Oscar Pardo, 1967 | Abstract Figurative painter

Spanish self-taught artist and painter Oscar Álvarez Pardo was born, living and working in Zaragoza, Spain.

In my watercolors, after years of dedication and learning to master this so difficult medium, there is an initial stage devoted to a hard work essentially realistic... mainly portraits and seascapes become a constant in my work. In what could be a second stage I begin to introducer the fantasy in my paintings, realistic work alternating with others of fantástco court.

Paul Gauguin | Post-Impressionist painter

Paul Gauguin, in full Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin (born June 7, 1848, Paris, France-died May 8, 1903, Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia) French painter, printmaker and sculptor who sought to achieve a "primitive” expression of spiritual and emotional states in his work.

The artist, whose work has been categorized as Post-Impressionist, Synthetist and Symbolist, is particularly well known for his creative relationship with Vincent van Gogh as well as for his self-imposed exile in Tahiti, French Polynesia.

His artistic experiments influenced many avant-garde developments in the early 20th century.

Paul Gauguin | Barbarian poems, 1896 | Art in Detail

Original Title: Poèmes Barbares

Painter: Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

Date: 1896; French Polynesia

Style: Cloisonnism

Period: 2nd Tahiti period

Genre: Portrait

Media: Oil, canvas

Dimensions: 47 x 63 cm

Location: Fogg Museum (Harvard Art Museums), Cambridge, MA, US

Christian Della Giustina, 1959 | Sculptor and 3D painter

Born in Gonesse-France and of Italian origin (from Venice), Christian Della Giustina grew up in an artistic atmosphere.

He makes masterpieces in bronze.

His coloured patinas catch the light and touch the emotion.

To reinvent and model life, to transform it with his sensitivity and emotions: that is Christian Della Giustina's aspiration.

He uses small formats for his work, a human dimension.

Caravaggio | The Hands

Revolutionary in his way of painting, Caravaggio personifies in every aspect of his eventful life the romantic figure of the damned artist.

Born in Milan, he worked mainly in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and works by Michelangelo Merisi, called Caravaggio see:

• Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter ➺

Other from Caravaggio:

• Caravaggio | The crowning with thorns, 1607 | Art in Detail ➺
• Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter | The Hands | Art in Detail ➺
• Caravaggio | The Fortune teller, 1630 ➺
• Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter | Quotes /Aforismi ➺
• Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter | The Portraits | Art in Detail ➺
• Caravaggio | Art in Detail ➺

Caravaggio | The Portraits

The following portraits are details of the paintings by the Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610).

Nelson Molina, 1958 | Cityscape painter

Nelson Molina is an Brazilian painter, known for working in the Impressionism style. Nelson Molina was born in the city of Sorocaba, state of São Paulo, Brazil.

A very personal technique, the strong tooled who made school, it's his identity.

His artworks are exhibited extensively in public and private exhibition spaces in Brazil and abroad.

Valentin de Boulogne | The Crowning with Thorns, 1620 | Art in Detail

This masterpiece of Baroque naturalism is among the first known works painted by Valentin de Boulogne, Caravaggio’s most accomplished French follower and arguably his greatest acolyte. Painted in Rome in 1615 or shortly thereafter, it shows to what extent and how quickly the Frenchman had absorbed Caravaggio’s radical innovations.