Henri Fantin-Latour

A contemporary of the Impressionists, the French artist Henri Fantin-Latour was notable for his flower paintings and group portraits of the Paris intellectuals of the period.

The son of Théodore Fantin-Latour, also an artist, who initiated him in the art of painting, he studied at the École de Dessin in Paris.

However, he derived his real training from copying the classical works of the Great Masters in the Musée du Louvre, particularly Titian and Veronese.

Later, in 1861, he was a disciple of Gustave Courbet for a while, although his discreet, intimate realism was very different from that of his master and caused them to go their separate ways very soon.

Peter Mork Monsted (1859-1941)

Peder Mørk Mønsted (Balle Mølle, 10 dicembre 1859 - Fredensborg, 20 giugno 1941) è stato uno tra i rappresentanti del periodo d'oro della pittura Danese e fu noto come paesaggista.

Mønsted difficilmente può essere collegato alla pittura di paesaggio accademica perché venne molto influenzato dall'Impressionismo francese.

Henri Fantin-Latour | Page 1

Ignace Henri Jean Fantin-Latour was a French painter, born in Rhone-Alpes, France, studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

He is best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of his friends Parisian artists and writers.

His work strongly influenced the Symbolist movement of the late 19th Century.

Whistler brought attention to Fantin in England.

William Bouguereau | Tricoteuse Bretonne, 1871

Curious to experience the uniquely preserved language, religion, and traditions of Brittany’s sixth-century Celtic ancestors, crowds of cultural tourists travelled to this province in northwestern France in the late nineteenth century.

William Bouguereau made his first journey with his family in the summer of 1866 and found himself deeply moved by the region’s coastal landscape and distinctive people, leading him to return every summer until 1870, often vacationing in the small town of Douarnenez.

In July, their final visit was interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War prompting Bouguereau’s return to Paris in July to enlist in the National Guard, putting his artistic career on hiatus.

William Bouguereau | Tricoteuse, 1873

Shortly after Adolphe William Bouguereau🎨 (French Academic painter, 1825-1905) completed Tricoteuse, in 1874, Goupil transferred the painting to their gallery in The Hague and sold it to the Poortman family. Tricoteuse has remained in The Netherlands ever since and with the same family for nearly a century.

No doubt with the help of his powerful dealer, Goupil, Bouguereau was being acquired by many collectors in The Netherlands at this time.

Louis Béroud | The Copyists in the Louvre, 1909

After visiting the Louvre, an American visitor noted that:

"along the galleries are numerous temporary stands, easels, etc., at which artists are constantly at work copying such paintings as they may have orders for, or hope to find purchasers for" (as quoted in Barbara Stern Shapiro, Pleasures of Paris: Daumier to Picasso, Boston, 1991, p. 108).

Vladimir Pervuninsky, 1957 | The Viennese Waltz

Vladimir Pervuninsky / Владимир Первунинский was born in the Russian town of Chelyabinsk. Recognized at an early age for his artistic talent, he went on to attend the Omsk Pedagogical Institute, where he majored in painting and graphics.

Vladimir, in search of a more focused and complete training, set off for Moscow, where he was accepted into the acclaimed V.I. Surikov Moscow State Art College. There, he studied under the tutelage of the well-known academician D.M. Mochalsky.

Vladimir, always, was fascinated by Impressionism and Belle Epoque painting, the strict curriculum of the Soviet Ministry of Culture allowed no latitude for students or instructors to stray from the state sanctioned style of Socialist Realism.

Leon Bazile Perrault | Rose Seller

Léon Bazile Perrault (Poitiers, 16 June 1832-1908, Royan) was a French academic painter.

He was born to a modest family.

A student of William Bouguereau and François-Edouard Picot, he exhibited at the Salon from 1863 onwards, producing many genre works which were immensely popular.

He was famous for his le petit naufragé (The little shipwrecked boy, 1874) and his paintings of children.

Michelle Seo | Pencil portraits of celebrities

Born in Los Angeles, California, Michelle Seo Hongmin is an self taught Pencil artist. Michelle attracts not only celebrities, she also makes portraits of ordinary people.

Her drawings made with ordinary pencil show surprising realism and precision in each of his works.

"I started the project Golden Era at the end of July 2009 with my past Hollywood actresses drawings and i'm so happy and excited to see all of 12 ladies right in front of me... there were some times i wanted to quit being tired and lazy".

Michelle Seo Hongmin | Merlyn Monroe

Paul Cézanne | Post-Impressionist painter

Cézanne's🎨 works were rejected numerous times by the official Salon in Paris and ridiculed by art critics when exhibited with the Impressionists.

Yet during his lifetime Cézanne was considered a master by younger artists who visited his studio in Aix.

Along with the work of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, the work of Cézanne, with its sense of immediacy and incompletion, critically influenced Matisse and others prior to Fauvism and Expressionism.

After Cézanne died in 1906, his paintings were exhibited in a large museum-like retrospective in Paris, September 1907.

The 1907 Cézanne retrospective at the Salon d'Automne greatly affected the direction that the avant-garde in Paris took, lending credence to his position as one of the most influential artists of the 19th century and to the advent of Cubism.

Dan Thompson | Figurative painter

American painter🎨 Dan Thompson was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and graduated from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC.

He earned his MFA from the Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art, and supplemented his training with several additional years of private study and studio apprenticeships along the east coast of the United States.

He has been awarded🎨 two grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and has twice received the Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Award🎨 for Excellence in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Design. In 2001, Thompson won Best of Show in the American Society of Portrait Artist’s International Portrait Competition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Pablo Neruda: "Perhaps not to be is to be without your being.."

Perhaps not to be is to be without your being,

without your going, that cuts noon light

like a blue flower, without your passing

later through fog and stones,

without the torch you lift in your hand

that others may not see as golden,

that perhaps no one believed blossomed

Sir Herbert James Gunn, R.A.

Sir (Herbert) James Gunn RA (1893-1964) è stato un pittore di paesaggi e ritratti Scozzese.

Primi anni

Sir Herbert James Gunn (noto anche come Sir James Gunn) è nato a Glasgow il 30 giugno 1893, figlio di Richard Gunn, un drappeggio, e Thomasina Munro.

Ha studiato per diversi anni alla Glasgow School of Art ed all'Edinburgh College of Art.

Nel 1911, andò all'Académie Julian a Parigi dove studiò sotto Jean-Paul Laurens.

Il Realismo Magico di George Tooker

George Clair Tooker Jr. (1920-2011) è stato un pittore Statunitense.

Le sue opere sono associate al Realismo Magico, al realismo sociale, al fotorealismo ed al surrealismo.

Mario Irarrázabal, 1940

L'artista Mario Irarrázabal è nato a Santiago, in Cile. É uno scultore che dopo aver finito la scuola si trasferì negli Stati Uniti dove trascorse cinque anni nel seminario della Congregazione della Santa Croce.

Dal 1960-1964 ha studiato presso l'Università di Notre Dame dove ha conseguito la laurea in Arte e Filosogia ed il Master in Belle Arti.

Si trasferì in Italia per continuare i suoi studi di Teologia all'Università Gregoriana di Roma.

Tra il 1967-1968 studiò nella Germania occidentale con lo scultore Waldemar Otto, guidandolo nella linea dell'espressionismo figurativo tedesco.

Nel 1969 tornò in Cile, e da quel momento si dedicò alla scultura con la quale riuscì a esprimere sè stesso.

Per due anni (dal 1972-1974) insegnò scultura accademica all'Università Cattolica.

Eugenio Prati (1842-1907)

Eugenio Prati (Caldonazzo, 27 gennaio 1842 - Caldonazzo, 8 marzo 1907) è stato un pittore Italiano.

Nasce il 27 gennaio 1842 a Caldonazzo, in Trentino ed è il primogenito di dieci figli, il padre, Domenico Prati, è geometra e proprietario terriero, la madre, Lucia Garbari, è parente di Tullio Garbari, pittore d'arte sacra dei primi del 900.

Nel 1854 frequenta i corsi di pittura dell'Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia ed è allievo di Michelangelo Grigoletti autore di opere religiose (pale d'altare), del classicista Pompeo Marino Molmenti esponente della pittura veneta del tempo e del pittore austriaco Karl von Blaas della corrente dei nazareni.

Olivia Beaumont | Children's books illustrator

Olivia is a Savannah, GA based artist who creates traditional illustrations and oil paintings of whimsical characters. Olivia Beaumont started her professional career as an artist in 2010.

"Painted portraiture is a long-time study and passion of mine.

The Baroque Beast series serves my desire to make portraits using beastly attributes that the viewer can sympathize with on a level of human emotion.

I believe society already identifies certain animals as noble, others as witty, still others as fierce. Because portraiture is semi-permanent, I believe this dignifies those characteristics, be they noble or barbaric".

Ancient Egyptian Art

The ancient Egyptian name of the country was Kemet (km.t), which means "black land".

Ancient Egyptians also called there county t-mry: "Beloved Land" or "Land of Gods". Travel back in time to a place that has left its imprint and impact on humanity forever.

Discover the ancient metaphysical civilization of Egypt whose advanced knowings and technologies continue to baffle our conservative scientific community today. A visit to this awe-inspiring destination is to journey into immortality.

At no other period of known history has a civilization left behind so many clues and riddles that could answer mankind's deepest searchings of today.

Seven thousands years ago, the ancient Egyptians waged a war against time and mortality. Today, humanity can look at this awesome and ancient civilization and proudly declare victory!

John Bradshaw Crandell (American, 1896-1966)

John Bradshaw Crandell was known as the artist of the stars, a glamour painter. Among those who posed for Crandell were Carol Lombard, Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Veronica Lake and Lana Turner.

In 1921 he began his career with an ad for Lorraine hair nets sold exclusively by F. W. Woolworth. His first cover illustration was the May 28, 1921 issue for Judge magazine.

In later life he went from illustrations to oil on canvas paintings which included political figures. He also provided poster work for 20th Century Fox.

In 2006 he was inducted into the Society of Illustrators hall of fame. In March 2010, an illustration for the 1952 Dutch Treat Club yearbook of Crandell's sold for $17.000.

Paolo di Dono (Italian, 1397-1475)

Paolo di Dono, detto Paolo Uccello è stato un pittore e mosaicista italiano. Fu tra i protagonisti della scena artistica fiorentina della metà del XV secolo. Secondo quanto racconta Vasari nelle sue Vite, Paolo Uccello "non ebbe altro diletto che d'investigare alcune cose di prospettiva difficili et impossibili".

Le sue composizioni sono costruite con prospettive, derivate più dagli studi sull'ottica medievali che sulle nuove conquiste rinascimentali, che non servono a dare ordine logico alla composizione racchiusa entro uno spazio finito e misurabile, ma servono a creare scenografie fantastiche e antropomorfe in spazi indefiniti, elementi tipici della cultura tardogotica.

L'impressione onirica è accentuata dall'uso di monocromi e dall'uso di cieli e sfondi scuri, su cui risaltano luminose le figure bloccate in posizioni innaturali.