I pastelli figurativi di Laurent Botella, 1974

Laurent Botella è un artista Francese nato a Nantes.

Il suo apprendistato di pittura inizia nel 1989 nella bottega di Maïthé Rovino ad Aussonne, seguito da un anno alle Beaux Arts di Toulouse.

Il lavoro si è concentrato sulla pittura ad olio e pastello.

Il lavoro con carboncino e matita è sempre stato alla base del suo lavoro prima e dopo le lezioni.

Géza Peske | Genre painter

Géza Peske (1859-1934) was a Hungarian painter.

He was born in Kelecsény Austria-Hungary.

He studied under Gyula Benczúr and Ludwig von Löfftz at the Academy of Munich.

He lived in Budapest since 1894.

His most famous pictures genre works with children there are at Hungarian National Gallery.

He died and buried in Bodajk, Hungary, where a street bears his name.

L'arte Naïf del francese Camille Bombois

Camille Bombois (Venarey-les-Laumes, 3 febbraio 1883 - 6 giugno 1970) è stato un pittore Francese, appartenente al movimento Naïf.

Figlio di un umile manovratore di barche sui canali, studiò fino all'età di dodici anni, quando ebbe l'occasione di trovare l'impiego dapprima come garzone di fattoria e poi come fattore.

Proprio in questi anni si avvicinò al disegno e alla pittura come autodidatta.

Gli acquerelli architettonici di Thomas W Schaller, 1956

Thomas W. Schaller è un artista pluripremiato, architetto ed autore che vive a New York City.

In qualità di rinomato artista di architettura, ha ricevuto una borsa di studio della Graham Foundation ed è stato due volte vincitore dell'Hugh Ferriss Memorial Prize.

È autore di tre libri; il best-seller e vincitore del premio AIA, Architecture in Watercolor (VNR – McGraw Hill) The Art of Architectural Drawing (J.Wiley and Sons), e Thomas W. Schaller, Architect of Light: Watercolor Paintings by a Master - una retrospective delle sue recenti opere d'arte pubblicate da North Light Books / F+W Media e ora Penguin / Random House, NYC nel 2018.

Nathan Fowkes | Concept artist

Concept artist for the animation and entertainment industry.

Drawing, painting, color and design teacher. among his clients are: DreamWorks, Blue Sky, Blizzard and Disney.

Nathan Fowkes is a veteran entertainment industry artist with credits on 11 feature films including: The Prince of Egypt, Spirit, several projects within the Shrek Universe, How to Train Your Dragon, The Legend of Puss in Boots, RIO2 and an upcoming project from Disney.

Sara Linda Poly, 1945 | Romantic painter

"I have always been at home under the open sky.

Trying to capture the beauty and mystery of nature with paint is a joy like no other...it is like coming home" - Sara Linda Poly.

Sara Linda Poly was born and resided in Philadelphia until 1977 when she moved to Washington, D.C.

L'arte romantica di Nicholas Hely Hutchinson, 1955

Nicholas Hely Hutchinson ha studiato alla St. Martins School of Art ed al Bristol Polytechnic (Fine Art).

Dalla sua prima mostra personale nel 1984 Nicholas ha esposto costantemente a Londra, Dublino e Hong Kong.

I suoi dipinti sono diventati sempre più richiesti e ora sono presenti in molte collezioni private ed aziendali.

È stato rappresentato dalla Portland Gallery dal 1997 al 2022 ed è ora rappresentato dalla John Martin Gallery.

Marie Amalia, 1961 | Naif painter

Marie Amalia Bartolini was born an artist. Her mother, Suzy Bartolini, was already well known for her masterful reverse glass painting, and her father, Cyrille Bartolini, is a renowned sculptor.

Studying the fine arts at Paris University, and later enrolling the Beaux Arts School of Paris, Marie Amalia focused her study on the art of sculpture.

But after completing her courses, Amalia decided to follow in her mother’s footsteps, painting in the rare technique, «fixé sous verre», or «painting on reverse glass».

Exhibiting in European countries such as Paris, Bruxelles, Germany and her native France, Amalia's work is also exhibited in the United States by Edward Montgomery Fine Art in California.

Achille Glisenti | Genre painter

Achille Glisenti (October 1, 1848 - December 21, 1906) was an Italian painter, mostly of elegant genre and Orientalist subjects.

He was born in Brescia and had his first training there under Luigi Campini.

He then studied at the Brera Academy of Milan under Eleuterio Pagliano.

Jeong Hae-Kwang (정해광), 1963 | Hyperrealist painter

Jeong Hae-Kwang in an Korean painter, born in Seoul.

In 1989 he graduated from the Department of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Chung-Ang University (Korea).

Jeong Hae-Kwang is known for his hyper-realistic paintings of portraits and figures.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | The Rocks of L’Estaque, 1882

This is one of a small series of radiant landscapes that the Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted during a stay with Paul Cézanne in L'Estaque, a small fishing port just west of Marseilles.

Renoir, who was travelling back to Paris having spent the previous months in Algeria and Italy, was immediately captivated by the raw light and rich beauty of the Provençal landscape.

"How beautiful it is!" he wrote to a friend, "It's certainly the most beautiful place in the world, and not yet inhabited… There are only some fishermen and the mountains…so there are no walls, no properties or few…here I have the true countryside at my doorstep".

Alexandr Melnikov, 1959 | Romantic painter

Alexandr Melnikov / Александр Мельников, originally of Russian descent, was born in Moscow region.

He is graduated in the High School of Arts of Odessa and in the National Academy of Kiev.

Aleksandr Melnikov participated in many exhibitions in Geneva (Switzerland), Marseille (France), Yoko Gama (Japan), Frankfort (Germany), Vancouver (Canada).

Il Post-Impressionismo

Vincent van Gogh | The starry night, 1888

Liberandosi dal naturalismo dell'Impressionismo alla fine del 1880, un gruppo di giovani pittori cercò stili artistici indipendenti per esprimere emozioni piuttosto che semplici impressioni ottiche, concentrandosi su temi di simbolismo più profondo.

Attraverso l'uso di colori semplificati e forme definitive, la loro arte era caratterizzata da un rinnovato senso estetico e da tendenze astratte.

Yovka Mechkarova, 1976 | Romantic painter

Bulgarian painter Yovka Mechkarova / Йовка Мечкарова was born in the town of Kalofer, Bulgaria.

She graduated in art education for Applied Arts in the town of Troyan in 1995.

She currently resides in Veliko Ternovo (Bulgaria).

Taeil Kim | Abstract painter

Korean artist Taeil Kim / 김태일 begins his art by thinking, “how will I observe and re-create the figure?”

Influenced by his observations of people's daily interactions with nature, he is able to create moving and unique portraits.

Kim is heavily influenced by the work of such masters as Rembrandt and 19th Century Impressionism.

Camille Roqueplan | Romantic painter

Camille Joseph Etienne Roqueplan (18 February 1802/03, Mallemort - 29 September 1855, Paris) was a French Romantic painter of landscapes, genre and historical scenes.

From an early age, he displayed an aptitude for drawing, and would often correct his classmates.

Around the age of eighteen, he began to take painting lessons.

Pedro Roldán Molina, 1954 | Modern impressionism painter

Pedro Roldán Molina was born in Rute in the province of Còrdoba, Andalucía.

From a very young age he carried out his first drawing studies, obtaining different prizes for painting and other techniques, in his town, and also a national one at eight years.

He continued his studies in Barcelona where he has spent his entire career, surrounded by the modernists and very close to the impressionists, but fundamentally alongside the great creators who took over those lands in the last decade of the last century.

Mascha Kaléko | Ricetta

Francine Van Hove, 1942

Scaccia la paura

e la paura della paura.

Per qualche anno le cose basteranno.

Il pane nel cassetto

e il vestito nell’armadio.

Emma Sparre | Genre painter

Emma Josepha Sparre (1851-1913) was a Swedish baroness, artist and poet.

Emma Josepha Sparre née Munktell was born at Grycksbo in Dalarna County, Sweden.

She was the daughter of Henrik Munktell (1804-1861) and Christina Augusta Eggertz (1818-1889).

She was the sister of composer Helena Munktell (1852-1919).

She was married to fellow artist Baron Carl Axel Ambjörn Sparre (1839-1910) from 1870 to 1891.

Il Realismo magico di María Berrío, 1982

Nata a Bogotá, in Colombia, María Berrío ha completato il suo BFA alla Parsons School of Design nel 2004 ed il suo MFA alla New York School of Visual Arts.

Le sue opere su larga scala, meticolosamente realizzate da strati di carta giapponese, riflettono sulle connessioni interculturali e sulla migrazione globale viste attraverso il prisma della sua stessa storia.

La prima rassegna dell'artista María Berrío: Esperando mientras la noche florece (Waiting for the Night to Bloom) è stata esposta al Norton Museum of Art di West Palm Beach da gennaio a maggio 2021.