Michelle Seo | Pencil portraits painter

Humphrey Bogart

Seo Hongmin is an American** Pencil artist, currently living in Los Angeles..

She started the project “Golden Era” at the end of July 2009. First portraits included drawings of portraits of Hollywood actresses of the past.
In particular, Greta Garbo, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor, Julia Roberts and Vivian Leigh. Then, came other works of art -Princess Diana, Michael Jackson, Shirley Temple, Nicolas Cage, and Audrey Hepburn…

Josephine Wall, 1947 | Fantasy painter

From childhood Josephine has had a passion for light and colour, fantasy and visual storytelling. The life of a painter was clearly her destiny! Enchanting and detailed images flow freely from her imagination in an endless cascade of ideas.
Her first employment after leaving Art College was at Poole Pottery, where she painted the dynamic and boldly coloured designs of the now famous Delphis ware - very collectable and realising high prices at specialist auctions. In addition to her main love of painting, she directs her creative energies into pottery figures, sculpture and reproduction stained glass panels.
She has even customised items of clothing.

Juan Gris | Cubist painter

Juan Gris, original name José Victoriano González (1887-1927), Spanish painter whose lucidly composed still lifes are major works of the style called Synthetic Cubism.

Gris studied engineering at the Madrid School of Arts and Manufactures from 1902-1904, but he soon began making drawings for newspapers in the sensuously curvilinear Art Nouveau style.

He moved to Paris in 1906 and settled at the Bateau-Lavoir, an artists’ dwelling where his compatriot Pablo Picasso lived. Gris was thus in touch with the evolution of Cubism, a style initiated by Picasso and Georges Braque around 1907.

Sergey Kustarev / Сергей Кустарев, 1973 | Realist painter

Сергей Кустарев born in Bryansk, Russia.

1993 - graduated from the Bryansk Art College.

1994 / 1999 - volunteer in the artistic-industrial academy Mukhina.

2002 - member of the Union of Artists.

Technique - Realistic paintings in conjunction with interior decoration, simulating metal.

His works are in private collections in Russia and abroad.

Ancient Greek sculpture

The origins of greek sculpture have been ascribed the wooden cult statues that were described by Pausanias as xoana.

No such statue survives, and the descriptions of them are vague despite the fact that some were objects of veneration for hundreds of years.

The first piece of Greek statuary to be reassembled since is probably the Lefkandi Centaur (Eretria Mus.) found on Euboia.

Max Gasparini, 1970 | Portrait painter

Il pittore Italiano Max Gasparini è nato a Rovato. Dalla pittura classica e realistica di oggetti, i paesaggi e ritratti, realizzati con tecnica minuziosa, l'autore è arrivato a liberare il gesto "quasi" per caso. E' stata una folgorazione.

I quadri hanno cominciato a prendere forma senza volontà nè studio, eliminando l'iter d'ideazione, progettazione, bozzetto. L'opera nasce da sè, prende forma solo parzialmente controllabile.

Cheri Blum | Faux painting

Cheri Blum who was born in Maryland on 1969 and passed away at her home in Georgetown on November 4, 2003, at the age of 34.

Cheri's artwork, published by Wild Apple Graphics since 1996 and licensed by Wild Apple Licensing since 1999, has been highly successful in both open edition prints and licensed products from more than 40 companies.

Cheri Blum (1969-2003) began her career as an illustrator and muralist, creating trompe l’oeil, faux painting and decorative furniture finishes.

Zhang Yaxi, 1968 | Urban sculptress

Contemporary Chinese🎨 sculptor Zhang Yaxi is a professional sculptor in Chongqing. Her training and education is that of a typical young Chinese sculptor today -she has created monumental sculptures up to 7 metres in height, and her sculpture has been exhibited in several international sculpture symposia and national sculpture exhibitions as well as being commissioned for public and corporate spaces.

Shown below, Yaxi is working on one of her monumental works entitled The Gate of Life, a monumental urban sculpture in bronze created during the China Changchun International Sculpture Symposium 2001. In a more ephemeral vein, browse to see Pregnant, a monumental snow sculpture created on a frozen lake in Harbin, China.