Stanislav Sidorov 1954 | Russian Genre painter

Stanislav Sidorov [Сидоров Станислав Николаевич] was born in the city of Blagoveshchensk, in the Far East of Russia. This Town is the capital of the Amur Region and has a unique location directly on the border with China. Stanislav came from a family of artist's who nurtured and encouraged his creative talent. He started his art education as a child in the Creative school for Gifted kids then, 4 years in college, then 6 years In the Vladivostok University of Fine Art with formal studies focused on the traditions of the Russian Realistic School of painting characterized by artist's of the 19th century. In August of 1977 his family immigrated to America. Since then he lives in Denver, Colorado, working as a free lance artist. He has Been contracted to work with different Galleries throughout the United State he also exhibits his art work in selective Art Festival Shows Exhibitions . These last few years his paintings became more and more decorative with bright expressive color.

Isaac Levitan 1860-1900 | Landscape russian painter

Isaac Ilyich Levitan [Исаа́к Ильи́ч Левита́н] was a classical Lithuanian-Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape". Levitan's work was a profound response to the lyrical charm of the Russian landscape. Levitan did not paint urban landscapes; with the exception of the View of Simonov Monastery (whereabouts unknown), mentioned by Nesterov, the city of Moscow appears only in the painting Illumination of the Kremlin. During the late 1870s he often worked in the vicinity of Moscow, and created the special variant of the "landscape of mood", in which the shape and condition of nature are spiritualized, and become carriers of conditions of the human soul (Autumn day. Sokolniki, 1879). During work in Ostankino, he painted fragments of the mansion’s house and park, but he was most fond of poetic places in the forest or modest countryside. Characteristic of his work is a hushed and nearly melancholic reverie amidst pastoral landscapes largely devoid of human presence. Fine examples of these qualities include The Vladimirka Road, 1892 Evening Bells, 1892, and Eternal Rest, 1894, all in the Tretyakov Gallery. Though his late work displayed familiarity with Impressionism, his palette was generally muted, and his tendencies were more naturalistic and poetic than optical or scientific.

Pantelis Zografos 1949 | Watercolors of Greek Islands

Pantelis Zografos [Παντελής Ζωγράφος] was born in Athens, Greece, into a family with along tradition of producing fine artists. In greek language, the name of Zografos means artist: and following the Greek custom, Pantelis took the name of his paternal grandfather, a renowned iconographer. Both of his parents were professional artists, and he spent much of his youth in their studio in Athens.
In 1971, after serving the Greek Air Force, Pantelis moved to America. He studied at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and painted landscapes in his spare time. In 1979 Pantelis moved to Raleigh, North Carolina: nine years later he decided to pursue his love of art and paint professionally. He quickly found a favorable reception to his work which is now widely distributed throughout the U.S.A. Pantelis occasionally paints in oils but mainly uses watercolor to depict the colorful landscapes and seascapes of Greece. He also paints local scenes and accepts commissions. Recently he painted a Byzantine icon of Archangel Gabriel for the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh.

Steven DaLuz 1953 | American Neo-Luminist painter

Steven DaLuz is a versatile artist with an eclectic sensibility. His interests are split between abstraction and figurative art. He is best known for figurative works that straddle impressionism and realism. He may be equally identified with abstract works that are landscape referential-employing metal leaf, oil, and mixed media. DaLuz was born in Hanford, California, the son of an Air Force officer. From an early age, he was exposed to art in galleries and in publications, which fed his interest in drawing. DaLuz attended 13 schools in 7 states and 3 foreign countries by the time he graduated from high school. Throughout, he was inspired by art teachers, and by his own father, who painted recreationally. The cultures to which he was exposed spawned his varied artistic interests. After just one semester at San Antonio College, the Vietnam War interrupted his art studies and led to a long stint with the United States Air Force.

Spartaco Lombardo 1958 | Italian modern figurative painter

Spartaco Lombardo was born in Luino, Italy by the Lake Maggiore, the 26th of March 1958. Modern figurative painter, he has displayed his works in personal and collective exhibitions in Italy and abroad and he has entered many national and international contests. His works are in private and institutional art collections. His occupational activity in the pictorial field began in 1981.

Antonietta Varallo | Italian landscape painter

Nata a Talsano in provincia di Taranto ma Livornese di adozione, Antonietta Varallo si accosta alla pittura appena quindicenne. Allieva alla libera Accademia "Trossi Umberto" di Voltolino Fontani per circa un anno, passò poi sotto la guida del maestro Luciano Torsi con il quale ha ottenuto la maturità artistica nell’arco dei diciotto anni di insegnamento. Nel 1976 vince il 1° premio "Chimera" città di Arezzo. E’ tutt’oggi professoressa onoraria dell’Accademia del "Macchiavello" di Firenze e della "G. Marconi" di Bologna. L’influenza degli aspetti della natura è il parametro che determina in maniera prevalente ed essenziale l’antologia pittorica di Antonietta Varallo. I suoi giardini fioriti, i suoi paesaggi Toscani incantati, le moltitudini di colori velati che trionfano sui suoi quadri sono la consapevolezza che questa Artista, dotata di grande talento e fantasia, riesce a sorprenderci e a farci riscoprire sensazioni uniche che forse avevamo dimenticato da tempo. Ma il tempo qui non si è fermato, è solo sospeso in un’atmosfera surreale che ci porta a scoprire morbidi paesaggi, pastellati colori, romantici scorci, di quella Toscana che tutti amiamo. Sue opere si trovano in collezioni private negli USA, Giappone e Germania.

Igor Medvedev 1961 | Russian painter

Igor Medvedev was born in Novopskov, Ukraine on 1961. In 1985 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Electronics Techniques, physio-chemical faculty. His first personal exhibition took place in the Youth Dramatic Theatre in 1990. Thereafter he was regularly exhibited by the leading galleries in Vilnuce, Kaunas: Juste, Contemporary Art Center, Russian House and others. Igor Medvedev's art celebrates the soul of our past. His masterful use of light captures and preserves the ancient spirit of the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas - the small seaside fishing villages of Italy and Spain, the quaint and traditional towns atop hillsides in Greece. He disdains technology and celebrates the common genius of simple human creativity and handiwork. Medvedev and his family fled german occupation during World War II and the young Russian found himself and his family a long way from freedom. After the war, the Medvedevs settled in Munich. It was there that Igor first saw the meticulousness and precision of Renaissance painting and sculpture. Today, he deploys the painstaking technique of that time, in a process known as "casein glazing". His use of impasto and chiaroscuro has led critics to comment that "He paints like a sculptor," and in fact, the multi-faceted artist is accomplished in the bronze medium. His works adorn private collections throughout the world.

Marc Chapaud 1941 | French landscape painter

Marc Chapaud was born in Paris in 1941. He studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Beaux Artes of Paris in 1958-59 Architecture section and 1960-61 Peinture section, which he left in 1962 after having completed several studio courses. Main Themes Venice, Bruges, Paris, Corsica, Sologne, Amsterdam, Brittany, Provence Villages, Landscapes, Japan, Route Jacques Coeur, flowers and gardens, the streets of Paris at the time of Victor Hugo, Rome and italian landscapes.

Venice paintings | Monet, Renoir, Turner, Camille Corot, Boldini..

Venice is a city in northeast Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. Venice has been known as the "La Dominante", "Serenissima", "Queen of the Adriatic", "City of Water", "City of Masks", "City of Bridges", "The Floating City" and "City of Canals". The name is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region by the 10th century B.C. The city historically was the capital of the Venetian Republic. The Republic of Venice was a major maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and a staging area for the Crusades and the Battle of Lepanto, as well as a very important center of commerce and art in the 13th century up to the end of the 17th century. This made Venice a wealthy city throughout most of its history. It is also known for its several important artistic movements, especially the Renaissance period. Venice has played an important role in the history of symphonic and operatic music, and it is the birthplace of Antonio Vivaldi.

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851

Thomas Moran 1837-1926 | American landscape painter

Thomas Moran from Bolton, England was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist. A talented illustrator and exquisite colorist, Moran was hired as an illustrator at Scribner's Monthly. During the late 1860s, he was appointed the chief illustrator of the magazine, a position that helped him launch his career as one of the premier painters of the American landscape. Moran along with Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Hill, and William Keith are sometimes referred to as belonging to the Rocky Mountain School of landscape painters because of all of the Western landscapes made by this group. Thomas Moran began his artistic career as a teenage apprentice to the Philadelphia wood-engraving firm Scattergood; Telfer. Moran found the engraving process "tedious" and spent his free time working on his own watercolors. By the mid 1850s he was drawing the firm's illustrations for publication rather than carving them and he began studying with local painter James Hamilton who introduced him to the work of British artist J.M.W. Turner. Moran traveled to England in 1862 to see Turner's work and he often acknowledged that artist's influence on his use of color and choice of landscapes. During the 1870s and 1880s Moran's designs for wood-engraved illustrations appeared in major magazines and gift oriented publications.

Guy Dessapt 1938 | French impressionist painter

As a child, Guy showed an enthusiastic aptitude for painting which led him to the highly acclaimed Art Decoratifs School in Paris. Here he learned about the masters of genre and grew to respect the impressionists of the 1800's. At this time, Guy spent many days painting in the streets of Montmarte which provided him with direct exposure to a thriving arts community. He began painting his favorite subjects from cities and countrysides of Europe, which would later become his trademark expression. The themes emanating from Dessapt's lifelong passion for travel are depicted through the merging of both visual experience with a uniquely striking impressionist style. Dessapt can easily call St. Tropez, Venice, Paris or New York City his home. In fact, for seven years in the 1960's, Guy worked in New York and explored a variety of artistic styles and techniques. Currently he spends most of his time living and working in the house built by his grandfather in France with his wife and children. Guy Dessapt has been established as a premier talent in the American art market as well as the Asian art market. In Japan today, Guy Dessapt is considered part of the Paris School which includes such renowned artists as Marc Chagall, Roger Bonafe, Rouls Icart, Bernard Buffet and George Laporte. His works are highly prized by art connoisseurs worldwide.

Cao Yong 1962 | Chinese murales painter

Cao Yong is a chinese artist whose work depicts Tibet. He spent a year alone in the mountains of Tibet, and the paintings he produced were exhibited in Beijing in early 1989. He was subsequently arrested by the Chinese Authorities with the Beijing Police burning seven of the paintings. He escaped with his fiancée Aya Goda to Japan. Cao Yong's canvases evoke the essence of some of the most delightful places on earth. Although Cao Yong was formally educated in China, the artist achieved maturity during seven years of self-exile in Tibet. Then he left for Japan, where he quickly became that nation's most honored muralist. Later, he immigrated to America, in this nation know for her freedom of expression, Cao Yong has transferred to an artist who dedicates to the love of nature and passion for life through artwork.

Canaletto 1697-1768 | Vedute of Venice 17th century

A Veduta - italian "view", is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting of a cityscape or some other vista.
This genre of landscape originated in Flanders, where artists such as Paul Brill painted vedute as early as the 16th century. In the 17th century dutch painters made a specialty of detailed and accurate recognizable city and landscapes that appealed to the sense of local pride of the wealthy Dutch middle class. An archetypal example is Johannes Vermeer's View of Delft. As the itinerary of the Grand Tour became somewhat standardized, vedute of familiar scenes like the Roman Forum or the Grand Canal recalled early ventures to the Continent for aristocratic Englishmen. By the mid-18th century, Venice became renowned as the centre of the vedutisti. The genre's greatest practitioners belonged to the Canal and Guardi families of Venice. Some of them went to work as painters in major capitals of Europe, e.g., Canaletto in London and his nephew Bernardo Bellotto in Dresden and Warsaw.
In other parts of 18th-century Italy, idiosyncratic varieties of the genre evolved. Giovanni Paolo Pannini was the first veduta artist to concentrate on painting ruins. Vanvitelli and others painted veduta esatta. Later, Pannini's veduta morphed into the scenes partly or completely imaginary, known as capricci and vedute ideate or veduta di fantasia. Giambattista Piranesi was the foremost master of vedute ideate etchings. His topographical series, Vedute di Roma, went through many printings.
In the later 19th century, more personal "impressions" of cityscapes replaced the desire for topographical accuracy, which was satisfied instead by painted, and later photographed, panoramas.

Al Hogue | Hawaii landscape painter

My painting technique, and my philosophy, can be described in one word - light. The Old Renaissance Masters, like Da Vinci and Rembrandt, recognized that light is the reflection of nature, of life itself. Their paintings are masterful portraits of life. I have spent the last ten years studying their technique. I want viewers of my artwork to feel as if the painting were glowing and radiating its own light source. Light is everything in my paintings: Light is both my primary technique and the symbol of God's life-giving, healing nature. Light from the moon or the sun washes across all my paintings. Light represents Life - the essence of all living things, the spirit of nature. I began drawing and painting as a way of giving life to my own soothing daydreams of nature. Because I suffered from severe dyslexia, learning to read and write was excruciatingly painful. School was constantly a source of never-ending stress. I was unable to communicate with words, so art became my way of sharing with others from my earliest childhood. I always wanted to draw my own secret world of peace and tranquility, free from the stresses of life. My father and I painted the tranquility of nature together as he battled two separate life-threatening attacks of cancer. He recovered completely. He credits his recovery to the healing power of rendering nature in art. It was only later that I discovered that many research studies have proven that art can, and does, promote healing. When I paint I travel to the peaceful places of my imagination. I grow more serene. My heart rate appears to slow down. My breathing becomes slow and rhythmic. The responsibilities of modern life are put in perspective: they become much easier to accept. I am reminded of what is important: family and the beautiful grace of God's nature. When communing with nature on the canvas, peace and tranquility flow through me. Art has the power to improve your life. Allow the Light of nature, of life, to wash over your body and soul.

Joaquín Sorolla 1863-1923 | Realist/Impressionist painter

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida was a spanish painter, born in Valencia, who excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the sunlight of his native land. Joaquin Sorolla was the eldest child born to a tradesman, also named Joaquin, and his wife, Concepcion Bastida. His sister, Concha, was born a year later. In august 1865 both children were orphaned when their parents died, possibly from cholera. They were thereafter cared for by their maternal aunt and uncle. He received his initial art education, at the age of fourteen, in his native town, and then under a succession of teachers including Cayetano Capuz, Salustiano Asenjo. At the age of eighteen he traveled to Madrid, vigorously studying master paintings in the Museo del Prado. After completing his military service, at twenty-two Sorolla obtained a grant which enabled a four year term to study painting in Rome, Italy, where he was welcomed by and found stability in the example of F. Pradilla, the director of the Spanish Academy in Rome. A long sojourn to Paris in 1885 provided his first exposure to modern painting; of special influence were exhibitions of Jules Bastien-Lepage and Adolf von Menzel. Back in Rome he studied with Jose Benlliure, Emilio Sala and Jose Villegas.

Viktor Shvaiko 1965 | Academic landscape painter

Born in Altai, one of Russia's most remote and off-the-beaten-track towns, Shvaiko grew up surrounded by the beauty of the wilderness. Shvaiko's natural inclination for Fine arts and his strong urge to share his vision of nature drove him to find a way into the Novoaltaisk Artistic School, one of the two best schools for the arts in the former Soviet Union. Four years of strenuous studies enabled Shvaiko, a very diligent student, to acquire the skills of a true artist. Shvaiko credits his teacher, Ilbek Khairoullinov, for a true Fine arts education. A strict regimen of drawing, an intricate technique of using colors, and the influence of the 19th century russian artist Karl Brynllow brought Viktor Shvaiko close to a traditional academic style of painting. After a stint in Italy, Shvaiko had developed a following for his art works. Upon a return to Russia, he immigrated to the United States where he developed a fondness for painting cityscapes with a specialty of painting cafes. His work resides in several museums in Russia. Shvaiko has had several exhibitions in the United States and Canada.

Vadik Suljakov 1960 | Russian landscape painter | European themes

Suljakov was born in the cultural center of Moscow in the year 1960. His parents gave him an excellent home education and he began painting at the age of seven. He continued with Russia's most rigid and traditional art education. The schools were very strict and difficult, and only a few were chosen to go on to the next level. The union of his traditional education and his personal creative style helped him become the versatile master artist he is today. Vadik Suljakov is a master Russian artist who brings his visions of Europe to the world. From cafes and canals, to the narrow alleyways and stairs, Suljakov paints the beloved cities of the world in their timeless beauty.

Jacques-Laurent Agasse 1767-1849 | Animal and landscape painter

Born at Geneva, Agasse studied in the public art school of that city. Before he turned twenty he went to Paris to study in veterinary school to make himself fully acquainted with the anatomy of horses and other animals. He seems to have subsequently returned to Switzerland. The Tübinger Morgenblatt (1808, p. 876) says that "Agasse, the celebrated animal painter, now in England, owed his fortune to an accident. About eight years ago, he being then in Switzerland, a rich Englishman asked him to paint his favourite dog which had died. The Englishman was so pleased with his work that he took the painter to England with him". Nagler says that he was one of the most celebrated animal painters at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. In Meusel's Neue Miscellaneen, he compares Agasse and Wouvermans, wholly in favour of the former. In that partial article much is said of his extreme devotion to art, of his marvelous knowledge of anatomy, of his special fondness for the English racehorses, and his excellence in depicting them. He appears first in the Academy catalogues in 1801 as the exhibitor of the 'Portrait of a Horse', and continued to exhibit more or less until 1845, contradicting Nagler's statement that he died "about" 1806. In the catalogues his name is given as J.L. Agasse or Agassé. The number of times Agassé changed his address confirms Redgrave's assertion that "he lived poor and died poor". The writer of the panegyric already quoted says, however, that he did not work for money, but that he was urged forward by the resistless force of natural genius.

Nicky Boehme | Romantic american painter

Nicky Boehme’s paintings of quaint, peaceful, scenes awash with dramatic light and vibrant color, draw the viewer into a romantic and memorable adventure of a special place and time. Ms. Boehme studied Technical art at the Oakland Art Institute in California and went on to become the Art Director of several national art agencies. It was at this time that she received numerous awards as an illustrator and graphic designer. She has had many feature articles on her art in national magazines and trade publications. Her art has been published internationally in several books. Nicky is an artist member of the National Society of Marine Artists and the Oil Painter of America.

Winslow Homer 1836-1910 | American maritime and landscape painter

Homer is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th century America and a preeminent figure in american art. Largely self-taught, Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator. He subsequently took up oil painting and produced major studio works characterized by the weight and density he exploited from the medium. He also worked extensively in watercolor, creating a fluid and prolific oeuvre, primarily chronicling his working vacations. Some major artists create popular stereotypes that last for decades; others never reach into popular culture at all.