Bernardo Siciliano was born in Rome, son of the Italian writer, playwright, literary critic and intellectual Enzo Siciliano.
Il Gabbiano and Forum Gallery have presented his works at both international and national Fairs: the CIAE in Chicago, the FIAC in Paris, the Arte Fiera of Bologna, the LA Art Show and Art Miami.
In 1992 the director Piero Maccarinelli commissioned him to paint the sets of the comedy Verso la fine dell’estate by Carlo Repetti for the 35th Festival of Spoleto.
In 1995 he collaborated on Bernardo Bertolucci’s movie Io ballo da sola.
Knab was initially students Heideloff in Nuremberg, where he was for two years engaged in building practice, and went to Munich in 1859 to devote himself to painting architecture.
He attended the schools of Arthur Ramberg and Piloty and went to Italy in 1868.
Since his return he treated with preference motives of this country and in between was often busy with work for the winter garden of King Ludwig II in the Munich Residence and the Linderhof Castle.
Georg Janny was an Austrian landscape painter and set designer.
He worked as a scene painter in the studios of Carlo Brioschi and Johann Kautsky, alongside Alfons Mucha, and was a member of the Dürerbund.
In 1898, he participated in painting the "Eisernen Vorhang" (Iron Curtain) at the Vienna Volksoper for the 50th jubilee of Emperor Franz Joseph I.
In 1904, he exhibited in the Austrian Pavilion at the St.Louis World's Fair with scenes from the Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways (now at the Technisches Museum Wien).
Egor Nikolaevitch Zaitsev / Егор Николаевич Зайцев was born in Orel, Russia.
In 1986 he graduated from the Moscow Academic School of Memory of 1905, in 1994 - MGAHI, named after V.I. Surikov in the workshop of prof. V. N. Zabelina.
From 1995 to 2001 worked in the Creative Workshop of the Russian Academy of Arts under the guidance of A.P. and S.P. Tkachev.
In 1994 he was admitted to the Ministry of Agriculture.
He was awarded a diploma from the Russian Academy of Arts (1996), a gold medal from the Russian Union of Artists (2002), first prize at the Youth Exhibition and a creative trip to Paris in 2002.
Appearances can be deceptive. Everyone knows that. Sometimes though, appearance and reality are so insidiously close together that they can hardly be separated.
The painter Rein Pol addresses this whimsical phenomenon of deceptive reality in paintings showing a peculiar mixture of facts and fiction.
In a number of Pol's paintings, the Blue Angel rumbles past.
Initially, this train roamed only the landscapes of Groningen.
Peter Tom-Petersen (5 March 1861 - 27 July 1926) was a Danish painter and graphic artist, known primarily for cityscapes, interiors and other architectural paintings.
His name was Peter Thomsen Petersen until 1920, when he had it legally changed to match his signature: "Tom P.".
Peter Thomsen Petersen was born at Thisted, Denmark.
He was the son of Christian Tullin Petersen and Maren Andrea Thomsen.
This portrait of Charles William Lambton - aged six or seven - was commissioned by the boy's father John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, a Whig politician and MP for County Durham.
Popularly known as The Red Boy, it remained in the Lambton family until it was acquired by the National Gallery in 2021.
It is acknowledged as one of Thomas Lawrence's (1769-1830) masterpieces and, a sign of the image's enduring popularity, it was the first painting to be reproduced on a British postage stamp in 1967.
Leopoldo Metlicovitz (17 July 1868 - 19 October 1944) was an Italian painter, illustrator and poster designer.
Together with Leonetto Cappiello, Adolf Hohenstein, Giovanni Maria Mataloni and Marcello Dudovich, he is considered one of the fathers of modern Italian poster art.
Son of a merchant of Dalmatian origins (the family name was originally Metlicovich), he began working in the family business at a very young age and at fourteen years old he entered as an apprentice in a printing house in Udine, where he learned the technique of lithography.
Demelsa Haughton is a painter of whimsical and magical imagery.
From the bright setting of a tiny ladybird village (complete with corner shop) to the gloomy darkness of a forest filled with gnarly trees that were once children... her work creates a sense of wonder and gives a snapshot of imaginary worlds and characters, often with an injection of quirky, subtle humour.
With a lifelong love of traditional stories, and anything magical or supernatural, she is influenced by stories far removed from real life and endeavours to capture this in her paintings.
• "Tutti dicono che il cervello sia l'organo più complesso del corpo umano, da medico potrei anche acconsentire.
Ma come donna vi assicuro che non vi è niente di più complesso del cuore, ancora oggi non si conoscono i suoi meccanismi. Nei ragionamenti del cervello c’è logica, nei ragionamenti del cuore ci sono le emozioni".
• "Nella vita non bisogna mai rassegnarsi, arrendersi alla mediocrità, bensì uscire da quella zona grigia in cui tutto è abitudine e rassegnazione passiva, bisogna coltivare il coraggio di ribellarsi".
Karl Ludwig Friedrich Becker, also known as Carl Ludwig Friedrich Becker (1820-1900) was a German history painter and president of the Berlin Academy.
Becker was born and died in Berlin.
He was a pupil of August von Klöber, Peter von Cornelius and Heinrich Maria von Hess, and afterwards studied a year in Paris, two years in Rome, and visited Venice.
Silvio Porzionato was born in Moncalieri (Torino, Italy).
He is a figurative painter who prefers oil paint on large canvases.
He takes photographs of friends and people he meets on the street.
His figures are depicted in statuary close-ups, although ordinary people; have the power to make us forget the typical private dimension of the portrait and, at the same time, they have the power to become icons of the human race.
Elena Tatkina / Елена Таткина is a graphic artist, art pastel expert, teacher at Kalacheva school, author of more than 10 courses on pastels and academic drawing for designers.
Since 2001, art director, art producer of computer graphics for cinema, advertising and multimedia in the largest domestic technology company.
Participates in the largest film and game projects in Russia and the world.
Teaching activity since 2005.
In 2006-2007, under the leadership of Elena, a six-month drawing course was launched for illustrators of Artemy Lebedev's studio.
Николаев Борис Павлович (1925-2017) was an Russian artist, master of landscape and realistic portrait, author of monumental paintings on the theme of war hardships and romantic cityscapes of post-war Leningrad.
Nikolayev Boris Pavlovich was born on February 14, 1925 in Novosibirsk. Soon the family moved to Leningrad.
The fascination with drawing leads Boris Nikolaev to the studio of the Leningrad House of artistic education of children.
Born in Alexandria, Virginia, Sean Nicholas Lee is a contemporary figurative painter who's work is inspired by a variety of old masters.
His father was a senior executive of the Central Intelligence Agency.
When he was still an infant, Sean’s family moved to Yokohama, Japan.
One after the next, he then lived in Bangkok, Jakarta, Washington, D.C., and Kuala Lumpur.
As such, Sean’s youth was in a constant state of flux that instilled in him deep curiosity about human nature and an acute appreciation of its diverse expressions and manifestations.
Sean’s work is centered around primal humanity.
He is most interested in generating raw emotion with his materials.
Though his work is built upon the foundations of traditional academic painting (particularly the 17th century Dutch golden age) he propels the medium to take precedence over the illusory subject.
Within these parameters, it is through deep consideration of the various human elements and their careful abstraction that Sean engenders a rich sensory experience through his work.
- "Through disruption of contemporary ideological convictions, we might precipitate a profile of tomorrow - even if only a glimpse.
Though I paint within the parameters of what is tactile and tangible, I am less concerned with the illusory aspects of representation than I am with capacities for the various human elements loaded into the medium".
- "My traditional approach to representation is a lustful grasping for the ephemeral world of immeasurable striving - maybe one of our most profoundly human dimensions The face of a flat surface can be simultaneously probing and reflective, much like staring at one's self in a mirror.
It is in this space where my work germinates - where I command the medium itself to be primary over the subject.
This hierarchy overrides aspects of subconscious association to the subject, allowing only the elemental to remain".
- "I navigate the parameters of representing whilst simultaneously considering an archipelago of abstract concepts that must eventually be joined to form a single mass.
When the paint is allowed to speak its own voice, and the primordial nature of man is heeded with deep consideration, the work lives.
Like the scientists of my own era, who strive to generate AI with algorithmic imperatives containing exactly what it is that make us human, I am not trying to copy reality; I am trying to create it".
Sean Lee | After Us
Nato ad Alexandria, in Virginia, Sean Nicholas Lee è un pittore figurativo contemporaneo il cui lavoro si ispira ad una varietà di maestri antichi.
Suo padre era un alto dirigente della Central Intelligence Agency.
Quando era ancora bambino, la famiglia di Sean si trasferì a Yokohama, in Giappone.
Uno dopo l'altro, visse a Bangkok, Giakarta, Washington, DC e Kuala Lumpur.
In quanto tale, la giovinezza di Sean è stata in un costante stato di cambiamento che ha instillato in lui una profonda curiosità per la natura umana ed un acuto apprezzamento per le sue diverse espressioni e manifestazioni.
Il lavoro di Sean è incentrato sull'umanità primordiale.
È molto interessato a generare emozioni grezze con i suoi materiali.
Sebbene il suo lavoro sia costruito sulle basi della pittura accademica tradizionale (in particolare l'età dell'oro Olandese del XVII secolo), spinge il mezzo ad avere la precedenza sul soggetto illusorio.
All'interno di questi parametri, è attraverso la profonda considerazione dei vari elementi umani e la loro attenta astrazione che Sean genera attraverso il suo lavoro una ricca esperienza sensoriale.
Miles Johnston is a conceptual artist and illustrator known for surreal pencil drawings.
- "I was born in the UK. I spent the first few years of my early childhood living in Brunei, Borneo, something that I am sure had a major effect on me.
The totally different environment gave me the intuition early on that there is no true 'normal'.
In hindsight I have always been interested in anything that helps to transform my perception of the mundane".
Charlotte Bird is an English photographer and artist, who uses children as models for her photographic shots, and then transforms them into fairies with the help of a digital post-production, or by combining elements and a background painted in watercolors.
His style is purely Victorian, with domestic environments or English courtyards, with warm and welcoming atmospheres.
Ferdinand Julius Fagerlin (1825-1907) was a Swedish-German genre painter.
Born in Stockholm, Fagerlin first apprenticed as a shipbuilder (1842-1843) before attending the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (1845-1847).
He joined the army (1850-1854) and practiced painting, particularly portraits.
Heinrich Mathias Ernst Campendonk (1889-1957) was a painter and graphic designer born in Germany who became a naturalized Dutch citizen.
Campendonk was born in Krefeld, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire.
He was the son of a textile merchant, and served a textile apprenticeship until 1905.
From 1905 to 1909, he received artistic education from Johan Thorn Prikker at the Handwerker- und Kunstgewerbeschule, a progressive school for Arts and Crafts.
The reality around us can be very overloaded with details and meanings, and my main goal is to find the key to conveying all the diversity with minimal means, the shortest possible path to the viewer, and I am grateful for the opportunity to convey my work to viewers around the world!"
Born in Hollywood and raised in the urban sprawls of Los Angeles, Julio’s artistic aesthetic was shaped early on by the platinum light and expansive concrete horizons of southern California.
Often depicting lone figures within the context of a landscape, Reyes' chooses his subjects carefully.
His works focus on intimate dramas, revealing brief moments of unnoticed grandeur, tender souls grappling with the pressures of modern life.
These sensitive portrayals are the result of careful observation, intimate knowledge of his subjects, and are executed with finesse and virtuosity.
