He Lihuai 何力怀, 1961 | Realist painter

Mr. He Lihuai 何力怀 - Chinese painter🎨 - was born in Chongqing. He worked as an art designer at Capital Museum from 1985-1996 after receiving Art of Bachelor degree in oil painting at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 1984.

As a member of Chinese Artists Association and a professional artist.

He has been honored as a very talented oil painter in contemporary China.

He's paintings have been exhibited regularly at home and abroad as well as at the art auction company gave held by the organizations like Baoli and Zhongding, many of which have been kept by domestic and overseas art lovers.

He Lihuai è nato a Chongqing nel 1961. Ha lavorato come designer d'arte al Capital Museum dal 1985-1996 dopo aver conseguito la laurea in pittura ad olio presso la Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts nel 1984.

È membro della Chinese Artists Association ed artista professionista.

È stato onorato come talentuoso pittore ad olio nella Cina contemporanea.

I suoi dipinti sono stati esposti regolarmente in patria ed all'estero, nonché presso la società di aste d'arte tenutasi da organizzazioni come Baoli e Zhongding, molte delle quali sono state conservate da appassionati d'arte nazionali e d'oltremare.

Małgorzata Chodakowska, 1965 | Water Statues

Małgorzata Chodakowska works primarily in wood and bronze and is well known for the seductive balance of her figures.

But, she doesn't just stop there…

Małgorzata Chodakowska creates unusual statues, which bring water and bronze together to form spectacular fountains. Initially, she carves the statue from a large oak trunk, forming the general shape she wishes to create. As Małgorzata carves away layer by layer, the large pieces of wood transform into magnificent statues.

Dean Bowlby, 1961 | Cityscapes / Figurative painter

Dean Bowlby was born in Denver, Colorado. BA Degree from Regis College.

Dean was raised in the Roaring Fork Valley of Western Colorado. The rural upbringing encouraged a wonder and innate love for his surroundings. This has been carried through to his career as an artist.

Ancient Egypt / La Civiltà Egizia

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. It is one of six civilizations to arise independently.

Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3150 BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology) with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh Narmer (commonly referred to as Menes).

Liu Yi 柳毅, 1958 | Ballet dancers

Chinese painter🎨 Liu Yi 柳毅, was born in Shanghai.

He was a Fine Arts graduate from the Hua Dong University for Education.

He did his postgraduate study of watercolor painting at the China College of Fine Arts. He lectures at university for painting and design.

He is a member of the Chinese Artists Association and is also a member of the Watercolor Painting Artists Association.

Jules Pascin (1885-1930) | Expressionist painter

Bulgarian🎨-born painter Jules Pascin, original name Julius Pincas, renowned for his delicate draftsmanship and sensitive studies of women.

Born of Italian Serbian and Spanish Jewish parents, Pascin was educated in Vienna before he moved to Munich, Germany, where he attended art school in 1903.

Beginning in 1904, his drawings were regularly published in satiric journals such as the Lustige Blätter and Simplicissimus. At the request of his family, who disapproved of his bohemian lifestyle, he changed his name to Pascin in 1905.

Wojciech Weiss (1875-1950) | Art Nouveau painter

Wojciech Weiss was an Polish painter🎨, draughtsman and graphic artist, a student, professor and Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, representative of the Expressionist Young Poland art movement and of the Colouristic tendencies of the 1920s and 1930s.

Weiss was born in Bukovina to a Polish family in exile of Stanisław Weiss and Maria Kopaczyńska. He gave up music training to study art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Leon Wyczółkowski.

Raphael | Angel, 1501-1501

"The Baronci Altarpiece" was a painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist, Raphael.

His first recorded commission, it was made for Andrea Baronci's chapel in the church of Sant'Agostino in Città di Castello, near Urbino.

The altarpiece was seriously damaged during an earthquake in 1789, and since 1849 fragments of the original painting have been part of different collections.

Irene Klestova (1908-1989) | Still life painter

Russian-French painter Irène Klestova/ Ирина Клестова was born in Saratov-Russia, then the family of the artist moved to Moscow. Here, in the studio of the famous landscape painter Theodore Rerberg, Irene began his artistic education.

In 1925 he entered the Academy of Arts in Rome. In the same period, Irina met her future husband, painter Lev Tchistovsky.

Feng Chiang-Jiang 冯长江, 1943

Feng Chiang-Jiang interested in painting since his youth, he taught himself the art. After initially practicing Western painting and Chinese ink-and-wash painting, he specialized in the traditional meticulous brushwork painting with help and inspiration from the famous art historian and painter Pan Xie-zi.

Pan Xie-zi also passed on his knowledge of ancient frescoes replication to Feng, which Feng was able to apply to various temples, tombs and sites such as Yung li Palace and Qing-long Temple. The experience has benefited his artistic development and style maturation.

Almeida Júnior (1850-1899) | Genre painter

José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior was a major Brazilian painter🎨 whose works became a source of inspiration for subsequent modernists. As a painter, he defied the popular traditions of his contemporaries and carved a new niche for himself.

At a time when his fellow painters were achieving fame by painting mythological and historical subjects, he decided to focus on reality and portray the beauty of rural life. The subjects he chose to paint were an unchartered territory, but his skill ensured that the gamble paid off.

Jorge Marin, 1963 | Figurative sculptor

Jorge Marín is a Mexican sculptor and painter. He has been an active figure in the contemporary art world for the last 25 years. He began to sculpt ceramic in the early 1980s.

Bronze has been his preferred material for the last ten years.

His work often depicts horses, centaurs, garudas, children, madonna's, acrobats, along with elements such as spheres, masks, arrows, boats and scales.

These concepts are consistent with recurring themes such as reflection and balance.

Yuko Nagayama 永山裕子, 1963 | Watercolor painter

Japanese artist🎨 Nagayama Yuka 永山裕子 is a leading watercolorist and teacher known for her easy-to-understand instructional style.

Her paintings are exhibited and sold in galleries across Japan, the United States, and France, and she is featured regularly in Watercolor Magazine.

Nagayama Yuka was born in Tokyo.

David Cheifetz, 1981 | Still Life

David Andrew Nishita Cheifetz🎨 is an internationally acclaimed and collected artist who continues to push the limits of contemporary realist oil painting.

Cheifetz was born in the Pacific Northwest.

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

• David Cheifetz, 1981 | Figurative / Still Life painter🎨

Christian Dior / René Gruau | Fashion Quotes

René Gruau (Italian Fashion illustrator, 1909-2004)

• "After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world".
• "Dopo le donne i fiori sono la cosa più bella che Dio ha donato al mondo".
• "Perfume is a mark of female identity and the final touch of her style".
• "Il profumo è un segno di identità femminile e il tocco finale del suo stile".

Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574)

Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, best known for his "Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects", considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.

He was also the first to use the term "Renaissance" in print.

Vasari enjoyed high repute during his lifetime and amassed a considerable fortune.

Russian Art History and Sitemap

Early Russian painting is represented in icons and vibrant frescos.

In the early 15th century, the master icon painter Andrei Rublev created some of Russia's most treasured religious art.

The Russian Academy of Arts, which was established in 1757, to train Russian artists, brought Western techniques of secular painting to Russia.

In the 18th century, academicians Ivan Argunov, Dmitry Levitzky, Vladimir Borovikovsky became influential.

Lesser Ury (1861-1931) | Impressionist painter

Lesser Ury was an German Impressionist painter and printmaker, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He was born Leo Lesser Ury in Birnbaum, the son of a baker whose death in 1872 was followed by the Ury family's move to Berlin.

In 1878 Lesser left school to apprentice with a tradesman, and the next year he went to Düsseldorf to study painting at the Kunstakademie. Ury spent time in Brussels, Paris, Stuttgart, and other locations, before returning to Berlin in 1887.

David Cheifetz, 1981 | Figurative / Still Life painter

American painter David Andrew Nishita Cheifetz was born in the Pacific Northwest. A former architect, David started learning to paint with oils in the fall of 2007 while attending the Schuler School of Fine Arts in Baltimore, and in 2009 made the transition to full-time artist. David currently lives in Palo Alto, CA with his wife, Yasmine.

Ivan Goryushkin-Sorokopudov (1873-1954) | Genre painter

Russian painter🎨 Ivan Silych Goriushkin Sorokopudov / Иван Силыч Горюшкин-Сорокопудов was born in the family of barge hauler Sila Goryushkin in the Nashchi village of the Tambov province in 1873.

Became an orphan in the early age and was sent to the distant relatives Sorokopudov belonged to the lower middle class from Saratov. So he obtained his double last name.

Raphael (1483-1520) | The Madonnas

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino🎨, known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.

Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his early death at 37, leaving a large body of work.

Raphael | High Renaissance painter

For centuries Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483-1520) has been recognised as the supreme High Renaissance painter, more versatile than Michelangelo and more prolific than their older contemporary Leonardo.

Though he died at 37, Raphael's example as a paragon of classicism dominated the academic tradition of European painting until the mid-19th century.

Raphael (Raffaello Santi) was born in Urbino where his father, Giovanni Santi, was court painter.

Algernon Talmage | Impressionist painter

Algernon Mayon Talmage R.A., R.O.I. (1871-1939) was a minor British Impressionist painter.

Talmage is best known for tutoring Emily Carr during her studies at St Ives in England when he lived and worked in his studio which was then called 'The Cabin' located on Westcotts Quay, St Ives.

Andrea del Sarto | High Renaissance painter

Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530), original name Andrea d’Agnolo, Italian painter and draftsman whose works of exquisite composition and craftsmanship were instrumental in the development of Florentine Mannerism.

His most striking among other well-known works is the series of frescoes on the life of St. John the Baptist in the Chiostro dello Scalzo (c. 1515-26).

Lou Shabner (1917-1981) | Pin-up painter

Born in Enfield, North London, Louis Shabner is a talented British🎨 glamour artist inspired by glamorous female beauty, known as pin-up.

Lou Shabner was already an accomplished glamour artist in his native England for 25-plus years before becoming one of Brown and Bigelow's last pin-up painters.

He often worked in gouache on board (which the examples below show), but was just as comfortable using other mediums.

Rainer Maria Rilke / Auguste Rodin | Love Song, 1907

Auguste Rodin🎨 - Fugit Amor, 1881

How shall I hold my soul and yet not touch

It with your own? How shall I ever place

It clear of you on anything beyond?

Oh gladly I would stow it next to such

Things in the darkness as are never found

Down in an alien and silent space

That does not resonate when you resound.

Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927) | Figures

While Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin was an French painter, known for working in the Impressionist style.

Armand Guillaumin 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.

Bryan Larsen, 1975 | Romantic Realist painter

American painter Bryan Larsen has been drawing and painting since childhood.

As a young person he was also fascinated with math and science and always found creative ways to mix the two worlds.

After acquiring a strong foundation in art while studying illustration, and a greater appreciation for the sciences during mechanical engineering studies, he decided to take the plunge and return to his first love: fine art.

Hsin-Yao Tseng 曾新耀, 1986 | Portraits and figure

Hsin-Yao has recognized by the Art Renewal Center as an ARC Living Master in 2014.

Hsin-Yao Tseng is a Taiwan born artist.

Hsin-Yao received his Bachelor of Fine Art degree in painting from Academy of Art University, San Francisco, in 2009 and his Master of Fine Art degree from the same university in 2012.

Hsin-Yao has a curiosity and energy that propel him toward experimentation and innovation; accordingly, he works in a range of genres: from lush evocations of San Francisco and other cities to expressive portraits and finally to lustrous interiors and exteriors in which multiple figures enact a story.

Hsin-Yao Tseng, 1986 | Impressionist painter

Hsin-Yao Tseng was born in Taipei, Taiwan. Around the age of ten, Hsin-Yao started painting in watercolors, as well as other mediums,out side of school. The early exposure instilled in him the foundation needed to excel at very early age.

After graduated from high school in Taiwan, in 2004 summer, Hsin-Yao came to United State to study aboard. He received B.F.A. of Fine Art Painting from Academy of Art University, San Francisco in 2009.

And he received M.F.A of Fine Art Painting from the same school in 2012.