Alfred Sisley | Stile Artistico

Tra i più grandi protagonisti dell'epopea impressionista, Alfred Sisley fu uno degli interpreti più lucidi e risoluti dei principi in base ai quali era nato il movimento: da «vero impressionista», come disse di lui Camille Pissarro, egli rinunciò alle pennellate fluide e lungamente studiate distintive dei dipinti accademici e adottò tocchi virgolati rapidi e staccati, idonei per cogliere l'estrema mobilità della luce e degli effetti cromatici.

Partendo dal presupposto scientifico che la luce era l'elemento indispensabile della visione, infatti, Sisley comprese che ogni paesaggio assume una gamma cromatica più o meno vivida in relazione alla quantità di luce che lo colpisce ed alla presenza o meno di altri colori che, a loro volta, si accostano o si mescolano, smorzandosi reciprocamente o reciprocamente esaltandosi.

Gulyás László, 1960 | Figurative painter

Gulyás László was born in Budapest, Hungary. He graduated at the Academy of Fine and Applied Arts, where he specialised in graphic design. They he continued his studies as a student of the Academy of Fine Arts between 1983-1987.

He has been member of the National Society of Hungarian Artists since 1987.

The artist developed his individual world of images and acquired the painting techniques of the early masters of painting under the influence of the universal art of Rembrandt. This is what makes him distinct form his contemporaries.

Vladimir Borovikovsky | Portrait of Maria Lopukhina, 1797

Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky (1757-1825) - Russian artist🎨 of Ukrainian background who was the foremost portraitist of the sentimentalist era and a master of ecclesiastic painting.

Borovikovsky lived in Ukraine until he was 31 years old, having learned the trade of painting from his father, a Cossack and a minor member of the nobility who worked as an icon painter. Only a few of his father’s icons and portraits are extant. Though deeply sincere, they are slightly rough in execution.

Amy Werntz, 1979 | Portrait painter

Amy Werntz is a contemporary realist artist currently residing in Dallas, Texas. Originally from the midwest, Amy’s appreciation and interest in art developed as a child, in a family full of talented artists.

She has always been drawn to faces and the human figure.

Through the years her inspiration has evolved to now focus on those around her.

She is fascinated by the postures and expressions of people within their everyday lives.

Amy got her BFA in Interior Design and currently splits her time between design and creating art.

Jules Breton | Naturalist painter

As one of the primary painters of peasant themes in the nineteenth century, and an artist strongly influenced by his own native traditions from northern France, Jules Breton’s reputation rivaled that of Eugène Delacroix or Jean-Dominique Ingres at the time of his death in 1906.

Since then, after a long period of relative obscurity, Breton has returned to considerable favor; he is now regarded as a primary painter of daily life with an inherent and substantial understanding of the old masters form the Italian renaissance especially Raphael.

Norberto Proietti (1927-2009)

Norberto Proietti, known as Norberto was an Italian painter of Naive art, known worldwide by his works that contain dozens of industrious "little monks".

Norberto was born in the close knit and charming hamlet of Spello in 1927. His father was an agent in the livestock trade who also sold olives and grain and at the same time, he managed a modest trattoria. His mother helped out in the trattoria and was also a dressmaker of outfits for first communions.

He went on to immortalize the fairytale-like collection of ancient stone houses of his home town in most of his paintings: paintings that were set in delightful medieval villages framed by the sky and countryside.

As an adolescent, Norberto was sent to his uncle in Trastevere, a district of Rome, where he learned the tailoring. He returned to Spello in 1951 and opened his own tailor's shop.

Pontormo | Mannerist painter

Jacopo da Pontormo*, original name Jacopo Carrucci (born May 24, 1494, Pontormo, near Empoli, Republic of Florence (Italy)-buried Jan. 2, 1557, Florence) Florentine painter who broke away from High Renaissance classicism to create a more personal, expressive style that is sometimes classified as early Mannerism.

Pontormo was the son of Bartolommeo Carrucci, a painter. According to the biographer Giorgio Vasari, he was apprenticed to Leonardo da Vinci and afterward to Mariotto Albertinelli and Piero di Cosimo.

At the age of 18 he entered the workshop of Andrea del Sarto, and it is this influence that is most apparent in his early works.

In 1518 he completed an altarpiece in the Church of San Michele Visdomini, Florence, that reflects in its agitated-almost neurotic-emotionalism a departure from the balance and tranquillity of the High Renaissance.

Henri Fantin-Latour: "L'uomo di talento dovrebbe camminare da solo.."

"Success can be harmful, it makes you relax, you sit on it and are distracted.

You alone should correct the faults, you know what I think of advice, correction.

The gifted man should walk alone, straight to his goal, what happens is nothing, rejection, success, selling pleasing, all that is nonsense".

Van Gogh | La Mousmé, 1888

The intention and determination that inform Van Gogh's art can be obscured by the sensational legends that have arisen about his life.

The artist's correspondence, particularly frdeom his brief mature period of 1888-1890, contradicts popular lore and attests to the deliberateness, sensitivity, and integrity of his work.

On July 29, 1888, Van Gogh wrote his younger brother Theo, an art dealer in a Parisian gallery, that "if you know what a 'mousmé' is (you will know when you have read Loti's Madame Chrysanthème), I have just painted one.

Shafira Yablonski, (Impressionist painter, 1938)

Ukrainian painter Shafira Yablonski was born in the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk.

When Shafira was 3 years old the world war II began and her family was evacuated to Kazakhstan.

When the war was over and the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk was liberated, they returned home to Ukraine.

There Shafira spent her childhood and adolescence and finished high school.

All her childhood she was fond of drawing. When Shafira was 15, she joined the art studio at the House of Culture and began learning to paint.

Henri Fantin-Latour, Il pittore di fiori che era stufo dei suoi capolavori..

Contemporaneo degli impressionisti, l'artista francese Henri Fantin-Latour si distinse per i suoi dipinti di fiori e per i ritratti di gruppo degli intellettuali parigini dell'epoca.

Figlio di Théodore Fantin-Latour, anch'egli artista, che lo iniziò all'arte della pittura, studiò all'École de Dessin di Parigi.

Tuttavia, trasse la sua vera formazione copiando le opere classiche dei Grandi Maestri del Museo del Louvre, in particolare Tiziano e Veronese.

Più tardi, nel 1861, fu per un certo periodo discepolo di Gustave Courbet, anche se il suo realismo intimo e discreto era molto diverso da quello del suo maestro e li fece ben presto separare.

Ludovic Alleaume | Academic painter

An excellent painter and draughtsman, Ludovic Alleaume (1859-1941) worked in an academic style that owed little to the more avant-garde trends in contemporary French art.

He exhibited regularly at the Salon des Artistes Français between 1883-1938, winning several prizes including a second prize in the category of lithography in 1896 and a second class medal for painting in 1905.

Alleaume also exhibited at the Salon des Humoristes and the Salon d'Hiver and, outside of Paris, took part in exhibitions in Angers, Nantes, Nice, Rouen and Toulouse, as well as London.

Tullius Heuer | Surrealist painter

"Hi, i’m Tullius Heuer and i live in a city called Maceió, located at the state of Alagoas, Brazil.

I’m a self-taught digital artist. I’m actually working with freelance works for living, including stuff like CD covers, posters, book covers, logos/branding/visual identity, advertisement etc.

My personal artworks consist in my thoughts and feelings about life and existence. I don’t have a specific theme to focus in my works, but most of them usually have strong emotional touches with positive messages.

Paul César Helleu | Belle Époque painter

Paul César Helleu (1859-1927) was a French oil painter, pastel artist, drypoint etcher, and designer, best known for his numerous portraits of beautiful society women of the Belle Époque.

He also conceived the ceiling mural of night sky constellations for Grand Central Terminal in New York City.

He was also the father of Jean Helleu and the grandfather of Jacques Helleu, both artistic directors for Parfums Chanel.

His work epitomises the charm and elegance of French culture at the time - the Belle Époque - with all its verve and focus on fashion.

Camille Corot | Legacy

Corot's place in the history of 19th-century painting is an assured one. When he started painting, the landscape sketch was regarded primarily as raw material for more considered work and was of no great artistic consequence in itself.

Corot was one of the first to show that the sketch had qualities of vitality and spontaneity, a basic truth to nature that a more finished picture lacked.

At the time of his death the sketch had triumphed, and any artificiality or contrivance in landscape painting was regarded with suspicion.

Corot had helped to prepare the way for the Impressionist landscape painters, who learned much from him and looked upon him with respect and veneration.| From © Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Alireza Karimi Moghaddam, 1975 | Van Gogh's life story

Cartoonist and illustrator Alireza Karimi Moghaddam was born in Tehran, Iran.

He earned a master’s degree in graphic art at Azad University in Iran, and is now based in Lisbon, working with art faculty of the University of Lisbon and the National Society of Fine Arts.

Since his teenage years he has immersed himself in the life and art of Vincent van Gogh.

For the past thirty years his award-winning cartoons and illustrations have conveyed van Gogh’s life as "a symbol of beauty and love, an inspiration for the future".

Rae Perry, 1989 | Figurative painter

"American artist🎨 originally from Dallas Texas, I now live and work in Dublin. I spent two years in Florence, Italy where I completed the drawing program at the Angel Academy of Art.

I am mainly self-taught when it comes to painting, and I primarily focus on still-life subject matter.

I eventually plan to incorporate the human figure in my paintings.

My influences range from the classic illustrators, to the Pre-Ralphelites and the great 19th century artists (Mucha, Waterhouse, Whistler, N.C.Wyeth and Chardin)".

Toshiyuki Enoki 榎俊幸, 1961 | Lacquer painter

Japanese artist🎨 Toshiyuki Enoki was born in Tokyo. Educated in several different genres of Lacquer painting, traditional Japanese painting and western painting, Toshiyuki Enoki's works are an amalgamation of the new and aged, reality and myth.

This artist strives to antiquate his works, not only in his thematic tribute to well known traditional artists such as Maruyama Oukyou also in his artist process.

Arkady Ostritsky / Аркадий Острицкий, 1948

Аркадий Острицкий was born in Kishinev, Moldova. He was recognized very early as gifted in drawing and painting and by the age of 20 was accepted in Moldova's most distinguished Art Academy - the Repin Art Academy.

He graduated with distinction, earned many awards, and became one of his country's most important painters.

He was chosen to paint numerous monumental works in public institutions, and created many large frescos. He also became a distinguished art teacher and many young artists came under his tutelage.

John George Brown | Genre painter

From Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum:

John George Brown (November 11, 1831 – February 8, 1913), the son of an impoverished lawyer, was born near Durham, England.

At fourteen he began a seven-year apprenticeship as a glass-cutter in Newcastle-on-Tyne, studying at night from 1849-1852 with William Bell Scott at the School of Design.

From 1852-53 he worked at the Holyrood Glass Works, Edinburgh, studying evenings at the Trustees Academy with Robert Scott Lauder.

Niccolò Paganini: "La felicità non esiste ma la si canta!"

▻ "The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master".

▻ "Paganini non ripete!"

▻ "Paganini does not repeat!"

▻ "My secret, if I can call it secret, will indicate the violinists the way to penetrate the instrument much better than what has been done until now and it can demonstrate them, that violin is much more full of opportunities than what is commonly believed.

This discovery is not due to chance, but it is due to a deep study and applying it will no longer be necessary to practice four or five hours a day, it will remove the current scholar method, which studies to make the instrument difficult instead of teaching it".

Barney Seale | A head of Niccolo Paganini, 1782-1840

Meredith Marsone, 1977 | Abstracted Love

Meredith Marsone's (formerly Collins) paintings and drawings explore questions of heritage and identity.

At times there is a tension in her works that reference her Pakeha and Māori heritage, ta moko or floral designs delicately adorn faces of her subjects. Heritage as well as the continuity of one's lineage are depicted in Meredith's works which often feature her with her daughters.

Crystal Ardern, curator Waikato Museum, describes Meredith's work as "Striking, captivating, and beautiful paintings - yet hinting at something more, something uneasy even. She has explored intimate, sometimes painful issues through paint and canvas, but she has been able to veil her work enough so that she is not completely exposed".

William Logsdail | Genre painter

William Logsdail (1859-1944) was a prolific British landscape, portrait and genre painter of large scale metropolitan scenes, particularly London landmarks.

He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Grosvenor Gallery, the New Gallery (London), and others.

He is notable for his realistic London and Venice scenes and his plein air style.

Daniel Maclise (1806-1870) | History painter

Daniel Maclise was born to a family of Scottish descent. After a brief period working in a bank, Maclise’s passion for drawing led him to pursue a career in art which he studied at the Cork Society of Arts.

His lifelong interest in antiquities began through his acquaintance with the antiquarian Richard Sainthill and folklorist Thomas Crofton Croker.

Maclise copied from their collections, and they secured commissions for the young artist from their circle of wealthy and influential friends.

Kríton Athanasoúlis | Brano dal mio Testamento/Απόσπασμα από την διαθήκη μου

Herodotus | The father of History

Non voglio che tu sia lo zimbello del mondo.

Ti lascio il sole che lasciò mio padre a me.

Le stelle brilleranno uguali ed uguali ti indurranno

le notti a dolce sonno.

Il mare t'empirà di sogni. Ti lascio

il mio sorriso amareggiato: fanne scialo

ma non tradirmi. Il mondo è povero

oggi. S'è tanto insanguinato questo mondo

ed è rimasto povero. Diventa ricco

tu guadagnando l'amore del mondo.

Mike Savad | Digital painter

"I was born in Texas, in an army base. I've always had a camera in my hand, mostly to keep me busy. It wasn't until about 20 years ago or so, when I got my first digital camera that I could experiment and learn how to do photography".

"Photo realistic is what people think of first. There are many themes, flowers, porches, and local Suburban Scenes, some city, some urban. I also have many Job inspired images that cover a quite a range. My art is inspired by Norman Rockwell 1894-1978🎨 and paintings from the time of the Renaissance🎨".

Michael Fitzpatrick | Figurative painter

Californian artist Michael Fitzpatrick started his art career in the mid sixties by attending Art Center College of Design in L.A. After graduating he went to work for D’Arcy, McManus, Masius Advertising in New York as an art director.

Next he moved back to the coast where he started and ran his own ad agency: Fitzpatrick and Walker adv. Drawing and design were always a large part of Michael’s daily activity.

Karl Bryullov | Neoclassicist / Romantic painter

Karl Pavlovich Bryullov / Карл Па́влович Брюлло́в (1799-1852), Russian painter who combined technical proficiency and Classical Academic training with a Romantic spontaneity to produce some of the liveliest examples of Russian art of the period.

Toby Boothman, 1973 | Hyper-Realist Still Life painter

British painter🎨 Toby Boothman was born in Bristol, and began training under Master Patrick Betaudier in Monflanquin, France at the Atelier Neo Medici. Since then, his career has flourished both in the UK and internationally.

With his studio based in the South of France, Boothman's inspiration from and love of the open water emanates from his work, reflecting the beauty and the light of his surroundings in the Gulf of St Tropez.

Boothman's modern approach takes roots in a Renaissance style allowing him to capture stunning realism in his nautical scenes. His dynamic depictions feature boats at sea with remarkable accuracy and clarity.

Ramón Gutiérrez, 1966 | Figurative painter

Ramón Gutiérrez is an young Spanish painter born in 1966 in Barcelona, Catalonia, known for working in the Impressionist Figurative style.

Trained in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, this Artist has received significant critical acclaim and has exhibited at a wide range of Spanish galleries.

Discover the best paintings of this Spanish painter where his paintings blend the best combination of different materials giving a touch of preciousness abstract to realistic figures.

WanJin Gim, 1981 | Abstract painter

Seoul-based artist WanJin Gim illustrates the form and gesture of the human body using complex hatched layers of color and dramatic lighting.

He starts his career under the nickname "Willeys".

In 2016 he begins sharing his artworks with SNS. His passion for drawing manifests itself from a young age.

After graduating from the Animation Department he realizes that animation is not capturing him and chooses to work as a freelance filmmaker.

Bev Jozwiak, 1953 | Watercolor Figurative painter

Bev Jozwiak🎨 paints very directly, placing watercolor paint on the paper with very little mixing on the palette.

“I use lots of varied color in my blacks to keep them from going flat, in my whites to keep them glowing, and even in my skin tones to keep them interesting. Emotion plays an important part in every successful painting, so I choose only subjects that call to me and that gives my work energy and excitement”.

Dosso Dossi | Renaissance painter

A leader of the Ferrara School of painting from the Renaissance, Dosso Dossi (1490-1542) is well known for his enigmatic allegorical style.

Born Giovanni di Niccoló de Luteri in Tramuschio di Mirandola. Dossi’s father worked as a land agent, or bursar for the Este family, under their court in Ferrara; they would later become Dossi’s patrons.

It is said that he trained early on with Lorenzo Costa (1460-1535), also of the School of Ferrara painters. Though part of Costa’s influence was also important to the Bolognese school of painting.

Jacques Prévert / Willem Haenraets | Alicante...

An orange upon the table

Your dress on the rug

And you in my bed

Sweet present of the present

Freshness of the night

Warmth of my life.

Leopold Franz Kowalski | Genre painter

Léopold Franz Kowalski (1856-1931) was an French-born German painter, known for his canvases depicting genre scenes, figures and landscapes.

Kowalsky was a pupil of Jean Pillard and Henri Lehmann at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

He exhibited regularly in Paris from 1881 at the Salon des Artistes Français.