Alexi Zaitsev / Алексей Зайцев, 1959 | Impressionist painter

Alexi Zaitsev is an impressionist painter and this imposes special requirements on his works.

It is crucial to find an appropriate view, get scent of the color, light and shade, select and blend incompatible hues of paint, since false strokes are particularly clearly seen in the works of impression creators.

Fabio Cipolla (1852-1935) | Genre painter

Fabio Cipolla was an Italian painter🎨 who was trained in Rome, where acquired considerable skill in the study of the figure to be composed in refined genre scenes, he also devoted himself to the landscape painting.

With studies of oriental figures he made his first appearance at the exhibitions in Milan in 1879 and in Turin in 1880, and in the following years he developed the adoption of a mannered narrative realism on genre subjects.

Stephen Pan 潘仲武, 1963 | Figurative painter

Born in Shanghai, Stephen Pan /潘仲武 has been immersed in fine art all his life.

For generations, his family has been renowned in China for artistic talent.

At the age of five, his grandfather, Bo Yin Pan, famous for calligraphy and poetry, gave him his first lessons in drawing and painting techniques.

Ironically, in spite of his close relationship with formal Chinese traditions in art, Pan fell in love with the paintings of renaissance and French impressionist periods.

Edmund Tarbell (1862-1938) | The Ten American painters group

Edmund Charles Tarbell🎨 was an American🎨 Impressionist painter. A member of the Ten American Painters🎨, his work hangs in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, DeYoung Museum, National Academy Museum and School, New Britain Museum of American Art, Worcester Art Museum, and numerous other collections.

Alexander Bolotov, 1981 | Unforgettable Paris

Ukrainian painter Александр Болотов was born in Donetsk. In 2002 he graduated from the Donetsk Art School, Department of Painting.

For several years he worked in publishing houses on book illustrations.

He taught at the children's art school. In 2008, he left the genre of illustration and devoted himself entirely to painting.

Initially, the only favorite style was realism in depicting types of nature: forest, sea landscapes, because His favorite artists were the leading figures of the Russian landscape school - Ivan Shishkin and Ivan Aivazovsky.

John Sloan (1871-1951)

John French Sloan was born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, the son of an amateur artist and occasional businessman.

In 1876 he moved with his family to Philadelphia and in 1884 enrolled in Central High School, where William Glackens (American, 1870-1938) and Albert Coombs Barnes were among his classmates.

In 1888 he began working for a bookseller and print dealer, and the following year he taught himself how to etch with the aid of Philip Gilbert Hamilton's The Etcher's Handbook.

Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer | Symbolist painter

French painter Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (1865-1953) was a Symbolist/ Art Nouveau artist, whose works include paintings, drawings, ceramics, furniture and interior design.

Dhurmer was born Lucien Lévy to a Jewish family in Algiers. In 1879 he began studying drawing and sculpture in Paris.

He first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1882 where he showed a small ceramic plaque.

Andrea Appiani (1754-1817) | Neoclassical painter

Andrea Appiani was an Italian🎨 neoclassical painter. He is known as "the elder", to distinguish him from his great-nephew Andrea Appiani, an historical painter in Rome.

Born in Milan, it had been intended that he follow his father's career in medicine but instead entered the private academy of the painter Carlo Maria Giudici (1723-1804) where he received instruction in drawing, copying mainly from sculpture and prints.

Mian Situ, 1953 | Genre painter

Born in Southern China, Mian Situ / 司徒绵 received his formal art training in his native homeland of Guangdong, formerly Canton.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Guangzhou Institute of Fine Art, and a few years later earned a Masters in Fine Art.

Mian’s paintings clearly reflect his upbringing in the rural countryside of his native China.

His deep-toned impressionistic paintings of the backcountry often focus on people going about their daily lives in their small villages and farming communities.

June Stratton, 1959 | Figurative painter

June Stratton was born in Honolulu Hawaii and studied at the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA. Stratton began her art career in Pioneer Square, the art district of Seattle, where she was the administrative director of a successful gallery and atelier. Stratton now lives in both Atlanta and Savannah.

Stratton combines photorealism and reductive tonalism to create quiet meditative paintings with a strong sense of color and composition.

Richard Diebenkorn | Abstract / Expressionist painter

Richard Diebenkorn, Lyrical painter, Dies at 71

By Michael Kimmelman, New York Times newspaper, March 31, 1993

Richard Diebenkorn 1922-1993, one of the premier American painters🎨 of the postwar era, whose deeply lyrical abstractions evoked the shimmering light and wide-open spaces of California, where he spent virtually his entire life, died yesterday at his home in Berkeley. He was 70.

The cause was respiratory failure after a long illness, said his dealer, Lawrence Rubin of M. Knoedler and Company in Manhattan.

Karl Bang, 1935

Shanghai born painter 龐卡 Pang Ka Karl Bang was formally trained by the master artists of Chinese painting and he also formally trained in the European painting tradition in France and Belgium.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Karl Bang see 龐卡 Pang Ka Karl Bang, 1935 | Visionary painter|.

Maria Amaral, 1950 | Surrealist painter

Exiled from Spain in 1949 after years spent resisting Franco’s regime, her pastor father and teacher mother found refuge in Argentina.

On Christmas Day the following year 1950, in Buenos Aires, Maria Amaral was born.

In 1967, it was her turn to experience exile when she and her family were forced to flee from Argentina.

France welcomed them and they settled in Strasbourg, before she left for Paris and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where she earned an honours degree in fine art, setting up her future as an artist.

Perugino (Renaissance painter, 1445-1523)

Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci -il Perugino, was the greatest painter of the Umbrian school, active mainly in Perugia.

He studied under Fiorenzo di Lorenzo, assisted Piero della Francesca at Arezzo, and in the early 1470s was a fellow pupil of Leonardo da Vinci and Lorenzo di Credi in Verrocchio's studio in Florence.

In 1479 Perugino was summoned to Rome by Pope Sixtus IV to help decorate the Sistine Chapel.

Roderic O’Conor | Post-Impressionist painter

From National Gallery of Ireland:

Although he was born in Ireland, and attended art school in Dublin, Roderic O’Conor’s (1860-1940) work only became more widely known in Dublin in the late 1950s.

Much of O’Conor’s career was spent in Belgium and France: after attending the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art and the Royal Hibernian Academy Schools, he travelled first to the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Antwerp, and later attended the atelier of Charles Carolus-Duran in Paris.

Jon Bøe Paulsen, 1958 | Figurative painter

Born in Oslo Norway, Jon Bøe Paulsen has been oil painting for more than 35 years. Academically trained with degrees from the School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA and Norwegian State Art Academy, Oslo.

His portraits tell many stories in one single image, and his dynamic between light and dark add a “carravaggistic” feel. Jon’s success as an artist was translated into various commissions, awards🎨 and publications, including a documentary film on his life.
Jon Bøe Paulsen's fine art is dramatically deep in layers, always thought-provoking.

The artist’s work has been featured in exhibitions in Norway, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom.

He is regarded by the Art Renewal Center (ARC) as an Associate Living Master.

Jimmy Lawlor, 1967 | Surrealist painter

Jimmy Lawlor was born in Wexford.

He now lives in Westport, in the magnificent West of Ireland. Lawlor has been exhibiting for over 20 years.

His work is based not only on the Irish sense of humour, but on the vivid realisation that the old way of life will have vanished by our next generation.

His work takes elements from his surroundings and mixes them with the people of the place, in their environment and doing what they love best.

Shaun Berke, 1983 | Symbolist /Figurative painter

Shaun Berke - American painter, philosopher and outdoorsman from Thousand Oaks, California.

"Explorations in culture cultivated my dedication to nature, unearthing insights from mind, myth, and man".

Graduate: Moorpark College, Art Center College of Design, The Nerdrum🎨 School.

Member: The Getty Research Institute, World Wide Kitsch, The Halkyon Guild, The Alpine Fellowship.

Awards🎨 from The Art Renewal Center, Westlake Village Art Guild, Thousand Oaks Art Association.

Walter Osborne (1859-1903) Genre painter

Walter Frederick Osborne was an Irish🎨 Impressionist / Post-Impressionism landscape / portrait painter, best known for his documentary depictions of late 19th century working class life.

Most of his paintings are figurative and focus on women, children, the elderly, the poor, and the day-to-day life of ordinary people on Dublin streets, as well as series of rural scenes.

He also produced cityscapes, which he painted from both sketches and photographs.

Jules Bastien-Lepage | Naturalist painter

The day after French painter Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) died at his Paris studio on rue Legendre, on the 10th December 1884, the world press announced his premature death and burial in the family cemetery in Damvillers in the Meuse region of France.

In just ten productive years, this son of a modest farming family had won an eminent place in the French and international art scene, even if it was challenged at times.

Daniel Densborn, 1946 | Abstract palette Knife painter

Coming from the Lorraine region, French painter Daniel Densborn, has been living in Provence for over 35 years. During his youth, he demonstrated capabilities for drawing and oil painting, two disciplines that he will carry out with assiduity.

Even though he was self-taught, he attended several workshops in order to draw.

After several successful local exhibitions, he won several awards.

Halil Pasha | Signora con guanti / Lady in gloves, 1886

Eseguita dal pittore Halil Pasha (1857-1939), la Lady in Gloves del 1886, anticipò l'altra tela, la Lady in Gloves, nota anche come "Madam X", (1889) per la quale, al pittore Turco gli fu assegnato un premio alla Mostra Internazionale di Parigi del 1889.

La modella della Madam X, fu quasi certamente una scrittrice, la moglie del pittore Aliye Hanim.

La Madam X fu elogiata dai principali critici dell'epoca per la sua "finitura nitida" e fu paragonata al lavoro del pittore Francese Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904).

Halil Pasha | Lady in Gloves, 1886

Daniela Astone, 1980 | Figurative Realist painter

Daniela Astone was born in Pisa, Italy and raised in Porto Santo Stefano, in Maremma (Italy), a costal town south of Florence. She discovered her passion for drawing and painting at a very young age, and began nourishing and cultivating her craft early on.

In 1998, after graduating from the High School for Visual Arts of Grosseto, she moved to Florence to study illustration at the International school of Comix.

Upon arriving, she first worked in illustration, then, in 2001, enrolled in The Florence Academy of Art🎨, where she is now an instructor. In 2003, Daniela participated, as a student, in the exhibition, "Realism Revisited" at Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen, Germany.

Man Ray (1890-1976) | Quotes / Aforismi

• "An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human".
• "Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else".
• "Non ha senso continuare a chiedersi se la fotografia sia o meno una forma d'arte, perché l'arte è fuori moda e noi abbiamo bisogno di altro".

Man Ray (1890-1976) Paintings

Man Ray, original name Emmanuel Radnitzky photographer, painter and filmmaker who was the only American to play a major role in both the Dada and Surrealist movements🎨.

The son of Jewish immigrants -his father was a tailor and his mother a seamstress- Radnitzky grew up in New York City, where he studied architecture, engineering, and art, and became a painter. As early as 1911, he took up the pseudonym of Man Ray. As a young man, he was a regular visitor to Alfred Stieglitz’s "291" gallery, where he was exposed to current art trends and earned an early appreciation for photography.

Elzbieta Brozek, 1979 | The Red hat

Elzbieta Brozek is a Polish painter who works mainly a portrait of women, prefering to work in their paintings with red and orange tones using realism in some cases and in others you can see the influence of the symbolism of the austrian artist Gustav Klimt.

Shee has portrayed many characters known, as this of Angelina Jolie.

Giovanni Pascoli | Night Blooming Jasmine /Gelsomino notturno

Jacob Van Walscapelle 1644-1727

E s'aprono i fiori notturni,

nell'ora che penso a' miei cari.

Sono apparse in mezzo ai viburni

le farfalle crepuscolari.

Da un pezzo si tacquero i gridi:

là sola una casa bisbiglia.

Sotto l'ali dormono i nidi,

come gli occhi sotto le ciglia.

Alda Merini / Howard Pyle | Those like me.. / Quelle come me...

Howard Pyle (American Golden Age Illustrator, 1853-1911) | The mermaid, 1910

Quelle come me regalano sogni,

anche a costo di rimanerne prive…

Quelle come me donano l’Anima,

perché un’anima da sola è come

una goccia d’acqua nel deserto…

Quelle come me tendono la mano

ed aiutano a rialzarsi, pur correndo il rischio

di cadere a loro volta…

Robert Hagan, 1947 | Plein Air painter

Robert Hagan raised in the lush, languorous sub-tropical northern New South Wales, Australia and educated at Newcastle University, he communicates in a typical offhanded Aussie manner.

Widely traveled with studios in Suffolk, England, San Diego, USA, Southport, Australia and Pattaya, Thailand.

Robert goes about his art with confidence, humility and pragmatism.

He explains, "When you look at things you tend to concentrate on one element, a boy or girl at the waters edge, for example".

Edson Campos, 1955 | Post-Romantic painter

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Edson Campos has enjoyed sketching and painting since childhood. He is a completely self-taught artist.

He moved to the United States in 1978 where he quickly established himself as an artist of the highest caliber.

Campos has exhibited his lifelike, passionate paintings and drawings in major cities throughout the country, winning several awards🎨.

Scott Tallman Powers, 1972 | Genre painter

Powers began drawing as a child with his father who was a medical illustrator, photographer and fine artist. While watching and learning from him, his love of art began.

Scott’s education began in high school with two extremely influential and supportive art instructors.

This led to four years of intensive study at the American Academy of Art in Chicago.

There he trained under many important instructors in the fields of Oil painting, Watercolor, Drawing, Anatomy and Sculpture.

Mikki Senkarik, 1954 | A Touch of Greece

Mikki Senkarik, American painter🎨, was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee when her father was working on the Manhattan project. Later her family moved to Florida where she grew up with pet cats and dogs.

At nine she used babysitting money to buy her first horse. The orange groves were an ideal place to ride, which she did almost every day. She continued to own and raise horses until she switched to painting in oils.

Pavel Tchelitchew | Abstract /Surrealist painter

Pavel Tchelitchew /Па́вел Фёдорович Чели́щев (1898-1957), Russian-born painter🎨 and stage designer. Born in Moscow. In early youth made drawings influenced by the macabre Romanticism of Doré and Vrubel. Moved in 1918 after the Revolution to Kiev.

Was encouraged by Alexandra Exter; attended courses at Kiev Academy and received private lessons from Tchakrigine and the painter and stage designer Rabinovitch. Painted in an abstract🎨 style.

Left Russia in 1920 and spent 1921-3 in Berlin, where he had considerable success as a designer for the theatre and opera. Moved to Paris in 1923. Began to paint figures and portraits in restrained colours and with an air of reverie.

Stefano Bruzzi | Macchiaioli painter

Stefano Bruzzi (1835-1911) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes, with children and animals, in a style that recalls Filippo Palizzi.

Born in Emilia, he initially studied in Piacenza under professor Bernardino Massari.

At the age of 19 years, he was sent by his father to study in Rome for four years, becoming a follower of professor Castelli.

The Luminist Movement (1850-1875)

Luminism, late 19th-century painting style emphasizing a unique clarity of light.

It was characteristic of the works of a group of independent American painters who were directly influenced by the Hudson River school of painting.

The term, however, was not coined until 1954 by John Baur, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

The most important painters in the luminist style were John Frederick Kensett, Fitz Hugh Lane, and Martin Johnson Heade; the group also included George Tirrell, Henry Walton, and J.W. Hill.

Steve Henderson, 1957 | Romantic painter

About his art, Steve says: "I look for, and paint, beauty, as a counteracting effect of our media-saturated fascination with ugliness.

Yes, the world is a brutal place, but it is also our home.

There is peace, serenity, quietude, thoughtfulness, majesty, grace, joy, and hope in this home of ours -- and that is what I paint".

Kahlil Gibran | Quotes / Aforismi

Pablo Picasso | Le couple, 1904

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers!".

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart".

“We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side".

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need".

Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873) Academic painter

Born in the Grand-Duchy of Baden in 1805, of peasant stock, Franz Xaver Winterhalter received early training in Freiburg as a graphic artist.

In 1824 he enrolled at the Munich Academy for further study in painting, while continuing to earn a living with lithographic work.

Barbara McCann (1948-2011) | Impressionist painter

Barbara McCann, American painter, began her artistic endeavors with drawing as a child, and then with painting in her teenage years. Upon graduating from high school, she took a four-year apprenticeship in architectural illustration and design, which set the stage for a career in commercial art.

McCann moved to Florida in 1973, and for the next 20 years ran her own architectural illustration studio.

Julio Vila y Prades (1873-1930)

Julio Vila y Prades was a Spanish painter🎨 and muralist who also worked throughout Latin America.

Against his parents wishes, he began his artistic studies at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos with Francisco Domingo Marqués and Joaquín Agrasot🎨.

He then went to Madrid and was an assistant in the workshop of Joaquín Sorolla🎨 from 1893-1904.

Marius Borgeaud | Post-impressionist painter

Marius Borgeaud (1861-1924) was a Swiss Post-Impressionist painter. He was born in Lausanne.

Early life

Borgeaud came from a bourgeois milieu; he attended the Industrial School of Lausanne and did not intend to pursue painting.

As chance would have it, the future gallerist Paul Vallotton was one of his school-mates.

In 1888, he began working in a bank in Marseille and remained there until the death of his father the following year.

Cuno Amiet | Expressionist painter

Cuno Amiet (1868-1961) is often called the “master of colour” and is seen as a pioneer of modernism in Swiss art; he ranks as one of the most versatile and significant artists of Switzerland.

Cuno Amiet was born in Solothurn and devoted his entire life to art.

After finishing school he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and continued his training with his friend Giovanni Giacometti at the Académie Julian in Paris.

Godfried Schalcken (1643-1706)

Godfried Schalcken or Gottfried Schalken was a Dutch genre and portrait painter.

He was noted for his mastery in reproducing the effect of candlelight, and painted in the exquisite and highly polished manner of the Leiden fijnschilders.

Life and work

Godfried Schalcken was born in Made, North Brabant, the son of Cornelis Schalcken and Aletta Lydius.

Carl Spitzweg (1808-1885) | Romantic / Genre painter

Carl Spitzweg was a German🎨 romantic painter, especially of genre subjects🎨. He is considered to be one of the most important artists of the Biedermeier era.

Spitzweg was born in Unterpfaffenhofen, near Munich, Bavaria, the second of three sons of Franziska (née Schmutzer) and Simon Spitzweg.

His father, a wealthy merchant, had Carl trained as a pharmacist.

Arkady Plastov (1893-1972) Socialist Realist painter

Arkady Alexandrovich Plastov / Аркадий Александрович Пластов was a Russian🎨 socialist realist painter. Plastov was born into a family of icon painters in the village Prislonikha in the Russian Governorate of Simbirsk.

He attended the sculpture department of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture beginning in 1914.

César Pattein (1850-1931) | Genre painter

César Pattein was a French painter active from 1882-1914.

Pattein studied under French Naturalist painter Jules Breton (1827-1906) .

He was exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris, where he was awarded a third-class medal in 1896.

Born in Steenvoorde, in northern France, Pattein was raised among farmers and maintained a close connection to the rural region throughout his life.

Hermann Hesse: A dance by Chopin, 1901

Frédéric Chopin, 1906 - Parc Monceau, Paris, France - Jacques Froment-Meurice (1864-1947)

A dance by Chopin sounds loudly in the ballroom,

A wild, riotous dance.

The windows gleam pallidly because of the weather,

The grand piano is adorned by a wilted wreath.

Un walzer di Chopin riempie la sala

una danza selvaggia e scatenata.

Alla fine pallido chiarore,

il pianoforte adorna un'appassita ghirlanda.

Sir Thomas Francis Dicksee | Victorian painter

Sir Frank Bernard Dicksee PRA (1853-1928) was an English Victorian painter and illustrator, best known for his pictures of dramatic literary, historical, and legendary scenes.

He also was a noted painter of portraits of fashionable women, which helped to bring him success in his own time.

Bo Bartlett, 1955 | Realist / Figurative painter

Bo Bartlett is an American🎨 Realist painter with a modernist vision. His paintings are within the tradition of American Realism as defined by artists such as Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth.

Like these artists, Bartlett looks at America's land and people to describe the beauty he finds in everyday life. His paintings celebrate the underlying epic nature of the commonplace and the personal significance of the extraordinary.

"Bartlett was educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where realist principles must be grasped before modernist ventures are encouraged.

John McGhie (1867-1952) | Seascape / Genre painter

John McGhie was born in Lesmahagow near Lanark in Scotland in 1867; the son of a grocer. He showed an early interest in drawing and painting, but was initially apprenticed to an architect before persuading his father to allow him to enrol at the Glasgow School of Art.

Following a year’s study in Glasgow he was awarded🎨 a scholarship to study for three years at the Royal Academy School in London where he was taught by Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896); amongst other renowned artists.