Tytus Brzozowski

Tytus Brzozowski - architect and watercolorist. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology.

He also studied and worked in Finland where he was searching for severe Nordic art and design.

Tytus Brzozowski presents the city of his dreams - full of decorative buildings, narrow streets and soaring towers.

Using the elements of architecture and landscape that are characteristic for Warsaw, he creates new worlds that, despite its fairy character, are still local.

He looks for stratifications of history, collates buildings from different places and times.

In the paintings of Tytus Brzozowski one can find intriguing, surreal elements, hidden threads and events.

Andre Brasilier, 1929 | Fauve painter

André Brasilier is a French painter, who studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Art in Paris.

In his lifetime Brasilier has been the subject of over 100 solo exhibitions across 20 countries.

Brasilier has been the recipient of several awards including the 1952 Prix Florence Blumenthal and the 1953 Prix de Rome.

Jennifer Verny-Franks | Naïve painter

Jennifer Verny-Franks' paintings capture the humour and beauty of everyday life.

Jennifer was born in North Wales and raised in an extended family of painters, poets, writers and musicians.

Her mother`s studio was her playroom and she was encouraged to draw and experiment with painting materials from an early age.

She was trained at Central Saint Martins, with a background in illustration and fine art.

Giovanni Boldini | La Belle Epoque

From: The British Museum

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Born in Ferrara, the son of the painter Antonio Boldini (1792-1872), from whom he received his first artistic training, Giovanni Boldini studied at the Civico Ateneo di Palazzo dei Diamanti in his native city, where he had established a reputation as an accomplished portrait painter by the time he was 18.

In 1862 he went to Florence, where he met artists in the Macchiaioli circle at the Caffé Michelangiolo, while attending the Scuola del Nudo at the Accademia di Belle Arti.

Michele Gordigiani (1830-1909), the leading portrait painter in Tuscany, passed on some of his commissions to Boldini.

Boldini saw and admired the paintings of Courbet and Manet at the Exposition Universelle in 1867 on a visit to Paris, where he met Degas, who became a lifelong friend.

Marianne von Werefkin (1860-1938)

Marianne von Werefkin /Мариа́нна Влади́мировна Верёвкина (10 September [O.S. 29 August] 1860, Tula, Russia - 6 February 1938, Ascona, Switzerland), born Marianna Wladimirowna Werewkina (transliteration Marianna Vladimirovna Verëvkina), was a Russian-German-Swiss Expressionist painter.

Ancient Asian art

The history of Asian art or Eastern art, includes a vast range of influences from various cultures and religions.

Developments in Asian art historically parallel those in Western art, in general a few centuries earlier.

Chinese art🎨, Indian art, Korean art, Japanese art🎨, each had significant influence on Western art, and, vice versa.

Near Eastern art also had a significant influence on Western art. Excluding prehistoric art, the art of Mesopotamia represents the oldest forms of Asian art.

Joachim Beuckelaer | Genre painter

From an Antwerp family of painters, Joachim Beuckelaer (1533-1575) trained in the studio of Pieter Aertsen.

In 1560 he became an independent master, and continued to develop themes in painting pioneered by Aertsen, arguably surpassing him in skill.

Edouard Toudouze | Genre painter

Édouard Toudouze (1848-1907) was a French painter, illustrator and decorative artist.

He was born to an artistically accomplished family.

His father, Auguste Gabriel Toudouze (1811-1854) was an architect and engraver.

His mother, Adèle Anaïs Colin (1822-1899), a well known illustrator, was the daughter of Alexandre-Marie Colin and a descendant of Jean-Baptiste Greuze.

Adriaen Brouwer (1605-1638) | Genre painter

Adriaen Brouwer (Oudenaarde, c. 1605 - Antwerp, January 1638) was a Flemish painter🎨 active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the first half of the 17th century.

Brouwer was an important innovator of genre painting through his vivid depictions of peasants, soldiers and other 'lower class' individuals engaged in drinking, smoking, card or dice playing, fighting, music making etc. in taverns or rural settings.

Brouwer contributed to the development of the genre of tronies, i.e. head or facial studies, which investigate varieties of expression.

In his final year he produced a few landscapes of a tragic intensity. Brouwer's work had an important influence on the next generation of Flemish and Dutch genre painters.

Alessandro Pomi (1890-1976) | Impressionist painter

Italian painter🎨 Alessandro Pomi was a pupil of Ettore Tito🎨 at the Academy of Belle Arti in Venice and then he completed his studies in Munich and Rome.

It was 1910, his first exposure to Ca Pesaro and two years later at the Venice Biennale where returns in 14 years, 1922, 1924, 1928, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1940, 1942, 1948.

He participated in various exhibitions in Italy and abroad Pittsburgh, London, Buenos Aires, Monaco Munich, Milan, Venice, Treviso, etc.

Among the many works the great altarpiece made in Sydney and paintings of the Way of the Cross for the Cathedral of Treviso.

Antonio Sgarbossa, 1945 | Ballet dancers

Antonio Sgarbossa is one of the most appreciated and well known painters in Italy and abroad.

In art Antonio looks for something that is beyond our normal vision. It is the rather mysterious side that appears, with all the emotions and the thrills of the soul.

He harmoniously transfers it under a pictorial light, into a world that becomes fabulous, as our eyes discover it; loaded with suggestions; extremely sweet in its chromatic harmony; capricious in its images and in continuous movement, ready to capture us deeply and allow us to dream. He has shown the authentic quality of a painter. It is worth observing his paintings deeply, to taste its suggestive magic.

Pino Daeni | Romantic Impressionist painter

Italian artist🎨 Pino Daeni (1939-2010) was an immense talent who will be greatly missed.

His talent was surpassed only by his character and his passion for life and for his family.

Daeni's art and canvases elicit feelings of warmth, nostalgia, love and family.

His paintings are often set on vibrantly sunny beaches on the Mediterranean where he grew up.

Camilla Göbl-Wahl | Floral Still Life painter

Camilla Göbl-Wahl (1871-1965) is an Austrian painter🎨 born in Vienna 1871 and died in Vienna 1965.

1893-1898 she was a student of R.Geyling, Olga Wisinger-Florian and A.D.Goltz.

She exhibited for the first time in 1896 in Vienna Artists Unit (Wiener Kuenstlerhaus).

She is well known for her wonderful gallery of flower still lifes.

Her work is very popular and well represented internationally.

Telemaco Signorini | Macchiaioli Art Movement

Telemaco Signorini (1835-1901) was an Italian artist who belonged to the group known as the Macchiaioli.

He was born in the Santa Croce quarter of Florence, and showed an early inclination toward the study of literature, but with the encouragement of his father, Giovanni Signorini, a court painter for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, he decided instead to study painting.

In 1852 he enrolled at the Florentine Academy, and by 1854 he was painting landscapes En Plein air.

The following year he exhibited for the first time, showing paintings inspired by the works of Walter Scott and Machiavelli at the Florentine Promotrice.

Camille Pissarro: "Paint the essential character of things.."

‣ "Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for?"

‣ "Dipingi solo con i tre colori fondamentali e i loro immediati complementari".

Camille Pissarro | Quotes / Aforismi

‣ "Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing".

‣ "Beati coloro che vedono le cose belle in luoghi umili dove invece altre persone non vedono nulla".

‣ "Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes".

‣ "Non aver paura della natura: devi essere audace correndo il rischio di rimanere deluso e di commettere errori".

Carlo Brancaccio | Genre painter

Carlo Brancaccio (1861-1920) was an Italian painter, active mainly in an Impressionist style.

While he initially had studied mathematics, he abandoned this to study painting by age 22 years.

He was mentored by Eduardo Dalbono.

His main subjects were city streets, sea and landscapes, mostly vedute of Naples.

Sir Frederic William Burton | Victorian painter

Irish painter🎨 Sir Frederic William Burton RHA (8 April 1816 in Wicklow - 16 March 1900 in London) was the third director of the National Gallery, London.

• Artistic career

Educated in Dublin, he was elected an associate of the Royal Hibernian Academy at the age of twenty-one and an academician two years later.

In 1842 he began to exhibit at the Royal Academy. A visit to Germany and Bavaria in 1842 was the first of a long series of trips to various parts of Europe, which gave him a profound knowledge of the works of the Old Masters.

Eduard Zentšik, 1975 | Surrealist painter

Eduard Zentšik is a contemporary Estonian genre-busting artist.

In his creative work, he has managed to unite localness with globality, to shatter one’s hope for the result awaited from the artist, to put up a serious façade with ease whilst playing an ironical game with unknown rules and to deceive the spectator in such a way that nobody has noted that.

It is only at first perusal that his self-positioning as "Unknown Artist Zentšik" is an offer for the spectator to believe into the primacy of the art object over the art source.

Henri Martin | Post-Impressionist painter | Part.2

French painter🎨 Henri Jean Guillaume Martin (1860-1943) was an Post-impressionist painter trained at the École des Beaux-Arts under Jules Joseph Garipuy (1817-1893) - the Director at the Toulouse Museum and a Beaux-Arts Academy professor.

The first painting showing his new technique was Fête de la Fédération, exhibited in 1889, which earned him a gold medal.

Martin was commissioned in 1895 to decorate several rooms of the new Paris town hall for which he was awarded🎨* the Medal of the Légion d’Honneur, the highest honor that can be awarded to a civilian.

Martin was also awarded🎨 a major prize at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris and decorated the capitol building in Toulouse.

Jonathan Ahn, 1977 | Figurative / Cityscape painter

Korean-born American painter🎨 Jonathan Jungsuk Ahn was born in Seoul, South Korea and immediately displayed talent in fine arts.

At age seven Jon moved to the Boston area, where he began studying under and studied under Mrs. Angell-Rickenbacker for over a decade until Jon left for Paris, France.

Jon continued studying art in Paris within the hallow Parisien Museums.

During this time, Jon produced a substantial body of work all the while studying the works of Old Masters.

After several years of traveling the world, Jon settled in San Francisco where he has received his MFA at the Academy of Art University.

Renoir / Emily Dickinson | It will be Summer / Sarà estate

It will be Summer -eventually.

Ladies -with parasols -

Sauntering Gentlemen -with Canes

- And little Girls -with Dolls -

Will tint the pallid landscape -

As ‘twere a bright Boquet -

Tho drifted deep, in Parian -

The Village lies - today -

Leonor Fini (1907-1996) | Surrealist painter

Léonor Fini, original name Eleonora Fini (born August 30, 1907, Buenos Aires, Argentina-died January 18, 1996, Paris, France), Argentine-born Surrealist artist known for her Gothic paintings that explore female identity.

The use of symbolic, mythological imagery, in particular that of a sphinx (a creature with a lion’s body and a human head), became the trademark of her work.

Fini’s parents separated when she was a baby, and she was raised by her mother in Trieste, Italy. As a child, she was fascinated by death and decay and visited the Trieste morgue to make anatomy sketches of the cadavers.

Bernard Ndichu Njuguna (Kenyan painter, 1979)

Bernard Ndichu Njuguna was born and grew up in the central highlands of Kenya surrounded by scenic landscapes and greenery. Moving narratives from his mother and observing his father prepare art lesson schemes for the school where he taught, were his earliest exposures to art.

These childhood scenes have shaped and provided inspiration for his paintings.

Max Liebermann (German, 1847-1935)

Max Liebermann (20 July 1847 - 8 February 1935) was a German painter🎨 and printmaker of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism🎨 in Germany.

The son of a Jewish fabric manufacturer turned banker from Berlin, Liebermann grew up in an imposing town house alongside the Brandenburg Gate.

He first studied law and philosophy at the University of Berlin, but later studied painting and drawing in Weimar in 1869, in Paris in 1872, and in the Netherlands in 1876-77.

Leonardo Bazzaro | Prayer in Chioggia / Orazione a Chioggia, 1900

In 1897 Leonardo Bazzaro exhibited Prayer (in Chioggia) at the 2nd Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Città di Venezia where it was given a lukewarm reception by the critics on the whole, due to the fact that the subject was not new in the artist’s output.

Indeed, the theme of mourning expressed through a lyrical blend of figures and landscape had already inspired Ave Maria (Milan, Galleria d’Arte Moderna) dating to 1882, although this work was set in the Charterhouse of Pavia, and it recurs again in Peace to the Shipwrecked (whereabouts unknown) of 1897, which was awarded the gold medal at the III Milan Triennale that year and shown at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900.

Leonardo Bazzaro | Orazione a Chioggia o Preghiera o Per i poveri naufraghi, 1897 | Gallerie di Piazza Scala

Giuliano Boscaini, 1958 | Watercolour painter

Giuliano Boscaini is an Italian painter, known for his watercolor landscapes, urban scenes, seascapes and portrait paintings.

Boscaini was born in the province of Como. He started his working activity very early, specialising in thefield of advertising as a graphic designer.

In 1986, he decidedto start working as a freelancer in this area, working fornumerous leading firms in the country.

His passion, aptitudeand imagination in drawing soon pushed him towards art.Finally, after experimenting with different techniques, herealised that his greatest satisfaction derived from water-colouring.

Paul Signac (1863-1935) | Art Quotes

• "Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance..."- Paul Signac

• "The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music". - Paul Signac

• "Divisionism is a complex system of harmony, an aesthetic rather than a technique". - Paul Signac

• "The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future". - Paul Signac

• "The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions". - Paul Signac

• "The Neo-Impressionist does not stipple, he divides. And dividing involves... guaranteeing all benefits of light". - Paul Signac

• "The Pointillist chooses a means of expression by which he applies colour on a canvas in small dots rather than spreading it flat". - Paul Signac