Giovanna Garzoni | Baroque painter

Giovanna Garzoni (1600-1670) was an Italian painter of the Baroque era, considered to be one of the greatest Italian miniaturists of the seventeenth century.

Born in 1600 in Ascoli Piceno, Garzoni's talent was first noticed when she apprenticed with a pharmacist in her home town.

Her parents, Giacomo Garzoni and Isabetta Gaia both came from families of artisans but were not artists themselves.

They could provide no training for their daughter, as was typical for many women artists of the period.

Anastasiya Matveeva, 1988 | Figurative painter

Анастасия Матвеева /Anastasiya Matveeva was born in the town of Kuznetsk, Penza Oblast, Russia. Within seven years she began to engage in art school, from 2003-2008. She studied at the Penza Art College K.A. Savitsky.

In 2009 she graduated with honors from the St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture I.E. Repin🎨.

Matveeva graduated from the studio of easel painting under the guidance of VS Pesikova.

In 2009 -Awarded🎨 the Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts.

In 2016 Matveeva joined the Union of Russian Artists.

At present, she works in St.Petersburg. She is the leading participant of Russian and international exhibitions. Her paintings are in private collections in Russia, Europe and China.

Felipe Eckhardt | Hope / Un messaggio di speranza attraverso la scultura

A shining example of using art to channel a powerful message elegantly and distinctly.

Brazilian artist🎨 Felipe Eckhardt was hired to work on this image for the Salvation Army. The goal of Art Director Felipe Gomes was to convey the practice of working together to create change and help one another using the imagery of a human pyramid.

Giancarlo Vitali | Concerto in D minor

Giancarlo Vitali (29 November 1929 - 25 July 2018) was an Italian painter🎨 and engraver.
Vitali was born on the 29th of November 1929 in Bellano on the Lake Como from a family of fishermen. He began painting when he was fifteen.

For more biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Vitali see:
Giancarlo Vitali | Expressionist / Genre painter⏭

Giancarlo Vitali | Expressionist / Genre painter

Italian painter🎨 Giancarlo Vitali (1929-2018) was born in Bellano on the Lake Como from a family of fishermen. He began painting when he was fifteen, after having worked for the Institute of graphic arts (Bergamo).

- 1947, he exposed his first work at the Angelicum in Milan, on the occasion of the biennial exhibition of sacred art.

-1949, he came to perform in the biennial exhibition two of his works: "Visitazione" and "Cena in Emmaus” receiving enthusiastic appreciation from Carlo Carrà. He awarded🎨 a fellowship from the Brera Academy but because his family couldn't afford to maintain him in Milan he renounced it. Thus his concerned decisive moment will result in a long period of silence in his striving to fulfillment.

Kris Kuksi, 1973 | Rococo Style / Surrealist sculptor

Born in Springfield Missouri and growing up in neighboring Kansas, Kris spent his youth in rural seclusion and isolation along with a blue-collar, working mother, two significantly older brothers, and an absent father.

Open country, sparse trees, and alcoholic stepfather, all paving the way for an individual saturated in imagination and introversion.

His propensity for the unusual has been a constant since childhood, a lifelong fascination that lent itself to his macabre art later in life. The grotesque to him, as it seemed, was beautiful.

Kris Kuksi garners recognition and acclaim for the intricate sculptures that result from his unique and meticulous technique.

A process that requires countless hours to assemble, collect, manipulate, cut, and re-shape thousands of individual parts, finally uniting them into an orchestral-like seamless cohesion that defines the historical rise and fall of civilization and envisions the possible future(s) of humanity.

Anna Vinogradova, 1975

Анна Виноградова was born in Krasnodar. In 1994 she entered the Yaroslavl Art School, which she left one year later and entered the preparatory course of Graphic faculty of Repin Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.

Already in the year 1996 she became a student of Graphic faculty of Repin Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where she was taught from 1996-1999 in studios of V.Starov, I. Razdrogin and V. Vetrogonskij.

After the third course, Anna Vinogradova decided to withdraw from the Graphics department and moved to the third course of the faculty of Painting in the studio under the direction of V.Pimenov, where she continued her studies, guide by such masters as N.Blokhin, N. Lysak.

Martin Johnson Heade | Still Life

From: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Martin Johnson Heade (originally Heed) was born in Lumberville, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania on August 11, 1819.

He received his earliest artistic training from the painter Edward Hicks (1780-1849) and perhaps had additional instruction from Hicks' younger cousin Thomas, a portrait painter.

The influence of these two artists is evident in Heade's earliest works, which were most often portraits painted in a rather stiff and unsophisticated manner.