Guy Pène du Bois (1884-1958) Modern painter

Guy Pène du Bois (1884-1958) was an American painter🎨 and art critic. In characteristic figurative works of the 1920s, he depicted the upper class with a cold eye. Smooth, simplified volumes sculpt his society figures, who seem to have little capacity for personal relationships.

Although sometimes approaching social criticism, Pène du Bois's inherent satire generally yields to a fascination with chic and an apparent distaste for probing beyond appearances into the realm of character. As a writer, he championed the American realist tradition but also endeavored to explain modern currents.

Albert Williams (1922-2010) Floral still-life painter

British painter🎨 Albert Williams was a painter of flowers in the tradition of the seventeenth century Flemish School of painters.

Williams was born in 1922 in Sussex, England. His father and grandfather were his first teachers.

As a boy in Brighton he attended Brighton School of Art, moving to London where he was employed by Sanderson's in their studio.

After the Second World War, he returned to Brighton to make a career as an artist.

Still life studies of flowers suited his natural abilities as a draughtsman and colourist.

His work has been exhibited at the Fine Art Society, the London galleries of Frost and Reed and the Omell Galleries and the Summer Exhibitions at the Royal Academy.

Albert Williams' paintings of flowers have a photographic realism, and each petal has lifelike detailed veins and coloring.

In 1955 he exhibited at the Paris Salon.

Il pittore Britannico🎨 Albert Williams è stato un pittore di fiori nella tradizione della scuola di pittori fiamminghi del XVII secolo.

Williams è nato nel 1922 nel Sussex, in Inghilterra.

Suo padre e suo nonno furono i suoi primi insegnanti.

Da ragazzo a Brighton ha frequentato la Brighton School of Art, trasferendosi a Londra dove è stato impiegato da Sanderson nel loro studio.

Il suo lavoro è stato esposto alla Fine Art Society, alle gallerie londinesi di Frost and Reed e alle Omell Galleries e alle mostre estive alla Royal Academy.

I dipinti di fiori di Albert Williams hanno un realismo fotografico e ogni petalo ha vene e colorazioni dettagliate realistiche. Nel 1955 espose al Salon di Parigi.

Vittorio Matteo Corcos (1859-1933) | Genre painter

Italian painter🎨 Vittorio Matteo Corcos was  known for genre works🎨 depict winsome and finely dressed young men and women, in moments of repose and recreation.

Born on October 4, 1859 in Livorno, Italy, he studied drawing and painting at the Academia di Belle Arti in Florence under Enrico Pollastrini.

Between 1881-1886, he frequently exhibited at the Salon.

His works are held in the collections of the Uffizi in Florence and the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome.

Il pittore italiano🎨 Vittorio Matteo Corcos è noto per le opere di genere🎨 che raffigurano giovani uomini e donne attraenti e finemente vestiti, in momenti di riposo e svago.

Nato il 4 ottobre 1859 a Livorno, in Italia, ha studiato disegno e pittura all'Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze con Enrico Pollastrini.

Tra il 1881 e il 1886 espose frequentemente al Salon. Le sue opere sono conservate nelle collezioni degli Uffizi di Firenze e della Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna di Roma.

Joan Marti Aragones (1936-2009) | Figurative / Genre painter

Spanish painter🎨 Joan Marti Aragonés is one of the most important artists in Spain. Born in Barcelona, he began his artistic studies in 1950.

His artistic talent was developed and perfected first at the Academia de Valls and later at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Sant Jordi in Barcelona. He studied with such renowned teachers as Nolase Valols, E. Santasusagna and Garcia Morales.

He held his first exhibition at Galeria Atenea in 1959 in Barcelona. He is one of the official portrait artists of the King of Spain, Juan Carlos I.

Eduardo Naranjo, 1944 | Neorealist /Surrealist painter

Eduardo Naranjo, one of the great Spanish painters, was born in 1944 in Monastery (Badajoz).

Meet in 1957 his master Eduardo Acosta and joins the School of Arts and Crafts, where he studied until 1960.

That same year he entered the School of Fine Arts of St. Elizabeth of Hungary.

In 1961 he moved to study at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, and that is where their education ends with paint.

Kei Mieno 三重野慶, 1985 | Realist painter

Kei Mieno is a Japanese artist born in Hiroshima who has been painting professionally for more than 10 years already.

In 2007 Mieno graduating from Hiroshima City University - Faculty of Arts, Department of Fine Arts, Department of Oil Painting.

This painter specializes in hyperrealism, and mostly uses oil paint to create his masterpieces.

Claudio Bravo Camus' 83rd Birthday

Google decided to remember this Friday, November 8, the Chilean painter Claudio Bravo Camus.

This date corresponds to the birthday of the remembered artist, who would turn 83 today. Although he died in 2011, his legacy is still present in the art world.

Claudio Bravo, -Claudio Nelson Bravo Camus- (born Nov. 8, 1936, Valparaíso, Chile - died June 4, 2011, Taroudant, Mor.), initially established himself as a society portrait painter in Chile and Spain, but he became better known for his vibrant still lifes of such everyday items as packages, crumpled paper and draped fabric.

Henri Fantin-Latour interprets Schumann, Wagner, Brahms and Berlioz

In the 1870s, Henri Fantin-Latour's (French painter and lithographer, 1836-1904) work shifted towards more literary themes that connected him with Symbolism.

In parallel with this development, his works reflected his discovery of the German contemporary music of Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Richard Wagner and Hector Berlioz which also provided him with a source of inspiration.