Stanisław Żukowski (1873-1944) | Impressionist painter

Stanislav Yulianovich Zhukovsky (Polish: Stanisław Żukowski, Russian: Станислав Юлианович Жуковский) was a Polish🎨-Russian painter🎨, and a member of Mir Iskusstva.

Zhukovsky was born in Yendrikhovtsy (Jędrzychowice), Grodno Province.

He was a student of Isaac Levitan🎨 and a graduate of the Moscow School of Painting.

Eric Fortune | Pop Surrealist painter

Eric Fortune is an artist based out of Columbus, Ohio.

He received his BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design where he was honored with the Outstanding Senior Award🎨 upon graduation.

His work continued to garner acclaim with the acceptance into such prestigious annual competitions as The Society of Illustrators NY and LA as well as Spectrum and others.

He was the Artist Guest of Honor for ConGlomeration and was recently awarded🎨 the Jack Gaughan Award for Best Emerging Artist of 2009.

Józef Mehoffer (1869-1946) | Symbolist painter

Józef Mehoffer was a Polish painter🎨 and decorative artist, one of the leading artists of the Young Poland movement and one of the most revered Polish artists of his time.

Mehoffer was born in Ropczyce, studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, as well as in Paris at the Académie Colarossi among others.

Anselm Feuerbach (1829-1880) | Romantic painter

Anselm Feuerbach, (born September 12, 1829, Speyer, Bavaria [now in Germany] - died January 4, 1880, Venice, Italy), one of the leading German painters🎨 of the mid-19th century working in a Romantic style of Classicism.

Feuerbach was the son of a classical archaeologist and the nephew of the philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach.

After studying art at the Düsseldorf Academy and in Munich, he went twice to Paris, where he worked in the studio of Thomas Couture🎨 and was influenced by Gustave Courbet🎨 and Eugène Delacroix🎨.

Francisco Antonio Cano | Horizontes, 1913

"Horizons" is considered Cano's masterpiece.

"Horizons" epitomizes the idealized migrant family.

It portrays a young, fair-skinned colono family - consisting of a husband, wife, and child - sitting on a bluff, surrounded by mountains.

The three members of the family are likened to the Holy family, with the woman dressed in blue and white like the Virgin Mary, with a baby on her lap.

Painting flowers in the Age of Impressionism

During the 1800s, the Still Life genre was gaining the approval of contemporary critics and the public.

Perhaps the best way to appreciate the context of these paintings is to try to understand the attitudes and thoughts of the artists themselves.

The following evocative quotes from Manet, Renoir, Van Gogh,and others provide fascinating insight into how these artists felt about floral painting and the still life genre in general.

Maurice de Vlaminck | Paysages

Maurice De Vlaminck (1876-1958) was a French painter.

He is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve Movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904-1908 were united in their use of intense color.

Vlaminck was born in Paris of ‘bohemian’ musical parents and he in turn became an accomplished musician.

Alceste Campriani (1848-1933) Genre painter

Alceste Campriani was an Italian painter🎨 noted for his landscapes, especially of the Neapolitan countryside.

He was born in Terni from a noble family. His father's political attachment to the cause of Italy prompted his arrest by Papal officers.

This led to economic difficulties for the Campriani family. He was enrolled in the Naples Institute of Fine arts, but he proved recalcitrant to academic discipline, and abandoned the institute to paint on his own.