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Raffaello Ossola, 1954 | Surrealist painter

Raffaello Ossola, Swiss painter, was born in Locarno, Switzerland and lived in Italy since 1990. Ossola uses acrylic and has a distinctive style that incorporates elements such as architecture, pools, clouds, rocks, shrubs, and obelisks in surreal landscapes. His style uses characteristic light reflections and projections.
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Diaz Alamà, 1986 ~ Concept painter

Spanish painter Jordi Diaz Alamà may describe himself as a traditional painter but there’s nothing remotely traditional with his work. Morality, mortality and sexuality are all recurring themes in his work. His style reminds the viewer of the work of Renaissance masters of long ago with their realism and casual approach to nudity. This Spanish painter is currently based in Barcelona. Alamà was born in Barcelona in 1986. He is a painter and drawing teacher at the School of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona, where she graduated in 2008. After completing the bachelor gets a scholarship and stay for a year in Arauco’s Foundation with the painter Guillermo Muñoz Vera in Madrid (Spain).
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Mohammad Tabatabai, 1987 | Figurative painter

Mohammad Tabatabai is an Iranian and international artist, born in Iran, Tehran. His career as a professional painter began during his early age and he received his diploma in painting from Tehran school of Fine arts in 2005.
He graduated in 2011, from University of Tehran with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sculpture.

Awards*:
  • Winner of third prize - painting - the Iran’s school of visual arts, 2004.
  • Winner of first prize - photography - the Tehran’s school of visual arts, 2005.

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Nathaniel Skousen ~ American Figurative painter

Nathaniel Skousen lives in Leavenworth, Washington a small town in the foothills of the Cascades. He lives surrounded by forests, mountains, rivers and rustic barns that continuously feed his artistic imagination. Nathaniel is often found painting the beauty of his surroundings. He enjoys hiking and fly fishing in high mountain destinations as well. While fly-sishing is one of his favorite past times, his mind is continuously drawn to the pursuit of a perfect painting.
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Outmane Amadou ~ Minimalism style

Moroccan France-based graphic designer, Outmane Amahou has created a line in Minimalistic style a posters, in which he pays tribute to major Art Movements, and iconic painters throughout history. Instead of focusing on the work of individual artists, Outmane Amahou decided to tackle entire movements in his very ambitious series.
If you have trouble getting your art movement categories straight, then this series of posters by Outmane Amahou would be the perfect study guide.
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Minimalism Art Movement, 1960

Piet Mondrian 1872-1944 | Minimalist Art Movement
Piet Mondrian 1872-1944

Minimalism Art Movement, also called ABC Art, Minimal Art, Literalist Art, Reductivism, Rejective Art, emerged in New York in the early 1960s, in which the simplest and fewest elements are used to create the maximum effect.

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Tatyana Markovtsev, 1951 | Minimalist painter

Russian painter Татьяна Марковцева is becoming one of the most interesting artists-Minimalists of today.
She is able to express powerful and complex human feelings just via a few elegant lines, capturing a wide variety of human emotions with amazing simplicity and clarity.
Tatyana literally makes viewers feel the lines of her works.
Now, her original Minimalistic style is finding many fans around the world.


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Ecstasy ~ Hayes Valley, San Francisco

Ecstasy, a 28-foot-tall figurative sculpture made from reclaimed steel, embodies the emotion of passion and the posture of exaltation it can inspire. She is illuminated at dusk by a warm light that emanates from her hands and softly glows upon her shoulders, neck and head that is thrown back in elation. Ecstasy was built in 2007 and first debuted on-stage at The Crucible's Fire Opera, then at Burning Man, 2007. Since then she traveled widely: Maker Faire, 2008, and Nocturnal, 2009. Through 2011, Ecstasy was on exhibit in Hayes Valley, San Francisco, at Patricia's Green. She is now part of a private collection.