Alan Craig, 1971 | Pop Surrealist painter

Craig Alan was born in San Bernardino, California. Though he was always drawn to the artistic side of life, Craig's creative luminance did not wholly shine until his family transferred to New Orleans in his youth.

It was here that Craig's capacity for detailed visual interpretation took root. In this city by the sea, rich in its culture and outlets for creative expression, Craig began exploring his own ingenious impulses.

Franz von Lenbach | Ritrattista

Franz von Lenbach nasce a Schrobenhausen, in Baviera, il 13 dicembre 1836. Figlio di un costruttore, studia presso la scuola tecnica di Landshut per seguire la professione del padre.

Nel 1851 comincia a lavorare a Monaco nello studio di scultura di Anselm Sickinger. Grazie al fratello maggiore, Karl August Lenbach, incontra Johann Baptist Hofner, un artista formatosi alla Akademie der Bildenden Künsten di Monaco, il quale lo introduce al disegno ed alla pittura.

Dopo aver frequentato per due semestri il Politecnico di Augsburg (1852-53) e per alcuni mesi lo studio del pittore di ritratti Albert Gräfle, nel 1854 entra all’Akademie di Monaco.

Myrtille Henrion Picco, 1952 | Neo-Surrealist painter

French painter🎨 Myrtille Henrion Picco was born in Nancy, France. Child, she doodles everywhere and all the time.

But this is the photography in first that attracts her, as enought to do it her job.

She waives this passion when she understands how her look has become analytical, "rectangular" and cold as the metal of her camera. The camera lens separates her to the world.

Olga Darchuk /Ольга Дарчук, 1976 | Impressionist painter

Ukrainian artist Olga Darchuk was born in the city of Krivoy Rog, Dnepropetrovsk region.

Graduated from art school and Krivoy Rog pedagogical University, faculty of artistic graphics.

Still wrote his first five years in the garden of the Krivoy Rog artist, from which it got its first recognition, and her mother, in turn, received a recommendation to send her daughter to art school.

With six years visited the studio of Fine Arts, and in 1986 he enrolled in art school, which successfully disaccustomed 4 years the artist Chumatchenko AN.

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🎨.