Renoir | Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar, 1898

Pierre-Auguste Renoir🎨
Young Spanish woman with a guitar
1898
55.6 x 65.2 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right: Renoir.98.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

"Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar" is an 1898 painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

Alois Arnegger | Woodland Landscapes in Autumn

Alois Arnegger is an Austrian painter, well known for his Austrian and Italian scene paintings.

Arnegger's landscape paintings for sale depicting resplendent views of his homeland of Austria, he painted dynamic landscapes of the Gulf of Naples.

Alois Arnegger was born in Vienna in 1879.

In Vienna, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under the guidance of the artists Robert Russ and August Eisenmenger, who introduced him to the pre-impressionist technique.

In 1920, Arnegger traveled to Italy and was enchanted by the picturesque coastal views of the Mediterranean, which became a source of inspiration for many of his creations.

Glenna Goodacre, 1939 | Figurative sculptor | Public Art

Glenna Goodacre’s sculptures are immediately recognizable for their unique expression, texture, design and movement. Beginning as a painter provided a foundation for her first bronzes created in 1969.

She has since created over 600 different works, the most well-known of which is the Vietnam Women’s Memorial installed in Washington, D.C. in 1993. Her largest piece is the massive Irish Memorial created in 2002 for Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia.

Armik Malekian, 1951 | Figurative painter

Armik Malekian was born in 1951, the son of Armenian descendents who had immigrated to Southern California. He earned a Bachelor Degree in Fine Art and Master Degree in Graphic Design from University of Decorative Arts in Tehran. During his academic years he worked as a portrait and landscape artist for art galleries. He was also an illustrator and Art Director for advertising agencies. Shortly after graduating he settled with his family in California in order to expand the realm of his artistic pursuits.

Arts and Crafts movement, 1850-1900

Arts and Crafts movement, English aesthetic movement of the second half of the 19th century that represented the beginning of a new appreciation of the decorative arts throughout Europe.

By 1860 a vocal minority had become profoundly disturbed by the level to which style, craftsmanship, and public taste had sunk in the wake of the Industrial Revolution and its mass-produced and banal decorative arts.

Among them was the English reformer, poet, and designer William Morris, who, in 1861, founded a firm of interior decorators and manufacturers - Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, and Company (after 1875, Morris and Company) - dedicated to recapturing the spirit and quality of medieval craftsmanship.

William Morris (1834-1896) | English textile designer

Frank Markham Skipworth | Portrait /Genre painter

Frank Markham Skipworth (1854 in Castor, Lincolnshire - 1929 in London) was an British portrait painter.

He painted also genre and historical subjects.

He studied for two years at the Lincoln School of Art, then under Sir Edward John Poynter (1836-1919) at the Royal Academy Schools for three years and became a pupil of William-Adolphe Bouguereau in Paris. | Source: © Wikipedia

Léon Perrault | Genre / Academic painter

Painter of genre, history, religion and portrait stands in peril of not being remembered as distinctively as his successes might merit.

For our part, we may narrow this great artist’s claims at once by rejecting his religious painting, and we may be inclined to go on and deny him the title of historical painter, so that, although we shall have paintings of religious subjects and of historical subjects to consider, we shall in truth be considering them as work of a painter of genre and portrait.