Franco Puliti, 1945

After completing art school in Lucca, Tuscany, he immersed himself in the new generation of artists, post-Macchiaioli Toscani, the Italian equivalent of French Impressionists. In the late 1960’s, he opened a studio in Livorno, Italy where he had permanent exposition until the mid- 1970’s.  He moved to the United States in 1980, continuing his art career and showing his work from coast to coast.  The careful geometric design and harmonious distribution of color throughout his work reflect his excellent artistic schooling and passion for his craft.

Rembrandt | Periods, themes and styles

Throughout his career, Rembrandt (1606-1669) took as his primary subjects the themes of portraiture, landscape and narrative painting. For the last, he was especially praised by his contemporaries, who extolled him as a masterly interpreter of biblical stories for his skill in representing emotions and attention to detail.

Stylistically, his paintings progressed from the early "smooth" manner, characterized by fine technique in the portrayal of illusionistic form, to the late "rough" treatment of richly variegated paint surfaces, which allowed for an illusionism of form suggested by the tactile quality of the paint itself.

Nicoletta Tomas, 1963 | Figurative painter | VideoArt

Nicoletta Tomas was born in Madrid, Spain. A self taught painter, started the artistic career in Valencia (Spain) 1990, using in depth the pastel technique. I concentrated on diferent themes such as indoor motifs, city views and bullfighting scenes. At this time and since 1998 I have given my paintings a new turn, centered on the human body. I am in a constant search for new ways of artistic expresions, both in style and means.

Manolo Valdés,1942

Valdés is a Spanish artist residing in New York, working in paint, sculpture and mixed media. He introduced to Spain a form of expression that combined political and social obligations with humor and irony.

Manolo Valdés was born in Valencia. He entered the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Carlos in 1957, where he studied two years.

In 1964 he established the artists' group Equipo Crónica with Joan Toledo and Rafael Solbes in which he remained until Solbes' death in 1981.

He now lives and works in New York and Madrid.

Caravaggio | Art in Detail

Michelangelo Merisi, detto il Caravaggio (1571-1610) è stato un pittore italiano. Formatosi a Milano ed attivo a Roma, Napoli, Malta e in Sicilia fra il 1593 e il 1610, fu uno dei più celebri pittori italiani di tutti i tempi, dalla fama ancora oggi universale.

George McNeil | Abstract expressionist painter

A pioneer Abstract Expressionist of the New York School, George McNeil (1908-1995) had over forty solo exhibitions during his lifetime.

Between the ’40s and until the mid ’60s his art was decidedly abstract but it was always joined to metaphor. George McNeil had a career that spanned the entire postwar American art era.

McNeil attended Pratt Institute and the Art Students’ League, where he studied with Jan Matulka.

Ben Nicholson | Abstract painter

Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM (1894-1982) was an English painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscapes and still-life.

He was one of the leading promoters of abstract art in his country.

Born in Denham, Buckinghamshire, Nicholson was the son of the painters Sir William Nicholson and Mabel Pryde, and the brother of artist Nancy Nicholson, architect Christopher Nicholson and Anthony Nicholson.

Friedrich Nietzsche / Renoir: "Abbiamo l'arte per non morire di realtà"!

• "The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world".

• "Il grande fine dell'Arte è colpire l'immaginazione con la forza di un'anima che rifiuta di ammettere la sconfitta anche nel mezzo di un mondo che crolla.".

•"L'Arte: La grande creatrice della possibilità di vivere,

la grande seduttrice della vita,

grande stimolante per vivere.."

Arturo Souto Feijoo [1902-1964]

Arturo Souto Feijoo was an important spanish painter who studied in Seville and Madrid and then traveled to Paris in the 1920s where he was influenced by the avant-garde. Prior to his exile from Spain following the Spanish Civil War, Souto exhibited throughout Europe. While living in Havana, Mexico, and the U.S. during the 1940s until his death in 1964, Souto continued to exhibit and developed a reputation as one of the outstanding spanish painters of the twentieth century.

Angelica Privalihin

Angelica Privalihin was born in a small village called Uzlovaja in the Tula region of Russia. She attended the Special School for Gifted in Arts for children in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. She was taught to see the beauty of the world, and to depict it not realistically, but through her own feelings and vision. When not with her family Angelica devotes all of her time to painting, participating in exhibitions in both Russia and abroad. Her works are held in the Art Museum of the city of Krasnoyarsk and Art Museum of Divnogorsk and other museums in Siberia and the Far East and in private collections in Russia, Israel, Germany, USA, China and now, UK.

Anatoly Dverin, 1935 | Impressionist painter

Anatoly Dverin was born in Ukraine, studied in St. Petersburg and earned wide recognition and success before leaving the Soviet Union in 1976, eventually settling in Massachusetts.

Since that time, he has amassed numerous awards and created a breathtaking body of work.

He is a popular demonstrator at the major pastel societies.

He recently published a book of his life and work, Anatoly Dverin - American Impressionist.

Mariusz Lewandowski

Mariusz Lewandowski è nato nel 1931 a Dzialdowo. Fin dall'infanzia ha sentito la necessità di creare. Nel 1975 dipinse il suo primo quadro ad olio. Da allora, inizia a prendere parte attiva all'aria aperta e varie mostre. Oggi i suoi quadri rappresentano l'orgoglio di molti collezionisti, sia in patria che all'estero.

Eser Afacan, 1953 | Figurative painter

Eser Afacan is a Turkish artist, painter, and sculptor of Assyrian ethnicity.

His father, also an artist, is Assyrian, while his mother is of Greek origin.

Afacan began drawing at a young age.

Eser Afacan, Turkish painter, studied in Manchester, England before moving to Norway in 1978 to study Mathematics and Physics at the University of Bergen.

Isabelle Sauvineau, 1965 | Pop Art painter

French painter Isabelle Sauvineau studied nursing during her time spent at Cegep in Granby.

She later started working in the fashion industry where she stayed for 5 years.

After the birth of her two children Sauvineau’s passion for painting emerged.

It’s with enthusiasm and confidence that she launched herself down a new career path, in the visual arts.

Ibe Onyeka, 1971 | Abstract painter

Nigerian-born American painter Ibe Onyeka has achieved international recognition for his dramatic approach to painting.

Described as one of the most exciting young painters to emerge from Sub-Saharan Africa since the 1990s, he was awarded “The Best SOLO Artist of the Year 2006” at the International Artexpo New York.

Ibe looks for inspiration in “natural and humanistic traditions of contemporary realism and abstraction”.

George Corominas, 1945

Corominas studies at the national Arts school in Alger. From his return in France in 1962, he imposes himself internationally thanks to his unique line and shining colors united in grandiose creations. He is an artist who, while in search of the deep soul of the world, presents his "joie de vivre" as well as his emotions, passions and fascination for the perfect beauty to life, all in a bright enchantment. Laureate of prestigious price, result of participation in the famous national and international exhibitions, his painting is pointed out by the collectors. George Corominas offers us a dreamlike vision of the world, a trip across the continents, a trip through the ages.

Christian Deberdt | Fantasy painter

Deberdt (1947-2011) began his career studying printmaking and graphic arts at the Gametta Printing School and the Estienne Graphic Art School in Paris, followed by a stint as an illustrator on the popular comic strip Asterix.

In 1966, at the age of 18, with four years of experience in the graphic arts field, Deberdt decided to leave Paris and to start a new life in Montreal where his eldest brother was already established.

Itching for adventure, Deberdt left Paris in 1968 for North America where, for the next seven years, he traveled extensively across Canada and the United States, absorbing the incredible landscapes.

Scott Harding, 1965

Scott Harding was born in San Antonio, Texas.

His passion for art began at an early age when he spent much of his time drawing.

His need to draw continued through his school years, often getting him in trouble when his teachers caught him sketching in class.

After receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree through the Honors Painting Program at Indiana University, Bloomington in 1989, Harding moved to Chicago and began a professional career in illustration.

Frederick Arthur Bridgman | Orientalist painter

Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847-1928) was an American artist known for his paintings of "Orientalist" subjects.

Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, Bridgman was the son of a physician.

He began as a draughtsman in New York City, for the American Bank Note Company in 1864-65, and studied art in the same years at the Brooklyn Art Association and at the National Academy of Design.

Nathan Brutsky, 1963 | VideoArt

Ukrainian painter Brutsky was born in Kiev.

Since childhood he was engaged in different aspects of art: painting, sculpture and art-design.

From the age of 10, he dedicates to art at least several hours daily.

Nathan graduated Art School and Kiev College of Industrial design.

Since his college years he was characterized by a deep understanding of art styles and uniqueness.

Bob Stroody ~ Digital landscapes

Stroody (Bob) is a British digital painter, graphic designer, photographer and illustrator of the UK. Pictures Bob's full of magical beauty and fabulousness and performed at the highest professional level.

Dino Valls, 1959 | Surrealist painter

Having previously obtained a degree in medicine, he is now one of the Spanish representatives of the vanguard of figurative art.

His painting, elaborating and expanding the methods of past masters, centers on the human psyche by using figurative techniques only as a formal support in which to project a conceptual content laden with profound psychic weight, where the most obscure pulsations develop in a symbolic process of intellectualism.

His first one-man exhibition was received in Zaragoza in 1981. The following year he was awarded the San Jorge First Place Award in Painting, after receiving his degree in medicine and surgery in 1982, he decided to devote himself exclusively to painting; the kind of painting which would be influenced by the humanistic perspective that brought about the study of man.

This kind of attitude is reminiscent of the creative climate of the Renaissance.

Roberto Ferri, 1978

Roberto Ferri is an Italian painter who is deeply inspired by Baroque painters (Caravaggio in particular) and other old masters of Romanticism, the Academy and Symbolism.

Ferri was born in Fontanaviva, Taranto, Italy in 1978.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Roberto Ferri see Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Baroque Era style painter.

Katherine Stone, 1986 | Realist painter

Katherine Stone’s approach to art is traditional with an emphasis on technique and fine craftsmanship.

She uses chiaroscuro and other traditional techniques to diffuse hard edges and create dramatic light effects.

Stone also incorporates symbolic objects into her compositions—including skulls, dead birds, flowers, and books—which allude to the passage of time, life and death, and decay and regeneration.

In the past few years she has won First Place and People’s Choice in the biannual Portrait Society of Canada Portrait Competition, First Place in the Still Life Category in the international ARC Salon, and has placed in half a dozen international art competitions including the prestigious ARC International Salon.

Aung Kyaw Htet, 1965 | Figurative painter | VideoArt

Burmese artist Aung Kyaw Htet paints detailed Buddhist figures on expressionistic and sometimes ethereal backgrounds.
With a strong emphasis on the figurative and facial expressions in particular, he expertly combines color, line and form to achieve balanced compositions, as peaceful to experience as they are beautiful to look at.
For biographical notes and other works by Aung see:

• Aung Kyaw Htet, 1965 | Figurative painter ➻

Tadeusz Makowski | Cubist painter

Tadeusz Makowski [1882-1932] was a Polish painter who worked in France and was associated with the School of Paris.

From 1902-1906, he studied classical philology at the Jagiellonian University. During that time, he also began studying art at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts with Jan Stanisławski and Józef Mehoffer.

Upon completing his courses there in 1908, he moved to Paris, where he would live for the rest of his life.

Originally he painted in the style taught by his professors. Then, he painted some frescoes that attracted the attention of a group of Cubist painters, led by Henri Le Fauconnier, who worked in Montparnasse. This had a decisive influence on his work.

Karen Aghamyan, 1946

Karen Aghamyan is an armenian-born painter. Born in 1946 and President of the Artist's Union of Armenia since 1998. In 1969, he graduated from the Yerevan Fine Arts and Theatre Institute and has been a member of the Artists' Union of the USSR since 1970. Since 1970 he has participated in more than 70 exhibitors, 11 of which were one-man shows. His pictures are property of museums of Armenia, Russia, Ukraine, France and private collections in many countries of the world.

Ben Goossens, 1945 ~ Surrealist photographer

Goossens worked for 35 years in his native Belgium as an ad agency art director. After retiring, Goossen's turned to creating photo montages with a distinctive Surrealism style reminiscent of his fellow countryman, René Magritte.

Graciela Rodo Boulanger, 1935

Her love of art was influenced by her mother, a concert pianist, and her father, a businessman and art connoisseur. She studied music and art throughout childhood, giving her first piano recital at age 15, and her first art exhibitions in Vienna and Salzburg at age 18. Pursuing her dream to be both a great artist and musician, Rodo soon found that time would not permit the necessary devotion to both her passions. At 22, she turned all of her energy to painting. She studied etching and printmaking along with René Carcan under Johnny Friedlaender in Paris.

Zayasaikhan Sambuu, 1975 | Magic Realism painter

Mongolian painter Zayasaikhan Sambuu, also known as Zaya was born in an isolated village in the Gobi Desert.

At fifteen he decided to become a Buddhist monk but the strict rules of the monastery were at odds with his irrepressible creativity.

By the time he was a teenager, communist Mongolia was becoming less oppressive, and freedom of religion returning.

Nikolai Shurygin

Shurygin was born in 1957 in Kimry, Russia. In 1979 he graduated from Moscow School of applied arts (design). During 10 years the painter has been studying multilayered painting which secrets were lost in the beginning of XIX. This unique technique was used by flemish painters as well as russian painters such Kiprensky, Levitsky, Borovikovsky and many others.

Michael Bergt, 1956 | Magic Realism painter

Michael Bergt was born in a small Nebraska farming community.

At the age of five, he decided he wanted to be an artist. When he was eight years old, his family moved to Denver.

At nineteen, Michael became friends with a group of artists, Beat poets and late-night coffee drinkers in lower downtown Denver.

Boris Grigoriev [1886-1939]

Бори́с Дми́триевич Григо́рьев was born in Rybinsk and studied at the Stroganov Art School from 1903-1907. Grigoriev went on to study at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg under Aleksandr Kiselyov, Dmitry Kardovsky and Abram Arkhipov from 1907-1912.

Camille Pissarro | L'Impressionismo ed il Neoimpressionismo

Pissarro e l'impressionismo

Considerando la sua partecipazione a tutte le 8 esposizioni del gruppo è inevitabile dare per scontato che Camille Pissarro risponda alla generica definizione di «pittore impressionista».

Egli, in realtà, si pose in maniera ambivalente davanti alle ambizioni del gruppo: se da un lato decantava la mobilità della luce e degli effetti cromatici e le potenzialità del principio compositivo en plein air, impiegando al contempo macchie di colori piccole e irregolari, dall'altra dava vita a composizioni che, seppur in assenza di linee di contorno, sono solide e ben congeniate, inondate di una luce che «modella ed evidenzia le forme con dolcezza e vivacità, pur non arrivando mai a dissolverle» come, nella maturità pittorica, avevano fatto alcuni suoi colleghi come Monet o Renoir.

Georges Mazilu, 1951 | Surrealist painter

Romanian painter Georges Mazilu is known internationally for his signature style linking contemporary surrealism** with the art of the Northern Renaissance**.

Masterfully executed and bewitchingly beautiful, his paintings portray mysterious figures seemingly caught in deep contemplation or frozen in the midst of enigmatic rituals.

Leonora Carrington | Painting

Leonora Carrington, (born April 6, 1917, Clayton Green, Lancashire, England-died May 25, 2011, Mexico City, Mexico), British-born Mexican Surrealist artist and writer known for her haunting, autobiographical, somewhat inscrutable paintings that incorporate images of sorcery, metamorphosis, alchemy and the occult.

Carrington was raised in a wealthy Roman Catholic family on a large estate called Crookhey Hall. Carrington’s Irish mother and Irish nanny introduced her to Celtic mythology and Irish folklore, images of which later appeared in her art. From an early age Carrington rebelled against both her family and her religious upbringing.