Bev Jozwiak, 1953 | Watercolor Figurative painter

Bev Jozwiak🎨 paints very directly, placing watercolor paint on the paper with very little mixing on the palette.

“I use lots of varied color in my blacks to keep them from going flat, in my whites to keep them glowing, and even in my skin tones to keep them interesting. Emotion plays an important part in every successful painting, so I choose only subjects that call to me and that gives my work energy and excitement”.

Dosso Dossi | Renaissance painter

A leader of the Ferrara School of painting from the Renaissance, Dosso Dossi (1490-1542) is well known for his enigmatic allegorical style.

Born Giovanni di Niccoló de Luteri in Tramuschio di Mirandola. Dossi’s father worked as a land agent, or bursar for the Este family, under their court in Ferrara; they would later become Dossi’s patrons.

It is said that he trained early on with Lorenzo Costa (1460-1535), also of the School of Ferrara painters. Though part of Costa’s influence was also important to the Bolognese school of painting.

Jacques Prévert / Willem Haenraets | Alicante...

An orange upon the table

Your dress on the rug

And you in my bed

Sweet present of the present

Freshness of the night

Warmth of my life.

Leopold Franz Kowalski | Genre painter

Léopold Franz Kowalski (1856-1931) was an French-born German painter, known for his canvases depicting genre scenes, figures and landscapes.

Kowalsky was a pupil of Jean Pillard and Henri Lehmann at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

He exhibited regularly in Paris from 1881 at the Salon des Artistes Français.

Michael Carson, 1972 | Expressionist painter

Michael Carson was born in Minneapolis, MN. He graduated from the Minneapolis Institute of Art and Design in 1996. Working as a graphic Artist, he painted his first painting three years after graduating from college.

He knew he had found his calling and in 2001, started painting full time.

Influenced by the paintings of Toulouse Lautrec, John Singer Sargent, Norman Rockwell, Malcolm Liepke, and Milt Kobayashi, Michael Carson is primarily a figurative Artist who likes to tell a story.

His figures usually find themselves in bars, nightclubs, cafes, and jazz clubs; even at home in intimate settings.

Daria Kropacheva, 1989 | Symbolist painter

Daria Kropacheva is an Moldovan Neo baroque and Symbolist painter who lives in a place called Chisinau in Moldova.

We were unable to find any more detail on Daria but perhaps there is little need - her art speaks loudly for itself - it sure is stunningly beautiful.

Her perfectly rendered characters dominate the canvas bursting with life, a sense of immortality and a subtle dark undercurrent of mystery.

George Tooker | Il pittore che catturò le ansie moderne

"Non penso di essere un creatore. Sento di essere un vaso passivo, un recettore o un traduttore... La cosa affascinante della pittura è la scoperta" - George Clair Tooker Jr. (pittore Statunitense. 1920-2011).

Tooker mescolava metodicamente i suoi colori a mano, usando acqua, tuorlo d'uovo e pigmento in polvere.

Ogni dipinto non è stato solo eseguito con cura, ma profondamente considerato intellettualmente.

La tempera è un metodo di pittura noioso e ad asciugatura rapida che è difficile da cambiare dopo essere stato applicato, e questo metodo deliberato si adattava alla disposizione ed alla teoria artistica di Tooker.

Gustav Klimt | L'astro del Secessionismo viennese

Sempre più in contrasto con i rigidi canoni accademici, nel 1897 il pittore Austriaco Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) fondò, insieme ad altri diciannove artisti la Wiener Sezession (Secessione Viennese), attuando anche il progetto di un periodico-manifesto del gruppo, Ver Sacrum (Primavera sacra), del quale verranno pubblicati 96 numeri, fino al 1903.

Gli artisti della Secessione aspiravano, oltre a portare l'arte al di fuori dei confini della tradizione accademica, in un florilegio di arti plastiche, design e architettura, anche ad una rinascita delle arti e dei mestieri: non vi era uno stile prediletto, sicché sotto l'egida di questo gruppo si riunirono i simbolisti, i naturalisti ed i modernisti.