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Lita Cabellut, 1961 | Mixed media painter


Lita Cabellut was born in Barcelona, into a Sinti family and lived on the streets until the age of 12 when she was adopted by a prominent family.
She was introduced to her masters in the Prado: Velazquez🎨, Goya🎨 and Frans Hal🎨s and became deeply affected by art. She attended drawing and painting lessons and had her first exhibition at the age of 17 in Madrid.

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Igor Morski, 1960 | Surrealist painter


Igor Morski is a Polish🎨 graphic designer, illustrator and set designer. Presently, he focuses on mixed media graphic art, based manly on photo manipulation, drawing, recently also 3D.
Igor Morski graduated with honors from the Interior Architecture and Industrial Design Faculty at the State Higher School of Fine Art in Poznań (now the University of Arts).

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Francesco Hayez (1791-1882) | Romantic painter


Francesco Hayez🎨 (10 February 1791 - 21 December 1882) was an Italian painter🎨, the leading artist of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories and exceptionally fine portraits.
Hayez came from a relatively poor family from Venice.

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Ferdinand Max Bredt | Orientalist painter

Ferdinand Max Bredt (1860-1921) is regarded as one of Germany's foremost Orientalist painters of the 19th century.
Like many of his compatriots who were interested in the world of the Orient, he travelled extensively in Greece, Turkey and Tunisia, recording his journeys on both paper and canvas.
His works often depict the everyday life in the harem and its inhabitants - luxuriant scenes graced by richly attired odalisques.


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Asit Kumar Patnaik, 1968 | Figurative painter


Asit Kumar Patnaik, Indian painter, was born in Orissa. A National Scholar and MFA topper from BHU, he has received several provincial and national awards, the latest being a grand felicitation from the Government College of Art and Crafts, his alma mater in Khallikote, Orissa.
A semi-realistic figurative painter, Patnaik has enjoyed much critical acclaim and popular appreciation over the past few years.

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Rodolfo Ledel, 1939


Brazilian painter🎨 Rodolfo Ledel was born in Porto Alegre. Begins to attend electrical engineering URGS but abandons his studies in 1964.
Dedicated to the trade for many years. In parallel paints pictures, which trades in your own shop. Its hobby photography, which do not engage in and that earns him participation in international fairs and winning major awards🎨.

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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)

John Singer Sargent was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian Era luxury.
- The Edwardian Period corresponds to the French Belle Époque period. Despite its brief pre-eminence, the period is characterised by its own unique architectural style, fashion, and lifestyle. Art Nouveau had a particularly strong influence.


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Genevieve Blais | Art history in the Time of Covid-19


"We could all use a smile in lieu of recent events, so I decided to update art history for 2020" - Genevieve Blais.
Canadian artist🎨 reimagined famous paintings to see what they’d look like if they were painted during the Coronavirus Crisis.

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Alexander Averin, 1952 | Plein Air painter


Russian painter🎨 Alexander Averin / Александр Аверин was born in Noginsk, near Moscow.
The main theme of Alexander Averin’s painting are genre scenes with charming Russian young ladies against blossoming meadows and gardens, shady river coasts and sea landscapes.
Plot of the paintings is filled with sincere warmth and cordial feelings towards children.

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Anatoly Metlan, 1964 | Mediterranean paysages


Anatoly Metlan was born in Yalta, a southern Ukranian city.
He developed an interest in art at a young age, and was encouraged by his parents who also had a love of art.
His talents were recognized and he attended a high school specializing in the arts.
He graduated high school in 1985 and went to Krivoi Rog University to continue his art studies.

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Pier Toffoletti, 1957 | Splash painter


Pier Toffoletti is an Italian painter🎨 from the province of Udine.
Pier's passion for art was obvious from a very early age, and his family quickly realized he had inherited his grandfather's artistic talent.
The term splash signi_es a splotch, a drop, a spot but it also means to highlight something through a gush of a substance to underscore the arrival of an astonishing event.

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Gabriel Pacheco, 1973 | Surrealist painter

Gabriel Pacheco 1973 - Mexican Surrealist  Visionary painter

Gabriel Pacheco is an Mexican painter🎨 and illustrator, known for working in the Surreal Visionary style.
Born in the City of Mexico in 1973, Gabriel studied scenography at the National Fine Arts Academy.
He has given several design workshops at the ENAP and illustration courses for children books in Mexico, Italy and Spain.
He began his career as an illustrator when his sister asked him to illustrate a story for her.

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David Park | Figurative Expressionist painter


American painter David Park (1911-1960) was a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative School of painting during the 1950s.
David Park was part of the post-World War II alumnae of the San Francisco Art Institute which was called the California School of Fine Arts at the time.
He revived an interest in figurative art, at first experimenting with still-abstracted forms that relied on color for their impact, dynamics and warmth.

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Alexandre Renoir, 1974 | Impressionist painter


French painter🎨 Alexandre Renoir is the great-grandson of Pierre-Auguste Renoir🎨.
Alexandre Renoir was born in Cagnes Sur Mer in the south of France.
When he was 4, the family moved to Canada, but even after leaving France, as the great-grand son of the great French Impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alexandre grew-up surrounded by art and artists.

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Nenad Mirkovich, 1951

The man whose first name means "surprise" in his native language delivers that element in his paintings of tranquil landscapes, crashing coastlines, peaceful symphonies and energetic jazz bands.
Collectors of all ages and of varied lifestyles find something in the diverse repertoire of Nenad Mirkovich to delight the senses.
He delights himself with the reactions of viewers when they discover that the same talented artist painted all these scenes.
Nenad Mirkovich says the varied subject matter and styles he uses in his work are not so different as they first seem, however.


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Coronavirus and Art | Franco Rivolli, 1979 | Angels

Franco Rivolli, 1979 | Angels, 2020

Il disegnatore freelance di Venezia Franco Rivolli ha commosso il mondo intero con quest'opera - La dottoressa con la mascherina che culla l'Italia - che rappresenta il sentimento di una intera nazione, l'amore ed il duro lavoro di medici ed infermieri italiani in questa emergenza di Covid-19.
Il disegno ha fatto il giro del mondo, portando speranza e fiducia che ne usciremo presto.

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Zhaoming Wu 吴兆铭, 1955 | Figurative painter


Chinese painter Zhaoming Wu 吴兆铭 was born and grew up in Guangzhou City.
He received his BFA from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art China, where he earned a BFA in painting and received his MFA in painting from Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California.
Since 1983, he has been exhibiting his work in Asia, Europe, the United States and other countries around the world.

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Xi Pan 潘曦, 1971 | Figurative painter

Chinese painter Pan Xi 潘曦, known as Xixi, was born in november in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province.
In her childhood, every week, with her sister, she visited artists' workshops, from the Art Institute headed by his father and developped her taste for drawing and painting.
Xi Pan began her fine art studies in 1989 at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou China.

Xi Pan Chinese Fine Art

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David Garrett, 1980 | The Devil's violinist


David Garrett (born David Christian Bongartz) is a record-breaking German pop and crossover violinist and recording artist.
Garrett was born in Aachen, Germany, to an American prima ballerina, Dove Garrett, and a German jurist, Georg Bongartz. He adopted his mother's maiden name as his stage name, as "it was more pronounceable".

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Séverine Pineaux, 1960 | Fantasy painter


Séverine Pineaux is a French🎨 Illustrator, painter and designer.
After her beginnings in fantasy illustration, she specialized in magical representations where trees mingle with creatures and men.
His Ysambre series, composed of two volumes, "Le monde-arbre" and "La femme-graine", won an award🎨 at the Printemps des Légendes de Monthermé.
Séverine Pineaux has always evolved in a world of fairyland and heroic-fantasy.

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René Magritte | Quotes / Aforismi

  • "To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been".
  • "Essere surrealisti significa escludere dalla tua mente ogni ricordo di ciò che hai visto ed essere sempre alla ricerca di ciò che non è mai stato".
  • "Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist".
  • L'arte evoca il mistero senza il quale il mondo non esisterebbe".
  • "Life obliges me to do something, so I paint".
  • "La vita mi obbliga a fare qualcosa, quindi dipingo".
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Catherine Abel, 1966 | Art Déco painter


Australian artist, Catherine Abel is renowned internationally for her striking figurative oil paintings. Combining the sleek, stylised geometry of the Art Déco period with the clarity, richness of colour, and depth of light of the Italian Renaissance Masters, her works are powerfully seductive compositions of beauty, elegance, strength and grace.
Long inspired by the art movements and the bold angular shapes of the early 20th century, Australian artist Catherine Abel creates striking figurative oil paintings.

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Nicolai Fechin (1881-1955) Impressionist painter


Николай Иванович Фешин was a Russian-born American painter, known for his portraits and works featuring Native Americans.
After graduating with the highest marks from the Imperial Academy of Arts and traveling in Europe under a Prix de Rome, he returned to his native Kazan, where he taught and painted.
He exhibited his first work in the United States in 1910 in an international exhibition in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Romel de la Torre, 1963


Born in the Philippines in a community of artists, 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.
Romel and his family migrated to the United States where he began going to museums studying and learning on his own; works of famous artists like Sargent, Sorolla, Fechin, Mucha and the American Impressionists.

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Reiji Hiramatsu, 1941 | Monet and Water Lilies


Reiji Hiramatsu 平松 礼二 is a Japanese🎨 Nihonga painter born in Tokyo.
His father was a civil servant who moved the family to Nagoya in 1946, where Reiji Hiramatsu would grow up.
Early on he developed interest in the traditional painting techniques of Nihonga, however on behest of his parents he first studied law and economics at the Aichi University.

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Alexandre Cabanel | Michelangelo in his Studio, 1859


1823-1889
Academic Classical painter and teacher
Michelangelo🎨 in His Studio, Visited by Pope Julius II
79 x 133 cms | 31 x 521/4ins
Oil on canvas
Musée Goupil, Bordeaux

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René Gruau | Fashion illustrator


Count Renato Zavagli Ricciardelli della Caminate, professionally known as René Gruau (1909-2004) was an Italian fashion illustrator whose exaggerated portrayal of fashion design through painting has had a lasting effect on the fashion industry.
Because of Gruau's inherent skills and creativity, he contributed to a change in the entire fashion industry through the new pictures that represented the already popular designs created by designers in the industry.

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Paul Gauguin | Young Man with a Flower behind his Ear, 1891


Originally in the collection of the great modern master Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin's striking and evocative portrait of a young man, clad in a pink European blouse and loose cravat, with the native adornment of a small white tiaré blossom tucked over his left ear, is among the first paintings the artist completed after arriving in Tahiti in 1891.
The forthright charm of this painting stems from Gauguin's sensitive characterization of his sitter, a handsome and thoughtful man of whom the artist was clearly quite fond.

The sincere, underlying simplicity of this three-quarter view, bust-length portrait, moreover betokens a significant story - indeed, a profoundly transformative event - in the life and career of the great artist, in which this young Tahitian served as a catalyst and an invaluable teacher.
The young man with whom Gauguin became acquainted during his initial months in Tahiti was named Jotefa - or so the artist called him in a later draft of Noa Noa (“Fragrance”), the account he began in 1893 of his first island sojourn.
It was this young boy who led Gauguin through the exotic landscape of the island in search of wood for the artist’s sculpture.
As a result of their contact and this seminal journey, Gauguin met with that breakthrough revelation he had been seeking of completely immersing himself in an indigenous culture and becoming a Maori.
Painted in the midst of this deeply transformative Tahitian period, Jeune homme à la fleur could be seen to pay tribute to this young man, encapsulating the compelling personal and artistic adventure that Gauguin undertook in the South Seas.
The importance of Jeune homme à la fleur within Gauguin’s oeuvre is reflected not only by its unique provenance - after Matisse, it was later owned by Lillie P. Bliss, one of the original founders of the Museum of Modern Art, New York - but the painting has also been included in some of the most prominent exhibitions of the artist in the twentieth century. | © Christie's


Originariamente nella collezione del grande maestro moderno Henri Matisse, il ritratto suggestivo e evocativo di un giovane Paul Gauguin, vestito con una camicetta europea rosa e un foulard sciolto, con l'ornamento nativo di un piccolo fiore di tiaré bianco nascosto sopra l'orecchio sinistro, è tra i primi dipinti l'artista completò dopo essere arrivato a Tahiti nel 1891.
Il fascino schietto di questo dipinto deriva dalla delicata caratterizzazione di Gauguin della sua scrittrice, un uomo bello e riflessivo di cui l'artista era chiaramente piuttosto affezionato.
La sincera semplicità di fondo di questa visione a tre quarti, ritratto a figura intera, inoltre, raccoglie una storia significativa - anzi, un evento profondamente trasformativo - nella vita e nella carriera del grande artista, in cui questo giovane tahitiano è stato un catalizzatore e un insegnante inestimabile.
Il giovane con cui Gauguin conobbe i suoi primi mesi a Tahiti fu chiamato Jotefa - o così l'artista lo chiamò in una successiva bozza di Noa Noa ("Fragranza"), il racconto che iniziò nel 1893 del suo primo soggiorno sull'isola.
Fu questo giovane ragazzo che condusse Gauguin attraverso il paesaggio esotico dell'isola alla ricerca di legno per la scultura dell'artista.
Come risultato del loro contatto e di questo viaggio fondamentale, Gauguin incontrò quella rivelazione rivoluzionaria che aveva cercato di immergersi completamente in una cultura indigena e diventare un Maori.
Dipinto nel mezzo di questo periodo tahitiano profondamente trasformativo, Jeune homme à la fleur è stato visto per rendere omaggio a questo giovane, incapsulando l'avvincente avventura personale e artistica che Gauguin ha intrapreso nei Mari del Sud.
L'importanza di Jeune homme à la fleur all'interno dell'opera di Gauguin si riflette non solo nella sua singolare provenienza - dopo Matisse, fu in seguito di proprietà di Lillie P. Bliss, uno dei fondatori originali del Museum of Modern Art, New York - ma il la pittura è stata inclusa anche in alcune delle mostre più importanti dell'artista nel ventesimo secolo.





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Paul Gauguin | Nature Morte Aux Mangos, 1891-93


The present work was probably executed in Tahiti during Gauguin's first trip to the Island in 1891-93, although Georges Wildenstein suggests that it may date to his second visit to the South Seas, circa 1896.
Inspired by the lush environment that surrounded him, "Nature morte aux mangos" epitomises the artist’s life-long search for the primitive and displays the same vividness and sensuous atmosphere and the bright, warm palette that characterised his celebrated Tahitian landscapes and figure paintings. | © Sotheby's

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Paul Delaroche | Academic / History painter

Paul Delaroche (17 July 1797 – 4 November 1856) was a French painter who achieved his greater successes painting historical scenes. He became famous in Europe for his melodramatic depictions that often portrayed subjects from English and French history.
The emotions emphasised in Delaroche's paintings appeal to Romanticism while the detail of his work along with the deglorified portrayal of historic figures follow the trends of Academicism and Neoclassicism.
Delaroche aimed to depict his subjects and history with pragmatic realism.
He did not consider popular ideals and norms in his creations, but rather painted all his subjects in the same light whether they were historical figures like Marie-Antoinette, figures of Christianity, or people of his time like Napoleon Bonaparte.
Delaroche was a leading pupil of Antoine-Jean Gros and later mentored a number of notable artists such as Thomas Couture, Jean-Léon Gérôme and Jean-François Millet.

Paul Delaroche | Joan d'Arc being interrogated, 1824

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Ikenaga Yasunari 池永康晟, 1965


Calm, subtle and dreamy portraits of contemporary women, decorated with floral patterns - this is how we can describe the illustrations by Ikenaga Yasunari.
The portraits are painted in the traditional Japanese style called Nihonga, slightly modified by the artist.

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Cath Riley, 1952 | Hyperrealist Illustrator


Cath (Catherine) Riley, was born in Keighley. She gained a first class honours degree in embroidery and a MA in fine art from Manchester Polytechnic and quickly gained attention for her three-dimensional art work.
In 1979, for example, George Melly purchased her mixed media collage, "The lady with the hat", for the Arts Council Collection, and other pieces have been acquired by Granada Television, North West Arts, and for Calderdale Museums and Galleries.

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Guillaume Seignac | A beauty of nature, 1900

Guillaume Seignac’s graceful model reflects the Academic ideals that earned his fame in the nineteenth century, and those of his teacher at the Académie Julien, William Bouguereau.
Embracing the classical subject matter and technical mastery of the Renaissance, the nineteenth century production of allegorical scenes of beautiful women in classical dress found critical success at the Paris Salons, and Seignac’s work earned a place in the great private collections of Europe and America.

Guillaume Seignac | A beauty of nature, 1900 | Sotheby's

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Guillaume Seignac (1870-1924) | Academic painter


Guillaume was born in Rennes, France. He started training at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he spent 1889 through 1895. He had many teachers there, including Gabriel Ferrier, William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury.
In addition to his training in the academic style, much of Seignac's work displayed classical themes and style, for example, his use of diaphanous drapery covering a woman's body is reminiscent of classical style, in particular the sculptor Phidias.

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Bryan Larsen, 1975


Bryan Lamont Larsen Jr. is an American realist painter, born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Larsen was inspired by the figurative works of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and other nineteenth century European painters.
He was educated at Utah State University and at the Grand Central Academy Summer Intensives.
Larsen's work includes architectural elements and figurative works, with themes emphasizing beauty, innovation, aspiration, and optimism for the future.


His work can be found in private art collections around the world.
He is represented by Quent Cordair Fine Art, an art gallery in downtown Napa, California.
Larsen has completed large commissions and smaller works for private collectors and companies. Larsen is supportive of ongoing efforts by the Art Renewal Center, a leading organization working to foster a re-emergence of realism and classical technique in art culture.















Bryan Lamont Larsen Jr. è un pittore realista Americano, nato a Salt Lake City, nello Utah.
Larsen è stato ispirato dalle opere figurative dei pittori pre-Raphaelite, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Lawrence Alma-Tadema e altri pittori europei del XIX secolo.
Ha studiato alla Utah State University e alla Grand Central Academy Summer Intensives.
Il lavoro di Larsen comprende elementi architettonici e opere figurative, con temi che enfatizzano la bellezza, l'innovazione, l'aspirazione e l'ottimismo per il futuro. Le sue opere sono presenti in collezioni d'arte private in tutto il mondo.
È rappresentato da Quent Cordair Fine Art, una galleria d'arte nel centro di Napa, in California.
Larsen ha completato grandi commissioni ed opere più piccole per collezionisti privati ​​e aziende. Larsen sostiene gli sforzi in corso dell'Art Renewal Center,  un'organizzazione leader che lavora per favorire una riemersione del realismo e della tecnica classica nella cultura dell'arte.