Vicente Romero Redonto
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Vicente Romero Redonto
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Gleb Goloubetski
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Scott Harding painting
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Josef Tali
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William John Hennessy (1839-1917)
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Mark Arian painting
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Willem Haenraets painting
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Michelle Murray painting
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Takashi Akasaka watercolor
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Watercolor by Chesda Merntook Thailand
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"In shadow with flowers", 76x102 cm, oil on canvas. Just finished
Vladimir Volegov painting
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Alan Maley painting
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Louis Aston Knight (1873 — 1948)
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Emerald bay
Vladimir Volegov painting
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Lucio Tafuri painting
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Sue Halstenberg painting
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Olga Ohrimets
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Karen Noles painting
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Huang Zhong Yang painting
In 1949, Zhong-Yang Huang was born in Guangzhou, China. From the age of four, Yang's parents encouraged him to draw and paint. At the age of eight, Yang began formal training in traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy. Yang's instructors and peers were in awe of his talent even as a young boy. They believed that he would one day go on to become a great artist.
During the Cultural Revolution, the government put a halt to any individual creativity in China and many writers, artists and academics were forced to work as labourers. At 15 years old, Yang, along with his two brothers and sister, were forced to leave school and work in the fields. For ten years, Yang toiled in the fields for hours every day. Even though he was surrounded by great hardship and poverty Yang continued to paint.
At the end of the Cultural Revolution, Yang entered the Guangdong Province Art and Craft Academy where he completed his undergraduate degree. A Masters Degree followed in 1981 from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and until 1984 Yang worked at the Academy as an Instructor. In 1984, Yang had the opportunity to travel to Canada as a visiting student. Yang completed his second Masters Degree from the University of Regina, in Saskatchewan.
Yang's work is influenced by many periods of art history: the Pre Raphaelite School, the French Impressionists as well as the work of the great Dutch painter Rembrandt. Yang also has a great love for music and enjoys listening to music for inspiration.
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Laurent Parcelier painting
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Watercolor by Paul Dmoch, from Brussels
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Der Jen painting
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Tzviatko Kinchev painting
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Konstantin Razumov painting
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Vladimir Volegov
Painting to order. Detailed done.
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Born in Khabarovsk, Кussia, Vladimir began painting at the age of three and his talent would be noted repeatedly throughout his adolescence.
After having attended the Art School, "Krivoj Rog" and having served in the army, Vladimir was admitted to the Lvov Polygraphic Institute in the former Soviet Union.
Beginning in 1984 Vladimir began participating in, and winning, international competitions for poster art.
Vladimir moved to Moscow in 1988 and before long Vladimir's career in commercial art was in full swing. Notable russian publishing houses sought his talents to design posters and cd and cassette covers for musical groups. While working with the publishing houses he continued to work on his paintings and participate in exhibitions.
In 1990 Vladimir began traveling to Europe where he earned money by painting portraits on the streets of Barcelona, Berlin, Vienna and other european cities. It is with this experience he further honed his skills in depicting the human form. Over the past fourteen years, his art has evolved into the striking figurative work he creates today. Vladimir's vibrant color palette and bold strokes coalesce to create evocative images that possess a timeless sensibility.
In february 2004 Vladimir has signed the long-term contract with american publishing house Soho Editions.
Leonid Afremov 1955 | Belarusian Impressionist painter
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Leonid Afremov was born in city of Vitebsk in 1955. Amazingly enough Leonid was born in the same town as Marc Chagall, the famous artist who also founded the Vitebsk Art School along with Malevich Kandinsky. tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world. Each of my paintings brings different moods, colors and emotions. I love to express the beauty, harmony and spirit of this world in my paintings. My heart is completely open to art. Thus, I enjoy creating inspired and beautiful paintings from the bottom of my soul. Each of my artworks reflects my feelings, sensitivity, passion, and the music from my soul. True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression. Currently my art is being collected all over the world. There are many pleased collectors in the USA, Israel, Italy, France, England, Spain, Norway, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries. Presently it is just enough to type my name in an internet search engine to discover the value and magnificence of my Art.
Marta Dahlig | Poland | Digital painter
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Claude Monet painting
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Claude Monet (French: [klod mɔnɛ] or [mɔne]; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant).
''Secret adorning'' by Stanislav Plutenko
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Stanislav Plutenko was born in 1961 in Moscow. He drew and painted through childhood, but with parents who disapproved of his being a painter, studied in the turbine construction department of Moscow Machine Construction Institute. After army service, where he was appointed painter in the Officers Club and met many other painters, he became a designer.
He studied at the Academy of the National Economy named after M.Plekhanov and at the same time took private art lessons from the art masters of different work style.
Steve Hanks painting
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Steve Hanks is recognized as one of the best watercolor artists working today. The detail, color and realism of Steve Hanks' paintings are unheard of in this difficult medium. A softly worn patterned quilt, the play of light on the thin veil of surf on sand, or the delicate expression of a child—-Steve Hanks captures these patterns of life better than anyone.
Steve Hanks was born into a military family in San Diego in 1949. His father was a highly decorated WWII Navy flyer. Hanks grew up playing tennis and surfing along the beaches of Southern California. “The ocean made a strong and lasting impression on me. It was good for the soul to be out in the water—surfing, swimming, or simply getting in touch with its mysterious power.”
The family was transferred to New Mexico when Steve was a junior. After high school he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in San Francisco, earning excellent marks in commercial art and figure drawing. He transferred to the California College of Arts and Crafts, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
Steve Hanks took a job as a caretaker at a Campfire Girl’s camp near Cuba, New Mexico in 1976. The pay was minimal, but the rent was free, and all during the winter months his time was his own. For the next four and a half years Hanks experimented with many media: oils, watercolor, pencil, acrylics. “If I hadn’t spent so much time perfecting my drawing skills,” he comments, “I would not be the painter I am today.” His first romantic piece, “Daisies and Lace”, was a harbinger of his developing style—it featured a lacy dress and a serene sunlit setting.
Hanks calls his style ‘emotional realism’. He often leaves the faces of his figures obscured or turned away, not only to leave the face to the imagination of the viewer but also to allow the entire figure to express the emotion. Backlighting is also a signature element of his style. “Sunlight has become one of my favorite subjects. I’m fascinated by how it filters through things, how it floods a whole room with color. Often my paintings are really more about sunlight than anything else.”
His marriage to Laura and the arrival of three children provided new inspiration for the artist. Many lovingly rendered domestic scenes were added to the portfolio during those years.
Jurors, galleries and collectors have long recognized the stature of Steve Hanks’ achievements. He received the National Watercolor Society Merit Award and the National Academy of Western Art Gold Medal, in addition to consistently appearing in the list of top ten American artists compiled by U.S. Art Magazine. Art for the Parks has honored his work with many awards since 1989.
“I’ve tried to be responsible and put positive images out into the world,” says Hanks. “I hope that my work brings comfort, pleasure and insight into people’s lives.”
Cao Yong
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Cao Yong (Chinese: 曹勇; born June 9, 1962 in Xinxian, Henan, China) 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.
Yong began painting when he was 11 years old. Due to his family background, he was considered politically questionable by the Chinese authorities. He studied for a short period with the noted artist Yu Ren who was staying briefly in Xinxian.[2] He attended Henan University and graduated with a BA in Fine Arts. Following his graduation, he took a position as Assistant Professor of Art at the University Of Tibet. He spent seven years in Tibet and spent a year living alone in mountain caves of Ali, West Tibet, so he could copy the remains of ancient Tibetan wall paintings of the Guge kingdom.[3]
In 1989, he went over to Japan after a private exhibition of Beijing. He continued producing “The Split Layer of Earth – Mount Kailas” series while he was engaged in the wall painting production of the commerce space. The notable work produced aqua fantasy of 60mx 4 m in Yokosuka Daiei in 1991 and produced dragons of 50mx 8 m in Ise Bunkamura in 1993. In 1992, he held a private exhibition in the O ART Museum of Tokyo.
In 1994, Yong went to the United States and held a private exhibition in Synchronicity Space of the New York SOHO. In 1999, he established Cao Yong Editions Inc in LA. In 2002, he produced “Freedom” in the anniversary of 911 terrorist incidents. “Free-Freedom” received Artist of the Year 2002, and received an “Outstanding Volunteer” prize and a letter of thanks from the Los Angeles Fire Department from a total of 118 stations.
Yong produced an oil painting “We The People” in commemoration of the Federal Constitution memorial day in 2005. In 2006, he was conferred the “2006 inspiration award” from the international leadership foundation (ILF).
In 2008, he produced “Voice of the East”. The painting was selected by the Olympic committee to print on china and use as a special gift for the VIP’s who attended the Olympics. Yong produced “Love without border” for the Sichuan earthquake.
Watercolor by Wu Kuan-Te
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Robin Lucile Anderson painting
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Ernesto Arrisueno
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Ernesto Arrisueño, Peruvian painter, was born in Lima in 1957, a time when migration to Australia was almost exclusively from Britain and Europe. In the past decade however, Australian life has been enriched by migration from many South American countries. Arrisueño studied art in Lima before completing a Bachelor of Architecture degree at Ricardo Palma University. Throughout the 1980's he exhibited widely in Peru in both individual and group exhibitions. Architectural drawing, for which he had won a number of prizes as a student, developed as a major theme in his work where figures and objects are juxtaposed with beautifully rendered building fragments. He came to Australia in 1989 and soon found success in local exhibitions. The crisp reality of Arrisueño's works creates an air of mystical calm, a world of still waters, a myriad of flowers and isolated enigmatic figures. His current work blends memories of his early years in the dry barren landscape of Peru with the new visions and traditions of his life in Australia.
Pino Daeni painting
2005
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PINO - Italian artist, Pino Daeni's art and canvases elicit feelings of warmth, nostalgia, love and family. His paintings are often set on vibrantly sunny beaches on the Mediterranean where he grew up. Pino (born Giuseppe Dangelico, November 8, 1939 – May 25, 2010) is noted for his exceptional ability to capture the movements and expressions of his subjects - a talent which has brought his artwork a worldwide following and private commissions to do portraits.
Trained in Italy at the Art institute of Bari, and later at Milan’s Academy of Brera, Pino perfected his skills painting nudes and figure studies heavily influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites and Macchiaioli.
After establishing himself as a successful artist in his native land, Pino immigrated to the United States, seeking more artistic freedom and opportunity. He was soon discovered by the distinguished Borghi Gallery, which gave several exhibitions for him in New York and Boston.
Early Pino artwork featured soft romantic characters mostly women dressed in flowing skirts and dresses; and these caught the attention of both Dell and Zebra Book Publishers. In 1980 Zebra commissioned him to do his first book cover; his popularity grew within the literary community and he became the artist-in-demand for Zebra, Bantam, Simon, and Schuster, Harlequin, Penquin USA and Dell. To date, Pino has illustrated 3,000 books; his style has dominated the market.
Pino’s technique, his warm and exciting colors and the subtle, but simple approach to his subject, are the reasons why Pino art, his original paintings, his hand-embellished limited edition serigraphs, and his giclées are sought-after by collectors throughout the art world.
Agatha Belaya painting
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Agatha Belaya, a graduate of the renowned St. Petersburg Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya E. Repin, lives and works in St.Petersburg, Russia. In 1999, as a fifth-year mural painting major, Agatha was chosen to join the group of artists painting murals in the newly restored Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, the cathedral of great symbolic importance for the post-communist Russia. Agatha has received numerous awards at various art exhibitions in Russia and abroad. Most recently, in August 2005, her painting The Morning won the Second All-Russia Competition of Young Artists held by the world-famous Tretyakov Art Gallery in Moscow. Agatha enjoys working with various media, including ceramics, mosaic, stained glass, silk and fine drawings, but her favorite is oil on canvas.
Agatha Belaya was born in 1975, in St.Petersburg. It might have been the beauty of this most European Russian city that nourished her artistic nature and helped her to choose her way. Though not artists themselves, Agatha's parents showed an interest in the arts and fully supported her desire to become a painter.
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John Salminen painting
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John Salminen earned his Bachelor's Degree and Master's Degree from the University of Minnesota. He lives and works in Duluth, Minnesota where he taught high school for 32 years.
John is a signature member of numerous art societies, including the American Watercolor Society, The National Watcolor Society, the Watercolor USA Honor Society, the Transparent Watercolor Society of America, Allied Artist and Watercolor West. He has been honored with Master Status in TWSA and inclusion in the American Watercolor Society's Dolphin Fellowship. He is an honorary member of the Jiangsu Watercolor Research Institute in China and is the first American honored with inclusion in the Australian Watercolour Institute.
John has won more than 200 awards in national and international exhibitions, including the American Watercolor Society Gold Medal in both 2006 and 2010, the Silver Star First Place Award in the National Watercolor Society Exhibition in both 2005 and 2011, the Skyledge First Place Award in the Transparent Watercolor Society of America Exhibition in 2010 and 2012, the Silver Medal of Honor in the Allied Artists 2009 Exhibition and the Gold Medal of Honor in the Allied 2011 Exhibition. He won the Biennial Award in the Shanghai Zhujiajiao International Watercolor Biennial in 2010 and was invited to Shanghai to accept the award. Later in 2010, John represented the United States in the Lushan Mountain Watercolor Festival in China. He was the invited American Artist in the recent Australia Watercolour Institute Exhibition. His work has been exhibited in exhibitions throughout the United States, Asia and Australia. He was recently awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Depot Foundation in Duluth.
John is a frequent juror of national and international shows. He has served as Juror of Selection for both the American Watercolor Society and the National Watercolor Society and twice as Awards Judge for the American Watercolor Society. He was the Judge of Awards for the Annual Competition of the Artist's Magazine and Watercolor Magic.
While perhaps best known for his realistic urban landscapes, John has also gained recognition for his mixed medium abstract paintings, one of which won first place in The Artist’s Magazine’s Art competition in the experimental category.
John's work has been featured in many national and international magazines and books, including most recently L'Art de L'Aquarelle, the Chinese Watercolor Journal, L'Art de L'Aquarelle - le LIvre, The Chinese book Inspirations: Secrets from Contemporary International Watercolor Masters, and Art Journey America, Landscape. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Art and in Who’s Who in America. He has released two instructional dvd's through Creative Catalyst Productions.
John is represented by the Stremmel Gallery in Reno, Nevada and the Newman and Saunders Gallery in Pennsylvania.
By Abe Toshiyuki (あべとしゆき), from Japan
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Abe Toshiyuki is a watercolor artist from Japan. He was born in Sakata city in 1959. His watercolor paintings are noted for its immense realism and professionalism.
- Studied art at a national university
- After graduation, taught art for about 20 years
- He gave up teaching field to focus on painting
He was deeply influenced by Japanese life and loved to explore nature without borders. Abe Toshiyuki watercolor paintings are popular in this domain. He participated in several exhibitions throughout Japan and won many awards in this platform. Abe is one of the best Japanese watercolor artists who developed a unique style of painting. His paintings of sunrise, trees, nature, forest and river sides are quite popular.
Juan Fortuny
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The name of Juan Fortuny is famous in his native Spain, and is widely known to connoisseurs of contemporary art worldwide.
A work of art signed by Fortuny is, first and foremost, a suite of details, each and every one of wich is of primary importance. A surprising and outstanding composition, fruit of long years of experirnce with colours, canvas, techniques, visits to galleries and museums.
The route that leads to Juan Fortuny today takes the traveller backwards in time, to his childhood. He was born in Badalona (Spain) a small fishing town near to Barcelona, on the 20th of April, 1939.
"I must admit that my youth was conditioned by what my parents expected of me. They wanted me to be an engineer, but I wanted to devote my life to art. But finally I ended up with 23 years old engineering." Four years later his affair with drawings, his passion, triumphed and started a new career as a painter.
Fortuny’s surrounding world, his private life, like him, is contradictory, passionate. His house reflcts on his personality. It can be completely classical, modern or even vanguardist. His home, a roomy and stately building dating back to before the Twelfth Century, is close the Montserrat Mountain, a natural park where pines and fir trees predominate. Juan Fortuny lives in constant contact with nature.
Realism is a mark of Fortuny’s work. Tidy painting, where the central theme is treated exquisitely, with care, and as if in contrast, there is the background, where the brush and stroke become freer, blending into powerful and intense chromatic abstraction.
As far as subjets go, he feels equally at ease with a floral as with a figurative subjet, with a landscape or with horses, which are his weakness. Horses galloping, horses peacefully grazing in a corral.
Fortuny has participated in exhibitions all arround the world and his work figure in very important private collections in Europe, USA, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Australia,...
John Singer Sargent
Girl Fishing 1913
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John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was the most successful portrait painter of his era, as well as a gifted landscape painter and watercolorist. Sargent was born in Florence, Italy to American parents.
Sargent studied in Italy and Germany, and then in Paris under Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran.
Sargent studied with Carolus-Duran, whose influence would be pivotal, from 1874-1878. Carolus-Duran's atelier was progressive, dispensing with the traditional academic approach which required careful drawing and underpainting, in favor of the alla prima method of working directly on the canvas with a loaded brush, derived from Diego Velázquez. It was an approach which relied on the proper placement of tones of paint.
