October 23, 2015, 12:24 pm
Vietnamese painter Dao Hai Phong, the son of the well-known artist Dao Duc, studied at the Hanoi College of Film and Theater from 1982-1987 and won an award for his outstanding designs at the Vietnam Film Festival. His main medium is oil on canvas. Although he had painted as a hobby from the age of six, it was only after his graduation that Phong started to focus on developing his unique painting style.
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October 23, 2015, 2:52 pm
Creative artist Nino Chakvetadze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. She received art degrees from Nikoladze Art Institute (1986-1990) and Tbilisi State Academy of Art on the faculty of painting (1990-1996). And become a member of Georgian Painters’ Union in 1997.
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October 24, 2015, 6:51 am
Jordi Ezquerra Feliu was born in Barcelona, Spain and currently lives in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
Architect graduated from Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya Jordi Feliu received bachelor's and master's degree in Fine Art in The Savannah College of Art and Design.
His works participated in 98 group exhibitions and 11 personal exhibitions in Europe and the United States. In 2003 he established the "Art and Art Gallery", where he works with paintings in galleries, companies and private collectors. Feliu is considered an experimental artist and creates his works with great versatility from the use of various techniques and styles.
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October 24, 2015, 12:31 pm
Award winning and professional oil painter artist, Ingrid Christensen, was born and raised in Golden, a small town in British Columbia, Canada. She studied art and English at UBC in Vancouver and received an Education degree from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and, for a time, taught in the public school system. But art was always Ingrid's primary passion, and she quit teaching in order to pursue it wholeheartedly.
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October 25, 2015, 6:41 am
Scottish painter Gorge Henry (1858-1943), born in Ayrshire, gained his formative training at Glasgow School of Art in the early 1880s and attended informal classes at William York Macgregor's studio in Bath Street. He later studied in Paris furthering his development as a figure painter and portraitist of the utmost refinement.
A crucial formative experience for the artist was the trip that he made to Japan with Edward Atkinson Hornel 1893-1894, during which he studied Japanese graphic art and painted a number of portraits of geishas. Following his travels Henry settled in London, keeping a studio in Glebe Place in Chelsea, and made a living as a highly admired and sought after society portrait painter. | © Sotheby’s
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October 25, 2015, 2:05 pm
Jan Rijlaarsdam (1911-2008) was born in Nieuwkoop, Holland in 1911. He started painting as a young man having attended the Amsterdam Academy of Art. For many years he lived in Hilversum and is regarded as belonging to the "Het Gooi" Artist's Association and the "Het Gooi" school of art. Student of A.G. Hulshof Pol, a wellknown painter and art teacher 1883-1957. Rijlaarsdam also spent a considerable amount of time in Belgium and France. The buildings and street life of Paris were of particular interest to him.
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October 26, 2015, 4:13 am
Akira Tanaka /田中阿喜良年譜 (1918-1982) is a Japanese figurative painter who mainly worked in France. We owe him in particular numerous scenes describing the daily life of the Parisians, his main source of inspiration.
Born in Osaka in 1918, Tanaka studied at the School of Fine Arts of Kyoto (1943) before settling permanently in France in 1959 (in direct line with other Japanese artists such as Tsuguharu Foujita or Takanori Oguiss). Starting in 1955, he participates in several exhibitions (in Japan, United States, Australia as well as New Zealand) and receives in 1957 the 1st Prize of the Japanese critics («Grand Shell Prize») and the Grand Prize of the Kodobijutsu show.
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October 26, 2015, 11:18 am
Angelo Tommasi is a Naturalistic painter, influenced by
Courbet’s realism, and played an active role spreading the technique employed by the
Macchiaioli. The monumental painting
The Emigrants shows a common situation in Italy after the unification process. The burning and dramatic theme of overseas emigration is vividly depicted by the packed crowds at the Port of Livorno, people who have resigned themselves to their fate and the expectation of embarkation. The painting's extraordinary dimensions contribute to an illustration of the theme of Italian emigration on an almost epic scale.
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October 26, 2015, 5:13 pm
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October 27, 2015, 8:15 am
Gino Piccioni [
Foligno (Perugia) 1873 - Biella (Vercelli) 1941] è stato un pittore e scultore
Italiano.
Poco nota l’attività di questo pittore che, dopo avere ricevuto la propria formazione a Roma, sotto la guida di A. Vertunni e R. Franzi, soggiornò a lungo in Germania. Dai cataloghi delle esposizioni si desume che dovette concentrare la sua produzione nell'arco di un quindicennio (1899-1912), misurandosi per lo più con temi di paesaggio, non estranei a toni di compiaciuto sentimentalismo.
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October 28, 2015, 4:49 am
Italian-born
American painter Alfred S. Mira (
1900-1980) and his realistic, gritty, intimate Greenwich Village street scenes should be better known. Born in 1900 in Sicily, Italy to a carpenter father, he left school and began working for an interior decorator, dreaming of going to art school but without the 50 cents a day it cost to attend.
He did make a career out of painting though; he listed his address as East 8th Street and his occupation as painter in the 1940 census. And he sold his work at the Washington Square outdoor art exhibit, a heralded event decades ago.
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October 28, 2015, 7:52 am
Constantin Kluge /Константин Константинович Клуге (
1912-2003) was an French
award winning painter originally from Russia. Raised mostly in Manchuria and Beijing, Kluge eventually settled in Paris and became a French citizen. He is known for his French landscapes and romantic
scenes of Paris.
Constantin Kluge was born on January 29, 1912 in Riga, then a large industrial port city in the Russian Empire. Kluge was born into a family of means and some status. His paternal grandfather had spent years in France studying the cultivation of vines and wine making. Returning to Russia he developed a successful winery. Kluge's father, also Constantin, was a member of the Russian Army General Staff and a White Army sympathizer.
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October 28, 2015, 11:23 am
Kristof Ludwin /Krzysztof Ludwin was born in Krakow. In the years between 1981-1987 he studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Technology in Krakow and from 1987-1988 at the Faculty of Industrial Design at the Academy of Fine Arts.
For 11 years he lectured at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Technology in Krakow in the Department of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.
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October 29, 2015, 8:42 am
Dmitry Kustanovich /Дмитрий Кустанович, born in Minsk, nickname Kust/
Куст, is a Belarusian-born artist that currently resides in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Kustanovich graduated from the Belarusian State Pedagogical University in 1996, served in the Soviet Army and worked as a construction worker.
Kustanovich has developed an original technique based on the wider use of
palette knifes rather than brushes.
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October 29, 2015, 11:13 am
Polish watercolor artist Maja Wronska is an architect and freelance illustrator. Graduate of Warsaw University of Technology, Architecture faculty. Wronska continues to paint explosively colorful depictions of European architecture, most recently in Poznań, Poland.
She first renders each piece as a detailed drawing and then adds layers of watercolor, an unpredictable medium that can be difficult to control, making her paintings all the more incredible.
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October 29, 2015, 1:50 pm
Mathurin Janssaud (1857-1940) was born in Manosque, Provence. Like many other painters, he lived and painted in Paris. But the reputation of Concarneau draws and before the First World War, he dropped his native Provence for changing skies of Brittany, which became his only source of inspiration. A Concarneau, it is the local color they are looking for.
What matters, and indeed for the artist in search of picturesque,
genre scenes, characters typed, that the port of Cornwall! Everything is to do everything is to be painted. The sea, the sun at sunset, stormy skies, sails and men to the penalty or rest, women dressed busiest market, this whole life teeming offered to his eyes.
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October 30, 2015, 3:14 am
Allievo di Cammarano e poi di Dalbono, Francesco Di Marino seguì fedelmente la tradizione del buon
dipingere all’aria aperta, nella scia della concezione paesistica instaurata a Napoli dalla Scuola di Posillipo. Così operando venne ad affiancarsi, oltre che ai suoi diretti maestri, a Casciaro, a
Pratella, a Scoppetta, e poi a Galante, a De Corsi, a Villani, a Viti, affinando gradualmente i propri mezzi espressivi e giungendo a caratterizzare il suo lavoro per l’immediatezza della percezione, la genuinità del sentimento, la sicurezza esecutiva. Di Marino riusciva a trasferire sulla tela gli aspetti fugaci della natura e del paesaggio con una freschezza di sensazione e con un tocco morbido eppur corposo, che non fu di molti pittori.
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October 30, 2015, 2:20 pm
One of Ireland’s leading society portraits painters of the last century, Belfast-born John Lavery (
1856-1941) was orphaned as a child and sent to school in Scotland, later attending the
Glasgow School of Art. Following a commission to paint Queen Victoria’s visit to the Glasgow International Exhibition in 1888, he then moved to London as a highly successful society painter. Following the beginnings of the War of Independence, he and his wife became close friends of the Irish delegates to the Treaty talks in London, entertaining Michael Collins and his co-signatories during 1921.
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October 31, 2015, 7:02 am
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October 31, 2015, 12:10 pm
Il
pittore Italiano Giuseppe Faraone, originario della provincia di Potenza, abita ed opera da molti anni a San Donato Milanese e conosce la pittura a 360 gradi, avendo perfezionato il suo percorso artistico in Italia e all'estero. Dopo gli studi accademici ha iniziato il percorso di verifica della pittura impressionista, dipingendo negli stessi luoghi in cui l’
Impressionismo francese è nato e arricchendo il suo bagaglio di informazioni che vanno al di là dei dettami della poetica
impressionista; in particolare ha potuto verificare l’incidenza del luogo in cui nasce un quadro e la misura in cui il pittore ne resta influenzato, spesso fuori dalla sua consapevole scelta.
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