Paul Bond, 1964

Award-winning artist Paul Bond was born in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Bond’s art lives in the spaces between dreaming and reality.

Drawing from the Latin American genre of Magic Realism, his paintings merge symbolic, surreal and allegorical elements with realistic atmospheres.

Jarek Kubicki, 1976 | 32nd day of Covid-19 Quarantine

"In recent days", says Polish painter Jarek Kubicki, "in Poland there have been many reports of police abuse in connection with quarantine, people are punished for ordinary cycling or jogging, even if they are alone and away from residential areas.

This provoked me to create a series of 32nd day of Quarantine, which refers to this situation in a light way, based on well-known works of art, while allowing to channel social frustration".

Mostafa Keyhani, 1954 | Modern impressionist painter

Mostafa Keyhani is an Award winning🎨 painter who lives and works in Toronto. His works are collected both in Canada and United States.

• Artist statement:

His work is essentially in be field of modern impressionism.

Light plays an important role in his work, as well as movement of colours.

Maurice Leloir (1853-1940) Rococo painter

Maurice Leloir was a French🎨 illustrator, watercolourist, draftsman, printmaker, writer and collector.

Leloir was the son, and pupil, of painter Auguste Leloir and watercolorist Héloïse Suzanne Colin, daughter of painter Alexandre-Marie Colin.

Leloir married Céline Bourdier, with whom he had a daughter, Suzanne Leloir, who married Philippe, the son of Pauline Savari in 1912.

Pierre Grisot (1911-1995) | Belle Époque painter

Pierre Grisot was a French🎨 post-Impressionist artist who was a member of the Parisian School of art. Grisot painted in a light hearted style that was all his own.

Whether he was painting fashionable ladies of the day or flowers, his work was always full of colour and life and was very different from the styles of his contemporary painters.

Karl Kaufmann (1843-1901)

Karl Kaufmann was an Austrian landscape and architectural painter.

Karl Kaufmann was a student at the Vienna Academy. His studies in the European North (Norway), to Holland, Germany (Franconia, Danzig, Königsberg) and often to Italy (Naples, Rome, Venice) gave him the motives for his numerous landscapes, including a remarkable number of views of Venice.

From 1900 Karl Kaufmann constantly lived in Vienna. He often signed his works using pseudonyms.

Bernard Charoy, 1931

Bernard Charoy was born to a family of artisans, in the Lorraine region on the East of France.

Bernard Charoy is a brilliant talented figurative artist, who has continued to follow and develop his creativity instincts for nearly half a century.

Bernard Peltriaux (1921-1999) | Art Deco painter

Bernard Peltriaux was an French painter🎨.

Born in Reims, in the northeast of France, Bernard Peltriaux went to study art in Paris in the studio of René Jaudon.

Impressed with the social life of the time he developed to a typical artists of the French scene.

Empathetic, rich in detail and with a touch of exclusivity Peltriaux painted scenes at equestrian events with beautiful women, living in the bistro, at the bar and at the Lido.

Léon Zeytline (1885-1962) | Belle Époque painter

Léon Zeytline / Леон Цейтлин was a Russian-born French🎨 Impressionist and Modern painter.

Leon Zeytline studied painting, sculpture and architecture in Moscow before setting off on a tour of discovery of Europe, and Paris in particular, where his family of Russian origin settled well before the revolution.

Linda Le Kinff, 1949 | Modern Cubist painter

Linda Le Kinff was born in Paris from French and Brazilian parents.

She started her career as a painter at the age of 20.

In the 1970s she traveled to India, Tibet, Mexico and Italy.

She lived and worked in Italy for 12 years learning the ancient techniques of tempera, egg painting and the gold leaf method taught by masters in Florence and Livorno.

Vladimir Mukhin, 1971 | Ballet dancers

The founder of an magical fusion of a new genre, Vladimir Mukhin knows the material fully well, he feels the shape with the tip of his brush, he is deeply psychological yet will always find a place for a touch of good humor or gentle irony.

The structures of his compositions are very literature-intense, musical in color, with a touch of unforgettable theatrical reminiscences, which makes it unbelievably immersive.

Haynes King (1831-1904) Genre painter

Haynes King was an English🎨 genre painter. Apart from genre subjects, he painted interiors, landscapes, and coast scenes with figures.

King was born at Barbados in December 1831, son of Robert M. King by his wife Maria. Coming to London in 1854, he became a student at Leigh's (afterwards Heatherley's) Academy in Newman Street, London.

Raffaele Monti (1818-1881) | Allegorical sculptor

Raffaele Monti was an Italian🎨 sculptor, author and poet born in Milan.

He studied under his father, the noted sculptor Gaetano Matteo Monti in the Imperial Academy.

He was invited to Vienna while aged only 20 where he received extensive patronage, he subsequently returned to Milan in 1840.

In 1846 Monti travelled to England for the year, and later settled there.

Pino Daeni | Romantic painter

Giuseppe Dangelico Daeni (1939-2010) was an Italian Impressionist book illustrator and painter.

Trained in Italy at the Art institute of Bari, and later at Milan's Academy of Brera, Pino perfected his skills painting figure studies heavily influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites and Macchiaioli.

After establishing himself as a successful artist in his native land, Pino immigrated to the United States, seeking more artistic freedom and opportunity.

Pino has illustrated 3.000 books, movie posters and magazine illustrations and his style has dominated the market.

Laura Coombs Hills (1859-1952)

Laura Coombs Hills was an American artist🎨 and illustrator who specialized in watercolor and pastel still life paintings, especially of flowers, and miniature portrait paintings on ivory.

She became the first miniature painter elected to the Society of American Artists, and she was a founder of the American Society of Miniature Painters.

Wlastimil Hofman | Pittore simbolista

Wlastimil Hofman (1881-1970) era un pittore accademico Ceco-Polacco, rappresentante del simbolismo.

Era il più giovane dei sei figli di Ferdinand Hofmann e della sua moglie polacca, Teofila Muziková.

Nel 1889, la famiglia si trasferì a Cracovia, dove Wlastimil frequentò la St. Wenceslas School.

Alessandro Puttinati (1801-1872)

Alessandro Puttinati, also Putinati was an Italian sculptor.

Son of the engraver and medalist Frncesco, he was a pupil and follower of the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) in Rome.

Among his best known works are some statues for the cathedral of Milan; the statues of San Carlo and Sant'Ambrogio in San Simpliciano; the Monument to Carlo Porta (1862) which was located in the Giardini di Porta Venezia and was destroyed during the Anglo-American bombing in Milan as well, the one to Garibaldi in Luino (1867), the first dedicated statue to Garibaldi still alive and of the statue of Masaniello (1846) today at the Gallery of Modern Art (1846).

William Jabez Muckley (1829-1905)

William Jabez Muckley was a noted English artist🎨 who was born at Wordsley, Kingswinford, in Staffordshire. He was the eldest of the seven children of Jabez Muckley who was a glass artisan.

William Jabez Muckley began his career as a glass cutter with W.H.B. and J.Richardson of Wordsley and became their principal designer and engraver.

When only 22, he was responsible for much of the engraving that earned the firm considerable praise in the Great Exhibition of 1851.

Igor Morski, 1960 | Surreal Green

Igor Morski is a Polish painter🎨, illustrator and graphic designer whose surreal work is as thought evoking as they are beautifully rendered.

Anyone wishing to glance at his work will find themselves staring. It’s the kind of art that would make a casual observer do a double-take.

Alena Shymchonak | Impressionist painter

Alena Shymchonak is a painter who comes from Estonia. She produces a lot of paintings for collectors in different countries.

She like using palette knife and oil painting to produce her paintings.

Alena’s works found collectors in UK, USA, Canada, China, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Turkey and many European countries.

She’s always available for Individual oil painting commissions.

Pino Daeni (1939-2010)

Pino Daeni, pittore Italiano, nato Giuseppe d'Angelico a Bari, iniziò i studi presso l'istituto d'arte della città. Nel 1960 è entrato all'Accademia di Brera di Milano dove ha perfezionato il suo talento e la sua abilità nella pittura della figura.

Dal 1960-1979 i suoi lavori sono comparsi in alcune importanti mostre in tutta Italia ed in Europa e, nello stesso periodo, due grossi editori italiani, Mondadori e Rizzoli, gli hanno commissionato numerose illustrazioni per copertine di libri.

Tuttavia, Pino Daeni si è sentito limitato a Milano, voleva la libertà artistica che credeva esistesse negli Stati Uniti, e così nel 1979 vi è emigrato sotto il patrocinio della Galleria Borghi.

Josef Kote, 1964

Josef Kote is a New York-based visual artist, best known for his distinctive style and technique.

A native of Albania, Josef Kote is a skilled and discerning interpreter of color harmonies, light and mood.

The core of Kote’s work is based on expressing feelings and emotions.

His bold brushwork and sweeping strokes of vibrant colors are applied more often than not with a pallet knife, while other areas of the canvas are left monochromatic and devoid of detail, creating a negative space that lets the eye drift to infinity.

Maryam Mughal, 1987 | Figurative painter

- I am Maryam Mughal, born and brought up in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Since a child, the air in front of me was the canvas and I was brushing it with colors of my thoughts.

One day I did it on paper and the world around me said, wow, since than I was titled as a natural artist and my hands itch to create more art to beautify life around me.

Anatoly Metlan, 1964 | Impressionist painter

Anatoly Metlan è nato a Yalta, in Ucraina, vicino al Mar Nero.

Crescendo, Metlan ha sviluppato la passione per le opere degli impressionisti.

Dopo il liceo ha frequentato la Krivoi Rog University, nel sud dell'Ucraina.

Mentre era all'università, Metlan espose le sue opere e pian piano si fece un nome.

Nel 1989, era stato accettato nella Guild Artist in Ucraina.

Shafira Yablonski, 1938 | Impressionist painter

Ukrainian painter Shafira Yablonski was born in the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk.

When Shafira was 3 years old the world war II began and her family was evacuated to Kazakhstan.

When the war was over and the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk was liberated, they returned home to Ukraine.

There Shafira spent her childhood and adolescence and finished high school.

All her childhood she was fond of drawing. When Shafira was 15, she joined the art studio at the House of Culture and began learning to paint.

Zhaoming Wu 吴兆铭, 1955

Zhaoming Wu 吴兆铭 is a Chinese-born painter. Wu grew up in Guangzhou City, China and he received his BFA from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and his MFA from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California.

Wu is known best for his figurative paintings. Inspired heavily by 19th century French painting🎨, Wu describes his work as "representational, but not traditional classical".

This can be seen, as Wu uses modern elements of graphic design in his work.

Mariano Fortuny y Marsal | Fantasy on Faust, 1866

In this work, Mariano Fortuny y Marsal (1838-1874) establishes an eloquent link between painting and music and a clear exposition of what his friend, the Baron Davillier, called his very lively and very pure taste in music.

Fortuny depicts one of the musical evenings that he attended in Madrid during the summer of 1866 at his friend and former classmate, Catalan painter Francisco Sans y Cabot’s studio at no. 13, calle Flor Baja in Madrid.

Shen Hanwu 沈漢武, 1950 | Genre painter

Shen Hanwu was born in Wuhan, Hubei province.

In the 1980s, he became famous as a book illustrator. In 1986, Shen entered Wuhan Art Academy and became a professional artist.

Throughout the 1990s his oil paintings were frequently exhibited in national fine art exhibitions and in 1995, Shen became a member of the Chinese National Artists Association.

Paolo Troubetzkoy (1866-1938) | Impressionist sculptor

Prince Paolo Petrovich Troubetzkoy / Павел Петрович Трубецкой was an artist and a sculptor who was described by George Bernard Shaw as "the most astonishing sculptor of modern times".

By birth, he was a member of the ancient House of Trubetskoy.

He was the son of Russian diplomat, Prince Peter Petrovich Troubetzkoy and his second wife, lyric singer Ada Winans (1831-1917).

Endre Penovác, 1956 | Watercolor painter

Serbian painter Endre Penovác was born in Tornjoš. He finished Academy of fine arts in Novi Sad. He works as an independent artist.

He started to display in 1981, and since that time, he make group or independent exhibits in country and abroad, Croatia, Germany, France, Hungary, Bosnia. Endre Penovác lives in Bačka Topola.

He lives in Bačka Topola.

Renoir | Figures on the Beach, 1890

Figures on the Beach
Artist: Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer)
Date: 1890
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 20 3/4 x 25 1/4 in. (52.7 x 64.1 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number:  1975.1.198
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 961

Isaac Levitan | Spring in Italy, 1890

Isaak Ilyich Levitan🎨 / Исаак Ильич Левитан(1860-1900), Lithuanian-born Jewish painter who was one of Russia’s most influential landscape artists and the founder of what has been called the "mood landscape".

Pier Toffoletti | COVID-19 Heroes, 2020

The first person who contracted the Coronavirus was traced back on 17 November 2019.

The virus that caused the outbreak is known as SARS-CoV-2, a newly discovered virus closely related to bat coronaviruses, pangolin coronaviruses and SARS-CoV.

Health authorities in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, China, reported a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown cause on 31 December 2019, and an investigation was launched in early January 2020.

Chen Huimin 陈慧敏, 1943 | Flowers painter

Chen Huiming 陈慧敏 is a Chinese painter🎨. In 1964 she graduated from the Beijing Institute of Arts and Design.

Chen Huiming is an outstanding representative of contemporary art.

For more than 30 years, she expresses in her works the beauty of flowers.

Alexandre Cabanel | Adam, study for Paradise Lost, 1867

French🎨 Academic and Classical painter Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889) was born in the city of Montpellier. He showed a proclivity for drawing at a young age, and was enrolled at the local art school in his hometown of Montpellier at the age of ten.

By 17, he was given the opportunity to study at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris.

In 1844, he exhibited for the first time at the Paris Salon, and was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1845.

Following his debut, he soon became a favorite of the Paris Salon.

Alexandre Cabanel | Samson and Delilah, 1878

Delilah, also spelled Dalila, in the Old Testament, the central figure of Samson’s last love story (Judges 16).

She was a Philistine who, bribed to entrap Samson, coaxed him into revealing that the secret of his strength was his long hair, whereupon she took advantage of his confidence to betray him to his enemies. Her name has since become synonymous with a voluptuous, treacherous woman.

Alexandre Cabanel | Ophelia, 1883

Christie's | Remaining faithful to historical and literary subjects as themes for his paintings, this work depicts perhaps the most complex and vivid of characters immortalised in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia.

Such a captivating character, she has held the fascination of artists for centuries, widely portrayed by Victorian masters in particular, such as Sir Thomas Francis Dicksee, John Everett Millais and John William Waterhouse among others.

Paul Gauguin | Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin, 1889

Paul Gauguin | Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin, 1889 | National Gallery in Prague

Gustave Courbet, the perhaps most famous exponent of Realism in French painting, created a number of sensational paintings.

Standing out among them is the work “The Meeting or Bonjour Monsieur Courbet” of 1854, in which Courbet shows himself out wandering, whereby he encounters his patron Alfred Bruyas and his servant. Bruyas supported Courbet and purchased the large-format painting.

When it was exhibited at the Paris World Exhibition of 1855, the audacity of the painter, who presented himself with abundant self-confidence and in a much more favourable light than his patron, was not lost on spectators.

Paul Gauguin | Washerwomen, 1888 | MoMA

Paul Gauguin | Washerwomen, 1888 | MoMA

In October 1888, Gauguin arrived in Arles where his friend Vincent Van Gogh had invited him to come and work.

The two artists had been writing to each other for several months, recording progress on their attempts to produce a non-naturalist landscape.

Paul Gauguin | Young Man with a Flower behind his Ear, 1891

Originally in the collection of the great modern master Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin's striking and evocative portrait of a young man, clad in a pink European blouse and loose cravat, with the native adornment of a small white tiaré blossom tucked over his left ear, is among the first paintings the artist completed after arriving in Tahiti in 1891.

The forthright charm of this painting stems from Gauguin's sensitive characterization of his sitter, a handsome and thoughtful man of whom the artist was clearly quite fond.

Paul Gauguin | Petit Breton à l'Oie, 1889

This important depiction of the Breton countryside is one of the pictures that Gauguin completed in 1889, when he was working in Pont Aven.

Executed with lush colors and linear undulations that presage his pictures of the tropics, this composition presents an exoticized depiction of the region, interpreted through the stylization of Gauguin’s late Symbolist aesthetic.

The romanticizing of the natural world in this picture is indicative of Gauguin's desire to escape the trappings of industrialized France in the months prior to his departure for the South Pacific. | © Sotheby's

Guillaume Seignac | Reunited, 1918-1919

This work was probably executed by Guillaume Seignac (French Academic painter, 1870-1924) in 1918-1919.

It represents two women symbolizing France and Alsace.

Seignac painted another composition in 1914, representing "Belgium, France and England before the German invasion" (Sale, Paris, April 22nd 2009, lot 87).

Peter Demetz, 1969

Born in Bolzano, Italy, awarded🎨 sculptor Peter Demetz lives and works in Ortisei (BZ).

He graduated from the Art Institute of Ortisei, he was an apprentice in the laboratory of master Heinrich Demetz.

In 1993 he obtained the master sculptor diploma.

Since then he has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Ortisei, Milan, Vail/ Colorado, Leipzig, Lichtenstein, Vienna, Florence, Bolzano, Lecce, Istanbul, Palma de Mallorca and Rome.

Bryan Larsen, 1975

Bryan Lamont Larsen Jr. is an American realist painter, born in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Larsen was inspired by the figurative works of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and other nineteenth century European painters.
He was educated at Utah State University and at the Grand Central Academy Summer Intensives.

Larsen's work includes architectural elements and figurative works, with themes emphasizing beauty, innovation, aspiration, and optimism for the future.

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)

John Singer Sargent was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian Era luxury.

The Edwardian Period corresponds to the French Belle Époque period. Despite its brief pre-eminence, the period is characterised by its own unique architectural style, fashion, and lifestyle. Art Nouveau had a particularly strong influence. Artists were influenced by the development of the automobile and electricity, and a greater awareness of human rights.

Léon de Smet (Belgian painter, 1881-1966)

Léon de Smet è stato un pittore Belgo🎨 ed il fratello minore del pittore Gustave de Smet (1877-1943), anch'egli famoso pittore.

Nacque a Gand, in Belgio, nel 1881. Ha ricevuto la sua formazione artistica presso la Royal Academy of Art. Insieme a suo fratello, apparteneva ai cosiddetti pittori "Sint-Martens-Latem", un gruppo di artisti che erano attivi nella zona con lo stesso nome.

Lo stile di De Smet è caratterizzato da un tocco impressionista e pointillista.

È rinomato per la sua capacità di costruire una composizione con pennellate rapide, brevi e sottotono, mantenendo sempre l'equilibrio.

John Singer Sargent | Orestes Pursued by the Furies, 1921

'Orestes Pursued by the Furies' was created in 1921 by John Singer Sargent (American painter, 1856-1925) in Neoclassicism style.

It is part of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

"Orestes Pursued by the Furies" is an event from Greek mythology that is a recurring theme in art depicting Orestes.

In the Iliad, the king of Argos, Agamemnon, sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia to the Gods to assure good sailing weather to Troy.

In Agamemnon, the first play of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy, Agamemnon is murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus as revenge for sacrificing Iphigenia.

Arnaldo Ferraguti (1862-1925)

Arnaldo Ferraguti è stato un pittore Italiano Verista, celebre in vita anche per le numerose incisioni con le quali illustrò i libri dell'editore Treves.

Studiò all'Accademia di Belle Arti a Napoli, ma si formò pittoricamente anche grazie alla frequentazione del pittore verista Francesco Paolo Michetti, dal quale apprese anche l'utilizzo della fotografia come strumento per la "cattura" delle immagini.

Divenne celebre nel 1891 con l'enorme dipinto Alla vanga, oggi conservato al Museo del Paesaggio di Verbania-Pallanza, nella quale ritrasse un gruppo di braccianti intenti al lavoro sotto lo sguardo del sorvegliante.

Camille Corot: "Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error"

• "Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them".

• "Non imitare, non seguire gli altri, altrimenti resterai indietro".

• "Nessuno mi ha mai insegnato: il mio istinto mi spinge e io gli obbedisco".