Paolo Veronese | Renaissance painter

Paolo Veronese, byname of Paolo Caliari (born 1528, Verona, Republic of Venice [Italy]-died April 9, 1588, Venice), one of the major painters of the 16th-century Venetian school.

His works usually are huge, vastly peopled canvases depicting allegorical, biblical, or historical subjects in splendid colour and set in a framework of classicizing Renaissance architecture.

A master of the use of colour, he also excelled at illusionary compositions that extend the eye beyond the actual confines of the room.

Ichiro Tsuruta 鶴田-郎, 1954 | Bijin-ga Art

Ichiro Tsuruta was born in Hondo-shi (current Amakusa-shi), Kumamoto.

He grew up surrounded by rich nature of Amakusa area.

He has liked to paint since his childhood.

After graduating from high school, he entered Tama Art University, majored in graphic design and tried to become an illustrator.

In early days when he started professional painting, as he painted realistic pictures influenced by Western culture, he began to be conscious that "he is Japanese" and gradually devoted himself to Japanese unique sense of beauty such as the Rimpa or Maitreya of Buddhism art and "Bijine (beautiful woman portraits)" or "Onnae (romantic painting)" of Ukiyoe prints.

Lee Bogle, 1946 | Native American Love

Lee Bogle's🎨 technical skills as a draftsman are especially evident in his renderings of the human figure.

He combines vivid, realistic detail with expressive qualities of abstraction🎨 in the Oriental tradition.

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

• Lee Bogle, 1946 | Native American Art*.

Fred Wessel, 1946 | Egg Tempera painter

Fred Wessel is a Professor of Printmaking at the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford in Connecticut, where he teaches drawing, tempera painting and lithography. He also leads workshops in Italy to paint and study the Italian Renaissance.

He particularly looks to the early Renaissance for inspiration, saying "The ever-changing inner light that radiates from gold leaf used judiciously on the surface of a painting, and the use of pockets of rich, intense colors that illuminate the picture's surface impressed me deeply".

Lori Earley | Pop surrealism painter

Lori Earley is a contemporary surrealist* figurative artist who began exhibiting her works in 2004. Born and raised in New York, Earley was an accomplished and gifted artist from a young age.
As a maturing adolescent, she discovered her distinct style and fondness for painting deeply personal subject matter.
She then began her journey towards becoming a professional oil painter through fine art training at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Eric Barjot | Vintage style painter

The following collection include Still-life paintings in vintage style by French painter* Eric Barjot.

Kevin Beilfuss, 1963

Kevin Beilfuss è un pittore Americano che vive a Chicago.

Ha frequentato l'Illinois State University, conseguendo il Bachelor of Fine Art Degree in pittura nel 1985.

Dopo aver lavorato in un'agenzia pubblicitaria per un anno, Beilfuss ha frequentato l'American Academy of Art, dove si è concentrato sulla pittura e l'illustrazione.

Rodrigo Zaniboni | Plein air painter

Rodrigo Zaniboni is a Brazilian painter from the São Paulo countryside.

His brushstrokes have a contemporaneous, realistic style reminiscent of the Impressionists.

Zaniboni uses a very particular palette to emphasize the correct use of the color scale, and the technique of painting by layers is one of his strongest skills; he uses the technique in his routine work and considers it one of the most important activities for artist.

Bjorn Thorkelson, 1971 | Figurative painter

G. Bjorn Thorkelson was born in Orange, CA. He has been working as an illustrator for the last 13 years and is currently making the transition to fine art.  He currently shows at Gasov and Gurule in Scottsdale and The Wilcox Gallery in Jackson.

A native of Southern California, Bjorn lives with is wife Connie and four boys, T'Jae, Braden, Shawn and Riley in his Southeastern Idaho studio/home. Art has been his passion since early childhood and he cannot remember wanting to do anything else.

His early "crayon studies" of kindergarten took on more importance as he realized that he wanted to be an artist. "I've always loved to draw," he says, "it's as simple as that. Painting is merely an extension of that desire".

Ron Hicks, 1965 | Romantic Soul

"I see things very abstractly, so I think of myself as a painter who sees shape, value, edges and texture. I like to romanticize life. I love the interaction of people doing...'things' -- whatever it is. It could be the most mundane thing to any passer-by, but I find great beauty in that" - Ron Hicks*

Jack Vettriano: "I don’t apologise for what I have painted.."

• "I miei dipinti raccontano le cose che ho fatto e quelle che vorrei poter fare".

• "I painted beach scenes not because I was feeling nice, but because I wanted to get a particular effect of reflection".

Fabian Perez, 1967 | Embrace series

"Art happens in the sublime moment when the human being expresses his emotions through skills" - Fabian Perez

For Fabian Perez, the purpose of art is to perpetuate beauty.

"That is what I am always striving for. God created the world and embellished it with the wonders of nature. I think it is the artist’s job to embellish it with his work".

"I am constantly fighting for a more romantic world, one where the woman and the man have defined roles and power isn’t always the goal".

Pausing, he says, "I would like to say that it is not important what you have, but how you enjoy it".

Jaime Sabines | I’m not dying of love: I’m dying of you / Non è che muoia d’amor, muoio di te

Ron Hicks* - Study of a Couple

I’m not dying of love:

I’m dying of you,

my love-dying of the love of you,

of my dire need for my skin of you,

of my soul and my mouth of you,

of the miserable wretch I am without you.

I’m dying of you and me, of both

of us, of this-

ripped to shreds, torn apart,

the two of us are dying, dying of it.

Jean Béraud (1849-1935)

Jean Béraud è stato un pittore Francese di scuola impressionista.

Si dedicò alla pittura di genere, in prevalenza dell'ambiente parigino.

Jean Béraud nacque a San Pietroburgo con la sorella gemella Melania, poiché suo padre, scultore, lavorava probabilmente alle opere della cattedrale di Sant'Isacco.

Nel 1853 suo padre morì ed il giovane Béraud rientrò a Parigi con la madre, Geneviève Eugénie Jacquin, e le tre sorelle.

Stanislaw Zoladz, 1952 | Watercolour painter

Stanislaw Zoladz was born in Poland, and has studied at Kraków Academy of Fine Arts. Since 1978 he lives and works in Sweden.

To find motifs for his paintings, Stanislaw is always on the hunt for exiting light settings.

In the summer he paints where growth gives way to rocks by the water in Stockholm's archipelago.

Nature is a predominant theme in his works of art.

But quite often an abandoned tractor, or a red cottage by the horizon, also remind us of human presence.

Peregrine Heathcote, 1973 | Academic Realism painter

Peregrine Heathcote is an British painter*, known for working in contemporary academic realism style.

Heathcote was born in London.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Heathcote see Peregrine Heathcote, 1973 | Figurative painter*.

Elihu Vedder | Symbolist painter

Elihu Vedder (February 26, 1836 - January 29, 1923) was an American symbolist painter, book illustrator and poet, born in New York City.

He is best known for his fifty-five illustrations for Edward FitzGerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (deluxe edition, published by Houghton Mifflin).

Elihu Vedder was born February 26, 1836 in New York City, the son of Dr. Elihu Vedder Sr. and Elizabeth Vedder. His parents were cousins. His father, a dentist, decided to try his luck in Cuba, and this had a profound impact on Elihu Jr.'s childhood.

Denis Nolet, 1964 | Romantic painter

Canadian painter* Denis Nolet preferring moonlight to sunlight. He paints scenes saturated with the romance of the night. Denis Nolet was born in Quebec.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Nolet see Denis Nolet, 1964 | Night Tango in Paris*.

Paris painting

"Paris is an ocean.

Explore it, and you still won’t know its depths".

Honoré de Balzac

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch painter, 1853-1890)

Frida Kahlo | You rain on me - I sky you, | Tu mi piovi - Io ti cielo, 1947

Today, Wednesday 22 of January 1947

You rain on me - I sky you

You’re the fineness, childhood,

life - my love - little boy - old man

mother and center - blue - tender-

ness - I hand you my

universe and you live me

It is you whom I love today.

= I love you with all my loves

Gerard ter Borch | Baroque Era painter

Gerard Terborch, Terborch also spelled Ter Borch or Terburg (born 1617, Zwolle, Netherlands - died December 8, 1681, Deventer), Dutch Baroque painter who developed his own distinctive type of interior genre in which he depicted with grace and fidelity the atmosphere of well-to-do, middle-class life in 17th-century Holland.

Terborch’s father had been an artist and had visited Rome but from 1621 was employed as a tax collector. Surviving drawings made by the young Terborch in 1625 and 1626 are proudly inscribed and dated by his father. In 1632 Gerard was in Amsterdam, and in 1634 he was a pupil of Pieter de Molijn in Haarlem.

Anne-Louis Girodet | Neoclassical painter

Anne-Louis Girodet [Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson 1767-1824] is a French painter whose works exemplify the first phase of Romanticism in French art.

Girodet began to study drawing in 1773. He later became a student of the Neoclassical architect Étienne-Louis Boullée, with whose encouragement he joined the studio of Jacques-Louis David in late 1783 or early 1784.

Girodet won the Prix de Rome 1789 for his Joseph Recognized by His Brothers, which shows the influence of David’s Neoclassicism.

Camille Pissarro | Rue Saint-Honoré, in the afternoon. Effect of rain, 1897

Rue Saint-Honoré, dans l'après-midi. Effet de pluie ("Rue Saint-Honoré, in the afternoon. Effect of rain") is an 1897 oil painting by Camille Pissarro.

The work was made towards the end of Pissarro's career, when he abandoned his experiments with Pointillism and returned to a looser Impressionist style.

It is part of a series of works that Pissarro made in 1897-98 from a window of the Grand Hôtel du Louvre, looking down across the edge of the Place du Théâtre Français (now the Place André-Malraux) and along the rue Saint-Honoré, portraying the people, carriages and buildings, the trees, fountains and streetlamps, in an early afternoon shower of rain.

Camille Pissarro | Rue Saint-Honoré, in the afternoon. Effect of rain, 1897 | Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Johan Barthold Jongkind | Landscape painter

Johan Barthold Jongkind (born June 3, 1819, Lattrop, Neth.- died Feb. 9, 1891, Côte-Saint-André, France) painter and printmaker whose small, informal landscapes continued the tradition of the Dutch* landscapists while also stimulating the development of Impressionism*.

Jongkind first studied under local landscape painters at The Hague. In 1846 he moved to Paris and worked under the genre painter* Eugène Isabey and François Picot.

Vytautas Laisonas, 1965 | Magic Realism painter

Lithuanian painter Vytautas Laisonas, born in the village Skrėbiškis-Biržai district, is a member of Lithuania Folk Art Gild since 1991.

A key to his success is his creative ambitious personality and belief that self-analysis leads to perfection. Music, nature, lights, accidental moments are the other things that empower Vytautas to express himself through paintings.

Alexander Saidov / Александр Саидов, 1970 | Fantastic Realism painter

Alexander Saidov / Александр Саидов was born in Pavlovskaya, Krasnodar region. In 1989 he has finished the Krasnodar Art Institute. Since 1995 is a member of The Artist’s Union of Russia. From 1991 is participant of city, regional, zone exhibitions.

Lea Reinhart | Still life painter

Lea Reinhart (Brno 1877 - 1970 Vienna) was an Austrian painter*, known for Miniatures and still life painting.

She presumably studied at the Vienna Art School for Women under guidance of the Viennese painters* Robert Scheffer and Adalbert Franz Seligman. Her miniatures and still life paintings enjoy great popularity.

Ekaterina Vassilenko Searcy | Ballet dancers

Ekaterina Vassilenko Searcy /Екатерина Василенко Сирси is a Russian*-born American* figurative and portrait painter, living and working in San Diego, California.

Her drawings and oil paintings respect the technique and style of old masters of Renaissance* and baroque period of Italian*, Flemish, French* and Russian* masters.

Todd A. Williams, 1967 | Impressionist painter

Todd A. Williams - an award-winning painter - was born in Central City, Nebraska. After high school he attended the Kansas City Art Institute, graduating with a BFA.

Todd’s work has been exhibited across the US in gallery, museum and invitational exhibitions, including the Nebraska State Museum, Stuhr Museum, Gallery1516, Gilcrease Museum, Great Plains Art Museum, Richmond Art Museum, Montgomery Museum Of Fine Arts, Art Museum of Lafayette, Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, The Maynard Dixon Museum, Evansville Museum of Arts, and the Oil Painters of America and Impressionists Society National Exhibitions where he has been honored with the prestigious status of a Signature Member.

Wassily Kandinsky | Quotes / VideoArt

"A volte mi sembrava che il pennello, che con volontà inflessibile strappava frammenti a quest'organismo cromatico vivo, provocasse l'emissione di un suono musicale".

"Art is the mysterious expression of the mysterious".

"E come un nulla senza possibilità, come un nulla morto dopo l'estinguersi del sole, come un silenzio eterno senz'avvenire e senza speranza, risuona interiormente il nero".

"The geometric point is an invisible thing. Therefore, it must be defined as an incorporeal thing. Considered in terms of substance, it equals zero... Thus we look upon the geometric point as the ultimate and most singular union of silence and speech. The geometric point has, therefore, been given its material form, in the first instance, in writing. It belongs to language and signifies silence".

Lena Sotskova / Елена Сотскова, 1963

Lena Sotskova / Елена Сотскова was born in Moscow. She was discovered as a child prodigy at the age of four. A descendant of generations of the Russian aristocracy, Lena was fortunate to have a privileged upbringing and elite education in leading art schools and through private lessons from masters of painting.

Lena Sotskova was studying and working in the vaults of prestigious institutions such as The Hermitage, The Louvre, Art Fund of Russia and royal palaces and cathedrals of Moscow and St. Petersburg. She was involved in the restoration of rare pieces of art that were damaged during the Moscow fire of 1812 during the war with Napoleon Bonaparte.

Ivan Pili, 1976 | Genre painter

Ivan Pili, concert musician, composer and visual artist, born in Cagliari, Italy.

His artistic skills emerged from the earliest age, first on the kindergarten benches and then manifested themselves in his early portraiture works at the age of 9 years.

From 1986-1990 he attended painters in Cagliari asking for his presence in their labs to try to improve the technique of the little boy.

Camille Pissarro | Les paysans / I contadini..

"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing"

Camille Pissarro.

While the Impressionists are known for their depictions of city streets and country leisure, Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) covered his canvases with images of the day-to-day life of French peasants.

His greatest work joins his fascination with rural subject matter with the empirical study of nature under different conditions of light and atmosphere, deriving from intense study of French Realism.

Igor Talwinski (1907-1983) | Genre painter

Igor Talwinski painted portraits and genre🎨. He was born in 1907 in Varsovie, Poland and died in 1983 in Paris, France.

After the war ended, in 1945, Igor Talwinski moved to Paris, France.

He first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1951, this was very successful and he soon became a member, without the usual procedures artists had to go through.

Irene Sheri Vishnevskaya, 1968 | Romantic Impressionist painter

The daughter of a bulgarian mother and french father, Irene Sheri Vishnevskaya🎨 was born in the Ukraine in 1968. Her art career began when Irene’s older brother, Vasily, was given a set of paints for his 9th birthday.

Told not to touch the paints, they became an obsession. Irene stole them, mixed them, and painted on paper, walls, her dress, and the bodies of her friends. She was 4 years old.

Alain Picard, 1974 | Figurative /Landscape painter

Alain J. Picard is an award-winning artist, instructor, author and speaker. His acclaimed pastel and oil paintings have been exhibited throughout the US, Europe, China and the UK.

Alain travels internationally as an art instructor, demonstrator, speaker and artistic advocate for the vulnerable.

Alain Picard earned a BA in illustration from Western CT State University and went on to study at the Art Student's League in New York City. Picard cites Sargent, Degas, and Sorolla among his artistic influences. A love of light and beauty are immediately apparent in his pastel and oil paintings.

Claude Monet | Failing sight

Monet's second wife, Alice, died in 1911, and his oldest son Jean, who had married Alice's daughter Blanche, Monet's particular favourite, died in 1914.

Their deaths left Monet depressed, as Blanche cared for him.

It was during this time that Monet began to develop the first signs of cataracts.

In 1913, Monet travelled to London to consult the German ophthalmologist Richard Liebreich.

He was prescribed new glasses and rejected cataract surgery for the right eye.

The next year, Monet, encouraged by Clemenceau, made plans to construct a new, large studio that he could use to create a "decorative cycle of paintings devoted to the water garden".

Claude Monet and Impressionism

When Durand-Ruel's previous support of Monet and his peers began to decline, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, and Berthe Morisot exhibited their work independently; they did so under the name the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors and Engravers for which Monet was a leading figure in its formation.

He was inspired by the style and subject matter of his slightly older contemporaries, Pissarro and Édouard Manet.

The group, whose title was chosen to avoid association with any style or movement, were unified in their independence from the Salon and rejection of the prevailing academicism.

Monet gained a reputation as the foremost landscape painter of the group.

Claude Monet | Legacy

Speaking of Monet's body of work, Wildenstein said that it is "so extensive that its very ambition and diversity challenges our understanding of its importance".

His paintings produced at Giverny and under the influence of cataracts have been said to create a link between Impressionism and twentieth-century art and modern abstract art, respectively.

His later works were a "major" inspiration to Objective abstraction.

Ellsworth Kelly, following a formative experience at Giverny, paid homage to Monet's works created there with Tableau Vert (1952).

Monet has been called an "intermediary" between tradition and modernism - his work has been examined in relation to postmodernism-and was an influence to Bazille, Sisley, Renoir and Pissarro.

Monet is now the most famous of the Impressionists; as a result of his contributions to the movement, he "exerted a huge influence on late 19th-century art".

Claude Monet | L'idillio di Giverny: tra covoni, giardini e cattedrali

Dopo la mostra organizzata da Petit Monet poté godere del sostegno economico e morale di un pubblico finalmente svincolatosi dalle pastoie della pittura accademica.

La gloria, tuttavia, non offuscò né la sua umiltà né le sue ambizioni pittoriche, finalizzate a rendere «l'immediatezza, l'atmosfera soprattutto e la stessa luce diffusa ovunque».

Volendo indagare in maniera più accurata i problemi della luce e dalle sensazioni di colore, dunque, Monet intraprese le cosiddette serie, nelle quali uno stesso soggetto viene ripreso in decine e decine di tele, in modo tale che l'unico fattore cangiante è proprio la luce: si trattava di un'escogitazione pittorica ottimale per dimostrare come la sola luce riuscisse a generare percezioni visive sempre mutevoli e stimolanti.

Denis Nolet, 1964 | Night Tango in Paris

Denis Nolet*, Canadian painter*, was born in Quebec. Beginning his study of art at the age of nine, Nolet was able to experiment with various styles of painting early on, finding his own unique genre in a fusion of his influences and establishing himself as an artist by the time he was only twenty.

Claude Monet | Stile

Claude Monet è stato il sostenitore più convinto ed instancabile del «metodo impressionista» che vide già riassunto in nuce nelle opere dell'amico Manet.

Per comprendere appieno la carica rivoluzionaria della figura di Monet, tuttavia, è necessario calarla con precisione nell'ambiente storico e artistico francese della seconda metà dell'Ottocento.

La Francia della seconda metà del XIX secolo era una nazione viva, moderna, ricca di magnificenze e di contraddizioni, che in seguito all'offensiva prussiana del 1870 aveva conosciuto un impetuoso sviluppo economico e sociale che, tuttavia, aveva inizialmente mancato di investire le arti figurative.