Galina Anisimova, 1956 | Abstract painter

Russian painter Galina Petrovna Anisimova /Галина Петровна Анисимова was born in the village of Solomatino, Volgograd Region.

In 1982 she graduated from the Moscow Textile Institute named Kosygin (Department of Applied Arts).

Member of the Artists' Union of Russia since 1984.

Now he lives and works in Moscow.

Joseph DeCamp | Impressionist painter

Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (1858-1923) was a founding member of the Ten American Painters, a group of primarily Boston-based Impressionists who sought to exhibit their works in intimate, aesthetically agreeable settings with like-minded artists.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio where he studied with Frank Duveneck.

Abram Efimovich Arkhipov | Genre/En plein air painter

Aбра́м Ефи́мович Архи́пов (1862-1930) was a Russian realist artist, who was a member of the art collective The Wanderers as well as the Union of Russian Artists.

Abram Arkhipov made his name in the history of Russian art of the turn of the century as a sensitive, poetic artist who devoted all his talent to themes from peasant life.

Albin Veselka, 1979 | Plein Air/Figurative painter

Born in 1979, Albin Veselka's interest in art came at an early age. He is very grateful to his parents who were instrumental in promoting his emerging talent. In 2006 Albin received his BFA from Brigham Young University Idaho. He credits the knowledgeable and student oriented faculty of the BYUI art department for giving him "the tools all representational artist must have to open the door to communicating in the visual arts".

Artem Cheboha Rhads, 1987 | Surrealist Digital painter

Артем Чебоха RHADS is a talented digital painter from South West of Siberia, Russia who currently based in Saturn, Encelad. Чебоха creates grand and surreal digital paintings of magical places. His fantastical paintings often show improbable events like flying whales and boats. These paintings made in classical style with a modern treatment conveys a sense of grandness and divinity.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau | The two sisters, 1877

Wlliam-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) French painter, a dominant figure in his nation’s Academic painting during the second half of the 19th century. For biographical notes and earlier works by Bouguereau see Part 1.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Moissonneuse / The Harvester, 1875

In his own time, William-Adolphe Bouguereau [1825-1905] ⎆ was considered to be one of the greatest painters in the world by the Academic art community, and simultaneously he was reviled by the avant-garde.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Bouguereau see:

• William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Academic painter ⎆.

Virgilio Tojetti | Genre painter

Virgilio Tojetti (1851-1901), the son of the painter Domenico Tojetti (1807-1892), was born in Rome, Italy.

Tojetti was a pupil of his father and later studied in Paris with Gérôme and Bouguereau.

He was a resident of San Francisco from 1871 until about 1883 when he moved to New York City.

He became popular in the East as a painter of Genre scenes and frescoes. Tojetti died of Bright's disease in New York City on March 26, 1901.

Céline Brossard, 1960 | Abstract Mixed media painter

Born in Montreal, Celine Brossard devotes herself completely to her career in painting from her studio in the Laurentians.
Astonishingly prolific, her creative energy takes her successively from the medieval era to present days through her feminine portraits in continuous metamorphose. Whether it be women trapped, models or urban, they are witnesses of their time vacillating between seduction and their profound worries concerning their hindered freedom.

Aureliu Prodan, 1968

Aureliu Prodan was born in the family of the paintings conservator, Serafim Prodan from Chisinau, Republic of Moldova.

He received his first art lessons from his father.

Since he was a child, he loved going to the Art Museum where his father worked, to admire the exhibited paintings.

Andre Dluhos, 1940 | Abstract Palette Knife painter

Andre Dluhos was born in eastern Czechoslovakia, which is now Slovakia. Andre began to paint at eight years old.

At fourteen he won his first art competition from the region’s 400 entries.

He studied under celebrated artists and mentors at the Bratislava Art School and School of Fine Arts in Uherski Hradiste.

Favoring portraiture, figure and landscape painting, his professional career as a painter began.

Traveling and showing throughout Europe, in 1969 he decided to seek new opportunity and a new home in the United States where he now resides.

Clarence Gagnon | En plein air painter

Canadian painter Clarence Gagnon 1881-1942 is best known for his rural Quebec landscape paintings and the illustrations for Louise Hémon’s novel Maria Chapdelaine. Gagnon was also an award winning printmaker, a passionate outdoorsman, and an active promoter of Quebec handicrafts.

Clarence Gagnon was born in a small village in rural Quebec. Although he trained and maintained a studio in Paris for much of his career, he never lost his love of the Laurentians and the Charlevoix region of eastern Quebec which inspired many of his paintings. Gagnon’s mother fostered his early interest for drawing and despite his father’s wishes that he enter business, he began studying drawing and painting in 1897 at the age of sixteen under William Brymner at the Art Association of Montreal.

Carlo Dolci | Baroque Era painter

Carlo Dolci, byname Carlino (25 May 1616 - 17 January 1686) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence, known for highly finished religious pictures, often repeated in many versions.

He was born in Florence, on his mother's side the grandson of a painter.

Although he was precocious and apprenticed at a young age to Jacopo Vignali, Dolci was not prolific.

Filippo Baratti | Orientalist painter

Filippo Baratti (1849-1936) was an Italian painter; known primarily for his Orientalist scenes.

Filippo Baratti was born in Trieste, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Little is known of his early years, however in 1868 he was exhibiting at the Esposizione di Belle Arte in Milan.

Baratti then moved to Turin, where he exhibited at the Società Promatirice di Belle Arte 1869-1872.

Miklós Ligeti | Impressionist /Realist sculptor

Miklós Ligeti (May 1, 1871 - December 10, 1944) was a Hungarian sculptor and artist.

His sculptural style integrated elements of Impressionism and realism.

First a pupil of Alajos Stróbl in Budapest, later Ligeti learnt in Vienna.

He produced mainly memorials and portraits.

Dang Can, 1957 | Landscape/Figurative painter

The Vietnamese painter Dang Van Can was born in 1957 in An Duc commune, Long Ho District, Vinh Long Province, the place is located along riverside of Mekong river in Vietnam. He showed an early talent in drawing and painting. He commenced to art works since 1976 with main job as a illustrator for local newspaper and magazine.

Dang Can is a member of Vietnam Fine Arts Association.

He has many paintings in Private Collection in many countries.

Igor Bitman, 1953 | Figurative painter

The Russian-born painter Игорь Битман, winner of the Prix Spécial du Jury van de Académie des Beaux-Arts and the Médaille d’Or of the Salon des Artistes Français surprises with a diversity of techniques in a special collection of paintings.

Few artists are able to master such a wide range of painting techniques as Bitman does. In doing so, he not only achieves a high level of artistry, but he also conveys his outstanding skills.

Besides working with oil-paint he also uses an ancient technique called encaustique in which pure pigments are dissolved in wax, and are applied on the carrier with heated utensils.

The many layers of condensed wax create a palpable surface and at the same time give the colours a unique velvet shine.

Cornelis de Vos | Children portrait, c. 1600

Cornelis de Vos (1584-1651) was a Flemish Baroque painter, best known for his portraiture. He was born in Hulst near Antwerp, now in the Dutch province of Zeeland. Little is known of his childhood. Cornelis and his younger brothers Paul and Jan studied under the little-known painter David Remeeus (1559-1626). De Vos joined the guild of Saint Luke in 1608 at the age of twenty-four, later serving as its dean in 1628. When he became a citizen of Antwerp in 1616 he listed his occupation as an art dealer.

The legend of Aci and Galatea

Metamorphoses, from the greek transformations, is a latin narrative poem in fifteen books by the Roman poet Ovid, describing the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework.

Completed in AD 8, it is recognized as a masterpiece of Golden Age Latin literature.

The most-read of all classical works during the Middle Ages, the Metamorphoses continues to exert a profound influence on Western culture. It also remains the favourite work of reference for greek myth upon which Ovid based these tales, albeit often with stylistic adaptations.

Statue of Acis and Galatea in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris

Stanislav Brusilov, 1976 | Landscape painter

Станислав Брусилов was born January 6, 1976 in Moscow.

From 1987-1994 S. Brusilov studied at the Moscow Academic Art Lyceum. Graduated High School with honors. 

From 1994-2000 he studied at the Surikov Moscow State Academic Institute, the faculty of painting in the studio of Professor Zabelin. During studies at the Institute S. Brusilov was awarded first prize in painting competition conducted Surikov Moscow State Academic Institute . Drawings of the artist published into the album, "The best drawings of students Surikov Moscow State Academic Institute".

Julius Sergius von Klever | Romantic painter

Юлийлий Юлиевич Клевер [1850-1924] painter and teacher. Born to German parents in Dorpat (now Tartu) in Estonia, 1850. Studied under Constantin von Kügelgen in Dorpat (1866-67) and under Sokrat Vorobyov and Baron Mikhail Konstantinovich Clodt von Jürgensburg at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1867-70, expelled). Founding member of the Society of Exhibitions of Works of Art (1874). Academician (1878), professor (1881). Organised the Russian sections at the Exposition Universelle in Antwerp (1885) and the Jubiläums-Ausstellung der Königlichen Akademie der Künste in Berlin (1886, gold medal).

Mario Sironi | Futurist painter

Mario Sironi (1885-1961) - Italian painter, sculptor, designer and architect. Born in Sassari, but lived from 1886 in Rome.

Spent a year studying civil engineering at Rome University, then decided in 1903 to devote himself to painting.

Attended life classes at the Academy in Rome and became friendly with Balla, Umberto Boccioni and Severini.

Matteo Pugliese, 1969 | Figurative Sculptor

Italian sculptor Matteo Pugliese was born in Milan. In 1978 his family moved to Sardinia where Matteo lived for the next 12 years. During this time he developed a strong love for drawing and sculpture and continued his art work without any formal education. After finishing his secondary school studies in classics in Cagliari, he returned to Milan to attend university.

In 1995 he was awarded his degree in Modern literature at the University of Milan with a graduation thesis on Art criticism.

Eliseu Visconti | Impressionist / Art Nouveau painter

Eliseo d'Angelo Visconti (30 July 1866, Giffoni Valle Piana, Italy - 15 October 1944, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was an Italian-born Brazilian painter, cartoonist and teacher.

He is considered one of the very few impressionist painters of Brazil.

He is considered the initiator of the Art Nouveau in Brazil.

He entered in 1884 the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios do Rio de Janeiro, where studied under Victor Meireles.