He was born in Arlon in Belgium on July 30, 1911. At the age of 15, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in his hometown, and after four years of studies at the Architecture Academy of Tournai, his father could no longer financially support his studies. Established in Brussels and enters the active life in the field of advertising where he made an important career, but his true passion is painting.
René Miessen dit Bellior (1911-2000) | Symbolist painter
Cristina Iotti, 1965 | Photorealism / Figurative painter
Italian painter🎨 Cristina Iotti is born in Sassuolo, Italy where she lives and works. She graduated at the European Institute of design (IED) of Milan in 1987 with a degree in Illustration.
From 1988-2001 she worked professionally for 13 years as a tile- designer for graphic arts and serigraphic studios. She also designed sketches for prints on sweaters and illustrations for packaging and children books.
In 2002 she decided to dedicate herself full time to painting and since then she has participated in national and international group and solo-exhibitions.
In addition to this she has been shortlisted in several and important national and international Prizes🎨 and Art-competitions receiving prizes and acclaim.
Through a personal chromatic choice and photographic framing, yet keeping the link with ancient techniques, she describes, with highly detailed accuracy and attention to details, contemporary and everyday events.
Danilo Ricciardi, 1958 | Figurative painter
Italian painter Danilo Ricciardi was born in Siracusa, located near the southeastern corner of Sicily on the Ionian coast.
At the age of 12 he produced his first canvas with oil paints.
He became a full-time painter at the age of 22.
His paintings have been exhibited in Geneva, Malta, New York, Rome, in many cities in Italy.
Auguste Rodin | Hands of a pianist
Fascinated by the expressive qualities of the hands, French🎨 sculptor Auguste Rodin🎨 sculpted hands more than he did any other part of the body.
As revealing as a face, they are sometimes capable, on their own, of symbolizing an entire of human activity, like the Hand of a Pianist which seems to run along an imaginary piano with nervous energy.
Kal Gajoum, 1968 | Cityscape / Palette Knife painter
Kal Gajoum, Libyan painter, was born in Tripoli. His interest in art was sparked at a very early age. In fact, he was only ten years old when he entered his first art competition. Later on he was introduced to oil painting and palette knife techniques by friend of the family who were artist in attendance at the Leonardo da Vinci school of art in Rome.
He held his first exhibition in 1983 in Tripoli.
He moved to Paris to learn watercolor techniques and the Parisian style of painting from a private artist. Then returned to Tripoli in 1992 to give an exhibition.
In Malta he spent his time as a professional artist where he spent seven years working for the Royal Fine Art Gallery and also during this time continuing his pursuit of artistic knowledge.
He traveled to Tunisia during this time to give exhibitions.
In 2000 Gajoum found himself in Britain where he ran the Center of Britain Art Gallery. He started a permanent exhibition in the City of Carlisle where he steadily developed his palette knife techniques and put together a set of four limited edition watercolor prints of the city. Which he sold with the proceeds going to a local charity.
In 2003 Gajoum immigrated to Canada where he now resides in British Columbia and Quebec. He now concentrates on cityscapes and still life’s using his palette knife techniques in oil on canvas.
Richard Macneil, 1956 | Cityscape painter | Part.3
Richard Macneil🎨 is an British artist🎨 that captures the colors of life in his oil paintings.
Self-taught artist, Macneil has always worked in the creative industries in a wide range of disciplines including sculpture, ceramics and graphics.
Richard Macneil was born in Worcester.
For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Macneil see:
Happy New Year! | Vintage Greeting Cards
New Year's Day, also called simply New Year's or New Year, is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar.
In pre-Christian Rome under the Julian calendar, the day was dedicated to Janus, god of gateways and beginnings, for whom January is also named. As a date in the Gregorian calendar of Christendom, New Year's Day liturgically marked the Feast of the Naming and Circumcision of Jesus, which is still observed as such in the Anglican Church and Lutheran Church.
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Claude Verlinde, 1927 | Fantastic Realism painter
Claude Verlinde is a French painter🎨 who works in the vein of “fantastic realism”, sometimes called “magic realism”, and his work shows the lineage of fantastical art from Bruegel🎨 and Bosch🎨 to the Surrealists🎨 and contemporary magic realism.
I would also suspect that a number of the Surrealists, and certainly contemporary magic realists, were influenced by his work (not to mention the production designers of the Harry Potter movies).
Claude Verlinde found his vocation very early and entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the Academy de la Grande Chaumiere at the age of twenty. Soon, the richness of his painting, its great sensitivity controlled by technique, made Verlinde undisputed master of visionary art of our time.
Distinctions: Chevalier of Arts and Letters 1986, Medal🎨 of the City of Paris.
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