Remembering Steve Hanks, the Master of Watercolor

Steve Hanks (1949-2015)🎨, the Master of Watercolor and Figures passed away in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 22 after a battle with cancer.

"Art comes from a deep inner sense of direction.It starts with a re-evaluation of your own life, from a search for the source of the impulses and mystery of it all. I think of myself as an emotional realist. Emotion is what I want to portray. Realism is just my way of doing it"- Steve Hanks

Steve Hanks is recognized as one of the best watercolor artists working today. The detail, color and realism of Steve Hanks’ paintings are unheard of in this difficult medium. A softly worn patterned quilt, the play of light on the thin veil of surf on sand, or the delicate expression of a child — Steve Hanks captures these patterns of life better than anyone.

Rafal Olbinski, 1945 | Surrealist / Visionary painter

"In front of a painting, as in front of a beautiful woman, one must revel in wonder" - Rafal Olbinski*.

- "Poetic humor is a quality rarely found in the fine arts" - says Andre Parinuad, President of the International Arts Salon in Paris.

- "Rafal Olbinski has this gift.He wants to show us that our imagination is a magical world, which we are recreating forever. He draws us into a different universe, and forces us to use our eyes to participate in a marvelous world which is the true dimension of dreams".

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

• Rafal Olbinski, 1943 | Surrealist painter ➺

Jean Metzinger | Cubist painter

Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (June 24, 1883 - November 3, 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes, developed the theoretical foundations of Cubism.

His earliest works, from 1900 to 1904, were influenced by the Neo-impressionism of Georges Seurat and Henri-Edmond Cross.

Between 1904-1907 Metzinger worked in the Divisionist and Fauvist styles with a strong Cézannian component, leading to some of the first proto-Cubist works.

Miguel Avataneo, 1962 | Figurative painter

Miguel Angel Avataneo, Argentine painter, was born in the province of Cordoba in Argentina and his love of the pure form of classicism was nourished by his early interest in the Italian masters: Correggio (1489-1534), Giorgione (1478-1510), Raphael (1483-1520) and Titian (1488/90-1576).

He was also greatly influenced by the late eighteenth century french paintings of David, Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867).

Vittorio Tessaro, 1958 | Figurative sculptor

Italian artist* Vittorio Tessaro was born in Caldogno, Vicenza. After graduating from art school in Valdagno (Vicenza), he has developed an idea of ​​sculpture "felt" free and without royalties, allowing it always to express his skills in the pure sense and instinctive.
Knowledge of the tools of the model has enabled him to begin his own, a kind of long patient battle with the form, which meant even refuse illustrious models of the past: do not refuse to allow himself to be overwhelmed.

Antonio Sgarbossa, 1945 | Figurative painter

The following collection include the figurative paintings by Italian painter Antonio Sgarbossa.

Sgarbossa was born in Fontana Viva, Italy, the 18th of July 1945.

Louis Treserras, 1958 | Hyperrealist painter

French painter, sculptor and photographer Louis Treserras claims to be a self taught painter.

For 30 years he has been painting young and mysterious female models.

His rigorous approach to artistic composition would almost compare to a science, like mathematics.

His style remains however poetic an intimist, with a very distinct and soft range of colors.

Spartaco Lombardo, 1958 | Figurative painter

Italian painter🎨 Spartaco Lombardo was born in Luino, Italy by the Lake Maggiore, the 26th of March 1958.

Modern figurative painter, he has displayed his works in personal and collective exhibitions in Italy and abroad and he has entered many national and international contests.

His works are in private and institutional art collections. His occupational activity in the pictorial field began in 1981.