Jacquelyn Bischak, 1961 | Figurative painter

Born in Ann Arbor Michigan, Jacquelyn Bischak received a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from Eastern Michigan University.

A large portion of her career has been spent working in advertising as an art director and coordinator, most recently for Leo Burnett.

She began painting the figure professionally in 2007 and showing her work with the Legacy Galleries in September of 2008.

Gaetano Previati | Divisionist painter

Gaetano Previati (1852- 1920) was an Italian Symbolist painter in the Divisionist style.

Previati was born in Ferrara.

He relocated to Milan in 1876 and enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, studying under Giuseppe Bertini, Giovanni Morelli and Federico Faruffini.

He became strongly attached to the Divisionist style, and even published a treatise on I principi scientifici del Divisionismo (1909).

Tranquillo Cremona | Romantic painter

Tranquillo Cremona (10 April 1837 - 10 June 1878) was an Italian painter.

He was born in Pavia and was the brother of the mathematician Luigi Cremona.

He trained as a young man with Giovanni Carnovali. He lived in Venice from 1852-1859.

Cremona moved to Milan and he became part of the Scapigliatura movement which was characterized by bohemian attitudes and included poets, writers, musicians and artists infused with a combination of rebellious, and later anti-academic and anarchic, tendencies.

Megan Duncanson | Abstract painter

'- I grew up in the bush of Alaska near the small fishing village, Meyers Chuck. We didn't have any of the modern amenities most of us take for granted.

The only way to get where I lived was by boat or float plane, there were not (and still are not) any roads.

The only source of electricity was individual generators. Our only source of heat was provided by wood burning stoves (there was a lot of firewood to be cut and stacked!)

My family didn't have phones or cable TV, it was roughing it at it's best!'

Federico Faruffini | Romantic / Realist painter

Federico Faruffini (1831-1869) was an Italian painter** and engraver of historical subjects, in a style that combines the styles and themes of Realism with the diffuse outlines and lively colors of Scapigliatura painters - Artistic movement that developed in Italy after the Risorgimento period (1815–1871). The movement included poets, writers, musicians, painters and sculptors. The term Scapigliatura is the Italian equivalent of the French "bohème" (bohemian), literally meaning "unkempt" or "dishevelled"..

Born in Sesto, a commune now inside the metropolitan area of Milan, he initially trained with Trecourt in Pavia. He befriended Tranquillo Cremona** and accompanied him to Milan and Venice. He traveled with Giovanni Carnovali.

In the 1864 exposition at the Brera, he submitted a watercolor, Coro della Certosa di Pavia, and four oil canvases: Scholars of Alciato, an Annunciation, Cordello e Cunizza, and his Machiavelli and Borgia, which he both painted and engraved, and for which he received a medal in 1866.
His Sacrifice at the Nile was painted for the 1865 exhibition. In 1867, at the Paris Salon, he was awarded** a first prize medal for a paintings of Borgia and one of The death of Ernesto Cairoli.
Lack of recognition and financial difficulties is said to have led him to his suicide at age 38, in Perugia. | © Wikipedia

Faruffini, Federico - Pittore ed incisore (Sesto San Giovanni 1831 - Perugia 1869).
Fu allievo a Pavia di G. Trécourt insieme con T. Cremona, con cui passò poi a studiare a Venezia e all'accademia di Brera. Ebbe vita travagliata; morì suicida.
Pittore soprattutto di quadri storici, si distaccò dalla maniera di F. Hayez, inclinando a un romanticismo più soggettivo e drammatico, con audacie coloristiche talvolta originali.
La sua attività ebbe qualche rapporto con quella della Scapigliatura.

- La Scapigliatura fu un movimento artistico e letterario sviluppatosi nell'Italia settentrionale a partire dagli anni sessanta dell'Ottocento; ebbe il suo epicentro a Milano e si andò poi affermando in tutta la penisola. Il termine fu proposto per la prima volta da Cletto Arrighi (pseudonimo di Carlo Righetti) nel suo romanzo “La Scapigliatura e il 6 febbraio” del 1862, ed è la libera traduzione del termine francese bohème (vita da zingari), che si riferiva alla vita disordinata e anticonformista degli artisti parigini descritta nel romanzo di Henri Murger Scènes de la vie de bohème (1847-1849). Contro il romanticismo italiano maggioritario (Manzoni, Berchet, D'Azeglio), recuperarono le suggestioni del romanticismo straniero e diffusero il gusto del naturalismo francese nascente e del maledettismo alla Baudelaire, anticipando verismo e decadentismo.

Si dedicò anche all'acquaforte e, negli ultimi anni, alla fotografia. Opere nelle gallerie di Milano, Pavia, Roma. | © Treccani