Max Ernst | Terre Écossaise, 1935

"Terre Écossaise" was painted by German painter, sculptor, graphic artist and poet Max Ernst (1891-1976) in 1935.

He had served in an artillery division of the German army during world war one. This experience was deeply traumatic.

Ernst used Freuds dream theories as a way of dealing with his trauma.

This exploration of the unconscious was expressed through his art.

Boris Indrikov (Russian, 1969)

Boris Indrikov was born in in Leningrad, Russia. He graduated from the Art School as graphic designer. He worked for the Scientific Journal of Chemistry as illustrator.

In 1994 he started his career as independent painter. Boris Indrikov is a member of the International Federation of Artists of UNESCO.

His creativity is mainly expressed in a mystical realism, not seldom inspired by Eastern cultures. With an unbelievable feeling for the rythm of lines, he could have been a costume designer as well.

Most of his works are monochrome in earth colors. His works can be found in collections in Russia, Holland, Germany, France and the USA.

Didier Delamonica (French, 1950)

Delamonica born in Lille, in the north of France. His studies include "Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Industries Textiles", commencing with two careers working adjacent during several years, comprising publicite / advertising and painting. He abandoned the the first one. Now, he presents his work in ...numerous galleries all over France.

The works of Delamonica are including a number of private collections in USA and Canada, and in Europe.

Lionel Walden | Les Docks de Cardiff, 1894

"I docks di Cardiff" è un dipinto del pittore Americano Lionel Walden (1861-1933), conservato al Musée d’Orsay che ci documenta il cambiamento delle città a seguito della rivoluzione industriale.

Le stazioni ferroviarie e le locomotive a vapore avevano subito attratto i pittori, pensiamo a Turner e poi alla serie che vi dedicò Monet.

Walden dipinge la ferrovia presso il porto di Cardiff, città del Galles che nel secondo ottocento ebbe un incredibile sviluppo demografico.

Lionel Walden | Les Docks de Cardiff, 1894 | Musée d'Orsay, Parigi

Berthe Morisot | Dahlias, 1876

La maggior parte dei dipinti della Morisot include scene domestiche di famiglia, bambini, donne e fiori, raffiguranti com'era la vita delle donne alla fine del XIX secolo.

Invece di ritrarre lo spazio pubblico e la società, Morisot preferiva scene private ed intime.

Ciò riflette le restrizioni culturali della sua classe e del suo genere in quel momento.

Come la sua collega impressionista Mary Cassatt, si è concentrata sulla vita domestica e sui ritratti in cui poteva usare la famiglia e gli amici personali come modelli, tra cui sua figlia Julie e sua sorella Edma.

Eric Fortune (American illustrator)

Eric Fortune is an illustrator and gallery 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 awarded the Jack Gaughan Award for Best Emerging Artist of 2009. Lyrical, haunting, yet poignant at the same time, Eric Fortune’s paintings make lasting impressions.

Frants Diderik Bøe - Norwegian Still Life painter

Boris Dubrov (Russian, 1979)

Boris Dubrov was born in St. Petersburg. At the age of five he surprised his parents by his unique art abilities. So, they decided to take him to the Art school where he got necessary knowledge of painting and graphics which he later developed on a professional level.

In 1994 Boris entered the Art-Restoring Lyce...um "Kupchino" where while studying he got interested in surrealisme. The Administration of this Lyceum arranged the first exhibition of his works in the field of surrealisme.

Edward Hopper | Room in Brooklyn, 1932

"Room in Brooklyn" è una delle numerose opere d'arte di Hopper che raffigurano un individuo che guarda fuori dalla finestra la città.

In questo dipinto, una donna è seduta su una sedia a dondolo accanto a una pittoresca finestra del suo appartamento, guardando il paesaggio urbano di Brooklyn.

Hopper ha cercato di catturare la condizione umana in una città moderna e mostrare l'effetto della modernità che spesso può portare all'isolamento e alla solitudine.

Edward Hopper | Room in Brooklyn, 1932 | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Ettore Aldo Del Vigo (Swiss, 1952)

Ettore Aldo Del Vigo è nato a Basilea in Svizzera. Dopo aver conseguito il diploma di di grafica editoriale in una tipografia specializzata in libri e cataloghi d' arte dove ha modo tra gli altri di conoscere Max Ernst uno dei padri del surrealismo si trasferisce in Sardegna dove entra in contatto con vari artisti locali partecipa a numerosi concorsi e collettive d' arte.

Nel 79 allestisce con successo la sua prima personale cui fanno seguito altre esposizioni, nel 2000 esegue una serie di dipinti per la chiesa di S. Paolo Apostolo in Sassari tra cui la Pala dell'Altare e nel 2004 l'Ambasciata Italiana a Londra gli commissiona una serie di opere da installare nella sala da ricevimento. Attualmente vive e lavora a Sassari.

Sandra Bierman, 1938

Sandra Bierman è nata a Brooklyn, New York, ma dall'età di 4 anni è cresciuto in Oklahoma, Texas e Maryland.

Suo padre era un Immigrata svedese e sua madre una contadina del Texas. È stata allevata come a figlia di sua nonna in parte Cherokee.

Le borse di studio d'arte sono iniziate all'età di 11 anni.

Sandra è sposata con il professore di fisica in pensione Arthur Bierman, e loro vivono a Boulder, in Colorado dal 1988.

William Whitaker | Drawing

The only son of an artist father, William Whitaker grew up in the special world of the working artist. He had access to the finest art materials and was painting in watercolor and oil at the age of six.

His fondest early memories are of the sights sounds and smells of the art studio. He has been a professional artist since 1965, during which time he has conducted workshops and been a university art professor.

He continues to work with one or two advanced student artists for fun. He paints about three or four hours every day ands spends the rest of the time trying not to ruin any good work he's done.

Robert Doesburg, 1945

- "Sono nato a Rotterdam nei Paesi Bassi.

Dipingo per tutta la vita, ma a tempo pieno dal 1995.

La mia specialità è lo stile quadrato.

Ho sviluppato questo stile da solo.

Lavorare in questo stile mi dà tutte le opportunità di utilizzare molti più colori, mostrando effetti sorprendenti ed immagini scintillanti, indipendentemente dal soggetto".

Arturo Ferrari | Via San Bernardino in Milano, 1912

Arturo Ferrari (Milan, 1861-1932) was an Italian painter.

Initiated into artistic studies by his father Cesare, an associate of Luigi Scrosati, and the painter Mosè Bianchi from Lodi, Arturo Ferrari completed his training at the Brera Academy under the guidance of Giuseppe Bertini from 1877-1884 while working in the studio of Gerolamo Induno at the same time.

He made his debut at the Esposizione di Belle Arti di Brera in 1879 with a view of the interior of Milan Cathedral, thus inaugurating the repertoire of Milanese perspective views that was to be a constant feature of his vast production of oil paintings and watercolours.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | The Lovers, 1875

The resting couple of lovers amidst nature in The Lovers painting is rendered dynamically by quickly alternating colourful spots that imitate the trembling atmospheric light.

The way the two figures are modelled are specific for Renoir: the actress Henriette Henriot and the painter Pierre Frank-Lamy.

Renoir held a special position among impressionists, mostly landscape painters, because he frequently focused on figural topics. | Source: © National Gallery Prague

Gioia Cordovani - Portrait painter

Gioia Cordovani is an talented Italian painter born in Tanzania. Lives and works in Rome. Since the 80s and up to 2006 she worked as a fashion designer and costume designer. Cordovani like to dig souls characters, leaving the viewer task to find the source through which the inner world of the woman comes out: look, shadow, light, or any other part of her image. The artist expresses himself through mixed techniques, more often, on the basis of acrylic.

Leopold Schmutzler | La vendangeuse

Leopold Schmutzler (1864-1940) was born in Mies. His father was a saddler and innkeeper, who also gave him his first drawing lessons. Originally, he planned to attend the "Naval School of Music" in Pula, but was turned down for poor eyesight.

From 1880 to 1882, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna with Christian Griepenkerl (the person who later rejected Hitler's application to the Academy).

After that, he transferred to the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and studied with Otto Seitz. He settled there after his graduation in 1885.

Bartholomeus van der Helst | The Musician, 1662

Tuning the strings of her theorbo-lute, a beautiful musician directs an engaging glance at the viewer.

The foreground of the picture displays a viola da gamba and sheet music for tenor and soprano voices, suggesting that the lute player anticipates a duet.

Dutch painters of the seventeenth century frequently associated music-making and courtship with amateur concerts, providing opportunities for mingling and flirtation. | Source: © Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bartholomeus van der Helst | The Musician, 1662 | Metropolitan Museum of Art

Andreas Achenbach | Fisher Couple on the Beach, 1910

Andreas Achenbach (1815-1910) was a German landscape and seascape painter in the Romantic style.

He is considered to be one of the founders of the Düsseldorf School.

His brother, Oswald, was also a well known landscape painter.

Together, based on their initials, they were known as the "Alpha and Omega" of landscape painters.

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun | Genius of Alexander I, 1814

"Genius of Alexander I" a remarkable painting created by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) in 1814. The artwork can be found in the prestigious Collection of State Hermitage, located in St. Petersburg, Russia.

In this neoclassical masterpiece, Vigee Le Brun skillfully portrays the essence and power of Alexander I, who was the ruler of France at that time.

The artist's attention to detail is evident as she captures every intricate feature with precision on canvas using oil paints.

Andreas Achenbach | Fischmarkt in Ostende

Andreas Achenbach (1815-1910) was a German landscape painter, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting and born in Kassel.

He began his art education in 1827 in Düsseldorf under Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow at the Düsseldorf Academy of Painting.

He studied at St Petersburg and travelled in Italy, Holland and Scandinavia.

Boris Kustodiev | Pittore accademico

Boris Michajlovič Kustodiev / Борис Михайлович Кустодиев (Astrachan', 7 marzo 1878 - Leningrado, 28 maggio 1927) è stato un pittore e scenografo Russo.

Gioventù

Boris Kustodiev nacque ad Astrachan', nella famiglia di un professore di filosofia, storia della letteratura e logica presso il locale seminario teologico.

Suo padre morì giovane, ed il peso del mantenimento della famiglia ricadde sulle spalle della madre.

La famiglia Kustodiev affittò una piccola ala della casa di un ricco mercante.

Joshua Burbank, 1968 | Mixed media painter

Originally from California, Joshua Burbank graduated from San Francisco art school in the year 2000.

As an apprentice he worked under the noted sculptor Al Farrow, whose artwork adorns the cover of 2013 David Bowie single The Stars.

He has exhibited once with The Outsiders, at 2013's solo exhibition.

Sandro Botticelli | Madonna of the Pomegranate, 1487

The Madonna of the Pomegranate was painted in circa 1487 with tempera on a wood panel by Sandro Botticelli.

It is now in the Uffizi in Florence.

Sandro Botticelli was a leading Italian Renaissance artist from Florence, Italy.

The Madonna (art) uses the circular format, better known as a tondo, which focuses the attention on the main characters, the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus, who are surrounded symmetrically by angels on each side.

Sandro Botticelli | The Virgin and Child with a Pomegranate, 1480-1500

The Virgin Mary stands with her infant son, Christ, in the corner of a large but sparsely decorated room.

He is balanced on a small table, the only piece of furniture, but is dangerously close to its edge; a closed book further restricts the space available to him.

The Virgin uses both hands to support his left leg as he leans forward. His translucent robe hardly provides protection.

The grey colour of the walls evokes a sandstone known as pietra serena, a common building material in Renaissance Florence.

Sandro Botticelli | The Virgin and Child with a Pomegranate, 1480-1500 | National Gallery, London

Hugo Salmson | Something in the air

Hugo Fredrik Salmson (1843-1894) was a Swedish painter, known for figures and genre scenes.

Salmson was born in Stockholm, Sweden.

He was the son of Fredrik Ludvig Salmson, a wholesaler, and his wife Maria Perlberg. He initially studied business, but soon decided on an artistic career.

In 1862, he began his studies at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts where he was trained by Johan Christoffer Boklund.

Albrecht Dürer | The Madonna with the Iris, 1500-10

The Virgin Mary breastfeeds the infant Christ in a walled garden surrounded by flowers.

God the Father, a small figure radiating light, appears in the sky above.

The image of the Virgin and Christ Child in a garden was derived from the poetic imagery of the Song of Solomon, a book of the Old Testament.

In it, a woman is described as a lily and a rose as well as an enclosed garden (which, when associated with Mary, came to symbolise her virginity).

Eduardo Naranjo, 1944

Eduardo Naranjo, uno dei più grandi pittori Spagnoli, è nato a Monastero (Badajoz).

Incontra nel 1957 il suo maestro Eduardo Acosta e si iscrive alla Scuola di Arti e Mestieri, dove studia fino al 1960.

Nello stesso anno entrò alla Scuola di Belle Arti di Santa Elisabetta d'Ungheria.

Nel 1961 si trasferisce a studiare alla Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando di Madrid, ed è lì che la sua formazione termina con la pittura.

Ambrogio Alciati | The kiss, 1917

The Italian Ambrogio Alciati (1878-1929) was a well-known portrait painter at the beginning of the 20th century, who mainly found his clients among the wealthy Milanese bourgeoisie.

He owed his popularity to his talent to get through to the character of those portrayed.

This gift led in his free work - especially female figures and genre pieces - to the expression of deeply felt human emotions such as passion and emotion.

Antonio Ambrogio Alciati | Convegno, 1918 | Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania

Nato a Vercelli nel 1878, Antonio Ambrogio Alciati (1878-1929) si trasferisce con la madre e la sorella nel 1879 a Milano per frequentare l’Accademia di Brera, dove riceve gli insegnamenti di Vespasiano Bignami, Giuseppe Mentessi e Cesare Tallone.

Quest’ultimo lo aiuta a perfezionarsi nel ritratto, introducendolo fra la ricca borghesia milanese.

Tra il 1902 e il 1910 esegue una serie di quadri d’ispirazione romantica e familiare, ma si dedica anche alla decorazione di chiese e ville lombarde, mentre nel secondo decennio del secolo il suo stile si evolve abbandonando le tonalità sfumate e la gamma spenta che rasenta il monocromo, per acquistare gradatamente un maggior vigore costruttivo e un vivace cromatismo.

Odilon Redon - Still Life

George Henry Boughton | A spring idyll, 1901

George Henry Boughton RA (1833-1905) was an Anglo-American landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer.

Boughton was born in Norwich in Norfolk, England, the son of farmer William Boughton. The family emigrated to the United States in 1835, and he grew up in Albany, New York where he started his career as a self-taught artist. At this early stage, he was influenced by the artists of the Hudson River School.

Emma Ekwall [1838-1925]

Emma Ekwall-Scheutz was the first Swedish woman - painter, received the Royal Medal. She was born on January 18, 1838. After graduating from the Academy of Painting, where she studied from 1865-1870, lived for a time in Munich and Leipzig. She painted mostly portraits of their children, floral still lifes and genre scenes. She died in 1925 in Stockholm.

Paul Gauguin | Seated breton girl, 1889

A pioneer of the Symbolist art movement in France, Paul Gauguin is famous for his sumptuous paintings of bathers, Tahiti and its inhabitants, and haystacks in the Breton landscape - all of which set the stage for Fauvism and Expressionism.

While he was originally associated with the Impressionists in Paris, Gauguin began to seek out more so-called “primitive” subject matter.

La Cappella di Giotto

La Cappella intitolata a Santa Maria della Carità, affrescata tra il 1303-1305 da Giotto su incarico di Enrico degli Scrovegni costituisce uno dei massimi capolavori dell'arte occidentale.

La narrazione ricopre interamente le pareti con le storie della Vergine e di Cristo, mentre nella controfacciata è dipinto il grandioso Giudizio Universale, con il quale si conclude la vicenda della salvazione umana.

L'edificio era originariamente collegato al palazzo di famiglia, fatto erigere dopo il 1300, seguendo il tracciato ellittico dei resti dell'arena romana.

Da quando, nel 1880, la Cappella è stata acquisita dalla città di Padova, gli affreschi sono stati continuamente oggetto di particolari attenzioni e, nell'Ottocento e nel Novecento, sono stati compiuti svariati interventi conservativi.

Paul Gauguin | A seashore, 1887

Paul Gauguin's (1848-1903) paintings characterized by vivid colors and Symbolist themes, would prove highly successful among the European viewers for their exploration of the relationships between people, nature, and the spiritual world.

Gauguin's art became popular after his death, partially from the efforts of dealer Ambroise Vollard, who organized exhibitions of his work late in his career and assisted in organizing two important posthumous exhibitions in Paris.

George Tsui, 1950

George Tsui è nato a Hong Kong e si è trasferito a New York alla fine degli anni '60, studiando prima alla Scuola di Arti Visive e successivamente specializzandosi in petrolio dipingendo alla Art Students League mentre lavorava alla NBC, gli è stato assegnato il premio prestigioso Emmy Award 1997 per la migliore arte ed artigianato individuale.

Incluso in sue opere di quel periodo sono alcune locandine cinematografiche, anche diversi dipinti scelto per la serie di poster delle Olimpiadi invernali del 1984, oltre che in edizione limitata stampe artistiche in edizione per l'evento "La notte delle 100 stelle" del 1985 e 1986 per un omaggio al Centenario dell'Actor's Fund of America, l'arte originale il lavoro con le firme di 100 celebrità era di proprietà di ABC Television Corp.

Vladimir Dunjic, 1957

Vladimir Dunjic was born in Cacak. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in the class of Professor Mladen Srbinovic in 1981.

He has been a member of ULUS, the Serbian Association of Fine Arts, since 1982.

He has also taken part in several solo and group exhibitions, both in Yugoslavia and abroad. He works and lives as a free lance artist in Belgrade.

Laura Harris | Pittrice astratta

Descritti come "meravigliosamente imperfetti", i dipinti della Laura Harris parlano ad una voce interiore spesso ignorata: con colori e texture sorprendentemente audaci, ognuno di essi ti accompagna in un viaggio che richiede contemplazione e offre scoperta.

Per lo più autodidatta, Laura ha iniziato a dipingere da adolescente.

Con il padre disegnatore che le insegnava la prospettiva e la tecnica, incoraggiava anche la libertà di espressione.