Kay Ruane, 1956 | Outside the window

Kay Ruane is an American painter.

For years I've been drawing figures inside a room with micro landscapes out the windows. I think of the drawings as dioramas, or tiny graphite worlds.

At first these drawings were formal in imagery, as well as strictly black and white. Recently, I'm paying a lot more attention to details like the kind of flower, the title of a book on the table or a painting on the wall.

I want these details to relate to specific themes in each drawing, with a dose of humor and sexuality.

Gil Bruvel, 1959 | Visionary painter / sculptor

Award winning🎨 painter Gil Bruvel creates works of art with quality reminiscent of the Old Masters in a distinct Visionary style. Born in Sydney, Australia, Gil Bruvel's French-born parents moved the family back to the south of France when he was 4 years old.
Gil's father, being a cabinetmaker, introduced the budding artist to the inner workings of a wood workshop including furniture design, its practical function, and every aspect of hand crafting each piece.

Thereafter he set up his studio in St. Remy de Provence until 1986 when he first made his way to the United States, making it his permanent residence in 1990.
At that time he started to experiment more with sculptures in bronze, mixed media and digital modeling as well as continuing to learn about creative processes in artistic expression.

He is currently creating functional art, sculptures and paintings.

Gil Bruvel has been exhibiting his work since 1974 in various places around the world and including: France, Monaco, England, Denmark, The Netherlands, Hungary, Japan, Singapore, New York, Florida, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Hawaii.

His work has received many awards and his collectors span the globe.

Santiago Carbonell, 1960

Born in Quito, Carbonell, Ecuadorian painter, emigrated to Mexico in 1986.

Carbonell studied painting in Barcelona and was part of a group of young painters influenced by informalism.

Tàpies was an influential figure for him.

Tachism and working with different materials, accidents, chance, and texture are all highly influential in his works.

Kahlil Gibran: "Sulla conoscenza"..

E un uomo disse:

Parlaci della Conoscenza.

E lui rispose dicendo:

Il vostro cuore conosce nel silenzio i segreti dei giorni e delle notti.

Ma il vostro orecchio è assetato dal rumore di quanto il cuore conosce.

Vorreste esprimere ciò che avete sempre pensato.

Vorreste toccare con mano il corpo nudo dei vostri sogni.

Vladimir Kush 1965 | Russian Surrealist painter

Adam Martinakis, 1972 | Surrealist Digital painter

Polish painter Adam Martinakis was born in Lubań. Since 1982 lives and works in Athens, Greece.

Studied in T.E.I. Of Athens, Faculty of Interior Architecture, Decorative Arts and Industrial Design.

Since 2000 has been working on digital arts: digital image, 3D animation, graphics, web design, video and multimedia.

Since 2006 is teaching digital graphics on Hellenic American Educational Foundation, Athens College.

Luci d'Inverno | I paesaggi Led di Giappone

Uno dei posti più belli del Giappone è sicuramente il giardino botanico Nabano No Sato dell’isola Negashima, un giardino fiorito con delle giganti serre, che si trova nel quartiere di Kuwana città.

Durante i mesi invernali, in occasione del Festival Invernale delle Luminarie, il parco ed il famoso tunnel della luce, vengono illuminati da decorazioni, milioni di Led, luci e colori che creando dei spettacolari paesaggi, mentre il cielo si illumina di vari arcobaleni. Quest'anno il festival sarà aperto fino al 31 marzo del 2013.

Xing Jianjian, 1959 | Figurative painter

Xing Jianjian's creations incorporate elements of expressionism and symbolism in the delicate and subtle classical realism, so the presentation of his works is not only beautiful and delicate, but also lyrical and allegorical.

In 1986, Chinese painter Xing Jianjian / 邢健健 graduated from Nanjing University of the Arts majoring in oil painting with a bachelor's degree and stayed on as a teacher there.

Talon Abraxas, 1980 | Surrealist / Symbolist painter

Talon Abraxas, is an British painter🎨, born in South London, England. A self-taught artist, he is known for works that consist of a combination of traditional and digital images, creating surreal landscapes that have a believable dream-like quality.

Inspiration is drawn from mystical artists and thinkers such as Austin Osman Spare, Jean Delville, Hieronymus Bosch, HR Giger, Beksinski and Aleister Crowley.

He considers himself a symbolist painter, writer and occultist committed to spiritual esotericism. His vision is of the artist as a spontaneously developed initiate whose mission is to send light, spirituality and mysticism into the world.

Eugene Paprocki, 1971 | The impressionist city

Eugene J. Paprocki🎨 is a Chicago born painter who has been featured in 14 one-man exhibitions in two continents. He has always dabbled in painting, even in his childhood.

He formally studied Fine Art at Loyola University in Chicago. To augment his already considerable skill, he traveled the world extensively, visiting the work of the great masters.

Talon Abraxas, 1980 | Surrealist painter

British painter🎨 Talon Abraxas was born in South London. A self-taught artist, he is known for works that consist of a combination of traditional and digital images, creating surreal landscapes that have a believable dream-like quality.

Inspiration is drawn from mystical artists and thinkers such as Austin Osman Spare, Jean Delville, Hieronymus Bosch, HR Giger, Beksinski and Aleister Crowley.

He considers himself a symbolist painter, writer and occultist committed to spiritual esotericism.

His vision is of the artist as a spontaneously developed initiate whose mission is to send light, spirituality and mysticism into the world.

Megan Noel | Watercolour painter

Megan Noël is an American painter🎨, illustrator, textile and mixed media artist working in the Northwest. For many years she has been known for her beadwork, but in recent years has chosen to focus more on her equally intricate painting and illustrations.

Her favorite media are watercolor and pen and ink. Her paintings and illustrations range from dreamy and surreal to delicate and whimsical. She seeks not to create masterpieces to grace the walls of museums, but rather to create smaller more intimate works to fit into the lives of readers and writers, poets and dreamers, mother, fathers, and everyday folk.

Kirk Reinert, 1955 | Fantasy painter

Kirk Reinert is an American master in the genres of Fantasy, horror, and science fiction. Kirk discovered that drawing was a natural talent at a very early age having been introduced to art by his grandfather, a sports cartoonist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and his uncle, an animator.

Kirk graduated from Cooper School of Art with a degree in production art and design but is a self-taught painter. Upon graduation, he worked in advertising as an illustrator and designer and after 3 1/2 years went on to establish his own studio in 1981.

Frankief | Abstract Fractal Art

Frankief, real name Frankie, is an American Abstract Digital painter.

Frankief from Watkins Colorado, is known for her amazing 3D Fractal artwork.

Karl Kaufmann | Landscape painter

Karl Kaufmann (1843-1902) started his artistic education at the Academy of Vienna. He subsequently travelled through European countries, such as Norway, the Netherlands, Germany or Italy.

Kaufmann developed a sensitive feeling for environments and atmospheres, which helped him to specialise in landscape and architectural painting.

One special feature of his oeuvre is his habit to sign his works with pseudonyms.

For instance, the names 'B. Lambert', 'Charles Marchand' or 'C. Charpentier' are well-known signatures by Kaufmann. The majority of his works belongs to private collections.

Louise Rayner | Watercolour Cityscape painter

Louise Ingram Rayner (21 June 1832 - 8 October 1924) was a British** watercolour artist.

• Family

Rayner was born in Matlock Bath in Derbyshire. Her parents Samuel Rayner and Ann Rayner (née Manser) were both noted artists, Samuel having been accepted for exhibition at the Royal Academy when he was 15. Four of Louise's sisters - Ann ("Nancy"), Margaret, Rose and Frances - and her brother Richard were also artists.

Pablo Picasso: "Non giudicare sbagliato ciò che non conosci.."

❝Non giudicare sbagliato ciò che non conosci, prendi l'occasione per comprendere!❞

Dante Gabriel Rossetti | The Sonnet / Il sonetto

The Sonnet

A Sonnet is a moment's monument,-

Memorial from the Soul's eternity

To one dead deathless hour. Look that it be,

Whether for lustral rite or dire portent,

Of its own intricate fulness reverent:

Carve it in ivory or in ebony,

As Day or Night prevail; and let Time see

Its flowering crest impearled and orient.

Juarez Machado | Le serigrafie

Juarez Machado è un pittore Brasiliano, noto per le sue Figure in Art Déco style.

Parte della sua produzione sono anche le Serigrafie che vi presento.

Oltre a dedicarsi alla pittura, è anche scultore, disegnatore, caricaturista, mimo, designer, scenografo, scrittore, fotografo e attore.

Nel 1954 si trasferisce a Curitiba, dove s'iscrive alla Scuola di Musica e Belle Arti di Paraná.

D'Annunzio / Antonio Sgarbossa | Rimani / Stay!

Rimani! Riposati accanto a me.
Non te ne andare.
Io ti veglierò. Io ti proteggerò.
Ti pentirai di tutto fuorchè d'essere venuto a me, liberamente, fieramente.
Ti amo. Non ho nessun pensiero che non sia tuo;
non ho nel sangue nessun desiderio che non sia per te.
Lo sai. Non vedo nella mia vita altro compagno, non vedo altra gioia
Rimani.
Riposati. Non temere di nulla.
Dormi stanotte sul mio cuore....

Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938) Scrittore, poeta, drammaturgo, militare, politico e giornalista italiano.

Antonio Sgarbossa, 1945 | Dreaming In Venice

Antonio Sgarbossa was born in Fontana Viva, Italy

He started his artistic career at the age of twelve, attending an artistic ceramics workshop in Bassano.

In 1971 he moved to Nouchatel, in Switzerland, where he lived for a few years. It was here with a group of European artists that he gave life to an art studio, named the "La Soffitta" (Attic) and was first recognized for his work.

Antonio Sgarbossa, 1945 | Waiting...

Antonio Sgarbossa is an Italian painter, known for working in the Figurative style.
Sgarbossa was born in Fontana Viva, Italy, the 18th of July 1945. He started to use oil colors when he was really young and a few time later, his parents decided to send him to study in a workshop the technique of painting pot dishes.

Anton Yakutovych, 1957 | Magic Realism painter

Born in Kiev, Anton Yakutovych [Антон Якутович] Ukrainian painter, lives and works in Paris.
He grew up in an artists' family, and graduated from the National Academy of the Arts and Architecture of Kiev.
Anton has been practicing drawing, etching, lithography and painting since his early childhood.
For him, these disciplines are complementary and about them he says: «graphic arts maintain rigour, painting, a spirit of freedom ".

John Collier | Pre-Raphaelite painter

The Honourable John Maler Collier, called 'Jack' by his family and friends, was a leading British painter and an writer.

He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation.

Both his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry Huxley.

He studied painting at the Munich Academy where he enrolled on 14 April 1875 at the age of 25.

Franco Gentilini (1909-1981)

Italian painter Franco Gentilini was born in 1909 in Faenza (RA), Italy. Worked as a ceramist in Faenza and collaborated with Giovanni Romagnoli and Giorgio Morandi in Bologna.

He took part in numerous editions of the Venice Biennale, beginning with the acceptance of his work for the 17th Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Città of Venice in 1930, when he also visited Paris.

Sebastian Krüger, 1963 | New Pop Art

Sebastian Krüger is a German painter and caricaturist.

His primary medium is acrylic paint, and his caricatures are hyper-realistic in detail, yet also extremely grotesque in their distortion.

The Times praised him for "capturing the essence of his subjects" in his renderings.

He is well known for his lifelike depictions of The Rolling Stones, in particular, Keith Richards.

Stendhal | Quotes / Aforismi

• Only great minds can afford a simple style.
• If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
• One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
• The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
• I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Fernando Amorsolo | Pittore di genere

Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto, semplicemente noto come Fernando Amorsolo (Manila, 30 maggio 1892 - Manila, 24 aprile 1972) è stato un pittore Filippino, considerato uno dei protagonisti assoluti dello scenario artistico filippino del XX secolo.

Tra i pionieri della pittura nel Paese, assieme a Juan Luna e Fernando Zóbel, Amorsolo fu ritrattista e pittore di paesaggi rurali filippini, particolarmente noto per il suo tocco “artigianale” e la maestria nell'uso della luce e dell'ombra.

Nativo del quartiere di Paco, terminò i propri studi presso il Liceo de Manila Art School nel 1909.

Tomás Sánchez, 1948 ~ The Enchanting Forests

Tomás Sánchez, one of the most important and celebrated living Cuban Master. His work is meticulous in its breathtaking detail, but the objective of the artist is not so much the recreation of reality as it is displaying the magnificence of a lyrical universe.
Tomás Sánchez, born in Cuba in 1948, invents richly spiritual images of nature in his art. Sánchez graduated in 1971 in National Art School, Cuba. Tomás Sánchez was awarded the 1st prize of Drawing for Young Artists in the National Exhibition of Arts.

Paul Signac | Neo-impressionist painter

French painter Paul Signac (1863-1935) was born in Paris.

He followed a course of training in architecture before deciding at the age of 18 to pursue a career as a painter.

He sailed around the coasts of Europe, painting the landscapes he encountered.

He also painted scenes of cities in France in his later years.

Clarence Holbrook Carter (1904-2000)

Clarence Holbrook Carter born in Portsmouth, Ohio, was an American painter.

Carter's work is found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; the James A. Michener Art Museum; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; and many others.

Zuckerberg ammete lo sbaglio. Ritorna la vecchia grafica per i Profili Facebook!!

Dopo le proteste degli utenti che riguardavano il Timeline/Diario per i profili, introdotto lo scorso dicembre, Facebook sta provvedendo di tornare alle origini, testando un nuovo look per il Timeline/Diario, molto assomigliante al precedente, riportando la Timeline/Diario ad una sola colonna. Infatti, sullo stesso Facebook, la pagina "Odio la Timeline di Facebook e voglio cambiarla subito" raccolse migliaia di commenti ed altretanto "mi piace".
La notizia che Facebook starebbe testando un nuovo look per i profili degli utenti è stata annunciata dal blog statunitense Mashable.com.

 Mark Elliot Zuckerberg 1984 | American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur

Lyonel Feininger | Cubist/Expressionist painter

Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956), American-born German painter, was the son of a concert violinist and a singer and pianist from Germany.

In 1887 Feininger followed his parents to Europe, where he attended the drawing and painting class at the "Gewerbeschule" in Hamburg and then studied at the "Königliche Kunst-Akademie" in Berlin from 1888-1892.

For one year he subsequently attended the private art school of the Italian sculptor Filippo Colarossi in Paris.

Kandinsky a Pisa | In esposizione 50 opere

Attraverso 50 opere provenienti in gran parte dal Museo di Stato Russo di San Pietroburgo e da collezioni private, il Palazzo Blu di Pisa, fino a 3 febbraio del 2013, ospiterà la magnifica produzione artistica del padre dell'Astrattismo, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944).

L'esposizione, tra inediti e capolavori, ripercorre 20 anni di produzione del celebre pittore russo, quella tra il 1901-1922, quando Kandinsky accettò di insegnare al Bauhaus School insieme a Paul Klee (1879-1940), incarico offertogli da Walter Adolph Gropius (1883-1969), uno dei maestri del Movimento Moderno in Architettura.

Fabian Perez, 1967 | Flamenco Dancers

Growing up in Argentina, Fabian Perez - Argentine painter, developed a fondness for art through his parents, who possessed strong creative sides but were never professional artists. His mother drew, and it rubbed off on Perez, who excelled in art classes and painted murals on the walls of his school at his teachers' requests.

La Cappella Sistina compie 500 anni

Giulio II inaugurò la conclusione della volta della Cappella Sistina celebrando i vespri del 31 ottobre 1512.
Ieri sera alle 18.00, con la Celebrazione della Solennità di Tutti i Santi nella Cappella Sistina, Benedetto XVI, ripeteva lo stesso gesto in omaggio al capolavoro assoluto di Michelangelo a 500 anni di distanza esatti.