Frank Duveneck | Realist painter

Frank Duveneck, (born October 9, 1848, Covington, Kentucky, U.S. - died January 3, 1919, Cincinnati, Ohio), American painter, sculptor, and art teacher who helped awaken American interest in European naturalism.

At age 21 Duveneck studied in Germany with Wilhelm Dietz at the Munich Academy and was greatly influenced by the works of Frans Hals, Rembrandt and Peter Paul Rubens.

Federico Zandomeneghi | A Venetian between Impressionists

Federico Zandomeneghi (1841-1917) was an Italian painter, known for working in the Impressionist style. His father Pietro and grandfather Luigi tried to interest him in the plastic arts, but from a very early age he showed a stronger inclination for painting. Zandomeneghi soon rebelled against their teachings, and by 1856 he was attending the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Venice, studying under the painters Michelangelo Grigoletti (1801-1870) and Pompeo Molmenti (1819-1894).

As a Venetian he was born an Austrian subject, and, to escape conscription, he fled his city in 1859 and went to Pavia, where he enrolled at the university.

In the following year he followed Garibaldi in the Expedition of the Thousand; afterwards, having been convicted of desertion and therefore unable to return to Venice, he went to Florence, where he remained from 1862-1866. This period was essential for his artistic development.

Larissa Morais, 1966 | Figurative / Still Life painter

L'artista Russa Larissa Morais / Лариса Морейс è nata e cresciuta a Mosca.

Dipinge da quando era al liceo, ma il suo primo amore non era il pennello, ma i tasti di un pianoforte.

Mentre aiutava la sorella un pomeriggio a fare i compiti dell'arte qualcosa ha scatenato la sua passione per la pittura e forse inciampato sul suo destino.

La Morais si è laureata al Moscow Theatrical Arts Institute e ha frequentato la Scuola di specializzazione in Restauro e conservazione.

La sua materia preferita è la figura umana con l'attenzione al dettaglio.

Tutta la sua opera è concepita da uno schizzo che poi dipinge su una grande tela nera con strati molto sottili di pittura ad olio.

Marina Podgaevskaya, 1963 | Abstract Figures

Marina Podgaevskaya / Марина Подгаевская was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

In 1983, she graduated from Leningrad Serov Art college, Interior Design Department.

In 1998 she finished the studio school specializing in Old Masters painting techniques.

Podgaevskaya is an author of more than 500 works, with her paintings being part of numerous art shows in Russia, Europe and Asia.

Honoré Daumier | The Michelangelo of caricature

Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808-1879), French caricaturist and painter, was born at Marseilles; He showed in his earliest youth an irresistible inclination towards the artistic profession, which his father vainly tried to check by placing him first with a huissier, and subsequently with a bookseller.

Louis Douzette | Romantic landscape painter

Carl Ludwig Christoph Douzette (September 25, 1834, Tribsees - February 21, 1924, Barth) was a German painter**. When he was seven years old, the family moved to Tribsees Franzburg.

At the age of 14 he left school and went with his father in the house painter teaching. In winter, the father gave him, who had in his youth in Berlin attended the Academy of Fine Arts, the first lessons in drawing. 1852 the family moved to Barth.

Rabindranath Tagore | Tu sei la nuvola della sera…

Tu sei la nuvola della sera che vaga nel cielo

dei miei sogni.

Io ti dipingo e ti modello

con i miei desideri d'amore.

Tu sei mia, solo mia, l'abitatrice dei miei

sogni infiniti! I tuoi piedi sono rosso-rosati

Vladimir Kush | Ray of Hope

Mostafa Keyhani, 1954 | Impressionist painter

Iranian-born Canadian painter Mostafa Keyhani🎨 was born in Iran. It was during his years as a secondary school student that he was encouraged by one of his teachers to pursue his artistic talents.

As a result, Mr. Keyhani🎨 became completely devoted to painting.

Jean Beauduin | Genre painter

Jean Beauduin (1851-1916) was a Belgian painter**, draughtsman and illustrator of genre scenes, portraits and landscapes. Although Belgian by birth, Jean Beauduin would spend much of his life in France where he built a considerable reputation as an oil painter.

He received his artistic training at the Academy of Antwerp.

Charles Kuwasseg | Landscape painter

Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg (1838, Draveil, Essonne - 1904) was a French painter** of the 19th century**. He was influenced by the Barbizon school and created especially landscapes, but also cityscapes and coastal views.

Born in Draveil, Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg was the son of Karl Joseph Kuwasseg, an Austrian born in Trieste on March 16, 1802, and also a renowned painter. His father left for Paris, and took the French nationality. He died in Paris in January 1877.

Initially Charles Euphrasie trained and worked with his father but later became a sailor and travelled the world.

Rupert Bunny | Pastorale, 1893

Title: Pastorale [Sea idyll Pastorale]

Artist: Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny (1864-1947)**

Date: 1893

Style: Impressionism

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: 142.0 h x 251.0 w

Current location: National Gallery of Australia

Vicente López y Portaña | Neoclassical painter

Vicente López Portaña (September 19, 1772 - July 22, 1850) was a Spanish painter**, considered one of the best portrait painters of his time.

Vicente López Portaña was born in Valencia on September 19, 1772. His parents were Cristóbal López Sanchordi and Manuela Portaña Meer. Vicente López began formally studying painting in Valencia at the age of thirteen, he was a disciple of father Antonio de Villanueva, a Franciscan monk, and he studied at the Academy of San Carlos in his native city.

William Merritt Chase | A Modern Master

William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 - October 25, 1916) was anAmerican painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher.

He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons The New School for Design.

Chase won many honors at home and abroad, was a member of the National Academy of Design, New York, and from 1885-1895 was president of the Society of American Artists.

Fabio Cembranelli | Abstract / Watercolour painter

Fabio Cembranelli, a renowned Brazilian artist, started painting at university, where he studied architecture. After graduating, he took drawing, sculpture and photography courses in his home town of São Paolo, and continued his studies in Europe and US during the 90s. He still lives and works in São Paulo.

Daniel Wall, 1965 | Romantic painter

Born in a small village in northern China, Daniel Wall began drawing and painting at the young age of 4. Crayons were a rarity in his household, so Wall’s aunt, an elementary school teacher, brought home chalk and pencils for Wall to use.

His mother, a talented self-taught artist, also encouraged Wall’s interest in art.

Mark Spain, 1962 | Flamenco dancers

Mark Spain trained in technical graphics at Medway College of Art before setting up a printmaking studio in Kent producing original etchings.

In October 1987 he was commissioned to produce limited edition etchings of Kew Gardens and has since undertaken many other commissions, with clients ranging from National Westminster Bank to The Dorchester Hotel.

His work has also been represented by several leading publishers and distributed worldwide.

Lisa Noonis, 1963 | Abstract / Palette knife painter

Lisa Noonis is a Maine-based painter** known for her lively explorations of color, form, and space. Constantly pushing the boundaries of representation, Noonis captures the essence of objects, figures, and places with an ever-evolving, abstract style that embraces color, shape and line.

Jason deCaires Taylor, 1974 | Underwater sculptor

Jason deCaires Tayloris a British sculptor and creator of the world's first underwater sculpture park – the Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park - and underwater museum.

He is best known for installing site-specific underwater sculptures which develop into artificial coral reefsintegrating his skills as a sculptor, marine conservationist, underwater photographer and scuba diving instructor.

His works in Grenada have been listed among the Top 25 Wonders of the World by National Geographic.

His most ambitious projects to date are the creation of the world's largest underwater sculpture museum, the Cancún Underwater Museum, situated off the coast between Cancún and Isla Mujeres, Mexico, and Ocean Atlas (2014), a 5-metre tall, 60-ton sculpture off the Bahamas.

Tribuna of the Uffizi | The first museum of the Modern Age

In the Eighties of the 16th century, the Grand Duke Francesco I and his friend and collaborator, the architect Bernardo Buontalenti, started the project of the Tribuna.

It is the most important room at the first floor of the Uffizi palace, which ground floor was - at that time - occupied by the Florentine magistrates.

The Tribuna was the first nucleus of the Uffizi Gallery: it is a space conceived and realized to display to the public artworks considered the most precious of the Medici collection.

Marble Roman copy after a Greek original

Carlo Carrà | Futurist painter

Carlo Carrà (1881-1966) was a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century.

In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number of books concerning art.

He taught for many years in the city of Milan.

Carrà was born in Quargnento, near Alessandria, Piedmont.

At the age of 12 he left home in order to work as a mural decorator.

Arshile Gorky | Abstract Expressionist painter

Arshile Gorky original name Vosdanik Adoian (born April 15, 1904, Khorkom, Van, Turkish Armenia [now in Turkey]-died July 21, 1948, Sherman, Connecticut, U.S.), American painter, important as the direct link between the European Surrealist painters and the painters of the American Abstract Expressionist movement.

Gorky’s early life was disrupted when his father abandoned Turkey, his wife, and his family in order to avoid service in the Turkish army. The rest of the family soon fled to Armenia to escape Turkish persecution and were subsequently dispersed.

Patrick Alò, 1975 | Metal sculptor of Renaissance figures

Born in Rome on August 6, 1975-Lebanese mother and an Italian father ungro, Italian artist** Patrick Alò lives the early years between Italy and the United States, and he studied art in Rome.

Student movement for social occupations and squats discovered his passion for archeology, recycling and cyberpunk, and it combines the love for classicism.

Patrick Alo working mainly with Scrap Metal parts to create classic-like sculptures** to celebrate the eternal cycle of renaissance** after annihilation.

John Salminen, 1945 | Abstract Cityscape painter

John Salminen (born January 18, 1945) is an award-winning🎨 American🎨 watercolor painter who is well known for his realistic urban landscapes. His work was described as "compelling street scenes packed with detail" by Watercolor Magic magazine's senior editor, Loraine Crouch.

Salminen was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. He earned his Bachelor's Degree and Master's Degree from the University of Minnesota. He lives in a self-built log cabin surrounded by 40 acres (160,000 m2) of pine forest in Duluth, Minnesota.

Andy Warhol: "I'd prefer to remain a mystery"

• "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself".

• "Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches".

• "People should fall in love with their eyes closed".

• "Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what".

• "Art is what you can get away with".

Quint Buchholz, 1957 | Magic Realism painter / illustrator

Puint Buchholz was born in Stolberg near Aachen and grew up in Stuttgart. He studied history of art for four terms, followed by painting and graphic design at the Munich Academy of Art under Prof. Gerd Winner.

He has worked as a painter and illustrator since 1979, illustrating over fourty books for German and international publishers.

From 1982 onwards his works have also been exhibited in over seventy solo exhibitions in Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Greece and Taiwan.

Auguste Suchetet | Figurative sculptor

Auguste Edmé Suchetet, born March 12, 1854 at Vendeuvre-sur-Barse and died in May 1932 in Paris, was a French sculptor**.

Auguste Suchetet's father is a mason at Vendeuvre-sur-Barse.

Léon Moynet, owner of the Christian art factory in the commune 1 notes Auguste Suchetet while working with his father on the extension of the buildings and hired him as an apprentice.

Arc de Triomphe Paris, 1806-1836

Arc de Triomphe, in full Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile, massive triumphal arch in Paris, France, one of the world’s best-known commemorative monuments.

It stands at the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle (formerly called the Place de l’Étoile), the western terminus of the avenue des Champs-Élysées; just over 1.2 miles (2 km) away, at the eastern terminus, is the Place de la Concorde.

Napoleon I commissioned the triumphal arch in 1806 - after his great victory at the Battle of Austerlitz (1805) - to celebrate the military achievements of the French armies.

Vladimir Ezhakov, 1975 | Ballet dancers

Vladimir Ezhakov /Владимир Ежаков is an Russian🎨 artist-teacher - painter, known for working in the Figurative style. Ezhakov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia.

For biographical notes and other works by Ezhakov see:

• Vladimir Ezhakov, 1975 | Impressionist Figurative painter🎨

Jean-Pierre Gibrat, 1954 | Book Illustrator

Jean-Pierre Gibrat is a French🎨 comic artist and scriptwriter. Born on the 14th of April 1954 in Paris, France. His first complete stories were published in the French magazine Pilote. With Jackie Berroyer, he took on le petit Goudard in 1978, a series which he continued in the same year in Charlie Mensuel, then in Fluide Glacial in 1980.

During this time, some of his artwork was also published in the press: l'Evénement du jeudi, le Nouvel Obs, Sciences et Avenir and he also produced work for Okapi and Je bouquine. In late 1982, he pencilled La Parisienne in Pilote, again on a script by Berroyer.

Simon Vouet | Baroque Era painter

Simon Vouet, (born January 9, 1590, Paris, France - died June 30, 1649, Paris), painter who introduced an Italianate Baroque style** of painting into France.

Vouet formed his style in Italy, where he lived from 1612 to 1627. The use of dramatic contrasts of light and shade seen in such early works as his Two Lovers indicates that he began in Rome as a follower of Caravaggio**.

Rita Kirkman, 1965 | Pastel painter

Award winning** Artist Rita Kirkman is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, a daily painter and blogger. She is well known for her portraits of Renaissance** characters, her caricatures and quick sketches, and elevating the status of beautiful Texas cattle through her vivid portraits of them!

For biographical notes and other works by Kirkman see:

• Rita Kirkman | Pastel painter ⏭

Zoran Kezic, 1960 | Landscape / cityscape painter

Award winning** Artist Zoran Kezić was born in 1960. In 1980, he graduated from a secondary art school, a graphic designer.

He exhibited at 15 collective exhibitions. He participated in many humanitarian actions and art colonies.

A highly productive painter who satisfies the tastes of a wide population.

Kezić has won numerous awards** for his artistic work and engagement.

Georges de la Tour | Baroque Era painter

Georges de La Tour, (1593-1652), painter, mostly of candlelit subjects, who was well known in his own time but then forgotten until well into the 20th century, when the identification of many formerly misattributed works established his modern reputation as a giant of French painting.

Giulia Lama | Baroque painter

Giulia Lama (active mainly first half of 18th century) was an Italian painter, active in Venice.

Her dark, tense style contrasted with the dominant pastel colors of the late Baroque era.

Biography

Lama was born c. 1681 in the parish of Santa Maria Formosa in Venice.

She was trained initially by her father, the painter Agostino Lama.

She then studied alongside a childhood friend, Giambattista Piazzetta (1682-1754), the prominent rococo painter of various religious subjects and genre paintings.

John Atkinson Grimshaw | Victorian-era painter

English Victorian-era painter John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893), considered one of the most renowned painters of the Victorian era, as well as one of the best and most accomplished nightscape and townscape, artists of all time.

Grimshaw's primary influence was the Pre-Raphaelites. True to the Pre-Raphaelite style, he created landscapes of accurate colour and lighting, vivid detail and realism, often typifying seasons or a type of weather.

Moonlit views of city and suburban streets and of the docks in London, Hull, Liverpool, and Glasgow also figured largely in his art. His careful painting and his skill in lighting effects meant that he captured both the appearance and the mood of a scene in minute detail. His "paintings of dampened gas-lit streets and misty waterfronts conveyed an eerie warmth as well as alienation in the urban scene".

Andy Warhol: What Is Pop Art?

What Is Pop Art?

Interviews with Eight Painters, 1963

by Gene Swenson, Art News 62, New York,

November 1963; reprinted in Pop Art Redefined, John Russell and Suzi Gablik (eds.), London, 1969

It's hard to be creative and it's also hard not to think what you do is creative or hard not to be called creative because everybody is always talking about that and individuality.

Everybody's always creative. Ans it is so funny when you say things aren't, like the shoe I would draw for an advertisement was called a 'creation', but the drawing of it was not..

There are millions of actors. They're all pretty good. And how many painters are there?

Jungho Lee | Surrealist Illustrator

The Korean artist Jungho Lee is based in Seoul where he creates surreal illustrations for books and is also in the process of working on his own picture book.

Many of his recent pieces incorporate actual books as a wide variety of visual metaphors from the wings of a plane to pools of stars.

Jungho Lee was recently named the overall professional winner of the "World Illustration Awards 2016".

Marie-Paule Deville-Chabrolle, 1952 | Figurative sculptor / painter

Marie-Paule Deville-Chabrolle is an painter and sculptor, known for working in the Figurative style.

She was born in Meknes, Morocco, lives and works in France.

Marie-Paule Deville-Chabrolle was influenced by Asia because she has made many trips there and studied in Cambodia. She pays tribute to femininity.

The human body is the sole object of her work. She draws, sculpts, conceals then transforms her pieces in bronze.

Keith Mallett, 1948 | Abstract Figurative painter

Keith Mallett was born in Pennsylvania, and received his formal art training at the Art Students League, and Hunter College in New York City. He has worked as a freelance artist and for fifteen years was the in-house artist for Frontline Art Publishers. Keith’s work is currently published by Canadian Art Prints, one of the largest fine art publishers in the world.

Keith was commissioned to design the official limited edition print commemorating the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s historic breakthrough into major league baseball. His art was chosen to grace the cover of Chicken Soup for The African American Soul, the first Chicken Soup collection to deal exclusively with the African American experience.

Daniel Mirante, 1977 | Visionary painter

Daniel Mirante is a painter, art teacher and designer, born in Chester, a Roman city situated on the border of Wales and England.

He is an independent fine art professional, writer and researcher, and educator of painting practice, art history and contemporary esoteric art.

Daniel is the co-founder and director of Art Pilgrim, a UK based educational project that specialises in instruction in painting approaches and exploration of translation from traditional to contemporary culture.

Odalisque paintings

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Odalisque | National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

An odalisque (Turkish: odalık / اوطه‌لق) was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan.

The word "odalisque" is French in form and originates from the Turkish odalık, meaning "chambermaid", from oda, "chamber" or "room". It can also be transliterated odahlic, odalisk and odaliq.

Thor Lindeneg, 1941 | Surrealist painter

Thor Lindeneg is a Danish surrealist painter who currently resides and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Lindeneg was born in in Copenhagen.

Thor Lindeneg belong to the new surrealistic school called Fantastic Figuration.

Andy Warhol quotes: "Security breeds stagnation"

• "Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?"

• "The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying".

• "Most people in America think Art is a man's name".

• "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details".

Andy Warhol | Pop Art painter

Andy Warhol, original name Andrew Warhola, (1928-1987), American artist and filmmaker, an initiator and leading exponent of the Pop art movement of the 1960s whose mass-produced art apotheosized the supposed banality of the commercial culture of the United States

An adroit self-publicist, he projected a concept of the artist as an impersonal, even vacuous, figure who is nevertheless a successful celebrity, businessman, and social climber.

The son of Ruthenian (Rusyn) immigrants from what is now eastern Slovakia, Warhol graduated in 1949 from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), Pittsburgh, with a degree in pictorial design.

George Underwood, 1947 | Pittore Fantasy

Richard George Underwood è un artista e musicista Britannico.

È noto soprattutto per la progettazione di copertine di album per numerose band negli anni '70 e per le sue collaborazioni con l'amico di lunga data, il cantautore David Bowie.

George Underwood ha frequentato la Bromley Technical High School dove ha sviluppato l'interesse per la musica insieme ai compagni di classe David Bowie e Peter Frampton.

La band di Underwood e Bowie, George and the Dragons è stata di breve durata a causa di Underwood che ha preso a pugni Bowie nell'occhio sinistro mentre indossava un anello al dito, durante una lite per una ragazza, causando la paralisi nella pupilla sinistra di Bowie ed il suo caratteristico disallineamento aspetto.

Hans Memling | Northern Renaissance painter

Hans Memling, Memling also spelled Memlinc, (born c. 1430-40, Seligenstadt, near Frankfurt am Main [Germany] - died August 11, 1494, Bruges [Belgium]), leading South Netherlandish painter of the Bruges school during the period of the city’s political and commercial decline.

The number of his imitators and followers testifies to his popularity throughout Flanders.

His last commission, which has been widely copied, is a Crucifixion panel from the Passion triptych (1491).

Memling, born in the region of the Middle Rhine, was apparently first schooled in the art of Cologne and then traveled to the Netherlands (c. 1455-60), where he probably trained in the workshop of the painter Rogier van der Weyden.

He settled in Bruges (Brugge) in 1465; there he established a large shop and executed numerous altarpieces and portraits. Indeed, he was very successful in Bruges: it is known that he owned a large stone house and by 1480 was listed among the wealthiest citizens on the city tax accounts.

Sometime between 1470-1480 Memling married Anna de Valkenaere (died 1487), with whom he had three children.

Maria Oosthuizen, 1972 | Modern / Figurative painter

South African artist Maria Magdalena Oosthuizen paints figurative portraits emanating innocence and hope that pay tribute both to her devotion to God and her belief in the intrinsic goodness of the people of this world.
Using balanced, harmonic compositions and a dedication to detail, Maria focuses on the interplay of light and shadow in her works, with particular attention to how light impacts form, conveying the powerful message that underscores all her work: that light has the power to expel darkness and reveal the goodness and abundance in life.