Academic Painters

 Yuri Podlyaski (Russian, 1923-1987)- Portrait of Masha Surtukova Reading Farmers Market 1978. Yuri Podlyaski, 20.5 x 31.8 cm

Enrique Simonet  (Spanish 1866-1927) studied in Valencia, Málaga, Paris and Rome before traveling to the Holy Land.  Flevit super illam   (H...

American artist Edward Simmons created the painting "The Carpenter's Son" (Paris 1888, RA 1889) imagines young Jesus as a boy ...

American painter Edward Simmons (1852-1931) was an eyewitness to how Anders Zorn painted in watercolor: "Zorn was one of those artists...

Josep Puigdengolas Barella (1906-1987) was a Spanish/Catalonian landscape painter with some interesting ideas about skies. A channel of blu...

Francis Millet (1848-1912) was a member of a semi-secret club of artists called The Tile Club. His nickname was "The Bulgarian." ...

Vladimir Orlovsky (1842-1914) was a Ukranian painter who used dramatic lighting to create a spacious feeling. The main subject of the horses...

Here's a new a  YouTube video   based on a gouache painting I did in the old boatyard in Greenport, Long Island. A little glimpse of the...

In Renaissance painting, artists frequently used egg tempera with a pigment called terre verte (green earth) as an underpainting color for f...

Sophus Jacobsen (1833–1912) was a Norwegian-born artist best known for his moody, romantic scenes of moonlight.  He often painted these sce...

A retrospective of artwork of Ilya Repin (1844-1930) called " To paint the Russian soul" (Peindre l'âme russe ) is currently ...

  Ivan Shishkin, Flowers at the Fence, oil, 1880  Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve Shishkin said: "Nature is always new and always ready ...

Alphonse Mucha's ideas about beauty come across as strongly in his oil paintings as it does in his better known Art Nouveau posters. In ...

Otto Greiner  (German, 1869 - 1916) sketched from life, and those observations informed his imaginative work.  Here he sketches his self por...

Jules Bastien-Lepage, Portrait of my Grandfather, 1874 In his autobiography, Jules Breton said: "[Jules] Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) w...

Some call it "deconstructed realism," while others call it "disrupted realism" or "abstracted realism."  Alex ...