Peder Mork Mønsted | Landscapes with figures

Peder Mørk Mønsted (born 1859 - died 1941) was a leading Danish landscape painter of his time, known for his photo-realist style, landscapes, portraits and genre scenes*.

He began his artistic training in Aarhus before travelling to Copenhagen to study at the Academy of Copenhagen from 1875-1879.

He was much influenced by his teacher Andries Fritz, court painter to Prince Ferdinand of Aarhus, and he also studied figure painting under Julius Exner and Niels Simonsen.

Monsted’s style developed further in the studio of Peder Severin Kroyer and through a brief period with William Adolphe Bouguereau. Although established in Copenhagen, he travelled throughout Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

Bryce Liston, 1965 | Children's Art

"The artist has within himself the power to convey the idea of what it means to be human" - Bryce Liston.

Bryce Cameron Liston is an  full time professional artist, who have received multiple prestigious awards*.

Bryce Liston is a self taught artist born in Utah in 1965.

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

• Bryce Liston, 1965 | Plein air / Figurative painter ⥅
• Bryce Liston, 1965 | Drawings ⥅

Christopher Clark | Jazz, Music and Dance

Christopher Clark è stato un artista sin dalla prima infanzia, quando guardava Bob Ross su PBS ed imitava l'arte del famoso pittore ad olio con i pastelli.

Si considera un artista autodidatta, con i suoi studi che spaziano dalla formazione personale con maestri contemporanei, alla tecnica dell'arte accademica classica, con molta ispirazione dall'arte del XIX secolo e dal movimento impressionista.

Christopher ha vissuto in Italia per un certo periodo, immergendosi nella cultura e nell'arte italiana, che continua ad influenzare la sua pittura.

Christopher Clark | Storyteller painter

Christopher Clark’s goal is to tell your story. His paintings resonate, showing you a world you’ve longed to live in, or recalling a memory from years past.

He specializes in painting light itself, which lends to this sense of belonging and captivation people experience in his paintings. Christopher is a licensed painter for Lucasfilm, Marvel, 20th Century Fox and Disney International, and is collected by George Lucas.

Francesco Hayez / Shakespeare | The Kiss, 1859

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an

ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

Laura Lee Zanghetti | Figurative Impressionist painter

Award winning artist Laura Lee Zanghetti is a self taught artist who mainly works in oils.

Her favorite subjects vary from beach scenes to cityscapes and her latest.... "umbrella ladies".

She's been painting full time for the past 13 years in her home studio in Walpole.

Laura has won many awards including First Place at Canton's Spring Show 2011 and Best of Show and First Place at the Art in the Park Show in Norwood.

Olga Krimon / Ольгa Кримон, 1972

Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Olga Krimon / Ольгa Кримон received academic art education in Kazan, Russia.

She continued to grow and develop her skills later in America, through drawing classes with Glen Orbik and painting classes with Jeremy Lipking.

Olga also holds a BA in Art History, and she credits it with providing her the rich visual vocabulary that is instrumental for defining her path as an artist.

She also received an MBA making her well grounded in the business side of an artistic career.

Sayda Afonina / Сайда Афонина, 1965 | Realistic Figurative painter

Russian painter* Sayda Afonina Cайда Афонина was born in Syzran - the small city of Samara region, located on the Volga river. In 20 years of age graduated Сызранскую art school.
The next, 1986, entered in the Penza art school. K.A. Savitsky, which she graduated in 1989.
In the same year became the student shortly before the opening of the Russian Academy of painting, sculpture and architecture, where he stayed after graduation in 1995, work as a teacher of the chair of the portrait. In 1998-2000 she studied at the graduate school Razhviz.

Josepha Brigette, 1950 | Figurative sculptor

French sculptor Josepha Brigette works in clay, stone and bronze, seeking a style that is precise and live, realistic and poetical.

Josepha Brigette was born in the South of France and owed her first name to her mother's Italian origin.

She began her career as a fashion designer.

In spite of the international success which she gained, her creative thirst incited her to confront with other materials.

Vassilis Antonakos / Βασίλης Αντωνάκος, 1980 | Abstract painter

Greek artist🎨 Βασίλης Αντωνάκος was born in Athens. Art had always been an alternative way to express himself even since he was a child.

He attended the Vakalo Art and Design College and then he continued his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Athens.

Mostly being a self-taught artist with a wide range of work in painting, sculpting and stage design. His first solo exhibition -titled "Faces"- took place in 2013 in Red Dot in Athens.

Daria Petrilli, 1970 | Surrealist Illustrator

Daria Petrilli is an award winning illustrator, born in Rome, Italy.

After studying art, publishes as a freelance children’s books for Italy and abroad. occasionally also works in advertising.

Daria Petrilli’s digital artworks hearken back to the countryside retreats described by Flaubert and Tolstoy. She specializes in depicting pallid, Victorian beauties with curled hair and wasp waists.

Dick Pieters, 1941 | Fantastic Realism painter

"In life everything seems to be very complicated untill you reach the big exploration that the truth lies in simplicity, the obvious, like nature, the sound, the love. And likewise in my painting".

Dick Pieters worked eighteen months on this portrait of his wife Corrie and himself in a boat on a river. If you stand close to the painting, you can see that it has been painted dot by dot, with almost scientific precision.

Only when you stand further away will the whole image reveal itself. Pieters applied layer after layer (sometimes as much as eight layers) to achieve this impressive effect.

Each layer had to dry first before the next could be applied. Pieters painted the simple moments of happiness.

'Searching all your life for the deepest sources and then discovering that the truth lies in simple things, in the obvious, such as nature, sound, love…,' is how the artist explained his development.

Paris painting | Serie 2

Antoine Blanchard* [French painter*, 1910-1988]

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Venus Victorious, 1914-1916 | Art in Detail

Vénus victorieuse /Venus Victorious - The figure of Venus in this sculpture is based on the image of the goddess in a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir*, 'The Judgement of Paris'.

In Greek myth Aphrodite (known to the Romans as Venus) competed for the prize of a golden apple, which she won by promising Paris that he could marry Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman in the world.

Tina Garrett, 1974 | Portrait /Figurative painter

Award-winning artist, Tina Garrett, paints custom portraiture and figurative work. As a portrait artist, Tina is has earned an Art Renewal Center Associate Living Master.

In 2012, based on her self-taught pastel portraiture, the Scottsdale Artists’ School awarded Tina the first of two merit scholarships and she began working in oil immediately falling in love and hitting the ground running dedicating 5 years to practicing and grasping an understanding of oil painting.

Paul Gauguin | Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? 1897

In 1891, Paul Gauguin* left France for Tahiti, seeking in the South Seas a society that was simpler and more elemental than that of his homeland.

In Tahiti, he created paintings that express a highly personal mythology. He considered this work -created in 1897, at a time of great personal crisis- to be his masterpiece and the summation of his ideas.

Gauguin’s letters suggest that the fresco-like painting should be read from right to left, beginning with the sleeping infant.

He describes the various figures as pondering the questions of human existence given in the title; the blue idol represents "the Beyond". The old woman at the far left, "close to death", accepts her fate with resignation. | © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Roland Palmaerts, 1953 | Watercolour Cityscape painter

Born in Brussels, Belgium, Roland Palmaerts comes from a family of painters. He won First prize* in the National Competition «Tintin» at the age of six. Roland Palmaerts studied at The Athenaeum, at the Institut Saint-Luc and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, where he won First prize* in drawing and watercolour. In 1972, the artist engages in the Belgian armed forces as a para-commando.

Kemal Kamil Akca | Fine Art photographer

Kemal Kamil Akca, nickname Wafflefineart, is a Fine Art photographer and photo-artist living and creatin in Turkey.

Yana Movchan, 1971 | Magic Realism painter

Ukrainian-born Canadian painter* Yanina (Yana) Movchan was born in Kiev.

Yana’s sublime mastery of the technique and structure of Renaissance painting* combines with the instinctive symbolism* of "magical realism" to create a personal neo-realist idiom. Her work is formal, yet playful; contemporary, yet timeless; and joyous, yet mysterious, evocative and dreamlike.

Rene Snyman | Plein air / Figurative painter

René Snyman is an awarded* South African professional artist living and working in Sir Lowry’s Pass, Western Cape in South Africa.

Growing up on a Kalahari farm near Upington, her close interaction with nature shaped her remarkable powers of intimate observation. Since discovering her drawing talent as a young child, René dedicated herself to working hard and developing her skills.

Angelo Vadalà, 1940 | Figurative painter / Sculptor

Angelo Vadalà was born in Messina, Italy. He started painting five decades ago, when he was only 12. At the age of 18, Vadalà left Sicily to live and study in Florence, officially to attend university and study architecture.

But after two years of study at the Florence University of Architecture, Vadalà found he was distracted by what the many museums of that beautiful city contained, and not by the stone and wood that housed the art.

From his study of architecture, Vadalà had received a foundation in the art and technique of draftsmanship. Combined with his innate artistic talent and his personal study of art in the museums and churches of Florence, he paid the same scrupulous attention to mastering the techniques of painting, as it applied to the human form.

Magdalena Serwin, 1983 | Figurative painter

Magdalena Serwin is an Polish artist born in the Jastrzębiu-Zdroju region.

- "I am a graduate of State Higher Professional School in Racibórz about direction of applied arts. Under the eye of wonderful artists I explored the arts of painting, graphical which and photographic.
I am self-taught in great measure, which the painting is passion and at the same time something like the peace, for of breath from everyday matters. The oil painting accompanied me for the youngest years, but in the time was neglected".

Bev Jozwiak, 1953 | Ballet dancers in Watercolor

Bev Jozwiak* is an International Award winning* Artist.

She has earned her signature status in the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, Watercolor West, and others, too numerous to mention.

For biographical notes and other works by Jozwiak see:

• Bev Jozwiak, 1953 | Watercolor painter ➟

Irene Sheri Vishnevskaya, 1968 | Ballet dancers

"I am in love with my canvases. It is the beauty and passion of painting and the result that come from those feelings that drives me to fill the canvas every day" - Irene Sheri

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

• Irene Sheri Vishnevskaya, 1968 | Romantic Impressionist painter ⤑

Marina Podgaevskaya, 1963 | VideoArt

Марина Подгаевская🎨 is an Russian painter🎨, known for lyrical and full of mythology and fantasy themes.

Марина Подгаевская🎨 was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Podgaevskaya see:
Marina Podgaevskaya / Марина Подгаевская, 1963 | Abstract Figurative painter🎨.

Eric Wallis, 1968 | Ballet dancers

"I love the movement and anatomical definition that dancers have characteristically. There is power in their bodies that they use to convey beautiful grace and emotional verbiage. It is difficult to capture that in a 2 dimensional work and therefore it embodies a challenge that I enjoy" Eric Wallis.

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

• Eric Wallis, 1968 | Impressionist Figurative painter ⇥
• Eric Wallis, 1968 | Impressionist Figurative painter | Part.2 ⇥

Gina Higgins | Noir artist

Born in New Orleans, the granddaughter of the founder of Delta Airlines, Gina Higgins was raised in the Hollywood Hills of LA. Accepted into the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts at 17, she also received formal training in figurative painting in Paris and Florence, before returning to complete her BFA.

Gina's illustrative clients include Liz Claiborne, Etienne Eigner, Alexander McQueen, CBS Studios, and AandM/Polygram records. Gina has also emerged as a highly desirable figurative painter, specializing in contemporary film noir. Her works have exhibited in galleries across the west coast and are included in numerous celebrity and corporate collections.

Gina has exhibited with the following artists: Fabian Perez, Thomas Arvid, Manuel Nunez, Michael Cheval, Michael Parkes, Todd White, Jaline Pol, Sabzi, Carrie Graber, Rob Hefferan, Michael Goddard, Svetlana Valueva, and Pino.

Florian Nicolle | Graphic designer and illustrator

Florian Nicolle is graphic designer and illustrator freelancer from Caen, France.

- "I already have a degree in Graphic Design, there was a section devoted to the illustration that i have worked a lot, which finally took a big place in my work.

I try to create an image that retains its freshness of the first paint stroke, the expressions of the line have to be very free and spontaneous.

While keeping a rigorous drawing.

So i use fast techniques, like a bic, large brush, watercolor and chines ink.

I draw a picture as if I wrote a text, with the same tool, the same freedom, erasures, lines, scribbles".

Hernan Javier Muñoz, 1983 | Surrealist painter

Hernan Javier Muñoz is an Argentine painter born on April 5, 1983 in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In 1996 he entered the Art School "Rogelio Yrurtia". There he graduated as Professor of Plastic Arts in the year 2000. During these years he had his first approaches to art in general but without feeling them part of his current profession.

Henriëtte Ronner-Knip | The painter of cats

Born in Amsterdam, Dutch painter Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (1821-1909) came from an artistic family and she studied art under her father, the well-known Neo-Classical painter Joseph Augustus Knip.

After selling her first painting at the age of fifteen she produced an outstanding body of work which is now on display in many European museums, including the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Dordrecht Museum.

Giulio Monteverde | Monteverde Angel, 1882

The Monteverde Angel or Angel of the Resurrection is the name given to a marble statue of 1882 that guards the tomb of the Oneto family in the cemetery of Staglieno in Genoa, Northern Italy.

It is one of the most famous works by the Neo-classical Italian sculptor Giulio Monteverde (1837-1917) and was commissioned by Francesco Oneto, a president of the Banca Generale, in honour of deceased members of his family.

Portraying a pensive angel with long, richly detailed wings, it is acknowledged as one of the most beautiful and sensual sculptures in its genre, to which Monteverde contributed other important Neoclassical works.

Andrew Atroshenko, 1965 | The passion of music

"Music and art consume my life. There is a symphony in everything I paint" - Andrew Atroshenko

Andrew Atroshenko, 1965 | Ballet dancers

Andrew Atroshenko* is a Russian artist*, known for working in the Figurative style.
Atroshenko was born in 1965 in the city of Pokrovsk, Russia.

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

• Andrew Atroshenko, 1965 | Romantic impressionist painter ➺

Greg Dubuque | Hollywood legends

Greg Dubuque, American painter, was born and raised in a small, average, suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Chasing frogs and turtles in the neighborhood pond by day, while watching Wild Kingdom and old Creature-Feature monster movies by night.

Those early experiences led to his love for the outdoors, its scenery and wildlife, as well as the creepy-crawly side of nature.

After a short stint in a Junior College Art Program, Greg went on to attend the prestigious Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles, CA where he received a BFA in Illustration and Design.

Daniel Densborn, 1946 | Flamenco dancers

Daniel Densborn* is a French* self-taught painter who using a technique called Palette knife painting. His paintings are bold and romantic.

For biographical notes and other works by Densborn see Daniel Densborn, 1946 | Abstract palette Knife painter ➢

Anna Rose Bain, 1985 | Ballet Dancers

Anna Rose Bain is a fine art oil painter and commissioned portrait artist based in Denver, CO. Her paintings often depict people in peaceful settings or places that evoke happiness. She especially loves painting women and children.

Anna was self taught until college. Inspired by her grandfather, who started painting at the age of 70, Anna spent her free time as a child sketching from nature and poring over art books.