Helene Knoop ,1979 | Apollo and the Muses

Helene Knoop, Norwegian painter, lives and works in Oslo, Norway. Her oil paintings are authentic representations of humans with a sensual touch where the light comes from the inside.
Knoop handcrafts every painting, creating high quality paintings using a long process often up to a year until completion. Her paintings are within a classical manner with influences from the Renaissance and Symbolism.
She uses materials like the Old Masters did; oil painting on canvas, and she paints from life.

Apollon - Apollo and the Muses

Ernest Hemingway | Il vecchio e il mare, 1952

"Il vecchio e il mare" fu pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1952.

Vinse il premio Pulitzer nel 1953 ed il Premio Nobel nel 1954.

Motivazione: "Maestria nel formare lo stile dell'arte della narrazione moderna".

Trama

Santiago è un vecchio pescatore che da 84 giorni non riesce a pescare neanche un pesce.

Ernest Hemingway at the bar in El Floridita, Havana by Cuban sculptor José Villa Soberón, 2003

Lorenzo Quinn, 1966 | Figurative sculptor

Contemporary Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn is a leading figurative sculptor whose work is inspired by such masters as Michelangelo, Bernini and Rodin.

Exhibited internationally, his monumental public art and smaller, more intimate pieces transmit his passion for eternal values and authentic emotions.

He is best known for expressive recreations of human hands:

"I wanted to sculpt what is considered the hardest and most technically challenging part of the human body", he asserts.

"The hand holds so much power - the power to love, to hate, to create, to destroy".

Lesley Harrison ~ Wildlife painter

Painting Animals that touch the heart, by popular wildlife artist Lesley Harrison, American painter, will help artists portray the emotion and "feelings" of certain popular animals, as well as the wonderful textures of luxuriously soft fur and glistening eyes. Lesley Harrison's, California girlhood was shaped by animals and art. "I was born loving animals, she says. "It seems to be in my blood". She remembers an ongoing menagerie from cats to chickens.

Boris Indrikov /Борис Индриков, 1967 | Unicorn Dream

Борис Индриков is an Russian painter🎨, known for working in the Magical Realism style.
Boris Indrikov was born in was born in Leningrad and lives and works in Moscow.

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

Boris Indrikov /Борис Индриков, 1967 | Magical Realism painter🎨

Charles Warren Mundy, 1945 | Still life

Charles Warren Mundy, b. 1945, Indianapolis, Indiana.

- Master Signature Member, Oil Painters of America.

- Master Status, American Impressionist Society.

- Signature Member, American Society of Marine Artists.

For biographical notes and other works by Charles Warren Mundy see:

• Light and Shadow - From Venice to Paris ⇝
• Charles Warren Mundy, 1945 | Impressionist / Plein air painter ⇝

Bartolomeo Veneto | High Renaissance painter

Bartolomeo Veneto (1502-1555) was an Italian painter who worked in Venice, the Veneto and Lombardy.

During his time in Venice, he studied under Gentile Bellini.

The little information available about Bartolomeo's life has been derived from his signatures, dates, and inscriptions.

His best known works are portraits or pictures with portrait-like character.

Bartolomeo's later works, and especially those done on commission in Milan, indicate an influence from the artist Leonardo da Vinci.

Andres Barrioquinto, 1975 ~ Surrealist painter

Andres Barrioquinto, Filipino painter, was born in Manila but his family kept on switching residencies due to the nature of his father’s job who was a writer/editor. He spent his teenage years in Hong Kong, studying at Royden House School. Then he went back to Manila to get his college education.