Mark Spain, 1962 | Figurative painter | Flamenco Dancers

Mark Spain** trained in technical graphics at Medway College of Art before setting up a printmaking studio in Kent producing original etchings.

In October 1987 he was commissioned to produce limited edition etchings of Kew Gardens and has since undertaken many other commissions, with clients ranging from National Westminster Bank to The Dorchester Hotel.
His work has also been represented by several leading publishers and distributed worldwide.

Lisa Noonis, 1963 | Abstract / Palette knife painter

Lisa Noonis is a Maine-based painter** known for her lively explorations of color, form, and space. Constantly pushing the boundaries of representation, Noonis captures the essence of objects, figures, and places with an ever-evolving, abstract style that embraces color, shape and line.

Jason deCaires Taylor, 1974 | Underwater sculptor

Jason deCaires Tayloris a British sculptor and creator of the world's first underwater sculpture park – the Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park - and underwater museum.

He is best known for installing site-specific underwater sculptures which develop into artificial coral reefsintegrating his skills as a sculptor, marine conservationist, underwater photographer and scuba diving instructor.

His works in Grenada have been listed among the Top 25 Wonders of the World by National Geographic.

His most ambitious projects to date are the creation of the world's largest underwater sculpture museum, the Cancún Underwater Museum, situated off the coast between Cancún and Isla Mujeres, Mexico, and Ocean Atlas (2014), a 5-metre tall, 60-ton sculpture off the Bahamas.

Tribuna of the Uffizi | The first museum of the Modern Age

In the Eighties of the 16th century, the Grand Duke Francesco I and his friend and collaborator, the architect Bernardo Buontalenti, started the project of the Tribuna.

It is the most important room at the first floor of the Uffizi palace, which ground floor was - at that time - occupied by the Florentine magistrates.

The Tribuna was the first nucleus of the Uffizi Gallery: it is a space conceived and realized to display to the public artworks considered the most precious of the Medici collection.

Marble Roman copy after a Greek original

Carlo Carrà | Futurist painter

Carlo Carrà (1881-1966) was a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number of books concerning art. He taught for many years in the city of Milan.

Carrà was born in Quargnento, near Alessandria, Piedmont. At the age of 12 he left home in order to work as a mural decorator.

In 1899-1900, Carrà was in Paris decorating pavilions at the Exposition Universelle, where he became acquainted with contemporary French art. He then spent a few months in London in contact with exiled Italian anarchists and returned to Milan in 1901.

Arshile Gorky | Abstract Expressionist painter

Arshile Gorky original name Vosdanik Adoian (born April 15, 1904, Khorkom, Van, Turkish Armenia [now in Turkey]-died July 21, 1948, Sherman, Connecticut, U.S.), American painter, important as the direct link between the European Surrealist painters and the painters of the American Abstract Expressionist movement.

Gorky’s early life was disrupted when his father abandoned Turkey, his wife, and his family in order to avoid service in the Turkish army. The rest of the family soon fled to Armenia to escape Turkish persecution and were subsequently dispersed.

Patrick Alò, 1975 | Metal sculptor of Renaissance figures

Born in Rome on August 6, 1975-Lebanese mother and an Italian father ungro, Italian artist** Patrick Alò lives the early years between Italy and the United States, and he studied art in Rome.

Student movement for social occupations and squats discovered his passion for archeology, recycling and cyberpunk, and it combines the love for classicism.

Patrick Alo working mainly with Scrap Metal parts to create classic-like sculptures** to celebrate the eternal cycle of renaissance** after annihilation.

John Salminen, 1945 | Abstract Cityscape painter

John Salminen (born January 18, 1945) is an award-winning🎨 American🎨 watercolor painter who is well known for his realistic urban landscapes. His work was described as "compelling street scenes packed with detail" by Watercolor Magic magazine's senior editor, Loraine Crouch.

Salminen was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. He earned his Bachelor's Degree and Master's Degree from the University of Minnesota. He lives in a self-built log cabin surrounded by 40 acres (160,000 m2) of pine forest in Duluth, Minnesota.

Andy Warhol: "I'd prefer to remain a mystery"

• "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself".

• "Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches".

• "People should fall in love with their eyes closed".

• "Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what".

• "Art is what you can get away with".

Quint Buchholz, 1957 | Magic Realism painter / illustrator

Puint Buchholz was born in Stolberg near Aachen and grew up in Stuttgart. He studied history of art for four terms, followed by painting and graphic design at the Munich Academy of Art under Prof. Gerd Winner.

He has worked as a painter and illustrator since 1979, illustrating over fourty books for German and international publishers.

From 1982 onwards his works have also been exhibited in over seventy solo exhibitions in Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Greece and Taiwan.

Camille Corot | The Barbizon school of painters

Of Camille Corot Claude Monet exclaimed: "There is only one master here - Corot. We are nothing compared to him, nothing". His contributions to figure painting are hardly less important; Degas preferred his figures to his landscapes, and the classical figures of Picasso pay overt homage to Corot's influence.

Auguste Suchetet | Figurative sculptor

Auguste Edmé Suchetet, born March 12, 1854 at Vendeuvre-sur-Barse and died in May 1932 in Paris, was a French sculptor**.

Auguste Suchetet's father is a mason at Vendeuvre-sur-Barse.

Léon Moynet, owner of the Christian art factory in the commune 1 notes Auguste Suchetet while working with his father on the extension of the buildings and hired him as an apprentice.

Arc de Triomphe Paris, 1806-1836

Arc de Triomphe, in full Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile, massive triumphal arch in Paris, France, one of the world’s best-known commemorative monuments.

It stands at the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle (formerly called the Place de l’Étoile), the western terminus of the avenue des Champs-Élysées; just over 1.2 miles (2 km) away, at the eastern terminus, is the Place de la Concorde.

Napoleon I commissioned the triumphal arch in 1806 - after his great victory at the Battle of Austerlitz (1805) - to celebrate the military achievements of the French armies.

Vladimir Ezhakov, 1975 | Ballet dancers

Vladimir Ezhakov /Владимир Ежаков is an Russian🎨 artist-teacher - painter, known for working in the Figurative style. Ezhakov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia.

For biographical notes and other works by Ezhakov see:

• Vladimir Ezhakov, 1975 | Impressionist Figurative painter🎨

Jean-Pierre Gibrat, 1954 | Book Illustrator

Jean-Pierre Gibrat is a French🎨 comic artist and scriptwriter. Born on the 14th of April 1954 in Paris, France. His first complete stories were published in the French magazine Pilote. With Jackie Berroyer, he took on le petit Goudard in 1978, a series which he continued in the same year in Charlie Mensuel, then in Fluide Glacial in 1980.

During this time, some of his artwork was also published in the press: l'Evénement du jeudi, le Nouvel Obs, Sciences et Avenir and he also produced work for Okapi and Je bouquine. In late 1982, he pencilled La Parisienne in Pilote, again on a script by Berroyer.

Simon Vouet | Baroque Era painter

Simon Vouet, (born January 9, 1590, Paris, France - died June 30, 1649, Paris), painter who introduced an Italianate Baroque style** of painting into France.

Vouet formed his style in Italy, where he lived from 1612 to 1627. The use of dramatic contrasts of light and shade seen in such early works as his Two Lovers indicates that he began in Rome as a follower of Caravaggio**.

Rita Kirkman, 1965 | Pastel painter

Award winning** Artist Rita Kirkman is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, a daily painter and blogger. She is well known for her portraits of Renaissance** characters, her caricatures and quick sketches, and elevating the status of beautiful Texas cattle through her vivid portraits of them!

For biographical notes and other works by Kirkman see:

• Rita Kirkman | Pastel painter ⏭

Zoran Kezic, 1960 | Landscape / cityscape painter

Award winning** Artist Zoran Kezić was born in 1960. In 1980, he graduated from a secondary art school, a graphic designer.

He exhibited at 15 collective exhibitions. He participated in many humanitarian actions and art colonies.

A highly productive painter who satisfies the tastes of a wide population.

Kezić has won numerous awards** for his artistic work and engagement.

Georges de la Tour | Baroque Era painter

Georges de La Tour, (1593-1652), painter, mostly of candlelit subjects, who was well known in his own time but then forgotten until well into the 20th century, when the identification of many formerly misattributed works established his modern reputation as a giant of French painting.

Giulia Lama | Baroque painter

Giulia Lama (active mainly first half of 18th century) was an Italian painter, active in Venice.

Her dark, tense style contrasted with the dominant pastel colors of the late Baroque era.

Biography

Lama was born c. 1681 in the parish of Santa Maria Formosa in Venice.

She was trained initially by her father, the painter Agostino Lama.

She then studied alongside a childhood friend, Giambattista Piazzetta (1682-1754), the prominent rococo painter of various religious subjects and genre paintings.

John Atkinson Grimshaw | Victorian-era painter

English Victorian-era painter John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893), considered one of the most renowned painters of the Victorian era, as well as one of the best and most accomplished nightscape and townscape, artists of all time.

Grimshaw's primary influence was the Pre-Raphaelites. True to the Pre-Raphaelite style, he created landscapes of accurate colour and lighting, vivid detail and realism, often typifying seasons or a type of weather.

Moonlit views of city and suburban streets and of the docks in London, Hull, Liverpool, and Glasgow also figured largely in his art. His careful painting and his skill in lighting effects meant that he captured both the appearance and the mood of a scene in minute detail. His "paintings of dampened gas-lit streets and misty waterfronts conveyed an eerie warmth as well as alienation in the urban scene".

Andy Warhol: What Is Pop Art?

What Is Pop Art?

Interviews with Eight Painters, 1963

by Gene Swenson, Art News 62, New York,

November 1963; reprinted in Pop Art Redefined, John Russell and Suzi Gablik (eds.), London, 1969

It's hard to be creative and it's also hard not to think what you do is creative or hard not to be called creative because everybody is always talking about that and individuality.

Everybody's always creative. Ans it is so funny when you say things aren't, like the shoe I would draw for an advertisement was called a 'creation', but the drawing of it was not..

There are millions of actors. They're all pretty good. And how many painters are there?

Jungho Lee | Surrealist Illustrator

The Korean artist Jungho Lee is based in Seoul where he creates surreal illustrations for books and is also in the process of working on his own picture book.

Many of his recent pieces incorporate actual books as a wide variety of visual metaphors from the wings of a plane to pools of stars.

Jungho Lee was recently named the overall professional winner of the "World Illustration Awards 2016".

Marie-Paule Deville-Chabrolle, 1952 | Figurative sculptor / painter

Marie-Paule Deville-Chabrolle is an painter and sculptor, known for working in the Figurative style.

She was born in Meknes, Morocco, lives and works in France.

Marie-Paule Deville-Chabrolle was influenced by Asia because she has made many trips there and studied in Cambodia. She pays tribute to femininity.

The human body is the sole object of her work. She draws, sculpts, conceals then transforms her pieces in bronze.

Keith Mallett, 1948 | Abstract Figurative painter

Keith Mallett was born in Pennsylvania, and received his formal art training at the Art Students League, and Hunter College in New York City. He has worked as a freelance artist and for fifteen years was the in-house artist for Frontline Art Publishers. Keith’s work is currently published by Canadian Art Prints, one of the largest fine art publishers in the world.

Keith was commissioned to design the official limited edition print commemorating the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s historic breakthrough into major league baseball. His art was chosen to grace the cover of Chicken Soup for The African American Soul, the first Chicken Soup collection to deal exclusively with the African American experience.

Daniel Mirante, 1977 | Visionary painter

Daniel Mirante is a painter, art teacher and designer, born in Chester, a Roman city situated on the border of Wales and England.

He is an independent fine art professional, writer and researcher, and educator of painting practice, art history and contemporary esoteric art.

Daniel is the co-founder and director of Art Pilgrim, a UK based educational project that specialises in instruction in painting approaches and exploration of translation from traditional to contemporary culture.

Odalisque paintings

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Odalisque | National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

An odalisque (Turkish: odalık / اوطه‌لق) was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan.

The word "odalisque" is French in form and originates from the Turkish odalık, meaning "chambermaid", from oda, "chamber" or "room". It can also be transliterated odahlic, odalisk and odaliq.

Thor Lindeneg, 1941 | Surrealist painter

Thor Lindeneg is a Danish surrealist painter who currently resides and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Lindeneg was born in in Copenhagen.

Thor Lindeneg belong to the new surrealistic school called Fantastic Figuration.

Andy Warhol: "Security breeds stagnation"

• "Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?"

• "The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying".

• "Most people in America think Art is a man's name".

• "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details".

Andy Warhol | Pop Art painter

Andy Warhol, original name Andrew Warhola, (1928-1987), American artist and filmmaker, an initiator and leading exponent of the Pop art movement of the 1960s whose mass-produced art apotheosized the supposed banality of the commercial culture of the United States

An adroit self-publicist, he projected a concept of the artist as an impersonal, even vacuous, figure who is nevertheless a successful celebrity, businessman, and social climber.

The son of Ruthenian (Rusyn) immigrants from what is now eastern Slovakia, Warhol graduated in 1949 from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), Pittsburgh, with a degree in pictorial design.

George Underwood, 1947 | Pittore Fantasy

Richard George Underwood è un artista e musicista Britannico.

È noto soprattutto per la progettazione di copertine di album per numerose band negli anni '70 e per le sue collaborazioni con l'amico di lunga data, il cantautore David Bowie.

George Underwood ha frequentato la Bromley Technical High School dove ha sviluppato l'interesse per la musica insieme ai compagni di classe David Bowie e Peter Frampton.

La band di Underwood e Bowie, George and the Dragons è stata di breve durata a causa di Underwood che ha preso a pugni Bowie nell'occhio sinistro mentre indossava un anello al dito, durante una lite per una ragazza, causando la paralisi nella pupilla sinistra di Bowie ed il suo caratteristico disallineamento aspetto.

Hans Memling | Northern Renaissance painter

Hans Memling, Memling also spelled Memlinc, (born c. 1430-40, Seligenstadt, near Frankfurt am Main [Germany] - died August 11, 1494, Bruges [Belgium]), leading South Netherlandish painter of the Bruges school during the period of the city’s political and commercial decline.

The number of his imitators and followers testifies to his popularity throughout Flanders.

His last commission, which has been widely copied, is a Crucifixion panel from the Passion triptych (1491).

Memling, born in the region of the Middle Rhine, was apparently first schooled in the art of Cologne and then traveled to the Netherlands (c. 1455-60), where he probably trained in the workshop of the painter Rogier van der Weyden.

He settled in Bruges (Brugge) in 1465; there he established a large shop and executed numerous altarpieces and portraits. Indeed, he was very successful in Bruges: it is known that he owned a large stone house and by 1480 was listed among the wealthiest citizens on the city tax accounts.

Sometime between 1470-1480 Memling married Anna de Valkenaere (died 1487), with whom he had three children.

Maria Oosthuizen, 1972 | Modern / Figurative painter

South African artist Maria Magdalena Oosthuizen paints figurative portraits emanating innocence and hope that pay tribute both to her devotion to God and her belief in the intrinsic goodness of the people of this world.
Using balanced, harmonic compositions and a dedication to detail, Maria focuses on the interplay of light and shadow in her works, with particular attention to how light impacts form, conveying the powerful message that underscores all her work: that light has the power to expel darkness and reveal the goodness and abundance in life.

Robert Campin | Northern Renaissance painter

Robert Campin, (born c. 1378, Tournai, France - died April 26, 1444, Tournai), one of the earliest and greatest masters of Flemish painting. He has been identified with the Master of Flémalle on stylistic and other grounds.

Characterized by a naturalistic conception of form and a poetic representation of the objects of daily life, Campin’s work marks a break with the prevailing International Gothic style and prefigures the achievements of Jan van Eyck and the painters of the Northern Renaissance.

Documents show that Campin was established as a master painter in Tournai in 1406. Two pupils are mentioned as entering his studio in 1427 - Rogelet de la Pasture (generally identified with the great Rogier van der Weyden) and Jacques Daret.

Viktor Sheleg, 1962 | Abstract painter

Russian painter Виктор Шелег was born in Lomonosov, near Saint-Petersburg, Russia. His family moved to Latvia when he was three.

Viktor has been drawing since early childhood and started painting at the age of twelve. Self-taught, his creativity is based on his personal worldview, which earned him a solid reputation of an independent artist.

John Frederick Lewis RA | Orientalist / Genre painter

British painter John Frederick Lewis RA (1805-1876) is the one of finest of the Orientalist painters. Because of his painstaking "Pre-Raphaelite" technique, his finished paintings are rare.

John Frederick Lewis was born in London in 1805, the son of a master engraver, Frederick Christian Lewis

Luciano Ventrone (1942-2021)

"Lo studio della pittura non è la mera rappresentazione dell'oggetto ma è colore e luce: i giusti rapporti fra le due cose danno la forma nello spazio. Il soggetto non va visto come tale ma astrattamente" - Luciano Ventrone.

Luciano Ventrone, pittore italiano, nasce a Roma. All'età di quattro anni viene ospitato in Danimarca da Metha Petersen, donna benestante ma soprattutto amorevole. Lo ricopre di cure e doni: fra le altre cose, gli regalerà una scatola di colori... quegli stessi colori che avrebbero segnato il suo futuro.

Hindu Art | Ancient Origins

Hinduism, one of the great religions of the world, has a long and rich history of depicting the divine in art. Originating in India in remote antiquity, it is a polytheistic system with a myriad of gods and goddesses.

The challenge for artists was not a shortage of subject matter, but rather how to give form to beings that by their very natures are formless. Relying mainly on sacred religious texts wherein the exploits of the gods and goddesses are told and retold, certain tales and episodes became favorites for illustration, and standard iconographies were established for specific deities.

Antoine Bourdelle | Expressionist sculptor

Antoine Bourdelle (30 October 1861 - 1 October 1929), born Émile-Antoine Bordelles, was an influential and prolific French sculptor**, painter and teacher.

His studio became the Musée Bourdelle, an art museum dedicated to his work, located at 18, rue Antoine Bourdelle, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, France.

Bourdelle was born at Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne. He left school at the age of 13 to work as a wood carver in his father's cabinet making shop.

Jan Steen | Baroque Era painter

Jan Steen, in full Jan Havickszoon Steen, (born c. 1625, Leiden, Netherlands - died February 3, 1679, Leiden), Dutch painter** of genre, or everyday, scenes, often lively interiors bearing a moralizing theme.

Steen is unique among leading 17th-century Dutch painters** for his humour; he has often been compared to the French comic playwright Molière, his contemporary, and indeed both men treated life as a vast comedy of manners.

John Arthur Lomax | Genre painter

John Arthur Lomax was an British** genre painter, born in Manchester. He studied in Stuttgart and at the Munich Academy, but returned to Manchester and later relocated to London.

The artist’s subjects were mainly historical genre of the 17th and 18th Centuries, especially of the Civil War period, often with a dramatic or sentimental theme.

Titles at the Royal Academy include “Thoughts of Christmas”, “An Old Master” and “Flaw in the Title”.

Remy Daza Rojas, 1955 | Figurative painter

Remy Daza Rojas is a Bolivian painter, born in Cochabamba, Bolivia. From 1978-1981 he studied at the Ernesto de la Cárcova School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina and practiced painting from a young age, along with Gíldaro Antezana, Ricardo Pérez Alcalá, and Vladimir Rojas.

His paintings are made with a skillful technical handling, in realism in which the human figure becomes the protagonist.

The color and, above all, the light are worked very skillfully creating expressive forms, full of harmonious sensuality and that tend to touch certain symbolism or incorporate surreal elements.

Quinten Massys | Northern Renaissance painter

Quinten Massys, Massys also spelled Matsys, Metsys, or Messys, (born c. 1465/66, Leuven, Brabant [now in Belgium] - died 1530, Antwerp), Flemish artist, the first important painter of the Antwerp school.

Trained as a blacksmith in his native Leuven, Massys is said to have studied painting after falling in love with an artist’s daughter. In 1491 he went to Antwerp and was admitted into the painters’ guild.

Wolfgang Kossuth (1947-2009) | Figurative sculptor

Wolfgang Alexander Kossuth was born in Pfronten, Germany. He is a painter, a sculptor, a violinist and an orchestra leader and he dedicated all hos life to art, join the passion for the music with the figurative arts one.

His artworks portray important people of the musical, literally and ballet background. He prefers sculpture because with it he expresses himself better. The human being is always the centre of the composition.

Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, also spelled Brueghel or Breughel, (1525-1569), the greatest Flemish painter of the 16th century, whose landscapes and vigorous, often witty scenes of peasant life are particularly renowned.

Since Bruegel signed and dated many of his works, his artistic evolution can be traced from the early landscapes, in which he shows affinity with the Flemish 16th-century landscape tradition, to his last works, which are Italianate.

He exerted a strong influence on painting in the Low Countries, and through his sons Jan and Pieter he became the ancestor of a dynasty of painters that survived into the 18th century.

Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) Lo stile

Lo stile del pittore Italiano Sandro Botticelli (Firenze, 1445-1510) subì diverse evoluzioni nel tempo, ma fondamentalmente mantenne alcuni tratti comuni che lo rendono tutt'oggi ben riconoscibile, anche nel vasto pubblico. Gli input fondamentali della sua formazione artistica furono sostanzialmente tre: Filippo Lippi, Andrea del Verrocchio ed Antonio del Pollaiolo.

Dal Lippi, suo primo vero maestro, apprese a dipingere fisionomie eleganti e di una rarefatta bellezza ideale, il gusto per la predominanza del disegno e della linea di contorno, le forme sciolte, i colori delicatamente intonati, il calore domestico delle figure sacre.

Dal Pollaiolo ricavò la linea dinamica e energetica, capace di costruire forme espressive e vitali con la forza del contorno e del movimento.

Dal Verrocchio imparò a dipingere forme solenni e monumentali, fuse con l'atmosfera grazie ai fini giochi luministici, e dotate di effetti materici nella resa dei diversi materiali.

Sandro Botticelli | Artworks | Page 6

Botticelli was an integral part of the Italian Renaissance, which helped to shape the future of European art, architecture and literature.

Sandro Botticelli was an Italian artist who achieved great success and notoriety in his native Florence during his own lifetime. His nickname came from the Italian for a small wine cask, namely a Botticello.

Giorgio Vasari | The life of Sandro Botticelli

At the same time with the elder Lorenzo'de Medici, the Magnificent, which was truly a golden age for men of intellect, there also flourished one Alessandro, called Sandro after our custom, and surnamed Di Botticello for a reason that we shall see below.

This man was the son of Mariano Filipeppi, a citizen of Florence, who brought him up with care, and had him instructed in all those things that are usually taught to children before they are old enough to be apprenticed to some calling.

But although he found it easy to learn whatever he wished, nevertheless he was ever restless, nor was he contented with any form of learning, whether reading, writing, or arithmetic, insomuch that his father, eary of the vagaries of his son's brain, in despair apprenticed him as a goldsmith with a boon-companion of his own, called Botticello, no mean master of that art in his day.

Van Gogh | Holland Landscapes

"I can very well do without God both in my life and in my paintings, but I cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life - the power to create" - Quote in his letter to brother Theo.

Nicolas Poussin | Baroque Era painter

Nicolas Poussin, (born June 1594, Les Andelys, Normandy [France] - died November 19, 1665, Rome, Papal States [Italy]), French painter and draftsman who founded the French Classical tradition.

He spent virtually all of his working life in Rome, where he specialized in history paintings - depicting scenes from the Bible, ancient history, and mythology - that are notable for their narrative clarity and dramatic force.