Wendy Mould | Magical Realism painter
Wendy Mould is an British painter**, illustrator and sculptor. She studied at both Ipswich and Norwich Art Schools specializing in sculpture.
Since then she has also worked on painting and illustration. In turn this has led to a number of related projects including both writing and illustrating the children’s book ‘Ants in my Pants’. Wendy also designs fabric and textiles.
Since then she has also worked on painting and illustration. In turn this has led to a number of related projects including both writing and illustrating the children’s book ‘Ants in my Pants’. Wendy also designs fabric and textiles.
Jacques Majorelle | Orientalist painter
Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962), son of the celebrated Art Nouveau furniture designer Louis Majorelle, was a French painter.
He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy in 1901 and later at the Académie Julian in Paris with Schommer and Royer.
Majorelle became a noted Orientalist painter, but is most remembered for constructing the villa and gardens that now carry his name, the Majorelle Garden in Marrakech.
Anna Marinova, 1983
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Russian painter🎨 Анна Маринова was born in St. Petersburg. In 2000 - 2004 studied in St. Petersburg Roerich College of Art.
In 2010 graduated from Repin🎨 State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Studies in the faculty of painting, easel painting workshop of prof. Sokolov.
Giorgio Belloni | Neo-Impressionist Seascape painter
Giorgio Belloni (Codogno (Lodi), 1861 - Azzano di Mezzegra (Como), 1944) was an Italian painter**.
A pupil of Giuseppe Bertini at the Brera Academy, Belloni made his debut in 1879 with two perspective views of interiors. After a stay in Verona, during which he painted his first landscapes en plein air, he settled in Milan, where he established himself as a landscape painter as from 1882.
The success achieved in Venice at the Esposizione Nazionale Artistica di Venezia of 1887 made him known beyond the regional borders.
William Shakespeare: "Non vi è corazza più forte di un cuore incontaminato!"
Ford Madox Brown - Romeo and Juliet
Kathryn White | Decorative painter
Kathryn White, British painter, is a leading licensing artist for the gift, home decor and stationery markets. While living in England, Kathryn found inspiration in the Cotswold Hills that surrounded her home, and from her frequent trips to Europe.
The flea markets of Paris, the hills of Umbria in Italy, and the simple classic charm of Stockholm in Sweden have all found expression in her work.
Anton Mauve | The Barbizon school of painters
Anton Mauve, (born September 18, 1838, Zaandam, Netherlands - died February 5, 1888, Arnhem), Dutch Romantic painter who, like his friends Jozef Israëls and the three Maris brothers, was profoundly influenced by the French landscape painter Camille Corot and the Barbizon school.
Mauve settled at The Hague about 1870, painting in the neighbouring fishing village of Scheveningen.
Lucas Cranach the Elder | Northern Renaissance painter
German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder was born at Kronach in upper Franconia.
His exact date of birth is unknown.
He learned the art of drawing from his father Hans Maler (his surname meaning "painter" and denoting his profession, not his ancestry, after the manner of the time and class).
His mother, with surname Hübner, died in 1491.
Later, the name of his birthplace was used for his surname, another custom of the times.
Nicky Boehme, 1958 | Romantic painter
Nicky Boehme’s paintings of quaint, peaceful, scenes awash with dramatic light and vibrant color, draw the viewer into a romantic and memorable adventure of a special place and time. Ms. Boehme studied Technical art at the Oakland Art Institute in California and went on to become the Art Director of several national art agencies.
It was at this time that she received numerous awards as an illustrator and graphic designer. She has had many feature articles on her art in national magazines and trade publications. Her art has been published internationally in several books.
Nicky is an artist member of the National Society of Marine Artists and the Oil Painter of America.
Mariana Palova, 1990 | Fantasy surrealism painter
Mariana Palova is an Mexican artist🎨. When she was a child simple visions made incursion in her life, such visions she exaggerated or included in elements of living things through drawings.
At 16, counting with a low training in visual arts, as a result of her self-taught formation, she starts to feel an interest for digital photography, thanks to the fascination found in the experience of looking at herself as she really was, even in the most superfluous environment.
Djordje Prudnikov | VideoArt
Russo-Serbian painter Đorđe Prudnikov / Ђорђе Прудников / Djordje Prudnikov (1939-2017) was one of the most original contemporary artists to emerge from the former Yugoslavia.
Prudnikov was born in Užice, Serbia, the 19th of April 1939.
In 1946. the family moved to Belgrade. After completing his grammar school, Djordje was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts. Few months later he left it to enroll at the Academy of Applied Arts where he graduated in the class of Professor Mihailo Petrov.
During his studies Prudnikoff was rewarded several times for graphic design.
Graphic (industrial) design was his preoccupation while staying in Wienna, in 1967.
Gerard David | Northern Renaissance painter
Gerard David (c. 1460 - 13 August 1523) was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color. Only a bare outline of his life survives, although some facts are known.
He may have been the Meester gheraet van brugghe who became a master of the Antwerp guild in 1515. He was very successful in his lifetime and probably ran two workshops, in Antwerp and Bruges.
Like many painters of his period, his reputation diminished in the 17th century until he was rediscovered in the 19th century.
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Pierre Carrier-Belleuse | Ballet dancers
Pierre Carrier-Belleuse, French painter was the son of famous painter and sculptor Albert Carrier-Belleuse 1824-1887.
Similarly to his brother Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse, he learned his artistic trade from his father.
He studied under Alexandre Cabanel and Galland at the École des Beaux-Arts and exhibited at the Paris Salon for the first time in 1875.
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Yaroslav Gerzhedovich, 1970 | Surrealist / Gothic style painter
Yaroslav Gerzhedovich was born in Leningrad in 1970, later graduating from the Nikolai Roerich Fine School of Arts. Gerzhedovich's works are always masterfully painted with his style echoing those of the old masters.
His graphic works are drawn in muted tones, resemble illustrations to nonexistent fictional novels and have found numerous fans after frequently popping up on the Internet. The World Wide Web became not only a means for sharing his artistic call to escape mundane reality for the world of fantasy but also a source of inspiration for the artist.
Sue Halstenberg | Victorian elegance
Sue Halstenberg's paintings are vibrant portraits of love, beauty and healing energies.
Her artwork is in Dr. Doreen Virtue’s oracle cards is also reproduced as stitchery kits, pillows and tapestries. Sue's art studio is in Ojai CA.
Sue Halstenberg began her career working as a fashion illustrator for the Southern California department stores.
A few years later she started her own business, accepting commissions for portrait and figure paintings in pastel and acrylic.
Direk Kingnok, 1976 | Watercolor Cityscape painter
Direk was born in a small town in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.
He grew up among natural surroundings and interested in art since childhood.
At age 9 he won a gold medal from the International Children’s Art Competition Japan and several times later, That must be the starting point for his art more seriously.
Wilhelm von Schadow | Romantic painter
Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow (7 September 1789 - 19 March 1862) was a German Romantic painter.
Biography
He was born in Berlin, the second son of the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow, who gave him his first lessons in drawing. He then turned to painting, and was instructed by Weitsch.
In 1806-1807 Schadow served as a soldier. In 1810 he traveled with his elder brother Rudolph to Rome where he became one of the leading painters of the Nazarene movement.
Giuseppe Cominetti | Divisionist painter
Giuseppe Cominetti (Salasco, Province of Vercelli, 1882 - Rome, 1930) was an Italian painte.
His brother Gian Maria Cominetti (1884-1961) was a notable writer and screenwriter. He studied till 1898 in the Lyceum Massimo D'Azeglio in Turin.
He received his first training was at the Albertina Academy of Turin, but moved in 1902 to Genoa where he came into contact with Plinio Nomellini and the work of Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen.
Giuseppe Cominetti - I conquistatori del sole
John Singer Sargent | Gassed, 1919
Gassed is a very large oil painting completed in March 1919 by American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925).
It depicts the aftermath of a mustard gas attack during the First World War, with a line of wounded soldiers walking towards a dressing station.
Sargent was commissioned by the British War Memorials Committee to document the war and visited the Western Front in July 1918 spending time with the Guards Division near Arras, and then with the American Expeditionary Forces near Ypres.
Helena Nelson-Reed | Visionary painter
Helena Nelson-Reed is an American Visionary painter specializing in fine art watercolor, pencil drawings, illustration, private/commercial commissions and portraits.
Born in Seattle, Washington, she was raised in Marin County and Napa Valley, California and today lives in Illinois.
A largely self taught artist whose educational emphasis and degree is in psychology, Nelson-Reed’s primary focus is exploring the collective consciousness and the portrayal of archetypal imagery in the tradition of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell.
Herman Richir | Academic painter
Painter of allegorical and mythological scenes, decorative panels but also lithographer under the pseudonym "Hamner", Herman Jean Joseph Richir (1866-1942) was first and foremost a portrait painter appreciated by the high society of the time and to whom we owe in particular several portraits of the Belgian royal family.
Herman Richir was born on November 4th in the Belgian city of Elsene.
First he studied at the Academy of Sint-Joost-ten-Node ltaught by Gustave Biot and Charles Hermans, then he went to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels under the direction of Jean-François Portaels.
Marie Egner | Impressionist painter
Marie Egner (25 August 1850, Bad Radkersburg - 31 March 1940, Vienna) was an Austrian painter**.
She took her first drawing lessons in Graz with Hermann von Königsbrunn, then went to Düsseldorf from 1872-1875, where she studied with Carl Jungheim (1830-1886).
In 1882, she went to Vienna to live with her mother, but spent her summers at the art colony in Plankenberg Castle, near Neulengbach, where she took lessons with Emil Jakob Schindler until 1887.
Gregor Erhart | La Belle Allemande, 1515-1520
This unusual figure represents saint Mary Magdalene as a mystic ascetic. According to legend, the repentant sinner lived a secluded life in the cave of Sainte-Baume, clothed only by her hair.
Every day she was raised up in the sky by angels to hear the heavenly chorus. The statue appeared on the German art market in the 19th century and was purchased by the Louvre in 1902.
Lionello Balestrieri | Beethoven, 1900
In 1899, Lionello Balestrieri** (12 September 1872 - October 24, 1958) painted a canvas depicting Beethoven** (Kreutzer Sonata), which after winning an award** at the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris and in 1901 in Venice, brought him fame.
The painting depicts a dimly lit garret-like apartment with a strand of listeners along the left wall, each in their own mood, while a violinist plays between them and a furnace.
Karen Dupré | Fashion painter
Karen Dupré, American painter, was born in California. She is a self-taught artist whose first inspiration stemmed from her interest in horses.
This fascination quickly led her to translate the splendor of these animals and other wildlife through drawing.
At age nine, Dupré began working in pastels, which soon progressed into the use of other mediums - primarily acrylic paints.
Since her early years as an artist, Dupré has broadened her repertoire to include landscapes, still life imagery, and figures, while never abandoning the wildlife that first sparked her imagination.
Leonardo da Vinci | Salvator Mundi, 1499
Salvator Mundi is a painting of Christ as Salvator Mundi (Savior of the World), which has been attributed by some scholars as a work by Leonardo da Vinci** since its rediscovery in 2005. This attribution has been rejected by other specialists.
Rabindranath Tagore | Sonno /Sleep
Antonio Tordesillas, 1960
Nel tuo sonno, al limite dei sogni,
aspetto guardando in silenzio il tuo viso,
come la stella del mattino che appare per prima
alla tua finestra.
Con i miei occhi berrò' il primo sorriso
che, come un germoglio, sboccerà'
sulle tue labbra semiaperte.
Il mio desiderio e' solo questo...
Evgeniy Monahov, 1974 | VideoArt
Evgeniy Monahov è un pittore Russo, laureato presso il Collegio d'Arte di Mosca.
Nel 2001 espone le sue opere nella prestigiosa galleria californiana Richard Thomas.
Da quel momento in poi i suoi quadri hanno iniziato a viaggiare in tutto il mondo.
Il lavoro di Evgeniy si ispira principalmente ai pittori dell’Impressionismo: pennellate rapide e allentate per dare dettagli e “sostanza” ai suoi soggetti.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Love Enthroned / Amore sul Trono
Love Enthroned
I marked all kindred Powers the heart finds fair:-
Truth, with awed lips; and Hope, with eyes upcast;
And Fame, whose loud wings fan the ashen Past
To signal-fires, Oblivion's flight to scare;
And Youth, with still some single golden hair
Unto his shoulder clinging, since the last
Embrace wherein two sweet arms held him fast;
Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Love's Testament / Testamento d'amore
Love's Testament
O thou who at Love's hour ecstatically
Unto my heart dost evermore present,
Clothed with his fire, thy heart his testament;
Whom I have neared and felt thy breath to be
The inmost incense of his sanctuary;
Who without speech hast owned him, and, intent
Upon his will, thy life with mine hast blent,
And murmured, “I am thine, thou'rt one with me!”
Dusan Jovanovic, 1949 | Magic Realism painter
Dušan Jovanović is an Serbian painter of portraits and still lifes.
Jovanović was born May 1, 1949 in Belgrade. He has attended many esteemed educational institutes, such as Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, School of Art for Interior Decoration, School Restoration-Painting etc.
He took participation in more than two hundred art exhibitions throughout Europe, including: Show World "My country, my home" (Moscow, Russia, 1965) and Exhibition "Selections 1984" Nation Gallery (Paris, France, 1984).
Max Liebermann | Impressionist painter ⁽¹⁾
Max Liebermann (20 July 1847 - 8 February 1935)🎨 was a German🎨-Jewish painter and printmaker, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism🎨 in Germany.
The son of a Jewish fabric manufacturer turned banker from Berlin, Liebermann🎨 grew up in an imposing town house alongside the Brandenburg Gate.
For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Liebermann see:
Adam de Coster | A young woman holding a distaff before a lit candle
This painting is emblematic of the refined and dramatic nocturnes that form the small catalogue of works by Adam de Coster.
Benedict Nicolson was the first scholar to isolate a corpus of works by this Flemish candlelight painter in a series of publications.
He based this group around Lucas Vorsterman’s engraving after a lost work by de Coster, which depicted tric-trac players and a musician illuminated by two burning candles on a table.
Hsin-Yao Tseng, 1986 | Cityscapes
Award winning painter Hsin-Yao Tseng was born in Taipei, Taiwan.
After graduated from high school in Taiwan, in 2004 summer, Hsin-Yao came to United State to study aboard.
He works in a range of genres: from lush evocations of San Francisco and other cities to expressive portraits and finally to lustrous interiors in which multiple figures enact a story.
Dario Campanile, 1948
Born in Rome, Italian painter Dario Campanile started to sketch as a very young child. At the age of six, his talent for art was encouraged with the gift of a small set of watercolors from an uncle, himself a painter.
When he was 14, Campanile was bedridden with a kidney ailment for three months, and his father gave him his first oil paints to cheer him up.
As soon as he began to work with them, there was a sense of familiarity of being able to easily express himself in this medium. This experience influenced him profoundly to continue with his art.
Henry Ryland | Neo-Classical painter
Henry Ryland (1856-1924) was a British painter, book illustrator, decorator and designer.
He was the son of John Benjamin and Elizabeth Ryland and was born in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire in 1856.
He studied in London at the South Kensington Art School, and at Heatherley's.
He also studied in Paris under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, and at the Académie Julian under Gustave Boulanger and Lefebvre.
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Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)
John Atkinson Grimshaw, British painter, was a Victorian-era and Imaginative painter, known for his city night-scenes and landscapes.
Some artists of Grimshaw's period, like Vincent Van Gogh and James Smetham, left letters and documents recording their work and lives.
Grimshaw left behind no letters, journals or papers; scholars and critics have little material on which to base their understanding of his life and career.
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Georg Anton Rasmussen | Seascape painter
Georg Anton Rasmussen (1842-1914) was Norwegian artist, known for land-and seascape paintings.
Georg Anton Rasmussen was born in Stavanger in 1842, but studied with the German painter Oswald Achenbach (1827-1905)** in Düsseldorf.
Consequently, several of G.A. Rasmussen’s German subjects originate in the Düsseldorf area, but there are also themes from Berlin to where he moved in 1899.
His landscapes were extremely popular, as G.A. Rasmussen’s eye for colour was more powerful and personal than was normally the case in the Germany of the age.
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Quang Ho, 1963 | Still life
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Vietnamese-born American painter🎨 and illustrator Quang Ho🎨, was born in Hue, Vietnam, immigrated to the United States in 1975 and is now a U.S. Citizen.
For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Quang Ho🎨 see Quang Ho, 1963 | Impressionist Figurative painter🎨.
Paul Falconer Poole RA | Genre painter
- Life and work
Though self-taught his fine feeling for colour, poetic sympathy and dramatic power gained Poole a high position among British artists. He exhibited his first work in the Royal Academy at the age of twenty-five, the subject being The Well, a scene in Naples. There was an interval of seven years before he next exhibited his Farewell, Farewell in 1837, which was followed by the Emigrant's Departure, Hermann and Dorothea and By the Waters of Babylon.
Georg Pauli | Symbolist painter
Swedish painter Georg Vilhelm Pauli (2 July 1855 - 28 November 1935) was born in Jönköping.
Pauli studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm in 1871-75 and 1878-79, and studied and worked in France and Italy for several years during the 1870s and 1880s.
He studied naturalist in- and outdoor painting, influenced by Bastien-Lepage.
Louis Janmot | The Lyon School of Art
Anne-François-Louis Janmot (1814-1892) was a French painter and poet.
Early years
Janmot was born in Lyon, France of Catholic parents who were deeply religious. He was extremely moved by the death of his brother in 1823 and his sisters in 1829.
He became a student at the Royal College of Lyon where he met Frederic Ozanam and other followers of his philosophy professor, Abbe Noirot.
In 1831 he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and a year later, he won the highest honor, the Golden Laurel.
Vilhelm Hammershøi | Interior / Portrait painter
Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) was a Danish painter. He is known for his poetic, subdued portraits and interiors.
In 1997, Denmark issued a postage stamp in his honour.
Life
Vilhelm Hammershøi was born iin Copenhagen, Denmark.
The son of a well-to-do merchant, Christian Hammershøi, and his wife, Frederikke (née Rentzmann), Hammershøi studied drawing from the age of eight with Niels Christian Kierkegaard and Holger Grønvold, as well as painting with Vilhelm Kyhn, before embarking on studies with Frederik Vermehren and others at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret | Le pardon en Bretagne, 1886
From: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Like many of his contemporaries, Dagnan-Bouveret** was fascinated by the religious customs of Brittany in northern France.
In this scene, penitents wearing traditional regional dress proceed solemnly around a church; some go barefoot or kneel to demonstrate remorse.
Annotated drawings on the reverse of the canvas indicate that the painter’s wife posed for the young woman in the foreground; the mother of an artist friend appears at left.
Arnold Bocklin | Stile pittorico
Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901) è stato un pittore, disegnatore, scultore e grafico Svizzero, nonché uno dei principali esponenti del simbolismo tedesco.
Dalla Svizzera all'Italia
Arnold Böcklin nacque il 16 ottobre 1827 a Basilea, figlio di Christian Friedrich Böcklin, noto mercante della seta nativo di Sciaffusa, e di Ursula Lipp, celebre discendente di una famiglia che annoverava tra i propri avi Johann Jacob Lippe e Hans Holbein il Giovane.
Inizialmente destinato a seguire le orme paterne, grazie all'intercessione della madre e del poeta Wilhelm Wackernagel (professore al ginnasio e all'università di Basilea) il giovane Arnold fu in grado di assecondare la sua più autentica vocazione artistica, andando nel 1845 a studiare all'Accademia di Belle Arti di Düsseldorf.
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