Jean-Baptiste GREUZE (1725-1805) ~ Female Portrait ✿

Jean-Baptiste Greuze was a french painter. He ranks among the most popular Old Masters in pre-Revolutionary France. Best-loved for his moralistic genre painting and later his exceptional portrait art, towards the end of the century his style of art was superceded by Neoclassical painting and he died in poverty.

Kyle STUCKEY ✿

Nancy GUZIK ✿

Pierre-Auguste RENOIR (1841-1919) ~ The Reading (La Lecture) ✿ Part.2

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French Impressionist painter whose eye for beauty made him one of the movement's most popular practitioners. He is best known for his paintings of bustling Parisian modernity and leisure in the last three decades of the 19th century. Though celebrated as a colorist with a keen eye for capturing the movement of light and shadow, Renoir started to explore Renaissance painting in the middle of his career, which led him to integrate more line and composition into his mature works and create some of his era's most timeless canvases.

Alexander SHUBIN ✿ Part.3

Alexander Shubin is a Russian-Canadian artist who presently resides and paints in his art-studio in Ottawa, Canada. Alexander expresses his creative mind using a unique style and techniques which he has developed living and painting in Europe, but he is always in search for a new and original manner to express himself in art. In his works Alex often uses contemporary and surreal ideas and combines them with his extraordinary style. Alexander's love of figurative, abstract and surreal art is reflected in his work. His paintings convey artist's intricate vision and unusual imagination which outlines Alexander's individual style. His ability of breathing life into people pictured on his portraits, captivates the viewer.

Alexander SHUBIN ✿ Part.2

Sono un Uomo, non sono un Poeta ~ Catherine La Rose

Non condannarmi al tempo degli Dei
non saprei ritrovarti
tra i Fauni inganni
e gli accecanti lampi
di Zeus...

Pierre-Auguste RENOIR (1841-1919) ~ The Reading (La Lecture) ✿