November 1, 2015, 9:05 am
Александр Шандор was born in Ukraine, city Vinogradov, Transcarpathian region. He studied at the Uzhgorod College of Arts named after Erdeli for metal processing department.
During his studies he studied with teachers - V. V. Petretsky, O. B. Lukach, M. Mihaylyuk.
Member of many Ukrainian and international exhibitions and
plein air. His works are in private collections, galleries of Ukraine and abroad.
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November 2, 2015, 7:20 am
Chinese-born Canadian painter Xiao Song Jiang (姜小松) was born in 1955, in Wuhan, China. In 1978 he studied fine arts at the China Academy of Art, formerly the Zhejiang Art Academy, where he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in 1982, then began lecturing watercolor at the City of Wuhan Construction College. Four years after, Song was selected to further develop his skill at the provincial Hubei Art Academy. During his time there, he accumulated years of experience, painting, sketching, and working for a refined grasp of color and technique.
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November 2, 2015, 11:45 am
William Henry Barribal
(1874-1952) was a
London artist who began his career as a lithographer before going on to study at the Académie Julian in Paris.
By the turn of the 20th century, Barribal had become an accomplished painter and designer. He created a series of images that were used on First World War recruitment posters in Great Britain.
During the 1920s and 1930s he created a range of posters for the Schweppes advertising campaign and in 1921 he was contracted to work for Waddingtons, producing work that was used for posters and later a series of playing cards, these works being keenly sought after today.
His bold
Art Déco posters designed in 1920s and 1930s for the London and North Eastern Railway are also well known.
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November 3, 2015, 6:37 am
Francesco Galante (
1884-1972) è nato a Margherita di Savoia, in provincia di Foggia, il 4 nov. 1884 da Michele e Carmela Raffaella Lopez, si trasferì ben presto a Napoli dove, dal 1896, frequentò l'Istituto di Belle Arti. Fu allievo di M. Cammarano e V. Volpe e concluse gli studi nel 1904 ricevendo il primo
premio sia per la figura dipinta sia per il paesaggio. Studente, collaborò a vari giornali napoletani come illustratore: nel 1904 fu, con Alberto Martini, tra i primi collaboratori della rivista milanese
Varietas e nel 1911 illustrò articoli di F. Russo per un'altra nota rivista di Milano,
La Lettura.
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November 4, 2015, 11:28 am
Trained in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, this Artist has received significant critical acclaim and has exhibited at a wide range of Spanish galleries.
Discover the best paintings of this
Spanish painter where his paintings blend the best combination of different materials giving a touch of preciousness
abstract to realistic figures.
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November 4, 2015, 2:18 pm
Spanish-born artist David Agenjo is a self-taught artist living and working in London. After a brief career as a graphic designer, he now devotes himself entirely to painting. He has been exhibited in New York, London, Dublin and Madrid.
Unlike a lot of his contemporaries, he did not formally study fine art and has not become embroiled in an obsession with a conceptual avant-garde. Instead he is self-taught and self-supporting with his painting, a way of life he has been developing professionally for over eight years now.
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November 5, 2015, 3:25 am
Chung Shekh is a talented Dutch artist living in London. Chung Shek became interested in art during early childhood in the Netherlands and is largely self-taught. He began selling professional artwork by the time he had reached his mid-twenties and was strongly inspired by old masters such as
Vermeer,
Ingres and
Bouguereau. After being encouraged by such great works of art, Chung Shek focused his work towards the realistic genre of oil paintings - a genre which allows him to create the extensive detail of his compositions due to its versatility and luminous qualities.
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November 5, 2015, 7:58 am
Angelo Asti was an
Italian painter, born in Milano in 1847 and died, relatively young in 1903, in Gorbio, Mentone - Italy. Asti is known for his beautiful woman painted onto silks with Italian undertones. Asti has also been deemed by some as an originator of the “
Pin-up Girls”.
Asti immigrated to the United States in his thirties, where he first discovered his aptitude for illustration while working at a lithographic production facility in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1890, Asti returned to Europe and settled in Paris, where he immersed himself in the French artistic landscape with daily visits to the Louvre and other notable Parisian galleries. Through years of careful self-study and practice, Asti refined his painterly technique and his first finished painting was accepted by the Salon de Paris with high praise. Asti continued to paint until his death in 1903, and his works are noted today for their harmonious, captivating depictions of female beauty.
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November 5, 2015, 8:29 am
The
German painter Hans Hassenteufel (
1887-1943) was born in 1887 in Hamburg and studied with Rudolf Zeller in Hamburg, at the Painting School Walter Thor in Munich and at the Munich Academy under Peter Halm and Franz von Stuck.
His favorite subjects were portraits, figures, landscapes and still lives.
Hassenteufel died in 1943 in Munich.
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November 5, 2015, 1:14 pm
Инесса Морозова è nata nel 1981, Kherson, una città dell'Ucraina meridionale.
Nel 1998, si è laureata presso la Solntsevo Art school.
Nel 2004, si è laureata presso Humanitarian - Applied Institute, con la specializzazione "
Designer di piccole forme".
Il tema preferito dei suoi dipinti - fiori e bambini.
Ha partecipato alla mostra-concorso "
Mosca attraverso gli occhi dei giovane" ed alla mostra "
Mosca sportiva" (2003).
E' vincitore della mostra-concorso "
Mosca attraverso gli occhi dei giovani" e nel 2007, vince il primo
premio nella mostra "
Città e figli".
Nel 2008 partecipa alla mostra "
I colori della vita" dedicata al mondo luminoso e sincero dei bambini.
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November 6, 2015, 5:36 am
Greek painter Kostas Rigoula - Tsigris /Κώστας Ρηγούλης - Τσίγκρης, was born at Megara. Began his studies at the Mathematics Department of the University of Athens but his love for the painting turned in other directions. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts, the teachers and D. Mitaras P. Tetsis.
In the early years of paintings dealt with almost all issues but mainly landscapes with scenes inspired by ancient sculptures and compositions where the dominant element was the human figure with realistic display.
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November 6, 2015, 8:05 am
Chris Maynard is an
American artist who creates delicate sculptural compositions using real feathers. Chris Maynard has worked with feathers since he was 12 years old but only began showing his work in 2010.
Chris Maynard combines his scientific knowledge, his artistic sense, and his love of feathers and life in a new art form. His message is one of beauty, appreciation of life-especially birds, and conservation. His inspiration originates mostly in his native northwestern United States though his themes appeal worldwide. He is a member of Artists for Conservation and a signature member of the Society of Animal Artists. Maynard is represented by the Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
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November 6, 2015, 11:46 am
Cai Yushui /蔡玉水 is born in 1963 in Ji’nan, Shandong Province. He is a professional painter in Beijing Fine Art Academy, a first-class artist in China, and a member of Chinese Artists Association. He used to teach in Shandong University of Arts, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore), and Shandong University of Art Design.
From 1981-1985, Yushui Cai studied at the Art Department of Shandong University of Arts and remained their as a teacher after graduation. He is specialized in Chinese inkwash painting, heavy variety and sketch.
His works "An Offering to Hundreds of Years of Chinese History" is listed No. 3 in Chinese traditional figure paintings after the May 4th Movement, and is included in "Chinese Fine Arts", "The Illustrated Dictionary of Chinese Fine Arts", "The Yearbook of Chinese Fine Arts", "Contemporary Chinese Fine Arts 1979-1999", etc.
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November 7, 2015, 6:42 am
Jane Eccles is an
British painter, known for working in the Figurative style.
'As a mature student, I studied art at Stroud Art College followed by Visual Arts at Cheltenham Art College, graduating with a first class honours degree in 1998. I live in beautiful, rural Herefordshire and work full time as a professional artist exhibiting both locally and nationally.
I specialise in figurative painting, working predominantly with oil on canvas. Increasingly, I have focused my work on narrative paintings'.
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November 7, 2015, 2:03 pm
Kingston based artist J. T. Winik obtained a Bachelor of Fine Art at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and a Bachelor of Education at the University of Western Ontario in London. Since 1996, J.T Winik has dedicated herself entirely to painting, dividing her time primarily between Spain, Holland and Canada. Winik's work frequently incorporates the female form. Recurring themes examine the emotional tension within the psychological context of various dualities: power and fragility, angst and felicity, and passion and passivity.
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November 8, 2015, 4:42 am
Russian painter Vitaly Petrovsky /Виталий Петровский was born in the city of Vinnitsa, Ukraine. He graduated from art school in the winery, and in 1990 the Kiev School of Industrial Art.
Works in the genre of landscape, at least - portrait, still life. The main theme of his work - the urban landscape. The implementation of this work requires the artist accuracy. Multilayer technique. The storyline is simple and realistic.
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November 8, 2015, 11:33 am
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November 8, 2015, 1:28 pm
Роман Ляпин born in Leningrad, Russia, is one of the brightest representatives of modern
Italian art, whose works are in private collections in Spain, Germany, Italy, Taiwan, America, France, Canada and Japan.
Lyapin began his career in Leningrad, after which he moved to Italy and more than a decade taught at the local Accademia di Belle Art di Roma.
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November 9, 2015, 4:34 am
Georgi Petrov was born in Dobrich, Bulgaria. He lives and works in Sofia. He holds a Master degree in Art Management from the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts - Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He owns an art gallery in the Dobrich, Bulgaria.
Since 2012 Georgi Petrov is a member of Creative Union of Professional Artist in Russia.
"To me, painting is a heartbeat, love, perception, impetus, state, mood, experience, emption, at times spontaneous, but always created with an open soul… It is born in the interaction between two worlds - the one inside us and the one outside - that establishes another particular reality inspired, however, not always by heroes and happenings which somebody has in…"- Georgi Petrov
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November 9, 2015, 6:42 am
San Francisco artistJacob Dhein was interested in art as a child. Crayons and colored pencils were his tools of expression. He spent hours intricately crafting drawings of comic book heroes and animals. By the time he graduated from high school, one of his drawings was exhibited on the wall of a local bank. It wasn’t until he was a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh that he decided to take a drawing class.
He found this so compelling that he continued with sculpture and painting. During this time he met several accomplished and influential artists who encouraged him to pursue a career in art.
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