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

Maxfield Parrish | Fantasy / Romantic painter

Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966)° was an American painter* and illustrator, active in the first half of the 20th century.

Parrish is best known for his depictions of fantasy landscapes populated by attractive young women.

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

• Maxfield Parrish | Golden Age painter / Illustrator ⥅
• Maxfield Parrish | Romantic Painter / Illustrator ⥅

Catrin Welz-Stein | Surrealist Digital painter

Catrin Welz-Stein graduated from Graphic Design in Darmstadt, Germany and then worked for different advertising agencies in Germany, USA and Switzerland. Three years ago Catrin started to create digital images by collaging old illustrations and photographs.

At the same time she discovered online social networks and her private images were then open to the public. The positive responses Catrin got there were her motivation to go on with her art until now.

Keith Mallett, 1948 | Jazz painting

Keith Duncan Mallett* is an American artist who has worked as a painter, etcher and ceramic artist. His subject matter ranges from figurative to still life and abstracts. Mallett's work has been exhibited worldwide and is featured in corporate and private collections.

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

• Keith Mallett, 1948 | Abstract Figurative painter ⎘

Alfred Sisley: "I always start a painting with the sky"

▻ "Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love".

▻ "Ogni immagine mostra un elemento del quale l'artista si è innamorato".

Alfred Sisley | Works

Sisley's student works are lost.

His first landscape paintings are sombre, coloured with dark browns, greens, and pale blues.

They were often executed at Marly and Saint-Cloud. Little is known about Sisley's relationship with the paintings of J. M. W. Turner and John Constable, which he may have seen in London, but some have suggested that these artists may have influenced his development as an Impressionist painter, as may have Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.

Alessandro Andreuccetti, 1955 | Watercolor painter

Italian painter Alessandro Andreuccetti is born in San Gimignano, Italy. He studied art and architecture in Florence and, after graduating, started his job in 1980 as a graphic designer.

From 1978 he was interested in watermedia painting, fascinated with this technique and the support of hand-worked paper. He was showing paintings in many italian towns.

On 1983 he won the 1th prize at “Concorso nazionale del fumetto e del Fantastico di Prato” and he started to collaborate with Sergio Micheli of University of Siena and the editor Nerbini of Florence to realize comics and illustrations.

Edward Hopper | Magic Realism painter

Edward Hopper (1882-1967) was born in Nyack, New York, to a middle-class family.

After he graduated high school in 1899, his parents, though supportive of his artistic ambitions, encouraged him to pursue commercial illustration.

He studied at the Correspondence School of Illustrating in New York City for a year before enrolling in classes at the New York School of Art in 1900, where he switched his focus to fine art.

There, Hopper studied under William Merritt Chase (American, 1849-1916) and Robert Henri (American, 1865-1929), who encouraged their students to paint the everyday realities of the world around them.

Giovanni Prini | Figurative sculptor

Lo scultore Giovanni Prini (1877-1958) nasce a Genova. Conclusi gli studi all'Accademia Linguistica di Genova esordisce esponendo una scultura in gesso dal titolo "La tentazione di S. Antonio" alla XLIII Esposizione di Belle Arti di Genova.

Si trasferisce a Roma alla fine del 1900 e qui conosce Duilio Cambellotti e Giacomo Balla.

La sua casa-studio di via Nomentana, animata dall'ospitalità della moglie, la poetessa Orazia Belsito, diviene presto luogo di ritrovo di giovani artisti come Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Duilio Cambellotti e Gino Severini.