Edward Hopper (1882-1967)

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Edward Hopper was born in Nyack, New York, a town located on the west side of the Hudson River, to a middle-class family that encouraged his artistic abilities.

After graduating from high school, he studied briefly at the Correspondence School of Illustrating in New York City (1899-1900), and then he enrolled in classes at the New York School of Art (1900-1906).

In his shift from illustration to the fine arts, he studied with William Merritt Chase, a leading American Impressionist painter, and with Robert Henri, who exhorted his students to paint the everyday conditions of their own world in a realistic manner.

Bruno Torfs | Sculpture Garden

Bruno Torfs is an artist, born in South America and moved to Australia after traveling Europe up and down, wanting to bring his dream to life.

The Victorian village of Marysville, 95 km from Melbourne, was the perfect place to develop Bruno’s wish to create a sculpture garden.

He bought a property, including a generous piece of sub-alpine forest, and after five months of hard work, he opened to the public Bruno’s Art Sculpture Garden.

Klein Yves | Abstract / Nouveau réalisme painter

Yves Klein (28 April 1928 - 6 June 1962) was a French artist** considered an important figure in post-war European art.

He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany.

Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art.

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Pantelis Zografos, 1949 | Watercolors of Greek Islands

Παντελής Ζωγράφος was born in Athens, Greece, into a family with along tradition of producing fine artists. In greek language, the name of Zografos - Ζωγράφος - means artist: and following the Greek custom, Pantelis took the name of his paternal grandfather, a renowned iconographer.

Raffaello Sanzio | Drawings

Over forty sketches survive for the Disputa in the Stanze, and there may well have been many more originally; over four hundred sheets survive altogether.

He used different drawings to refine his poses and compositions, apparently to a greater extent than most other painters, to judge by the number of variants that survive: "...This is how Raphael himself, who was so rich in inventiveness, used to work, always coming up with four or six ways to show a narrative, each one different from the rest, and all of them full of grace and well done" wrote another writer after his death.

Olivia Beaumont | The Baroque Beasts paintings

I am a full-time artist and reside in a very small town near Savannah, Georgia, though I call California home. Painted portraiture is a long-time study and passion of mine. The Baroque Beast series serves my desire to make portraits using beastly attributes that the viewer can sympathize with on a level of human emotion. I believe society already identifies certain animals as noble, others as witty, still others as fierce. Because portraiture is semi-permanent, I believe this dignifies those characteristics, be they noble or barbaric.

Steven DaLuz, 1953 | Abstract painter

Steven DaLuz, American painter*, is a versatile artist with an eclectic sensibility. His interests are split between abstraction and figurative art.
He is best known for figurative works that straddle impressionism and realism. He may be equally identified with abstract works that are landscape referential-employing metal leaf, oil, and mixed media.