Gianni De Conno | Surrealist book illustrator

Gianni De Conno (Milan, 1957 - Milan, 26 agosto 2017) is an Italian painter.

In 1990 Gianni received the Gold Plate🎨 of Italian Illustrators Annual, in 1998, 2000 and 2001 the Communication Arts Award of Excellence, in 2002 the Stepan Zavrel prize for Children's Illustrator and the Silver Medal of the President of the Italian Republic for artistic merits.

Gianni De Conno is teaching in the main schools of illustration.

He has illustrated and published numerous books for children.

Gianni De Conno (Milano, 1957 – Milano, 26 agosto 2017) è stato un illustratore Italiano🎨.

Illustratore e presidente dell'Associazione illustratori dal 2005-2007, ha seguito un percorso formativo ricco di esperienze diverse (ha studiato al Conservatorio G. Verdi di Milano) anche se nel solco della creatività applicata al disegno.

Dopo gli studi superiori ha seguito i corsi di scenografia e animazione tenuti presso la Scuola di Cinema da qui ha iniziato la sua carriera di scenografo e realizzatore di storyboard.

Nel suo lavoro di illustratore utilizzava sia tecniche tradizionali (acrylic, olio) sia Pittura digitale, De Conno nel 2008 contribuisce a fondare il gruppo Bandalarga a Milano e cura dal 2009-2012 l'immagine e la grafica del progetto MiMaster di Illustrazione Editoriale, concepito nel 2009 con la produzione della Scuola del Fumetto di Milano e proseguito dal 2010 con l'Associazione OPPI specializzata in formazione e accreditata presso il MIUR e la Regione Lombardia.

Nel 2010 il festival Lucca Comics & Games gli dedica una mostra antologica della sua carriera.

È stato pubblicato da: Bayard, Black Cat, Bohem Press, Carthusia, Casterman, Computer World Magazine, De Agostini, Fabbri RCS, Fatatrac, Gallimard, Giunti, Grimm Press, Finmeccanica, Hachette, Hermes Paris, Interlinea, Yale University Magazine, Lapis, Lorenzo Marini & Associati, Milan, Prìncipi and Princìpi, Purple Bear Books NY, Random House NY, Salani, Sterling Publishing NY, Vicen Vives.

Mostre collettive e personali in Italia, Svizzera, Germania, Giappone, Taiwan, Francia, Stati Uniti.

Amedeo Modigliani | School of Paris

Amedeo Modigliani, (born July 12, 1884, Livorno, Italy-died January 24, 1920, Paris, France), Italian painter and sculptor whose portraits-characterized by asymmetrical compositions, elongated figures, and a simple but monumental use of line-are among the most-important portraits of the 20th century.

Modigliani was born into a Jewish family of merchants.

As a child, he suffered from pleurisy and typhus, which prevented him from receiving a conventional education.

Piet Mondrian | Neo-Plasticist painter

Piet Mondrian is a Dutch painter who has carved a unique niche for himself on the global platform matching the likes of other celebrity painters.

He is possibly best known for being one of the founders of the De Stijl, which incorporated an art movement that worked around abstract works, and the new art forms that were being introduced to the world in the early 20th century.

The movement was also based on the reductive theory; which took a larger scale image, and brought it to life on the canvas, in architectural works, and in sculpture forms, and in the form of graphic arts as well.

Guy Cambier | Genre painter

Guy Cambier (1923-2008) was born in Uccle-lez-Bruxelles in 1923. He was a painter of Genre painting, scenes, figures, portraits and still life paintings.

At the age of nine years old, he lost the use of his legs caused by a tragic accident. He was self taught and studied the techniques and works of those artists he emulated, Corot and Watteau.