Pierre Grisot (1911-1995) | Ballet dancers

Pierre Grisot was born in Paris. He was a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and exhibited frequently in Paris, in particular at the Salon des Independants and with the group of The Paris School, showing together with the contemporary artists Vlaminck🎨, Raoul Dufy🎨 and Villon.

Léon Zeytline (1885-1962) | Paris painting

Léon Zeytline / Леон Цейтлин was a Russian painter🎨 whom moved from Moscow to the capital of France at the beginning of the 20th century.

He started depicting daily life of Paris during the 1920's, illustrating the numerous and famous squares and boulevards, such as the "Boulevard de l'Opéra" and "Les Champs Elysées" for example.

Swiss Art History and Sitemap

Alberto Giacometti | Surrealist/Existentialist/Figure sculptor

Switzerland lies at the crossroads of several major European cultures. Three of the continent's major languages, German, French and Italian, are national languages of Switzerland, along with Romansh, spoken by a small minority.

Therefore, Swiss culture is characterized by diversity, which is reflected in a wide range of traditional customs. The 26 cantons also account for the large cultural diversity.

Edgar Degas | Art Quotes

• "Art is not what you see, but what you make others see".
• "L'arte non è ciò che vedi, ma ciò che fai vedere agli altri".
• "Bisogna rifare dieci volte, cento volte lo stesso soggetto. Niente, in arte, deve sembrare dovuto al caso".
• "Do it again, ten times, a hundred times. Nothing in art must seem to be an accident, not even movement".

Paul Jones (1921-1997) | Flowers of May

Paul Jones is an Australian painter who has painted these beautiful botanical illustrations in a manner very reminiscent of Thornton’s Temple of Flora.

His watercolor paintings are widely held in museum collections and included in several interesting exhibits linked below, at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the Smithsonian in Washington DC and he is considered one of the finest botanical artists of the last 150 years.

Henri Fantin-Latour | Fleurs et fruits, 1865

Henri Fantin-Latour | Fleurs et fruits, 1865 | Musée d’Orsay

Contemporaneamente alla sua attività di ritrattista, Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) realizza un numero cospicuo di nature morte.

Negli anni sessanta del XIX secolo, quest'ultime esercitano un ruolo fondamentale nella carriera dell'artista.

È proprio in Inghilterra, paese dove Fantin-Latour abitualmente risiede, che questi trova un numero considerevole di estimatori delle sue composizioni raffiguranti fiori e frutta, il che comporta un susseguirsi di acquisti e commesse in grado di assicurare al pittore un successo commerciale che, fino a quel momento, il suo lavoro non gli ha permesso di raggiungere.

George Lundeen, 1948 | Figurative sculptor

Born and raised in Holdrege, Nebraska, George W. Lundeen, American sculptor, went to college at Hastings and then to the University of Illinois, where he studied with Frank Gallo, a realist sculptor.

He then spent a year on a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship in Florence, Italy, where the works of Old Masters inspired his ambition to sculpt for a living.

Today Lundeen lives and works in Loveland, Colorado, presiding over a family of sculptors, including his wife, a younger brother, a sister-in-law and a cousin.

Gil Bruvel, 1959 | Stainless Steel sculptures

A word from Gil Bruvel🎨...

“I am artist because it is the conduit to release the ideas and visuals I carry daily. Since I was a little boy I have pursued my own exploration rooted in the unconscious mind and nurtured with daily practice using a variety of mediums of artistic expression. My artistic process developed organically from my father's cabinet shop to the stainless steel sculptures I create today.