Vasily Perov | Realist / genre painter

Vasily Grigorevich Perov / Васи́лий Григо́рьевич Перо́в (1834-1882) was a Russian painter, a key figure of the Russian Realist movement and one of the founding members of Peredvizhniki.

Life and career

Vasily Perov was born in Tobolsk, Tobolsk Governorate, Russian Empire, as Vasily Grigorevich Vasiliev (Васи́лий Григо́рьевич Васильев). Perov was an illegitimate son of the local procurator baron, Grigory Karlovich Kridener, who belonged to an old Russian-German noble family tree, and Akulina Ivanova, a native citizen of Tobolsk.

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Genre painting, painting of scenes from everyday life, of ordinary people in work or recreation, depicted in a generally realistic manner. Genre art contrasts with that of landscape, portraiture, still life, religious themes, historic events, or any kind of traditionally idealized subject matter.

Intimate scenes from daily life are almost invariably the subject of genre painting. The elimination of imaginative content and of idealization focuses attention upon the shrewd observation of types, costumes and settings.

The term arose in 18th-century France to describe painters specializing in one kind genre of picture, such as flowers or animals or middle-class life, and was originally used derogatively by advocates of the ideal or grand manner in art.

Winslow Homer | A Temperance Meeting (or Noon Time) 1876

Cris Pereby | Figurative sculptor

Belgian sculptor and painter Cris Pereby born into a painter and sculptor family spent her childhood in Belgium.

She was fascinated during her many museum visits by the Early Flemish painters such as Hans Memling, Jerôme Bosch, Peter Chistus, Pieter Bruegel and admired their magnificent art so delicate and full of spirituality.

She discovered later that a genius of impressionist painting, Vincent Van Gogh, lived close to her Belgium home before leaving for Paris and Arles.

Judith Leyster | Pittrice barocca

Judith o Judita Leyster, o Leystar (Haarlem, 28 luglio 1609 - Heemstede, 10 febbraio 1660), è stata una pittrice e disegnatrice Olandese del Secolo d'Oro, appartenente alla scuola dell'Olanda Settentrionale, specializzata in pittura di genere e ritrattistica. Era l'ottava figlia del birraio e tessitore Jan Willemszoon, che nel 1624 dichiarò bancarotta, e di Trijn Jaspersdr di Haarlem.

Suo padre proveniva da Anversa e nel 1592 divenne membro della Chiesa riformata.

Judith fu allieva di Frans de Grebber, Frans Hals e Jan Miense Molenaer.

Stefano Novo | Genre painter

Stefano Novo (1862-1927) was an Italian painter🎨.

Born in Cavarzere, Venice, Stefano Novo studied under Italian masters Pompelmo Gherardo Molmenti and Eugene von Blass.

Best known for his romantic figurative, portraiture and genre paintings🎨 depicting the daily lives of the Venetian people, Novo exhibited his work in Turin, Florence, Venice, Bologna and Chicago.

One of Stefano Novo's students was also Jenny Eakin Delony Rice, the first woman artist from Arkansas to rise to national and international prominence as a painter and the founder of collegiate art education in Arkansas. Though Delony specialized in portraiture, her subject matter included miniatures, landscape, wildlife, still life and genre (scenes of everyday life).

She studied in Venice sometime prior to 1895 with Italian genre painter Stefano Novo.

Leopold von Stoll (1808-1889) | Still life of flowers painter

Leopold von Stoll was a flower painter of Dutch origin, who was primarily active in Austria.

Leopold von Stoll was born in 1808 in the Netherlands.

In 1828, he worked in Krakow and Warsaw.

From 1830-1834 lived in Saint Petersburg, where he held a job of a flower painter at the Imperial Botanical Garden.

In 1834, he came to Vienna and consequently gained there much popularity as a still-life (flower, fruits) artist.

From 1834-1869, he regularly participated in various exhibitions in that city (at the Academy of Fine Arts, the "Künstlerhaus", etc.).

Leopold von Stoll died in Vienna, in 1889.

Works of Leopold von Stoll can be viewed at the Hermitage in Saint Petersburgt, as well as at the Austrian National Gallery "Belvedere" and other Austrian and international museums.

Leopold von Stoll è stato un pittore floreale di origine Olandese, attivo principalmente in Austria. Leopold von Stoll è nato nel 1808 nei Paesi Bassi.

Nel 1828, ha lavorato a Cracovia e Varsavia.

Dal 1830-1834 visse a San Pietroburgo, dove svolse un lavoro di pittore di fiori presso l'Imperial Botanical Garden.

Nel 1834, si stabilì a Vienna dove conseguì molta popolarità come artista di nature morte (fiori, frutti).

Dal 1834-1869 partecipò regolarmente a varie mostre in quella città, - all'Accademia di Belle Arti, al "Künstlerhaus", ecc.

Leopold von Stoll morì a Vienna nel 1889. Opere di Leopold von Stoll possono essere ammirate all'Ermitage di San Pietroburgo, alla Galleria nazionale austriaca "Belvedere" ed in altri musei austriaci e internazionali.

Michele Cascella | Post-impressionist painter

Michele Cascella (1892-1989) was born in Ortona a Mare (Province of Chieti), in the Abruzzo region of Italy on September 7, 1892.

He was the second of 7 children (3 boys and 4 girls). Michele’s father, Basilio Cascella, was also born in Ortona in 1860, as was his grandfather, Francesco Paolo Cascella, who was a tailor for women. Michele’s mother, Concetta Palmerio, was from Guardiagrele, the daughter of a very popular veterinarian in the area at the time.

Michele’s father was his first and most influential teacher. Basilio was a painter, engraver, ceramist, lithographer and illustrator. Before Michele was born, he lived and worked in Naples, Milan, Turin, Venice, London and Palermo.

Robert Doesburg, 1945 | Abstract painter

Robert Doesburg🎨:"I was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Painted all my life, but full time since 1995.

My speciality is the Square style. I developed this style myself. Working in this style gives me all the opportunities of using much more colours. Showing surprising effects and sparkling images, independent of the subject.