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Wyndham Lewis | Vorticism Art Movement (1912-1915)
Wyndham Lewis, in full Percy Wyndham Lewis (born November 18, 1882, on a yacht near Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada - died March 7, 1957, London, England), English artist and writer who founded the...
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Rembrandt | Saul and David, 1655-1660 | Art in Detail
According to the Hebrew Bible, Saul was the first king of a united Kingdom of Israel and Judah. His reign, traditionally placed in the late 11th century BCE, would have marked a switch from a tribal...
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Paul Corfield, 1970 | Naive Landscape painter
Born in Bournemouth, Dorset Paul Corfield has lived within 10 miles of his birthplace all his life. He worked at an engineering firm and painted in the evenings believing that painting would only ever...
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Rembrandt Venus and Cupid (1640-1660) | Art in Detail
Choose only one master - Nature.Scegliete un solo maestro - La Natura.More.... Continua......
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Botticelli | Venus and Mars, c. 1483 | Art in Detail
Mars, God of War, was one of the lovers of Venus, Goddess of Love. Here Mars is asleep and unarmed, while Venus is awake and alert. The meaning of the picture is that love conquers war, or love...
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The Head of Franz Kafka by David Černý | Public Art
Other work by artist David Černý is located at yard of the shopping center Quadrio, metro Národní třída in Prague. This bust of Franz Kafka weighs 39 tons and is composed of 42 moving layers and...
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James Carroll Beckwith | Academic painter
James Carroll Beckwith (September 23, 1852 - October 24, 1917) was an American landscape, portrait and genre painter whose Naturalist style led to his recognition in the late nineteenth and very early...
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Peter Hobden, 1952 | Figurative Impressionist painter
Born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1952, I followed prmary and secondary school at the International Scool of Geneva. I obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages (Chinese and French) at the...
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Cathrine Edlinger-Kunze | Abstract Figurative painter
Born and raised in Germany, Cathrine Edlinger-Kunze moved to the United States in 1994 where she works as a full time artist. She credits her father for inspiring her love for painting. "Sitting side...
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Fernando Pedrosa, 1947 | Hyperrealist Figurative painter
Fernando Saenz Pedrosa was born in Palencia, Spain. At a young age his talent as a draftsman became very evident - so evident, that in1965, at the age of 18, he was enrolled in the prestigious...
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Simon Bull, 1958 | Abstract painter
Simon Bull is an English-born artist now living in America.Early years and educationSimon Bull was born in Bedfordshire, England. The second of four children. His father, Ian Bull served as an officer...
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Jean Mannheim | Plein air painter
Born in November of 1861, Jean Mannheim (1861-1945) grew up in Kreuznach, Germany. At age seventeen, he left home and began to journey throughout Germany making a living by binding books and painting...
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Leonardo da Vinci | Della pittura e della poesia | Il Trattato della Pittura
Trattato della Pittura - Parte prima /40 Per fingere le parole la poesia supera la pittura, e per fingere fatti la pittura supera la poesia, e quella proporzione ch'è dai fatti alle parole, tal è dalla...
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Auguste Rodin | Victor Hugo et les Muses, 1890
After Victor Hugo’s death in 1885, it was decided to erect a monument in his honour in the Panthéon as a pendant to Injalbert’s statue of Mirabeau. Auguste Rodin was awarded the commission in 1889. The...
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Alexandre-Louis Jacob | Landscape painter
French artist Alexandre Louis Jacob (1876-1972) was born in Paris in 1876. His landscape paintings are characterized by a serene mood and muted palette.Jacob started exhibiting his works in the various...
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Eliot Hodgkin | Modern Still Life painter
Eliot Hodgkin (19 June 1905-30 May 1987) was an British painter, born in Purley Lodge, Purley-on-Thames near Pangbourne, Berkshire.Although he began with oil painting, most of his best known works were...
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Ann Feldman | Portrait / Figure / Still Life /Palette Knife painter
Born and raised in New Orleans, Ann Feldman is a painter and art instructor living in Barrington, Illinois. Her art education began at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and she continued her...
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Mikhailichenko Sergey Viktorovich, 1970 | Plein Air /Still life painter
Mikhailichenko Sergey Viktorovich / Михайличенко Сергей Викторович is an Ukrainian painter, born in Tashkent. He graduated from the Tashkent Republican XY. Studied with M. Dimov, 1990. For some time he...
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Giorgio Vasari | Mannerist painter | Allegory of italian cities
Vasari’s life is intimately rooted in the Uffizi Gallery. With five of his paintings in various rooms throughout the museum, he also chronicled the lives the Renaissance artists that fill the Gallery,...
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Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain | Rococo Era sculptor
Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain (11 October 1710 - 1795) was a French sculptor who tempered a neoclassical style with Rococo charm and softness, under the influence of his much more famous brother-in-law,...
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