Ben Heine, 1983 | Illustrator and photographer

Ben Heine is an illustrator, portraitist, caricaturist and photographer.

Ben Heine is a Belgian visual artist, journalist and music composer born in 1983 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, currently living and working in Brussels, Belgium. He is best known for his original series “Pencil Vs Camera“, “Digital Circlism” and “Flesh and Acrylic“.

He has a Master degree in Journalism completed at IHECS school of Journalism in Brussels. He also briefly studied History of Art, Painting and Sculpture at Hastings College of Arts and Technology in the UK.

Luigi Bechi (1830-1919) | Genre painter

Luigi Bechi was an Italian painter🎨, born in Florence. As a young Italian patriot, he joined in the war for independence.

In the campaign of 1859 against Austria, he joined as a simple soldier in the artillery in the fifth army corps and in 1866, he fought with Garibaldi in the Trentino, and was wounded and made prisoner in the Battle of Bezzecca.

He trained under Giuseppe Bezzuoli and Enrico Pollastrini in Florence.

Stojan Milanov, 1963 | Abstract painter

Stojan Milanov was born in Belgrade.

He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade and has been painting since 1985.

He is a member of the Association of Fine and Applied arts of Serbia.

Since 1985, he has been professionally engaged in painting, a member of The Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia (ULUPUDS) and The Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS), freelance artist.

Thomas Danthony, 1988 | Surreal Spaces

Born in Montpellier, in the South of France, Thomas Danthony is a designer and illustrator based in London.

Danthony graduated from a Master in Product Design. He dedicates himself to illustration after moving to London. Since then, Thomas Danthony as freelance for the Press and for advertising on difference projects, for european but also american clients such as Google, Arte, Netflix or Liberty.

German Aracil, 1965 | Figurative painter

Spanish artist🎨, German Aracil was born in Alicante. In 1985 he began his studies at the San Carlos School of Fine Art in Valencia, Spain.

Aracil's first one-man show was held in his home town of Alicante, followed in 1990 by exhibitions in New York, Miami, USA. Subsequently, German Aracil has exhibited his work with great success in Spain, Portugal, Japan, Germany, France, South America and the USA.

Martin Llamedo, 1980 | Figurative painter

Martin Llamedo was born in Argentina, where he currently lives and paints. At a young age he studied ceramic and sculpture with Hector Alves.

During his time at the university he was taught by Domingo Florio, Carlos Carmona, Alfredo Portillos, Julio Flores, Salvador Constanzo, and art theory by Castillo, Magaz, Dragosky and Laurenzi.

Plein Air painting style

Renoir🎨 - Monet🎨 painting in his garden at Argenteuil, 1873

En Plein Air painting, in its strictest sense, the practice of painting landscape pictures out-of-doors; more loosely, the achievement of an intense impression of the open air (French: plein air) in a landscape painting.

Until the time of the painters of the Barbizon school in mid-19th-century France, it was normal practice to execute rough sketches of landscape subjects in the open air and produce finished paintings in the studio. Part of this was a matter of convenience.

Before the invention of the collapsible tin paint tube, widely marketed by the colour merchants Winsor Newton in 1841, painters purchased their colours in the form of ground pigment and mixed them fresh with an appropriate medium such as oil.

Giovanni Lomi (1889-1969) | Post-Macchiaioli painter

Italian painter🎨 and a great operatic singer Giovanni Lomi (1889-1969) was born in Livorno, where he lived since his childhood in economic straits.

Orphaned at a young age, after a period spent at the Institute G. Lomi Paesaggio rustico Giovanni Pascoli, was entrusted to a peasant family, where he held various jobs, but he could not surrender to his passion for design, that became his purpose in life.

Flemish Art History and Sitemap

Peter Paul Rubens | Old Woman and Boy with Candles, 1616-1617

Flemish painting flourished from the early 15th century until the 17th century, gradually becoming distinct from the painting of the rest of the Low Countries, especially the modern Netherlands.

In the early period, up to about 1520, the painting of the whole area is (especially in the Anglophone world) typically considered as a whole, as Early Netherlandish painting.

This was dominated by the Flemish south, but painters from the north were also important.