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.

Antonio Allegri detto il Correggio | Vita ed opere

Antonio Allegri detto il Correggio (Correggio, agosto 1489 - Correggio, 5 marzo 1534) fu un pittore Italiano.

Prendendo spunto dalla cultura del Quattrocento e dai grandi maestri dell'epoca, quali Leonardo, Raffaello, Michelangelo e Mantegna, inaugurò un nuovo modo di concepire la pittura ed elaborò un proprio originale percorso artistico, che lo colloca tra i grandi del Cinquecento.

John Cooney, 1964 | Figurative painter

John Cooney is an artist from Carrickfergus. He paints in watercolour and oil.

- "I was born in Newry, Co. Down but have lived most of my life close to Belfast.

I went to art college in Belfast and Manchester, achieving a first class honours degree in illustration.

While at college, I won first prize at the North West Artists exhibition sponsored by BP.

Yuri Klapouh, 1963 | Ucraina

Yuri Klapoukh / Юрий Клапоух è nato a Charkov.

Si è diplomato presso l'Istituto Statale Accademico d'Arte di Mosca -Surikov.

Professionalmente impegnato nella pittura per 15 anni.

I suoi temi preferiti sono il paesaggio russo, il ritratto classico e la scena di genere della vita rurale.

Ha partecipato a numerose mostre collettive e personali.

I suoi dipinti sono in collezioni private negli Stati Uniti, Repubblica Ceca, Polonia, Austria, Repubblica del Sud Africa e Germania.

Sam Szafran | Pastel painter

Sam Szafran, pseudonym of Samuel Berger (Paris, 1934-2019) was a French artist.

Biography

Sam Szafran was born in Paris in 1934, a son of Polish Jewish immigrants.

He grew up in the Quartier des Halles.

As a child, he knew that art was what he wanted to do.

Arthur Rimbaud | Sensazione / Sensation, 1870

Sensazione

Le sere azzurre d'estate, andrò per i sentieri,

Punzecchiato dal grano, a calpestare erba fina:

Trasognato, ne sentirò la freschezza ai piedi.

Lascerò che il vento mi bagni il capo nudo.

Willard Leroy Metcalf | On the river

Giovanni Battista Quadrone | Genre painter

Giovanni Battista Quadrone (1844-1898) was an Italian painter, mainly of genre scenes.

He was a resident of Turin. He was born to a relatively wealthy family of marble merchants.

His family encouraged his art studies, and Quadrone enrolled in the Accademia Albertina, where he studied with Enrico Gamba and Gaetano Ferri (1822–1896) and won the Triennial competition.

Fiedrich Hegel: "L'istruzione è l'arte di rendere l'uomo etico"

Bernardino Luini | Une figure de sainte, en buste, avec une palme et lisant les Ecritures

• "La realtà produce una parte dell'arte, il sentimento la completa". Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

• "L'istruzione è l'arte di rendere l'uomo etico". Fiedrich Hegel

• "La buona arte è quella che ti lascia entrare da tante angolazioni diverse ed uscire con tante prospettive diverse". Mary Schmich

• "Il mondo non è stato creato una volta, ma tutte le volte che è sopravvenuto un artista originale". Marcel Proust

Trent Gudmundsen, 1978 | Le ballerine

Trent Gudmundsen è cresciuto in una piccola comunità agricola dello Utah, dove ha iniziato a dipingere ad olio all'età di 14 anni.

In seguito ha frequentato il college con una borsa di studio d'arte completa, ma l'artista si è ritrovato spesso a dipingere nei campi invece di frequentare le sue lezioni. Annoiato dalle lezioni, decise di dipingere rapidi studi delle persone intorno a lui, scoprendo di essere abbastanza bravo a dipingere le persone.

Trent lasciò presto la scuola per dipingere da solo e successivamente si trasferì in Colorado dove incontrò e sposò Lorajean.

Hugo Mühlig | Pittore impressionista

Il pittore Tedesco Hugo Mühlig è nato a Dresda da una famiglia di artisti; suo padre Meno Mühlig (1823-1873) era un affermato paesaggista e pittore di genere, così come suo zio Bernhard Mühlig (1829-1910).

Fu incoraggiato a seguire l'esempio e ricevette la sua prima formazione artistica da suo padre prima di studiare all'Accademia d'arte di Dresda tra il 1877 ed il 1880 sotto l'illustratore Viktor Paul Mohn (1842-1911).

Mühlig era un visitatore abituale della colonia di artisti ad Willingshausen, una pittoresca cittadina sulle rive del fiume Schwalm nella regione dell'Assia in Germania.

Patrice Murciano, 1969 | New Pop

Patrice Murciano è nato nel sud della Francia.

Affascinato dall'arte in tenera età, ha iniziato a copiare le figure dei cartoni animati all'età di 6 anni ed ha esposto il suo primo dipinto quando ne aveva 12.

Ha iniziato a dipingere le sue prime muse con il trucco di sua madre.

Affascinato dalla donna, rende omaggio ai vari movimenti artistici che lo accompagneranno durante la sua evoluzione: il "Courbisme" lusinga le curve della donna, il "Griboullisme" si insinua nei suoi quadri ed oggi si ritrovano in questa nuova flusso che è il New Pop.

Aleksandr Bylich, 1971 | Romantic painter

Belarusian painter Aleksandr Leonidovch Bylich / Александр Леонидович Былич graduated from art school, studied at the St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I. Repin at the Russian Academy of Arts, worked in advertising.

The author is passionate about his local nature.

Anna Alma-Tadema (British, 1867-1943)

Anna Alma-Tadema was a British artist and suffragette.

Alma-Tadema primarily worked with drawings and paintings, creating many portraits and representations of interior scenes, flowers and buildings.

She was influenced by her father, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and showed her works at exhibitions with him and her step-mother, Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema.

Il mondo Romantico dell'artista Liudmila Kondakova

Nata in Russia nel 1956, Liudmila Kondakova è immigrata negli Stati Uniti nel 1991.

Diplomata al Grabar Center di Mosca, ha frequentato anche la Scuola Russa di Arti Sacre, l'Istituto Pedagogico di Mosca e l'Istituto d'Arte di Mosca.

Kondakova collega il suo background altamente qualificato alla sua espressione artistica in questo modo: "Nella mia arte, l'essenza e la bellezza hanno sempre riposato nei dettagli".

Andhika Ramadhian, 1996 | Minimalist graphic designer

"Between minimalism and surrealism, inspired by anything around me, a bit my own life, a bit of internet culture, a bit of film I watch, or a visit to the art gallery, I want to express feeling, I wanted to get an emotional response from audience" - Andhika Ramadhian.

Andhika Ramadhian is a multi-disciplinary designer based in Indonesia.

He is known for his iconic artistic approach of creating images that depict surrealism and minimalism, and provoke philosophical thinking through his visuals.

Antonie Boubong | A Little Gardener, 1886

Antonie Boubong (1842-1908) was a German portrait, genre, and landscape painter.

Life

Antonie Boubong was born on 8 June 1842 in Werneck, Bavaria.

She studied at the Stuttgart Art School with Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Younger in Munich.

Antonie Boubong worked in Strasbourg.

Katarzyna Kurkowska | Pittrice di figure

La pittrice Polacca Katarzyna Kurkowska negli ultimi 20 anni ha sviluppato le sue capacità artistiche nella pittura.

Kurkowska dipinge paesaggi realistici, ritratti e nature morte.

E sebbene non si incontrino nei cataloghi di arte contemporanea, i dipinti Katarzyna Kurkowska sono l'orgoglio di molte collezioni private in Polonia ed in altri paesi.

Vincent van Gogh | Paintings of peasants

Van Gogh had a particular attachment and sympathy for peasants and other working class people that was fueled in several ways.

He was particularly fond of the peasant genre work of Jean-François Millet and others.

He found the subjects noble and important in the development of modern art.

Van Gogh had seen the changing landscape in the Netherlands as industrialization encroached on once pastoral settings and the livelihoods of the working poor with little opportunity to change vocation.

Paul Signac | Port-en-Bessin, the Outer Harbour, 1884

Paul Signac | Port-en-Bessin, the Outer Harbour, 1884 | Christie's

In his luminous seascape painting of 1884, Paul Signac (1863-1935) recorded his impressions of the outer harbour of Port-en-Bessin.

The scene is suffused with the golden afternoon sunlight, which casts a benevolent warmth over natural and manmade elements alike.

The choppy, dappled surface of the deep blue water reflects a myriad of other colours: the pale rocks and velvety-green grass of the surrounding cliffs, the colourful houses nestled in the crevice of the valley, and the brilliant blue of the sky above.

Paul Signac | Port-en-Bessin, the Outer Harbour, 1884 | Source: © Christie's

Vincent van Gogh | Country road in Provence by night, 1890

Symbol of Provence

For Van Gogh, the cypress is the ultimate symbol of Provence.

"The cypresses still preoccupy me", he writes to his brother Theo, "I'd like to do something with them like the canvases of the sunflowers, because it astonishes me that no one has yet done them as I see them.

It's beautiful as regards lines and proportions, like an Egyptian obelisk.

And the green has such a distinguished quality".

Vincent van Gogh | Country road in Provence by night, 1890 | The Kröller-Müller Museum

Christophe Giral, 1960 | A new art of color

"Studying light not in the representation of objects, but in the assembly of colors.

I feel like I'm putting my colors down on a score that the audience's eyes are going to let him or her sing.

To achieve this result, we must know the deep architecture of light, this is my discovery that could not be done without the technical means of the 21st century" - Christophe Giral.

Christophe Giral comes from a family of artists: painters, musician and architect.

Christophe Giral studied at the Beaux-arts in Toulouse in 1976, in 1981 he graduated in fine arts.

He worked in the Capitol's decoration workshop from 1984 to 1989 as a sculptor-moulder-painter.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Tamaris, France, 1885

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Tamaris, France, 1885 | Minneapolis Institute of Art

Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted Tamaris, France in 1885.

This art piece is located in Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN, USA.

Alberto Giacometti | Scultore surrealista

Giacométti, Alberto - Scultore e pittore svizzero (Stampa, Grigioni, 1901 - Coira 1966), figlio di Giovanni Giacometti.

Frequentò la scuola d'arte di Ginevra; nel 1920-21 fu a Roma; nel 1922 si stabilì a Parigi, ove frequentò Bourdelle e s'iscrisse all'Académie de la Grande-Chaumière.

Dal 1925-1928 eseguiva sculture di carattere decisamente cubista.

Nel 1929 aderì al movimento Surrealista, realizzando degli objets e delle constructions-cages (Boccia sospesa, 1930, Zurigo, Kunsthaus) e dall'esperienza surrealista trasse un senso magico dello spazio, talvolta definito per mezzo di fragili strutture lineari (Palazzo alle 4 del mattino, 1932-33, New York, Museum of modern art).

John Everett Millais | La confraternita dei Preraffaelliti

Sir John Everett Millais, RA (Southampton, 8 giugno 1829 - Londra, 13 agosto 1896) è stato un pittore ed illustratore Inglese dell'Età Vittoriana, cofondatore della Confraternita dei Preraffaelliti.

John Everett Millais nacque a Southampton, in Inghilterra, figlio di John William e Emily Mary Millais, entrambi appartenenti a una ricca famiglia nativa del Jersey.

Fu proprio sull'isola di Jersey, d'altronde, che Millais trascorse la sua prima fanciullezza, maturando una vera e propria devozione per questo luogo: quando un giorno William Makepeace Thackeray, noto scrittore inglese dell'Ottocento, gli avrebbe chiesto "quando l'Inghilterra conquistò Jersey", egli avrebbe risposto con veemenza: "Giammai! Jersey conquistò l'Inghilterra".

Cesare Tallone | Pittore Verista

Cesare Vittore Luigi Tallone (Savona, 11 agosto 1853 - Milano, 21 giugno 1919) è stato un pittore e docente Italiano.

Unico figlio maschio dei quattro avuti dalla pianista Teresa Macario e da Pietro Domenico Tallone, originario di Pinerolo, nasce a Savona dove è di servizio il padre, ufficiale dell'esercito piemontese.

Nel 1860 la famiglia si sposta a Parma, dove Pietro dirige il Real Collegio militare ma alla sua precoce morte (nel 1863, a soli 47 anni), si trasferisce ad Alessandria, città natale della madre.

Yunior Hurtado Torres, 1977

Yunior Hurtado Torres, was born in Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba.

At 11 years old he began studying art at the Vocational School of Arts, Olga Alonzo, Santa Clara, Villa Clara.

He finished his studies as an artist in 1999 at the Professional Academy of Fine Arts Oscar Fernández Morera, Trinidad, Cuba.

Since then he has developed his artistic work participating in events inside and outside his country with more than 40 personal and collective exhibitions.

Alex Kelly, 1968 | Alla prima oil painter

Alex Kelly received a Fine Art BA with honours from Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) in 1993.

He has also trained and worked as a graphic designer for over 20 years and has a HNC (Distinction) in Graphic Design from New College Nottingham (UK).

He has also had various studio practices and art related teaching positions with schools and colleges before devoting himself full-time to painting.

His work is in many private collections around the world.

Henri Fantin-Latour | Madame Lerolle, 1882

Fantin-Latour exhibited this portrait of Madeleine Lerolle, wife of fellow artist Henry Lerolle, at the Paris Salon of 1882.

The Salon was the official, annual exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, the national art academy of the French government.

At the time of this portrait, Madeleine Lerolle was 26 years old.

Albert Besnard portrayed her more formally in his painting Madeleine Lerolle and Her Daughter Yvonne, currently on display in the other Romanticism to Realism gallery. | Source: © The Cleveland Museum of Art

Henri Fantin Latour | Madame Lerolle, 1882 | Cleveland Museum of Art

Claude Monet in Italy

Claude Monet | Palm Trees at Bordighera, 1884 | Metropolitan Museum of Art

Monet first visited Italy’s southern coast with Renoir in December 1883.

Shortly thereafter, he returned alone to paint, writing his dealer that working "à deux" was constraining.

This scene and The Valley of the Nervia reflect Monet’s excitement at the new motifs offered by the region’s palm trees and mountains.

For this view, he ventured from his hotel in Bordighera and looked across the Bay of Ventimiglia toward the Alps on the French border.

The dazzling colors challenged him to "dare to use all the tones of pink and blue", although what he truly needed was a "palette of diamonds and jewels".

Claude Monet | Palm Trees at Bordighera, 1884 | Metropolitan Museum of Art

Il Salon di Parigi (1667-1890)

A partire dal 1667, Il Salon de Paris fu la mostra d'arte ufficiale dell'Académie des Beaux-Arts di Parigi.

Per quasi 150 anni (1740-1890 ca.), il Salon è stato l'evento artistico annuale o biennale più prestigioso al mondo.

Di conseguenza, la sua influenza sulla pittura francese - in particolare lo stile artistico, le convenzioni pittoriche e la reputazione degli artisti - fu enorme.

Al Salon del 1761 contribuirono trentatré pittori, nove scultori ed undici incisori.

Dal 1881 in poi, è stato gestito dalla Société des Artistes Français.

Claude Monet | Donna con il parasole - Madame Monet con il figlio, 1875 | Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art

Leis Schjelderup | Figurative painter

Georgia Elise (Leis) Schjelderup (1856-1933) was a Norwegian painter.

She came from the bourgeoisie in Bergen.

The family was part of an environment that cultivated literature, art and music.

Her father was a good singer, and her mother a skilled pianist.