Henry Asencio, 1972 | Abstract Realism painter

American painter Henry Asencio🎨 has emerged as one of the most intriguing young artists working today.

His work blends the classical ideals of figurative painting with a unique style. Merging introspection and visual spectacle, Asencio's🎨 personal investigations of the figure, spirituality and abstraction possess the power to transform todays ideals of elegance and sensuality.

Henry Asencio, 1971 | Flamenco dancers

Henry Asencio⏭ is an award-winning⏩ contemporary American painter⏭ who works largely in the medium of oil on canvas. Asencio was born in Los Angeles.

For biographical notes and other works by Asencio see:

• Henry Asencio, 1972 ~ Abstract Expressionists painter
• Henry Asencio, 1972 ~ Essence of Woman.

Lin Ching Che, 1987 | Watercolor painter

Taiwanese painter Lin Ching Che is a member of several major associations of artists. He prefers to paint with watercolors. Most of his paintings are urban landscapes and still life.

Lin Ching Che was born in Taipei, Taiwan.

He received his first art education at the local elementary school, after that was high school, the National University of the Arts, and National Taiwan Institute of Fine Arts. Currently, the artist is a member in several international associations of Watercolor artists. Over the last twelve years, Lin Ching Che regularly participates in all kinds of exhibitions.

Michelangelo | La pietà / The Pity, 1498-1499

The Pietà is a work of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. It is the first of a number of works of the same theme by the artist.

The statue was commissioned for the French Cardinal Jean de Bilhères, who was a representative in Rome.

The sculpture, in Carrara marble, was made for the cardinal's funeral monument, but was moved to its current location, the first chapel on the right as one enters the basilica, in the 18th century. It is the only piece Michelangelo ever signed.

Shirley Novak, 1948 | Still Life / Flowers painter

Born and raised in California, Shirley feels her inner voice has called to her to paint for as long as she can remember.
Her childhood passions were growing, drawing and painting flowers.
She majored in art and took many workshops and classes over the years, eventually turning her attention to painting full-time under the tutelage of her mentor, Len Chmiel. Shirley paints in oils using a wet-on-wet technique.

Charles Gates Sheldon | Pin-up portrait painter

Charles Gates Sheldon (1889-1960) was a prolific and gifted early 1900's American Illustrator who specialized in three main subjects: Hollywood, fashion and hair - themed cover portraiture and advertising in the Art Nouveau and Edwardian styles.

After studying at the Art Students League, he went to Paris to study under the legendary Alphonse Mucha.

He returned to America and set up a studio at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Guido Reni | Stile artistico

Guido Reni (1575-1642) si consolida come pittore classicista tra i più importanti della pittura Italiana del Seicento.

I suoi primordiali studi musicali sono motivo dell'influenza nelle sue composizioni dove i personaggi ritratti talvolta palesano nei loro atteggiamenti o nelle posture un modo musicale-danzante; è questo il caso del Sansone vittorioso dell'Atalanta ed Ippomene od anche del gruppo di tele sulle Fatiche di Ercole per le collezioni Gonzaga.

Fu influenzato anche dai modi pittorici del Cavalier d'Arpino, a cui il Reni guardò molto durante i suoi primi anni di attività, a testimonianza di ciò il cospicuo numero di piccoli oli su rame, peculiarità stilistica del Cesari, che il bolognese eseguì nel primo decennio del Seicento.

Giovanni Carnovali | Romantic painter

Giovanni Carnovali (1804-1873), known as Il Piccio ("the little one"), was an Italian painter.

Carnovali was born in Montegrino Valtravaglia (Varese).

In 1815, at the age of just 11, he was admitted to the Carrara Academy in Bergamo under the guidance of the director Giuseppe Diotti, who immediately recognised his young pupil’s natural talent.

The artist soon began to break away from the strict Neoclassicism of his academic training and return to the figurative tradition of the 16th and 17th century, which he interpreted with great expressive freedom, especially in portrait painting.