William Wetmore Story | The Libyan Sibyl, 1867
"The Libyan Sibyl", which American sculptor William Wetmore Story (1819-1895) described as “my anti-slavery sermon in stone”, was inspired by events leading up to the Civil War. Oracle in hand, the...
View ArticleLuca Morelli, 1968 | Figurative Realist painter
Luca Morelli is an Italian painter, known for working in the Figurative style. Morelli was born in Rome. He graduated in 1990 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. Lives and works in Rome.More.......
View ArticleWilliam Wetmore Story | Delilah, 1877
Delilah (/dɪˈlaɪlə/; Hebrew: דלילה Dəlilah, meaning "[She who] weakened") is a character in the Hebrew bible Book of Judges, where she is the "woman in the valley of Sorek" whom Samson loved, and who...
View ArticleWilliam Wetmore Story | Neoclassical sculptor
William Wetmore Story - Semiramis, 1873William Wetmore Story (February 12, 1819 - October 7, 1895) was an American sculptor, art critic, poet and editor.William Wetmore Story was the son of jurist...
View ArticlePietro Magni - The Reading Girl / La Lettrice, 1856
Pietro Magni's marble statue The Reading Girl brought the Milanese sculptor international fame and recognition. It was exhibited numerous times at international exhibitions throughout Europe and...
View ArticleArmando Barrios | Cubist /Abstract painter
Venezuelan Artist Armando Barrios (1920-1999) was born in Caracas in 1920. He entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Caracas in 1932. During Rómulo Gallegos management as education minister in the...
View ArticleFranck Ayroles, 1975 | Abstract /Mixed media painter
Franck Ayroles is a professional painter engaged with Maison des Artistes and is a member of the organization ADAGP. Franck Ayroles was born in Saint-Nazaire.He worked as a chief decorator and made a...
View ArticleGeorge Redhawk | Surrealist Animated GIFs Art
American artist George Redhawk creates eerily beautiful gifs even though he's legally blind. With help from computer software, the designer utilizes the art of gif-making to show others how he sees the...
View ArticleMarius Zabinski, 1956 | Cubist painter
Marius Zabinski began his career as a painter very early, immediately after completing four years of study at l'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Warsaw, Poland. His pictorial technique already revealed a...
View ArticleJune Stratton, 1959 | Figurative painter
June Stratton was born in Honolulu Hawaii and studied at the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA. Stratton began her art career in Pioneer Square, the art district of Seattle, where she was the...
View ArticleAaron Shikler | Portrait /Figurative painter
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, 1970By William Grimesnov - Aaron Shikler, an artist whose portraits of America’s economic, political and social elite included a brooding John F. Kennedy, a...
View ArticleAncient Greek / La Civiltà greca
Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (c. 600 AD). Immediately following...
View ArticleChristiane Vleugels, 1963 | Timeless
Christiane Vleugels is a talented Traditional Artist from Belgium. Her giant Hyper realistic paintings seem to tell a story and invite you in for the experience.For biographical notes -in english and...
View ArticleJames Van Fossan, 1964 | Figurative realist painter
James Van Fossan resides in Eagle, Colorado.Since leaving the corporate world to focus on his art full time ten years ago, the self taught Van Fossan has come to command some of the highest...
View ArticleFrancis Picabia ~ Quotes / Aforismi
La nostra testa è rotonda per permettere ai pensieri di cambiare direzione.Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction.Notre tête est ronde pour permettre à la pensée de changer de...
View ArticleVR Morrison, 1976 | Figurative Realist painter
VR Morrison’s highly realistic and lavish paintings draw inspiration from classical painting traditions and allegorical subject matter which is mediated through the artist’s interest in popular...
View ArticleMichiel Schrijver, 1957 | Surreal architecture painter
"Travel fuels the imagination" is a variant on an old saying which certainly applies to Michiel Schrijver. Painting is a form of travel for him, after all. And the way it amazes him is a great...
View ArticleRemembering Steve Hanks, the Master of Watercolor
Steve Hanks (1949-2015), the Master of Watercolor and Figures passed away in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 22 after a battle with cancer."Art comes from a deep inner sense of direction.It starts...
View ArticleGeorg Pauli | Symbolist /Cubist painter
Georg Vilhelm Pauli (2 July 1855 - 28 November 1935) was a Swedish painter.Pauli was born in Jönköping. He studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm in 1871-75 and 1878-79, and studied and...
View ArticlePablo Neruda / Maggie Taylor ~ Poetry / La poesia
And it was at that age... poetry arrivedin search of me. I don't know, I don't know whereit came from, from winter or a river.I don't know how or when,no, they were not voices, they were notwords, not...
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