Romain de Tirtoff | Art Déco Painter / Sculptor

Romain de Tirtoff / Роман Петрович Тыртов, detto Erté (1892-1990), è stato un pittore, scultore, costumista e scenografo teatrale Russo naturalizzato Francese.

Fu uno dei massimi rappresentanti dell'Art Déco. Fu scultore, designer e disegnatore di moda, apprezzato anche come disegnatore di gioielli, figurinista, costumista teatrale, scenografo ed illustratore di riviste.

Russo di nascita si trasferì a Parigi nel 1912, a soli 19 anni. Esordì per le sue capacità nel 1915, quando cominciò a disegnare la copertina per Harper's Bazar.

A Parigi collabora con i maggiori spettacoli del music-hall, creando i costumi di scena per Mistinguett e Marion Davies.

Nel 1969 illustrò un volume dei Beatles.

Ciò che di lui è più noto, sono le raffinate produzioni in stile art déco: i soggetti preferiti delle sue opere sono figure femminili, eleganti e longilinee.

John Silver, 1959 | Figurative painter

British painter🎨 John Silver was born in Macclesfield Cheshire. UK.

- I am a professional artist and am known worldwide for my Canine artwork.

Though I also paint many other subjects such as figuratives, fantasy, equestrian and landscapes. I have over 100 limited edition prints published by the major publishers over the last 14 years or so and also many self published prints.

I am self taught and I knew I wanted to be an artist by the age of five years old!

My work is now seen as an 'investment' by collectors. Which is something that I am very proud of and humbled by.

Adrian Gottlieb, 1975 | Figurative / Portrait painter

Naturalist painter and portraitist Adrian Gottlieb was born in northeastern Vermont. He currently lives and paints from a studio in Southern California.

By the age of 15, Gottlieb had already exhibited in the VT state capitol, and had been recognized by Vermont Governors Madeline Kunin and Howard Dean, his painting of Vermont's Abenaki Indian Tribal Council was purchased by the University of Vermont for permanent exhibition.

Gottlieb was chosen the first place national winner (painting and graphics category) of the 1993 Young Inventors and Creators of America Award - a competition designed and funded by the US Patents, Trademarks and Copyright Offices, and the US Library of Congress.

Horacio Cardozo, 1968 | Hyperrealist painter

Horacio Cardozo is a self-taught artist who has over 25 years of experience in the industry. His passion for art stems back to when he just 5 years of age. He was swept into the world of realist art by his admiration of classical artists Raphael🎨, Michelangelo🎨, Leonardo da Vinci🎨 and Albrecht Durer🎨. The work of these artists inspired him to pick up the brush and create a world on canvas.

The Secession Art

Oskar Laske (1901-1902) - Vienna Secession

Secession (German: Sezession) refers to a number of modernist artist groups that separated from the support of official academic art and its administrations in the late 19th and early 20th century.

The first secession from the official politics occurred in France, when, in 1890, the "Salon au Champs-de-Mars" was established, headed by Meissonnier and Puvis de Chavannes🎨. In the years following artists in various European countries took up this impulse, primarily in Germany, Austria–Hungary, and Belgium, which 'seceded' from traditional art movements and embraced progressive styles.

Arantza Sestayo, 1964 | Fantasy painter

Arantza Sestayo, illustrator, painter, draftsman, has worked very well for the American magazine Norma Comics in October and published a book compilation of his work.

Arantza was born in Spain and has lived on the Spanish Mediterranean coast since childhood. Her work has graced the covers of many novels, comic books and children's stories. Her gothic images are reminiscent of works by the best of Spain's many other acclaimed dark fantasy artists of decades past.

Rob Hefferan, 1968 | Figurative painter

Born in Warrington, Cheshire, Rob Hefferan is an exceptionally talented figurative artist. His work not only captures the unique character and warmth of each subject, but transcends form to suggest the living, breathing essence of the individual.

Working predominately with oils and acrylics, Rob’s work is both eminently understandable and intensely familiar. Colour, light and texture harmonise intelligently and with stunning candour to produce works that resonate with vibrant life.

The pinnacle of figurative realism is to elicit the animating force that resides behind the density and delicacy of human form and structure. Working with the living architecture of the human body, Rob recreates the poetry of the skin’s tone and structure and pays homage to the complex interaction of musculature, tissue and bone.

Every brushstroke has the ability to reach out from the canvas to embrace our senses.

Eugenio Prati | Genre painter

Eugenio Prati (1842-1907) was an Italian painter, active in the Trentino, painting genre subjects.

He was born in Caldonazzo in the Trentino. He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, and then further studies in Florence at the patronage of a local Baron of Trentino.

In 1879, he teturns to Trentino, and settles in the Valsugana.

Here he dedicated himself to painting mainly rural genre themes, although also some sacred and historic subjects, and costume genre paintings.

Anders Zorn | Impressionist painter

One of the most famous living artists at the turn of the 20th century, Anders Leonard Zorn (1860-1920) dazzled the art world with his bravura paintings, watercolors, and etchings.

His early travels took him to Spain and Algeria where the intense color and light inspired the virtuoso watercolorist to perfect his craft.

In Paris he emulated the Impressionists as a chronicler of modern life, while in America he rivaled John Singer Sargent as the most sought-after portraitist of glittering high society.

Back at home Zorn captured his native folk culture and the serenity of the Nordic landscape.

Watchara Klakhakhai, 1967 | Figurative painter

Watchara Klakhakhai is a Thailand's prominent painter.

Education: Pohchang Campus

Honours:

• Involved in the exhibition of “Jo-Louis Thai Puppet Show” in the Year 2002.
• Involved in the exhibition of 50th Anniversary Celebrations of His Majesty’s Accession to the Throne” organized by Kasikorn Bank.
• Won the third prize in a painting contest “The King in Artists’s Hearts” sponsored by ICC Company.
• Involved in the exhibition of “60th Anniversary Celebrations of His Majesty’s Accession to the Throne” organized by Kasikorn Bank.
• Involved in the exhibition “Faces of Artists”.

Lucio Amitrano, 1950 | Figurative painter

Italian painter Lucio Amitrano, is one of the most famous contemporary masters of Italian art.

Art teacher currently lives and works in his villa on the island of Capri. In her works she establishes a compositional complexity combined with great expressive color: it undoubtedly pretends to capture her personal experience and an idealized reality of the female world.

Wizard sets compositional complexity, combined with the large expressive color.

Lucio unusual, no doubt, from personal experience, to explore the reality of their experiences and the reality of the rest of your dreams.

Charles Bukowski | I can't stop thinking about you / Non ho smesso di pensarti

Vicente Romero Redondo🎨

I have not stopped thinking about you,

I’d love to tell you.

I would like write to you and say that I would go back,

that I miss you

and I think of you.

But I do not look for you.

I do not write you, even hello.

I do not know how you are.

And I miss knowing it.

Kim Roberti, 1950 | Impressionist Figurative painter

"I love painting...it's my life! I love the endless series of tasks exploring the abstract elements of lines, shapes, values, colors, textures and edges!"

Kim Roberti - Vietnamese-born American painter⏩ - was born and reared in the Southern region of Vietnam.
She immigrated to the United States in 1966 at the age of 16. Since that time she has lived in many areas of the US and other countries around the world.

Mariska Karto, 1971 | Baroque style Photographer

Mariska Karto is a American photographer/illustrator born in Suriname, South-America and raised in Holland.

Karto started her artistic photography in 2010 with the urge to express her inner world.

She mainly inspired by the old world (loving the magic of the old and dusty world), the magic of woman and the struggle of human emotions.

Yuri Yarosh, 1969 | Figurative painter

Born in Belarus Юрий Ярош currently lives and works in Spain.

It is without any doubt, also a great artist, a master in the realm of color.

According to Yuri, he has been painting since childhood, following the traditions of classic painters of Russian art school.

His beautiful, colorful paintings of women portraits, horses and still life decorate different galleries and stored in private collections.

Kyle Stuckey, 1987 | Romantic figurative painter

Kyle Stuckey🎨 is an American painter🎨, known for his work in the Impressionistic Realism style.

Stuckey began studying art during his high school years by private instruction through Lori Woodward Simons and various workshops, later becoming a member of the Putney Painters where he was able to continue to hone his skills in the presence of some of the greatest artists today, including Richard Schmid🎨 and Nancy Guzik🎨.

Stephen Early | Figurative painter

Stephen Early began his art education at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
He has received many notable portrait painting commissions from the likes of Richard Carlin, Henry Siegel (the founder of Sea Gull Lighting Company), and the Honorable Judge William Hart Rufe II, among others.
He was the recipient of a Certificate of Excellence at the Portrait Society of America's 2008 and 2010 Portrait Competitions.

Mika Törönen, 1968 | Cityscape / Watercolour painter

Mika Törönen, born 28 November 1968, Pirkkala, is an Finnish award winning painter.

Törönen makes paintings and portraits of Helsinki.

He has studied in Australia - Sydney, at the Julian Ashton Art School in 1999.

Watercolor is not easy medium, but keep painting and be patient. There is no shortcuts. Only way to progress is just paint, paint and paint... learn from your mistakes and bad paintings... - Mika Törönen

Yannis Moralis | Cubist painter

Yannis Moralis / Γιάννης Μόραλης (1916-2009) is an outstanding figure in Modern Greek painting. He became a professor at the School of Fine Arts at a very early age and for years taught the younger generations of Greek painters.

Born at Arta (Epirus), Yannis Moralis studied painting in the School for Fine Arts, Athens (1931-1936) with Dimitris Geraniotis, Costas Parthenis and Umbertos Argyros and etching with Yannis Kefallinos. Dimitris Yeraniotis, Konstantinos Parthenis, Umbertos Argyros and Yannis Kefallinos were his professors, while his classmates - including Yannis Tsarouchis, Christos Kapralos and Nikos Nikolaou - would become his friends.

Bronwyn Hill, 1989 | Portrait /Figurative /Hyperrealist painter

Based in Brisbane, Bronwyn Hill is a portrait and figurative artist. Using oil paint and layering techniques she creates realistic images of women in natural settings. These women are representative of the artist; the way she felt at the time or the way she wanted to feel. Bronwyn is influenced by light, nature and many artists, although her work is primarily a way of expressing herself in vague, allowing interpretation of the viewer.

Completing a Diploma of fine art at Noosa in 2011 and producing her first series of work in 2012, Bronwyn is in the early stages of her artistic career.

Henri Manguin | Fauve painter

Henri Charles Manguin (23 March 1874 - 25 September 1949) was a French painter, associated with the Fauves.

Manguin entered the École des Beaux-Arts to study under Gustave Moreau, as did Henri Matisse and Charles Camoin with whom he became close friends. Like them, Manguin made copies of Renaissance art in the Louvre.

Alberto Pancorbo, 1956 | Fantastic Realism painter

Born in the city of Soria (Spain) Pancorbo begins to paint from a very early age in his native city. At the age of 18 he transferred to the city of Barcelona with the ultimate goal to dedicate himself only to painting.
In 1980 he became an exclusive artist of Sala Gaudi (Barcelona), which exposed his paintings for the first time in the international fair of art of Basilea (Swiss).
He began a period of exhibitions in different cities of Spain and overseas. In many of these exhibitions he obtained numerous Awards in various art contests.
In 1985 he holds his first exhibition in Madrid and is awarded the "Artist revelation of the year" by the magazine Correo Del Arte de Madrid.
The first publication detailing the paintings of Pancorbo is published in Barcelona in 1986 and afterward he moves to his new residence in Bogotá (Colombia) where he holds numerous exhibitions.

H. Momo Zhou, 1981 | Figurative painter

Born in Guangzhou, China, Awarded painter H. Momo Zhou has followed in her family footsteps of creating fine artistic works.

Her parents, highly respected professors of fine arts at the prestigious Guangzhou University of Art, China, nurtured Momo’s unique gift of spatial awareness of color, juxtaposition of line form, and a broad brush stroke of creativity.

Her images embody the quintessential nuances of romanticism, realism and impressionism.

Derek Jones, 1945 | Watercolor / Figurative painter

Derek Jones is a coal miner's son, born in County Durham, and he is currently based in Berwickshire. He went to Art College at Hartlepool and followed this by completing a degree in Fine Art at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Following a year working in a museum, Derek began to teach art. He later helped to run a gallery in Berwick upon Tweed. For the last twenty years, Derek has been concentrating on his own work, which consists mainly of figurative drawing.

António Macedo, 1955 | Magic Realism painter

António Pedro Urbano Veiga de Macedo is a Portuguese painter, born in Oporto, Portugal.
I attended the local art school, the "Escola Superior de Belas Artes" in 1973-74.
In 1975 I moved to London, where I continued to research into all kinds of painting techniques so as to develop my own style. Over the years, the close proximity to the great Art collections in the Capital, the study of so many great images, and contacts and friendships with artists in the U.K. and Portugal did much to help me learn what cannot be taught at Art School.

Bruno Di Maio, 1944 | Surrealist Figurative painter

Bruno Di Maio is an Italian painter, known for working in the new Figurative style. Di Maio, born in North Africa to Italian parents, lives and works in Tuscany, Italy.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Di Maio see:
Bruno Di Maio, 1944 | Surrealist Figurative painter ➦
Bruno Di Maio, 1944 | Ballet dancer ➦
Bruno Di Maio / Pablo Neruda ➦
Oscar Wilde / Bruno Di Maio ➦

Romel de la Torre, 1963 | Figurative painter

"I find spiritual beauty in all the things that I paint.

The innocence of a child's face, the endless blue color of the sky, the smell of flowers in the garden, the sound of raindrops falling on the roof.

These gives joy in my heart, inspiration, and gratitude... of being an artist" - Romel de la Torre

Born in Cebu City, Philippines in a community of artists, Filipino painter Romel de la Torre's artistic interest started at a very young age.

With the encouragement of his parents he began sketching the world around him.

Remembering Steve Hanks, the Master of Watercolor

Steve Hanks (1949-2015)🎨, the Master of Watercolor and Figures passed away in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 22 after a battle with cancer.

"Art comes from a deep inner sense of direction.It starts with a re-evaluation of your own life, from a search for the source of the impulses and mystery of it all. I think of myself as an emotional realist. Emotion is what I want to portray. Realism is just my way of doing it"- Steve Hanks

Steve Hanks is recognized as one of the best watercolor artists working today. The detail, color and realism of Steve Hanks’ paintings are unheard of in this difficult medium. A softly worn patterned quilt, the play of light on the thin veil of surf on sand, or the delicate expression of a child — Steve Hanks captures these patterns of life better than anyone.

Rafal Olbinski, 1945 | Surrealist / Visionary painter

"In front of a painting, as in front of a beautiful woman, one must revel in wonder" - Rafal Olbinski*.

- "Poetic humor is a quality rarely found in the fine arts" - says Andre Parinuad, President of the International Arts Salon in Paris.

- "Rafal Olbinski has this gift.He wants to show us that our imagination is a magical world, which we are recreating forever. He draws us into a different universe, and forces us to use our eyes to participate in a marvelous world which is the true dimension of dreams".

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

• Rafal Olbinski, 1943 | Surrealist painter ➺

Jean Metzinger | Cubist painter

Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (June 24, 1883 - November 3, 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes, developed the theoretical foundations of Cubism.

His earliest works, from 1900 to 1904, were influenced by the Neo-impressionism of Georges Seurat and Henri-Edmond Cross.

Between 1904-1907 Metzinger worked in the Divisionist and Fauvist styles with a strong Cézannian component, leading to some of the first proto-Cubist works.

Miguel Avataneo, 1962 | Figurative painter

Miguel Angel Avataneo, Argentine painter, was born in the province of Cordoba in Argentina and his love of the pure form of classicism was nourished by his early interest in the Italian masters: Correggio (1489-1534), Giorgione (1478-1510), Raphael (1483-1520) and Titian (1488/90-1576).

He was also greatly influenced by the late eighteenth century french paintings of David, Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867).

Vittorio Tessaro, 1958 | Figurative sculptor

Italian artist* Vittorio Tessaro was born in Caldogno, Vicenza. After graduating from art school in Valdagno (Vicenza), he has developed an idea of ​​sculpture "felt" free and without royalties, allowing it always to express his skills in the pure sense and instinctive.
Knowledge of the tools of the model has enabled him to begin his own, a kind of long patient battle with the form, which meant even refuse illustrious models of the past: do not refuse to allow himself to be overwhelmed.

Antonio Sgarbossa, 1945 | Figurative painter

The following collection include the figurative paintings by Italian painter Antonio Sgarbossa.

Sgarbossa was born in Fontana Viva, Italy, the 18th of July 1945.

Louis Treserras, 1958 | Hyperrealist painter

French painter, sculptor and photographer Louis Treserras claims to be a self taught painter.

For 30 years he has been painting young and mysterious female models.

His rigorous approach to artistic composition would almost compare to a science, like mathematics.

His style remains however poetic an intimist, with a very distinct and soft range of colors.

Spartaco Lombardo, 1958 | Figurative painter

Italian painter🎨 Spartaco Lombardo was born in Luino, Italy by the Lake Maggiore, the 26th of March 1958.

Modern figurative painter, he has displayed his works in personal and collective exhibitions in Italy and abroad and he has entered many national and international contests.

His works are in private and institutional art collections. His occupational activity in the pictorial field began in 1981.

Aram Nersisyan, 1958 | Figurative pastel painter

Aram Nersisyan is an Armenian pastel painter, known for working in the Figurative style.

Nersisyan was born in Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia.

Nersisyan studied at Armenian National University of Architecture and Construction.

Current Residence is Yerevan, Armenia.

Yarek Godfrey (1957-2014) | Figurative painter

Yarek Godfrey (real name Jaroslaw Pawel Nowicki) was a Polish artist of French, British and Austrian origins).

In 1982 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and the Studies for Stage Costume design for theater in Cracow.

In 1983 he moved to Paris, where he lived until his death in 2014. Godfrey received numerous awards for his work (among others, the Gold Medal of the XXXVIII Salon of Young Artists, Grand Palais, Paris, 1987; Grand Prix of the XXVI International Art Salon Côte d’Azur, Cannes, 1990).

He presented his work at numerous group and individual exhibitions, primarily in the United States and France, but also in Belgium, Monaco or Italy.

He died tragically on March 28th, 2014.

Nietzsche e la "Carmen" di Bizet

"La musica non è un’arte ma una categoria dello spirito umano", scriveva Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), filosofo, aforista, saggista, poeta, compositore, accademico e filologo tedesco.

Tra i massimi filosofi di ogni tempo, Friedrich Nietzsche ebbe un'influenza controversa e indiscutibile sul pensiero filosofico, letterario e politico del Novecento. La sua filosofia è considerata da alcuni uno spartiacque fra la filosofia tradizionale ed un nuovo modello di riflessione, informale e provocatoria.

Edouard Manet 1832-1883 - Carmen in Bizet's opera

Jafar Petgar (1920-2005) | Genre painter

Jafar Petgar (1920-2005) was one of the most influential Iranian Old Masters.

His work, a dozen at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, shows this gifted artist achieved the mastery of his craft at an early age (see his painting of his mother while he was only 17).

Osamu Obi, 1965 | Figurative/Portrait painter

Japanese painter⏭ 小尾 修 Osamu Obi was born in Kanagawa, Japan.

• 1988 - Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Oil Painting;
• 1990 - Completed Master's Degree Program in Oil Painting, Musashino Art University;
• 1991 - Exhibition of Grand Prize Paintings, Tokyo Central Museum. Awarded Grand Prize;
• 1993 - Participated in Yasui Prize Exhibition;
• 1996 - Participated in Exchange Exhibition between South Korean and Japanese Oil Painters (Yokohama and Seoul).

Henri-Joseph Harpignies | The Barbizon school of painters

HARPIGNIES, Henri-Joseph (born June 28, 1819, Valenciennes, France-died Aug. 28, 1916, Saint-Prive), French landscape painter, born at Valenciennes in 1819, was intended by his parents for a business career, but his determination to become an artist was so strong that it conquered all obstacles, and he was allowed at the age of twenty-seven to enter Achard's atelier in Paris.

From this painter he acquired a groundwork of sound constructive draughtsmanship, which is so marked a feature of his landscape painting.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Le Bras Vif à Choissy, 1911

Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir⏩ (French painter⏭, 1841-1919)
Title: Le Bras Vif à Choissy , 1911
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 32.38 x 54.29 cm. (12.7 x 21.4 in.)

Martiros Manoukian, 1947 | Abstract painter

"God gives each of us something at birth. A person doesn’t become an artist – he is simply born an artist", …and so it began for Martiros Manoukian, the artist born on August 5, 1947.

His talent emerged at an early age and he began painting seriously at age 11.

Even as a child, Martiros exhibited his great enthusiasm for freedom, adventure, and nature.

Full of energy and the desire for self-expression, he was already rebelling against the status quo, conformity, and anything "collective" in character.

Catherine Chauloux, 1957 | Magic Realism painter

Born in Nantes, Catherine Chauloux lives in the Nantes region.

Self-taught painter, she had for masters the painters of the Italian and Flemish renaissance.

She exhibits since 1984 in France and abroad. For 10 years, she has been living in a lyrical world on the borders of the imagination..

Scott Waddell, 1981 | Figurative painter

Scott Waddell was born and raised in Central Florida.

He received his BFA from Florida State University.

After college, Scott spent the next several years studying classical painting at the Florence Academy of Art and the Waterstreet Atelier under Jacob Collins.

In 2006 Scott moved with his wife to shoreline Connecticut where they continue to reside with their son and many pets.

Sir William Fettes Douglas | Victorian painter

Sir William Fettes Douglas (1822-1891) was a Scottish painter and art connoisseur, rising to be President of the Royal Scottish Academy.

He was the eldest son of James Douglas and Martha Brook, grand-niece of Sir William Fettes, bart., the founder of Fettes College; was born on 12 March 1822 in Edinburgh.

On the completion of his education at the High School of Edinburgh, he entered the Commercial Bank of Scotland, in which his father was accountant; but the elder Douglas was an amateur of some talent, and the son devoted the leisure of the ten years he was in the bank"s service to painting and drawing.

Charles Garabed Atamian | Plein Air painter

Charles Garabed Atamian was considered as the artist of life and light, master of landscape, and marine scenes. He was an acute observer of human moods and gesture. The majority of his works are oil paintings and he often depicted beach scenes, especially children playing in the sand.

Charles Garabed Atamian (September 18, 1872 - July 30, 1947) was born to an Armenian family. As a young artist Charles Atamian joined the French Lycée Saint- Benoît in Istanbul in 1880. He then carried on high-school studies in Venice, where he qualified in the teaching of drawing, painting and calligraphy.