Jennifer Diehl, 1982 | Figurative painter

Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Jennifer’s ability to focus on her drawings at an early age was noticed by all.

Her intensity and desire to study art grew over the years.

Jennifer's parents, being artists themselves, shared their knowledge and philosophy with her and in her early teens sent her to study Russian Impressionism with Henry Stinson, her mentor.

Jennifer currently works as a full time painter in Portland, Oregon where she is a mentor for dozens of students.

By her early twenties, she had already received many awards for her work; she has been featured in many publications, and has paintings in public and private collections both at home and abroad.

Jennifer travels monthly for classes, shows and plein air painting.

In her spare time, Jennifer enjoys rock-climbing, hiking, camping, and anything to do with the outdoors.

She spends a lot of time reading the classics and playing the piano.

Artist Statement: Each artist should find what it is in painting that speaks to them...the reason they paint...and all other things should be of less importance in their paintings…. You must "find your own voice", figure out what you are trying to say, by figuring out what elements most speak to you. For me, light and color are the reasons I paint!

Nata a Madison, nel Wisconsin, la capacità di Jennifer di concentrarsi sui suoi disegni in tenera età è stata notata da tutti.

L'intensità ed il desiderio di studiare arte sono cresciuti nel corso degli anni.

I genitori di Jennifer, essendo essi stessi artisti, hanno condiviso con lei le loro conoscenze e la loro filosofia e nella sua prima adolescenza l'hanno mandata a studiare l'impressionismo russo con Henry Stinson, il suo mentore.

Jennifer attualmente lavora come pittrice a tempo pieno a Portland, Oregon, dove è mentore per dozzine di studenti.

All'età di vent'anni aveva già ricevuto molti premi per il suo lavoro; è stata descritta in molte pubblicazioni e ha dipinti in collezioni pubbliche e private sia in patria che all'estero.

Jennifer viaggia mensilmente per lezioni, spettacoli e pittura plein air.

Nel suo tempo libero, Jennifer ama l'arrampicata su roccia, l'escursionismo, il campeggio e qualsiasi cosa abbia a che fare con la vita all'aria aperta.

Passa molto tempo a leggere i classici ed a suonare il pianoforte.

Dichiarazione dell'artista: Ogni artista dovrebbe trovare ciò che è nella pittura che gli parla... il motivo per cui dipinge... e tutte le altre cose dovrebbero essere di minore importanza nei loro dipinti... Devi "trovare la tua voce", capire cosa stai cercando di dire, capire quali elementi ti parlano di più. Per me la luce e il colore sono le ragioni per cui dipingo!

Isabella Karolewicz | Romantic painter

Isabella Karolewicz is an Australian, Melbourne based artist who is passionate about the many beauties life has to offer.

She has a raw, natural talent and has chosen Artist mentoring over formal art education, always staying true to her vision and direction.

She is currently completing her degree in Bussiness at RMIT University to expand her knowledge.

Isabella began her artistic journey focusing on the traditional styles using oils which are her favorite medium to work with.

Kira Panina, 1961

Кира Панина is a Russian painter, born in Fryazino (Moscow region).

Kira graduated from the Abramtsevo Industrial Art College named after outstanding Russian artist Viktor Vasnetsov.

Panina is a member of the Union of Artists of the Moscow region.

The Russian artist is engaged in painting, graphics, and interior design.

August Malmström | Symbolist painter

Johan August Malmström (1829-1901) was a Swedish artist and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts 1867-1894 and its director 1887-1893.

Attracted by Gothicism, he fondly drew motifs from Norse mythology.

He was also much appreciated for his rural motifs with children.

Diana Malivani, 1976 | Impressionist painter

Diana Malivani was born in the USSR, in the city of Sukhumi (Republic of Abkhazia), in the family of teachers of physics and chemistry.

Graduated from N.P. Ogarev Mordovia State University (1993-2001) in Saransk, she is a Doctor of Medicine by her training and profession (M.D., Ph.D), specialized in obstetrics and gynecology.

She acquired an extensive experience in sports medicine and dietology in fitness industry, with "World Class Club" in Moscow.

Also she is the author and illustrator of children’s books published in Russian, English, French and German.

After many years spent in France, she now lives with her family in Cyprus.

Kenn Backhaus, 1951 | Plein Air painter

Kenn Erroll Backhaus, born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin and spent much of his childhood on the family farm near Burnett, Wisconsin.

His fondness for nature became the catalyst for his art. Kenn’s parents encouraged his artistic education and following High School, he attended Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

As a commercial designer and illustrator Kenn received many awards at both local and national levels, which included acceptance in the 30th Annual Society of Illustrators Show in New York City.

Denis Korobkov, 1982

Contemporary Russian artist Денис Коробков lives and works in Penza.

He graduated from the Penza Art College named after. K. A. Savitsky, Penza in 2006.

He devoted part of his work to the history of this beautiful city.

The artist is engaged in painting, graphics and restoration of old photographs.

Arne Kavli | Neo-romantic painter

Arne Kavli (1878-1970) was a Norwegian painter.

Kavli was born in Bergen, Norway.

He was the son of actor Kristoffer Kavli (1845-1888) and Agnes Texnes (1851-1937).

He was the brother of actress Aagot Nissen.

He was married three times; in 1903 with Tulla Larsen (1869-1942); in 1911 with Hildur Mønniche (b. 1883) and in 1925 with Thony Drude Isachsen (b. 1897).

Anastasia Trusova, 1988 | Impressionist painter

Anastasia Trusova / Анастасия Трусова is a Russian impressionist artist who has known how to draw and paint in a variety of artistic approaches since childhood.

In a style she calls Graphic Impressionism, she prefers working on the foreground or focusing on the main character in a piece.

She paints with oil, pencils, watercolors, and pens, but now mostly acrylics using brushes and a palette knife.

Antonio Ligabue | Naïve painter

Antonio Ligabue (born Antonio Laccabue, 18 December 1899 - 27 May 1965) was an Italian painter and sculptor.

He was one of the most important Naïve artists of the 20th century.

He was born in Zürich, Switzerland on 18 December 1899, to Elisabetta Costa, a native from Cencenighe Agordino, and supposedly to Bonfiglio Laccabue (the true identity of the father is still unknown), native from Reggio Emilia.

Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music life would be a mistake"

• "Le convinzioni sono nemiche della verità, più pericolose delle menzogne".

• "Un uomo appare ricco di carattere molto più spesso, perché segue sempre il suo temperamento, che non perché segue sempre i suoi principi".

• "È prerogativa della grandezza rendere molto felici con piccoli doni".

Michael Bilotta

Anthony Maggio | AI sculpture

Anthony Maggio, alias Zathalen, is an AI/Digital artist, husband, and lover of all things beautiful, and asthetic!

"I hope you all feel the emotion I put into my works!

I do commissions".

Zsigmond István, 1964 | Digital watercolor painter

Zsigmond István is an Hungarian artist, born in Budapest and engaged in drawing, painting, literature and music for 25 years, from the early 1990s.

"Since the beginning of the 1990's I paint, draw and compose music too.

In 1995 I published my first book of poems titled "Trágár kocsisok bakján" ("On the dickey seats of nasty dickey's").

I am the founding member of the X-Art and the Poly art association and also the SZAK Studio art company".

Wisława Szymborska | Un amore felice / True Love

Un amore felice. È normale?

È serio? È utile?

Che se ne fa il mondo di due esseri

che non vedono il mondo?

Alex Alemany

Vojtěch Hynais | Art Nouveau painter

Vojtěch Adalbert Hynais (also Albert; 1854, Vienna - 1925, Prague) was a Czech painter, designer and graphics artist.

He designed the curtain of the Prague National Theatre, decorated a number of buildings in Prague and Vienna, and was a founding member of the Vienna Secession.

He was made an Officer of the Légion d'honneur in 1924.

Wisława Szymborska | Il vecchio professore

Gli ho chiesto di quei tempi,

quando ancora eravamo così giovani,

ingenui, impetuosi, sciocchi, sprovveduti.

È rimasto qualcosa, tranne la giovinezza

- mi ha risposto.

Emanuel Baschny | Lesender Mann, 1905 | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere

Lettera d'amore di Ernest Hemingway a Marlene Dietrich

Il romanziere premio Nobel Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) scrisse 61 lettere in 10 anni all'attrice Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992).

Iniziarono a scriversi quando lui aveva 50 anni e lei 47.

Per Hemingway, la Dietrich era 'il mio piccolo crucco' o 'figlia', per lei, lui era semplicemente 'papà', il soprannome universale di Hemingway.

Fu amore a prima vista quando si incontrarono a bordo di un transatlantico francese nel 1934, che dall'Europa li avrebbe portati in America.

Greta Garbo: "Cara maledetta bambina"..

Greta Garbo, pseudonimo di Greta Lovisa Gustafsson (1905-1990), è stata un'attrice Svedese naturalizzata Statunitense, fra le più celebri della storia del cinema.

Soprannominata la Divina, dopo aver iniziato l'attività di attrice in Svezia venne ingaggiata negli Stati Uniti dalla Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, di cui divenne rapidamente l'attrice di punta fra gli anni venti e gli anni quaranta, ottenendo un grandissimo successo sia nell'epoca del muto che del sonoro.

Greta Garbo (Stoccolma, 18 settembre 1905 - New York, 15 aprile 1990)

Corinne Geertsen, 1953 | Digital photo collage

Corinne Geertsen, born in Salt Lake City, Utah. is an Arizona artist who creates digital photocollages.

Her work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States, is in collections worldwide, as well as in the permanent collections of museums.

Geertsen received her BA and MFA in drawing and printmaking from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

Octavio Ocampo, 1943 | Optical Illusion painter

Octavio Ocampo (born 28 February 1943 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico) is a Mexican surrealist painter.

He grew up in a family of designers, and studied art from early childhood.

At art school, Ocampo constructed papier mache figures for floats, altars, and ornaments that were used during carnival parades and other festivals.

In high school, Ocampo painted murals for the Preparatory School and the City Hall of Celaya.

Jeremiah Goodman | Interior designer

"A portrait of a room, should express the personality of the person who lives there - whose character has shaped it" - Jeremiah Goodman.

Jeremiah Goodman (1922-2017) was an illustrator who signed his work with his first name only.

Goodman used his unique painting style to create the essence of a building's interior.

His painting interprets the plans of both architects and interior designers.

He painted original portraits of spaces for both commercial and private clients.

For almost twenty years he created the covers for Interior Design magazine, and also books on interiors and for murals.

Man Ray | A l'Heure de l'Observatoire - Les Amoureux, 1970

"A l'Heure de l'Observatoire - Les Amoureux" is considered to be one of Man Ray’s most iconic images.

The lips featured in the composition are those of Man Ray’s photography assistant and lover, Lee Miller.

Her lips appear as a motif in a range of Man Ray’s work from throughout his lifetime, from a photograph in MoMA’s collection from 1929, to a major series of paintings in 1936, and even a cast-gold version.

They have gone on to inspire a number of images in pop culture, most famously the iconic lips from the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Paola Grizi, 1968 | Surrealist sculptor

Italian sculptor Paola Grizi has spent her entire life immersed in the art world.

As the granddaughter of a well known Italian painter and sculptor and the niece of a ceramicist Piero Grizi (1885-1976), her creativity was fostered from a young age.

This has translated into a successful career as an artist, where she is particularly known for her unique terracotta and bronze sculptures.

For many years Grizi has produced incredible sculptures of faces that seem to emerge from the pages of books.

Irina Biatturi, 1975 | Art Déco painter

A graduate of the Nicolae Grigorescu Art Academy and the N. Tonitza Art High School, Bucharest, Irina Biatturi has been in contact with painting since she was very young.

After living for a few years in Mexico and New Zealand, she now lives and works in Antibes, a coastal city in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France, on the Côte d'Azur between Cannes and Nice.

Her oil paintings, which have women and sensuality as their subject, are inspired by Art Deco and Art Nouveau, but also by the compositions of the Italian Renaissance masters, for the light and the colours.

Cheryl St. John | Following Monet

Cheryl is an artist that paints primarily in the plein-air tradition. She is a fourth generation Colorado native with a great appreciation of nature, the environment, and the preservation of both.

Born and raised at the foot of the Rocky Mountains and with parents that enjoyed the outdoors, Cheryl was introduced at an early age to the beauty of the Colorado mountains and developed her own love for the landscape that influences her artwork today.

Cheryl paints mainly with oil but loves to work with watercolor as well.

Hilma Af Klint | A Pioneer of Abstraction

Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered among the first abstract works known in Western art history.

A considerable body of her work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian.

She belonged to a group called "The Five", comprising a circle of women inspired by Theosophy, who shared a belief in the importance of trying to contact the so-called "High Masters" - often by way of séances.

Her paintings, which sometimes resemble diagrams, were a visual representation of complex spiritual ideas.

Celeste Bergin | Impressionist painter

Celeste Bergin grew up in Elgin, Illinois.

As a young girl she was attracted to the landscape and expressive faces, filling her notebooks with sketches of the gentle rolling plains of the Midwest and with portraits of the people she knew.

After graduating from high school she attended the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago.

Unfortunately, some unexpected events interrupted her art education.

She moved to Florida and worked for 7 years in an un-related field.

María Berrío, 1982 | Magic Realism painter

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Brooklyn-based Maria Berrio is a contemporary artist primarily known for her prismatic, large-scale paper collages.

The artist completed her BFA at the Parsons School of Design in 2004, after which she received her MFA at the New York School of Visual Arts in 2007.

Berrio’s work sees her filter memories of her childhood spent on a farm in Colombia, and her subsequent experience with migration, through the lens of her studio practice.

Martin Leighton, 1951 | Figurative painter

Born in Montrose Scotland, Martin has lived in Weymouth in the beautiful county of Dorset from the age of 2 years.

Martin is a self-taught artist specialising in oils on canvas and he has been painting professionally since 2003 when he opened his own gallery and working studio close to Weymouth harbour side, situated on the first floor of a beautifully converted Grade II listed building.

However the gallery closed in October 2016 to enable Martin to concentrate on new works for various exhibitions and commissions.

Prafull Sawant, 1979 | Watercolor painter

Prafull Sawant has won 42 international awards from across the world for his watercolor, oil and acrylic paintings.

He was the first and the only artist from India to win the 148th International Exhibition of American Watercolor Society award held in New York (2015).

Prafull B. Sawant was born at Nasik, India.

He has long been considered one of the foremost Realistic artists in the world.

He is best known for his Plain Air atmospheric landscapes that captures the light to create the mood and space of the scene.

Even Ulving | Nordic landscape painter

Even Christophersen Ulving (15 August 1863 - 3 August 1952) was a Norwegian painter.

Personal life

Ulving was born on 15 August 1863 in Vega, to Christopher Evensen and Olava Larsdatter.

He was married to Frederikke Johanne Knoff Quale.

Nikolo Balkanski, 1957 | Impressionist painter

Nikolo Balkanski began painting at very early age and graduated from the Medium Special Arts School in Sofia, Bulgaria, when he was 18.

At just 21, he held his first solo exhibition, “Time and People“, featuring portraits of some of the country's leading actors, poets and politicians, organized by his father, who is attorney, writer and poet.

This unique show garnered a lot of attention for the young artist, and he soon continued his studies at the art academy in Sofia, specializing in paintings.

After moving to Finland with his parents, he studied at the University of Helsinki.

Post-Impressionism | Art History and Sitemap

Breaking free of the naturalism of Impressionism in the late 1880s, a group of young painters sought independent artistic styles for expressing emotions rather than simply optical impressions, concentrating on themes of deeper symbolism.

Through the use of simplified colors and definitive forms, their art was characterized by a renewed aesthetic sense as well as abstract tendencies.

Vincent van Gogh | The Starry Night, 1889 | MoMA, Museum of Modern Art

Johannes Brahms: "Studiate Bach: lì troverete tutto quello che cercate"

• "On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind".

• "Su un pentagramma, per un piccolo strumento, l'uomo scrive un intero mondo dei pensieri più profondi e dei sentimenti più potenti. Se avessi immaginato che avrei potuto creare, persino concepito il pezzo, sono abbastanza sicuro che l’eccesso di eccitazione e l’esperienza sconvolgente mi avrebbe mandato fuori di testa".

Johann Strauss Jr e Johannes Brahms, 1894

Vera Kavura / Віра Кавура, 1978 | Pastel flower painter

In Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, Vera Kavura / Віра Кавура can be found painting her favorite subject: flowers, which she describes as "natural, beautiful, and diverse".

Kavura began drawing as a child and over the years experimented with different techniques until, in 2016, she discovered painting with pastels.

"The pastel medium allows me to work quickly and catch all the color nuances", she says.

"A single photo cannot reflect the shine of a flower’s petals; by painting a bouquet with pastel, I’m able to catch changes in the light and shadows, and even the movement of the petals".

Aron Wiesenfeld, 1972 | Allegorical figurative painter

Aron Wiesenfeld is an American painter, illustrator and comic book artist based in San Diego, California.

He is known for painting disquieting scenes of lonely youths.

His works have been shown at several exhibitions in the United States and Europe including those at Arcadia Contemporary in New York City, Unit London, Long Beach Museum of Art and the Bakersfield Museum of Art.

Wiesenfeld has created illustrations for various comics publishing companies including Marvel Comics, Continuity Comics and WildStorm.

He was nominated for an Eisner award in 1997 for his work on Marvel Comics' limited series, Deathblow/Wolverine.

Edita Broglio | Magic Realism painter

Edita Broglio (1886-1977) was a Latvian artist known for her paintings in the genre of Magic Realism.

She was born Edita Walterowna von Zur Muehlen in the town of Smiltene, northeast of Riga.

From 1908 to 1910 she studied at the Konigsberg Art Academy in East Prussia and in Paris since 1910.

In 1912 she settled permanently in Rome, coming into contact with Olga Resnevic Signorelli who introduced her to her living room, frequented by Melli, Spadini, Ferrazzi, Ivan Mestrovic.

Antonio Donghi | Magic Realism painter

Antonio Donghi (March 16, 1897 - July 16, 1963) was an Italian painter of scenes of popular life, landscapes, and still life.

Born in Rome, he studied painting at the Instituto di Belle Arti from 1908 to 1916.

After military service in World War I he studied art in Florence and Venice, soon establishing himself as one of Italy's leading figures in the neoclassical movement that arose in the 1920s.

Possessed of an extremely refined technique, Donghi favored strong composition, spatial clarity, and populist subject matter.

Julio Romero de Torres | Symbolist painter

Julio Romero de Torres (1874-1930) was the son of Rafael Romero Barros, a painter and curator of what was then called the Museum of Painting in Cordoba.

He would be marked by family life which revolved around his father’s studio, the classrooms of the School of Fine Arts and Music Conservatory and the galleries of the museum, located in the same grounds as the family home.

This indisputably conditioned his future and was the backdrop to his first steps as a painter.

At the age of ten he began studying music and painting and was only fourteen and fifteen when he received prizes in the competitions organised by the Provincial School and the Athenaeum.

Ugo Celada | Magic Realism painter

Italian painter Ugo Celada da Virgilio (1895-1995) represented a real point of conjunction between Metaphysics, Magic Realism, New Objectivity and Novecento.

Ugo Celada was born in Mantua, in Cerese.

As a child he drew so well that he managed to convince his father to enrol him, at the age of only twelve, at the Royal School of Applied Art in Mantua, from which he passed, thanks to a scholarship, to the Brera Academy, where he particularly appreciated the lessons of the painter Cesare Tallone, the author of portraits painted with refined brushwork and of a remarkable expressiveness.

Adolfo Feragutti Visconti | Verist painter

Adolfo Feragutti Visconti (1850 in Pura, Canton Ticino - 1924 in Milan) was an Italian / Swiss painter, of eclectic styles and subjects, including orientalist themes, genre works and landscapes.

Orphan of father by the age of 16, Fergutti Visconti enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts when he was 18, where he studied with Luigi Bisi, and made his debut in 1873 as a perspective painter.

Attracted by the work of the Milanese Scapigliatura movement, he was one of the first members of the Famiglia Artistica.

Gustave Caillebotte | Dahlias, Garden at Petit Gennevilliers, 1893

A leader of the impressionist movement - a central exhibitor and organizing force for several of their exhibitions between 1876 and 1882 - Gustave Caillebotte was also an avid gardener.

Like his close friend Claude Monet, with whom he shared gardening expertise and exchanged tips, he created lush, vibrantly colored landscapes and translated them into paint on canvas.

This marvelous addition to the Gallery's singular impressionist collection celebrates his prized dahlias exploding in the foreground in front of his greenhouse and home.

Claude Monet and the Sea

Claude Monet | The Jetty a Le Havre, 1868

Claude Monet | The Manneporte (Étretat), 1883 | Metropolitan Museum of Art

Monet spent most of February 1883 at Étretat, a fishing village and resort on the Normandy coast.

He painted twenty views of the beach and the three extraordinary rock formations in the area: the Porte d'Aval, the Porte d'Amont, and the Manneporte.

Edvard Grieg: "Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights.."

• "Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted… to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home".

• "Artisti come Bach e Beethoven eressero cattedrali e templi sulle vette. Io ho voluto, come dice Ibsen in un suo dramma, "costruire dimore per gli uomini, dimore in cui essi possano sentirsi felici ed a proprio agio". In altre parole, ho trascritto la musica folcloristica della mia patria, ho cercato di ricavare un'arte nazionale da queste manifestazioni sinora non sfruttate dell'anima norvegese".

Auguste Rodin | Les Mains enlacees | Musée Rodin

Władysław Ślewiński | Post-impressionist painter

Władysław Ślewiński (1856, in Nowy Białynin - 1918, in Paris) was a Polish painter.

He was one of Gauguin's students and a leading artist of the Young Poland movement (a modernist period in Polish visual arts, literature and music, covering roughly the years between 1890 and 1918. It was a result of strong aesthetic opposition to the earlier ideas of Positivism. Young Poland promoted trends of decadence, neo-romanticism, symbolism, impressionism and art nouveau).

Biography

He was born to a landowning family and his mother died in childbirth.

His cousin, the painter Józef Chełmoński, noticed his artistic talent and advised his father to enroll him at the drawing school operated by Wojciech Gerson.

His father resisted at first, but finally agreed.

Aleksander Gierymski | Impressionist painter

Ignacy Aleksander Gierymski (1850, Warsaw - 1901, Rome) was a Polish painter of the late 19th century, the younger brother of Maksymilian Gierymski.

He was a representative of Realism as well as an important precursor of Impressionism in Poland.

Aleksander Gierymski completed Secondary State School nr III in Warsaw in 1867, and in the same year commenced drawing studies in Warsaw.

Between 1868-1872 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and graduated with a gold medal.

He received a commendation for his diploma work The Merchant of Venice.

Władysław Podkowiński | Impressionist painter

Władysław Podkowiński (1866-1895) was a Polish master painter and illustrator associated with the Young Poland movement during the Partition period (The Partitions of Poland were three partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place toward the end of the 18th century and ended the existence of the state, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland and Lithuania for 123 years.)

Podkowiński was born in Warsaw and began his artistic training at Wojciech Gerson's drawing school.

He then transferred to the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts where he studied between 1880 and 1884.

After graduating, Podkowinski began to contribute to many of the leading art journals in Warsaw at the time.