December 7, 2015, 4:10 pm
Henry Ossawa Tanner,
(born June 21, 1859, Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.-died May 25, 1937, Paris, France),
American painter who gained international acclaim for his depiction of landscapes and biblical themes.
After a childhood spent largely in Philadelphia, Tanner began an art career in earnest in 1876, painting harbour scenes, landscapes, and animals from the Philadelphia Zoo. In 1880 Tanner began two years of formal study under Thomas Eakins at Philadelphia’s prestigious Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), where he was the only African American.
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December 8, 2015, 10:23 am
Albert Julius Olsson (
1 February 1864 - 7 September 1942) was a
British maritime artist and keen yachtsman. He was born in Islington, London, to a Swedish father and an English mother. Olsson cruised with his yacht most summers, and The Studio commented: '
He knows the way from the Scillies to the Isle of Wight as most men know their way to the nearest railway station'.
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December 8, 2015, 12:35 pm
Maggie Taylor (
born in Cleveland, Ohio) is an artist who works with digital images. She won the Santa Fe Center for Photography's Project Competition in 2004. Her work has been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe and is represented within the permanent collections of several galleries and museums. She is the third wife of
American photographer, Jerry Uelsmann.
She produces prints by scanning objects into a computer using a flatbed scanner, then layering and manipulating these images using Adobe Photoshop into a
surrealistic montage.
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December 8, 2015, 2:45 pm
Cornelia Hernes was born and raised in Norway until the age of twelve when her family moved to Africa where Cornelia went to boarding schools in Kenya and Tanzania. Much of her fascination with exploring the human condition through her paintings can be attributed to her early exposure to different cultures. Her work is centered on portraying and evoking a large scope of emotions, ultimately with the aim of celebrating life.
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December 9, 2015, 6:22 am
Pope Francis inaugurated a special year of Mercy at the Vatican on Tuesday but fears of terrorism meant that the crowds in St Peter’s Square were much more modest than expected.
The Vatican had hoped that up to 100,000 people would take part in an open-air Mass in the huge
Renaissance piazza, but in the end an estimated 40,000 people attended.
Pope Francis inaugurates special Year of Mercy. The Jubilee Year of Mercy is intended to show a more open, merciful side of the Roman Catholic Church, in keeping with the message pushed by Pope Francis since he was elected in March 2013.
Jubilee years are normally held every 25 or 50 years but popes are able to announce special jubilees in between if they choose.
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December 9, 2015, 2:35 pm
Eduard Gordeev /Эдуард Гордеев is a talented photographer who lives and works in St. Petersburg, Russia. He creates artistic landscape photo series of his beloved city St. Petersburg. These magnificent cityscape images look impressive and atmospheric with a bit of effect of acrylic paintings. These urban streets seem drenched in mystery and rain.
His captures look as if they were acrylic paintings. The reflections of city lights and all melting colors turn them into extraordinary pieces of art.
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December 10, 2015, 12:40 pm
Born in Guyana, South America, Denise Henley first realized her artistic passion at the tender age of eight. She spent much of her young life immersed in drawing.
As an adolescent, she moved to the United States to study art and after obtaining a B.A in Visual Arts, went on to pursue a career as an artist.
While she works in several mediums and subject-matters, her passion lies in capturing the beauty of the human figure. A constituent of realism, she continuously strives to perfect her drawing skills, believing it to be the backbone of the portrait process.
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December 11, 2015, 8:06 am
The
Florentine sculptor Pasquale Romanelli achieved an international reputation for his finely carved mythological and biblical marble figures. Romanelli began his training at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence under Luigi Pampaloni but was soon taught by the foremost Tuscan neoclassical sculptor,
Lorenzo Bartolini. Remaining in Bartolini’s favour, he went on to become his collaborator and, upon the master’s death in 1850, the successor of his studio. Romanelli’s mythological and allegorical compositions were highly prized by a cosmopolitan clientele, and he exhibited select models in Paris.
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December 11, 2015, 8:29 am
"As soon as Perseus, great-grandson of Abas, saw her fastened by her arms to the hard rock, he would have thought she was a marble statue" – Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book IV
With Andromeda and the sea monster
Romanelli chose a subject that had fascinated artists since the
Renaissance. The myth is best known from Ovid’s dramatic account in his Metamorphoses. The poet tells of the Aethiopean princess, whose mother, Queen Cassiopeia, boasted that her daughter was more beautiful than Poseidon’s Nereids. Enraged, the god of the sea sent a monstrous sea creature to devastate the coast of their Aethiopean kingdom. The distraught King consulted the Oracle of Apollo for guidance, only to be told that he had to sacrifice his daughter to the monster to put an end to its rampage.
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December 13, 2015, 1:34 pm
David Piddock has shown in an extensive number of exhibitions across England including: 'Focus on Drawing', Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, the Spectator Open at Christie's, The Gallery in Cork Street, the 'Gallery Fiction' at The Fine Art Society, London, and 'New Acquisitions' at The Museum of London.
Piddock has also exhibited internationally in Centro Modigliani, Florence and Palm Beach Contemporary Art Fair, USA.
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December 15, 2015, 1:10 pm
Michael Bilotta is an
award winning conceptual fine art photographer from the Boston area in the U.S.A. All work is 100% photographic and the imagery is created as layered composites in Photoshop. Michael has a winning entry in Canon’s Project Imagination 2012, and his work has appeared in Practical Photoshop magazine and is the April 2013 Photographer of the Month in the Italian publication JC and Art Elite.
Michael is the winner of Camera Obscura Journal's Outstanding Photo
Award, Non-Professional category for his photo "
Riddles In The Dark" as well as receiving Honorable Mention for "
The Collective" in the Professional category.
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December 15, 2015, 3:09 pm
Andrew Gifford (b. Sheffield, 1970) is now recognised as one of the most innovative landscape painters working today.
His paintings and light installations have been widely exhibited, including solo public shows at Leeds City Art Gallery (2004), Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh (2001) and Middlesbrough Art Gallery (2000). Collections include the New Art Gallery, Walsall and Chatsworth House and in private collections in Europe, USA and Japan. A monograph on the artist was published in 2005.
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December 17, 2015, 2:09 pm
Hugo Mühlig (
1854 -1929) was born in Dresden to a family of artists; his father Meno Mühlig (
1823-1873) was an accomplished Landscape and
Genre painter, as was his uncle Bernhard Mühlig (
1829-1910). He was encouraged to follow suit and received his first artistic training from his father before studying at the Dresden Academy of Art between 1877-1880 under the illustrator Viktor Paul Mohn (
1842-1911).
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December 18, 2015, 1:09 pm
Margaret Thomas was born in London on 26 September 1916. She was introduced to the world of artists, at the age of 12, by her governess Dora Salman who had been at the Slade with Ethel Walker before the Great War. She took Margaret to see Walker at her Thames-side studio and introduced her to other women artists such as Clare Atwood, Beatrice Bland and Eleanor Best.
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December 19, 2015, 1:33 pm
- I grew up in Manhattan with summers at my family’s 18th century barn house on the eastern end of Long Island. Both environments are richly embedded in my being, affecting all my artwork for the past 28 years.
Having a natural and innate propensity for art, I inevitably gravitated towards it. I drew my entire life finding my subject matter in the faces of friends and relatives or the corners of my home practicing and perfecting the rendering of whatever I saw. Then when I was in my late 20’s I decided to treat myself to what seemed almost exotic; oil painting lessons. I immediately discovered color and art buyers immediately discovered me as an expressive, passionate colorist.
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December 20, 2015, 3:22 pm
Anna Rose Bain was born and raised in rural Wisconsin. She began drawing from the moment she could pick up a pencil. Inspired by her grandfather, who started painting at the age of 70, she spent her free time as a child sketching from nature and poring over art books.
Anna studied art at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, MI, and graduated in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and departmental honors. She was the first in the school's history to have a solo senior art exhibit. She refined her education at the
Florence Academy of Art in Italy, taking a figure painting class in the summer of 2006.
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December 21, 2015, 2:44 pm
Carlo Russo was born in Philadelphia PA. He is currently based in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia, where he maintains his studio and teaches painting and drawing in addition to creating his newest works. Carlo graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2004 where he focused his studies in the methods and practices of traditional realism. Since his graduation, he has been a full-time artist and has exhibited his works in numerous galleries across the United States.
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December 22, 2015, 1:27 pm
Georgiy Alexandrovich Lapchine / Георгий Александрович Лапшин (1885-1950) was born in Moscow in 1885. In the early 1900s Georgiy Lapshin studied at the Stroganov School. In 1906-1909 he lived in Paris, studied with Cormon and J. F. Lhermitte.
Returning to Moscow, participated in the group exhibition of independence (1910), was the founder and permanent participant of "free art" (1911-1917).
In 1918-1922 works were exhibited in Moscow on the 1st and 2nd shows a picture of professional union painters in Moscow (1918), the 2nd National Exhibition of paintings (
1919), the 47th exhibition TPHV (
1922), as well as the 1st
Russian art Exhibition in Berlin (
1922). In 1924 he moved to Paris.
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December 23, 2015, 1:02 pm
Dmitry Balahonov /Дмитрий Балахонов was born February 6, 1971. From early childhood, he studied at different art schools. In 1989 he graduated from art school in the city of Bobruisk, after serving in the army engaged in the work of a professional. Since 1992 he has been working independently in the Mogilev. In 1995, goes to live abroad, working with galleries in Tel Aviv, holds solo exhibitions. In 1999 he moved to live in Mogilev, actively cooperates with many galleries and salons of Moscow and St. Petersburg, Minsk.
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December 23, 2015, 3:07 pm
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
- There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
- True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
- There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
- Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
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