Salvador Dalí | Personality

Dalí was renowned for his eccentric and ostentatious behavior throughout his career.

In 1941, the Director of Exhibitions and Publications at MoMA wrote: "The fame of Salvador Dalí has been an issue of particular controversy for more than a decade...Dalí's conduct may have been undignified, but the greater part of his art is a matter of dead earnest".

When Dalí was elected to the French Academy of Fine Arts in 1979, one of his fellow academicians stated that he hoped Dalí would now abandon his "clowneries".

In 1936, at the premiere screening of Joseph Cornell's film Rose Hobart at Julien Levy's gallery in New York City, Dalí knocked over the projector in a rage.

"My idea for a film is exactly that", he said shortly afterward, "I never wrote it down or told anyone, but it is as if he had stolen it!"

Gerard van Honthorst | Baroque Era painter

Gerard van Honthorst (1590-1656) became one of the main Dutch followers of Caravaggio, whose style he popularised in Holland on his return from a stay in Rome, 1610-20.

With paintings such as 'Christ before the High Priest' he became one of the few Dutch painters to achieve international fame.

Józef Pankiewicz | Impressionist painter

Józef Pankiewicz (29 November 1866 in Lublin - 4 July 1940 in La Ciotat) was a Polish impressionist painter, graphic artist and teacher who spent much of his career in France.

From 1884-1885, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw under Wojciech Gerson and Aleksander Kamiński.

After obtaining a scholarship, he went to Saint Petersburg to study at the Imperial Academy of Arts.

In 1889, he and his studio partner Władysław Podkowiński went to Paris to participate in the Exposition Universelle and he was awarded a silver medal for his painting of a vegetable market.

Rémi LaBarre, 1977 | Figurative painter

Rémi LaBarre is a painter based in Montreal, Quebec. Inspired by romance lovers, music, he painted series of modern portraits in a vintage theme.

Rémi LaBarre has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions and has won different prizes and has received an important press coverage.

In 1977, in Thetford Mines, Rémi LaBarre, Canadian painter, gets a first glance of the world. In his childhood, he draws, often, on paperboards and paper. One day, a friend who paints suggests testing this medium.

Baroque Art History and Sitemap

Baroque was the principal European style in the visual arts of the 17th century.

The term covers various national styles that range from the complex and dramatic Italian art of the 17th century to the restrained genre scenes, still-lifes and portraits characteristic of the Dutch Baroque.

In Italy, Caravaggio painted altarpieces and introduced innovations such as dramatic lighting effects that influenced painters like Artemisia Gentileschi. Other artists, such as the Giovanni Battista Gaulli and Pietro da Cortona, executed illusionistic ceiling paintings.

Johannes Vermeer | Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665

Czech Art History and Sitemap

Alphonse Mucha (Czech Art Nouveau Printmaker, 1860-1939)

Czech art is the visual and plastic arts that have been created in the Czech Republic and the various states that formed the Czech lands in the preceding centuries.

The Czech lands have produced artists that have gained recognition throughout the world, including Alfons Mucha, widely regarded as one of the key exponents of the Art Nouveau style, and František Kupka, a pioneer of abstract art.

The Czech lands have produced several important finds of prehistoric art, notably the Venus of Dolní Věstonice, a pottery Venus figurine of a nude female dated to 29,000–25,000 BC, and a distinct style of Celtic art.

Victoria Selbach, 1960 | Figurative painter

American painter Victoria Selbach in her youth, studied drawing and pastel at the Carnegie Mellon Museum of Pittsburgh and continued on to art classes at Carnegie Mellon University.

Her years at CMU provided a range of course work including drawing from live models and studying anatomy at the Pitt Medical School Morgue.

Victoria moved to New York City and graduated from Parsons School of Design.

While making New York her home Victoria has traveled extensively and is indebted to all the amazing faces and startling visual environments that have fascinated and inspired her.

Tracey Harris, 1970 | Realist painter

Tracey Harris is a Contemporary Realist painter specializing in figurative and still life oil paintings. She is an award winning artist who's artworks are collected nationally and internationally.

Education:

1995 - Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, England;

1992 - Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri.

Experience: - Tracey Harris is an emerging artist specializing in contemporary representational painting. She has exhibited internationally and nationally winning numerous awards.

At a recent solo exhibition an art dealer, Timothy Ward, of Ward and Ward, wrote of Harris’ work: “Few modern paintings effectively pay homage to traditional aesthetic choices such as chiaroscuro.