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Willem Haenraets – Dutch Impressionist Painter
Willem Haenraets
Achievements and the main contribution to Art:
His main contribution to art lies in his ability to capture the essence of the Impressionist style while infusing his own unique interpretation, filling everyday scenes in his paintings with a sense of tranquillity and beauty
Throughout his career, Haenraets has received recognition and acclaim for his artistic contributions. His paintings have been exhibited in prestigious galleries, art markets, cultural institutions, and museums around the world.
He exhibited and sold his works in the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, and Spain, ultimately gaining international recognition.
Family and Education background: Willem Haenraets was born on February 9, 1940, in Heerlen, which is a town in the south of the Netherlands.
When he was 16 years old, he started his education at the City Academy of Arts in Maastricht. Four years later he obtained a scholarship from the Belgian Government to study at the National Institute for Fine Arts in Antwerp, in the Master class of Professor Sarina ( Atelier Opsomer) and Professor Vaarten.
Professional work experience:
During his time at the Belgian National Institute for Fine Arts in Antwerp, where he also opened his very first studio and got his first model.
During that time, the artist began exhibiting and selling his works. In Antwerp he created many portraits, receiving a large number of commissions thanks to a port owner he knew.
After completing his studies, he travelled to Paris. He painted portraits from morning to night on the Place de la Tertre and was able to buy his first house in Bergen, North Holland, where he lived with his wife Hannah. During this period, he created many paintings that were sold in galleries and art markets.
By the mid-1980s, Willem began producing prints of his paintings and gained recognition internationally, receiving invitations to art fairs and exhibitions in the United States, England, and Germany. His original paintings were showcased on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, leading to further exhibitions worldwide, including in Nagoya, Japan. In the 1990s, the artist started exhibiting his works in a gallery on Stokstraat in Maastricht.
Currently, the artist works with publishers, who distribute his work all over the world, in the form of litho and giclee-prints.
His exhibitions have been held in Maastricht, Amsterdam, Bruges, Frankfurt, Milan, Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Nagoya and Hondon de las Nieves.
Personal life:
After working in Paris, аrtist lived in their own house in Bergen, Hollandthere with his first wife Hannah and little daughter Hester.
His life was quite harsh on him at some stage, when his first wife died in a car accident, leaving Willem behind with their 6 weeks old daughter.
Haenraets decided to return to Heerlen, where the artist settled in Kasteel Terworm and delved into his work.
In the late 1970s, he met his second wife, Thea, and her daughter Susan, and they later had a son named Bram.
In 2003 artist and his family bought a house in Spain, Hondon de las Nieves. He currently lives with his wife Thea and family in Spain, in the vicinity of Alicante.
Eugene J. Paprocki – American impressionist painter
Eugene J. Paprocki
Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1971
Nationality: American
Occupation: Artist
Movements: Impressionism
Styles: His unique style of impressionism captured the essence of his subjects through his use of light and colour. His subjects included the natural beauty of the world around him. He finds beauty in the simplicity of ordinary objects and places, infusing them with a sense of nostalgia and emotion.
Genres: He is known for impressionist plein air painting.
Subjects: Landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes, gardens, architecture, still life painting and tender portrayals of children playing at the seashore.
Mediums: Paprocki works with various mediums, including oil on canvas and watercolour.
Unique distinction: His paintings have graced the walls of The White House, the U.S. Embassies in Kuwait and Uruguay, and many large corporations. In 1997, the White House selected Paprocki to paint the program cover for the Annual Pageant of Peace held in D.C. In 2013, the University of Notre Dame commissioned the artist to create four monumental murals for their permanent collection.
Influenced by: The works of the French and the American Impressionists. Paprocki’s work has been influenced by his extensive travels in Europe, where he painted and visited great museums.
Achievements and the main contribution to Art: Eugene J. Paprocki is an internationally collected American artist. He has been featured in numerous one-man exhibitions and prestigious group shows on two continents. His paintings hang in more than 1000 public, private, and corporate collections in over a dozen countries around the world.
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Keiko Tanabe: Capturing Light and Atmosphere in Watercolor
Keiko Tanabe
She was born in Kyoto, Japan.
Nationality: Japanese
Occupation: Watercolor artist, instructor, author
Unique distinction: Keiko Tanabe is known for her mastery of the loose and expressive style of vibrant plein-air watercolor painting, seamlessly blending traditional Japanese sumi-e ink techniques with Western watercolor methods. She is recognized for her unique ability to infuse her watercolor paintings with a sense of tranquillity and emotional depth
Influenced by: Alvaro Castagnet, American and Japanese watercolor masters
Movement: Impressionism, Realism.
Styles: Tanabe’s style can be in general described as impressionistic, with a focus on capturing light, color, and mood in her paintings. Her creative style can be best characterized as loose and expressive, with a focus on capturing the play of light and shadow, on conveying the atmosphere and mood of each subject.
Watercolor Painting. Tanabe is known for her mastery of the watercolor medium, utilizing techniques such as wet-on-wet and dry-brush. Her favourite is Wet-on-wet technique, which involves applying paint to wet paper, allowing the colors to blend and flow together organically.
Subjects: Landscapes, cityscapes, floral still lifes, showcasing her keen observational skills in capturing the beauty of both natural and urban environments. She finds beauty in ordinary moments and seeks to convey the emotions associated with these experiences through her artwork.
Achievements and main contribution to art:
Her main contribution to art lies in her ability to capture the beauty and spirit of various locations through her unique watercolor technique. She has held numerous solo exhibitions globally and has been featured in prestigious art publications.
Her paintings are held in private collections and have been exhibited in renowned art galleries and museums around the world. She also had her paintings published in leading art magazines in the U.S., Europe and Japan.
Her art has been enjoyed by many in nine self-published books as well as on four DVDs that have been produced to date. She published book “Journey Home Volume 1: My Watercolor Paintings of Japanese Landscapes 2005 – 2015”, a collection of selected watercolor works of Japanese landscapes that includes more than 180 paintings of the places she visited in the last 10 years
Additionally, Tanabe has also authored instructional books and conducted workshops and demonstrations, sharing her expertise and passion for watercolor painting with aspiring artists. Since 2011, she has been invited to and completed successfully hundreds of workshops and numerous live demonstrations around the world.
Family background:
Grew up in an art-loving family in Kyoto. Her father is a renowned scholar of French literature in Japan. Won numerous children’s art awards, fostering early artistic passion. As a young child, she enjoyed the arts including drawing and painting. She said, «My very first plein-air experience was when I was 6 years old (and I enjoyed it), and I participated in many outdoor painting events for children».
Education background:
She earned a B.A. in intercultural communication from International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan She came to the US to study at UCLA in 1990. Later Keiko earned an M.A. in international education from UCLA in California
She was mostly self-taught, focusing on developing her unique watercolor style. She learned basic drawing and watercolor painting skills at a local community school in San Diego.
Attended a workshop by Alvaro Castagnet in 2005, a pivotal moment in her artistic journey.
Professional work experience:
She worked in international relations positions in a Japanese government trade organization in Tokyo, at a large law firm in San Francisco and at a private consulting firm in San Diego. Keiko embarked on a professional art career in 2005 and started exhibiting publicly. Keiko Tanabe has had solo exhibitions in galleries and museums around the world, including the prestigious Salmagundi Club in New York City (2019). She has also served as a juror for international watercolor competitions.
In 2015 she was named an official Ambassador for Winsor & Newton.
In 2018, she was appointed to the advisory board of the American Watercolor Weekly.
In 2018 and 2019, she was invited to be a faculty member for the Plein Air Convention & Expo, the world’s largest plein-air painting event.
Personality traits: Keiko Tanabe is known for her humble and dedicated approach to her art. She is generous and dedicated to her craft. She is passionate about capturing the beauty of the world around her and expressing it through her paintings. Shares her knowledge and love of watercolor with enthusiasm. She said that passion, the joy of creating, being helpful and watching other people discover joy kept her engaged and committed to your craft over the years.
In her free time, she enjoys exploring nature, travelling, and immersing herself in different cultures, which further inspires her artistic endeavours.
Keiko currently lives in San Diego, California.
EDOUARD MANET -Most celebrated paintings
(23 January 1832, Paris, France – 30 April 1883, Paris, France) (aged 51)
Nationality: France
Category: Art workers
Occupation: Painter
Specification: Impressionism, Realism, leading artist in the transition from realism to impressionism., a crucial figure in the rise of the Impressionist movement
Gender: Male
Personal Life: He was short, handsome, witty kind and generous toward his friends
Spouse: Suzanne Leenhoff, a Dutch pianist (m. 1863).
Creative style: He was a revolutionary in art, pertly and courageously applied paradoxical elements in his art, implemented the brilliant alla prima painterly technique never cultivated pleinairism seriously and remained a studio painter.
Most celebrated paintings: The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l’herbe) (1863), Olympia (1863), Young Flautist or The Fifer (Le Fifre)(1866), A portrait of Zola (1868), The Balcony (1869), Boating(1874), A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère) (1882).
Biography on Genvive
Edouard Mane. Argenteuil (1874)
Edouard Mane. Marguerite in the garden of Bellevue (1880)
Edouard Mane. Boating (1874)
Edouard Mane. Luncheon on the Grass (1863)
Edouard Mane. Olympia (1863)
Edouard Mane. Un bar aux Folies Bergere (1878)
Justyna Kopania – Contemporary Polish Artist
Justyna Anna Kopania
(born on June 11, Warszawa, Poland)
Nationality: Poland
Category: Art workers
Occupation: Painter
Gender: Female
Style: Impressionism, Expressionism
Genre: Wide variety of genres, from landscapes and cityscapes to portraits and still life pieces. Inspirational
Medium: Oil painting on huge canvases.
Subjects: Landscape, Seascape, sailing ships
Based: Warszawa, Mazowieckie – Poland
Creative vision:
In painting I try to show the “world”, which could beseen by looking at reality that surrounds us, from another perspective,unusual, remote, sometimes through the eyes of the child, sometimes music, composer, or someone wholooks lichen on the sea, the moon , the sky and the stars …, the river … looks out the window and looks out into the street.
“Perhaps the world that surrounds us is really quite different than we perceive it to be. Perhaps in every drop of rain, each grain of sand, and every snowflake there are millions of colors that you can see, if you look for them…this is the unique perspective I look for in my paintings.”
Main works:
Kopania exhibits 60 works of art in her personal gallery on Artist Become. Her works have been exhibited in galleries throughout Poland and Europe.
Pino Daeni – Italian Impressionist Painter of Women’s Beauty
Pino Daeni
Giuseppe Dangelico
(November 8, 1939, Bari, Italy- May 25, 2010, New Jersey, USA), (aged 70)
Nationality: Italian
Category: Art Workers
Occupation: Painter, book illustrator
Specification: He is known for his style of feminine, romantic women. Noted for his ability to capture fleeting expressions and movement, his women are often lost in thought. The use of warm colours in a unique manner made his paintings exceptional.
The famous modern painter Vidan is his nephew
Influenced: Pre-Raphaelites and Macchiaaoli He found inspiration in the works of such artists as Sargeant, Sorolla, and Boldini.
Style: Impressionism, Expressionism
Subjects: Portraits, seascapes, the nude
Education: He was a self-taught artist. He enrolled at the Art Institute of Bari, then went on to Milan’s Academy of Brera in 1960
Contributions: He created over 3,000 book covers, movie posters and magazine illustrations. his style has dominated and influenced the market.
From 1960 to 1979, his work garnered several prizes and awards. He is one of the highest-paid book illustrators of his time.
Main works: “Remember When”, “Mystic Dreams”, “Morning Breeze”, “Love”, “First Glance”, “After Dinner” and “Anticipation”.
Career and personal life: Pino was born in Bari, Italy on November 8, 1939.
He began his studies at the city’s Art Institute. In 1960 he entered Milan’s Academy of Brera where he perfected his talent and skill for painting nudes.
His skills in painting were heavily influenced by the pre-Raphaelites and Macchiaaoli.
From 1960 to 1979 his work appeared in several major exhibitions throughout Italy and Europe.
At the same time, he was commissioned by Italy’s two largest publishers. Mondadori and Rizzoli, for book illustrations.
Pino also experimented with Expressionism in the late sixties during his stay in Milan.
In 1979, he emigrated to the United States under the sponsorship of Borghi Gallery where he held several shows in New York and Massachusetts. He brought with him his family—wife Chiara, seven-year-old daughter Paola, and five-year-old son Massimo.
In 1980 Zebra Books Publishers commissioned him to do his first book cover. His romance novel covers, painted for such authors as Danielle Steel, Sylvie Summerfield and Amanda Ashley, helped sell millions of books
In the United States be became fascinated with the works of Soralla, Sargent, Benson and William Merrit Chase.
In 1992 he contacted one of the major galleries in Scottsdale, Arizona, the May Gallery. Since then his paintings have appeared in Morris and Whiteside Gallery in Hilton Head and Stuart Johnson’s Settlers West Gallery in Tucson.
In 2001, Pino’s son, Massimo, more known as Max, began representing his artist-father, despite Pino’s initial reluctance.
On May 25, 2010, Pino died at the age of 70
Vidan – Contemporary Italian Impressionist and Figurative Painter
Vidan
Vittorio Dangelico
(born on 1965, Perugia , Italy)
Nationality: Italy
Category: Art workers
Occupation: Painter
Specification: His portraits reveal a spectrum of hues as well as a range of atmosphere and emotion.
Influenced: His art would be influenced by the Italian Renaissance arts, impressionist painters such as Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir and Paul Gauguin and his uncle Pino Daeni.
Style: Figurative, Neo-realism. Also his style has been compared to the early Impressionists.
Subjects: Portraits, seascapes, the nude,
Medium: Pastel, oil.
Education: Attending some of the finest art schools in Italy to include the Liceo Artistico diMilano and later the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Brera.
Personal Life: Vidan was born in the picturesque city of Perugia, which is nestled between the elegant cities of Rome and Florence. In his youth, Vidan realized his passion for the arts.
Vidan is the great Master Pino’s nephew and spent years painting side by side with his famous uncle until Pino’s death in 2010.
Career: Since moving to the U.S in 1988, at the age of 23, Vidan began a career in the book cover industry and quickly establishing himself as a top romance artist.
Like his uncle Pino, hwo moved to the US in 1979, Vidan for over fifteen years worked for such notable and prestigious publishers as Doubleday, Harper-Collins, Harlequin, Zebra, Berkeley, and Ballantine. At the same time, he created art for the Vogue Italia, TV Guide, Snapshots, and MaryKnoll greeting cards.
But Vidan has always pursued his love of fine art and his masterful work as a portrait artist.
In 2002 he began painting for galleries and finally, in 2004, major galleries began to display his work.
Now his work can be seen in galleries all over the USA as he continues to create beautiful and inspiring pieces of art.
Vidan began studying under his uncle, world renowned artist Pino (1939 – 2010). It is often said that Vidan’s potential and progress is reminiscent of Pino’s earlier work.
Vidan has amply proven to be extraordinarily talented in his own right and become one of America’s premier figurative and Expressive artists.
His original portraits and landscapes are found in many prestigious galleries worldwide
Vidan’s works are collected throughout the United States and Canada.
Vicente Romero Redondo – the Superb Spanish Painter of Beauty and Light
Vicente Romero Redondo
(born on 1956, Madrid, Spane)
Nationality: Spane
Category: Art workers
Occupation: Painter
Specification: He is known for amazing female pastel and oil paintings. “Superb Spanish painter of beauty and light”.
Gender: Male
Style: Figurative, Neo-realism, Impressionism
Subjects: Portraits, seascapes, the nude,
Medium: Pastel, oil.
Major topic: Female and her femininity.
Education: In 1982 he graduated from the art faculty of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (Madrid).
Spouse: Silvina Gottero (married in 2008)
Personal Life: He is the eldest of four sons in family. Due to the work of his father, he grew up in many different towns all over Spain.
In 1971 he with his family moved back to Madrid.
He sdudied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. Francisco Goya was once one of the academy’s directors, and, its alumni include Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, hwo studied there from 1922-1926. He started his early years in sculpture and later turned into painting.
Since 1987, he lives in the town of Calonge on the Mediterranean coast of Costa Brava (the birthplace of Salvador Dali).
Career: After graduating from the Academy he worked on the street for several years. Since the early 90s Romero’s paintings have been shown in individual expositions in Portugal, Spain France and the USA . In 2001 he moved to Madrid, but he still spends time in the Costa Brava. Since 2002, took part in the fifteen major art exhibitions.
Some galleries have permanent exhibitions of his work: the Euroarte (Lisbon), Masters Gallery (Denver), Masters Gallery (Vail), Aspen Grove Fine Art (Aspen), Galerie Züger (Dallas), Puerta de Alcalá (Madrid), The Little Gallery (Saint-Émilion). Some of his most recent exhibitions: Petleys (Londres,2010),Pizarro (Valencia, 2011), Benedito ( Málaga, 2012), Salon International du pastel en Périgord (2012).
Creative style: He used to work with the classical style, which allows to get most out of oil paints highlighting the colors and shapes. In recent years, he gives preference to the pastels, wich he more spontaneous. The artist himself states that pastel colors allow to have “unrivaled delicacy” and to compose elements with admirable light. Recently, he producing a mutually enriching dialogue between the two techniques.
Paintings by Stepan Nesterchuk, realist and impressionist artist
Stepan Nesterchuk
Born in 1978 in the city of Dmitrov – Russia.
Realist and impressionist artist
Style: Nesterchuk’s style can be described as a harmonious fusion of realism and impressionism. He skillfully captures the essence of his subjects with meticulous attention to detail while infusing them with a sense of atmosphere and emotion through loose brushwork and vibrant colors.
Subjects: Landscape painting and subjects drawing from the heritage of the past. He has a particular affinity for capturing the beauty of nature.
Education background: In 2002 graduated from Moscow State Art-Industrial University C. G. Stroganov.
Since 2006 a member of the Union of Painters of Russia and the International Federation of Artists
Professional work experience: Stepan Nesterchuk has exhibited his artworks extensively both nationally and internationally. His paintings have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and his talent has been recognized and praised by art critics and collectors alike.
His works are in private and corporate collections in Russia, Europe, USA and China.
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