Dmitry Brodetsky, 1976 ~ Surrealist painter

Дмитрий Бродецкий was born in USSR, Chisinau, Moldova.
- Painting and art in general have captivated me since I was a child. It all started as a mere game, but it later became a means of communication. Painting is actually the only communicative channel still available to me today. That's because I am not a social being, in the sense of taking reality as it is and simply complying with the prevailing, mainstream rules.

Ilene Meyer | Surrealist painter

Ilene Meyer (1940-2009) was a self-taught artist, who was inspired by her mother's drawings as a child. She began showing her surreal oil paintings in Washington and California in the 1970's.

She paints in the Salvador Dalì 1904-1989 and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) style, but with more life and feeling.

She makes her paints come alive with her use of light, color, shadows and "all the details".

Extraordinarily rich and expressively rendered, Ilene Meyer's oil paintings and prints wrap viewers in the mists and myths of creation, exploring fantastical creatures and imaginary landscapes with piercing clarity and passion.

Robert Auer | Art Nouveau painter | Figures

Robert Auer (Zagreb, 1873-1952)* was an Croatian Secession painter whose style was centred on the Art Nouveau*.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Auer see:

• Robert Auer | Art Nouveau painter ➤

John Lloyd Strevens | Edwardian Era painter

John Frederic Lloyd Strevens [1902-1990], british painter, was born in London. Although Strevens completed prints, watercolours and drawings, he was mainly a painter in oil with a rich palette, rather in the manner of John Singer Sargent and Philip Wilson Steer.

Aaron Coberly, 1971 ~ Figurative Impressionist painter

Aaron Coberly, american painter, was born in Seattle. He has been drawing for as long as he can remember. He started taking art seriously as a teenager after being invited to attend a life drawing class. Living and traveling in Europe further inspired him. He began oil painting in 1999.

Henri Lebasque | Post-Impressionist painter

Henri Lebasque (25 September 1865 - 7 August 1937) was a French post-impressionist painter.

He was born at Champigné (Maine-et-Loire).

His work is represented in French museums, notably Angers, Geneva (Petit Palais), Lille (Musée des Beaux-Arts), Nantes and Paris (Musée d’Orsay). Lebasque died at Cannet, Alpes Maritimes in 1937.

Renzo Verdone (1939-2011) | Symbolist painter

Nato a Roma, giovanissimo lascia l'Italia e matura la sua preparazione artistica a stretto contatto con i gruppi sperimentali delle Gewerbeschule di Berna e di Zurigo, dove compie accurati studi di ricerca figurativa, scultura e nudo. Perviene ad un grado di sintesi in cui tensione spirituale e situazione umana si contrappongono dinamicamente in una visione che presenta palpiti di tenera umanità e sensazioni di raffinato ed impietoso verismo.

John Bradshaw Crandell | Pin-Up painter

John Bradshaw Crandell (1896-1966) was an American painter and illustrator, was known as the artist of the stars, a glamour painter.

Among those who posed for Crandell were Carol Lombard, Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Veronica Lake and Lana Turner.

In 1921 he began his career with an ad for Lorraine hair nets sold exclusively by F. W. Woolworth.