Salvador Dali | Surrealist painter and sculptor

This is part 1 of 3-part post on the works of Salvador Dali.

• Salvador Dali | Surrealist painter and sculptor🎨.
• Salvador Dali | Surrealist painter and sculptor | Part. 2🎨;
• Salvador Dali | Self-portraits🎨;
• Salvador Dali | Watercolors🎨;
• Salvador Dali | Drawing🎨;
• Salvador Dali | Quotes / Aforismi🎨;
• Gala, la passione surreale di Salvador Dali🎨;
• Salvador Dali | Zodiac signs🎨.

Corine Ko, 1962 | Abstract Mixed Media painter

Corine Ko's artistic process fuses photography and painting. Reworking her photos with the eye of a painter, she integrates heterogeneous elements to generate original digital collages.

At the same time, photography is literally embedded in her canvases, lending the work a soul and substance that is adorned by the colors of the painting.

She also sometimes uses shreds of torn paper - either lace or printed paper - which add relief to the work and animate the surface with splashes of bright color, embellishing silhouettes that do not have a clear outline; instead, it is the color that defines the shapes and gives them life, liberating them to escape and spread, apparently dissolving the provisional form.

Victor Bauer, 1969 | Ocean breeze

Victor Bauer is an American painter, working mainly with oils.

He born in 1969 and currently working and living in New York.

His art can be found in private collections in the US, Europe and Canada.

My earlier works were mostly abstracts and during these years I developed my own style and technique. My fascination with the human figure for its timeless sensitivity reflected in my latest works. In my paintings I try not only just to replicate a scene, but to create the mood and feelings. The goal is to create a work that is striking and simple.

Andrey Gorenkov / Андрей Горенков, 1969 | Surrealist painter

Russian artist🎨 Andrei Gorenkov was born in the town of Zhigulevsk. Engaged in painting since 1990.

Behind the artist a large number of solo exhibitions in such cities as: Zhigulevsk, Neftegorsk, Tolyatti, Naberezhnye Chelny, Nizhny Novgorod, Cheboksary, Paris, Hamburg, Moscow.

Creativity of the artist Andrei Gorenkov is often compared with the early works of Salvador Dali🎨.

Pascal Chove, 1963 | Figurative painter

French painter Pascal Chove was born in Paris. He studies at the applied arts school Ecole des Arts Appliques Duperre in Paris.

Until 1986, he painted numerous murals n Paris and rest of France; following this period he decided to focus exclusively on easel painting.

Since 1997, Pascal Chove has shown his works at numerous international exhibitions; America, Mexico, Holland, Belgium, Japan, Corea etc.

Paul Klee | Expressionist painter

Paul Klee (1879-1940) was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a German and a Swiss painter.

His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included Expressionism, cubism and surrealism.

He was, as well, a student of orientalism.

Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered colour theory, and wrote extensively about it; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre, published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are considered so important for modern art that they are compared to the importance that Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting had for Renaissance.

Michelle Murray, 1962 | Figurative painter

American painter Michelle Murray was born in Michigan and raised in Ohio before coming to Alberta as a young adult.

She now resides in Edmonton with her husband Sean and their family.

She is the mother of 8 and grandmother of 8.

After early training in Commercial Art, she began to paint with oils in 2003.

Leopold Schmutzler | Genre painter

Leopold Schmutzler (1864-1941) was born at Mies in Bohemia but settled in Munich. His works of the late nineteenth-century, like the Russell-Cotes painting, treat contemporary and 'frock-coat' Genre subjects with titles such as The Suitor, The Centre of Attention or Woman Eavesdropping on a Conversation.

They tend to be painted in a realistic style recalling the 'gallant' subjects of eighteenth-century painting that were so fashionable at the time.

The Minuet, like many of the artist’s works of this period, is proficiently executed with a detailed but free handling of the paint and it is characterised by a cloying, saccharine quality.

Bill Brauer, 1939 | Figurative painter

Known nationally for his Figurative paintings, American painter Bill Brauer grew up in Queens, New York knowing he would be an artist. Brauer attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and was a protégé of the renowned surrealist painter Federico Castellon.

His first years as an artist were spent working as an illustrator, where Brauer applied his intellect and imagination to progress in his profession. He feels he still uses the design concepts he learned as an illustrator as a painter, manipulating space and form to create a sense of tension and mystery.

In the early 1960s, Brauer became involved in printmaking, holding his first major exhibition in 1974 with the Associated American Artists, “New Talent in Printmaking’” exhibition.

His work gained acclaim, and was sought after for exhibition. His work was selected for the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum and was featured in the “19th Annual Print Exhibition”.

Albrecht Dürer | High Renaissance painter

A supremely gifted and versatile German artist of the Renaissance period, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was born in the Franconian city of Nuremberg, one of the strongest artistic and commercial centers in Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

He was a brilliant painter, draftsman, and writer, though his first and probably greatest artistic impact was in the medium of printmaking. Dürer apprenticed with his father, who was a goldsmith, and with the local painter Michael Wolgemut, whose workshop produced woodcut illustrations for major books and publications.

An admirer of his compatriot Martin Schongauer, Dürer revolutionized printmaking, elevating it to the level of an independent art form.

John Michael Carter, 1950 | Impressionist Figurative painter

John Michael Carter was born in Chicago. He showed an interest in drawing at an early age and began his studies at 15 with his father E. L. Carter, a commercial artist and illustrator.

After graduation from high school he attended the American Academy of Art in Chicago.

In 1970 Carter continued his studies at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles.

There he studied the major classical schools of drawing and painting with Reynolds Brown, Harry Carmean and Lorser Feitelson.

Helene Beland, 1949 | Realist painter

Born in Montreal, Qc, Canada, Helene Béland makes traditional studies in Montreal. In 1975, Béland obtains a diploma of study collegial in arts.

Then of 1979-1981 the artist continues his artistic formation at the painting and art school "Mission Renaissance School of Drawing" of Los Angeles under the direction of Larry Gluck, professional painter American. Helene Béland also studied art at the University from Quebec in Montreal.

Helene Béland controls the different techniques such as the charcoal, the pastel, oil and the "sanguine".

Allan R Banks | Plein Air/Figure painter

A native of Dearborn, Michigan, Allan R. Banks is a highly accomplished artist whose credentials speak for themselves. He was the recipient of the Elizabeth T. Greenshields Memorial Fellowship in 1972 and 1973, the Stacey Award🎨 in 1974 and later, an Ohio Arts Council Award🎨.

Comprehensive classical training under Richard Lack and later R.H. Ives Gammell at his private studios in Williamstown, Massachusetts, contributed substantially to the development of Banks’ work. Visits to Europe brought about a further development in the direction of his art and a rediscovery of the role of Plein-Air painting🎨.

Marina Podgaevskaya, 1963 | Ballet dancers

Marina Podgaevskaya / Марина Подгаевская, is an Russian painter.

Marina Podgaevskaya was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

In 1998 she finished the studio school specializing in Old Masters painting techniques. She has created more than 2000 paintings.

Michał Świder (1962-2019)

On February 6, 2019, the Polish painter Michał Świder died in Czernichów. He was 57 years old. Michał Świder (born in 1962 in Sędziszów Małopolski) Michał Świder graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1990.

He studied graphics and painting with Zbysław Marek Maciejewski and Janina Kraupe-Świderska. After graduation, he was a lecturer at his home Academy of Fine Arts for a short time.

The allegorical figures from his frescoes and canvasses move with with refined elegance, lightly and quietly; they are slightly idealised pure and angelical. They are very much alike: similar gestures, mimicry, dress, the same narrow, almondlike eyes.

Jose Roosevelt, 1958 | Surrealist painter / Illustrator

José Roosevelt was born in Rio de Janeiro. When he was only 15 years old he decided to take up painting, being fascinated by the surrealism of Dali🎨, and the then emerging fantasy art.

He taught himself primarily through visiting museums and art galleries and read extensively about the history of painting and its techniques. Initially he began by writing and illustrating graphic novels, but from about 1977 painting became Roosevelt's main focus.

His first solo exhibition was held in Brasília in 1979 in which he displayed thirty surrealist pictures🎨, mostly painted in acrylic on canvas.

In 1987 he had an exhibition at the Galerie Bleue in Switzerland and then travelled around Europe for a year visiting museums and art collections, going to Paris, Florence and Rome. Arising out of this, he moved to Switzerland in 1990, set up a studio and began creating his now well known oil paintings.

Alejandro Rosemberg, 1981 | Realist painter

Alejandro Rosemberg  is an Argentinian artist living in Beunos Aires, where he paints and teaches classical techniques. He has a deep interest in art from his early childhood, and obtained a fine arts degree at the National University of Cordoba, Argentina, where he studied figure drawing and painting.

Rosemberg continued his study of classical painting based on the Italian Great Masters Tradition with Maestro Claudio Bogino.

His works have been exhibited worldwide, many of his pieces are sold and owned by some of the most renowned private Art Collectors.

Dorina Costras, 1967 | Surrealist Figurative painter

Dorina Costras was born in Iasi, Romania.

Costras worked as a designer and as teacher of fine arts. Now I collaborate with decorating companies as indoor designer and I paint.

I like to transpose on canvas inner states, to interpret and render them.

I paint from imagination and the favorite theme whereat revert again and again is costumes and masks of carnival and also a fantastic universe with the atmosphere of the story away from our days. I alternate between them depending on my mood and inspiration of the moment.

Oleg Korolev, 1968 | Visionary painter

Oleg Korolev /Олег Королёв, is Russian artist whose paintings have been exhibited and represented in the private and corporate art collections of Russia, Europe, North America, and Australia.

Since 1979 studied in the Studio of the Classical Drawing (Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR).

In 1981 in the Art Studio and in the Art School (Yevpatoria, Ukrainian SSR).

From 1984-1990 he studied and graduated from the Crimean Art College in Simferopol (Ukrainian SSR).

Rolando Cubero, 1957 | Figurative painter

Cubero's career as a painter began in 1975 with a work by surrealist tendency.

Since then his paintings began to exhibit in both Costa Rica and international exhibitions in Central America.

For the 80's his work falls under the influence of Latin American magical realism and is shown in galleries and events in Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and México.

Wassily Kandinsky | Art Quotes / Aforismi sull'arte

✔ Ogni opera d'arte è figlia del suo tempo e spesso è madre della nostra sensibilità.

✔ Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions.

✔ Color is a power which directly influences the soul.

✔ Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.

✔ L'arte oltrepassa i limiti nei quali il tempo vorrebbe comprimerla, ed indica il contenuto del futuro.

✔ Il colore è un mezzo di esercitare sull'anima un'influenza diretta. Il colore è un tasto, l'occhio il martelletto che lo colpisce, l'anima lo strumento dalle mille corde.

✔ An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

✔ Mi sembrava che l'anima viva dei colori emettesse un richiamo musicale, quando l'inflessibile volontà del pennello strappava loro una parte di vita.

David Graux, 1970 | Abstract Figurative painter

David Graux was born in Besançon, France, where he still lives and works.

He has experimented with different styles before finding his own unique artistic touch.

His main subject is the beauty and mystery of woman, evoked both through his sensual nudes and through the symbolic richness and Oriental motifs of his colorful backgrounds.

His paintings are, in effect, forms of tangible poetry. Even David Graux’s titles exude poetry, let alone his evocative art.

Valeriy Belenikin / Валерий Беленикин, 1961 | Figurative painter

Born at Moscow, Valery Belenikin / Валерий Беленикин is a graduate of the Moscow Academy of Fine Arts named after V. I. Surikov. The artist's conception of his work is based upon truth and the mystery of this life.

He is in awe of all that takes place in this world. Not only human banality, but all that is best in humanity occupy the thoughts of the true artist.

As master of various artistic techniques (murals, frescoes, mosaics) he is easily able to communicate his innermost emotions and feelings.

Walter Girotto, 1953 | Symbolic / Figurative painter

Walter Girotto was born in a small northern Italian town called Rovigo and it was May 4th when his family moved to Turin (Italy) to seek their fortune.

The only things he likes to remember about his town of origin are the branches of the weeping willow in the small garden, two tin soldiers and a picture of a whale, drawn at nursery school when he was 4, under the incredulous gaze of a nun who was unaware that her admiring glance was to decide his life as a painter.

Auguste Rodin | Impressionist / Romantic sculptor

Auguste Rodin's works created a new era in sculpture.

Known as Auguste Rodin, François-Auguste-René Rodin, was a romantic and realistic french sculptor

Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past.

He was schooled traditionally, took a craftsman-like approach to his work, and desired academic recognition, although he was never accepted into Paris's foremost school of art.

Sculpturally, Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, deeply pocketed surface in clay.

Harald Slott-Møller | Symbolist painter

Born in Copenhagen, Danish painter Slott Georg Harald Møller (17 August 1864 - 20 October 1937) was the son of merchant Carl Emil Møller and Anna Maria née Møller.

After completing the preparatory course at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (1883), he painted for three years under Peder Severin Krøyer🎨.

Slott-Møller first exhibited in 1886 at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition and attracted attention in 1888 with his large lively work Fattigfolk i Fattiglægens Venteværelse  | Poor People in the Poor Doctor's Waiting Room🎨.

He exhibited at Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Den Frie Udstilling with individual portraits, such as that of Georg Brandes (Georg Brandes at the University in Copenhagen, 1889) and landscapes, which often featured a prominent spot.

Mathis Miles Williams, 1964 | Figurative painter

Mathis Miles Williams is an American artist🎨 born in Texas. He currently lives in Western Massachusetts.

He graduated in Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Texas in 1984 with a degree in philosophy.

Later in 80’s he switched his career and won the Alkazzi Fellowship to study fine art at the Tate Gallery in London in 1990.

Education

• Lyndon B. Johnson School Of Public Affairs, Austin, Texas. 1984. A two-year masters program in politics and management. Full Merit Scholarship. Withdrew to pursue art career.
• University Of Texas, Austin, Texas. 1982-1984. Graduated Summa cum Laude (3.9 GPA) in May 1984 at age 20 with a Bachelor of Arts. Double Major in Philosophy and Latin, minor in History. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. Special Honors in philosophy.
• Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania. 1981. National Merit Scholarship, National Honor Society Scholarship, Junior Classical League Scholarship (for Latin). Studied Liberal Arts.

Sir Peter Paul Rubens | Baroque Era painter

Peter Paul Rubens, (born June 28, 1577, Siegen, Nassau, Westphalia [Germany] - died May 30, 1640, Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands [now in Belgium]), Flemish painter who was the greatest exponent of Baroque painting's🎨, dynamism, vitality, and sensuous exuberance. Though his masterpieces include portraits and landscapes, Rubens is perhaps best known for his religious and mythological compositions.

As the impresario of vast decorative programs, he presided over the most famous painter’s studio in Europe. His powers of invention were matched by extraordinary energy and versatility.

The art of Peter Paul Rubens is a fusion of the traditions of Flemish realism with the Classicizing tendencies of the Italian Renaissance🎨. Rubens was able to infuse his own astounding vitality into a powerful and exuberant style that came to epitomize the Baroque art of the 17th century.

Emmanuel Garant, 1953 | Figurative painter

Born in Lévis, Canadian painter and teacher Emmanuel Garant, studied drawing and painting from 1973-1976 with his father, André Garant, and his mother, Louise Carrier, both fine arts painters celebrated in Quebec and in other countries.

Emmanuel therefore grew up in an environment conducive to artistic endeavors and has rubbed shoulders with his parents’friends such as painter Jean-Paul Lemieux and numerous others…

Formal Recognition

- Member of «The figurative Art Institut» (IAF), 2011;

- Academician 2011;

- International Academy of Fine Arts of Quebec, 2011;

- Winner of Elizabeth-Greenshields Grant (Montréal, QC, 1979).

Konstantin Kacev, 1967 | Figurative painter

Konstantin Kacev / Константин Качев was born in Taschent (SSSR) where he lived till 1983 year.

He continued his secondary education in Skopje till 1986, and in 1995 he graduates from the Faculty of Fine Arts - Skopje at the department of painting, conservation and restoration.

For many years he had worked at the Republic’s Department of Culture and Conservation specializing in protection of monuments as a freelance wall painting conservator.

Since 1999 he has moved in his studio and participates in many exhibitions across Macedonia and several independent exhibitions in Paris and New York in 2005.

He lives and work in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.

Christiane Vleugels, 1963 | Photorealistic painter

Christiane Vleugels🎨 displayed her extraordinary gift of painting at a young age.

She graduated from the Royal Art Academy, Antwerp, and went through a difficult period while living on commissions to paint portraits and reproductions. Christiane🎨 came to realize that all of these toils resulted in techniques which produced more glowing creations and expects one day to release her passions through her art with a fully-blossomed sense of freedom.

Later on, Christiane🎨 accepted a commission from the Belgian military to paint the portrait for the Belgian Royal couple, former King Boudewijn and Queen Fabiola.
Christine used to be represented by the renowned German gallery ‘Gallerie Des Beaux Arts’ and has already participated in 12 group exhibitions and 10 solo shows. She has an international collector base in Europe, Egypt, England and Asia.

Sergio Martínez, 1966 | Figurative painter

Sergio Martinez Cifuentes, dual Chilean-Spanish nationality, born in Santiago, Chile.

As a young man, known for his drawings, which together with its stark poetry and musical compositions, beginning to structure their profile adolescent romantic and existentialist.

It is at this stage where he participated in numerous youth competitions in painting, gaining significant recognition, which helps you understand the true importance of their relationship with plastic.

In its first stage attaches to descriptive realism, showing great control over the forms and content management and elegant color, being its main theme the landscape.

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

James Abbott McNeill Whistler - pittore Americano, nacque a Lowell, nel Massachusetts.

Nel 1843 suo padre si trasferì con la famiglia in Russia, per lavorare alla linea ferroviaria San Pietroburgo, Mosca.

Nel 1849, alla morte del padre, Whistler tornò negli Stati Uniti con la madre e nel 1851 entrò nella scuola militare di West Point, che abbandonò nel 1854 per dedicarsi al disegno ed all'incisione.

Marta Dahlig, 1985 | Fantasy / Concept Illustrator

Marta Dahlig is an Polish🎨 digital painter who has been recognized with numerous awards🎨 for her work and contributions.

Her artwork have been featured everywhere from CG society, ImagineFX to countless other magazines, publications and blogs.

I am live in Warsaw, Poland. For my official employment, a “regular” full time job - I currently work as a media planner at MPG media agency. I know - not too artsy...

In fact, it’s an extremely analytic, number-crunching job. Maybe it doesn’t fit well with the image but I like the challenge the contrast is giving me…

Illustrating I do out of passion. Currently I work as a cover illustrator for a few German publishing houses as well as prepare tutorials for Future Publishing’s ImagineFX magazine on a nearly monthly basis.

Volodia Popov, 1961 | Magic Realism painter

Born in Michurinsk, Volodia Popov-Massiaguine / Володя Попов is a Russian painter🎨 living in Paris.

Volodia Popov is the artist for whom does not exist any stylistic border.

The horizonts of his creativity are opened widely to meet the seven winds. At any time filled with salty energy sails can transfer the clipper of his inexhaustible imagination to unfamiliar mysterious coast of new terra incognita.

Volodia Popov-Massiaguine has tackled a variety of pictorial genres, exhibiting a particular talent for the female form and still-life’s.

Jim Warren, 1949 | Fantasy / Surrealist painter

American painter Jim Warren was born in Long Beach, California and currently lives in Clearwater, Florida.

Jim Warren is considered a "living legend" of the art world.

His work has graced hundreds of movie posters, book and magazine covers, record albums most notably Grammy Award winning cover for Bob Seger's album, "Against the Wind" in 1981.

Beginnings: Started painting at age 2, like all children. Went through the usual string of career choices such as: artist, magician, artist, rock star, artist etc.

Pedro Salinas / Bill Bate | If you would call me / Se tu mi chiamassi / Si me llamaras..

Se mi chiamassi, sì,

se mi chiamassi.

Io lascerei tutto,

tutto io getterei:

i prezzi, i cataloghi,

l'azzurro dell'oceano sulle carte,

i giorni e le loro notti,

i telegrammi vecchi

ed un amore.

Tu, che non sei il mio amore,

se mi chiamassi!

If you would call me, oh yes,

if you would only call me!

I would leave everything,

I would throw everything over;

prices, catalogs,

the blue of the ocean on maps,

The days and their nights,

old telegrams

and a love,

You, who are not my love,

if you would only call me!

Bill Bate🎨

Michelangelo Buonarroti | S'egli è che 'n dura pietra alcun somigli | Sonetto 242

S’egli è che ’n dura pietra alcun somigli

talor l’immagin d’ogni altri a se stesso,

squalido e smorto spesso

il fo, com’i’ son fatto da costei.

E par ch’esempro pigli

ognor da me, ch’i’ penso di far lei.

Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Baroque style painter

Roberto Ferri born in Taranto, Italy. Inspired deeply by Baroque painters, especially Caravaggio and other Old Masters of Romanticism, Academism and Symbolism (David, Ingres, Girodet, Gericault, Gleyre, Bouguereauv, Moreau, Redon, Rops, etc.) Graduated - with Honors - Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.

Jeanette Guichard Bunel, 1957 | Pop Surrealist painter

" - Tough my painting I wish to transpose the visitor to the world of dreams.

I would like to have sensitivity predominate over reasoning by inciting the viewer to see further than appearances…

I would like to establish extra-verbal and extra-sensorial communication between us by removing the barriers of rationalism".

French painter🎨 Jeannette Guichard-Bunel wants to take her spectators on a dream like journey through her paintings. She wants to give supremacy to reasoning so that the spectator can analyze and go beyond appearances.

She likes to establish an extra-verbal and extra sensorial communication with her public and erase the barriers of rationalism. Her characters try to catch the spectator's eye and attract him to a world where time stands still and has boundless space.

Sinisha Kashawelski, 1969 | Pittore Surrealista

Sinisha Kashawelski è un pittore multipremiato Macedone, che vive e lavora a Kumanovo, in Macedonia del Nord.

I dipinti di Kashawelski hanno uno stile prevalentemente surrealista, sebbene debba molto della sua ispirazione alla tradizione pittorica macedone.

Il realismo incontra il surrealismo: Kashawelski combina le tendenze realiste, più viste nel lavoro degli Antichi Maestri con elementi surrealisti del passato, del futuro e del presente dell'artista.

Le opere di Kashawelski sono eseguite ad olio e principalmente su tela, ma occasionalmente lavora su pannelli di legno.

Felix Ziem | The Barbizon school of painters

Félix Ziem (1821-1911) was a French painter in the style of the Barbizon School.

He was born Félix-Francois Georges Philibert Ziem in Beaune in the Côte-d'Or département of the Burgundy région of France.

His mother was a native of Burgundy who married an immigrant. Originally, Ziem planned to be an architect and studied at the School of Architecture in Dijon, and for a time worked as an architect.

Drew Darcy, 1976 | Figurative / Pop Art painter

Drew Darcy, British painter, was born in Shrewsbury in 1976.

I am the eldest of twin boys. Being the son of a doctor and a nurse, I always felt in safe hands right from the start. My artistic flare may well have been passed down from my mother's side. She was one of a family of ten children.

Music and art was a central part of growing up in Dublin.

My grandfather was from five generations of tailors and trained in Saville Row to become a bespoke tailor.

He had three shops in Ireland, one of which was in historical Kilmainham, Dublin.

Alfredo Araujo Santoyo, 1972 | Abstract Figurative Painter / Sculptor

Alfredo Araújo Santoyo is an Colombian artist, born in Bogota, Colombia.

Principal Studies: Specializing in Painting Sculpture and Ceramics: Academie Royale des Beaux Arts, Brussels-Belgium Anatomical Dissection.

Andrius Kovelinas (Surrealist painter, 1958)

Andrius Kovelinas is an Lithuanian artist, living in Poland. He received prizes in varroius competitions.

In Lithuania, he ran his own art school.

He lived in France and Ireland.

From years of experience in oil painting.

There are many exhibitions on his account. The main theme of his work are women.

Léon Comerre | Orientalist / Academic painter

Léon François Comerre (1850-1916) was a French🎨 academic painter, famous for his portraits of beautiful women.

Comerre was born in Trélon, in the Département du Nord, the son of a schoolteacher. He moved to Lille with his family in 1853. From an early age he showed an interest in art and became a student of Alphonse Colas at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lille, winning a gold medal in 1867.

From 1868 a grant from the Département du Nord allowed him to continue his studies in Paris at the famous École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in the studio of Alexandre Cabanel. There he came under the influence of Orientalism.

Comerre first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1871 and went on to win prizes there in 1875 and 1881.

Mike Worrall, 1942 | Surrealist painter

Born in Matlock Derbyshire, UK, Mike Worrall is an British painter and designer, inspired by historical themes.

Now based in Australia, his massive oil paintings depicting dreamlike surreality hang in private collections and gallery.

As a child, Mike Worrall was always intrigued by the paintings that introduced a mystery element to them to draw in the viewer.

Since then, Worrall creates paintings that follow that similar direction.

Jeremy Lipking, 1975 | Figurative painter

In a remarkably short period of time, Jeremy Lipking🎨 has emerged as one of the country's premier Realist artists. His talent, which rivals that of the late nineteenth century painterly realists such as John Singer Sargent🎨, Joaquin Sorolla🎨 and Anders Zorn🎨, is outstanding for a painter of any age. It is all the more remarkable since he is only thirty years old.

Like these great painters of the past, Lipking is a virtuoso artist. His canvases convey the magical aura of convincing imagery emerging out of a field of paint. Realism has been misunderstood through most of the twentieth century as an art of imitation. In truth, when practiced by a painter like Jeremy Lipking🎨, realist painting is a powerful creative force. Many viewers are drawn to his art thinking that it looks just like a photograph.

Bruno Di Maio (1944-2025)

Bruno Di Maio, was one of the Italy’s best Figurative artists.

His work reflects his great love for Renaissance paintings, yet at the same time a strong desire for expressive autonomy.

Di Maio tries, successfully, in his allegorical and surrealistic interpretation of present, to give life to the recollect quality of the past.

The originality of his vision is seen in the sumptuous subject matter, the quality of his chiaroscuro and the dramatic light effect on the figures and objects in his paintings.

His work is happy, carnal, rich in color and vibrant with light.

In addition to paintings, his artistic training extends to sculpture, engraving, excellent watercolors as well as astounding trompe l’oeil mural paintings.

His works can be found in private and public collections in Europe, Japan, Australia and in the United States.

Claude Monet | La Mare, effet de neige, 1874-75

Claude Monet painted La Mare, effet de neige in Argenteuil winter of 1874-1875.

The aethereal landscape employs tonal blue and white hues to create a frosted snowscape, bordered by homes with snow-dusted roofs.

A trio of silhouetted figures, dwarfed by trees, traverse the scene.

The work is brilliant, charming and subtle, standing as a superb example of Monet’s experimentation with the Impressionist style in the mid-1870s.

During this crucial period of his practice, his increasingly loose brushwork and thick application of paint began to formally convey the more ephemeral and atmospheric effects of the natural world.

Claude Monet | La Mare, effet de neige, 1874/75 | Christie's