Michael Tolleson,1957 | Autistic Savant Artist

Michael Tolleson is an Autistic Savant Artist, who has no formal art training, but instead relies on the use of the huge amount of stored information that his Asperger’s mind has observed and retained.

During his art career of only 4 years of painting, he has painted more than 600 paintings, and each painting is usually completed in less than one hour of painting time regardless of size.

He states that he feels trance-like during the actual act of painting, and is reluctant to take credit for the finished work as he feels the autism is actually the artist.

Anna Razumovskaya | Venetian Graces | Art in Detail

Anna Razumovskaya is an Russian painter, known for working in the Impressionist /Figurative style. With solo exhibitions in New York, Paris, Toronto, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin and numerous works in private collections across the globe, Razumovskaya has become one of the most exciting and collectable artists on the contemporary scene.

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

• Anna Razumovskaya | Romantic Figurative painter;
• Anna Razumovskaya | Portraits;
• Anna Razumovskaya | Ballet dancer.

Antonella Lucarella Masetti, 1954

Antonella Masetti Lucarella was born in Taranto Italy.

She actually lives and works in Milan. She works using mixed techniques.

Talking about her practice, the artist says she has chosen to create "Italian" art, despite the fashion of the times.

Her paintings have a timeless beauty and the artist has reached international fame.

Seth Couture, 1974 | Abstract Impressionist painter

Californian painter Seth Couture is an Artist residing in El Dorado Hills, CA.

His works include acrylic paintings on canvas, as well as Charcoal and Pastels.

Seth’s life and art career are anything but normal.

As a teenager, he left an abusive home and put himself through high school.

After graduation, he made his way to California, where the noted painter Tom X took him under his wing.

Anna Razumovskaya | Ballet dancers

Anna Razumovskaya is an Russian painter, known for working in the Figurative style. Razumovskaya was born in Rostov-on-Don, a port city and the administrative center of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia.

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

• Anna Razumovskaya | Romantic Figurative painter
• Anna Razumovskaya | Portraits

Jules Tavernier | Hawaii’s Volcano School

Jules Tavernier (27 April 1844 - 18 May 1889) was a French painter, illustrator, and an important member of Hawaii’s Volcano School.
He was born on 27 April 1844 in Paris. He studied with the French painter, Félix Joseph Barrias (1822-1907, but left France in the 1870s, never to return. Tavernier was employed as an illustrator by Harper's Magazine, which sent him, along with Paul Frenzeny, on a year-long coast-to-coast sketching tour in 1873. Eventually, he continued westward to Hawaii, where he made a name for himself as a landscape painter. He was fascinated by Hawaii’s erupting volcanoes-a subject that was to pre-occupy him for the rest of his life, which was spent in Hawaii, Canada and the western United States. Tavernier died on 18 May 1889 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Brahim Achir, 1956 | Surrealismo Visionario

Brahim Achir nasce in Algeria il 21 gennaio 1956.

Nel 1976 consegue in Algeria il diploma di laurea di perito tecnico superiore.

Vinta una borsa di studio, si trasferisce in Italia dove studia presso l’Accademia Navale di Livorno (anno 1977-78) che però lascia per dedicarsi alla pittura ed alla poesia.

Nel 1979 torna a Roma per proseguire la sua ricerca pittorica, esponendo in diverse mostre collettive e personali.

Giorgio De Chirico | The Metaphysical Art Movement

Giorgio de Chirico, (born July 10, 1888, Vólos, Greece - died Nov. 19, 1978, Rome, Italy), Italian painter who, with Carlo Carrà and Giorgio Morandi, founded the style of Metaphysical painting.

After studying art in Athens and Florence, de Chirico moved to Germany in 1906 and entered the Munich Academy of Fine Arts.

His early style was influenced by Arnold Böcklin’s and Max Klinger’s paintings, which juxtapose the fantastic with the commonplace.