The modern Spanish painter Venezuelan in San Juan County (Caracas) Venezuela, but in the age of 14 with his parents emigrated to Spain where he lives so far.
Ignacio Larra, 1954 ~ Figurativ Mural painter
Philippe Faraut, 1963 ~ Figurative sculptor
Philippe Faraut is a figurative artist specializing in life-size portrait sculptures and monumental stone sculptures. His media of choice are water-based clay and marble.
Margarita Georgiadis, 1968 ~ Narrative painter
Margarita Georgiadis was born in Sydney, Australia. She educated herself in philosophy and physics. This research underpins her work, to such an extent that she fondly compares painting to writing. Georgiadis had an epiphany after the passing of her father.
Albert Bierstadt | Hudson River School
German-born American painter Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), recognized as the foremost painter of the american frontier during the nineteenth-century, was born in Solingen, Germany, in 1830.
At the age of two, he and his family emigrated to the United States, settling in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Edgar Degas | The Ballet dancers
Among the supreme masterpieces of the century are Degas's pictures of the ballet and its dancers.
The impulse towards painting the contemporary scene came to him not only from Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) and Manet (1832-1883) but from his friend, the critic Duranty, the exponent of the aesthetics of naturalism.
Yet in the particular direction of his tastes and his conception of design he was entirely individual.
To study and convey movement was a chosen task, first undertaken on the race course and then in his many pictures of the Opera, viewed from behind the scenes, in the wings, or from the orchestra stalls during a performance.
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