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Jean-Paul Avisse 1948 | French surrealist painter

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 14:30:12 PST

Avisse is a rare and unique artistic genius of unquestionable depth, scope and power. A self taught master of incredible details and universal concepts. Taking over eight weeks to complete each original intricate painting. First time viewers are further amazed to learn that Mr. Avisse creates each original painting by hand, using no computers, photographs or air-brushed techniques. Instead he

Trish Biddle | Fashion and Art Déco american painter

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 06:30:41 PST

American artist Trish Biddle studied at the Dallas Institute of Art, before beginning her career as an illustrator and textile designer. Trish Biddle is published internationally, and is collected around the world. Her process of drawing, painting and designing eventually melded onto canvases, creating romantic images and her unmistakable Art Déco figurative paintings. Her expertise in

Al Hogue | Hawaii landscape painter

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:00:32 PST

My painting technique, and my philosophy, can be described in one word - light. The Old Renaissance Masters, like Da Vinci and Rembrandt, recognized that light is the reflection of nature, of life itself. Their paintings are masterful portraits of life. I have spent the last ten years studying their technique. I want viewers of my artwork to feel as if the painting were glowing and radiating

Christiane Vleugels | Belgium painter and writing

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:51:16 PST

Her giant photo-like paintings seem to tell a story and invite you in for the experience. Christiane‘s interest in art began at a very young age and by the age of twelve, her parents enrolled her into the Academy of Fine Arts. She learned the art of drawing and sculpting and continued her art education throughout young-adulthood at SISA and the Royal Academy of Antwerp. Her work eventually

Andrius Kovelinas | Lithuania | Surrealist painter

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:45:20 PST

Andrius Kovelinas has been living in Ireland for almost 6 years now. His extraordinary style and imagination has been on show at The Green Gallery shortly after he set foot on these shores. For many years Andrius had travelled throughout Europe producing his masterly works everywhere he wen “I travelled a lot in Europe through Countries such as Sweden, France, Hungary, Lithuania, Spain. My

Andrew Atroshenko 1965 | Russia | Romantic impressionist painter

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:08:00 PST

Andrew Atroshenko was born in 1965 in the city of Pokrovsk, Russia. Accepted as a gifted child in 1977 into the Children’s Art School, Andrew graduated with honors in 1981. Two years later, Andrew entered Bryansk Art College, and in 1991 was accepted at one of the most prestigious art schools in the world, the St. Petersburg Academy of Art. In 1994, Andrew began taking part in exhibitions such

Michael and Inessa Garmash | Ukraina | Romantic Impressionists painters

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:36:40 PST

Mr. and Mrs. Garmash are considered two of the finest Romantic Impressionists of our day. Their incredible talent is only matched by their love and career stories. In similar fashion to the determination of his artwork, Mr. Garmash courted his future wife, after seeing her for but a moment, by painting her image all over her hometown while she slept. She immediately recognized the passion

Bill Mack | Minneapolis | American relief sculptor

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:59:35 PST

The impact of Bill Mack's art is achieved not only by his dramatic portrayal of the human form, but also by the utilization of a wide variety of materials with which to execute his artistic vision. The final work emerges as a classic example of the interplay of form and materials. For over 35 years, Bill Mack has created sculpture in relief and in the round for government, corporate and

Auguste Rodin 1840-1917 | Romantic and Realistic french sculptor

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:36:10 PST

Auguste Rodin's realist works created a new era in sculpture. Known as Auguste Rodin, François-Auguste-René Rodin, was a romantic and realistic french sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past. He was schooled traditionally, took a craftsman-like approach to his work, and desired academic recognition,

Auguste Rodin 1840-1917 | Pianist's Hands

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:13:54 PST

François-Auguste-René Rodin, known as Auguste Rodin was a french sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past. He was schooled traditionally, took a craftsman-like approach to his work, and desired academic recognition, although he was never accepted into Paris's foremost school of art. Sculpturally, Rodin

La donna implorante...| Camille Claudel 1864-1943

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:11:55 PST

L’Implorante, fa parte del gruppo scultorio L'Âge Mûr - L'età matura, una delle sculture più conosciute della Claudel, sia per lo stile che per la maestosità di cui vi è una versione in gesso ed una in bronzo. Richiestale dallo stesso Auguste Rodin 1840-1917 nel 1895, l'opera fu messa in mostra nella versione gesso nel 1899. Il gruppo scultoreo fa richiamo al Rodin stesso indeciso fra le sua

Michèle Van Cotthem 1939 | France

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:29:19 PST

Michèle Van Cotthem est née le 5 novembre 1939 à Revin (Ardennes). Ecole des Beaux-arts de Lyon. Première exposition à Lyon en 1962. Sociétaire du Salon d'Automne de Paris. Vice-présidente de la Société Lyonnaise des Beaux-arts.Participe aux principaux salons et obtient les plus grandes récompenses.

Mark Mawson | British photographer | Paint Dropped In Water

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:45:21 PST

Mark has recently returned to London after living in Sydney for several years. He is an international award-winning photographer with 21 years of experience in capturing a full spectrum of people and places. Mark specialises in shooting fashion & people underwater and his latest personal series 'Aqueous Fluoreau' has gone viral. He is represented by several galleries and his personal work is

Edgar Degas 1834-1917 | French impressionist | Ballet dancers

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:46:28 PST

Among the supreme masterpieces of the century are Degas's pictures of the ballet and its dancers. The impulse towards painting the contemporary scene came to him not only from Courbet and Manet but from his friend, the critic Duranty, the exponent of the aesthetics of naturalism. Yet in the particular direction of his tastes and his conception of design he was entirely individual. To study and

Edgar Degas 1834-1917 | French impressionist | Sculpture

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:14:01 PST

Degas's only showing of sculpture during his life took place in 1881 when he exhibited The Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer, only shown again in 1920; the rest of the sculptural works remained private until a posthumous exhibition in 1918. Degas scholars have agreed that the sculptures were not created as aids to painting, although the artist habitually explored ways of linking graphic art and

Edgar Degas 1834-1917 | French impressionist | Paintings

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:54:08 PST

Edgar Degas, born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, was a french artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist. A superb draughtsman, he is e...specially identified with the subject of the dance, and over half his works depict dancers. These

Joaquín Sorolla 1863-1923 | Realist/Impressionist painter

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:06:21 PST

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida was a spanish painter, born in Valencia, who excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the sunlight of his native land. Joaquin Sorolla was the eldest child born to a tradesman, also named Joaquin, and

Alain Picard | Fine artist and portrait painter

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:55:40 PST

Alain Picard earned a BA in illustration from Western CT State University and went on to study at the Art Student's League in New York City. Picard cites Sargent, Degas, and Sorolla among his artistic influences. A love of light and beauty are immediately apparent in his pastel and oil paintings. Alain's work has been featured in such publications as The Artist's Magazine and The Pastel Journal

Chi non ha pane, ma compera fiori, è un poeta...

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:10:32 PST

I fiori della primavera sono i sogni dell'inverno raccontati, la mattina, al tavolo degli angeli. Khalil Gibran Vladimir Kush Camille Pissarro 1830-1903 Cary Ennis Pierre Auguste Renoir 1841-1919 Lucia Sarto Michael Cheval Willem Haenraets Abbott H. Thayer 1849-1921 Alexei Antonov Alexei Antonov August Macke 1887-1914 Bertalan Karlovszky 1858-1938

Rusudan Petviashvili 1968 | Georgia

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:57:01 PST

Rusudan Petviashvili was born in Tbilisi on the 25th of January, 1968. She started to paint when she was one year and ten months old. The first personal exhibition was held when she became 6. Up to the hundred of her graphic and colour pictures were exhibited: the large-formatted, highly complicated one-touch drawings, mostly. Scholars, as well as the wide society, were bewildered to see an

André Martins De Barros | Surrealist french painter

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:52:27 PST

"I grew up in Pau, a small town located in the foothills of the Pyrenees. At a very early age I discovered my passion and talent for drawing and painting. Today I paint in mystudio located in the renowned Montmartre district of Paris, just a few blocks from the Moulin Rouge. The conflict of man fighting his fellow man, the role of nature, and the struggle for existence are all constant themes

Benozzo Gozzoli 1421-1497 | Late Gothic and Renaissance painter

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:54:22 PST

Benozzo Gozzoli è stato un pittore italiano. Nacque intorno al 1421 nel villaggio di Sant'Ilario a Colombano, presso la Badia a Settimo, Scandicci. Nel 1427 si trasferì con la famiglia a Firenze. Le ipotesi sulla sua prima formazione degli storici dell'arte risultano piuttosto discordanti: l'ipotesi più accreditata sembrerebbe quella di Giorgio Vasari, secondo il quale, Benozzo sarebbe stato

Max Weber 1881-1961 | Cubist american painter

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:36:31 PST

Max Weber was a jewish-american painter who worked in the style of cubism before migrating to Jewish themes towards the end of his life. Born in a polish city of Białystok, then part of Russian Empire, he immigrated to America with his parents at the age of 10. He studied art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn under Arthur Wesley Dow. In 1905 he had saved enough money to travel to Paris and

Rembrandt Van Reijn 1606-1669 | Dutch Golden Age

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:25:58 PST

Rembrandt was probably the most influential painter of the Dutch Golden Age, and is considered one of the greatest artists of all time. Born to a noble family in the Netherlands, Rembrandt had attended latin school but his inclination for art led him to apprentice as a painter. When he was just 18 he bought a studio and shared it with a colleague after training under two influential artists of

Alexander Saidoff 1970 | Russian painter

noreply@blogger.com (maria laterza) — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:23:54 PST

Saidoff was born in 1970 in Pavlovsk, Dagestan, Russia. Alexander’s family belonged to a clan which at one point ruled the mountainous region in Dagestan, but which eventually dissipated through a long series of feuds with other clans. His family abounded with artistic talent; many of its members were dancers, singers, musicians, and painters. As a child, Alexander had no desire to follow his