Norman Rockwell | Romantic Realist painter

Norman Percevel Rockwell (1894-1978) was a 20th century American painter and illustrator.

Rockwell was a prolific artist, producing more than 4,000 original works in his lifetime.

His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created.

Gary Jenkins, 1962 | Still life of flowers

Gary Jenkins was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in St. Petersburg, Florida. In 1962 he graduated from the well known four year Ringling School of Art in Sarasota Florida. Upon graduation, he moved to So. California. Gary started his full time art career working as a key line artist for a large greeting card company.
A little later on, he started working for the large national art store chain, Aaron Bros. During the early 1970s while working at that store, Gary painted in his spare time and began to develope his style of oil painting, focusing primarily on Landscapes and Floral painting.

Donatello | Renaissance sculptor

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, universally known as Donatello, was born in Florence around 1386 and died there in 1466.

The powerful expressivity of his art made him the greatest sculptor of the early Renaissance.

Masterpieces from the first phases of his career include the vigilant marble Saint George, made for the guildhall of Orsanmichele (ca. 1417; Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence); the gilt-bronze Saint Louis of Toulouse at the Church of Santa Croce, Florence (ca. 1422-25); and his bronze relief of the Feast of Herod and statuettes of angels on the baptismal font in the Baptistery of Siena (1425-29).

Vincent Van Gogh | Still life

Vincent Van Gogh [1853-1890] painted several versions of landscapes with flowers, as seen in View of Arles with Irises, and paintings of flowers, including Irises, Sunflowers, lilacs and roses. Some reflect his interests in the language of color, and also in Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints.

Vincent Van Gogh | Self-portraits

Vincent Van Gogh did not have money to pay models to pose for portraits nor did he have many people commissioning him to do portraits, so Van Gogh painted his own portrait.

He painted over 30 self-portraits between the years 1886-1889.

His collection of self-portraits places him among the most prolific self-portraitists of all time.

Van Gogh used portrait painting as a method of introspection, a method to make money and a method of developing his skills as an artist.