Richard Diebenkorn | Abstract / Expressionist painter

Richard Diebenkorn, Lyrical painter, Dies at 71

By Michael Kimmelman, New York Times newspaper, March 31, 1993

Richard Diebenkorn 1922-1993, one of the premier American painters🎨 of the postwar era, whose deeply lyrical abstractions evoked the shimmering light and wide-open spaces of California, where he spent virtually his entire life, died yesterday at his home in Berkeley. He was 70.

The cause was respiratory failure after a long illness, said his dealer, Lawrence Rubin of M. Knoedler and Company in Manhattan.

Karl Bang, 1935

Shanghai born painter 龐卡 Pang Ka Karl Bang was formally trained by the master artists of Chinese painting and he also formally trained in the European painting tradition in France and Belgium.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Karl Bang see 龐卡 Pang Ka Karl Bang, 1935 | Visionary painter|.

Maria Amaral, 1950 | Surrealist painter

Exiled from Spain in 1949 after years spent resisting Franco’s regime, her pastor father and teacher mother found refuge in Argentina.

On Christmas Day the following year 1950, in Buenos Aires, Maria Amaral was born.

In 1967, it was her turn to experience exile when she and her family were forced to flee from Argentina.

France welcomed them and they settled in Strasbourg, before she left for Paris and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where she earned an honours degree in fine art, setting up her future as an artist.

Perugino (Renaissance painter, 1445-1523)

Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci -il Perugino, was the greatest painter of the Umbrian school, active mainly in Perugia.

He studied under Fiorenzo di Lorenzo, assisted Piero della Francesca at Arezzo, and in the early 1470s was a fellow pupil of Leonardo da Vinci and Lorenzo di Credi in Verrocchio's studio in Florence.

In 1479 Perugino was summoned to Rome by Pope Sixtus IV to help decorate the Sistine Chapel.

Roderic O’Conor | Post-Impressionist painter

From National Gallery of Ireland:

Although he was born in Ireland, and attended art school in Dublin, Roderic O’Conor’s (1860-1940) work only became more widely known in Dublin in the late 1950s.

Much of O’Conor’s career was spent in Belgium and France: after attending the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art and the Royal Hibernian Academy Schools, he travelled first to the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Antwerp, and later attended the atelier of Charles Carolus-Duran in Paris.

Jon Bøe Paulsen, 1958 | Figurative painter

Born in Oslo Norway, Jon Bøe Paulsen has been oil painting for more than 35 years. Academically trained with degrees from the School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA and Norwegian State Art Academy, Oslo.

His portraits tell many stories in one single image, and his dynamic between light and dark add a “carravaggistic” feel. Jon’s success as an artist was translated into various commissions, awards🎨 and publications, including a documentary film on his life.
Jon Bøe Paulsen's fine art is dramatically deep in layers, always thought-provoking.

The artist’s work has been featured in exhibitions in Norway, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom.

He is regarded by the Art Renewal Center (ARC) as an Associate Living Master.

Jimmy Lawlor, 1967 | Surrealist painter

Jimmy Lawlor was born in Wexford.

He now lives in Westport, in the magnificent West of Ireland. Lawlor has been exhibiting for over 20 years.

His work is based not only on the Irish sense of humour, but on the vivid realisation that the old way of life will have vanished by our next generation.

His work takes elements from his surroundings and mixes them with the people of the place, in their environment and doing what they love best.

Shaun Berke, 1983 | Symbolist /Figurative painter

Shaun Berke - American painter, philosopher and outdoorsman from Thousand Oaks, California.

"Explorations in culture cultivated my dedication to nature, unearthing insights from mind, myth, and man".

Graduate: Moorpark College, Art Center College of Design, The Nerdrum🎨 School.

Member: The Getty Research Institute, World Wide Kitsch, The Halkyon Guild, The Alpine Fellowship.

Awards🎨 from The Art Renewal Center, Westlake Village Art Guild, Thousand Oaks Art Association.

Walter Osborne (1859-1903) Genre painter

Walter Frederick Osborne was an Irish🎨 Impressionist / Post-Impressionism landscape / portrait painter, best known for his documentary depictions of late 19th century working class life.

Most of his paintings are figurative and focus on women, children, the elderly, the poor, and the day-to-day life of ordinary people on Dublin streets, as well as series of rural scenes.

He also produced cityscapes, which he painted from both sketches and photographs.