Vangelis Rinas /Βαγγέλης Ρήνας, 1966

Vangelis Rinas is a Greek painter🎨 and sculptor🎨 having his roots in the Northeastern Aegean Sea.

He was born in Samos island, but grew up in Ikaria island. His first tutor in painting was professor Vassilis Korkovelos. Studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Professors Dimosthenis Kokkinides (painting) and Thanassis Exarchopoulos (engravinγ).

Phillips Collection find a mystery man under a Picasso's The Blue Room

"The Blue Room" 1901, one of Pablo Picasso's first masterpieces sits under a microscope at The Phillips Collection, on Tuesday, June 10, 2014, in Washington. Scientists and art experts have found a hidden painting beneath the painting.

Advances in infrared imagery reveal a bow-tied man with his face resting on his hand, with three rings on his fingers.

Now the question that conservators at The Phillips Collection in Washington hope to answer is simply: Who is he? It’s a mystery that’s fueling new research about the 1901 painting created early in Picasso’s career while he was working in Paris at the start of his distinctive blue period of melancholy subjects. | Evan Vucci, Associated Press

David Leffel, 1931 | Baroque Era style painter

David A. Leffel is a twentieth-century artist who paints in the classic Flemish /Dutch old master style, much in the manner of Rembrandt* or Chardin. His subject matter is Still Lifes, Landscapes, Portraits and figures, but the real subject of his work is the light as it gently drifts from one object to another. It pauses here, then moves on.

"Light is the concept of the painting"
- David A. Leffel.

Hans Thoma | Symbolist painter

Hans Thoma (1839-1924) was a German painter. He was born in Bernau in the Black Forest, Germany.

Having started life as a painter of clock-faces, he entered in 1859 the Karlsruhe academy, where he studied under Schirmer and Des Coudres.

He subsequently studied and worked, with but indifferent success, in Düsseldorf, Paris, Italy, Munich and Frankfurt, until his reputation became firmly established as the result of an exhibition of some thirty of his paintings in Munich.

He died in Karlsruhe in 1924 at the age of 85.

Daniel Graves, 1949 | Florence Academy of Art

American painter Daniel Graves was born in Rochester, New York. Graves graduated from the Maryland Art Institute in 1972 where he studied with Joseph Shepard and Frank Russell.

He continued his studies at the Villa Schifanoia Graduate School of Fine Art in Florence, Italy, with Richard Serrin.

Following a course of training with Richard Lack in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he taught at the Atelier Lack Studio of Fine Art.

In the late 1970s, Graves returned to Florence and undertook individual study with Nerina Simi, who maintained a classical nineteenth-century studio. Ms. Simi was the daughter of the Florentine painter Filadelfo Simi, who had studied with Jean-Leon Gerome, the head of the French Academy in Paris in the 1870s.

Stephen Bauman, 1980 | Figurative painter

Stephen Bauman was raised in Miami, FL and now live and work in Florence, Italy. Hi teach painting and drawing at the Florence Academy of Art, under the direction of Daniel Graves.

Stephen Bauman began his studies at The Florence Academy of Art in 2004. To Stephen, skill in drawing is fundamental, and among the most important assets a painter can possess. In his four years as a student he worked to understand the relationship of drawing to painting in the same way his teachers at the Academy understood it.

Fredric Michael Wood, 1944 | Impressionist painter

Fredric Michael Wood is a "Signature" Member of Oil Painters of America, and Associate Member of the American Impressionist Society.

In short, I've been a professional artist for the past 30 years. In that time I have paticipated in numerous national and regional exhibitions, and have been fortunate to have garnered some recognition along the way. My painting "Offshore Breeze" was selected for the 2002 30th Anniversary Issue Cover of Southwest Art.

Michael is the recipient of numerous Regional and National awards, and been featured in several publications including the Cover Art for the 2002 Southwest Art Magazine Anniversary issue. His work is collected internationally.

Peter Graham Roi, 1959 | Fiery palette painter

Scottish painter Peter Graham Roi🎨 was born in Glasgow. He attended the Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 1980. In 2000 Peter was elected to Full Membership of The Royal Institute of Oil Painters, R.O.I.

Peter has earned a reputacion as one of Britain's most gifted and distinctive Modern Colourists.

His work is often related to the Modern Scottish School but Peter has a flamboyant style which is unique, detailed brush work combined with loose fluid strokes creating vibrant contrasts of pure colour, line and tone. For earlier works by Peter Graham Roi see: Part 2 also.

Enric Torres-Prat, 1940

Spanish painter and illustrator Enric Torres Prat living near the historical port city near the Mediterranean gave Prat immense artistic influence.

He attended La Universidad de Belles Arts St. Jordi where he studied classical painting.

Prat was quite gifted in drawing and color theory.

The works of Enric can be found at numerous museums and private collections across the globe.

He is often considered to be one of Europe’s “new old masters”.