a moment, by painting her image all over her hometown while she slept.

Ms. Garmash, born Inessa Kitaichik, immediately recognized the passion with which this man cared so dearly and married him shortly thereafter.