Amit Bhar, 1973 | Abstract Watercolor painter

Amit Bhar is a famous Indian watercolor painting artist.

Amit Bhar was born in Hooghly chinsurah (west Bengal). Even as a child his first love was art. At the age of sixteen while at the Calcutta Govt. Art College, Amit was blessed with the guidance of Shri Paresh Das, a noted artist and gold medallist. Subsequently he gained further insights into art under the famous Subal Jana and Niloy Ghosh, who together enriched his style. He was also inspired by Bikash Bhattacharya and Suhas Roy during his initial period.

Alexei Antonov, 1957 | Still life painter

Aлексей Антонов: "I was born in Russia in 1957, and I've been trying both hands (I'm ambidextrous) at art ever since. I can remember my self from the age of two, and when I was three, I was the terror of my mother's make-up kit, as I loved to draw murals on the wallpaper with her lipstick.

All through my childhood I continued drawing, and in high school, though I left much to be desired in my other classes, I excelled in art and singing.

I think that I was not a good student in other areas, because I prefer to teach than to be taught. Eventually though, I learned to learn.

In 1972 I entered the State Art College in Baku, where impressionistic, realistic and abstract painting were taught...but no classical.

Andre Kosslick | Romantic Digital painter

German artist Andre Kosslick belongs to the galaxy of contemporary masters of painting. He lives in the city of Schwedt, which is located in Brandenburg, Germany.

Painting is his hobby. On his canvases, mountain peaks pile up, rivers flow rapidly, the sea rages, the wind rustles in the branches of mighty trees. Occasionally, a sad or pensive female silhouette flashes against the background of magnificent nature.

Lyrics and romanticism are inherent in all the paintings of the modern master of landscape painting.

Christian Fagerlund, 1973 | Realist Figurative painter

Christian Fagerlund was born in Ann Arbor, MI. He received his BA from the University of California - Santa Barbara in 1994 and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2004, where he received the NYAA Postgraduate Fellowship.

In 2009, 2010, and 2011 he was artist-in-residence at Eden Rock Gallery on the island of St. Barths, French West Indies. Since 2004 his work has been shown both nationally and internationally in several solo and group exhibitions. He currently shows work with Arcadia Contemporary in Los Angeles and Winfield Gallery in Carmel, California.

Prior to his appointment at UNT, he served as adjunct instructor of Drawing and Painting at University of California - Berkeley Extension, Ohlone College in Fremont, CA, and The School of Classical Realism in Oakland, CA from 2007-2014. During this period he taught courses in: figure drawing/painting, anatomy for artists, still life, perspective, plein air landscape painting, and digital painting.

Serge Marshennikov, 1971 | Realist / Figurative painter

Serge Marshennikov🎨 /Сергей Маршенников is an Russian painter🎨, known for working in the Realist style.

He was awarded🎨 “Chairman’s Choice Award” at the 2008/2009 International Art Renewal Center’s salon, and received Certificate of Excellence for his outstanding achievement in art.

He was chosen as “Top 30” in 2008 by the Portrait Society of America.

Born on May 30, 1971 in Ufa (Bashkiria, USSR), Serge Marshennikov was raised and educated in the USSR.

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

• Serge Marshennikov, 1971 | Figurative painter🎨.
• Serge Marshennikov, 1971 | Figurative painter | VideoArt🎨.

Christine Ellger, 1948 | Surrealist Fine Art Photographer

German fine art photographer Christine Ellger was born in Dresden and took up photography as a hobby 11 years ago.

At first she was just capturing the scenes and objects around her but then she focused on digital editing and photo manipulation.

She says "My life has become interesting and exciting through this hobby.

It makes me perceive the Beauty.

All the time, often unconsciously, I am on the search for motifs".

Barbara J. Wachter | Abstract Figurative painter

Statement

Barbara J. Wachter expresses not only what she sees, but what she senses. That invisible quality takes her art to a level that really connects to the viewer. You can sense the emotion, beauty, even the weather in her paintings. An exciting new addition to her talents, encaustic painting, will also be on exhibit.

Art as defined by Webster is the human ability to make things: Creativity of man as distinguished from the world of nature.

Therefore, artwork being the personal work of the artist is as much invisible as it is apparent to the viewer’s eye, e.g. figurative works show the figure looking somewhere in the distance to those sights unseen.

Leonardo da Vinci | Come la Scultura è di minore ingegno che la Pittura..

Trattato della Pittura

Parte prima | Capitolo 34

Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura | Testo Integrale

Adoperandomi io non meno in scultura che in pittura, ed esercitando l'una e l'altra in un medesimo grado, mi pare con picciola imputazione poterne dare sentenza, quale sia di maggiore ingegno, difficoltà e perfezione l'una che l'altra.

Prima la scultura è sottoposta a certi lumi, cioè di sopra, e la pittura porta per tutto seco e lume e ombra.

E lume e ombra è la importanza adunque della scultura; lo scultore in questo caso è aiutato dalla natura del rilievo, ch'ella genera per sé; e il pittore per accidentale arte lo fa ne' luoghi dove ragionevolmente lo farebbe la natura; lo scultore non si può diversificare nelle varie nature de' colori delle cose; la pittura non manca in parte alcuna.