Sarah Myers | Figurative sculptor

Sarah Myers - Art-design, sculpture, handicraft.

"The art of museums inspires me, as does atmospheric design. Since 2003 I often use ceramic clays from formulas invented by my sister Amy Myers - material I mix and knead up by hand.

My sculpture goes from dust to moist clay, then to a figure glowing white-hot in the kiln at degrees ranging from 1940-2305 degrees Fahrenheit... and forward to a sculpture that looks at you, that stands ready or falls asleep, that carries or dances".

Nadezhda Streltsov / Надежда Стрельцова, 1973 | Ballet dancers

Надежда Стрельцова was born in in Leningrad, St. Petersburg.

1983-1991 studied at the Art School at the Institute Repin in St. Petersburg (Academy of Arts).

1992-1998 studied at the State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Repin in the studio of prof. Непринцева and Еремеева and Eremeeva.

For the thesis "The White Night" was awarded° the grant "The Muse of St. Petersburg" and the State grant of the Ministry of Culture of Russia in 1999.

- In 2002 again awarded* the grant "The young artists of St. Petersburg".

Since 2001 - member of the Union of Artists of Russia.

Her works are in private collections in the USA, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Russia.

Hanan Milner, 1949 | Figurative painter

Hanan Milner was born in Lithuania, former USSR.

Studied at Tel-Aviv art schools Renanim and TelmaYallin and at the Bezalel art academy in Jerusalem.

Participated in two seminars of the distinguished Austrian artist, Ernst Fuchs Exhibits in galleries in the US, England and Israel.

Lorenzo Lotto | The Recanati Annunciation, 1534

The Recanati Annunciation is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Lorenzo Lotto, executed around 1534 and housed in the Civic Museum of Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati, Italy.

History

The work could date to the artist's sojourn in Venice, from where it would be shipped to the Marche around 1527. Otherwise, it could date to a later period when he moved there to executed other works. Today it is generally assigned to a few time after the Crucifixion of Monte San Giusto (1533-1534).

Stephanie Clair | Cubist Romantic painter

With the matrimony of emotion, cubes and color, Stephanie Clair, American painter, shares her inspiration from happy, dreamy moments in life that we can all relate to, but so easily forget.

A first love, a last love, a memory, lovers sipping wine, being enlightened, inspired by sweet music... those moments are ours to remember- but the speed of time can erase the memories we all take for granted.

Michele Byrne | Plein Air / Figurative painter

Michele Byrne is recognized for her figurative plein air work. She lives and works in Reading, Pennsylvania. However, she travels extensively, painting in various locations including, Manhattan, Paris, California, Colorado and Key West, Florida. Michele was a Faculty Demonstrator for the Annual PleinAir Convention in Monterey, CA in April of 2014.

Rudyard Kipling | Se.. / If..| Lettera al figlio, 1910

Se riesci a conservare il controllo quando tutti
intorno a te lo perdono e te ne fanno una colpa;
se riesci ad aver fiducia in te quando tutti
ne dubitano, ma anche a tener conto del dubbio;
se riesci ad aspettare e non stancarti di aspettare,
o se mentono a tuo riguardo, a non ricambiare in menzogne,
o se ti odiano, a non lasciarti prendere dall’odio,
e tuttavia a non sembrare troppo buono e
a non parlare troppo saggio;

Se riesci a sognare e a non fare del sogno il tuo padrone;
se riesci a pensare e a non fare del pensiero il tuo scopo;
Se riesci a far fronte al Trionfo ed alla Rovina
e trattare allo stesso modo quei due impostori;

Se riesci a sopportare di udire la verità che hai detto
distorta da furfanti per ingannare gli sciocchi
o a contemplare le cose cui hai dedicato la vita, infrante,
e piegarti a ricostruirle con strumenti logori;


If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

Candace Charlton, 1968 | Abstract Figurative painter

Candace Charlton (Durban, South Africa) studied Fine Art at Rhodes University majoring in Sculpture and History of Art.

Painting full-time since 1997.

In 1998 she held her first solo exhibition which was warmly received by the public.

In 2000 she moved to Europe and lives and works in The Netherlands and in Italy.

The human form, in particular the portrait, is the main focus in Charlton’s work.

Salvador Fuster Vercher, 1966 | Portrait /Cityscape painter

Salvador Fuster Vercher born in Alcoy, is the son of the painter Rafael Fuster he inherited his great mastery of drawing and color.

Salvador Fuster is a painter who, like his progenitor, dominates all painting techniques, and is considered one of the best portrait painters in the current art scene.

His painting is present in great part of the best collections of painting of Europe and America and even the distant Australia counts on portraits and work of this great artist.

Alexei Antonov, 1957

Alexei Antonov è nato in Russia ed è residente negli Stati Uniti dal 1991, a seguito delle vicende della Perestrojka. La passione per l'arte nasce da quando era bambino.

Ricorda infatti di essere stato attratto dal kit di make-up della madre e di disegnare murales sulla carta da parati con il suo rossetto.

Per tutta la sua infanzia ha continuato disegnare, ed al liceo eccelleva nell'arte e nel canto. Le sue opere sono classificabili nel realismo classico.

Max Leiva, 1966 | Abstract sculptor

The Guatemalan artist graduate of the country’s National School of Fine Arts, spends his working time between his home country and Mexico.

The globe-trotting artist, who spent time at the University of Silpakorn in Thailand under a UNESCO scholarship, states that Guatemala lacks sufficient foundry facilities required to undertake his work.

After preliminary sketching sessions on paper, small studies of his works are constructed using Plasticine, ceramic clay or gypsum whilst metal frames are used to facilitate the silicone mould-making process.

Ans Markus, 1947 | Fashion painter

Antje Geertje (Ans) Markus is known for her paintings of woman in drapings. Markus is an autodidact with a realistic style. Her first exposition was in 1981, her own atelier and exposition space was opened in 1995. In 2003 a book with a collection of her paintings was released because of her 25-year anniversary as a painter. Markus has a distinctive clothing style. On november 6, 2009 it was announced that Markus was selected as Dutch artist° of the year.

Valentin De Boulogne | Baroque painter

With the exception of Valentin de Boulogne's baptismal record, bearing a disputed date of either 1591 or 1594, the artist's early life is undocumented. The son of a painter and stained glass worker, Valentin likely received his first training with his father in his native Coulommiers, near Paris. He may subsequently have studied with an artist in Paris or in Fontainebleau. It is not known when he departed for Italy, where he resided the remainder of his short life. Joachim von Sandrart remarked (1675) that Valentin reached Rome before Simon Vouet (1590-1649), who arrived around 1614.

Alphonse Osbert | Symbolist / Pointillist painter

Alphonse Osbert (23 March 1857 - 11 August 1939) was a French* Symbolist painter.

Educated at the École des Beaux-Arts, his earliest passion was for the great Spanish masters*, particularly Jusepe de Ribera. A shift away from his academic style took place in the late 1880s under the influence of several acquaintances associated with Post-Impressionism* and Symbolism*.

Alessandro Sicioldr, 1990 | Visionary painter

Alessandro Sicioldr is an Italian painter and illustrator born in Tarquinia, living and working in Perugia. He works mainly with oil paint, pencils and coloured pencils.

His subjects are surreal images coming from unconscious that he represents using a blend of contemporary and traditional techniques.

Howard Behrens | Palette knife painter

American painter Howard Behrens (August 20, 1933 - April 14, 2014) - the world's most renowned palette knife artist. As a landscape and seascape artist, Behrens has painted the idyllic lakes of Italy to the gardens of New England.

He has had over 150 one-man shows from coast-to-coast since becoming a professional artist in 1980. Behrens was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1933. He grew up near Washington, DC. He began drawing at age seventeen after being confined to bed following a sledding accident.

Nicola Vietti, 1945 | Figurative painter

Nicola Vietti was born in Marseille to Italian parents emigrated from Apulia in France at the beginning of the century. Numerous solo and group exhibitions. And 'present in catalogs and magazines. He currently lives and works in Milan, after a long period spent in Paris.

The figures of maidens Nicola Vietti, you can look on each side, three-quarter profile, facing away.

The style might defer to their fathers, that should not be forgotten at this point, as the International Botero and Bueno Nicola Vietti that offer a hint of a departure of style attempted with disenchantment.

Helen Allingham RWS | Victorian era painter

Helen Allingham RWS (née Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson; 26 September 1848 - 28 September 1926) was an British* watercolour painter and illustrator of the Victorian era.

Biography

Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson was born at Swadlincote in Derbyshire, the daughter of Alexander Henry Paterson, a medical doctor, and Mary Herford Paterson. Helen Paterson was the eldest of seven children. The family moved to Altrincham in Cheshire when she was one year old.

In 1862 her father and her 3-year-old sister Isabel died of diphtheria during an epidemic.

The family then moved to Birmingham, where some of Alexander Paterson's family lived.

Masaaki Sasamoto 笹本正明, 1966

Japanese artist Masaaki Sasamoto was born in 1966 in Tokyo. He graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, specializing in Japanese painting.

He has been a permanent participant of solo and group art exhibitions throughout Japan. Masaaki Sasamoto currently lives and works in Yamanashi Prefecture, on the island of Honshu, Japan. The artworks of Masaaki Sasamoto are exhibited at Art Prefectural Gallery of Yamanashi Museum.

Paul Chabas | Academic painter

Paul Émile Chabas (1869-1937) was a French painter🎨 and illustrator and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.

He was born in Nantes, and had his artistic training under William-Adolphe Bouguereau🎨 and Tony Robert-Fleury. He first exhibited at the Salon in 1890.

He was awarded a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 and in 1912 received the Médaille d’honneur🎨. His preferred subject was a young girl in a natural setting.

Ludivine Corominas, 1976 | Still life painter

French painter Ludivine Corominas is a self-taught artist, acquired her first notion of art by her father. With many elegance, fines and exquisite delicacy, Ludivine declines colors of rainbow by creating tones and nuances which light up the sun of her brushes.

The redcurrants, the luscious grapes, crystalline transparency, fine porcelains are the principal subjects of this artist: The still life.

Giorgio Conta, 1978 | Figurative sculptor

Giorgio Conta grew up in an artistic environment where, being his father a well known artist, he came into contact with various personalities from the art and culture world, including the great pianist Arturo Benedetti Michel-angeli, close friend of the family, who expressed the wish to be his Godfather. After having earned his high-school diploma he attended a sculpture school devoting himself to painting and drawing as well.

Antonio Sannino, 1959 | Abstract /Cityscape painter

Antonio Sannino was born in Naples in 1959. He lives and works in Naples and Rome.

He is been focusing for years in portraying "landscapes". Sannino has been able to create new representations of the landscape, by searching new framing, re-drawing the space and its contents. He uses his camera to catch the best light in his pictures, that moment when everything seems to be frozen and timeless. His sea surfaces do not only reproduce water but they emphasize the transparency and light.

Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Drawings / Study

Inspired by Baroque painters -Caravaggio in particular- and other old masters, Roberto Ferri is an Italian painter known for working also in the Baroque Era style.

Ferri was born in Fontanaviva, Taranto, Italy in 1978.

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

Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Baroque Era style painter

Roberto Ferri, 1978

Roberto Ferri / Pablo Neruda | Il tuo sorriso..

Australian Art History and Sitemap

Australian art is a broad spectrum of art created in or about Australia, or by Australians overseas, spanning from prehistoric times to the present day.

The art forms include, but are not limited to, Aboriginal, Colonial, Landscape, Atelier and Contemporary art.

The visual arts in Australia have a rich and extensive history, with Aboriginal art dating back at least 30,000 years.

Gil Bruvel, 1959 ~ Visionary painter

Carolyn Biggio, 1958 | Still life painter

Born in Columbus, Ohio in 1958, Carolyn Biggio grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her formal schooling earned her a Bachelor of Sciences degree; but she later took up studies in art with Henry Hensche at the Cape School of Art. Other classes with his followers deepened her commitment, and her career path shifted to painting. Ms. Biggio's paintings are pure light and color, primarily of still life. The thick impasto paint is laid on with a palette knife to create intense masses of color; shadows are equally vibrant, creating dimension with brilliant shifts in hue and value, rather than just local color. Ms. Biggio has exhibited her work nationally, receiving numerous awards.

Edward Hopper: "More of me comes out when I improvise"

• "What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house".

• "After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface".

Albena Vatcheva, 1967 | Fantasy painter

Albena Vatcheva is an French artist of Bulgarian origin who advances in a spectacular way.

Her painting has inherited various traditions, including that of masters of the icon.

Using different oriental sources, she has created a world of troubling fairy, which is a real fascination for the eye, as her glowing colors create magic.

Tender, loving, her characters live in a world of peace, harmony and mutual consolation.

Ryo Shiotani / 塩谷 亮, 1975 | Figurative painter

"I paint realist paintings because I can make new discoveries as I thoroughly look at my subject. That is enjoyable".

Award winning Japanese painter Ryo Shiotani 塩谷 亮 was born in Tokyo.

After graduating from Musashino Art University, Ryo Shiotani spent one year studying in Florence on an Agency for Cultural Affairs scholarship, where he had a chance to copy the works of Leonardo da Vinci.

The Marathon Boy, 340-330 bc | Underwater discoveries

• National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece
• Marathon Youth or Ephebe of Marathon. 
• Bronze statue of a young athlete, found in the sea near Marathon (Attic coast). 
• The left hand was replaced at a later date by another shaped as a lamp. 
• Work of the Praxiteles school, ca. 340-330 B.C.
• Dimensions H. 1.3 m (4 ft. 3 in.)
• Accession number X 15118
• Department of Sculptures

The Marathon Boy or Ephebe of Marathon is a Greek bronze sculpture found in the Aegean Sea in the bay of Marathon in 1925. It is conserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens where it is dated to around 340-330 BC. The Museum suggests that the subject is the winner of an athletic competition.

Leonardo da Vinci | A treatise on painting

Science of painting

Leonardo’s advocacy of a science of painting is best displayed in his notebook writings under the general heading “On Painting”.

The notebooks provide evidence that, among many projects he planned, he intended to write a treatise discussing painting.

After inheriting Leonardo’s vast manuscript legacy in 1519, it is believed that, sometime before 1542, Melzi extracted passages from them and organized them into the Trattato della pittura [In italian] ➤ (“Treatise on Painting”) that is attributed to Leonardo.

Leonardo da Vinci | Dell'obbligo che ha la scultura col lume, e non la pittura

Trattato della Pittura

Parte prima | Capitolo 38

Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura | Testo Integrale

Se la scultura avrà il lume di sotto parrà cosa mostruosa e strana; questo non accade alla pittura, che tutte le parti porta con sé.

Leonardo da Vinci | Dell'orizzonte

Trattato della Pittura - Parte ottava | Capitoli 235-258

Il Testo Integrale

Indice

927. Qual sia il vero sito dell'orizzonte.

928. Dell'orizzonte.

929. Del vero orizzonte.

930. Dell'orizzonte.

931. Dell'orizzonte.

932. Se l'occhio che vede l'orizzonte marittimo, stando co' piedi alla pelle di esso mare, vede esso orizzonte più basso di sé.

933. Dell'orizzonte specchiato nell'acqua corrente.

934. Dove l'orizzonte si specchia nell'onda.

935. Perché l'aria grossa vicina all'orizzonte si fa rossa.

Leonardo da Vinci | Degli alberi e delle verdure

Trattato della Pittura - Parte sesta | Capitoli 812-840

Il Testo Integrale

Indice

812. Discorso delle qualità de' fiori nelle ramificazioni delle erbe.

813. Della ramificazione delle piante.

814. Della ramificazione delle piante.

815. Della ramificazione delle piante.

816. Delle minori ramificazioni delle piante.

817. Della proporzione che hanno infra loro le ramificazioni delle piante.

Leonardo da Vinci | Delle ombrosità e chiarezze de' monti

Trattato della Pittura - Parte quinta | Capitoli 780-798

Il Testo Integrale

Indice

780. Prospettiva comune.

781. Delle cime de' monti vedute di sopra in giú.

782. Dell'aria che mostra piú chiare le radici de' monti che le loro cime.

783. Perché i monti distanti mostrano piú oscure le sommità che le loro basi.

784. Delle cime de' monti che si scoprono all'occhio l'una piú alta dell'altra, che le proporzioni delle distanze non sono colle proporzioni de' colori.

785. Delle cime de' monti che non diminuiscono ne' colori secondo la distanza delle cime loro.

786. Dell'inganno del pittore nella grandezza degli alberi e degli altri corpi delle campagne.

787. Perché i monti in lunga distanza si dimostrano piú scuri nella cima che nella base.

788. Perché i monti paiono avere piú oscure le cime che le basi in lunga distanza.

789. Come non si deve figurar le montagne cosí azzurre il verno come l'estate.

790. Come i monti ombrati dai nuvoli partecipano del colore azzurro.

791. Dell'aria che infra i monti si dimostra.

792. De' monti e loro divisione in pittura.

793. Pittura che mostra la necessaria figurazione delle alpi, monti e colli.

794. Pittura e come i monti crescono.

795. Pittura nel figurare le qualità e membri de' paesi montuosi.

796. De' monti.

797. De' monti.

798. Precetto.

Leonardo da Vinci | Sant'Anna, la Vergine e il Bambino con l'agnellino, 1510-1513 (detail)

Leonardo da Vinci | De' riflessi

Trattato della Pittura - Parte quinta | Capitoli 769-779

Il Testo Integrale

Indice

769. Dell'ombra interposta infra lume incidente e lume riflesso.

770. Dove il riflesso dev'essere piú oscuro.

771. Perché i riflessi poco o niente si vedono ne' lumi universali.

772. Come il riflesso si genera ne' lumi universali.

773. Quali lumi facciano piú nota e spedita la figura de' muscoli.

774. Come i corpi bianchi si devono figurare.

775. Dell'occhio che sta al chiaro e vede il luogo oscuro.

776. Dell'occhio che vede le cose in luogo chiaro.

777. Delle ombre e lumi delle città.

778. Dell'illuminazione delle parti infime de' corpi insieme ristretti, come gli uomini in battaglia.

779. Del lume particolare.

Leonardo da Vinci | Che differenza è da lustro a lume

Trattato della Pittura

Parte quinta | Capitoli 760-768

Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura | Testo Integrale

Indice

670. Dell'universale illuminazione mista colla particolare del sole o di altri lumi.

671. Dell'ombra media, la quale s'interpone infra la parte illuminata e l'ombrosa de' corpi.

672. Se il gran lume di poca potenza val quanto un piccolo lume di gran potenza.

673. Del mezzo incluso infra i lumi e le ombre principali.

Leonardo da Vinci | Dell'ombra e lume, e della prospettiva

Trattato della Pittura

Parte quinta | Capitoli 533-560

Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura | Testo Integrale

Indice

533. Che cosa è ombra.

534. Che differenza è da ombra a tenebre.

535. Da che deriva l'ombra.

536. Dell'essere dell'ombra per sé.

537. Che cosa è ombra e lume, e qual è di maggior potenza.

538. Che sia ombra e tenebre.

539. In quante parti si divide l'ombra.

540. Dell'ombra e sua divisione.

541. Di due specie di ombre ed in quante parti si dividono.

542. Qual è più oscura, o l'ombra primitiva o l'ombra derivativa.

543. Che differenza è da ombra a tenebre.

544. Che differenza è da ombra semplice a ombra composta.

545. Che differenza è da lume composto a ombra composta.

546. Come sempre il lume composto e l'ombra composta confinano insieme.

547. Che il termine dell'ombra semplice sarà di minor notizia.

548. Dell'ombra derivativa composta.

549. Come l'ombra primitiva e derivativa sono congiunte.

550. Come l'ombra semplice con l'ombra composta si congiunge.

551. Della semplice e composta ombra primitiva.

552. De' termini dell'ombra composta.

553. Del termine dell'ombra semplice.

554. Che ombra fa il lume eguale all'ombroso nella figura delle sue ombre.

555. Che ombra fa l'ombroso maggiore del luminoso.

556. Quante sono le sorta delle ombre.

557. Quante sono le specie delle ombre.

558. Di quante sorta è l'ombra primitiva.

559. In quanti modi si varia l'ombra primitiva.

560. Che varietà ha l'ombra derivativa.

533. Che cosa è ombra.

L'ombra, nominata per il proprio suo vocabolo, è da esser chiamata alleviazione di lume applicato alla superficie de' corpi, della quale il principio è nel fine della luce, ed il fine è nelle tenebre.

Leonardo da Vinci | De' panni e modo di vestir le figure..

Trattato della Pittura

Parte quarta | Capitoli 517-532

Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura | Testo Integrale

Indice

517. De' panni che vestono le figure.

518. Delle maniere rotte o salde de' panni che vestono le figure.

519. Del vestire le figure con grazia.

520. De' panni che vestono le figure, e pieghe loro.

521. Del modo di vestire le figure.

522. De' vestimenti.

523. De' panni volanti o stabili.

524. Operazioni de' panni e loro pieghe, che sono di tre nature.

525. Delle nature delle pieghe de' panni.

526. Come si devono dare le pieghe ai panni.

527. Delle poche pieghe de' panni.

528. Delle pieghe de' panni in iscorto.

529. De' modi del vestire le figure, ed abiti diversi.

530. Dell'occhio che vede pieghe de' panni che circondano l'uomo.

531. Delle pieghe de' panni.

532. Delle pieghe.