Ngwe Phyoe, 1989 | Drip painter

Burmese/Myanmar visual artist Ngwe Phyoe (born in Yangon, Myanmar) has held 10 solo exhibitions, including two art shows in Singapore and one in Hong Kong.

A graduate of the State School of Fine Arts in Yangon, Ngwe Phyoe started painting in the realism style but soon adopted his signature drip paint technique, a form of abstract art in which paint is dripped or poured on to the canvas.

This style of action painting was experimented with in the first half of the twentieth century by such artists as Francis Picabia, André Masson and Max Ernst, who employed drip painting in his works "The Bewildered Planet" and "Young Man Intrigued by the Flight of a Non-Euclidean Fly" (1942).

Ernst used the novel means of painting Lissajous figures by swinging a punctured bucket of paint over a horizontal canvas.

In his paintings, Ngwe Phyoe focuses on capturing Myanmar’s unique landscape and people.

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L'artista Birmano Ngwe Phyoe (nato in Yangon, Myanmar) ha tenuto 10 mostre personali, comprese due mostre d'arte a Singapore e Hong Kong.

Laureato allo State School of Fine Arts di Yangon, Ngwe Phyoe ha iniziato a dipingere nello stile del realismo, ma presto, per creare dipinti realisti ha adottato la sua tipica tecnica di pittura dripping, una tecnica pittorica caratteristica dell'action painting americana elaborato nella sua forma più tipica alla fine degli anni quaranta da Jackson Pollock.

Il dripping trae liberamente spunto dalla cosiddetta "scrittura automatica" surrealista: il colore (non olio, ma smalto opaco o vernici industriali usate per la prima volta proprio da Pollock intorno al 1947) viene lasciato sgocciolare sulla tela distesa per terra da un contenitore bucherellato o schizzato direttamente con le mani mediante l'uso di bastoni o pennelli.

Più tardi, tra gli anni cinquanta e gli anni sessanta, il dripping verrà largamente impiegato nell'ambito di tutti i movimenti europei di stile informale.

Nei suoi dipinti, Ngwe Phyoe si concentra sulla cattura del paesaggio e delle persone del Myanmar.

Jung Sook Hyun, 1961 | Watercolor painter

Artist Jung Sook Hyun with a Graduate Masters in Fine Art in Korea, has exhibited her paintings all over the world.

Jung Sook Hyun has been Artist since her high school year and she's been very active in the area with her exhibitions.

She currently lives and works in Fullerton, California.

Jung Sook Hyun captures snapshot of the California countryside with her delicate Watercolor and Oil Paintings.

Micko Art

Micko is the nickname of the professional painter Miodrag.

Micko is a self taught artist.

Micko was born in Serbia, in an industrial town close to Belgrade.

After graduating in electrical engineering from Nikola Tesla Institute, he soon found himself in a profession which was no way suited to his personality.

Diego Velázquez | Italian period

In 1629, Spanish painter Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599-1660) was given permission to spend a year and a half in Italy.

Though this first visit is recognized as a crucial chapter in the development of his style - and in the history of Spanish Royal Patronage, since Philip IV sponsored his trip - few details and specifics are known of what the painter saw, whom he met, how he was perceived and what innovations he hoped to introduce into his painting.

He traveled to Venice, Ferrara, Cento, Loreto, Bologna, and Rome.

Philip Wilson Steer | The Bridge, 1887

Artist: Philip Wilson Steer (1860-1942)
Medium: Oil paint on canvas;
Dimensions: Support: 495 × 655 × 20 mm / frame: 639 × 803 × 89 mm;
Collection: Tate;
Acquisition: Purchased 1941.

This picture was strongly attacked by the critics when it was first exhibited in 1887, and dismissed by one as 'either a deliberate daub or so much mere midsummer madness'.

Steer considered giving up painting in the wake of this disapproval.

Giorgio Vasari | Vita di Sandro Botticello - Pittor Fiorentino

Ne’ medesimi tempi del Magnifico Lorenzo Vecchio de’ Medici, che fu veramente per le persone d’ingegno un secol d’oro, fiorì ancora Alessandro, chiamato a l’uso nostro Sandro e detto di Botticello per la cagione che appresso vedremo.

Costui fu figliuolo di Mariano Filipepi, cittadino fiorentino dal quale diligentemente allevato e fatto instruire in tutte quelle cose che usanza è di insegnarsi a’ fanciulli in quella età, prima che e’ si ponghino a le botteghe, ancora che agevolmente apprendesse tutto quello che e’ voleva, era nientedimanco inquieto sempre; né si contentava di scuola alcuna, di leggere, di scrivere o di abbaco; di maniera che il padre infastidito di questo cervello sì stravagante, per disperato lo pose a lo orefice con un suo compare chiamato Botticello, assai competente maestro allora in quell’arte.

Coniglio 꼬닐리오 | A Girl and her Pet Rabbit | Whimsical Illustrator

Coniglio (en. Rabbit) is the pseudonym of a Korean artist who has lived in Italy for four years.

With a background in graphic design, Coniglio creates whimsical illustrations for children's books.

After graduating from the University in Korea, she left for Italy to participate in an internship program.

Coniglio, fascinated by the atmosphere that Italy conveyed to her, boarded the plane without having learned Italian well.

She currently lives in Milan and is majoring in visual design at the National Academy of Fine Arts (Accademia di Belle Arti).

Rob Hefferan, il pittore Romantico

I sontuosi dipinti di Rob celebrano l'espressione umana.

Sperimenta temi, stati d'animo e stili per creare dichiarazioni visive stimolanti.

Rob Hefferan è all'avanguardia dell'arte figurativa contemporanea.

La sua arte è ricercata dai collezionisti di tutto il mondo, il che gli ha fatto guadagnare la reputazione di uno degli artisti più celebrati e ricercati.

Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) | Modernist painter

Raised in Brooklyn, Walt Kuhn (born William but called Walt from a young age) developed an early interest in drawing and theater.

In 1893 Kuhn took art classes at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. Six years later he was working in San Francisco as a cartoonist for The Wasp, a weekly satirical magazine. Kuhn returned to New York in the fall of 1900, but by March of 1901 he had left again to study art in Europe, first at the Academie Colarossi in Paris and then later that year at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Academy of Fine Arts) in Munich.

Michele Petrelli | Modern impressionist painter

Michele Petrelli contemporary Italian artist was keening about painting from when he was very young and he graduated from the Art School in 1991.

In 1999 he obtained the title of technical designer.

He says about himself: "I am an enceph in a glass vial. I am a visual-auditory-tactile artist. I do not despise the material thought wandering in the spirit and in the humour".

During the first part of his life he did not have much painting.

Yossi Kotler, 1965 | Mixed Media painter

Yossi Kotler is a painter and graphic designer based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

His artworks are very colorful and strong with a lot of layers. Yossi creates his work with different mediums - acrylic on canvas, oil pastel, ink, charcoal, digital art etc.

Kotler graduated "Wizo College of design" in Haifa Israel in graphic design, in the years 1988-1992.

- "I am an full time artist and a designer".

Isaac Levitan (1860-1900) | Impressionist painter

Исаа́к Ильи́ч Левита́н was a classical Lithuanian-Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape". Levitan's work was a profound response to the lyrical charm of the Russian landscape.

Levitan did not paint urban landscapes; with the exception of the View of Simonov Monastery (whereabouts unknown), mentioned by Nesterov, the city of Moscow appears only in the painting Illumination of the Kremlin.

Characteristic of his work is a hushed and nearly melancholic reverie amidst pastoral landscapes largely devoid of human presence. Fine examples of these qualities include The Vladimirka Road, (1892), Evening Bells, (1892), and Eternal Rest, (1894), all in the Tretyakov Gallery.

Though his late work displayed familiarity with Impressionism, his palette was generally muted, and his tendencies were more naturalistic and poetic than optical or scientific.

Edgar Degas | Life and Artworks

Edgar Degas seems never to have reconciled himself to the label of "Impressionist", preferring to call himself a "Realist" or "Independent". Nevertheless, he was one of the group’s founders, an organizer of its exhibitions, and one of its most important core members.

Like the Impressionists, he sought to capture fleeting moments in the flow of modern life, yet he showed little interest in painting plein air landscapes, favoring scenes in theaters and cafés illuminated by artificial light, which he used to clarify the contours of his figures, adhering to his Academic training.

Boris Pasternak | Sometime at a concert hall.. / Negli anni un giorno o l'altro in un concerto, 1931

Boris Beside The Baltic At Merekule 1910 | Portrait by his father Leonid Pasternak

Negli anni un giorno o l'altro in un concerto

Mi soneranno Brahms, - proverò la nostalgia.

Trasalirò, ricorderò l'unione di sei cuori,

I passeggi, i bagni, l'aiola di casa mia.

La fronte dritta della pittrice, timida come sogno,

Con un sorriso mite, un beato sorriso,

Un sorriso immenso e chiaro, come globo,

Il sorriso della pittrice, la fronte e il viso.

Lavinia Fontana | The first professional Woman painter in the Italian history of art

Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) was an Italian painter.

She is regarded as the First Woman artist, working within the same sphere as her male counterparts, outside a court or convent.

She was the first woman artist to paint female figures, and was the main breadwinner of a family of 13.

Lavinia Fontana was born in Bologna, the daughter of the painter Prospero Fontana, who was a prominent painter of the School of Bologna at the time and served as her teacher. Continuing the family business was typical at the time.

Boris Pasternak | Sunrise / L’alba

Sunrise

You were my life sometime ago.

Then came the war, the devastation.

You vanished, leaving me alone,

Without a trace or explanation.

When many years had passed me by,

Your voice awakened me by chance.

I sat and read Your Word all night

And came to life out of a trance.

Pavlos Samios (1948-2021)

Pavlos Samios - Παύλος Σάμιος - was a Greek painter and professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts.

Samios was born in Athens, Greece. His interest about art rose during his early childhood when he used to spend many hours at his father's workshop (Samios’ father was a shoemaker).

As a teenager he worked at Dionysios Karoussos icon-painting studio and at the same time he attended drawing lessons under Panos Sarafianos so that he could pass the exams in order to enter the School of Fine Arts where he became accepted in 1969.

Federico García Lorca | Serenade / Serenata

Along the banks of the river

the night is bathing

and on the breasts of Lolita

die of love the branches.

Die of love branches.

Vanessa Lemen | Harmony in the Ebb and Flow

Dino Buzzati / Alex Alemany | Lettera d'amore

Alex Alemany, 1943

Sono finalmente ritornato, tesoro, ed ora aspetto che tu mi raggiunga.

Nell’ultima tua lettera, che ho avuto un mese fa, dicevi appunto che non potevi più vivere senza di me. Ti credo, perché uguale è il sentimento mio. Non è come un’attrazione fatale, quasi un castigo?

Di solito, tra uomo e donna, soltanto uno dei due si innamora. L’altro, o l’altra, accetta, o subisce. Nel nostro caso, meravigliosamente, la passione è pari in entrambi. Pazzi tutti e due. Ciò è bellissimo ma fa anche paura. Siamo come due foglie furiosamente sospinte l’una verso l’altra da opposti venti.

Che cosa accadrà quando si incontreranno?

Michelangelo Buonarroti | Vita ed Opere

Michelàngelo (o Michelàngiolo; propr. Michelàgnolo) Buonarroti - Architetto, scultore, pittore, poeta (Caprese, od. Caprese Michelangelo, Arezzo, 1475 - Roma 1564). Culmine della civiltà rinascimentale, celebrato come il massimo genio del suo tempo, ne rappresentò anche la drammatica conclusione. Apprendista dal 1487 nella bottega di D. Ghirlandaio, intorno al 1489 venne in contatto presso il giardino di S. Marco, domicilio della collezione di antichità della famiglia Medici, con la statuaria classica e la filosofia neoplatonica, componenti essenziali per lo sviluppo della sua produzione artistica.

Nel 1498 il cardinale J. Bilhères gli commissionò per la sua tomba in S. Petronilla a Roma la Pietà : per il carattere di perfetta armonia, grazia e bellezza, l'opera suscitò universale ammirazione. Tornato a Firenze, Michelàngelo realizzò la statua di David🎨(1501-04), quindi nel 1505 fu di nuovo a Roma per eseguire la tomba di Giulio II in S. Pietro, i cui tormentati lavori si sarebbero protratti per oltre quarant'anni.

Mark Keathley, 1963 | Nature painter

Mark Keathley's passion is to offer inspiration for the soul through his medium of art so the viewer is compelled to ponder the deeper issues of the heart.

What is life about?

How do I want to live? Am I loved?

"Capturing the power of light, the beauty which surrounds us, and magical or memorable moments on canvas offers us a chance to rise above the mundane, escape from the business, and meditate on what is really important" - Mark Keathley.

Dino Buzzati | Inviti superflui, 1949 / Unnecessary invitations

Vorrei che tu venissi da me in una sera d’inverno e, stretti insieme dietro i vetri, guardando la solitudine delle strade buie e gelate, ricordassimo gli inverni delle favole, dove si visse insieme senza saperlo.

Per gli stessi sentieri fatati passammo infatti tu ed io, con passi timidi, insieme andammo attraverso le foreste piene di lupi, e i medesimi genii ci spiavano dai ciuffi di muschio sospesi alle torri, tra svolazzare di corvi.

Insieme, senza saperlo, di là forse guardammo entrambi verso la vita misteriosa, che ci aspettava. Ivi palpitarono in noi per la prima volta pazzi e teneri desideri. "Ti ricordi?" ci diremo l’un l’altro, stringendoci dolcemente, nella calda stanza, e tu mi sorriderai fiduciosa mentre fuori daran tetro suono le lamiere scosse dal vento.

Tim Shorten

Ferdinand Hodler | Art Nouveau painter

Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918) was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes and genre paintings in a realistic style.

Later, he adopted a personal form of Symbolism which he called "Parallelism".

Hodler was born in Bern, the eldest of six children. His father, Jean Hodler, made a meager living as a carpenter; his mother, Marguerite (née Neukomm), was from a peasant family.

Gaetano Esposito | Genre painter

Gaetano Esposito (1858-1911) was an Italian painter born in Salerno.

He first studied under Gaetano D'Agostino, but later enrolled at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts of Naples, where he studied under Filippo Palizzi, Domenico Morelli and Stanislao Lista.

In these studies, he was funded by a stipend from the government of Salerno.

He was influenced by Antonio Mancini, a lifelong supporter, especially in his genre depictions of the activities of the lower classes of Naples.

Saffo | Passione d'amore

Quei parmi in cielo fra gli Dei, se accanto

ti siede, e vede il tuo bel riso, e sente

i dolci detti e l'amoroso canto!

Saffo - Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

Osman Hamdi Bey | Orientalist painter

Osman Hamdi Bey, [Constantinople, 1842-1910], Ottoman statesman, painter and art expert who put forth legislation aimed at regulating finds made by various archaeological enterprises in the Ottoman Empire and preventing the antiquities from being smuggled abroad.

As a painter, he became famous while he was alive. He worked on compositions with figures and portraits, and he was the first Turkish artist who painted figures.

In his paintings, there are many architectural and decorative details. He frequently appears as the main character; he used photos taken of him in different outfits and poses for his drawings.

Today, many domestic and foreign museum collections include his paintings as well.

The Tortoise Trainer - Pera Museum, İstanbul

Claude Monet | Inondation à Giverny, 1886

Claude Monet | Inondation à Giverny, 1886

In Inondation à Giverny Monet has created a vibrant landscape that pulses with dynamism. With the patchwork of colors that makes up the rolling hills of the landscape in the distance, coupled with the expansive stretch of water that carries the fragmented reflections of Giverny’s church and neighboring houses on its mirror-like surface, Monet has captured the effects of the natural light as it illuminated the region, and the atmospheric quality of the landscape as a whole, with remarkable results.