Alberto Sughi | Existential Realism painter

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Alberto Sughi (1928-2012) was born in Cesena on 5 1928. A self-taught painter, by the end of his formative years he had become one of the greatest Italian artists of his generation. He started painting in the early 1950s, choosing realism in the debate between abstract and figurative art in the immediate post-war period. Even from his early works, however, Sughi’s paintings have avoided any attempt at social moralising. They depict moments from daily life with no heroes, allowing Enrico Crispolti, in 1956, to define his work as "Existential realism".

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Vincent van Gogh | The Wheat Field series / La serie Campi di grano

March 4, 2016, 12:00 pm

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The Wheat Field is a series of oil paintings executed by Vincent van Gogh in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. All of them depict the view Van Gogh had from the window of his bedroom on the top floor of the asylum: a field enclosed by stone walls just beneath his window and excluded from normal life by the rear wall of the asylum grounds; beyond this enclosure farm land, accompanied by olive groves and vineyards, ran up to the hills at the foot of the mountain range called Les Alpilles.

From May 1889-1890, Van Gogh recorded this view in changing settings: after a storm, with a reaper in the field, with fresh wheat raising in autumn and with flowers in the spring.

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Édouard Manet | Swallows, 1873

March 4, 2016, 3:00 pm

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'Mr. Manet’s talent is made up of simplicity and justice. Without a doubt, before the incredulous nature of some of my compatriots, he will have decided to interrogate reality, all alone; he will have refused all acquired knowledge; all traditional experience; he would have wanted to take art from the beginning, which is to say, the precise observation of objects' - Émile Zola.

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Venanzo Crocetti | Figurative sculptor

March 5, 2016, 9:36 am

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Venanzo Crocetti (1913-2003) was an Italian sculptor. He was born in Giulianova, Abruzzo.

In 1938 Venanzo Crocetti received the Grand Prize in the 19th Venice Biennale. "The Door of the Sacraments" of the St. Peter's Basilica Crocetti finished in 1966.

In 1972 he was nominated as president of the Accademia di San Luca.

Crocetti received the Golden Decoration from the Italian Ministry of Education for his achievement in fine art and culture. Venanzo Crocetti Museum is a foundation in Rome dedicated to the work of the artist.

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Man-O-Matic, 1982 | Street Art painter

March 5, 2016, 2:18 pm

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Adrián Pérez Vázquez best known as Man-O-Matic is a Spanish graffiti artist based in Huelva, Spain. Man-O-Matic was born in Huelva-Spain in 1982.

It begins in the world of graffiti in 2000 developed a style of drawing free illustrated characters of his invention. This artist has changed the perception of people with his hyperrealistic drawings.

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Francisco de Goya | La maja desnuda and La maja vestida, 1820-1823

March 6, 2016, 4:12 am

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An image of Venus in the nude, lying on a green velvet divan with pillows and a spread. Legend would have it that this was the Duchess of Alba, but the sitter has also been identified as Pepita Tudó, who became Godoy´s mistress in 1797. It is listed for the first time in 1800 as hanging over a door in Manuel Godoy´s palace, but without its companion, The Clothed Maja. In 1808 it is mentioned again, along with The Clothed Maja, in the inventory which Frédéric Quillet, José Bonaparte´s agent, made of the property of Manuel Godoy, who may have commissioned it.

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Aert de Gelder | Baroque Era painter | Rembrandt’s pupil

March 6, 2016, 10:51 am

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Aert de Gelder, Aert also spelled Arent (born Oct. 26, 1645, Dordrecht, United Provinces [now the Netherlands]-died Aug. 28, 1727, Dordrecht), the only Dutch artist of the late 17th and early 18th century to paint in the tradition of Rembrandt’s late style.

De Gelder spent his life in Dordrecht, except for a period of time about 1661 when he was Rembrandt’s pupil in Amsterdam. 

His biblical paintings-e.g., Scenes from the Passion (c. 1715)-feature warm colour and atmospheric light. In his portraits-e.g., The Family of Herman Boerhave (c. 1722)-his bold, broad manner of brushwork and surface texture contrasts markedly with the refined techniques and smoothly finished canvases of his contemporaries. | © Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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Daniel Coves, 1985 | Abstract Figurative painter

March 6, 2016, 1:56 pm

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Daniel Gonzalez Coves is a Spanish artist, born in 1985. Last year he had a piece included in the BP Portrait award show in London. His compositions are simple and elegant and his use of a single light source, often dim and directly overhead add an atmosphere of melancholy to what are otherwise very formal images. His brushwork as well is economical, realistic without being needlessly fussy, showily bravura, or painstakingly meticulous. Everything here is direct, realistic and formal. They are traditional but with a modern, almost minimalist aesthetic. He earned a fine arts degree and a masters in artístic production from the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos, Valencia. Spain.

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Vladimir Muhin, 1971 | Impressionist Figurative painter

March 7, 2016, 9:54 am

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Vladimir Muhin /Владимир Мухин is an Russian Award winning painter, known for working in the Figurative style.

Muhin was born in 1971 in Karaganda a small city in the country of Kazakhstan.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Muhin see Vladimir Muhin /Владимир Мухин, 1971 | Impressionist Figurative painter.

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Kayomi Harai | Fantasy painter

March 7, 2016, 1:45 pm

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Award-winning watercolor artist Kayomi Harai has captivated collectors for years with her darling images of wide-eyed cats in precarious predicaments.

Born in Osaka, Japan, Kayomi is a self-taught artist with a unique vision. Kayomi Harai was born in Osaka, Japan and began drawing at an early age. Since early childhood, she has had a deep interest in animals, especially the big wild cats and domestic cats. As painting gave her great joy, she decided to pursue her career as an artist. Kayomi Harai worked as a commercial art illustrator and a free-lance animal portrait artist in Japan before she moved to California in 1991.

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March 8, 2016, 6:33 am

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Berthe Morisot ~ French Impressionist painter

Leonora Carrington ~ Surrealist painter and sculptor | Sculpture

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Vania Comoretti, 1975 | Hyperrealist Portrait painter

March 8, 2016, 8:59 am

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Vania Comoretti was born in Udine (Italy) in 1975.

She works and lives in Udine and Venice.

After achieving a five-year schooling certificate in Applied Arts, she attended several courses in advertising graphics and in 2004 graduated in Restoration, Painting section, at the Venice School of Fine Arts (Italy).

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Daniel González Poblete, 1944 | Figurative Realist painter

March 8, 2016, 10:10 am

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Daniel Gonzalez Poblete was born in Corral de Calatrava, Ciudad Real.

Fifteen years later, in 1959, he enters fully into the world of the painting as a copyist in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, where is forged as a painter of artists as relevant as Vázquez Díaz.

He studied at the school of Arts and crafts, where he obtained the extraordinary drawing prize. Logical is that you so that from the first moment Poblete has been as a teacher of drawing and also as an absolute Dominator of the color. Within the figuration is one of the artists, without doubt, most important in the present time.

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Zorina Baldescu, 1954 | Fantasy / Figurative painter /Illustrator

March 9, 2016, 6:15 am

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Born in Bucharest, Zorina Baldescu has been working as a children’s books illustrator for a number of years now. She specializes in creating delightful fairy tale images featuring mermaids, princesses, fairies, unicorns and more. Zorina’s images have been licensed for jigsaw puzzles and stationery products worldwide. Her images are perfect for any young girls range.

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Nancy Depew, 1955 | Figurative /Still Life /Landscape Hyperrealist painter

March 9, 2016, 8:29 am

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Known for her highly realized figurative paintings and drawings which combine traditional painting techniques with more contemporary approaches, Nancy Depew has been awarded painting fellowships from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation in 1986 and from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in 1987 and again in 2004.

Nancy Depew has been devoted to representational painting and drawing since early childhood, but began her formal education in painting at Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977. Her desire to pursue the figurative work she had begun, led her to graduate studies at the University of Albany, The State University of New York and in 1985, she received a Master of Fine Arts in Painting.

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Victoria Novak | Figurative /Still life Realist painter

March 9, 2016, 4:16 pm

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Realist painter Victoria Novak began her artistic career as an interior designer in her native Russia. For many years she enjoyed a successful career in her home city. A move to Italy, where her love of Italian Renaissance art was fostered, inspired Victoria to devote herself to painting. She began to experiment with Old Master painting techniques, but applying them within a more contemporary context. Of adopting the time honored techniques, Victoria says "At first it was more out of curiosity, but in the end I discovered a method that helps me to realize my ideas in the most satisfied way".

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Eugenio Lucas Velázquez | Romantic painter

March 10, 2016, 5:59 am

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Eugenio Lucas Velázquez (1817-1870) is, without a doubt, one of the greatest masters of 19th-century Spanish painting and is deservedly hailed as the Spanish Romantic artist who best understood the art of Goya. He became the most important and enthusiastic follower of Goya’s universe following the death of the Aragonese genius, whose essence he succeeded in assimilating to the point that it is sometimes difficult to attribute correctly works that have not been studied in great depth.

Until a few decades ago, the figure of Eugenio Lucas was steeped in ignorance and legend, and for many years this led to serious confusion about his life, his artistic personality and even his name.

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Panayiotis Beldekos /Παναγιώτης Μπελντέκος, 1962 | Abstract Figurative painter

March 10, 2016, 8:32 am

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Panayiotis Beldekos / Παναγιώτης Μπελντέκος was born in Athens in 1962. He studied Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1987‑1992) under Demosthenis Kokkinidis, Tassos Christakis and Michalis Manousakis. In 1995 he was awarded a two‑year scholarship from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation, and continued his studies in painting with Panayiotis Tetsis. Since 1992 he has been active in art education. From 1995-1998 he taught painting at the Athens College educational programs.

Individual Exhibitions

• 1998 - Athens Art Gallery, Athens
• 2003 - Landscapes I. 1999‑2002, Gallery 24, Athens;
• 2003 - Landscapes II. 2002‑2003, Gallery 24, Athens;
• 2009 - Skoufa Gallery, Athens.

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Ellen de Groot, 1959 | Realistic Figurative /Portrait painter

March 10, 2016, 9:52 am

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Ellen de Groot, born 1959 in Groningen (Netherlands) lives in Amsterdam. She loves walking and hiking, she walked in 2003 a part of the Way of St-James from the French/Spanish border to Santiago de Compostella. This was such unique experience that in May and June of this year (2005), she walked another part of the same route, from Le Puy en Velay to the Spanish border.

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Zorba's Dance /La Danza di Zorba, 1964

March 11, 2016, 6:24 am

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Zorba's Dance is a song by Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis. It is based on two traditional Cretan songs, "Armenohorianos Syrtos" and "Kritiko syrtaki", composed by Giorgis Koutsourelis. The song featured in the 1964 film Zorba the Greek /Ζορμπάς ο Έλληνας, for which Theodorakis wrote the soundtrack, and became popular around the world. It is now commonly played and danced to in Greek tavernas. The track has been recorded by many different musicians from around the world. Some of the more notable are listed below.

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