Bill Mack, 1944

Bill Mack è uno scultore e pittore Americano contemporaneo nato a Minneapolis, Minnesota.

L'impatto dell'arte di Bill Mack è ottenuto non solo dal suo drammatica rappresentazione della forma umana, ma anche mediante l'utilizzo di un'ampia varietà di materiali con cui eseguire la sua visione artistica.

Il lavoro finale emerge come un classico esempio di interazione tra forma e materiali.

Per Bill Mack da oltre 35 anni realizza sculture in rilievo ea tutto tondo per collezioni statali, aziendali e private. La sua arte resta gallerie in quattro continenti e ha esposto a Tokyo, in Inghilterra, Francia e Germania.

Aureliu Prodan (Moldavia, 1968)

Aureliu Prodan è nato nella famiglia del conservatore di dipinti, Serafim Prodan di Chisinau, Repubblica di Moldavia.

Ha ricevuto le sue prime lezioni d'arte da suo padre.

Fin da piccolo amava andare al Museo d'Arte dove lavorava suo padre, per ammirare i quadri esposti.

Era affascinato dai dipinti dei pittori russi, olandesi ed italiani.

Jan Van Huysum (1682-1749) | Pittore di fiori

Jan van Huysum, o Huijsum (Amsterdam, 1682-1749), è stato un pittore e disegnatore Olandese, specializzato nella pittura di fiori e frutta.

Figlio di Justus van Huysum I, pittore di fiori e paesaggi, dipingeva paesaggi classici, ma è famoso per essere, assieme a Rachel Ruysch, un importante esponente della pittura floreale olandese, tradizione che portò avanti fino alla metà del XVIII secolo dipingendo nature morte con fiori e frutta.

Questo particolare tipo di natura morta, nasce dalla passione, tutta olandese, per la natura e in particolare per i fiori.

Gli elementi naturali diventano protagonisti dell'arte, non mere decorazioni accanto a soggetti più importanti, come ad esempio soggetti storici o religiosi.

Daniel Densborn, 1946

Danile Densborn è un pittore Francese.

Originario della Lorena, vive e lavora da diversi anni ad Aix-en-Provence.

Nel corso degli anni, l'artista si concentra sul perfezionamento della sua tecnica per rappresentare il movimento, che gioca un ruolo principale nel suo lavoro.

André Martins De Barros, 1942 | Il moderno Arcimboldo

André Martins De Barros è un pittore Francese che è nato ai piedi dei Pirenei, nella cittadina di Pau, vicino al confine con la Spagna.

Attualmente vive e lavora a Parigi, nei pressi del Moulin Rouge.

Un moderno Arcimboldo usa fantasiosi innesti di corpi umani, animali o oggetti, per creare i volti dei suoi bizzarri personaggi.

Ha eseguito i suoi primi quadri nel 1957 poi, dopo una ricerca classica, astratta, espressionista, tornò ad una modalità classica per sfociare in una rappresentazione in cui si mescolano messaggio e riflessione filosofica.

Bec Winnel | Fashion

Bec Winnel - Artist, Illustrator and experimenter: "I enjoy creating beautiful and detailed portraits of imaginary women in imaginary worlds that celebrate the feminine spirit.

My 'girls' are often accompanied by elements of nature, fantasy and items from bygone eras.

My colour palette is mostly soft, subdued pastels, and my mediums include pencil, pastel, watercolour and acrylic.

To further enhance the mystery, my girls are often fading into or out of the background, as if they are nearly there, speaking to you from a distant place.

Whilst I love creating my girls, I also enjoying experimenting in all creative forms including abstract painting, exploring colour, texture, pattern and various subject matters".

Benozzo Gozzoli (1421-1497)

Benozzo Gozzoli, Benozzo di Lese di Sandro 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 discepolo di Beato Angelico.

Dal Vasari, oltre le poche notizie sulla vita di Benozzo, riceviamo anche il nome con cui lo conosciamo, il vero nome del pittore era infatti Benozzo di Lese, ribattezzato poi dal Vasari, nella seconda stesura delle Vite 1568, come Benozzo Gozzoli.

Alexander Saidoff, 1970

Saidoff è nato nel a Pavlovsk, in Daghestan, Russia. La famiglia di Alessandro apparteneva ad un clan che a un certo punto governava la regione montuosa in Daghestan, ma che alla fine si dissolse attraverso una lunga serie di faide con altri clan.

La sua famiglia abbonda di talenti artistici; molti dei suoi i membri erano ballerini, cantanti, musicisti e pittori.

Precisionism, also known as Cubist Realism

Georgia O'Keeffe, Elsie Driggs, Francis Criss, Charles Demuth, Edward Hopper, Charles Sheeler and Herman Trunk were prominent The Precisionist Movement, also referred to as Cubist-Realists, Sterilists and Immaculates.

Precisionism was an artistic movement that emerged in the United States after World War I and was at its height during the inter-War period.

The term itself was first coined in the early 1920s.

Vincent van Gogh | A Sunday in Eindhoven, 1885

"A Sunday in Eindhoven" is a painting by Vincent van Gogh, created in Nuenen in May - September, 1885 and located at Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

Title: A Sunday in Eindhoven.

Artist: Vincent van Gogh.

Date: Nuenen, May-September 1885.

Style: Post-Impressionism.

Media: Watercolour, pen and ink, on paper

Dimensions: 20.8 cm x 29.5 cm.

Current location: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation).

Vincent van Gogh | A Sunday in Eindhoven, 1885 | Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Vincent van Gogh | The Cottage, 1885

The old cottage beneath the red evening sky presents an idyllic picture of rural life.

Van Gogh called these humble farmhouses 'people's nests'.

He felt they had a sheltering quality.

This cottage contains two houses with two front doors and a shared chimney.

Edvard Munch | Starry Night, 1893

This night landscape represents the coastline at Åsgårdstrand, a small beach resort south of Oslo in Norway, where Edvard Munch spent his summers from the 1880s onward.

Here Munch tried to capture the emotions called forth by the night rather than to record its picturesque qualities.

The color blue conveys the mysticism and melancholy of the landscape, which seems full of premonitions.

An abstract mound at the right represents a clump of trees; a white fence runs diagonally in front. The vaguely defined shape on the fence may be a shadow of two lovers, a recurring theme in Munch's work.

Edgar Degas | Miss LaLa at the Cirque Fernando Paris, 1879

Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando is an oil on canvas painting by the French Impressionist artist Edgar Degas.

Painted in 1879 and exhibited at the Fourth Impressionist Exhibition in Paris that same year, it is now in the collection of the National Gallery in London.

It is Degas's only circus painting, and Miss La La is the only identifiable person of color in Degas's works.

The special identity of Miss La La and the great skills Degas used in painting her performance in the circus made this piece of art important, widely appreciated but, at the same time, controversial.

Edgar Degas | Violinist and Young Woman, 1872

Music was a significant cultural component in nineteenth-century Parisian society.

The informal clothes and the warm sunlight suggest that this is a rehearsal.

The artist captures a moment when the musicians are interrupted and the woman turns as if searching for the source of the disturbance.

The artist differentiates the sitters' characters very succinctly.

The loosely drawn and frothily painted woman conveys the impression of surprise and slight apprehension, while the more solidly drawn man is oblivious, immersed in the tuning of his instrument. | Source: © Detroit Institute of Arts

Edgar Degas | Violinist and Young Woman, 1872 | Detroit Institute of Arts

Claude Monet | The Bridge at Argenteuil, 1874

Claude Monet | The Bridge at Argenteuil, 1874 | National Gallery of Art, Washington-DC

From a distance of ten feet or so, Monet's brushstrokes blend to yield a convincing view of the Seine and the pleasure boats that drew tourists to Argenteuil.

Up close, however, each dab of paint is distinct, and the scene dissolves into a mosaic of paint-brilliant, unblended tones of blue, red, green, yellow.

In the water, quick, fluid skips of the brush mimic the lapping surface.

In the trees, thicker paint is applied with denser, stubbier strokes.

The figure in the sailboat is only a ghostly wash of dusty blue, the women rowing nearby are indicated by mere shorthand.

Claude Monet | Lilacs, grey weather, 1873

'Lilacs, Grey Weather' was created in c.1873 by Claude Monet in Impressionism style. It is kept in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

In Lilacs, Grey Weather, Monet used muted colors for the characters, merging them into the background. Where are the legs of the man leaning on the right ? The only thing that catches the eye is the white dress of a woman.

Then, a closer look enables to distinguish the three people thanks to the black and white contrast.

The process is different in Lilacs in the Sun. Spots of light play on the dresses of the two models. Monet applied this effect in several paintings (The Luncheon, Women in a Garden, the Reader...).

Camille Monet, la musa di Monet

Camille Doncieux (15 January 1847 - 5 September 1879) was the first wife of French painter Claude Monet.

She was the subject of a number of paintings by Monet, as well as Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Édouard Manet. She was mother to two sons with Monet.

She modeled for her husband on several occasions, including for the painting Camille (The Woman in the Green Dress), which received critical acclaim at the Paris salon and earned him 800 francs when sold to Arsène Houssaye.

In addition to being Monet's favoured model, she also modelled for Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Édouard Manet.

Claude Monet | Apples and Grapes, 1879-1880

This is one of three tabletop still lifes depicting a basket of apples and grapes that Monet painted in 1879-80, when a spell of bad weather forced him to retreat indoors.

In late November 1879, his future stepdaughter Marthe Hoschedé took note of a "painting of fruits" in progress, when she recorded that Monet was "working hard at his still lifes which are very pretty". | Source: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Claude Monet | Apples and Grapes, 1879-80 | Metropolitan Museum of Art

Edward Hopper | Room in New York, 1932

Sheldon Museum of Art | Edward Hopper observed the everyday lives of city dwellers in much of his work.

In the important canvases painted between 1926 and 1932, he made use of single figures and couples to create a sense of thoughtful reticence and solitude.

Eschewing the picturesque and the literal, Hopper’s pictures remain unexplained, without narrative, instead invoking a hermetically sealed world of emotion.

In 1935 the artist remarked that the idea for Room in New York "was suggested by glimpses of lighted interiors seen as I walked along the city streets at night".

Edward Hopper | Room in New York, 1932 | Sheldon Museum of Art

Maria Jose Aguilar Gutierrez, 1964

Maria José Aguilar è nata nella città di Siviglia, nel quartiere centrale di San Lorenzo.

Ha trascorso la sua infanzia e la prima adolescenza tra la sua città natale, la baia di Cadice e le montagne di Jaén.

Fin dall'inizio ha mostrato inclinazioni artistiche e doti alimentate da un ambiente appropriato.

È cresciuta con la passione per i grandi maestri spagnoli, in particolare Velázquez, Murillo, Zurbarán e Valdés Leal, ecc.

Andrew Sterrett Conklin, 1961

Nativo di Chicago, Illinois Andrew Sterrett Conklin è un pittore figurativo.

Ha conseguito un BFA dalla American Academy of Art, ed è stato certificato in pittura presso la Scuola Nazionale Academy di New York City.

Conklin ha ricevuto ulteriori istruzioni dal ritrattista Aaron Shikler e dal pittore ed illustratore David Levine.

Jeanette Guichard-Bunel (French painter, 1957)

Jeannette Guichard-Bunel was born in Cherbourg. She wants to take her spectators on a dream like journey through her paintings.

She wants to give supremacy to reasoning so that the spectator can analyze and go beyond appearances.

She likes to establish an extra-verbal and extra sensorial communication with her public and erase the barriers of rationalism.

Her characters try to catch the spectator's eye and attract him to a world where time stands still and has boundless space. Through colors, the spectator can go cross the boundary between reality and dream along with some poetry.

Joaquin Sorolla | Siesta in the Garden, 1904

While his beautiful young daughters Maria and Elena dozed in the warm afternoon sun, Joaquín Sorolla captured this sparkling glimpse of the garden and sea coast that his family enjoyed during his summer painting campaign of 1904.

Already well known and internationally acclaimed for his pictures of the fishing folk of his native Valencia, Sorolla was determined during the early years of the new century to expand his subject matter and to broaden the audience for his light-filled paintings.

Albert Bloch (1882-1961)

Albert Bloch è nato a St. Louis, nel Missouri. Ha studiato prima arte alla St. Louis School of Fine Arts.

Nel 1901-03 ha prodotto fumetti e cartoni animati per il quotidiano St. Louis Star.

Tra il 1905-1908 lavorò come caricaturista ed illustratore per il settimanale letterario e politico The Mirror di William Marion Reedy.

La Cappella degli Scrovegni | Stile

Rispetto alle Storie di san Francesco, le scene hanno una composizione narrativa più semplice e chiara e un minor affollamento dei personaggi. Si assiste a un maggiore affinamento dei mezzi espressivi, ad una più forte padronanza della composizione per gli effetti narrativi, dei gesti, delle posture, delle espressioni, della cromìa.

Le figure hanno un volume ancora più reale che ad Assisi, avvolte da ampi mantelli attraverso cui si capisce la modellazione dei corpi sottostanti. La stesura pittorica è più morbida e densa, con un modellato più fuso che dà alle figure un risalto più pieno e meno tagliente.

Le scene hanno la solennità degna della loro sacralità, i volti e i gesti mostrano i moti più intimi dell'anima. Le figure protagoniste sono sempre maestose e importanti, in un inimitabile equilibrio tra la gravitas della statuaria classica e le eleganze della cultura gotica, con espressioni sempre concentrate e profonde.

Più libero è l'approccio alle figure di contorno, vivacissime nelle fisionomie, nei gesti e negli atteggiamenti.

San Michele trafigge Satana

Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

American painter Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th century America and a preeminent figure in american art.

Largely self-taught, Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator.

He subsequently took up oil painting and produced major studio works characterized by the weight and density he exploited from the medium.

Richard Currier (American, 1960)

Educated at the Ringling College of Art and Design, with further studies in Europe, Richard has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors.

Richard has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and is represented in several museums, as well as prestigious collections.

Currier has exhibited widely throughout the Southern United States for 20 years. He received his artistic training at the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, as well as independent studies in Amsterdam and Paris.

Renoir: "It gives my brain a rest, painting flowers"

"It gives my brain a rest, painting flowers. I don't feel the same tension as when I have a model in front of me. When I paint flowers, I put on colours and try out values boldly, without worrying about wasting a canvas. I wouldn't dare to do it with a figure; I'd be afraid of spoiling the whole thing. And the experience I gain this way is then applied to my pictures" - Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Janice Darr Cua | Pittrice di figure e cavalli

Il talento naturale di Janice Darr Cua era evidente sin dalla tenera età.

Ha iniziato i studi con Phyllis Markawitz a otto anni.

Era ben istruita in olio, disegno dal vero e scultura.

All'età di 10 anni esponeva e vendeva opere d'arte a Los Angeles.

Edouard Léon Cortès | Post-impressionist painter

Pablo Picasso | Head of a Man in El Greco style, 1899

"Head of a Man in El Greco style" painting was created in 1899 by a Spanish painter Pablo Picasso.

The original size of the painting is 34x31cm.

The painting was painted in oil painting on canvas.

This painting is currently collected at Museum Picasso, Barcelona, Spain.

Paul Klee: "A line is a dot that went for a walk"

• "The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles)".

• "Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible".

Lennette Newell | Body art photographer

Naturalist fashion photographer Lennette Newell channels a lifelong passion for Earth’s biodiversity and the magical wonder of the natural world into compelling animal portraits that afford viewers an intimate glimpse of creatures large and small. Having grown up on the high plains of western Nebraska as the daughter of a veterinarian and cattleman, Lennette creates images that explore the innate connections between subject and photographer, the common ties between the world of humans and that of animals.

Newell’s black-and-white photographs are simultaneously stark in composition yet rich in detail. Again and again, the viewer comes face to face with animal subjects that display an unexpected emotionality that lends new insight into the inner lives of these creatures.