Charles Partridge Adams (1858-1942) Landscape painter

Charles Partridge Adams (January 12, 1858 - October 14, 1942) was a largely self-taught American🎨 landscape artist who painted primarily in Colorado, and secondarily in California. Some paintings were also made in other Rocky Mountain states, the Pacific Northwest and Canada, and a few in Louisiana, the East Coast and Europe.

Adams was born in Franklin, Massachusetts; his family moved to Denver in 1876. In 1877 he began work in the Chain and Hardy bookstore in Denver, and received lessons from Helen Henderson Chain, an artist who had studied with George Inness🎨.

In 1885 he traveled to the East Coast and visited the studios of George Inness and Worthington Whittredge, and in 1888 he traveled to California and visited the studios of William Keith and Thomas Hill.

He traveled to Louisiana in 1890, and to Europe in the summer of 1914. He spent the winter of 1916 in California, and moved to Los Angeles in 1920, and built a second home in Laguna Beach in 1926. He died in Los Angeles.

• Art

Adams is known for his views of snowy mountain peaks in early morning or sunset light, or wreathed in storm clouds, and for his luminous sunset and twilight paintings of the river bottoms near Denver.

Most of Adams paintings are enhanced by the use of stronger colors than one would find in a photograph. The evening shadows are bluer, the spring grass is greener, the sunsets more strikingly yellow or orange.

He sometimes used very small areas of intense blue and red to enliven a dark shadowed area such as the heart of a clump of willows or the dark base of an aspen tree. He also made the mountains look about twice as tall as they actually look, as if seen through a telephoto lens.

Some of his earlier paintings include animals or human figures, but later paintings do not include them.

Roughly half of Adams paintings are oils and half are watercolors, which he began painting in the early 1890s. Over 950 paintings have been documented.

Charles Partridge Adams (12 gennaio 1858 - 14 ottobre 1942) era un artista paesaggista Americano🎨, in gran parte autodidatta che dipingeva principalmente in Colorado, e secondariamente in California. Alcuni dipinti sono stati realizzati anche in altri stati delle Montagne Rocciose, nel Pacifico nord-occidentale e in Canada, ed in alcuni in Louisiana, nella costa orientale e in Europa.

Adams è nato a Franklin, nel Massachusetts; la sua famiglia si trasferì a Denver nel 1876.

Nel 1877 iniziò a lavorare nel negozio di Chain and Hardy a Denver e ricevette lezioni da Helen Henderson Chain, un'artista che aveva studiato con George Inness🎨.

Nel 1885 viaggiò sulla costa orientale e visitò gli studi di George Inness e Worthington Whittredge, e nel 1888 viaggiò in California dove visitò gli studi di William Keith e Thomas Hill.

Viaggiò in Louisiana nel 1890 e in Europa nell'estate del 1914.

Trascorse l'inverno del 1916 in California, si trasferì a Los Angeles nel 1920 e costruì una seconda casa a Laguna Beach. nel 1926. Morì a Los Angeles.

• Arte

Adams è noto per le sue vedute sulle cime innevate delle montagne al mattino presto o sulla luce del tramonto, o avvolto da nuvole tempestose, e per il suo luminoso tramonto e le pitture del tramonto sui fondali del fiume vicino a Denver.

La maggior parte dei dipinti di Adams è arricchita dall'uso di colori più forti di quelli che si trovano in una fotografia. Le ombre della sera sono più blu, l'erba primaverile è più verde, i tramonti più sorprendentemente gialli o arancioni.

A volte utilizzava aree minuscole di blu intenso e rosso per animare un'area scura ombreggiata come il cuore di un ciuffo di salici o la base scura di un albero di pioppo tremulo.

Ha anche fatto sembrare le montagne alte circa il doppio di quanto effettivamente sembrano, come se fossero viste attraverso un teleobiettivo.

Alcuni dei suoi primi dipinti includono animali o figure umane, ma i dipinti successivi non li includono.

Circa la metà dei dipinti di Adams sono oli e metà acquerelli, che ha iniziato a dipingere nei primi anni del 1890.

Thomas Edwin Mostyn | Edwardian Genre / Romantic painter

British painter🎨 Thomas Edwin Mostyn R.O.I., R.W.A., R.C.A., (1864-1930) was born in Liverpool. Raised in Manchester, he studied at the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts.

He had his first local exhibition in 1880, and was showing at the Royal Academy (R.A.) by the age of 29.

Tom Mostyn's work was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1891 as well as being shown extensively abroad.

Mostyn lived in London and later in Torquay, where he died on 22nd August 1930.

Mostyn is generally known for his scenes depiciting a bold romantisicm based on victorian garden scenes and was strongly influenced by his mentor Sir Hubert Von Herkomer.

Mostyn's paintings are inspirational, his right to be recognised worldwide as a top class artist is purely a matter of time.

Clemente Tafuri | Genre painter

Clemente Tafuri (Salerno, 1903 - Genoa, 1971) was an Italian painter and illustrator. Nephew of the painter Salerno Raffaele Tafuri.

After completing a course of study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, he began painting early to reveal the attention of critics.

Best known among the twenties and sixties the XX century also as an advertising poster artist, illustrator of postcards and necklaces libraries, often devoted to illustrating World War episodes and he painted a portrait of Crown Prince Umberto II of Savoy and the Queen Elena of Montenegro.

Michelangelo Buonarroti: "My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness"

• "My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness".

• "The best artist has that thought alone which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone".

• "The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself".

Victor Nizovtsev, 1965 | Magic Realism painter

Виктор Низовцев is a Russian painter, a master of whimsical and narrative art. Subjects include fantasy landscapes, russian folklore, theatre and mermaids.

Victor’s art can be highly symbolic with hidden clues to help decipher the images. His work can also be humbly simple with images and subjects of universal appeal.

They can be equally viewed for their vibrant textured colors that fill the canvas and contrast with the translucent glazes that make the paintings dance with light and pull in those who view it.

Kris Lewis, 1978 | Pop-Surrealist painter

Kris Lewis born in Ocean County, NJ, is a New Jersey Shore based artist whose influences include Alfonse Bouguereau, Andrew Wyeth, Hans Holbein, Albrecht Durer, Hieronymus Bosch, Gustav Klimt and Jules-Bastien LePage.

His reverence for masters of old is apparent in his depiction of the human figure, which he uses as a vector for hidden stories, delicate emotion and finding truth.

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Claude Monet | Meules, 1891 | Sotheby's

"Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than (John Singer) Sargent thinks".

- Claude Monet🎨 (1840-1926)

"Ho avuto il solo merito di aver dipinto direttamente di fronte alla natura, cercando di rendere le mie impressioni davanti agli effetti più fuggevoli, e sono desolato di essere stato la causa del nome dato ad un gruppo, la maggior parte del quale non aveva nulla di impressionista".

- Claude Monet🎨 (1840-1926)

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Vincent Van Gogh

• Faccio sempre ciò che non so fare, per imparare come va fatto.

• Non è tanto il linguaggio del pittore che si deve sentire, quanto quello della natura.

• Ciò che desidero, è che tutto sia circolare e che non ci sia, per così dire, né inizio né fine nella forma, ma che essa dia, invece, l'idea di un insieme armonioso, quello della vita.

• Così il pennello sta alle mie dita come l'archetto al violino e assolutamente per mio piacere.

Ramiro Ramírez Cardona, 1954 | Surrealist / Realist painter

Ramiro Ramírez Cardona was born in Columbia, in a family of self-taught artists, sculptors and painters.

The human body rather than a being erotic or leakage eager libido, is itself, by its immediate essence, a dreamer, a creator and it is through the body, of that battered body, which has become a being communicating with dreams, ambitions, doubts and loneliness, that man has imagined and amazes us every day.

Édouard Vuillard | Post-Impressionist painter

Jean-Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) was a French painter and printmaker.

Born in 1868 in Cuiseaux, a sleepy commune in the Saône-et-Loire region of Bourgogne in eastern France, it was assumed that Jean-Édouard Vuillard would follow in his father's footsteps and join the military.

But when he was 10 years old his family moved to Paris, where his eyes were opened to the arts and academia.

Awarded a scholarship to the prestigious Lycée Condorcet, Vuillard met Ker-Xavier Roussel and Maurice Denis, with whom he would become lifelong friends.

DeAngel, 1966 | Surrealist / Hyperrealist painter

DeAngel born in Barcelona. From an early age is a self-taught in the world of painting, which imbues his work a personal nature, away from fashion and business trends.
Make inroads professionally in projects of photography, illustration, graphic design and film, finishing devote himself exclusively to painting, walking in styles such as naturalism, realism and hyperrealism.

Exhibits in the main conventions of art: New York, Miami, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Glasgow, Strasbourg...

Akzhana Abdaliyeva, 1975 | Cubist painter

Акжана Абдалиева is an award-winning artist form Almaty, Kazakhstan, known for working in Cubism style.

Abdaliyeva was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

After having studied for years at various colleges, has today a doctorate in Fine Arts at Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul.

Emilia Wilk, 1983 | Ballet dancers

Emilia Wilk is an Polish painter🎨, known for working in Impressionistic realism style.

Wilk was born in in Wałcz County, Poland.

Education: Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.

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

• Emilia Wilk, 1983 | Impressionistic realism painter🎨

Emilia Wilk, 1983 | Impressionistic realism painter

Polish painter🎨 Emilia Wilk was born in Wałcz County, Poland.
She specializing in oil paint, began painting at the age of 6.

Wilk's work can be described as impressionistic realism.

The woman figure has always been at the center of her work which she try to capture with a great atmosphere and light.

Education: Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.

"For many years the center of my interest is Art. Even as a 6-year-old girl i paint canvas of my father. I remember my first painting was a copy of a man. I thought then, that painting is easy. Now I know that I was wrong. My work many times have led me to tears.

Diego Dayer, 1978 | Figurative painter

Argentine painter Diego Dayer was born in Rafaela, Provincia de Santa Fé.

He began his art in Marcela Grosso´s workshop, plastic artist in his natal City. Afterwards he began to study painting in the “Escuela de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba”. He has participated in numerous group shows in Cordoba, Rafaela y Capital Federal, in Argentina. In 2002, he made his solo debut in “Cerrito Gallery” Cordoba.

The work of this talented and young artist has a promising future. His creations, figures with different levels of reality, reflect the mystery and experiences from his own past. The mastery and clarity of his painting seldom is seen in such a young artist.

Francisco Goya | Life and Artworks

From The Metropolitan Museum of Art:

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) is regarded as the most important Spanish artist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over the course of his long career, Goya moved from jolly and lighthearted to deeply pessimistic and searching in his paintings, drawings, etchings, and frescoes.

Born in Fuendetodos, he later moved with his parents to Saragossa and, at age fourteen, began studying with the painter José Luzán Martínez (1710-1785).

In 1746, the year of Goya’s birth, the Spanish crown was under the rule of Ferdinand VI.

Subsequently, the Bourbon king Charles III (r. 1759-88) ruled the country as an enlightened monarch sympathetic to change, employing ministers who supported radical economic, industrial, and agricultural reform. Goya came to artistic maturity during this age of enlightenment.

Salvador Dali | Self-portraits

Salvador Dalí started to paint self-portraits very early on.

In the ones made during adolescence, Dalí represents himself with a distant attitude towards his companions, but at the same time wishing to make an impact on them (or to provoke them) and on the public in general.

Like other adolescents, he sought through his appearance an affirmation of his own personality, wearing long hair and sideburns, and dressing extravagantly.

Salvador Dali 1941 Soft self-portrait with grilled Bacon

Akzhana Abdaliyeva, 1975 | Pittrice cubista

Akzhana Abdaliyeva è una pittrice pluripremiata proveniente da AlmaTa, nel Kazakistan.

E' membro dell'Unione creativa degli artisti del Kazakistan.

Oggi ha un dottorato in Belle Arti.

Le sue opere sono in collezioni private in Svizzera, Kazakistan, Germania, Stati Uniti e in altri paesi.

- "Fin dalla mia infanzia sono cresciuta con una matita e un pennello in mano. Ora alle mie spalle ho 25 anni di istruzione.

Jean-Pierre Alaux (1925-2020) | Surrealist painter

Jean-Pierre Alaux, born in La Ciotat, was a French painter belonging to the "young painters of the School of Paris".

Son of the painter François Alaux, Jean -Pierre Alaux after high school among Dominicans in Arcachon and the Marists in La Seyne -sur -Mer, is eligible for assistance from the top of Fine Arts National School in Paris where he worked in the studio of Jean Dupas from 1943-1949 where you can find Joseph Archepel Paul Ambille Paul Collomb, Mickaël Companion, Geoffroy Dauvergne, Dechezelle Claude Garand, Paul Guiramand Roland GuillaumeL, Lolichon, Pettit, André Pedoussaut André Plisson, Rogert, Roverchon, Someton, Tournaire Van Tea.

Alex Stevenson Diaz, 1962 | Abstract painter

Alex Stevenson Diaz is an artist with appreciation of the human, which communicates through expressive poses the inner struggle of man with himself, his yearnings for freedom, their prisons and bonds.

Anatomies which express the hardness in a baroque miguelangelesco. The tension of his hands and fingers or the rigidity of the neck muscles in head turns back, giving way to an energy that comes from the inside more visceral.

Mona Lisa, Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, 1503-1504

This portrait was doubtless started in Florence around 1503. It is thought to be of Lisa Gherardini, wife of a Florentine cloth merchant named Francesco del Giocondo - hence the alternative title, La Gioconda. However, Leonardo seems to have taken the completed portrait to France rather than giving it to the person who commissioned it. After his death, the painting entered François I's collection.

Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco Giocondo

The history of the Mona Lisa is shrouded in mystery. Among the aspects which remain unclear are the exact identity of the sitter, who commissioned the portrait, how long Leonardo worked on the painting, how long he kept it, and how it came to be in the French royal collection.

The portrait may have been painted to mark one of two events - either when Francesco del Giocondo and his wife bought their own house in 1503, or when their second son, Andrea, was born in December 1502 after the death of a daughter in 1499. The delicate dark veil that covers Mona Lisa's hair is sometimes considered a mourning veil. In fact, such veils were commonly worn as a mark of virtue. Her clothing is unremarkable. Neither the yellow sleeves of her gown, nor her pleated gown, nor the scarf delicately draped round her shoulders are signs of aristocratic status.

Julie Bell, 1958 | Fantasy painte

American artist Julie Bell was born in Beaumont, Texas. A former nationally ranked competitive bodybuilder, she applies the same discipline and intensity to her art career.

Her knowledge of anatomy has allowed her to imbue her figures of humans and animals with grace and strength.

At the heart of her work is a deep curiosity, honor, and respect for the world of emotions.

After having her heart captured by a pack of wolves at Lakota Wolf Preserve in 2001, Julie has also turned her attention to painting wildlife.

Boris Vallejo, 1941 | Fantasy painter / Illustrator

Peruvian painter Boris Vallejo works almost exclusively in the fantasy genres.

His hyper-representational paintings have appeared on the covers of numerous science fiction and fantasy paperbacks and are featured in a series of best-selling glossy calendars.

Subjects of his paintings are typically sword and sorcery gods, monsters, and well-muscled male and female barbarians engaged in battle.

Vallejo began painting at the age of 13, in 1954, and had his first illustration job three years later, in 1957, at the age of 16.

Poonam Chandrika Tyagi, 1964 | Symbolist painter

Indian painter Poonam Chandrika Tyagi is a Master of Arts in “Drawings and Paintings” from R.G. College, Meerut.

In the paintings of the artist, a woman who is known in the Indian panorama pittorico, manifests a world that is "haunted" by the ancient myths, primordial energies of Eros, representations of erotic passion and sublime.

In many works it takes the iconic image of a woman who is almost a contortionist. Poonam Chandrika Tyagi takes a pictorial space that evokes a sense of Indian tradition.

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Neo-Impressionism is a term applied to an avant-garde art movement that flourished principally in France from 1886-1906. Led by the example of Georges Seurat, artists of the Neo-Impressionist circle renounced the random spontaneity of Impressionism in favor of a measured painting technique grounded in science and the study of optics.

Georges Seurat (1859-1891) A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884

Edwin Georgi | Magazine Illustrator

Edwin Georgi (1896-1964) was an American artist born in 1896.

He was best known for his dynamic pin-up illustrations, but surprisingly, based on his talent, he did not initially pursue art as a career.

A leader in the second wave of "pretty-girl" artists: more like pin-ups without actually being pin-ups.

Largely self-taught, learning his way up in ad and art agencies. A pilot in WWI.

Serhiy Reznichenko / Сергей Резниченко, 1968 | Abstract painter

"I spend much of my life in the studio, working in the style of the postmodern trend" - Serhiy Reznichenko.

Member of the Ukrainian National Society of Artists.

Since 1989, Serhiy Reznichenko has participated in more than fifty exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad.

The works are in the collections of the Lviv National Gallery of Arts. BG Voznytsky, National Museum in Lviv. Andrei Sheptytsky, Lviv Palace of Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art in Ukraine (Kyiv), as well as in private collections in many countries.

Richard S. Johnson, 1953 | Impressionist painter

Richard S. Johnson is an award-winning contemporary American painter based in Chicago, Illinois. Johnson was born in Chicago to a family of artists. While still in primary school, Johnson was accepted as a scholar to the Art Institute of Chicago.

A graduate of the American Academy of Art, he embarked on a career as an illustrator. Johnson's style has been regarded as having the technical excellence of Pre-Raphaelite Romanticism mixed with contemporary Expressionism and Abstraction.

Johnny Palacios Hidalgo, 1970 | Surrealist painter

Peruvian painter Johnny Palacios Hidalgo was born in Lima, Peru and studied art between 1988-1998 in the National Art Museum and the National School of Fine Arts.

He has exhibited regularly since 1984, developing a surreal hyperrealism style with unique powerful images full of beauty, which emphasizes the feminine beauty and animal figures more or less merged with the environment.

Ron Di Scenza, 1954 | Figurative impressionist painter

American artist🎨 Ron Di Scenza has a fitting last name. In Italian, conoscenza means knowledge or awareness, and a knowing sense of familiarity comes through Di Scenza's canvases, giving his images special meaning and significance.

Di Scenza's deep understanding of human nature is expressed in the faces and body language of his figures, much like Spanish painter Diego Velazquez🎨 and his ability to report life as it is recalls American painter John Singer Sargent🎨.

Especially exciting, Di Scenza's detailed realism is on par with Flemish painter Johannes Vermeer🎨, while the soulfulness of his subjects brings to mind Italian artist Michelangelo Caravaggio🎨.

Boleslaw Szankowski | Portrait painter

Bolesław Szańkowski (1873-1953) was an Polish painter, known for working in the Realist style.

Szańkowski studied at the academies in Cracow and Munich with Ludwig Herterich and in Paris with Benjamin-Constant, Gaudara and Jean Paul Laurens.

He went on to work in Munich, where he contributed to the periodicals, Youth (Jugend) and Simplicity (Simplicissimus).

From 1907 to 1925 he participated in the annual exhibitions of the Munich Glass Palace.

Mary Qian, 1973 | Impressionist painter

A Chicago-based fine art painter, Mary is a winner of many awards🎨, including Oil Painters of America gold Medal.

Originally from Shanghai, China, Mary went through the traditional Chinese educational system focusing on the sciences while studying Chinese painting and calligraphy on her own. Before coming to the US, she admired the ancient Chinese painters🎨 but found her true voice for painting when she discovered the western artists.

It was the realism of Rembrandt🎨, Velazquez🎨, Repin🎨 -her particular favorites- that she found to be the artistic style that she had been looking for.

Vito Campanella | Surrealist / Metaphysics painter

Although Vito Campanella (1932-2014) started to paint at the age of 14 in his native Monopoli, his love for visual arts began much earlier.

He was born in 1932 and endured the sorrow, agony and shortage that surrounded World War II.

In the aftermath of the armed conflict, daily life in Southern Italy changed forever.

Allied planes crisscrossing the sky and ceaseless bombings left indelible memories he later translated into works of art.

René Magritte | Surrealist painter

René Magritte🎨, in full René-François-Ghislain Magritte (born Nov. 21, 1898, Lessines, Belg.- died Aug. 15, 1967, Brussels) Belgian artist, one of the most prominent Surrealist painters🎨, whose bizarre flights of fancy blended horror, peril, comedy, and mystery.

His works were characterized by particular symbols-the female torso, the bourgeois "little man", the bowler hat, the castle, the rock, the window, and others.

After studying at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts (1916-18), Magritte became a designer for a wallpaper factory and then did sketches for advertisements.

In 1922 he saw a reproduction of Giorgio de Chirico’s painting The Song of Love (1914), an evocative and haunting juxtaposition of odd elements (a classical bust and a rubber glove among them) in a dreamlike architectural space; it had a great influence on Magritte’s mature style.

Richard Schmid, 1934 | Realist / Impressionist painter

Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, American🎨 Master painter Richard Schmid became one of the foremost Impressionist painters🎨 of the Southwest in the late 20th century.

He is known for what he calls "The Grand Manner", a certain mingling of virtuosity and unrestrained joy in art.

His earliest artistic influence came from his maternal grandfather, Julian Oates, an architectural sculptor. Richard's initial studies in landscape painting, figure drawing, and anatomy began at the age of twelve and continued into classical techniques under William H. Mosby at the American Academy of Art in Chicago.

Mosby, a graduate of the Belgian Royal Academy in Brussels and the Superior Institute in Antwerp, was a technical expert on European and American realism.

Studies with him involved working exclusively from life, at first using the conceptual and technical methods of the Flemish, Dutch and Spanish masters, and eventually all of the late 19th century European and American painters.

Jane Wells Loudon | The Victorian garden

Jane Loudon was to Victorian gardening what Mrs Beeton was to cookery. Her beautifully illustrated books on gardening and plant identification sold in their thousands and women all over the country were enthused enough by them to take up gardening as a hobby.

- Loudon [née Webb], Jane (1807-1858), writer on botany and magazine editor, was born on 19 August 1807 at Ritwell House, near Birmingham. Her mother died when she was twelve, and her father, Thomas Webb, a businessman, suffered financial reverses a few years later.

Little is known of Jane Webb's early education, but, following the death of her father in 1824, she set out to earn money by writing. In addition to Prose and Verse (1824) she published anonymously The Mummy!

A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (1827), a pioneering work of science fiction that brought together political commentary, Egyptomania, and interest in technology.