Diego Dayer, 1978 | Figurative painter

Argentine painter Diego Dayer was born in Rafaela, Provincia de Santa Fé.

He began his art in Marcela Grosso´s workshop, plastic artist in his natal City. Afterwards he began to study painting in the “Escuela de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba”. He has participated in numerous group shows in Cordoba, Rafaela y Capital Federal, in Argentina. In 2002, he made his solo debut in “Cerrito Gallery” Cordoba.

The work of this talented and young artist has a promising future. His creations, figures with different levels of reality, reflect the mystery and experiences from his own past. The mastery and clarity of his painting seldom is seen in such a young artist.

Francisco Goya | Life and Artworks

From The Metropolitan Museum of Art:

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) is regarded as the most important Spanish artist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over the course of his long career, Goya moved from jolly and lighthearted to deeply pessimistic and searching in his paintings, drawings, etchings, and frescoes.

Born in Fuendetodos, he later moved with his parents to Saragossa and, at age fourteen, began studying with the painter José Luzán Martínez (1710-1785).

In 1746, the year of Goya’s birth, the Spanish crown was under the rule of Ferdinand VI.

Subsequently, the Bourbon king Charles III (r. 1759-88) ruled the country as an enlightened monarch sympathetic to change, employing ministers who supported radical economic, industrial, and agricultural reform. Goya came to artistic maturity during this age of enlightenment.

Salvador Dali | Self-portraits

Salvador Dalí started to paint self-portraits very early on.

In the ones made during adolescence, Dalí represents himself with a distant attitude towards his companions, but at the same time wishing to make an impact on them (or to provoke them) and on the public in general.

Like other adolescents, he sought through his appearance an affirmation of his own personality, wearing long hair and sideburns, and dressing extravagantly.

Salvador Dali 1941 Soft self-portrait with grilled Bacon

Akzhana Abdaliyeva, 1975 | Pittrice cubista

Akzhana Abdaliyeva è una pittrice pluripremiata proveniente da AlmaTa, nel Kazakistan.

E' membro dell'Unione creativa degli artisti del Kazakistan.

Oggi ha un dottorato in Belle Arti.

Le sue opere sono in collezioni private in Svizzera, Kazakistan, Germania, Stati Uniti e in altri paesi.

- "Fin dalla mia infanzia sono cresciuta con una matita e un pennello in mano. Ora alle mie spalle ho 25 anni di istruzione.

Jean-Pierre Alaux (1925-2020) | Surrealist painter

Jean-Pierre Alaux, born in La Ciotat, was a French painter belonging to the "young painters of the School of Paris".

Son of the painter François Alaux, Jean -Pierre Alaux after high school among Dominicans in Arcachon and the Marists in La Seyne -sur -Mer, is eligible for assistance from the top of Fine Arts National School in Paris where he worked in the studio of Jean Dupas from 1943-1949 where you can find Joseph Archepel Paul Ambille Paul Collomb, Mickaël Companion, Geoffroy Dauvergne, Dechezelle Claude Garand, Paul Guiramand Roland GuillaumeL, Lolichon, Pettit, André Pedoussaut André Plisson, Rogert, Roverchon, Someton, Tournaire Van Tea.

Alex Stevenson Diaz, 1962 | Abstract painter

Alex Stevenson Diaz is an artist with appreciation of the human, which communicates through expressive poses the inner struggle of man with himself, his yearnings for freedom, their prisons and bonds.

Anatomies which express the hardness in a baroque miguelangelesco. The tension of his hands and fingers or the rigidity of the neck muscles in head turns back, giving way to an energy that comes from the inside more visceral.

Mona Lisa, Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, 1503-1504

This portrait was doubtless started in Florence around 1503. It is thought to be of Lisa Gherardini, wife of a Florentine cloth merchant named Francesco del Giocondo - hence the alternative title, La Gioconda. However, Leonardo seems to have taken the completed portrait to France rather than giving it to the person who commissioned it. After his death, the painting entered François I's collection.

Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco Giocondo

The history of the Mona Lisa is shrouded in mystery. Among the aspects which remain unclear are the exact identity of the sitter, who commissioned the portrait, how long Leonardo worked on the painting, how long he kept it, and how it came to be in the French royal collection.

The portrait may have been painted to mark one of two events - either when Francesco del Giocondo and his wife bought their own house in 1503, or when their second son, Andrea, was born in December 1502 after the death of a daughter in 1499. The delicate dark veil that covers Mona Lisa's hair is sometimes considered a mourning veil. In fact, such veils were commonly worn as a mark of virtue. Her clothing is unremarkable. Neither the yellow sleeves of her gown, nor her pleated gown, nor the scarf delicately draped round her shoulders are signs of aristocratic status.

Julie Bell, 1958 | Fantasy painte

American artist Julie Bell was born in Beaumont, Texas. A former nationally ranked competitive bodybuilder, she applies the same discipline and intensity to her art career.

Her knowledge of anatomy has allowed her to imbue her figures of humans and animals with grace and strength.

At the heart of her work is a deep curiosity, honor, and respect for the world of emotions.

After having her heart captured by a pack of wolves at Lakota Wolf Preserve in 2001, Julie has also turned her attention to painting wildlife.