Michelle Seo | Pencil portraits of celebrities

Born in Los Angeles, California, Michelle Seo Hongmin is an self taught Pencil artist. Michelle attracts not only celebrities, she also makes portraits of ordinary people.

Her drawings made with ordinary pencil show surprising realism and precision in each of his works.

"I started the project Golden Era at the end of July 2009 with my past Hollywood actresses drawings and i'm so happy and excited to see all of 12 ladies right in front of me... there were some times i wanted to quit being tired and lazy".

Michelle Seo Hongmin | Merlyn Monroe

Paul Cézanne | Post-Impressionist painter

Cézanne's🎨 works were rejected numerous times by the official Salon in Paris and ridiculed by art critics when exhibited with the Impressionists.

Yet during his lifetime Cézanne was considered a master by younger artists who visited his studio in Aix.

Along with the work of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, the work of Cézanne, with its sense of immediacy and incompletion, critically influenced Matisse and others prior to Fauvism and Expressionism.

After Cézanne died in 1906, his paintings were exhibited in a large museum-like retrospective in Paris, September 1907.

The 1907 Cézanne retrospective at the Salon d'Automne greatly affected the direction that the avant-garde in Paris took, lending credence to his position as one of the most influential artists of the 19th century and to the advent of Cubism.

Dan Thompson | Figurative painter

American painter🎨 Dan Thompson was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and graduated from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC.

He earned his MFA from the Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art, and supplemented his training with several additional years of private study and studio apprenticeships along the east coast of the United States.

He has been awarded🎨 two grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and has twice received the Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Award🎨 for Excellence in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Design. In 2001, Thompson won Best of Show in the American Society of Portrait Artist’s International Portrait Competition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Pablo Neruda: "Perhaps not to be is to be without your being.."

Perhaps not to be is to be without your being,

without your going, that cuts noon light

like a blue flower, without your passing

later through fog and stones,

without the torch you lift in your hand

that others may not see as golden,

that perhaps no one believed blossomed

Sir Herbert James Gunn, R.A.

Sir (Herbert) James Gunn RA (1893-1964) è stato un pittore di paesaggi e ritratti Scozzese.

Primi anni

Sir Herbert James Gunn (noto anche come Sir James Gunn) è nato a Glasgow il 30 giugno 1893, figlio di Richard Gunn, un drappeggio, e Thomasina Munro.

Ha studiato per diversi anni alla Glasgow School of Art ed all'Edinburgh College of Art.

Nel 1911, andò all'Académie Julian a Parigi dove studiò sotto Jean-Paul Laurens.

Il Realismo Magico di George Tooker

George Clair Tooker Jr. (1920-2011) è stato un pittore Statunitense.

Le sue opere sono associate al Realismo Magico, al realismo sociale, al fotorealismo ed al surrealismo.

Mario Irarrázabal, 1940

L'artista Mario Irarrázabal è nato a Santiago, in Cile. É uno scultore che dopo aver finito la scuola si trasferì negli Stati Uniti dove trascorse cinque anni nel seminario della Congregazione della Santa Croce.

Dal 1960-1964 ha studiato presso l'Università di Notre Dame dove ha conseguito la laurea in Arte e Filosogia ed il Master in Belle Arti.

Si trasferì in Italia per continuare i suoi studi di Teologia all'Università Gregoriana di Roma.

Tra il 1967-1968 studiò nella Germania occidentale con lo scultore Waldemar Otto, guidandolo nella linea dell'espressionismo figurativo tedesco.

Nel 1969 tornò in Cile, e da quel momento si dedicò alla scultura con la quale riuscì a esprimere sè stesso.

Per due anni (dal 1972-1974) insegnò scultura accademica all'Università Cattolica.