Wassily Kandinsky | Abstract painter

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky / Васи́лий Васи́льевич Канди́нский (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 - 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter🎨 and art theorist.

Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art🎨.

Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art school.

He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession - he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat - Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.

In 1896, Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts.

He returned to Moscow in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I. Following the Russian Revolution, Kandinsky "became an insider in the cultural administration of Anatoly Lunacharsky" and helped establish the Museum of the Culture of Painting.

However, by then "his spiritual outlook... was foreign to the argumentative materialism of Soviet society", and opportunities beckoned in Germany, to which he returned in 1920.

There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933.

He then moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in 1939 and producing some of his most prominent art. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944. | © Wikipedia

Vasilij Vasil'evič Kandinskij / Василий Васильевич Кандинский (Mosca, 16 dicembre 1866 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 13 dicembre 1944) fu un pittore Franco-Russo, romanizzato anche come Vassily Kandinsky, precursore e fondatore della pittura astratta.

• «L'arte oltrepassa i limiti nei quali il tempo vorrebbe comprimerla, e indica il contenuto del futuro.» Vasilij Kandinskij

John William Waterhouse | L'ultimo dei PreRaffaelliti

John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) è stato un pittore Britannico🎨 di epoca Vittoriana, ultimo rappresentante dello stile dei Pre-Raffaelliti.

È noto soprattutto per i suoi soggetti mitologici e per le protagoniste femminili dei suoi dipinti, incarnazioni di grazia o donne fatali.

La produzione di Waterhouse può essere raggruppata per temi entro due filoni principali: le opere di ispirazione classica e le opere di ispirazione medievale, tra cui spiccano i numerosi Ofelia e La signora di Shalott, oltre ad altri dipinti a tema Shakespeariano.

Robert McGinnis, 1926 | Romance illustrator

Robert McGinnis is a world-renowned painter whose prolific, award-winning artwork spans more than six decades.

In recognition of his excellent paintings, in 1993 he was elected to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. (The Society of Illustrators is a New York City-based nonprofit educational organization dedicated to celebrating and educating people about the art of illustration; http://society illustrators.org.) In the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame, Robert joined the likes of Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth, Maxfield Parrish, Winslow Homer, Robert Peak, Frederic Remington and Frank McCarthy.

Robert’s artwork has been viewed by billions of people around the world, but most of them probably did not know, when they saw one of his images, that it was Robert who created the artwork.

Robert McGinnis, 1926 | The Bond Girls

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Robert McGinnis🎨, American illustrator, was raised in Wyoming, Ohio. McGinnis🎨 became an apprentice at Walt Disney studios, then studied fine art at Ohio State University.

After wartime service in the Merchant Marine he entered advertising and a chance meeting with Mitchell Hooks in 1958 led him to be introduced to Dell Publishing began a career drawing a variety of paperback covers for books written by such authors as Donald Westlake, Edward S. Aarons, Erle Stanley Gardner, Richard S. Prather, and the Michael Shayne and Carter Brown series.

Alfred Cheney Johnston | Ziegfeld Follies showgirls

Alfred Cheney Johnston (1885-1971) was an American photographer🎨, known for his portraits of Ziegfeld Follies showgirls as well as of 1920s and 1930s actors and actresses.

The only book known to have been published by Alfred Cheney Johnston during his lifetime devoted to his glamour photography is the 1937 spiral-bound softcover "Enchanting Beauty", which contains 94 black-and-white photos, mostly about 7x9 inches, centered on a 9x12-inch page, although a number are cropped circular or in other designs.

Albert Lebourg | Impressionist painter

The French painter🎨 Albert-Marie Lebourg (1849, Montfort-sur-Risle - 1928, Rouen) was an landscape Impressionist🎨 and Post-Impressionist painter of the École des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.

Member of the Société des Artistes Français, he actively worked in a luminous Impressionist style🎨, creating more than 2000 landscapes during his lifetime.

The artist was represented by Galerie Mancini in Paris in 1896, in 1899 and 1910 by Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1903 and 1906 at the Galerie Paul Rosenberg, and 1918 and 1923 at Galerie Georges Petit.

Daniel Ridgway Knight (1839-1924)

Daniel Ridgway Knight (15 March 1839 - 9 March 1924) was an American artist born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

Knight was a pupil at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under Gleyre, and later worked in the private studio of Meissonier.

After 1872 he lived in France, having a house and studio at Poissy on the Seine.

He painted peasant women out of doors with great popular success. He earned his first major distinction in France at the Paris Salon in 1882 with his large oil on canvas Un Deuil.

John Singer Sargent | Carriera artistica

Molto importante per l'evoluzione stilistica del Sargent (Firenze, 12 gennaio 1856 – Londra, 17 aprile 1925) fu il viaggio che effettuò nell'estate del 1878 a Napoli e sull'isola di Capri.

Giunto in queste terre in cerca di ispirazione e di soggetti esotici affini al gusto del mercato, qui il pittore si accostò all'opera di Mariano Fortuny («Che genio!», avrebbe esclamato dinanzi ai suoi dipinti); fu proprio grazie alle suggestioni del cosiddetto «fortunysmo» che iniziò a sperimentare audaci soluzioni cromatiche e luministiche.

Sempre a Capri subì il fascino della pittura di Antonio Mancini e Francesco Paolo Michetti; con Mancini, in particolare, instaurò un fertile rapporto di amicizia che sfociò in un intenso scambio artistico.

Lucien Adrion | Paris painting

Lucien Adrion (1889-1953) was a Post-Impressionist painter, notable for his views of Paris in the early part of the 20th Century.

Lucien Adrion was born in Strasbourg where he began his initial studies in the arts.

In 1907, at the age of 18, he traveled to Paris to work for a large drafting firm, which he quickly realized did not suit his interests.

Pierre-Albert Marquet ed il Fauvismo

Pierre-Albert Marquet (1875-1947) è stato un pittore Francese.

Per poter seguire i corsi della Scuola di arti decorative si trasferì a Parigi; uno dei suoi compagni di studi fu Henri Matisse: i due diventarono amici, abitarono nello stesso palazzo e lavorarono insieme, influenzandosi a vicenda.

Maria Kreyn, 1987 | Romantic painter

Maria Kreyn is an American artist, known for evocative paintings that merge figuration, abstract geometries, and elemental atmospherics.

She studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Chicago and is self taught in painting.

While drawing polymathic connections between disparate fields, Kreyn’s works are steeped in the western tradition of painting.

She distills these references into a personal vocabulary of forms and geometries that result in hybrid compositions situated at the intersection of formalism and Romantic painting.

Paul Madeline | Post-Impressionist painter

Paul Madeline (1863-1920) was born in Paris on the 7th of October 1863.

As he was a student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he was working in a publishing house to earn some money for living and painted urban landscapes in his spare time.

In 1894, he discovered la Creuse, a charming countryside in the Limousin. It encouraged him to visit it more frequently to paint his landscapes en pleine-air.

Thomas Bossard, 1971 | Fantasy painter

Thomas Bossard, painter in oil, born in Poitiers, France, studied art at Saint Luc School, Belgium.

His paintings of the theatre portray the humour and comical life behind the scenes and his large canvas’s show the insignificance of man.

This young artist has a very deep understanding of human nature.

Prior to becoming a professional artist Thomas worked with the theatre, creating and putting together stage sets for plays and opera, and he has also been a porcelain artist at Limoges (France).

Armand Guillaumin | Paysages | Page 2

While Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927) is best known for his landscapes and bold colors.

One of his paintings of the river Seine was the basis for his good friend Paul Cézanne's first lithograph.

Other than members of the Impressionist group, Guillaumin also formed a strong friendship with artist Vincent van Gogh and his brother.

Alois Arnegger | Spring landscapes

Austrian painter🎨 Alois Arnegger (March 9, 1879 - August 11, 1967) established a reputation as a fine portraitist and landscape artist, and was particularly well known for his Austrian and Italian scene paintings.

Arnegger was born in Vienna in 1879.

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

• Alois Arnegger | Romantic landscape painter🎨
• Alois Arnegger | Romantic landscape painter | Part.1🎨

Charles Sprague Pearce | Genre / Orientalist painter

American painter🎨 Charles Sprague Pearce (October 13, 1851 - May 18, 1914) achieved international success with his images of French rural life.

Born to a prominent Boston family, he studied art in Paris, traveled to the Near East, and made his home in Auvers-sur-Oise, northwest of the French capital.

In 1873 he became a pupil of Léon Bonnat in Paris, and after 1885 he lived in Paris and at Auvers-sur-Oise.

He painted Egyptian and Algerian scenes, French peasants and portraits, and also decorative work, notably for the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress at Washington.

Armand Guillaumin | Paysages

Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927) was a French impressionist painter and lithographer.

Guillaumin was called the leader of the École de Crozant, a diverse group of painters who came to depict the landscape in the region of the Creuse around the village of Crozant.

Noted for their intense colours, Guillaumin's paintings are represented in major museums around the world.

Aaron Coberly, 1971 | Figurative Impressionist painter

American painter🎨 Aaron Coberly was born in Seattle.

He has been drawing for as long as he can remember. He started taking art seriously as a teenager after being invited to attend a life drawing class.

Living and traveling in Europe further inspired him. He began oil painting in 1999.

Carrie Vielle | Mixed Media painter

Canadian painter Carrie Vielle has both a Masters and BA from Eastern Washington University in arts.

She has been a professor in Florence, Italy, held hands with David, and is currently working on the torso as an expression of her view of art in the world.

Carrie grew up in Victoria, B.C., in a family and community immersed in the arts.

Her family members include fine artists, photographers/film makers, theater and film actors, writers, jazz and rock musicians and composers, all of whom enriched Carrie’s art education.

Fernando Amorsolo | Genre painter

Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto (1892-1972) was one of the most important artists in the history of painting in the Philippines.

Amorsolo was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. He is popularly known for his craftsmanship and mastery in the use of light.

The volume of paintings, sketches and studies of Amorsolo is believed to have reached more than 10, 000 pieces.

Amorsolo was an important influence on contemporary Filipino art and artists, even beyond the so-called "Amorsolo school".

Alexey Steele, 1967 | The Novorealism Art Movement

Russian-born American painter Alexey Steele [Алексей Стил] was born in Kiev, Ukraine.

Steele began his art training at an early age in the studio of his father, renowned Russian artist Leonid Steele.

He furthered his professional education at the prestigious Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute, studying under internationally acclaimed artist Ilya Glazunov.

In 1990, Steele moved to Los Angeles where he still resides as he paints large-scaled figurative murals, commissioned portraits, and California plein air landscapes inspired by the classical color palette of the Moscow School.

Eyvind Earle | Walt Disney illustrator

Eyvind Earle (April 26, 1916 - July 20, 2000) was an American artist🎨, author and illustrator, noted for his contribution to the background illustration and styling of Disney animated films in the 1950s.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rahr West Art Museum, Phoenix Art Museum and Arizona State University Art Museum have purchased Earle's works for their permanent collections.

His works have also been shown in many one-man exhibitions throughout the world.

The Garmash | Romantic Impressionist painters

Mikhail (1969) and Inessa Garmash (1972) - Husband and Wife Team - Romantic Impressionists.

Michael and Inessa Garmash's beautiful romantic impressionist paintings are appreciated by collectors throughout the US and Internationally.

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

Michael and Inessa Garmash | Romantic Impressionist painters ➦

For other works by Garmashs' see:

Mr. and Mrs. Garmash | Romantic Impressionist painters ➦

The Garmash | Romantic Impressionist / Plein Air painters | Part. 4➦

The Garmash | Romantic Impressionist / Plein Air painters ➦

Victor Olson | Figurative Painter / Illustrator

Victor Olson (1924-2007) of Fanton Meadows, West Redding, Connecticut was a well known, award-winning Fairfield County artist, as well as an illustrator and graphic designer.

He has illustrated many national magazine covers for paperback publications and magazine stories for such publishers as Doubleday, Avon Books, MacFadden Books, Bantan and Monarch.

Alexander Averin, 1952 | Romantic Impressionist painter

Alexander Averin (Александр Аверин) was born in Noginsk, near Moscow.

He graduated from the Moscow Art School of "Memory 1905" and trained under Dimitry Yorontov.

Member of the Russian Union of Artists since 1984.

Since 1976 member of numerous Russian and international solo and group exhibitions.

Works of the artist are held in private collections in Russia, France, England, the USA, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Denmark, Japan and many other countries.

Eugene Boudin | Impressionist painter | Quotes / Aforismi

• I shall do other things, but I will always be the painter of beaches.
• Farò altre cose, ma sarò sempre il pittore delle spiagge.

• I have a confession to make. When I came back to.... the beach at Trouville.... it seeemed nothing more than than a frightful masquerade.... If you have passed one month among the people condemned to hard work in the fields, with black bread and water, and you then find that gang of golden parasites with such a triumphant air, you can't help feeling a bit of pity.... Fortunately, dear friend, the Creator has spread a little of his splendid and warming light everywhere, and what I reproduce is not so much this world as the element that envelops it.

Eugene Boudin | Quotes / Aforismi

• Everything that is painted directly and on the spot always has strength, a power, and a vivacity of touch one cannot recover in the studio... Three strokes of the brush in front of nature are worth more than two days of work at the easel [in the studio].
• Le opere dipinte direttamente sul luogo posseggono un potere e una vivacità che non possono essere riprodotte nell'atelier.
• [Venice is] somewhat disguised by the artists who usually paint Venice, who have disfigured it by turning it into a city heated by the brightest and hottest sun. On the contrary, Venice, like all luminous cities, has a grey hue, the atmosphere is mild and misty and the sky arrays itself with clouds, just like the sky of our Norman and Dutch regions.

Antonio Paoletti | Genre painter

Antonio Ermolao Paoletti (May 8, 1834 in Venice - December 13, 1912 in Venice) was an Venetian impressionist painter from the Macchiaioli group and teacher.

Paoletti is well known for his paintings of Venetian genre scenes.

Paoletti attended course in the Accademia as a pupil of Pompeo Marino Molmenti, and as a colleague of the sculptor Antonio Dal Zotto and the Armenian painter and engraver Edgar Chahine.

Sir William Orpen | Portrait painter

Sir William Orpen, in full Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen (1878-1931) was a Irish painter.

He attended the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin (1891-1897), and the Slade School of Art, London (1897-1899). He became a friend of Augustus John and joined the New English Art Club.

The influence of Velázquez, in particular, is apparent in such early genre subjects as The Mirror (1900; London, Tate).

Adolfo Tommasi | Macchiaioli painter

Adolfo Tommasi (1851, Livorno - 1933, Florence) was an Italian painter.

Having left Livorno, Tommasi moved to Florence, where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts and met Silvestro Lega, who taught Adolfo’s younger cousins Angiolo and Ludovico and spent a great deal of time with the Tommasi family. He also briefly studied under Carlo Markò the Younger, but the style of academic painting did not appeal to him.

Daniel Sprick, 1953 | Figurative painter

American painter Daniel Sprick was born in Little Rock, Arkansas and studied at the Ramon Froman School of Art, the National Academy of Design in New York City, as well as the University of Northern Colorado where he received his BA in 1978.

Daniel Sprick’s life long love of drawing and technical mastery of painting began with his fascination of drawing at the age of four. Well educated in the pictorial tradition of art history, Sprick’s influences reach back to Northern European masters such as Robert Campin and Roger van der Weyden admiring their ability to render a convincing look at invisible realms and otherworldly occurrences.

Gaston Cariot | Neo-Impressionist painter

The painter Gustave Camille Gaston Cariot🎨 (1872-1950) was born in Paris in the Marais district.

His father was a luggage maker. Very young, Cariot drew sketches of Paris and the surrounding countryside.

The artist was strongly influenced by the work of Claude Monet🎨, his series of 1890-1891 and his views of the Cathedral of Rouen🎨, as well as by the technique of pointillist and divisionist🎨 painters.

Eugene Boudin | Impressionist painter

Eugène Boudin, (born July 12, 1824, Honfleur, France - died August 8, 1898, Deauville), one of the first French landscape painters to paint in the open air, directly from nature.

His many beach scenes directly link the carefully observed naturalism of the early 19th century and the brilliant light and fluid brushwork of late 19th-century Impressionism.

Charles Camoin | Fauve painter

Charles Camoin (23 September 1879 - 20 May 1965) was a French painter associated with the Fauves.

Born in Marseille, France, Camoin met Henri Matisse in Gustave Moreau's class at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.

Matisse and his friends (including Camoin, Henri Manguin, Albert Marquet, Georges Rouault, André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck), formed the original group of artists labeled the Fauves (meaning "the wild beasts") for their wild, Expressionist-like use of color.

Gustave Loiseau | The historiographer of the Seine

Gustave Loiseau (3 October 1865 - 10 October 1935) was a French Post-Impressionist painter, remembered above all for his landscapes and scenes of Paris streets.

Loiseau's paintings, revealing his passion for the seasons from the beginning of spring to the harvests later in the autumn, often depict the same orchard or garden scene as time goes by.

Series of this kind, which also include cliffs, harbours or churches, are reminiscent of Claude Monet.

Peder Mønsted | Plein air painter

Peder Mørk Mønsted (10 December 1859 - 20 June 1941) was a Danish realist painter, best known for his landscape paintings.

His father was a well-to-do shipbuilder.

At an early age, he began to receive painting lessons at the art school in Aarhus and, from 1875-1879, studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Niels Simonsen and Julius Exner.

In 1882, he spent some time in Rome and Capri then, the following year, visited Paris, where he worked in the studios of William Adolphe Bouguereau.

Ludwig Passini | Genre painter

Ludwig Johann Passini (1832-1903) was an Austrian narrative and genre painter🎨 and printmaker.

Ludwig Passini was born on 9 July 1832 in Vienna, the son of the engraver Johann Nepomuk Passini. The Passini family moved to Trieste in 1850.

On 9 November 1864 Passini married Anna Warsaw (1841-1866), who was the daughter of Robert and Mary Warschauer, the great-granddaughter of banker Joseph Mendelssohn and the great-great-granddaughter of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.

Miho Hirano /平野実穂 | Pop Fantasy Art

Miho Hirano /平野実穂 is a Japanese artist living in Abiko, Chiba. She graduated from Musashino Art University.

Her fantasy art is inhabited by ephemeral women who seem to be merging with their environment, the hair suspended into flowering tree limbs, bird filled bushes, and drifting seaweed.

Miho Hirano’s work is in a group exhibition (Ephemeral) at the Jiro Miura Gallery in Japan.

Gustave Cariot | Pont Neuf at Paris | Series

Gustave Camille Gaston Cariot (1872-1950) was an French🎨 self-taught artist of the 19th and early 20th century.

Never fully accepting of the label of Impressionism🎨, Cariot is nevertheless best known for his Pointillist paintings🎨.

Nicolaes Maes | Baroque Era painter

Nicolaes Maes, also spelled Nicolaas Maas, (baptized January 1634, Dordrecht, Netherlands - died December 1693, Amsterdam), Dutch Baroque painter🎨 of genre🎨 and portraits who was a follower of Rembrandt.

In about 1650 Maes went to Amsterdam, where he studied with Rembrandt.

Before his return to Dordrecht in 1654, Maes painted a few Rembrandtesque genre pictures as well as a biblical scene with life-size figures in deep glowing colours (Christ Blessing the Children, 1652-53; originally attributed to Rembrandt🎨).

Rembrandt | Quotes / Aforismi

• "Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will in good time, discover the hidden things which you now inquire about. Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know".

• "Prova a mettere bene in pratica quello che già sai; così facendo sarai sempre in tempo, e scoprirai le cose nascoste che ora stai cercando. Metti in pratica quello che sai, e ciò ti aiuterà a rendere chiaro ciò che ora non conosci".