Domenico Ghirlandaio | Renaissance painter

Domenico Ghirlandaio (2 June 1448 - 11 January 1494) was an Italian Renaissance painter🎨 born in Florence.

Ghirlandaio was part of the so-called "third generation" of the Florentine Renaissance, along with Verrocchio, the Pollaiolo brothers and Sandro Botticelli🎨.

Ghirlandaio led a large and efficient workshop that included his brothers Davide Ghirlandaio and Benedetto Ghirlandaio, his brother-in-law Bastiano Mainardi from San Gimignano, and later his son Ridolfo Ghirlandaio.

Odd Nerdrum, 1944

Odd Nerdrum è un pittore figurativo Norvegese, il cui lavoro è tenuto da musei di tutto il mondo.

Nerdrum nacque in Svezia da combattenti della resistenza che erano fuggiti dalla Norvegia occupata dai tedeschi durante la seconda guerra mondiale. Alla fine della guerra, Nerdrum tornò in Norvegia con i suoi genitori.

John Atkinson Grimshaw | L'eredità artistica

Il pittore Britanico John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) non ha lasciato lettere, diari o documenti. La sua reputazione e la sua eredità si basa sui suoi paesaggi urbani.

C'è stata una rinascita di interesse per il lavoro di Grimshaw nella seconda metà del XX secolo, con diverse importanti mostre ad essa dedicate.

Una mostra retrospettiva "Atkinson Grimshaw – Painter of Moonlight" si è svolta dal 16 aprile al 4 settembre 2011 alla Mercer Art Gallery di Harrogate e successivamente alla Guildhall Art Gallery di Londra.

Carlo Fornara | Divisionist painter

Carlo Fornara (21 October 1871 - 15 September 1968) was an Italian neo-impressionist and divisionist painter.

Born in Prestinone (Craveggia) into a humble family of Valle Vigezzo farmers in 1871, his talent emerged after he began attending courses in painting, drawing and ornamentation at the local Rossetti Valentini Art School in Santa Maria Maggiore, where he became close friends with other future painters such as Giovanni Battista Ciolina, Gian Maria Rastellini and Lorenzo Peretti Junior, and absorbed the teachings of Enrico Cavalli, a great connoisseur of the French art of the time, who decisively influenced him to follow the path of painting.

Ivan Marchuk, 1936 | Surrealist painter

Ukrainian painter and sculptor Іван Марчук was born in Moskalivka, Kremianets county, Volhynia voivodeship.

He graduated from the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Art in 1965 and then moved to Kyiv.

Until 1988 he was denied membership in the Union of Artists of Ukraine because his themes and style did not conform to socialist realism.

In Kyiv he created the wall-size ceramic-tile relief compositions (1969-72) in the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.

Nâzım Hikmet | Prima che bruci Parigi..

Before the time runs out, my rose,

before Paris is burned down and destroyed,

before the time runs out, my rose,

and my heart is still on its branch,

I, one night, one of these May nights,

holding you against the wall in Quai Voltaire,

must kiss you on the lips

then turning our faces toward Notre Dame

Irina Karkabi

Nikolai Blokhin, 1968 | Night in Chicago

Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, this young master has emerged as one of the most important artists of his time.

Trained first at the district art school before entering the Repin Institute, Blokhin attained a solid academic foundation in art which can be traced, admired and interpreted today in some of Russia’s famous masters from the turn of the 20th century.

While cultivating ideals realised by many of his predecessors in Russian art theory, Blokhins’ search towards a traditional expressive language consumed him in his early academic years.

It was not until he entered the Academy of Arts that he began to search the canons of those who broke with tradition and shook up thematic artistic views, that he found his own distinct style.

Maria Boohtiyarova / Andrei Belichenko

Andrei Belichenko e Maria Boohtiyarova sono artisti contemporanei le cui opere sono chiamate "il fascino della gioventù".

L'ariosità delle opere di questo duetto è sorprendente, a dimostrazione del contatto e della tenerezza delle loro relazioni reciproche. I dipinti sono molto toccanti, delicati e costringono il cuore a battere un po' più veloce...

Peter Bell, 1969 | Impressionist painter

Peter Bell’s ethereal Impressionist style🎨 permeates his idyllic European coastal scenes. His brushwork and palette showcase the subtleties of light and atmosphere in gauzy skies, lush gardens, charming buildings and glistening waters.

Born in Washington, D.C., Bell was educated at the Brooklyn Museum Art School and the National Art School in his hometown. He was initially a department-store commercial artist and freelancer before devoting himself to full-time painting and teaching. Bell’s critically acclaimed work adorns numerous private collections and has received many awards🎨.

"His reflections are fantastic. His brush is alive, specifically the strength of the light with which he gives life to each painting. The combination of brush and palette strokes are unique and are barely visible. His canvasses are full of strength and emotion". These are the words of a European art critic describing the works of Peter Bell.
Born in 1969 in Washington, DC, Peter Bell began drawing and painting in grammar school. After US Navy service, he attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School and the National Art School in Washington DC. His career began as a professional backdrop and poster painter for a department store chain.
He also illustrated booklets and brochures for them. Finally after working many years as a commercial artist in Washington and as a free lance artist in southern Georgia, he built himself a comfortable studio in Florida and settled down to a life of painting and teaching. He is represented in many private collections and his showings of paintings of scenes from his numerous trips abroad have brought him several awards and ribbons.