Mia Araujo, 1986 | Pop-Surrealism painter

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Argentine-American painter Mia Araujo has long been fascinated by stories and characters, and the multi-faceted complexity that makes each person unique.

Mia believes that all individuals contain an entire universe within them, which is invisible to the naked eye.
Her work concentrates on giving shape to the unseen forces within her subjects - their thoughts, memories, emotions, and complex histories. It is these qualities that fit together to form a vast, rich inner-landscape of identity and mythology for her characters.

Eugene J. Paprocki, 1971 | Chicago painting

Eugene J. Paprocki is a Chicago born artist who has been featured in 14 one-man exhibitions in two continents. He has always dabbled in painting, even in his childhood. He formally studied Fine Art at Loyola University in Chicago.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Paprocki see Eugene J. Paprocki, 1971 | Plein Air Impressionist painter ➦ and Eugene Paprocki, 1971 | The impressionist city ➦.

Nasser Zadeh, 1953 | Cityscape painter

Art has always been a part of Zadeh's life.

Born in 1953 in Tabriz, Iran. Nasser grew up under a variety of influences varying from carpet weaving,carpet designing to painting. At the age of 25, he decided to follow in the footsteps of his father, and decided to engage in both of these arts. He is now viewed as a master in his field as a successful Iranian artist specializing in watercolor, Oil and Acrylic paintings.

Nasser currently resides in Cape Town South Africa, where he continues his legacy expanding the use of media from watercolor to oil and acrylic.

Kemal Kamil AKCA | The fire in my soul

Kemal Kamil Akca, nickname Waffle Fineart, is a fine art photographer and photo-artist  living and creating in Istanbul, Turkey.

Martin Poole | Figurative painter

Martin Poole originally went to the State University of New York, Buffalo, where he majored in Fine Arts, studying printmaking.

He met the late Thomas S. Buechner through fellow artist, Tom Gardner in 1980. Poole continued to hone his emotive style under the tutelage of Buechner who stated that during his time with Poole, "A small group of people who like to paint met on Sunday mornings in nice weather to do landscapes together.

About a year later, when my studio was finished, we added a Friday night session with a model, and painted still life subjects on Sundays when weather was bad.

Marty and I have painted together almost every week through all these years.

He has become the most stimulating presence in my life as a Corning painter, and a friend whom I enjoy immensely".

Natalie Hirschman | Figurative painter

'I graduated in 1997 from Rhodes University with an honours degree in Fine art practical, Theory and philosophy of art and Anthropology.

After university I travelled extensively to Europe, South America and Asia. These 6 years of adventure allowed me to develop my plein air skills; and absorb the lessons of some of my favourite contemporary artists, and old masters. I have since pursued a full time career in oil painting. I still travel as often as possible to feed my inspiration".

Lizette Luijten-Daas, 1965 | Figurative painter

Lizette Luijten-Daas was born at Breda, Netherlands.

She studied at the Möller - institute and at Academy for Arts of Design in Tilburg. She learns a lot a gets a lot of enjoyment from teaching art in several schools and giving art courses.

She exhibits regularly in the Netherlands and Belgium. Beside her activities as an artist in her own company Artilize, she has worked since 1989 as an identikit picture drawer for the police force.

Alyssa Monks, 1977 | Pittrice astratta

Alyssa Monks è una pittrice figurativa, che offusca il confine tra astrazione e realismo.

Insegna e tiene conferenze presso università ed istituzioni a livello nazionale ed è professore a contratto presso la New York Academy of Art.

Nei primi lavori della Monks l'ambiente si fa avanti, con alcuni dei suoi dipinti che presentano interni senza figure, od interni in cui la figura è solo un piccolo elemento.

Pavel Mitkov, 1977 | Parisian dreams

Pavel Mitkov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, to a family of young engineers. Back then, life in socialist Bulgaria was set and uniform - everybody had work; education and healthcare were free of charge; people went on vacation once a year to whatever destination they were sent to from work. Those are the artist’s earliest childhood recollections of a seemingly smooth and secure life, which, however, was lacking many other opportunities for creative outlet and recognition.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Mitkov see Pavel Mitkov, 1977 | Impressionist /Abstract painter ➦.

Sergey Tyukanov /Сергей Тюканов, 1955 | Surrealist painter

Sergey Tyukanov was born 17 of May 1955, Poronaisk, Sakhalin Region, Russia. In 1981 he graduated Khabarovsk Teacher’s Training Institute, Artist Graphic Department - Master’s Degree. Lives and works in Kaliningrad and Chicago as a free artist.

Sergey Tyukanov draws on stories, folklore and myth from around the world. His incredible imagination inspires these unique, intriguing creations. Sergey has the steady hand of a formally-trained printmaker, and he has also brought us beautifully detailed watercolors and drawings.

Although he was born and educated in rural Russia, exhibitions in museums and galleries have taken Sergey across Europe and Asia. Atlas Galleries is proud to give Sergey his first one man show in Chicago.

He took part in more than 300 international exhibitions, has international awards, prizes, medals for his art works. He works in Chicago and St. Petersburg.

Jeff Jamison, 1958 | Impressionist Plein Air painter

Jeff Jamison is an award winning oil painter whose painting style is built on superb drawing skills in a process he calls controlled chaos. He uses no secret techniques or materials, choosing instead to paint in the traditional processes used by the Old Masters. Jeff feels that by working in this manner, using the same tools and materials as the great painters like Velazquez, Sargent and Sorolla, the only thing standing in the way of arranging those materials into truly great painting is Jeff Jamison. Along with that comes the sobering realization that one may never paint on a level of a Sargent or a Sorolla but Jeff loves the challenge and feels it is his personal responsibility to get out of bed every day and try to do just that.

Javad Soleimanpour, 1965 | Still Life painting

The pastel painter Javad Soleimanpour is an Iranian painter born in 1965, Tebriz.

Javad Soleimanpour burst upon the pastel scene in April 2009 when he won first place in the Landscape and Interior category in that year’s Pastel 100.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Soleimanpour see Javad Soleimanpour, 1965 | Portrait and Plein Air painting.

Javad Soleimanpour, 1965 | Portrait and Plein Air painting

Iranian painter Javad Solimanpour was born in , Tebriz. His first exhibition was in 1978 at a time when he was working on reproductions of the famous paintings in Saadabat Palace Museum. Since 1998 the Seven Art Gallery organizes his personal exhibitions in İstanbul, where Soleimanpour continues both painting and teaching at the same time.

Javad Soleimanpour burst upon the pastel scene in April 2009 when he won first place in the Landscape and Interior category in that year’s Pastel 100.

Lane Timothy, 1974 | Vintage Figurative painter

Lane Timothy is a Montana Native, who at a very young age discovered his love for art. He began working with watercolor, acrylics and pastels at the age of 7 and began selling his art at the age of 11 after discovering his passion for oil painting.

In 1993 at the age of 17 Lane was awarded the Charlie Russell National Art Scholarship, which he used to attend the University of Montana Art School and to excel in a career as a graphic designer. In 1997, after a few years at a large firm in Salt Lake City, Utah; Lane realized his true love for painting and returned to his studio to paint full time. | Waterhouse Gallery

Hans-Joachim Staude | Figurative Expressionist painter

Hans-Joachim Staude (1904-1973) is one of the most interesting (and in some ways most “eccentric”) German painters of his generation.

Yet his oeuvre is still not sufficiently known, especially in Italy where he lived and worked almost his entire life in the city of Florence.

What is lacking is a more detailed critical analysis of his close relation with Italian Novecento painting, from Ardengo Soffici to Felice Carena, in the context of modern classicism in European art between the wars.

A connection that makes the artist one of the “most Italian” of 20th-century German painters.

Antonio Fontanesi | Aprile (Sulle rive del lago del Bourget, in Savoia), 1864

Antonio Fontanesi (1818-1882) is considered one of the most important Italian painters of the XIX century. His landscapes influenced several Italian painters of the symbolist generation as well as the 20C Futurist Carlo Carrà.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Fontanesi see Antonio Fontanesi | Barbizon School painter.

Antonio Fontanesi | Barbizon School painter

Antonio Fontanesi (23 February 1818 - 17 April 1882) was an Italian painter who lived in Meiji period Japan between 1876-1878. He introduced European oil painting techniques to Japan, and exerted a significant role in the development of modern Japanese yōga (Western style) painting. He is known for his works in the Romantic style of the French Barbizon school.

Camille Pissarro | Snow Effect

Paint the essential character of things.

Dipingi il carattere essenziale delle cose.

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

A cinquant'anni, nel 1880, ho formulato l'idea di unità, senza essere in grado di realizzarla. A sessant'anni sto cominciando a vedere la possibilità di realizzarla.

Claude Monet | The Rouen Cathedral series, 1892-1894

The Rouen Cathedral series was painted in the 1890s by French impressionist Claude Monet. The paintings in the series each capture the façade of the cathedral at different times of the day and year, and reflect changes in its appearance under different lighting conditions.

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The Rouen Cathedral paintings, more than thirty in all, were made in 1892-1893, then reworked in Monet’s studio in 1894. Monet rented spaces across the street from the cathedral, where he set up temporary studios for the purpose. In 1895, he selected what he considered to be the twenty best paintings from the series for display at his Paris dealer’s gallery, and of these he sold eight before the exhibition was over. Pissarro and Cézanne visited the exhibition and praised the series highly.

Domenico Purificato | Neorealist painter

Domenico Purified (Fondi, 1 November 1915 - Rome, 6 November 1984) was a Italian painter, protagonist of "Neorealismo".

In the first part of his career he joined the defined current Roman, initiated by Scipione (Gino Bonichi) and Mario Mafai , shared with Raffaele Wheats. A multifaceted artist, from 1940 to 1943 he was editor of the magazine Cinema.

After the war he was the protagonist in Rome of Neorealism, capturing in his paintings some of the people, country figures and scenes of everyday life.

Claude-Marie Dubufe (1790-1864)

Born in Paris in 1790, Claude-Marie Dubufe began his apprenticeship in Jacques-Louis David's studio in 1804, although his father originally intended him for a diplomatic career.

His first shipment to the Salon in 1810 is "A Roman starves himself and his family to death, rather than touch a deposit of money entrusted to him" (location unknown). This painting was not noticed by the critics, so Claude-Marie decided to go to Italy to complete his training.

He returned to the Salon in 1812 with a large mythological scene, «Achilles taking under his protection Iphigénie, which his father Agamemnon wanted to sacrifice» (unknown location) and two portraits of women, the genre that will be the source of his success.

Odoardo Borrani | Macchiaioli painter

Odoardo Borrani (22 August 1833 - 14 September 1905) was an Italian painter associated with the Macchiaioli group.

He was born in Pisa. The Borrani family moved to Florence, where Odoardo enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1853.

There, he studied under Gaetano Bianchi, Giuseppe Bezzuoli and Enrico Pollastrini. However, he became independent of the academic styles.

His first painting while at the Academy was titled Un veglione di maschere alla Pergola.

In 1859, he painted Lorenzo the Magnificent Saves Himself From Being Murdered in the Sacristy of the Cathedral, an episode of the Pazzi Conspiracy.

Édouard Bisson | Academic /Genre painter

Fanciful ideas and flowing line characterize Édouard Bisson's (1895-1939) studies of graceful feminine types. Distinguished by a certain charm, they agree with Delacroix that the first quality in a picture is to be a delight for the eyes.

Born in Paris in 1856, Édouard Bisson studied art under one of the most successful of French artists, Jean Leon Gerome.

He exhibited regularly at the Salon of French Artists of which he was a member.

He was awarded Honorable Mentions in 1881 and 1889, a Third Class Medal in 1897, and a Bronze Medal at the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1900.

Karen Offutt, 1967 | Impressionist Figurative painter

Karen Offutt was born and raised in Dallas, Texas by a creative family who encouraged her to explore her artistic talent from an early age. Her father is an artist and her mother is a designer and owner of a needlepoint company.

Throughout her formative years, Karen excelled in art classes and participated in several art exhibits. She studied at North Texas State University in search of a more formal fine arts education. As a young adult she sought a more serious outlet for her talent.

The turning point in her career came when she made the decision to study abroad and committed herself to becoming a fine artist.

Olivier Massebeuf, 1963 | Figurative painter

Olivier Massebeuf was born in Lyon, attended the Paris Beaux Arts Academy in the 1980’s and took pleasure in studying the work of graphic artists such as Hugo Pratt and Jacques Tardi but did not feel inclined to devote himself entirely to painting as a way of life.

In those days, he made a few acrylic paintings in black and white.

Between 1983-1987 he concentrated on his British studies but continued to draw and to indulge his fascination with the comic strip as an art form. With his sister Pascale he carried out a project called "Rosa". This involved the writing of a story which inspired the accompanying illustrative cartoon.

Pompeo Mariani | La Belle Époque

The 9th of September 1857 Pompeo Mariani (1857-1927) was born in Monza in a house in "Borgo Como" near S. Biagio Church from Martino Mariani and Giulia Bianchi.

His father Martino (1826-1886) ran - together with Gaetano Pellegrino - the Commercial School Mariani-Pellegrini of Monza.

In that school important generations of Lombard industrialists received the first fundamental teachings.

His mother Giulia (1838-1914) was the first daughter of the painter Giosué (1803-1875) and sister of the most famous artist of the Bianchi family, Mosè (1840-1904).

Margot Homan, 1956 | Figurative sculptor | Public‬ Art

Margot Homan was born in the Netherlands and educated at the Tilburg Academy of Fine Arts. After a few years of teaching at the Markendaal College of Social Studies, she decided to follow her artistic vocation full time. She exhibits regularly at prominent art fairs, such as the European Fine Art Fair Maastricht and PAN Amsterdam, and her work is represented in public and private collections throughout the world. She lives and works in the Netherlands and Italy. | © The Royal British Society of Sculptors

Germana Eucalipto, 1965 | Scultrice astratta

Nata a Sanfront, provincia di Cuneo, in Piemonte (Italia) dove risiede, Germana Eucalipto è ceramista e scultrice, ed espone dal 1992.

Si forma presso la scuola d’arte di Saluzzo e poi nel più antico laboratorio di ceramica del cuneese del Maestro Balmas.

La sua attività espositiva inizia nel 1992 fra Torino, Milano, Francia, Spagna e varie città italiane, ma la sua prima personale è stata a Mondovì.

Sue opere sono presenti presso musei, chiese, e collezioni private ed alcune di esse sono state realizzate con l’antica tecnica del bucchero.

Hopare /Alexandre Monteiro, 1989 | Abstract Portrait painter | Street art

Alexandre Monteiro aka Hopare is a Paris-based growing figure of the street art scene. He discovered street art when he was around 12 years old while coming across an old factory covered with graffiti. He then started his very first illegal graffiti. In 2005 when he was in junior high school he was tremendously influenced by his art teacher who was none other than Shaka, a well-known French street artist still in the game.

Elias Naman, 1980 | Marble Figurative sculptor

Syrian artist Elias Naman was born in Yabruod, Syria. Currently residing in Carrara, Italy.

Graduated in 2002 in sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Damascus, Syria. Later he proceeded for a master in "superior studies in sculpture" at the same Faculty.

In 2003 he interrupted his studies in Syria and was admitted in the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara, Italy. In 2009 graduated with maximum vote with a thesis entitled "A journey into sculpture between Syria and Italy". In 2010 master in "Sacred Art" Italy.