Lee Kang-Bin, 1991 | Coffee art

South Korean barista Lee Kang-bin is taking coffee art to the next level, creating miniature imitations of famous paintings on foamy cups of java at his central Seoul cafe.

With meticulous strokes of tiny brushes and spoons, Lee, 26, recreates the likes of Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" and Edvard Munch's "The Scream" using thick cream stained with food coloring atop a cup of coffee.

The result of the painstaking 15-minute process is a 10,000 won ($8.71) cup of cold coffee that has won Lee thousands of fans at his cafe and online.

Andrey Remnev | Андрей Ремнев, 1962 | Magic Realism painter

Russian* artist Андрей Ремнев* creates unique artworks that combine traditional style paintings with contemporary themes.

Remnev* was born in Yakhroma, a town not far from Moscow.

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

• Andrey Remnev / Андрей Ремнев, 1962 | Magic Realism painter ➻

Monet: My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece | Part.2

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Claude Monet* noticed the village of Giverny while looking out of a train window. He made up his mind to move there and rented a house and the area surrounding it.
In 1890 he had enough money to buy the house and land outright and set out to create the magnificent gardens he wanted to paint.

Monet: My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece | Part.1

When Claude Monet* and his family settled in Giverny* in 1883 the piece of land sloping gently down from the house to the road was planted with an orchard and enclosed by high stone walls.

A central alley bordered with pines separated it into two parts. Monet had the pines cut down, keeping only the two yews closest to the house to please Alice.

From this Clos Normand of about one hectare, Monet made a garden full of perspectives, symmetries and colours.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | The Gardens

• What seems most significant to me about our movement [Impressionism] is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.

Quello che mi sembra più importante per il nostro movimento [l'impressionismo] è che abbiamo liberato la pittura dall'importanza del soggetto. Sono libero di dipingere fiori e chiamarli fiori, senza la necessità di raccontare una storia.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Summer landscapes

• "Si arriva davanti alla natura con delle teorie, e la natura le sbatte tutte per terra".

"You come to nature with all your theories, and she knocks them all flat".

Fabien Clesse, 1962 | Abstract Portrait painter

Fabien Clesse is a French artist, born, living and working in Verdun, a small city in the Meuse department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.

Clesse studied graphic arts and ended up creating a unique style based on a personal technique and a fine sensibility.

He states his inspiration of both cubism and hyperrealism art schools as an important axe of his painting approach.

Piero Bresciani, 1945 | Symbolist / Surrealist painter

Piero Bresciani is an Italian painter*, known for working in the Symbolism style.

Bresciani was born in Pietrasanta - Lucca- Italy, the 5th of May 1945.

He obtained his Diploma of artistic maturity at the Art School of Carrara and the Painting Diploma awarded by the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milano.

Kazuhiko Tanaka 田中一彦, 1947 | Stone / clay sculpture

Kazuhiko Tanaka 田中一彦 was born in Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture.

1965 - Graduated from Kofu First High School.

1971 - B.F.A., Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music with a major in Architectural Design.

1976 - First-Class Architect license acquired.

1982 - Open his own architectural design office in Tokyo.

1991 - Open a limited company, Zakurosha in Tokyo.

For more than forty years, he has been working as an architect in Tokyo.

Monet: My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece!

Claude Monet (1840-1926)* lived at Giverny for 43 years, from 1883 to his death in 1926.

A passionate horticulturist, his garden became a work of art as well as a subject for his paintings.

From the Iris garden to his huge waterlily canvases, the garden at Giverny was the focus for some of Monet’s greatest works of art.

Federico Beltrán-Masses (1885-1949)

Il successo, l'oscurità e poi la riscoperta

Beltrán Masses è stato inondato di onori pubblici ed è stato membro delle Accademie di San Fernando a Madrid, San Jorge a Barcellona e San Luís a Saragozza, nonché quelle di Lisbona, Cordóba e Málaga, e anche membro dell'Istituto francese ed Accademia delle Belle Arti di Parigi.

Il fatto che il suo nome sia stato quasi dimenticato fino a poco tempo è in parte la conseguenza di cambiamenti nel gusto, pittura figurativa abbandonata da tutti tranne una manciata di pittori contemporanei di successo dalla fine degli anni Quaranta fino agli anni Settanta.

Giovanni Boldini | The French Cityscapes

Born in Ferrara, the Italian painter* Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931)* moved to Paris in 1871, where painted a number of landscapes in suburban locations outside Paris.

His work from 1871-1886: the bustling streets and squares to cafés, theaters, and concert halls- reflects the influence of his contemporaries: Degas, Manet, Caillebotte, Meissonier, and Fortuny among others.

Caravaggio | Buona ventura / The Fortune teller, 1630

La Buona Ventura - The Fortune Teller, è un dipinto ad olio su tela dove Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio 1571-1610 sfoggia la propria conoscenza della pittura di genere, premessa sulla quale in seguito Caravaggio costruirà una vera e propria rivoluzione che investe il significato stesso del 'fare pittura'.

Il quadro rappresenta una zingara che, mentre legge la mano ad un giovane soldato, gli sfila abilmente l’anello. Secondo un biografo, Caravaggio avrebbe invitato a posare per il quadro una zingara che passava per caso per strada.

Il dipinto è una precoce espressione dell’immaginario della zingara dedita al furto ed anche ammaliatrice, capace di incantare ed ingannare.

La versione romana della Buona Ventura (1593-1594)

Marie Laure Vareilles, 1966 | Surrealist photographer

Marie-Laure Vareilles is an French interior designer.

She has traveled on all continents, with her camera, showing the diversity of the countries that make the planet.

Over the years, she immortalized cultures, landscapes, people.

The cultures around the world continue to evolve.

She puts her work to the service of the memory of peoples that make our planet.

Ernest Barrias | Nature Unveiling Herself / La natura che si svela, 1899

"La Nature se dévoilant" was commissioned in 1889 to decorate the new medical school in Bordeaux.

A young woman, the allegory of nature, is slowly lifting the veils she is wrapped in.

When he had finished the first version in white marble for the school, Ernest Barrias (1841-1905) designed a second statue in polychrome, for the ceremonial staircase of the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, in Paris.

Trish Biddle | Romantic painter

Showcasing her sense of design, American artist Trish Biddle captures the Art Deco style of fashion, elegance, sophistication and the simplicity of the era.

Tamara De Lempicka who defined Art Deco painting as we know it, Argentinean tango dancers and depression era dance marathons have all inspired Trish’s vintage, figurative paintings.

The faces are obscured purposely to allow the viewer to identify with the images of the graceful dancers their own romantic notions.

Bulent Kilic 1974 | Seascape / Cityscape painter

Bülent Kılıç was born in Tekirdağ, Turkey.

His early interest was observing the world in charcoal and later fast car designs. These two combinations helped him develop his creative talent.

While he was attending Trakya University to become a teacher, he also pursed his passion by attending the Industrial Design Division at Mimar Sinan University.

His freelance creations brought attention and award* both locally and internationally.

Claude Monet | Summer landscapes

The following collection include the Landscape - Summer - Beach paintings by French Impressionist painter Claude-Oscar Monet (Parigi, 14 novembre 1840 - Giverny, 5 dicembre 1926).

For biographical notes -in english and italian- by Monet see:

Claude Monet | Impressionist / Plein air painter*

For other works by Monet see:

Claude Monet ~ Snow Effect | Winter landscapes*

Claude Monet | Haystacks / I Covoni | Painting series*

Claude Monet | The Rouen Cathedral series, 1892-1894*

Ans Schumacher, 1941 | Portrait painter

Ans Schumacher was born in Leyden, Netherlands. Lives and works in Oegstgeest - Netherlands.

Ans Schumacher paints enlarged portraits (blow-ups) in oil on canvas. There are no irrelevant backgrounds.

The faces are a reflection of our time trough their "glossy"and sophisticated outlook.

Altough the style is realistic with a link to pop-art, it's also abstract because of the glossyness and anonymity of the portrayed.

Ans Schumacher exhibited in the Netherlands as well as Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden and Spain.

Nikolai Blokhin, 1968 | Pittore impressionista

Nato a San Pietroburgo, in Russia, il maestro Николай Блохин è emerso come uno degli artisti più importanti del suo tempo.

Formatosi prima presso la scuola d'arte distrettuale prima di entrare al Repin Institute, Blokhin ha raggiunto una solida base accademica nell'arte che può essere rintracciata, ammirata e interpretata oggi in alcuni dei famosi maestri russi dell'inizio del XX secolo.

Mentre coltivava gli ideali realizzati da molti dei suoi predecessori nella teoria dell'arte russa, la ricerca di Blokhins verso un linguaggio espressivo tradizionale lo consumò nei suoi primi anni accademici.

Fu solo quando entrò all'Accademia delle Arti che iniziò a cercare i canoni di coloro che rompevano con la tradizione e sconvolgevano le visioni artistiche tematiche, che trovò il proprio stile distinto.

Pal Fried | Ballet Dancers

The following collection include the Ballet dancer paintings by Hungarian-born American painter* Pál Fried (1893-1976).

He was heavily influenced by the French impressionist school of Renoir and Degas.

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

• Pal Fried | La Belle Époque | Vintage figurative painter ➻
• Pal Fried | Vintage style Figurative painter ➻

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | La Promenade / La passeggiata, 1870

La Promenade is an oil on canvas, early Impressionist painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, created in 1870.

The work depicts a young couple on an excursion outside of the city, walking on a path through a woodland.

Influenced by the rococo revival style during the Second Empire, Renoir's La Promenade reflects the older style and themes of eighteenth-century artists like Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Jean-Antoine Watteau.

The work also shows the influence of Claude Monet* on Renoir's new approach to painting.

Diane Leonard | Plein Air Impressionist painter | VideoArt

Diane Leonard* is an internationally acclaimed Impressionist Artist* known for her incredible use of light.

A self-taught artist, Diane began painting in her early twenties while she lived in Boston.

• "Late afternoon is my favorite time to paint! Whether I am on the beach or painting in my yard, capturing that golden light with colors that are enhanced by the warm sun is exciting! I love to dance when I paint -- I let the music touch my heart and create the magic that I feel in my soul. I get so excited about each and every painting!"

Cristina Fornarelli, 1978 | Pop Vintage style painter

Cristina Fornarelli is an Italian painter that lives and works in Rome.

Fornarelli was born in Bari, Italy.

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

Cristina Fornarelli, 1978 | Figurative Palette knife painter ➻

Alex Colville | Magic Realist painter

David Alexander Colville, painter (born 24 Aug 1920 in Toronto, Ontario died 16 July 2013 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia). Alex Colville moved with his family to Amherst, NS, in 1929 and studied at Mount Allison (1938-42).

On graduating he joined the army and in 1944 was sent to Europe as a war artist. He returned to Canada late in 1945 and worked in Ottawa on paintings based on his European sketches and watercolours until his demobilization in 1946.

Pino Daeni | Romantic book illustrator

Pino Daeni (November 8, 1939 - May 25, 2010)🎨 considered one of the highest paid book illustrators of his time, he created over 3.000 book covers, movie posters and magazine illustrations.

His paintings are often set on vibrantly sunny beaches on the Mediterranean where he grew up.

His gorgeous figure paintings captured beauty and light in a unique way.

Henry Woods, R.A | Victorian-era painter

Henry Woods RA (22 April 1846 - 27 October 1921) was an British painter and illustrator, and one of the leading Neo-Venetian school artists.

Early life

Henry Woods was born to a middle-class family at Warrington.

His father, William, was a pawnbroker and for some time a town councillor; his mother, Fanny, a shopkeeper. He was the eldest of nine siblings.

Stendhal: "L'amore è un bellissimo fiore.."

• "La vista di tutto ciò che è estremamente bello, in arte o in natura, richiama con la rapidità del fulmine il ricordo di chi si ama".

• "The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning".

• "Bellezza è una promessa di felicità".

Rubens Santoro | Venice painting

Rubens Santoro (October 26, 1859 in Mongrassano, Province of Cosenza, Calabria - December 30, 1941 in Naples) was an Italian painter*.

• Biography

He moved to Naples at 10 years of age, to study literature, but his inclination was painting. He only briefly enrolled at the Neapolitan Academy, instead, real life was his model. His first work was a small and simple genre piece: A Girl who Laughs, exhibited at the Promotrice. Domenico Morelli* took note and encouraged him.

Alois Arnegger | Romantic landscape painter | Part.4

Austrian painter Alois Arnegger* established a reputation as a fine portraitist and landscape artist, and was particularly well known for his Austrian and Italian scene paintings, especially of Naples, Sorrento and Capri.
Arnegger was born in Vienna on March 9, 1879.

Anna Razumovskaya | Portraits

Anna Razumovskaya /Анна Разумовская🎨 is an Russian painter🎨, best known for her classic paintings, romantic figures that carry a sense of elegance and grace.

Born in Rostov-on-Don at the height of the Cold War, Anna was exposed to very different worlds.

She experience the austere world of the communist regime alongside the sophisticated and feminine influence of her fashion-conscious mother.

Anna is a graduate of the Russian State University For Arts, where she was awarded the distinction of high-class artist in 1991.

Subsequently, from 1992-1995, she studied art in Germany, Belgium and Holland.

Oscar Ricciardi | Capri

Dorothea Sharp | Plein air painter

Dorothea Sharp ROI RBA (1874-1955) was a British artist* best known for her landscapes and naturalistic studies of children at play.

• Life and career

Sharp was born in Dartford, Kent, and began her training aged 21, when, after inheriting £100 from an uncle, she attended the Richmond art school run by C. E. Johnson RI. She went on to study at the Regent Street Polytechnic, where her work was admired by George Clausen and David Murray.

Pierre Auguste Cot | Springtime / Le Printemps, 1873

O primavera! gioventù dell'anno!

O gioventù! primavera della vita!!!

O Spring! Youth of the year!

O youth! Springtime of life!!!

Springtime

Artist: Pierre-Auguste Cot (French, Bédarieux 1837-1883 Paris);

Date:1873;

Medium: Oil on canvas;

Dimensions: 84 x 50 in. (213.4 x 127 cm);

Classification: Paintings;

Credit Line: Gift of Steven and Alexandra Cohen, 2012;

Accession Number: 2012.575;

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 827.

Federico García Lorca | Indovinello della chitarra / Riddle of the guitar

Nel rotondo

crocevia

sei fanciulle

ballano.

Tre d’argento

e tre di carne.

Federico Beltrán Masses | Tres Para Uno / Three for one, 1934

Jean Abrie, 1962 | Pittore di figure

Jean Abrie è nato in Sud Africa e nei suoi primi anni è cresciuto in Zimbabwe.

Quando è tornato in Sud Africa ha completato gli studi e si è laureato all'Università di Pretoria.

È ben noto per i suoi dipinti fotorealistici della fauna selvatica africana.

Jean Abrie vive in Sudafrica, dove trae ispirazione dalla natura, dagli animali e dalle persone del continente africano in continua evoluzione.

Alois Arnegger | Romantic landscape painter | Part.3

Unlike many artists of his time, Austrian painter* Alois Arnegger (1879-1967) was artistically inspired by a pre-Impressionist style rooted in Romanticism and Barbizon School theories.
Arnegger established a reputation as a fine portraitist and landscape artist, and was particularly well known for his Austrian and Italian scene paintings.

Renoir | Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar, 1898

Pierre-Auguste Renoir🎨
Young Spanish woman with a guitar
1898
55.6 x 65.2 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right: Renoir.98.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

"Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar" is an 1898 painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

Alois Arnegger | Romantic landscape painter | Part.2

Alois Arnegger* is an Austrian painter*, well known for his Austrian and Italian scene paintings.

Alois Arnegger was born in Vienna in 1879.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- by Arnegger see:

• Alois Arnegger | Romantic landscape painter ➺