Pierre Auguste Renoir | Landscapes

Renoir explored landscape painting throughout his career. Early on he was influenced by painters from the Barbizon school, a group of French artists who advocated naturalistic representation through direct study from nature.

Many of the Barbizon artists painted pure landscapes, natural landscapes that show little or no evidence of human activity.

Renoir followed this example by working outdoors, creating both studies as well as completed paintings in plein-air.

William Shakespeare | Il mio occhio si è fatto pittore / Mine eye hath played the painter

William Shakespeare, Sonetto 24

Il mio occhio si è fatto pittore e ha fissato

i tratti della tua bellezza nel quadro del mio cuore.

Maria Amaral - Spanish Figurative painter

Il mio corpo è la cornice in cui essa è racchiusa,

e, in prospettiva, è la migliore arte del pittore:

poiché attraverso il pittore devi vedere la sua abilità,

per scoprire dove giace la tua vera immagine dipinta,

che sempre è appesa nella fucina del mio petto,

le cui finestre sono i tuoi occhi.

Jeremy Mann, 1979 | Cityscape / Figurative painter

Jeremy Mann, American painter🎨, holds a Cum Laude BFA from Ohio University and an MFA with valedictorian honor from Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

In his creative practice, Mann aims to imbue his city, San Francisco, with drama, mood, and personality.

He paints his immediate surroundings with intimate, dynamic expression.

A number of his compositions are inspired by wet pavement that reflects street lamps and neon signs and glitters in the rain.

Jeremy Mann, 1979 | Cityscape / Figurative painter | Part. ²

Jeremy Mann🎨 is an American painter🎨 known for working in the Realistic style.

Ever ambitious, Mann covers a wide range of subjects beyond cityscapes: interior scenes of lone, young women as striking and restless as the city itself; a bold and intriguing self-portrait, masterful still life paintings, and pastoral scenes that recall the landscape of his hometown.

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

• Jeremy Mann, 1979 | Cityscape / Figurative painter🎨.

Konstantin Sterkhov / Константин Стерхов, 1968 | Watercolour painter

A talented Russian🎨 watercolorist Константин Стерхов was born in Russia. Graduated from Repin Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Graphic Department.

- Member of Saint-Petersburg Watercolour Society.

- Member of Watercolor Society of Finland.

- Participant of local and international exhibitions.

- Teaching Art Courses in Russia and abroad.

- Graphic design and projects for different companies.

- Art works in private collections in Russia, Germany, Finland, Austria, Netherland, Italy, India, UK, China, US.

Paul Serusier | Symbolist / Post-impressionist painter

Paul Sérusier, in full Louis-Paul-Henri Sérusier (born November 9, 1864, Paris-died October 6, 1927, Morlaix, France), French Post-Impressionist painter and theorist who was instrumental in the formation of the short-lived, but highly influential, late 19th-century art movement known as the Nabis.

The group was noted for its expressive use of colour and pattern in the mode of Paul Gauguin. Sérusier’s early paintings featuring the people and landscapes of Brittany are noteworthy for their muted, contemplative mood, which the artist achieved by using firm contours and blocks of unmodulated colour.

Le Talisman, 1888, Paris, musée d'Orsay.

Alain Bonnefoit, 1937 | Impressionist painter

Painter, engraver and sculptor, Alain Bonnefoit was born in Montmartre, Paris.

From 1953 he attended the École des Arts Appliqués, from 1956 the École des Beaux Arts in Paris and from 1959 also the École des Beaux Arts in Brussels Engraving and Sculpture Department.

In 1961 he began a two year period in the studio of the sculptor Volti who would become his maestro in both art and life.

In 1964 he arrived at the form of expression that later made him famous: the female figures.

In 1965 he moved to Tuscany but kept on his studio in Paris.

Liu Yuanshou, 1967 | Figurative painter

Liu Yuanshou [劉元壽], Chinese painter, was born in Beijing in 1967.

He earned a degree in oil painting from the Capital Normal University of Beijing in 1991, and has exhibited in and won awards in many prestigious exhibitions throughout Asia, including China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan.

While Liu Yuanshou hails from the austere north of China, he has become fascinated by the seductively temperate cultural and physical climate of the eastern coastal province of Jiangsu, which lies east of Anhui and north of Shanghai.