Francesco Vinea | Genre painter

Francesco Vinea (Forlì, August 10, 1845 - Florence, October 22, 1902) was an Italian painter, known for his period costume Genre subjects.

He studied first at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, but had to discontinue his studies due to his poverty, and spent some time traveling without home.

He worked for a photographer, also as a designer of illustrated magazines, but returned to Florence and studied under professor Enrico Pollastrini, but only for a year.

Odilon Redon | Apollo's Chariot, 1905-1916 | The Series

About 1900, French symbolist painter Odilon Redon (1840-1916) abandoned his trademark black charcoal drawings and began avidly experimenting with color.

He also explored new subjects, including the mythological horses of the sun.

They are driven by Apollo, god of light and poetry, or by Phaethon, the boy who foolishly tried to steer the horses and fell to his death.

Odilon Redon | Apollo's Chariot, 1905-1916 | Metropolitan Museum of Art

Johann Jungblut | Romantic Landscape painter

Johan Jungblut (1860-1912), a Düsseldorf school, painted winter landscapes of rural Netherlands, Germany, and Norway in an old master style.

Jungblut was born in Sarrebourg on the French/German border in April of 1860, although in 1885 he made the German city of Dusseldorf his home.

Johan Jungblut was a solitary figure who lived alone; he made frequent trips to Holland to paint, specialising in Winter scenes infused with tranquil light.

Remembering Steve Hanks, the Master of Watercolor

Steve Hanks (1949-2015), the Master of Watercolor and Figures passed away in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 22 after a battle with cancer.

"Art comes from a deep inner sense of direction.It starts with a re-evaluation of your own life, from a search for the source of the impulses and mystery of it all. I think of myself as an emotional realist. Emotion is what I want to portray. Realism is just my way of doing it"- Steve Hanks

Caravaggio's hands

Revolutionary in his way of painting, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) personifies in every aspect of his eventful life the romantic figure of the damned artist.

Caravaggio was a leading Italian painter of the late 16th and early 17th centuries who became famous for the intense and unsettling realism of his large-scale religious works.

Caravaggio's innovations inspired Baroque painting, but the latter incorporated the drama of his chiaroscuro without the psychological realism.

James R. Eads, 1989 | Love Forgetting Time

Los Angeles-based illustrator James R. Eads primarily works in acrylic and on a Wacom tablet to create high quality screen-prints and giclee prints that imitate traditional painting and printmaking.

James R. Eads was born in Los Angeles, CA.

He spent his childhood making art and eventually went to a liberal arts school in New York where he studied printmaking, painting and graphic design.

Optical illusion art by Eric Montoya, 1968

Eric Montoya is an American painter who has had several gallery and museum exhibitions.

Continued education through Seattle Art Museum lectures and UW Experimental courses, Technology Project Manager for The Ackerley Group 1996-2001, Journeyman Pictorial Painter, The Ackerley Group 1987 through 1996. Art Institute of Seattle, 1987.

"In my work I tend to blend the boundaries between man and nature".

Dimitri Vojnov, 1946 | Symbolist / Surrealist painter

Dimitri Vojnov had always a strong interest for the great painters of art history and Renaissance, such as Piero della Francesca or Hans Holbein. He uses as a background coloring an intense cobalt blue that is a reference to the Renaissance period.

Undoubtedly his work shows his long term classical academic education in painting which fascinates with provocative and erotic illustrations, which often are exaggerated in a grotesque way.