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Paul Sérusier (French painter, 1864-1909)

Paul Sérusier was a pioneer of abstract art and an inspiration for the avant-garde Nabis movement. He studied at the Académie Julian and was a monitor there in the mid 1880s. In the summer of 1888 he traveled to Pont-Aven and joined the small group of artists centered there around Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)🎨.
While at the Pont-Aven artist's colony he painted a picture that became known as The Talisman, under the close supervision of Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)🎨.
The picture was an extreme exercise in Cloisonnism that approximated to pure abstraction. He was a Post-Impressionist painter, a part of the group of painters called Les Nabis. Sérusier along with Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)🎨 named the group.
Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard and Maurice Denis became the best known of the group, but at the time they were somewhat peripheral to the core group.
























































































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Georges-Marie-Julien Girardot (French, 1856-1914)


French painter Georges Marie Julien Girardot (1856-1914) was trained by the artist Albert Maignan in Paris. He was a member of the Society of French painters from 1883 and principally showed genre scenes at the Salon. He was awarded** several medals for his works.

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Alfred Maurer | Paris nocturne

Alfred Henry Maurer (April 21, 1868 – August 4, 1932) was an American modernist painter. He exhibited his work in avant-garde circles internationally and in New York City during the early twentieth century. Highly respected today, his work met with little critical or commercial success in his lifetime, and he died, a suicide, at the age of sixty-four.
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William Bouguereau | Petit joueur de flûte, 1878


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Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)

Frida Kahlo was s Mexican painter who produced mostly small, highly personal self-portraits using elements of fantasy and a style inspired by native popular art. Kahlo was born in Coyoacán, Mexico, near Mexico City.
While a student at Mexico City's National Preparatory School in 1925, she sustained severe injuries in a bus accident. During her recuperation, Kahlo taught herself to paint.
After three years she took some of her first paintings to the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, who encouraged her to continue her work. Kahlo and Rivera married in 1929.
Influenced by Rivera's work, Kahlo adopted his use of broad, simplified color areas and a deliberately naive style in her paintings.


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Antonio Mancini (1852-1930)

Antonio Mancini è stato un pittore Accademico Italiano. Mancini dimostra una tale e precoce abilità artistica che, appena dodicenne, viene ammesso all'Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli dove è allievo di Morelli, di Palizzi e di Stanislao Lista.
Si dedica al ritratto e alla pittura di genere aneddotico con notevoli risultati.
La sua arte si identifica con la corrente del Verismo.
Rimane a Napoli fino al 1873 anno in cui si trasferisce a Parigi, dove l'anno precedente aveva esposto due dipinti al Salon; nella capitale francese lavora per Goupil e poi per l'olandese Mesdag (che donerà poi molti suoi lavori al museo dell'Aia).


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Ludovico Carracci | The penitent Saint Peter


Although mentioned by Ludovico's earliest biographer Malvasia as early as 1678, all trace of this monumental image by Ludovico Carracci of repentance was lost until its rediscovery approximately 40 years ago. Gail Feigenbaum was the first to suggest that the large scale and emotional grandeur of this Penitent Saint Peter suggested a later dating within Carracci’s career, towards the middle of the second decade of the seventeenth century, and specifically to circa 1613.

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Donatello | David, 1440


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Tiziano Vecellio | David and Goliath, 1544


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Gérard Daran, 1946 | Toulouse, France

Gérard Daran, born in Toulouse is a French painter and draftsman.
He studied at the Beaux-Arts in Toulouse, Strasbourg and Paris, specializing in the figurative, particularly in the academic figure.
He has worked and lived in Paris since 1968.


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Adam Miller, 1979


Adam Miller began an apprenticeship to artist Allen Jones at thirteen years old and at Sixteen, was accepted to the prestigious Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy where he underwent an extensive training in classical painting techniques and studied the masterpieces of the Renaissance firsthand.
For the next four years Miller traveled throughout Europe studying the masters. His work has been commissioned by Robert Pamplin Jr., the Chairman of the Board of the Portland Art Museum, Mike Tyson, and Eric Rhodes, publisher of Fine Art Connoiseur.
Miller has exhibited in both the U.S and Europe.
Adam Miller has been described in reviews as a "rising star of realism" and it was said that he "would be considered a master in any era" - Adam Miller.
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Leon Roulette, 1959 | California

Leon Roulette è nato nel sud della California.
Ha ricevuto lezioni privati di arte in tenera età ed alla fine si è laureato alla California State University di Long Beach con una laurea in Belle Arti.
Ha studiato sia arte classica che teorie di architettura e design.
Dopo la laurea, divenne presto istruttore d'arte nel sud della California.


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Vladimir Borovikovsky (1757-1825)


Vladimir Lukič Borovikovskij / Владимир Лукич Боровиковский, è stato un pittore russo, nato in Ucraina e reso celebre soprattutto per la carriera di ritrattista.
Vladimir Borovikovskij nacque come Vоlоdymyr Borovyk nella località di Myrhorod (ora in Ucraina).
Suo padre, Luka Borovyk, fu un appassionato pittore di icone.

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Annie Manero | France


L'artista Francese Annie Manero ha esplorato i temi della natura che ci circonda e poi tutte le visioni di viaggi e naturalmente Venezia, che l’ha ispirata molto.
Annie Manero si realizza in una passione per la pittura che non ha potuto sempre esprimere totalmente negli anni in famiglia, ma che la portano fin dalla sua adolescenza verso lo studio della pittura degli altri, dei grandi, ma da più di 20 anni lascia che sia la sua immaginazione a dipingere per lei.
Le sue tele ci aprono alla sua sensibilità per i colori sia nelle tonalità che nelle armonie.

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Federico Zandomeneghi | The Bouquet

Federico Zandomeneghi [1841-1917] was an Italian painter, known for working in the Impressionist style. For biographical notes and earlier works by Zandomeneghi see Federico Zandomeneghi ~ Italian Impressionist painter.
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Frédéric Bazille - Réunion de famille, 1867


Before his early death in battle during the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, Frédéric Bazille was close to Renoir and Monet, particularly admiring their open-air paintings. During a summer holiday in the family home at Méric, near Montpellier, he worked on this motif in a fairly large painting showing ten of his close family gathered on the terrace, and adding himself at the far left of the painting.
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Hamish Blakely | Pittore di figure

Hamish Blakely dipinge scene figurative. Il suo processo creativo prevede la stratificazione di pigmenti pesanti di vernice per ottenere una superficie spessa.
Spinto dalla ammirazione per la figura umana (soprattutto quella femminile), le opere di Blakely esprimono sensualità e bellezza attraverso l'accuratezza dei dettagli e la ricchezza dei colori.
Nato nella bellissima città medievale di Canterbury (Cantuaria), Hamish Blakely ha studiato alla Wimbledon School of Art e la Kingston University.


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Rafal Olbinski, 1945


Rafal Olbinski born in Kielce, Poland and immigrated to the United States in 1981, where he soon established himself as a prominent painter, illustrator and designer.
For his artistic achievements, he has received more than 150 awards including Gold and Silver Medals from the Art Directors Club of New York, Gold and Silver Medals from the Society of Illustrators in New York and Los Angeles, and The Big Crit 2000 award by Critique Magazine in San Francisco.
In 1994 he was awarded the International Oscar for The World’s Most Memorable Poster, Prix Savignac in Paris.
The President of the Republic of Poland awarded Olbinski the highest award in the field of arts, the gold medal, “Gloria Artist”.