Charles Courtney Curran (1861-1942)

Nato a Hartford, Kentucky, Charles Courtney Curran ha trascorso i suoi anni formativi a Sandusky, Ohio, dove la sua famiglia si trasferì nel 1881.

Ha studiato per un anno alla Cincinnati School of Design, quindi si è trasferito a New York.

In questa città, si iscrive alla National Academy of Design ed alla Art Student League; la sua partecipazione a mostre in cui i suoi straordinari dipinti sono l'inizio di una brillante carriera.

Per perfezionare la sua formazione, parte a studiare a Parigi dove, dal 1888-1902, fu uno studente, all'Académie Julian, di Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Jules Joseph Lefebvre e Henri-Lucien Doucet.

Milt Kobayashi, 1950

Milt Kobayashi is a sophisticated painter who demonstrates a consummate mastery of design and unsentimental curiosity about people.

The fertile cross-currents of two great cultures have nurtured his art to a harmonious resolve of Western technique with Oriental color, pattern and spatial composition.

Gary Lee Price, 1955

Gary Lee Price was born in Twin Falls, Idaho. As a child Gary would sit in his room and draw. His ability to create art became his strength and his salvation. 

After graduating from Montpelier High School in Idaho, Price went on to study art at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho.

However, it was not until he was attending the Utah Technical College in Provo where he met and studied with sculptor Stan Johnson, that he was drawn to sculpture.

Anna Kincaide | Fashion painter

The works of American artist🎨 Anna Kincaide are a gateway to a world that is at once fantastical and familiar, inspired by fashion, photography, as well as elements of the decorative arts.

Juxtaposing control and spontaneous disruption, Kincaide emphasizes the hidden, internal landscape of the figures she portrays.

Kincaide's references to history and fashion are clear.

In her works we are reminded of the extravagant heights of Marie Antoinette's famous coiffure, which reached greater and greater heights in 18th century France, the iconic headdress of Egyptian queen Nefertiti🎨, the famous French Hood of Anne Boleyn, and the modest Spanish style one of Catherine of Aragon.

Vladimir Mukhin, 1971

Vladimir Mukhin’s works instantly win you over with their lyricism, refined lines, light and energy, combining rich dynamics of Art Nouveau and basics of traditional academic painting.

His works are appreciated both by professional artists and art lovers worldwide.

Master’s works can be found in art museums, galleries and private collections in Russia, USA, China, Canada, France, Holland, Germany and Australia, which is a true representative of his fine artistic talent, his thinking, professionalism and the originality of his message.

Armand Guillaumin | Figure painting

Born Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927) in Paris, he worked at his uncle's lingerie shop while attending evening drawing lessons.

He also worked for a French government railway before studying at the Académie Suisse in 1861.

There, he met Paul Cézanne🎨 and Camille Pissarro🎨 with whom he maintained lifelong friendships. While he never achieved the stature of these two, his influence on their work was significant.

Claude Emile Schuffenecker (1851-1934)

Émile Schuffenecker was a French🎨 Post-Impressionist artist, painter, art teacher and art collector.

A friend of Paul Gauguin🎨 and Odilon Redon🎨, and one of the first collectors of works by Vincent van Gogh🎨, Schuffenecker was instrumental in establishing The Volpini exhibition, in 1889.

His own work, however, tends to have been neglected since his death - and even worse, recent season campaigns in the media have reactivated resentments virulent since the late 1920s, when Schuffenecker was suspected to have imitated the work of other contemporary artists, among them, Van Gogh.

Edmund Tarbell (1862-1938)

Edmund Charles Tarbell was an American🎨 Impressionist painter.

Edmund Tarbell contributed to America's place in the world of art.

To him and his work Europe turned its eyes in admiration, as did the whole people in America.

Tarbell's works were honest works.

In him was none of the transient sensationalism which brought notoriety to others.

Anna Marinova / Анна Маринова, 1983

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Anna Marinova studied at the Saint Petersburg Roerich College of Art.

From 2004-2010 she studied at The Repin🎨 Art Institute (The Russian Academy of Arts) in workshops with professor of painting V.V. Sokolov.

She began exhibiting in 2005, and in 2008 she was awarded🎨 with the gold medal of the Russian Academy of Arts for academic excellence.

Carlos Vanderlei Pinto, 1953 | Magic Realism painter

Self-taught painter, composer and poet Carlos Vanderlei Pinto was born in Brazil.

He studied graphic arts and at 13 he won his first prize🎨 in the regional Flag Day poster competition.

Charles Conder (1868-1909)

Charles Edward Conder was an English🎨-born painter, lithographer and designer. He emigrated to Australia and was a key figure in the Heidelberg School, arguably the beginning of a distinctively Australian tradition in Western art.

His work is associated with impressionism.

Pierre-Albert Marquet (1875-1947)

Albert Marquet was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement.

He initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse.

Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturalistic style, primarily landscapes, but also several portraits and, between 1910-1914, several female figure paintings.

Albert Henry Fullwood (1863-1930)

Albert Henry Fullwood was an Australian artist who made a significant contribution to art in Australia.

He painted with Heidelberg School artists around Melbourne and moved with Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton to live and paint at their camp in Sirius Cove, Sydney.

Fullwood was the Australian official war artist to the 5th Division in the World War I.

Fullwood was born in Hockely, Birmingham, son of Frederick John Fullwood, jeweller, and his wife Emma, née Barr.

Alexandre Altmann (1885-1950)

Alexandre Altmann was a Russian-French painter🎨.

Altmann was born to a poor Jewish family in Sobolevka near Kyiv in Ukraine in 1885. At the age of eleven, Altmann ran away to Odessa where he worked variously as a tailor, shoemaker, metalworker and grocery salesman.

The painter Vlas Mikailovich Doroshevich took Altmann under his wing after noticing Altmann’s draughtsmanship and thus encouraged his pursuit of art.

Albert Dubois-Pillet | Neo-impressionist painter

Albert Dubois-Pillet (1846-1890) was a French Neo-impressionist painter and a career army officer. He was instrumental in the founding of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, and was one of the first artists to embrace Pointillism.

Albert Dubois-Pillet was a career military officer and self-taught amateur painter, closely aligned with the Neo-impressionists. Though not formally trained, various Salons accepted his still lifes for display as early as 1877.

Auguste Veillon (1834-1890)

Louis-Auguste Veillon was a Swiss painter🎨, noted for his Orientalist works.

After obtaining a degree in Reformed theology in Lausanne, he joined François Diday at his studio in Geneva, where he primarily painted seascapes and mountain scenes from the Bernese Oberland.

In 1858, he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

While in Paris, he spent a considerable amount of time in the Louvre, copying the works of the masters, especially the 17th-century Dutch masters and the work of Claude Lorrain🎨.

Hugo Simberg | Pittore simbolista

Hugo Gerhard Simberg (Hamina, 24 giugno 1873 - Ähtäri, 12 luglio 1917) è stato un pittore Finlandese di origine Svedese che aderì alla corrente simbolista.

Fu anche grafico e scultore.

Hugo Simberg fu uno dei nove figli del colonnello Nicolai Edward Simberg (1822-1915) e della sua seconda moglie Ebba Matilda Widenius (1840-1897).

Aveva anche nove fratellastri, figli di suo padre e della sua prima moglie.

Hugo Simberg | L'angelo ferito, 1903

German Aracil, 1965

Contemporary spanish artist pastelliste, German Aracil was born in Alicante. In 1985 he began his studies at the San Carlos School of Fine Art in Valencia, Spain.

Aracil's first one-man show was held in his home town of Alicante, followed in 1990 by exhibitions in New York's Liz Liberatore Gallery. Two years later he took part in the Art Miami International Art Fair.

Max Bouvet (1854-1943)

French painter Max Bouvet was born in La Rochelle. Bouvet is mainly known for his seascapes in a post-impressionist style, often illustrating Breton and Vendean panoramas.

Itzchak Tarkay (1935-2012)

Itzchak Tarkay was an Israeli artist. Tarkay was born in Subotica, on the Yugoslav-Hungarian border.

In 1944, Tarkay and his family were sent to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp, until Allied liberation freed them a year later.

In 1949, his family emigrated to Israel, living in a kibbutz for several years.

Henri Matisse: Creativity takes courage!

• "There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted" - Henri Matisse.
• "Penso che nulla sia più difficile per un vero pittore che dipingere una rosa, perché per dipingerla deve dimenticare tutte le rose che ha dipinto prima" - Henri Matisse.

Joseph Désiré Court (1797-1865)

Joseph-Désiré Court was a French painter🎨 of historical subjects and portraits.

Court was born at Rouen. He became a pupil at the École des Beaux-Arts under Gros, and after carrying off the principal honours there pursued his studies still further at Rome.

Wilhelm von Gegerfelt | Skagen painter

Wilhelm von Gegerfelt, also Vilhelm von Gegerfelt (1844-1920) was a Swedish painter.

Born in Gothenburg, Gegerfelt was the son the architect Victor von Gegerfelt (1817-1915).

From 1861-1863, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy, at the Royal Swedish Academy from 1864-1867, and thereafter in Düsseldorf until 1872.

Johann Till the Younger (1827-1894) Genre painter

Johann Till the Younger was an Austrian🎨 19th Century painter.

Johann Till the Younger trained in Vienna under his father Johann Till the Elder (1800-1889).

His father’s predominant interests were historical scenes.

Johann Till the Younger studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna under Leopold Kupelwieser (1796-1862) and Christian Ruben (1805-1875).

Cafiero Filippelli | Macchiaioli painter

Cafiero Filippelli (1889-1973) was an Italian painter.

Born into a family of modest income in Livorno, Cafiero Filippelli started working at a very young age, but still managed to gain his diploma at the Scuola d’Arte e Mestieri.

Thanks to a scholarship he then went to the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, where he got to know Giovanni Fattori and Galileo Chini.

Lino Selvatico (1872-1924) | Belle Ѐpoque painter

Lino Selvatico was an Italian painter🎨.

His father, Riccardo was a lawyer, poet, comedic dramatist and politician, who intended his son to become a lawyer and legislator.

Lino's brother, Luigi Selvàtico (1873-1938), was also a painter.

Luigi was nicknamed il gobbo Selvatico due to his physical ailment.

Jerrard Gems | Vintage flower

"Perfumes are the feelings of flowers".
"I profumi sono i sentimenti dei fiori" - Heinrich Heine

"I paint flowers so they will not die".
"Dipingo i fiori così che non moriranno" - Frida Kahlo

"A flower blossoms for its own joy".
"Un fiore sboccia per la sua stessa gioia" - Oscar Wilde

Stojan Milanov, 1963

Stojan Milanov è nato a Belgrado, in Serbia.

È un pittore professionista dal 1985 e membro di ULUPUDS dal 2005.

I suoi temi sono la figura umana ed il paesaggio urbano, la tecnica: olio su tela.

Laureato presso l'Università di Architettura di Belgrado.

Ha partecipato a numerose mostre collettive e incontri d'arte.

Nel 2005, è stato premiato "Artista dell'anno" dalla Simic Galleries, California.

Annick Redor, 1952

For over 35 years Annick Redor has accumulated awards🎨 and exhibitions, both in France and abroad.

French painter🎨 Annick Redor was born in Nantes.

She graduated from the School of Fine Arts, she studied the technique of old masters in the Paris studio, the year she lived in Russia, where interested in iconography, and then there was a period of travel in Europe and America, a six-month trip to Africa, more than a year lived in a remote village in Gabon, and finally decided to go own way in art and find your own handwriting brush.

Joseph Bail (1862-1921) | Genre painter

Joseph Bail was born in Limonest in the Rhone region of France. His father, Jean-Antoine Bail, was a genre painter influenced by the Dutch masters, and he focused his attention on depicting scenes from domestic life.

Bail received his early training from his father and later studied in the studios of Jean Léon Gêrome and Carolus-Durand, two of the leading figures of the Parisian Academy of Fine Arts.

Victor Gilbert (1847-1935)

Victor Gabriel Gilbert was a French painter🎨 mostly known for their Parisian scenes and portraying market scenes there.

He studied with Victor Adam (1801-1866) and subsequently with the Charles Busson (1822-1908).

In 1889 he was awarded🎨 a silver medal in the Societe Artistes Français, and a Bonnat prize in 1926, at the end of his career.

Susan Rios, 1950 | Romantic designer

Serene settings, gentle harmonies, soft, inviting rooms, lush, floral gardens, quiet seas that evoke tranquility - artist Susan Rios’ distinctive style is evident in every image she paints.  

Susan resides in Southern California, amidst rooms very reminiscent of the images she paints.

Paul Bond, 1964

Award-winning artist Paul Bond was born in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Bond’s art lives in the spaces between dreaming and reality.

Drawing from the Latin American genre of Magic Realism, his paintings merge symbolic, surreal and allegorical elements with realistic atmospheres.

Jarek Kubicki, 1976 | 32nd day of Covid-19 Quarantine

"In recent days", says Polish painter Jarek Kubicki, "in Poland there have been many reports of police abuse in connection with quarantine, people are punished for ordinary cycling or jogging, even if they are alone and away from residential areas.

This provoked me to create a series of 32nd day of Quarantine, which refers to this situation in a light way, based on well-known works of art, while allowing to channel social frustration".

Mostafa Keyhani, 1954 | Modern impressionist painter

Mostafa Keyhani is an Award winning🎨 painter who lives and works in Toronto. His works are collected both in Canada and United States.

• Artist statement:

His work is essentially in be field of modern impressionism.

Light plays an important role in his work, as well as movement of colours.

Maurice Leloir (1853-1940) Rococo painter

Maurice Leloir was a French🎨 illustrator, watercolourist, draftsman, printmaker, writer and collector.

Leloir was the son, and pupil, of painter Auguste Leloir and watercolorist Héloïse Suzanne Colin, daughter of painter Alexandre-Marie Colin.

Leloir married Céline Bourdier, with whom he had a daughter, Suzanne Leloir, who married Philippe, the son of Pauline Savari in 1912.

Pierre Grisot (1911-1995) | Belle Époque painter

Pierre Grisot was a French🎨 post-Impressionist artist who was a member of the Parisian School of art. Grisot painted in a light hearted style that was all his own.

Whether he was painting fashionable ladies of the day or flowers, his work was always full of colour and life and was very different from the styles of his contemporary painters.

Karl Kaufmann (1843-1901)

Karl Kaufmann was an Austrian landscape and architectural painter.

Karl Kaufmann was a student at the Vienna Academy. His studies in the European North (Norway), to Holland, Germany (Franconia, Danzig, Königsberg) and often to Italy (Naples, Rome, Venice) gave him the motives for his numerous landscapes, including a remarkable number of views of Venice.

From 1900 Karl Kaufmann constantly lived in Vienna. He often signed his works using pseudonyms.

Bernard Charoy, 1931

Bernard Charoy was born to a family of artisans, in the Lorraine region on the East of France.

Bernard Charoy is a brilliant talented figurative artist, who has continued to follow and develop his creativity instincts for nearly half a century.

Bernard Peltriaux (1921-1999) | Art Deco painter

Bernard Peltriaux was an French painter🎨.

Born in Reims, in the northeast of France, Bernard Peltriaux went to study art in Paris in the studio of René Jaudon.

Impressed with the social life of the time he developed to a typical artists of the French scene.

Empathetic, rich in detail and with a touch of exclusivity Peltriaux painted scenes at equestrian events with beautiful women, living in the bistro, at the bar and at the Lido.

Léon Zeytline (1885-1962) | Belle Époque painter

Léon Zeytline / Леон Цейтлин was a Russian-born French🎨 Impressionist and Modern painter.

Leon Zeytline studied painting, sculpture and architecture in Moscow before setting off on a tour of discovery of Europe, and Paris in particular, where his family of Russian origin settled well before the revolution.

Linda Le Kinff, 1949 | Modern Cubist painter

Linda Le Kinff was born in Paris from French and Brazilian parents.

She started her career as a painter at the age of 20.

In the 1970s she traveled to India, Tibet, Mexico and Italy.

She lived and worked in Italy for 12 years learning the ancient techniques of tempera, egg painting and the gold leaf method taught by masters in Florence and Livorno.

Vladimir Mukhin, 1971 | Ballet dancers

The founder of an magical fusion of a new genre, Vladimir Mukhin knows the material fully well, he feels the shape with the tip of his brush, he is deeply psychological yet will always find a place for a touch of good humor or gentle irony.

The structures of his compositions are very literature-intense, musical in color, with a touch of unforgettable theatrical reminiscences, which makes it unbelievably immersive.

Haynes King (1831-1904) Genre painter

Haynes King was an English🎨 genre painter. Apart from genre subjects, he painted interiors, landscapes, and coast scenes with figures.

King was born at Barbados in December 1831, son of Robert M. King by his wife Maria. Coming to London in 1854, he became a student at Leigh's (afterwards Heatherley's) Academy in Newman Street, London.

Raffaele Monti (1818-1881) | Allegorical sculptor

Raffaele Monti was an Italian🎨 sculptor, author and poet born in Milan.

He studied under his father, the noted sculptor Gaetano Matteo Monti in the Imperial Academy.

He was invited to Vienna while aged only 20 where he received extensive patronage, he subsequently returned to Milan in 1840.

In 1846 Monti travelled to England for the year, and later settled there.

Pino Daeni | Romantic painter

Giuseppe Dangelico Daeni (1939-2010) was an Italian Impressionist book illustrator and painter.

Trained in Italy at the Art institute of Bari, and later at Milan's Academy of Brera, Pino perfected his skills painting figure studies heavily influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites and Macchiaioli.

After establishing himself as a successful artist in his native land, Pino immigrated to the United States, seeking more artistic freedom and opportunity.

Pino has illustrated 3.000 books, movie posters and magazine illustrations and his style has dominated the market.

Laura Coombs Hills (1859-1952)

Laura Coombs Hills was an American artist🎨 and illustrator who specialized in watercolor and pastel still life paintings, especially of flowers, and miniature portrait paintings on ivory.

She became the first miniature painter elected to the Society of American Artists, and she was a founder of the American Society of Miniature Painters.

Wlastimil Hofman | Pittore simbolista

Wlastimil Hofman (1881-1970) era un pittore accademico Ceco-Polacco, rappresentante del simbolismo.

Era il più giovane dei sei figli di Ferdinand Hofmann e della sua moglie polacca, Teofila Muziková.

Nel 1889, la famiglia si trasferì a Cracovia, dove Wlastimil frequentò la St. Wenceslas School.

Alessandro Puttinati (1801-1872)

Alessandro Puttinati, also Putinati was an Italian sculptor.

Son of the engraver and medalist Frncesco, he was a pupil and follower of the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) in Rome.

Among his best known works are some statues for the cathedral of Milan; the statues of San Carlo and Sant'Ambrogio in San Simpliciano; the Monument to Carlo Porta (1862) which was located in the Giardini di Porta Venezia and was destroyed during the Anglo-American bombing in Milan as well, the one to Garibaldi in Luino (1867), the first dedicated statue to Garibaldi still alive and of the statue of Masaniello (1846) today at the Gallery of Modern Art (1846).

William Jabez Muckley (1829-1905)

William Jabez Muckley was a noted English artist🎨 who was born at Wordsley, Kingswinford, in Staffordshire. He was the eldest of the seven children of Jabez Muckley who was a glass artisan.

William Jabez Muckley began his career as a glass cutter with W.H.B. and J.Richardson of Wordsley and became their principal designer and engraver.

When only 22, he was responsible for much of the engraving that earned the firm considerable praise in the Great Exhibition of 1851.