David Renshaw, 1973 ~ Time of love

David Renshaw, British painter, was born in Southport, England. He always had love of painting from an early age and after finishing school he went to college to study graphic design before starting a career as a picture framer.
During this time David continued to develop his painting skills producing mainly commissioned art and in 2005 he dedicated himself to painting full time. Working from his studio in Southport, David enjoys painting a broad range of subjects using a variety of mediums including Acrylics, Oils and Watercolours. His artwork hangs in private collections worldwide.

Mònica Castanys, 1973 ~ Impressionist Figurative painter

Spanish painter Mònica Castanys was born in Barcelona. She graduated from the School of Arts and Crafts of Barcelona in 1993. In 1990, she assisted a course at the Lorenzo di Medici School in Florence, Italy. She received several national prizes for young artists. Mònica’s art has been exhibited at numerous personal and group exhibitions in Spain and abroad.

Kissing Students fountain ~ Estonia, 1998

Kissing Students [Estonian: Suudlevad Tudengid] has become a symbol of Tartu. Is a fountain and a sculpture in Tartu, Estonia, located at the Tartu Town Hall Square and erected in 1998 and conceived by Mati Karmin 1959, one of Estonia's most renowned contemporary sculptors.

The city is best known for being home to the University of Tartu, founded under King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in 1632. Mainly for this reason, Tartu is also, tongue-in-cheek, known as "Athens of the Emajõgi" or as "Heidelberg of the North".

Raffaello Ossola, 1954 | Surrealist painter

Raffaello Ossola, Swiss painter, was born in Locarno, Switzerland and lived in Italy since 1990. Ossola uses acrylic and has a distinctive style that incorporates elements such as architecture, pools, clouds, rocks, shrubs, and obelisks in surreal landscapes. His style uses characteristic light reflections and projections.

Diaz Alamà, 1986 ~ Concept painter

Spanish painter Jordi Diaz Alamà may describe himself as a traditional painter but there’s nothing remotely traditional with his work. Morality, mortality and sexuality are all recurring themes in his work. His style reminds the viewer of the work of Renaissance masters of long ago with their realism and casual approach to nudity. This Spanish painter is currently based in Barcelona. Alamà was born in Barcelona in 1986. He is a painter and drawing teacher at the School of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona, where she graduated in 2008. After completing the bachelor gets a scholarship and stay for a year in Arauco’s Foundation with the painter Guillermo Muñoz Vera in Madrid (Spain).

Mohammad Tabatabai, 1987 | Figurative painter

Mohammad Tabatabai is an Iranian and international artist, born in Iran, Tehran. His career as a professional painter began during his early age and he received his diploma in painting from Tehran school of Fine arts in 2005.
He graduated in 2011, from University of Tehran with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sculpture.

Awards*:

• Winner of third prize - painting - the Iran’s school of visual arts, 2004.
• Winner of first prize - photography - the Tehran’s school of visual arts, 2005.

Nathaniel Skousen ~ American Figurative painter

Nathaniel Skousen lives in Leavenworth, Washington a small town in the foothills of the Cascades. He lives surrounded by forests, mountains, rivers and rustic barns that continuously feed his artistic imagination. Nathaniel is often found painting the beauty of his surroundings. He enjoys hiking and fly fishing in high mountain destinations as well. While fly-sishing is one of his favorite past times, his mind is continuously drawn to the pursuit of a perfect painting.

Outmane Amadou ~ Minimalism style

Moroccan France-based graphic designer, Outmane Amahou has created a line in Minimalistic style a posters, in which he pays tribute to major Art Movements, and iconic painters throughout history. Instead of focusing on the work of individual artists, Outmane Amahou decided to tackle entire movements in his very ambitious series.
If you have trouble getting your art movement categories straight, then this series of posters by Outmane Amahou would be the perfect study guide.

Minimalism Art Movement, 1960

Piet Mondrian 1872-1944

Minimalism Art Movement, also called ABC Art, Minimal Art, Literalist Art, Reductivism, Rejective Art, emerged in New York in the early 1960s, in which the simplest and fewest elements are used to create the maximum effect.

Tatyana Markovtsev, 1951 | Minimalist painter

Russian painter Татьяна Марковцева is becoming one of the most interesting artists-Minimalists of today.

She is able to express powerful and complex human feelings just via a few elegant lines, capturing a wide variety of human emotions with amazing simplicity and clarity.

Tatyana literally makes viewers feel the lines of her works.

Now, her original Minimalistic style is finding many fans around the world.

Ecstasy ~ Hayes Valley, San Francisco

Ecstasy, a 28-foot-tall figurative sculpture made from reclaimed steel, embodies the emotion of passion and the posture of exaltation it can inspire. She is illuminated at dusk by a warm light that emanates from her hands and softly glows upon her shoulders, neck and head that is thrown back in elation. Ecstasy was built in 2007 and first debuted on-stage at The Crucible's Fire Opera, then at Burning Man, 2007. Since then she traveled widely: Maker Faire, 2008, and Nocturnal, 2009. Through 2011, Ecstasy was on exhibit in Hayes Valley, San Francisco, at Patricia's Green. She is now part of a private collection.

Pedro Ruiz, 1957 ~ Conceptual painter

Pedro Ruiz, Colombian painter, was born in Bogotá. At the National School of Beaux Arts in Paris, starts exploring painting and at Stanley William Hayter's studio, Atelier 17, dwells into different printing techniques. His trajectory of exhibits includes important museums in Mexico, Colombia and Spain, as well as prestigious galleries in these three countries as well as the United States.

Karina Llergo Salto ~ Dance through the color of Life

Karina Llergo Salto, American painter, Northbrook, IL - United States. Karina’s passion for creativity has always define her and led her to earned her PHD in Graphic Design. She received Degrees in Multimedia, Animation and Abstract Art.
Karina earned recognition and international awards working as Art Director and freelance for several years witch taught her the visual impact of color and image in space. Due the public recognition of her capability for illustration she started to emerge into the art world. Karina has developed and perfection her particular style developing an elegant but ambitious combination of human figure, with figurative and expressionist compositions, where colors and nature elements are combined to provoke a fresh impact of movement.

William Dyce | Realist painter

Prof William Dyce FRSE RSA RA (1806-1864) pioneer of state art education in Great Britain. Dyce studied at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh and the Royal Academy schools, London.

One of the first British students of early Italian Renaissance painting**, he visited Italy in 1825 and 1827-1828, meeting in Rome a group of young German painters, the Nazarenes.

He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, being elected associate of the Royal Academy in 1844 and academician in 1848.

Fabian Perez | The Three Tenors

I Tre Tenori (The Three Tenors) è il nome della formazione dei cantanti lirici: Josep Carreras i Coll (spagnolo, 1946), José Plácido Domingo Embil (spagnolo, 1941) e Luciano Pavarotti (italiano, 1935-2007), che hanno tenuto concerti negli anni '90 e nei primi anni 2000, portando la musica classica tra la gente e nelle piazze, fuori dai soliti ambienti accademici.

Fabian Perez, 1967 | The Three Tenors

Iris Scott | Painting with fingers / hands

Finger / hand painting is now fine art at the hands of 28 year old American painter Iris Scott.

Scott creates vibrant paintings with a unique, stylistic Finger painting process, using surgical gloves and placing the oil paint directly on her hands.

Rapidly applying thick oil color with several points of contact rather than one Scott can be classified as a modern Impressionist..with a twist.

Her inspiration is found on the road as her composition-hunting continues to take her abroad. Recently back from Thailand, Iris is now finished making her newest collection of 10+ Thai originals.

Fabian Perez, 1967 | Male painting

Growing up in Argentina, Fabian Perez 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.

Fabian Perez, 1967 | Abstract Figurative painter

In 2009 Fabian Perez* was named the official artist of the 10th annual Latin Grammy Awards. In 2010 Perez was selected to paint the 2010 Winter Olympics.

For Fabian Perez, the purpose of art is to perpetuate beauty.

"That is what I am always striving for. God created the world and embellished it with the wonders of nature. I think it is the artist’s job to embellish it with his work".

"I am constantly fighting for a more romantic world, one where the woman and the man have defined roles and power isn’t always the goal".

Pausing, he says, "I would like to say that it is not important what you have, but how you enjoy it".

Oleg Babkin, 1965 | Portrait in Retrò style painter

Олег Бабкин is a professional Russian🎨 photographer, born in Nizhny Tagil, Russia. The talented photo artist Oleg Babkin makes his beautiful models come to life in the frame, turning every story into history.

His incredible portrait gallery is a hymn of female pure beauty. Most photographs are untitled, so quotes about beautiful women would be a good choice to sign the stunning female portraits.

Robert Zeller ~ American Figurative painter

Rob Zeller was born and grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. Although he has resided in New York City for 13 years, the surrealistic and Catholic Baroque quality of his birthplace permeates his art to this day. He received a BFA from the Boston Museum School and Tufts University, and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. He studied with Jacob Collins at the Water Street Atelier.

Malvina Hoffman | Les Saisons Russes

Il talento scultoreo della Malvina Hoffman divenne particolarmente famoso con le sue rappresentazioni della leggendaria ballerina russa Anna Pavlova 1881-1931.

L'ispirazione della Hoffman per creare questi pannelli nacque dopo aver assistito ad una performance dei ballerini russi Anna Pavlova e Mikhail Mordkin nel balletto 'Baccanale Autunnale' Op. 67 di Alexander Glazunov a Londra.

Dopo il ritorno a Parigi, la Hoffman convinse il suo mentore di permetterle di lavorare sulla serie, piuttosto che concentrarsi sulle commissioni ritratto più ordinarie.

Futuristic style ~ Paper fashion dresses

Paper clothing, in the form of women's dresses and other clothes made from disposable cellulose fabric, was a short-lived fashion novelty item in the 1960s United States. Individual paper and papier-mâché clothes and accessories (especially masquerade costumes) were used as early as the 19th century. But mass-produced paper fashion was invented by the American Scott Paper Company in 1966 as a marketing stunt. 

Zoe Bradley

Karen Dupré ~ My Fair Lady | VideoArt

La pittrice Americana, artista auto-didatta, Karen Dupré è nata in California e ha iniziato a dipingere all’età di 9 anni. Le sue prime opere avevano per oggetto la raffigurazione dei cavalli che si è poi estesa alle figure, ai paesaggi e alle nature morte. La Dupré è dotata della particolare abilità di ricreare un gioco di luce sia nella natura che manufatti che dipinge. Ispirandosi ai pittori del IXX secolo che sfidarono i riferimenti ideali dell’arte, la Dupré tenta un approccio simile attraverso i suoi innumerevoli stili.

Renata Domagalska ~ Red Dream

I`m Renata Domagalska. The most important part of my life is the art - especially the painting... Predominant motif of my expressive figurative painting are women. Women's portraits, nudes, dancers - flamenco, tango, folklore, etc.. My another pet subject is the atmosphere of sunny southern countries, small towns.

Karen Dupré ~ Femme fatale

Karen Dupré, is a self-taught American painter. Dupré’s work is adept to capture a fleeting moment in time and seemingly transport the viewer there.

Jean-Paul Avisse, 1948 | Surrealist painter

Jean-Paul Avisse, French painter🎨, is a rare and unique artistic genius of unquestionable depth, scope and power. A self taught master of incredible details and universal concepts.

Taking over eight weeks to complete each original intricate painting. First time viewers are further amazed to learn that Mr. Avisse creates each original painting by hand, using no computers, photographs or air-brushed techniques. Instead he relies on a much more time honored tradition, his hard learned skills and talents.

Angela Staehling | Vintage garden

Known for capturing the essence of romantic living, Staehling seeks inspiration from her deep-rooted family values, her Italian heritage, and her strong sense of tradition. Educated in America and England, she has years of experience in graphic design, illustration, and painting.
She can't help but create art that captures the romance of the simple things in life. 

Vintage Flowers ~ Retrò Pop-art style

Lo stile che ora si chiama "Arte Retrò" è un genere di Pop art, sviluppato durante gli anni 1940 e 1950, in risposta ad un bisogno di una grafica audace, accattivante e facile da riprodurre. L'Arte pubblicitaria Retrò ha avuto un ritorno di popolarità grazie al suo stile che si distingue dal moderno computer-generated styling.

Guim Tió Zarraluki, 1987 | Abstract painter

Guim Tió Zarraluki is a Spanish painter who creates stunning abstracted portraits illustrations starting from photographs he likes to cover and transform with paint.

The original picture is almost completely buried by a new geological level.

Only a nose, mouth or ear is left untouched, as a trace of the subject’s past life.

The bold act brings a re-birth.

Ernesto Arrisueño, 1957 | Magic Realism painter

Ernesto Arrisueño, Peruvian painter, was born in Lima, a time when migration to Australia was almost exclusively from Britain and Europe. In the past decade however, Australian life has been enriched by migration from many South American countries. Arrisueño studied art in Lima before completing a Bachelor of Architecture degree at Ricardo Palma University.

Throughout the 1980's he exhibited widely in Peru in both individual and group exhibitions. Architectural drawing, for which he had won a number of prizes as a student, developed as a major theme in his work where figures and objects are juxtaposed with beautifully rendered building fragments.

Robert Krogle, 1944 ~ Impressionist painter

Robert Krogle, American painter, was born in Santa Monica, California. After high school Robert applied to Chouinard Art Institute of Los Angeles and was accepted but after two years was called to duty by the California Army National Guard. He spent five and a half months in Vietnam and was awarded the bronze star and purple heart for his service. Upon returning to civilian life, Robert completed his last two years of art education in 1970.

Nino Orlandi, 1946 | Wood sculptor

Italian sculptor Nino Orlandi is a self-taught artist. In spite of his lack of formal education, has mastered a literary genre of sculpture.

His pieces convey immense talent and dimension, apparent in his many works titled The Book of Life, The Magic Mountain and The Book of Dreams.

While Orlandi's books are for the most part blank, showcasing planks of wood in place of words, he has managed to relay intricate stories to his followers.

Victoria Stoyanova, 1968 | Abstract painter

Bulgarian painter Victoria Stoyanova, was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her colorful fantasy paintings reflect the mystery of female beauty, setting light and darkness in harmony and art where human warmth and wisdom dominates.

Her art is kaleidoscopic, setting light and darkness in harmony, and art where human warmth dominates, outlined old traditions, alluding both perennial wisdom and the modern aesthetics imposed by the XX-th century.

Icons and paintings by Victoria are owned by private collectors in Bulgaria, UK, Germany, Greece, Russia, Cyprus, Italy, Austria, USA, Hungary, Japan, Canada, The Nitherlands, Switzerland, New Zealand, Izrael and Lebanon.

Iain Faulkner, 1973 ~ British Style

Scottish Iain Faulkner's paintings are concerned with the portrayal of strong and powerful images relying on visual impact as there is rarely any narrative. They are about capturing calm and contemplative moments, intimate exchanges, solitude, sometimes melancholy, heightened in their resonance by the use of chiaroscuro.

Winslow Homer and the Sea

Winslow Homer 1836-1910, American painter, was one of the most authentic and important American artists of the nineteenth century.

He is remembered for his landscapes, many featuring scenes of the sea, boats, and coastlines. His mastery of sketching and watercolor lends to his oil paintings the invigorating spontaneity of direct observation from nature.

His subjects, often deceptively simple on the surface, dealt in their most serious moments with the theme of human struggle within an indifferent universe.

Jack Vettriano | Lovers and Others Strangers | VideoArt

• "I miei dipinti raccontano le cose che ho fatto e quelle che vorrei poter fare".

• "I painted beach scenes not because I was feeling nice, but because I wanted to get a particular effect of reflection".

Agostino Arrivabene, 1967 ~ Visionary Surrealist painter

Agostino Arrivabene, a very talented Italian painter, is a painter of decadence, dream and ancient symbologies who uses his own homemade pigments and colors and tries to revive ancient pictorial techniques. Arrivabene was born in Rivolta d’Adda, in the province of Cremona, Italy in 1967. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in 1991. He then travelled to various Italian and international cities seeking out the work of the Old Masters, deepening his knowledge of his craft, and bringing to bear a great influence upon the future development of his own artwork.

Derek Kinzett, 1966 ~ Wire sculptor

British sculptor Derek Kinzett spent his childhood living in Dodington Park, Gloucestershire - England, a breathtaking estate designed and laid out by Capability Brown in 1764. Derek moved with his family to Wiltshire in 1977, and completed his studies in Art and Design at Wiltshire College in 1984. In 2007 he launched 'The Inner Spirit Collection' of hand crafted life size wire sculptures, which has continued to grow in size and content. Described as beyond beautiful, stunning and spiritual, Derek's work has gained recognition and respect for its intricacy and detail, and can be found within private collections throughout the UK, America, Russia and France.

Anne Magill, 1962 ~ Never Let Me Go

Anne Magill, Irish-born British painter is rapidly building a strong following amongst an exclusive international audience, with works held in major private and corporate collections worldwide. After studying at St. Martin’s School of Art and gaining early success as an innovative and award-winning commercial artist, Magill’s iconic subjects and narrative style made an easy transition into fine art, with her first solo exhibition taking place in 1992. Anne’s style has steadily developed, with exhibitions in prestigious galleries in London, Europe and the United States. Rich and atmospheric texture, epic silhouettes, timeless context and infinitely subtle tonal notes, have become Magill’s distinctive creative signature. Anne Magill’s portraits, landscapes and contextual urban and rural canvases evoke a powerful vision unparalleled by her contemporaries.

Renata Domagalska ~ Rainy street

Pure colour, movement, expression, strong brushstrokes, strength and subtlety are the characteristics of Renata Domagalska's painting in which the Dance of Colors and Energy of every Blotch make its figures alive. The favorite theme of this Figurative Art is Flamenco Dancing, a Nude Woman and a City Throbbing with Life.

Annette Schmucker, 1957 ~ Abstract painter

Annette Schmucker, German painter, was born in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Bavaria and is a self-taught artist. Schmucker's paintings are bursts of vibrant colours like bright red, blue, yellow and violet mixing together to create dynamic compositions. The earth and space communicate with each other in her extraordinary paintings and invite the viewer to feel the balance. Fire and ice. She creates works of particular brilliance in terms of colour. Annette's colour intensive works are real bundles of energy reflecting the presence of the things in the past or coming in the future.

Gregory Colbert, 1960 ~ Canadian photographer

Born in Toronto, Canada in 1960, Gregory Colbert, Canadian photographer, is a film-maker and photographer best known as the creator of Ashes and Snow, an exhibition of photographic artworks and films housed in the Nomadic Museum.

Henri Martin | Post-Impressionist painter

Henri Jean Guillaume Martin (1860-1943), French painter, was born in Toulouse.
His early works were devoted to poetic and allegorical themes reflecting his training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse. After winning the Grand Prix he moved to Paris in 1879 to study at the École des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Paul Laurens.
Martin exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais in Paris from 1880, winning a medal at the 1883 Salon.

Iain Faulkner, 1973 | Figurative / Romantic painter

Scottish painter Iain Faulkner was born in Glasgow where he was raised and educated. He graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1996 with a BA (Honours) Degree in Fine Art.

From the onset of his professional career, the fashionable and trendy routes of contemporary and conceptual art, adopted by many of his peers, was not an option. He chose instead to follow the more difficult and demanding path of figurative painting wherein clear, concise yardsticks of competence, draughtsmanship and painterly skills can be measured and judged, warts and all.

Paolo and Francesca | Inferno, Canto V | The Divine Comedy

Francesca da Rimini or Francesca da Polenta (1255 - ca. 1285) was the daughter of Guido da Polenta, lord of Ravenna.

She was a historical contemporary of Dante Alighieri, who portrayed her as a character in the Divine Comedy.

Paolo Malatesta (c. 1246-1285) was the third son of Malatesta da Verucchio, lord of Rimini.

He is best known for the story of his affair with Francesca da Polenta, portrayed by Dante in a famous episode of his Inferno (Canto V). He was the brother of Giovanni (Gianciotto) and Malatestino Malatesta.

Auguste Rodin - Paolo e Francesca

Monumento a Dante in Piazza Santa Croce a Firenze, 1865

Giotto 1267-1337 ~ Gli affreschi

Giotto di Bondone, better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance. Giotto's contemporary Giovanni Villani wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master of painting in his time, who drew all his figures and their postures according to nature. And he was given a salary by the Comune of Florence in virtue of his talent and excellence".