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Elba Alvarez   Alvarez was born in Pedernales, Venezuela in 1944. At the age of 18 she went to Europe and studied in Paris. She came to the United States in 1968 carrying the ideas and visions which would fill her canvases with bold, striking colors. The paintings that Alvarez created caused gallery after gallery to lavish high praise for her innovative and provocative abstracts. She was encouraged to set up a studio in New York City. Through years of studying and experimentation her talents have evolved into a highly unique and engrossing style of painting. Edward Andrew   Edward Andrew was born in America in the early 1950’s. Andrew paints in a realistic, impressionist style, painting his favorite European scenes. Capturing the warmth and beauty of province, his use of light is what gives the work a special, romantic quality that draws people into each painting. Most impressive is Andrew’s use of shadow. He clearly captures the depth of each scene by his rich use of color, outlined by the blending of shades and light displayed across each canvas. Kenneth Appelbaum   Born 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio Kenneth’s brother Stuart sent him his first camera, a type of Nikon called a Nikkormat in 1970. Kenneth has used Nikon systems ever since. He also uses a larger format camera made by Hasselblad. When he received his first camera he was living in Tucson, Arizona. While going to Pima College for unrelated subjects he started working at a local Photography Studio. His first teacher although he is for the most part self-taught was a legally blind photographer. With a weak optic nerve Kenneth assisted him by focusing in the darkroom while learning the art. Learning about black and white only he became a purest for about the next 25 years. In 1995 Ken was still only shooting with his one Nikon, one lense, never using color film, lenses, flash, filter, tripod or anything other than a manual camera. He then took a course that changed all that. Studying with a world class and world-renowned photographer Joseph Meehan he extended his horizons considerably. Updating his equipment, using tripods, color film, different lenses, flash and subjects his art continued to evolve considerably. In 1997 he enrolled in a course taught by another world-class photographer Miss Linda Summers. He studied and ran the darkroom there for 2 years honing all his skills and concentrating on black and white fine art. Ken’s art is very diverse. He has a feel for life that goes beyond what maybe socially acceptable or even spoken. He has the eye we so often hear about yet rarely experience. Kenneth is a freelance photographer in Boca Raton, Florida. Because of his many years experience he is able to shoot many types of subjects with great feeling and the unique ability to bring out the essence of the subject. Gallery Exhibits include: Palm Beach Community College, Shining Through Book Store, Boca City Hall Gallery, Patch Reef Park Gallery, E.P. Pro Lab Gallery. Tony Azzito   Azzito was born with a paint brush in hand in the late 50’s. He was heavily influenced by the POP phenomenon during his childhood, which is reflective in his art style. A self-taught artist, Azzito has developed a style uniquely his own. Utilizing mostly primary colors in his work, Azzito incorporates a wonderful use of abstract with clean line POP icons. Hailed as the “Pop Artist of the New Millennium”, Azzito has planned projects commemorating this century and the next! His themes are exciting, thoughtful and refreshing. Using a free associative thought process and vibrant use of color characterize Azzito’s paintings. Galleries across the country are eager to acquire Azzito’s POP ART and more excitement is emerging with each new Azzito painting! An American artist painting American icons, Azzito incorporates the use of parody in most of his work. As well as painting, Azzito is also a master printer. He creates all of his own silk screens from start to finish. Whereas most artist use artisans for printing, Azzito starts and finishes each unique mixed media painting himself, giving him the freedom to explore multiple techniques. Mildred Barrett   The Manhattan-born Mildred Barrett is a woman to whom painting is capturing the mood of the subject with an exceptional use of color. Barrett\'s training includes the Art Students League, the National Academy of Fine Arts, and the Brooklyn Museum Art School. She has traveled extensively through which the theme and style of her work was created and developed. Barrett has had numerous one-woman shows on Madison Avenue in New York and in galleries on Long Island and her works have been sold and re collected all over the United States, Canada, and Europe. Her paintings are also on permanent display at Bergdorf Goodmans Nenas Choice Gallery. There is a simplicity and charm in Barretts work which is enhanced by her remarkable feeling for color. Her impressionistic style captures the mood of the subject - figures which are unique in themselves in certain poses and expressions. Her canvases glow with flowers which look as though they have just been picked. Barrett is considered one of the finest female artists, certainly, living in the United States today. Of her success, she modestly says it happened all by itself - I put my time in six or seven days a week beginning at 5 or 6:00 AM. My only problem is that I like my paintings so much that I hate to see them sold. Celine Barrette   This unique piece of art is an excellent example of Celine Barrette\'s style of painting and is signed by the artist. It is painted on a sheet of aluminum and therefore it is one of the only works of art that can be used on a curved wall and it will bend to conform to the curve of the wall or it can be used on a flat wall. Also a hint of the metallic sheen shines thru as part of the painting and gives it a unique, soft glow. The artist is from Canada and her work is very sought after in both Canada and the USA. Leonard Baskin   Baskin, Leonard (1922- 2000) Printmaker, sculptor, book designer. Born in New Brunswick, N.J., the son of a rabbi. In 1937-39 he studied with the sculptor Maurice Glickman and in 1939 had his first one-man show in NewYork. He attended New York (1939-41) and Yale (1941-43) universities and then served in the U.S. Navy during World War 11 before continuing his studies at the New School for Social Research in New York. The year of his graduation (1949) Baskin began making prints. In 1950 he went to Paris and studied at the Acadamie de la Grande Chaumiare, and the following year to Florence to work at the Accademia di Belle Arti. Baskin\'s traditional training and his conviction that art should serve one\'s fellow man made him a rather unique figure during the 1950s, when abstraction and the expression of one\'s personal feelings held sway. Rather than experimenting with new formal structures, media, or techniques, Baskin developed a mastery of old techniques -woodcarving, woodcuts, etching, and lithography-and determined to use his work for social ends. During the 1950s he began a series of full-length standing figures of \"dead men\" in stone, bronze, and wood. Related to these are his \"Birdmen\" (human figures with bird heads that are reminiscent of certain statues of Egyptian gods) and his \"Oppressed Men\" (often featuring an owl -another favorite theme-standing on the head of a man). All of these figures represent \"universal man\" struggling with the problems of life and death, aspiration, immortality, and corruption. In his prints Baskin extends the psychological overtones of his sculpture even further, frequently producing powerful brooding, and even tortured, images. Much of the strength of these works derives from his bold cutting technique, which exploits the texture of the wood, and from his mastery of black and white. Perhaps the two greatest influences on Baskin\'s work are Japanese calligraphy and German expressionism (the artists he admires most are Kaethe Kollwitz and Ernst Barlach). Defending the so-called \"literary\" or \"journalistic\" qualities of his work, Baskin has noted: \"All art is propaganda.... The communication of an artistic idea is an act of propaganda.\" He has stated that for him the most important subject is \"anxiety-ridden man, imprisoned in his ungainly self,\" and has illustrated this theme in such prints as Hanged Man, Angel of Death, and Oppressed Bird with Human Aspects. Like his black ink drawings on white paper, Baskin\'s graphics are technically brilliant. His most recent work is a series of bronze sculptures-many with an elegiac air-on the usual themes of death and compassion, and like all his work they display an odd combination of sophistication with the seemingly primitive.\" Baskin is often termed a romantic humanist,\" perhaps a result of his disavowal of the \"purely decorative\" and \"the private world of the artist.\" He has long been interested in book illustration and founded the Gehenna Press, Northampton, Mass., which prints and publishes limited editions. A typical volume would be Homed Beetles and Other Insects, for which Baskin has provided thirty-four etchings; however, his interest extends beyond illustration into total book design: the integrating of type, paper, illustrations, and binding to form an esthetic object. Baskin has taught at Smith College since 1953 and has won numerous awards including the Printmaking Prize at the Sdo Paulo Biennial (1961) and medals from the American Institute of Graphic Arts (1965) and the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1969). B Basson   Basson was influenced by artists such as Vasarely and Agam. He works with multiple art mediums, but remains in the geometric abstract format. His strong background in painting and printmaking create emotionally abstract composites. His style developed a more structured asethetic in the mid 1980 mixing media by incorporating a more definitive style of bold color, hard-edge and texture. Jane Bazinet   Bazinet was born in Basile, Louisiana, and began painting during the 1960\'s. Her paintings soon found their way to collectors across the world. Working in numerous media, deftly treating a variety of themes, she is best known for her lyrical figurative work, which dwells in a mysterious crossroads between poetic realism and abstract expressionism. Jane Bazinet has been recognized as an artist with an extremely personal style and technique, which is at once romantic and contemporary. Patrice Beckerich   was born in Paris in 1946. As a child, Patrice displayed a remarkable ability and passion for drawing. However, it was not until the age of 35 that this passion began to consume him on a full time basis. In his newly adopted home of Quebec, Canada, Patrice began to apprentice with various masters, further refining his painting and drawing skills. It was also at this time that Patrice Beckerich enrolled in the University of Quebec, Montreal, majoring in Fine Arts. Upon graduation, he accepted a position with the university, teaching adult fine art continuing education courses. Intensely moved from the form, light, color and texture of the landscape, Patrice made annual painting excursions and attended painting symposium in the Charlevoix region of Quebec, world renowned for the beauty of its landscape. In his painting, Patrice expresses his love and his reverence for the natural world and his extraordinary perception of the formal visual elements of line, form, texture and shape. Patrice’s painting hovers on the very edge of realism. Forests, flowers, still-lifes and landscapes are translated into overlapping plaques of color and texture that combine a semi-abstract world of shimmering light and color. Guy Begin   Guy Bégin was born in Canada in 1944. Finding inspiration in a Christmas card at the age of 17, Guy Begin created his very first panting. Since then, he has developed into a professional, self-taught artist who is achieving tremendous success. After several years of traveling around Europe to observe the artworks of the old masters, Begin made a decision to pursuit a career in the field and thus began to fully dedicate himself to his art. The passion of traveling and of course, the passion of becoming a professional artist-painter, made him want to further pursuit his exploration in style and color. In 1987, Begin started to exhibit his paintings solo. The following year, he lived in California where life under the sun softened the colors of his palate. The change was a success for him and from that time, he has been an internationally renowned artist. Known as the “painter of perfumes,” he takes part of the biggest art exhibitions, including Art Expo New York. In 1995, his painting Big Apple Perfume was chosen among 5000 other exhibitors’ works of art, to be the official poster of the Art Expo Show. Guy Bégins’ talent reflects his satisfied frame of mind. His rich tones and beautiful impressionistic style, tell a lot about his happy way of seeing things. Put best in his words. “ I paint what I like in order to like what I paint.” Howard Behrens   Behrens was born in Chicago in 1933. At the age of 7, his family moved to a suburb of Washington, D.C. When he was 17, he broke his leg in a sledding accident. Bedridden, he turned to painting to pass the time. In 1959 Howard went to John Hopkins University to study medical art. He became disillusioned, and returned to the University of Maryland and obtained a degree in painting and sculpting. In 1961, Behrens was hired by the printing Office in Washington D.C., where he worked until 1981 serving as a chief artist for ten years. He continued to paint on weekends and nights. In 1980 he had his first one-man show at the Philips Gallery in West Palm Beach. - Belvisi   is an internationally known European artist, classically trained in France, whose primary subject matter consist of landscapes of France and Italy. Connie Boussom   is a native of Elkhart, Indiana. She graduated from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Ms. Boussom has held one women shows at the Huntsville Art Museum & was the first woman to show her works at the Van Braun Civic Center. Her works are both privately & corporately collected with displays through the United States & Europe. Charles Bragg   Bragg, America\'s leading satiric artist, is famous for lampooning pompous professionals, the power elite, the pious, the bizarre. Works in museums around the world including the Stedelijk in Amsterdam, the Pushkin in Moscow, the Modern in Milan, and the Joseph and Tyler Museums in the U.S. He is a Gold Medal Winner, National Society of Illustrators and New York Directors\' Guild. Commissions include work for Playboy Magazine. Subject of the 1987 PBS Special, Charles Bragg One of a Kind. Paul Braslow   Braslow\'s sculptures show life as he would like it to be, graceful, elegant and hopeful. They inevitably recall the work of Brancusi in their startling grace, and the work of Giacometti in their intensity. After the first impressions, one reads the sculptures for their strength of balance, and only then the sense of emotion becomes apparent and remains the lasting impression. Educated in California with an Arts degree from UCLA and private study in Nara Japan, St. Ives England and Carrara Italy. Public works in Israel include Entebbe Rescue Memorial at Ben-Gurion Airport and sculptures for Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Haifa Museum of Modern Art. - Briante   Briante was born in Dijon and exhibited at the Paris Spring Exhibition in his early 20\'s. He took painting and drawing lessons to improve his technique, and in 1960 devoted himself principally to his art. Various prizes have marked his way toward becoming a recognized force within the art community. Since 1979, he has dedicated himself uniquely to his painting and with several exclusive contracts for his graphic works as well as noted exhibitions, Briante has become a renowned painter in today\'s art world. He continues to have his shows in regional and internationally known galleries. Romero Britto   Britto has been painting all of his life and by the age of sixteen had already had his first public exhibition at the Organization of the American States in his native Brazil. His clean and bold visual images, executed in exotic and powerful colors are evident throughout his work. The manner in which he optimistically and positively expresses his joie de vivre and confronts the social and political issues of the world today put him in a class by himself. In 1989, Romero Britto was commissioned to join the likes of Andy Warhol and Keith Haring by Absolut Vodka and as a result has become one of the most recognizable and celebrated artists in the world. Mariarita Brunazzi   Conceptualizes eternity of childhood in paintings - If it were for artist MARIA RITA BRUNAZZI , everyone would not only have the soul of a child but physical features as well. Thus, this Italian artist is taking her art to unexplored realms, where the possibility of keeping one’s childhood alive is a reality. Born in the city of Cremona, Brunazzi is presently residing in Mantova, Italy. Her works of arts have been exhibited in a number of galleries in her native country where she is known for her depictions of women in a variety of different styles, from classical scenes to more modern contemporary everyday life. “My female imageries, often remind people of ancient works of art in an ironic and very poetic vision,” the artist explains. “These images transmit memories of infancy, like dolls that interpret many different roles.” Brunazzi, who has dared to challenge the world by copying the complicated features of the Mona Lisa, has turned this famous painting into a more subtle reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s mysterious lady. The result: a beautiful version of La Gioconda a few years younger on oil on canvas. But this artist’s endowment goes beyond imagination. Brunazzi has a unique talent that is beginning to make people’s heads turn and stop still to admire her works. Another example of her mastery when depicting child-like characters is one of her versions of the Madonna carrying a baby. This painting, capable of evoking the tenderest feelings will capture your heart, indefinitely keeping this image in your mind. Brunazzi was able to produce a woman, whose looks are closer to those of an infant than of a mother carrying a baby, and turn her into an angelic young figure holding in her short and chubby arms the delicacy of a newborn angel. In a more modern piece, the artist utilizes a technique of equality by depicting a little girl exercising in front of a mirror. Actions normally carried out by adults are seen being performed by the young in this painting, where the girl is wearing workout gear, ready to lose those extra pounds. Having explored the subjects of tenderness and modernism, the artist also represents sensuality in some of her works. To accomplish this, Brunazzi uses a very delicate touch through the use of symbols of light drapery and colorful flowers. Although she might be uncovering an area of the human anatomy normally not shown, the use of this approach makes the painting still look naïve and harmless. Bernard Buffet   was born in Paris in the year 1982. He entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1944, where he worked mostly in solitude. About this time he found his individual style and in 1948 won the Prix de In Critique jointly with Bernard Lorjou which turned him into an overnight sensation. In sharp and spiky linear terms and with dismal grays and neutral tones he depicted emaciated figures and distorted still-lifes which seemed to express the existential alienation and spiritual solitude of the post-war generation. It was upon this power to capture a mood that his great popularity depended. Later, overwhelmed by commissions and success, his work became more stylized and more decorative, losing in great measure its initial impact. Depressed because he could no longer paint, his passion in life, Buffet committed suicide in 1999. Fran Bull   Born in Orange, New Jersey in 1938. She was educated in Vermont in 1960 at Bennington College. She taught on and off from 1979 to 1992 - Watercolor, at New York University, Vis Artist at Towson State College in Maryland, Instructor at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and Instructor at Norwich University in Connecticut. Has her art displayed in galleries from New York to Santa Monica, California. Sergio Bustamante   Bustamante is a \"craftsman\" who combines \"the popular imagery and the surrealism.\" Born Mexican, with Chinese and Indian ancestors, he carries in his roots the inspiration of the richest villages in folk art. His work is among everything the result of the imagination and inspiration purely original from himself. He transforms into the author, a craftsmen, an artist who impregnates with sensibility, fantasy and emotions, who knows how to transform paper, ceramic, metals well combined, wood, oil colors, inks and water color into a fantasy. To Bustamante fantasy is not only a means of expression, it is an existential habit, a way of life. Every design is elaborated in a limited and numbered edition (accompanied by an authenticity signed certificate) in which the art piece is an original, emphasizing his individuality with his incomparable style. Alexander Calder   Calder is known as the inventor of the Mobile, a creation from the early 1930\'s. In 1919, Calder received his mechanical engineering degree from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. In 1931, he moved to Paris and began to make mobiles. His first mobile incorporated glass, pottery pieces and weathered wood. In 1975, Calder received the United Nations Peace Medal. His public collections can be found at the Art Institute of Chicago, Kunsthalle Bern (Switzerland), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, the Metropolitan in New York, and other major museums in France, Sweden, Israel, Germany, Cuba and many more. Frank Caldwell   In 1911, Frank Caldwell was born in San Francisco into a family of artists and writers. Being raised with an artistic background, he was inspired to enter the arts himself. He studied art at the San Francisco School of Design, the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles and at Warren Rollins in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Through the course of his career, Caldwell has taught art at Lose Angeles City College, was a United State Marine artist, and designed murals for the United States Maritime Commission. While living in Los Angeles, he became involved with the entertainment industry. He designed murals for the Pasadena Playhouse and other theaters, created art for NBC\'s opera series and for the Band of America and the Perry Como shows. He was also art director for New World Productions. A few of the films he designed and produced were: In the Beginning, a winner at the Cannes Film Festival and Frenzy: The New Orleans Story. Since 1970 he has devoted himself to painting, drawing and graphics. He has worked in oil, watercolor, oil pastel, and tempera among other media. Because he values the brilliant colors with which the oil pastels allow him to work, this has become has favorite media. Those brilliant colors are evident particularly in his vibrant marine paintings. He gained a love and respect for the water during the time he spent with the Marines and Maritime Commission. Caldwell\'s works are in many private and corporate collections throughout the world including: American Honda, Prudential Bache, the City of Long Beach, Tishman Construction Col, Transamerica Insurance Corp., Union Texas Petroleum and Uoqumi Gallery in Tokyo. He has had one-man shows in Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, Washington D.C., Baltimore and Florida galleries and museums. Marc Chagall   Marc Chagall was born in 1887 to a poor Jewish family in Russia. He was the eldest of nine children. Chagall began to display his artistic talent while studying at a secular Russian school, and despite his father’s disapproval, in 1907 he began studying art with Leon Bakst in St. Petersburg. It was at this time that his distinct style that we recognize today began to emerge. As his paintings began to center on images from his childhood, the focus that would guide his artistic motivation for the rest of his life came to fruition. In 1910, Chagall, moved to Paris for four years. It was during this period that he painted some of his most famous paintings of the Jewish village, and developed the features that became recognizable trademarks of his art. Strong and bright colors began to portray the world in a dreamlike state. Fantasy, nostalgia, and religion began to fuse together to create otherworldly images. In 1914, before the outbreak of World War I, Chagall held a one-man show in Berlin, exhibiting work dominated by Jewish images. During the war, he resided in Russia, and in 1917, endorsing the revolution, he was appointed Commissar for Fine Arts in Vitebsk and then director of the newly established Free Academy of Art. In 1922, Chagall left Russia, settling in France one year later. He lived there permanently except for the years 1941 - 1948 when, fleeing France during World War II, he resided in the United States. Chagall\'s horror over the Nazi rise to power is expressed in works depicting Jewish martyrs and refugees. In addition to images of the Jewish world, Chagall\'s paintings are inspired by themes from the Bible. His fascination with the Bible culminated in a series of over 100 etchings illustrating the Bible, many of which incorporate elements from folklore and from religious life in Russia. Israel, which Chagall first visited in 1931 for the opening of the Tel Aviv Art Museum, is likewise endowed with some of Chagall\'s work, most notably the twelve stained glass windows at Hadassah Hospital and wall decorations at the Knesset. Chagall received many prizes and much recognition for his work. He was also one of very few artists to exhibit work at the Louvre in their lifetime. Alexander Chen   Chen was born in Canton, China in 1952. In 1989, Alexander and his wife immigrated to the United States, where he began assimilating our culture and painting life in his new land. Currently, Alexander is working on his American Cities Series, reflecting feelings and emotions he experiences on location. He has also completed eleven works which are being printed as puzzles by one of Japan’s largest puzzle makers. Alexanders paintings are extremely detailed and complex, offering the viewer many levels of enjoyment. Some of his paintings take over a month to complete because of the attention to detail and the intricacy of the subject matter. Alexander’s greatest desire in his adopted land is to contribute something of value and beauty by painting what he observes in his unique style, bringing a little of Alexander’s World into your life. John Chen   Many of the contemporary artists from China who have been exposed to Western influences are currently developing original techniques and styles which encompass the best of both Eastern and Western cultures. These artists, including John Chen, are being recognized on an unprecedented level throughout the world for their ability to synthesize international trends and traditional Chinese art forms. Chen attended the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. He was admitted to the Academy which is acknowledged as the most prestigious art school in China. Despite the honor of attending this school, Chen quickly became frustrated by the academic restraints imposed upon him. The traditional techniques taught at the school did not meet his needs for freedom of expression. Therefore, after attending the Academy, Chen experimented and developed his talent on his own. Tracy Chysik   A commitment to classicism is the driving force behind the work of sculptor Tracy Chysik, an emerging artist who grew up in the heart of the Canadian Rockies and who counts the Renaissance masters among her greatest influences. “Sculpture is intended to nourish the soul and inspire the heart. People want to live with art that expresses beauty, grace and elegance,” says Chysik, who has studied under renowned sculptors Morag McLean and David Robinson. In 1998, she began studying at the Vancouver Academy of Art and was honored to work with Morag McLean, a graduate of the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Scotland and a portrait sculptor for Madame Tussand’s. She then went on to study under Vancouver sculptor David Robinson, who is critically acclaimed for his work in figurative sculpture and classical training. Descension into Matter is the first piece in a series of six sculptures and expresses a moment in the evolution of the soul of humanity. She describes her work as “the unique integration of the ethereal qualities of acrylic and the heavy qualities of bronze which together create the impact of my designs.” As an emerging artist, Tracy Chysik has already attracted the attention of the art world. “It is not often that an artist of the caliber of Tracy Chysik emerges. Gifted with the vision to merge the feel of the Renaissance masters with a medium of the future, she is truly a leader in her field. “ says Ann-Marie Little of Plaza Galleries in Whistler, Canada. Chuck Huller of Benedetti Gallery in New York describes her work as,”Powerful, beautiful and definitely a winner.” Cindy Kellner of Sierra Galleries in Lake Tahoe says “This piece has universal appeal and a lot of soul”. Descension into Matter was recently presented to the Secretary to the Pope at the Vatican by Monsignor Lopez Gallo of the Vancouver Archdiocese during his visit to Rome. It was an enormous honor both personally and professionally for Tracy Chysik to receive word that the Vatican had accepted her work into their Collection. James Coignard   Coignard\'s graphics and paintings are a power-packed and meaningful blend of traditional and modern art forms. As a young adult Coignard began a close friendship with the French painter Marchand des Raux, who greatly influenced his budding artistic development. In 1948 he decided to become a serious painter. He began courses at the Ecole des Arts Decoratif while apprenticing at Raux’s studio. In 1950 Coignard won First Prize at the Hors Concours at Arts Decoratif. Joe Correale   Before moving to Rockport, Massachusetts, where he currently resides and paints, Joe Correale was well-known as a graphic designer throughout New York [where he exhibited in Manhattan for 15 years], and Connecticut, his work appearing on the covers of publications ranging from telephone directories to national magazines. Throughout his illustrious career, Correale has exhibited an amazing technical proficiency, a surprisingly wide range of subject material, and more recently, a subtle sense of surrealism in all his work. Correales artistic reputation has continued to accelerate to that of a preeminent watercolorist in photo-realism. His fascination with light and texture is apparent in all his work due to his impeccable attention to detail. It is the fine detail that draws the unsuspecting viewer into each scene as though he or she is the sole observer. All interference is eliminated and one finds oneself experiencing the subject of the painting from a quiet center or place of peace; from a truly subjective perspective. It is this characteristic which sets Correales work apart from most others. Each painting is a literal slice of life - and in a mysterious way - a very large one at that. Here is a master of his craft in every sense. Richard Daford   Richard DaFord was born in Cognac, France. His parents were a team of portrait photographers with businesses in Central Africa and the Charente Maritime region of France. DaFord\'s youth was filled with images of the photographic world, and has been greatly influenced by his parents’ aesthetic teachings. Drawing, painting and photography were an integral part of his life from the start. His father, a photographer and artist, had a passion for the old masters and guided DaFord into the exploration and creation of figurative and symbolic art. DaFord studied fine art at Ecole Brassart in Tours, France. He left the private art school and moved to Paris where he fell in love with the beautiful architectural and diverse culture. It was in Paris where DaFord greatly influenced his artistic style, like many other old masters. Over the last decade DaFord has perfected his artistic style, and has done countless hours of research and study of the old masters techniques. Though accomplished at various styles of art, his favorite subject matter finds itself in the ethereal romantic presence of street scenes. Many of his paintings combine ideas taken from his heritage, European history, and landscape. It is evident in his work that artists like Da Vinci, Titian, and other Masters of the Renaissance have significantly influenced him. The delicate hand of DaFord is clearly visible in his expressive execution of the human form on canvas. Many of his splendid paintings can be found in private collections throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and Mexico. Authenticated Dali   Dali was born in 1904 and died in 1989. An eccentric and masterful Surrealist in painting and in life, Salvador Dali wrote in his diary two years before entering art school in Madrid during the early 1920s: \"I\'ll be a genius... Perhaps I\'ll be despised and misunderstood, but I\'ll be a genius, a great genius.\" Born in Figueras, Spain, Dali first studied at the cole des Beaux Arts in Madrid and was influenced by Metaphysical painters de Chirico and Carra while there. Equally admiring the meticulous realism of the Pre-Raphaelites and French 19th century painters, he began to blend conceptual styles and technique. Beginning in 1927, Dali exhibited in Madrid and Barcelona, earning a reputation for being one of the most promising younger painters. A visit to Paris in 1928 brought him into contact with Picasso and the Surrealists Mir¢, Masson, Ernst, Tanguy and Andr, Breton; shortly thereafter, his first exhibition brought Dali firmly into the Surrealist movement where he was a leading figure during the next ten years. Dali transformed the definition of Surrealism, which combined pure psychic automatism expressing the unconscious process of thought, dream and associated realities to include what he called \"critical paranoia,\" a theory that embraced delusion while remaining aware that reason has been deliberately suspended. Danny Day   he began his art career at the tender age of twelve, selling his work on a consistent basis from age fourteen on. As a pre-graduate high school student in the small Ohio town of Marion, Danny was viewed as one of the most talented young artists in the state, recognized by Governor James Rhodes in competitions two years running. He developed a photo realistic style using acrylic paints which transcended his age and experience. Danny relocated to San Diego in 1986 and has since established a local as well as national reputation with his sports compositions. With a strong athletic background, all-conference defensive back and state champion pole-vaulter, he has a true appreciation for the grace and strength represented in athletes and sports in genera. It was, therefore, a natural marriage, combining his painting ability with his love of sports. Michel Delacroix   Delacroix was born in Paris 14th District in 1933. Studied at Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris for two years. His style is said to be naive because if it is candidness, however his works are created with the skill and knowledge of the well-educated artist. Over the years he has received many awards, including the Prix Public-Prix Pro Art and many others. He achieved one of the highest accolades for a contemporary artist in 1976 when his work was purchased by the Ministry of Culture for Paris Fonds National d Art Contemporain. Raymond Dilley   is a self-taught painter who was born in Madrid, Spain. After touring most of the world, studying artistic techniques and exhibiting his work, he settled in Paris and began work on a series of one-man exhibitions that were held in various parts of France, the United States, and throughout Europe. Bev Doolittle   Bev Doolittle was born and raised in California. In 1968, she graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. Doolittle met her husband, Jay, at school, and they started married life with a painting trip to Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks. For the next five years however, the Doolittles were engaged in advertising art and TV productions in Los Angeles. It paid well, but after a while I was not learning,Bev explains, and we did not like living in the city. We wanted to be close to nature, and we wanted to travel. They have now accomplished both. Their frequent travels and backpacking trips have covered the western United States, Canada, Baja California, and eastern Africa. They now live close to nature in California. Bev Doolittles subject matter is provided by the out-of-doors. I love nature,Doolittle says. I try to look beyond the obvious and create unique, meaningful paintings depicting our Western wilderness and its inhabitants. I start with a concept and attempt to convey it through strong design coupled with detailed realism. I want people to think when they look at my paintings. Jack Dowd   Jack Dowd is quickly making a name for himself as one of America\'s foremost, modern sculptors. His life-size creations, viewed on continuing exhibition in museums and galleries throughout the nation, are recognized by Who\'s Who In American Art and are collected by private, public and corporate patrons from Florida to Australia. Gallery owner Frank Oehlschlaeger says of the artist, \"In my forty years of business, I have never seen an artist become as popular and successful in so little time as Jack Dowd.\" However, success came humbly for the artist. Born in 1938 in New York City, Dowd was raised by a hard-working middle class family. He had a particular fondness for art and was often caught sketching while in class. After graduating from Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y., Dowd became a High School Art teacher. A college-age hobby of carving tiki\'s turned Dowd on to sculpture. He sculpted his first crude pieces with an ax until he saved enough money to buy a chainsaw. The power tool made it easy for the artist to quickly blend his imagination and interest in cartooning to create his first folk caricatures. He then began a two-summer tour to art fairs around the country, producing and showing his work under the auspices of a major chainsaw company. Turning out a carving every day, Dowd was labeled by the Media as the \"world\'s fastest sculptor.\" But the novelty soon wore off and Dowd began to demand more from himself. In the 70\'s, he experimented with smaller, more refined tools that gave depth and magnitude to his work. He also took more time to create each piece. \"I wanted my artwork to be physical and large. I didn\'t want to sit in a confined space just painting pictures.\" It was at this time that Dowd\'s work started to become known for its whimsical-expressionist style. The turning point in Dowd\'s career came in 1982 when he moved to Florida and was intrigued by the diverse culture he found there. Introducing humor and color, Dowd began to comment on social mores as he saw them. His first major piece to receive widespread recognition was \"I Love New York,\" a punk rocker that earned Dowd best of show in the 1989 Coconut Grove Arts Festival. To obtain painstaking attention to character, the artist now spends two to three months sculpting a single piece of artwork. When he isn\'t in his studio, Dowd is likely to be found looking for inspiration for his next sculpture. The artist feels that an important part of his work is to keep in touch with humanity--whether it\'s a trip to Miami\'s trendy South Beach or rollerblading to a local K-Mart. Once Dowd locates his subject, he creates the character by taking parts of several live models and sketching them together. The result is the birth of a person who has never lived before. Art critic Victor Forbes of Sun Storm magazine says of Dowd\'s sculpture, \"The secret to his success...is that he has simplified an artistic process and genre and at the same time made it larger than life, more in an emotional sense than in size.\" Girard Drouillard   Early on he was influenced by artists such as Hoffman, Stella, Richter, Rauschenberg, and Tapies. He has worked with virtually every art medium since 1976. He has a strong background in painting, performance art, photography, printmaking and sculpture. His paintings initially emerged as rather ambiguous, raw, emotionally abstract composites. He developed a more structured asethetic in the mid 1980 mixing media by incorporating a more definitive style of bold color, hard-edge and texture. He has thrown his brushes aside. This has enhanced a free-fall affect and spontaneity in his recent pieces. Lee Dubin   is best known for her beautiful paintings of life in the Victorian Era. She’s from California and continues to paint in her Los Angeles studio. Dubin attended the finest art schools in California including Chouinard Art Institute, Otis Art Institute, UCLA, and Los Angeles Trade Technical College. Her techniques of glazing and underpainting is a direct result of studying the works of the old masters. One glance at a Dubin image is not enough. Upon further study, one soon discovers a fascinating visual story. An inside look as it were into the lives and history of a bygone era. Ron Edward   Ron Edward is an avid outdoorsman whose experiences in the field furnish the material for his paintings. Mr. Edwards’ was born in 1948 in South Africa. He prefers to portray his subjects in acrylic or oil on canvas. He believes that working in both mediums helps to keep him fluent, fresh and enthusiastic, but also allows him more creative freedom. Mr. Edwards’ has been painting since 1963 and has been widely acclaimed for his breathtaking renditions of wildlife, fur-bearing mammals, fish, and birds of prey. His work has appeared in a number of publications including Field and Stream, Outdoor Life, Wildlife Art, U.S. Art, Sporting Classics, North American Fisherman and Collectors Editions. Kathy Edwards   is a Queensland artist who delights in depicting life in a carefree and often zany way. Her naive-style paintings have become extremely popular with people looking for a brighter view on life in Australia. Mark Erickson   was born in 1955 in Southern California. His early education was completed in California, Germany and Italy. His mother and grandmother were New York artists. They studied under Hans Hoffman and knew Franz Kline before World War II. Erickson\'s father was an aircraft designer and pilot, his father\'s father a cowboy and a marshal in the Dakota Territory. After attending college in Southern California, Erickson moved to San Francisco in 1975. He completed his education at the Art Institute, Academy of Art and the University of San Francisco. He has had one-man shows in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Orleans and Carmel and has collectors from across the U.S. as well as Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Italy, England, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australia. Erickson\'s work has evolved steadily and contains a confidence and maturity gained only by dedication and talent. Sometimes the paintings have a more urban energy with whirring colors flying across a brightly lit metropolis. The shapes, so perfectly formed, propel the pigment off the surface of the canvas. Erickson, transforming the flat plane, breathes life and depth into his paintings and pulls the viewer into the experience. He does this by modulating color against color and form against form in such a way that you feel you can travel within the work. Romain de Tirtoff Erte   Erte was a Grand Master of Art Deco and pioneer of showgirl theater. His legendary career spanned eight decades. He lived through 1990 to the age of 97. Designer for Folies Bergeres, Paris; Ziegfeld Follies, New York; George White Scandals, New York; Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Hollywood, Paris Opera; London Symphony; Diaghilevs Ballets Russes. Personal designer for Mata Hari, Lillian Gish, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Ana Pavlova, Zizi Jeanmarie, Josephine Baker, Marion Davies. 22 years the cover artist and contributor to William Randolph Hearsts Harper Bazzar. 170 works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert, London; the Louvre, Paris; and the LA. County Museum of Art. His spectacular limited edition collections made him the most collected artist of our time. Recipient of the French Legion of Honor and honorary degrees from the College of Arts in London. M.C. Escher   Escher, born in Leeuwarden, 17 June 1898, received his first instruction in drawing at the secondary school in Arnhem, by F.W. van der Haagen, who helped him to develop his graphic aptitude by teaching in the technique of the linoleum cut. From 1919 to 1922 he studied at the School of Architecture and Ornamental Design in Haarlem, where he was instructed in the graphic techniques by S. Jessurun de Mesquita, whose strong personality greatly influenced Escher\'s further development, as graphic artist. In 1922 he went to Italy and 1924 settled in Rome. During his 10 year stay in Italy he made many study-tours, visiting Abruzzia, the Amalfi coast, Calabria, Sicily, Corsica and Spain. In 1934 he left Italy, spent two years in Switzerland and five years in Brussels before settling in Baarn (Holland) in 1941, where he died on March 27, 1972, at the age of 73 years. Roy Fairchild   Fairchild was born in Surrey, England in 1952. He lives and works most of the year in his country home. This peaceful environment is fundamental to his well being and stability as an artist, although he travels throughout Europe to obtain new sources of inspiration. He is particularly influenced by the painters of the Renaissance and he visits Italy in particular to study frescos, tapestries and paintings and to see for himself the techniques with which they were executed. For the past few years he has been giving classes to teach his skills and techniques to young artists. Dave Faville   born in 1965 in Portland, Oregon Faville studied art at the University of Oregon majoring in abstract painting. He has a graduate degree from the Seattle Art Institute in Seattle, Washington. While studying in Washington he became interested in concept and design. His work has become a synthesis of the two, sometimes humorous, somewhat on the edge, and always drawn to the correct proportion. Dave, who has worked as a graphic designer, lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and children. Frederick Fienburg   Frederick Fienburg is a native of New York City and studied in the United States, Munich, Germany and in other European cities. He lived for many years in New York City. He retired to the Berkshires to live permanently, where he established his studio, and where since the 1960’s he has painted. He has been consistently active in regional art circles and a consistent prizewinner. Fienburg’s stylized landscapes shadowed by his highly trained dramatist steals segments of the outdoors to translate and present in glowing color to his audience that side of Nature known best to those who know where and how to look. His paintings grace so many walls in so many homes in so wide an area, to bring not only the outdoors, but exciting colors, and almost everything that can be painted into the daily lives of those fortunate enough to own the work of this student of Nature. Jean Michel Folon   Jean-Michel Folon (1934- ) was born in Brussels. He began to study architecture but abandoned it in favor of drawing, which allowed more expressive studies. His drawings have appeared in numerous magazines including Time, Fortune, The New Yorker, and L\'Express. In 1969 he had his first one-man show in the United States, followed closely by exhibitions in Tokyo, Venice, Milan, London, Sao Paulo, Geneva, Brussels, and Paris. Folon has illustrated works by Kafka, Lewis Carroll, and Ray Bradbury. In 1973 he created a series of watercolors titled La Mort d\'un Arbre (The Death of a Tree), for which Max Ernst created a lithograph as a preface. Folon has completed a 176-square-foot painting for a subway station in Brussels and a 160-square-foot painting for Waterloo Station in London. He is most comfortable using the engraving and drypoint techniques of printmaking. Ella Fort   Ella Fort was born in Bordeaux. After successful artistic studies in Paris, she diligently devoted herself to her art, which has rewarded her with many first prizes.Her works have been published by many major art companies, in France and abroad. She continues to devote all of her attention to her art and is prized by many collections and exhibits. Claude Fossoux   was born in Paris in 1946. From 1970 - 1975, he took lessons at the Paris National School of Fine Arts. There he met two important artists that determined his destiny taught him the techniques needed. His early success was never contradicted. He has exhibited in Germany, England, Japan and the United States. Frank Frazetta   Frank Frazetta was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1928. As early as age three he was drawing & at eight he is reported to have been selling his work! He later went to the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Arts. In 1944, at the tender age of 16, his first professional comic work appeared in Tally Ho comics, under his mentor John Giunta. This job would lead to others & for several years he illustrated funny animals for text stories in Coo Coo & Happy comics. He illustrated eight \"Shining Knight\" stories at DC which are highly acclaimed & also did stories for \"Heroic Comics\", including a one page anti drug story which was used repeatedly for several years. During this time he met & befriended Al Williamson & Roy Krenkel, two of comics\' greatest talents. Each was inspired & influenced by the other, but Al & Frank were taught much by Roy & would later profess a great profit from his genius. Frank worked for numerous companies including Standard, Lev Gleason, & at Toby with Al Williamson, and later at M.E. where he drew \"White Indian\" & his own creation \"Thun\'da\" . Thun\'da, actually a derivation of Edgar Rice Burrough\'s \"Tarzan\" was a great achievement by any standards & Frank\'s talent glowed like a supernova with this effort. During this time he also worked for Bill Gaines at EC Comics, and it is here that he did a number of classic stories & covers, almost entirely in collaboration with Williamson & Krenkel. One effort entitled \"50 Girls 50\" is hailed as one of the greatest stories of all time, and another story, \"Squeeze Play\" is a fabulous \"Sock Suspenstory\". He contributed to the Buck Rogers mythos by illustrating 7 covers for the Famous Funnies comic in the early fifties. Among these seven covers are some of the most respected comic book covers ever created. Kinetic, visceral works; these pieces jump off the books & drill into your gut with their emotional & angry action scenes. In 1952, Frank created his famous comic strip \"Johnny Comet\", later \"Ace McCoy\". Lasting for one & one half years, it was a finely drawn & brilliantly conceived strip about a race car driver; his girl, the gorgeous Jean & his friends, Mom & Pop Bottle. Unfortunately the scripting by Peter DePaolo was not on a par with the art & after an initial period of success, the strip was dropped in 1953. Also in 1952 he went to work for Al Capp assisting on the \"Lil Abner\" strip. Staying with Capp until about 1960 or so, Frank quit after Capp informed him that his salary would be cut -after Frank had re-located to be closer to Capp\'s studio!!!!! After leaving Abner he toiled for paperback publishers doing interior illustrations (these books are highly sought after & command high prices), and then wound up at Warren Publications where a number of the EC artists had gathered to work on Creepy, Eerie, Blazing Combat & Vampirella. Frank\'s assignments where mostly cover paintings & these works are some of the most memorable pieces of the baby boomer generation. \"Egyption Princess\" (Eerie #23), \"Sorcerer\" (Eerie #2), \"Wolfman\" (Creepy #5), \"Sea Monster\" (Eerie #3) and scores of others, each is a masterpiece. While at Warren he also drew a \"Creepy\'s Loathsome Lore\" page & another famous story (possibly his best comic story ever) \"Werewolf\", the story of a crazed \"wolf-hunter\" who is himself the hunted. These five pages are a momentous achievement for the comic medium. He was commissioned by Canaveral Press & Doubleday Books to do illustrations for E.R.Burroughs stories which naturally included the Tarzan & Mars series\' and he also did a number of ERB covers & interiors for the entire spectrum of Burroughs stories for Ace Books. Some are great, others are less so. He admittedly did three covers in one weekend to meet a deadline after putting the assignment aside for almost three months. Two of these are rather dull Frazetta compositions, but one of them -\"Tarzan & the Jewels of Opar\" is an outstanding work of art. The fierce Tarzan leaping in mid-air, about to land on the back of the attacking lion; juxtaposed with the frozen beauty of the woman in mortal danger is electric. The forest trees in the back are living creatures as well, & you can hear the crackle of the campfire burning in the background. Frazetta\'s incarnation of \"Conan the Barbarian\" for Lancer Books paperback series are also revered. His painting for the cover of the first book in that series aptly titled \"Conan the Barbarian\" is most likely Frank\'s greatest single achievement. Frank has been variously been referred to as having influenced the mythology of Conan, or having revitalized popular interest in the character. In later years Frank has worked in films, most notably on \"Fire & Ice\", and he has done a series of paintings for the \"Scientologists\". The recent return of the \"Death Dealer\" under the pen of author Jim Silke has given us the opportunity to feast on more of Frank\'s work & he continues to paint for other companies, and occasionally does commissions for his fans. A very prolific artist, Frank has been one of the most influential & therefore one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, Frank is certain to have carved his niche in the history of American Art.........As a postcript, Frank has had two debilitating strokes, which have severely incapacitated him. Michael Garman   Born in 1938, he was the son of an adventurous early flying man, who grew up in central Texas. Michael’s artistic endeavors began as a child, creating figures from popsicle sticks and mud. From his childhood in Texas, a two week photo-journalism trip to Mexico became a two year sojourn in Central and South America. Here he met and lived with the working people, and began making their personalities into sculptures. The vagabond life associated with missions, soup kitchens, cheap hotels, and the streets themselves was continued via wino districts of American cities such as Philadelphia and San Francisco, providing Michael with the background for his sculptural identities. Soli Gaylord   Gaylord was born and raised in North America, however, his art is clearly international in character. This is due to the variety of international influences that have flavored his artwork as well as the diverse skills and experiences the artist has developed and collected. The figures most influential on Gaylord’s art are Picasso, Tamayo, Toledo, Auerbach, and Hofmann. This produces works that are powerful, textural, sensuous, and filled with primitive mystery. Gaylord’s experiences in varied aspects of artistic endeavor have rendered him a master of techniques and visual effects. These activities include painting classic automobiles and fashion design, as well as the more traditional skills of oil painting and fine art painting. His home medium, as it were, is painting in acrylics. Acrylic paint admits of the rich color and freedom that facilitate the type of image the artist envisions. Gaylord has also perfected a mixed-media technique for translating the visions he creates through paint into limited editions of genuinely unique works. This facilitated through the artist’s close involvement throughout the printing process in addition to the inclusion of painting and handworking on each print. The inspirations for Gaylord’s creations are his travels and his abiding interest in primitive man. He has studied anthropology and primitive cultures extensively and not always from afar. He once spent forty days living with pygmies on the Kalahari Desert, as well as having backpacked Mongolia, Pakistan, Iran, and the Amazon basin. Thus, if his themes draw to mind the Native American, or the Latin, or the African this is reflective of the artist’s primary interests. One important goal of Gaylord’s artwork is to capture what is universal in man. Gary George   Was born in a small town in Mississippi in 1951. At the age of six his family moved to Europe and it was there his interest in art began. He began his formal studies in 1969 at Memphis State University and continued then in New York at the Arts Students League and later in London at the Royal Academy. As an art student he visited Europe’s and America’s foremost art Museums and made detailed copies of the masterpieces he admired. Some of these early works were kept by him and can still be seen on his studio walls. During this period he supported himself by painting portraits from life. He also began to exhibit in juried exhibitions winning awards and acclamations. Gary now divides his time between his studios in Palm Beach and London, England. He has recently added printmaking to his repertoire by doing limited edition serigraphs. These are done in his studio where every facet of the process is under his control to insure the highest quality attainable. Marc Gester   Marc Gester has spent years developing a unique style of painting for which he is known. He paints in Oil and Acrylic using techniques ranging from photo-realism to impressionism, with the combination of both being his most popular. While living in South America, Mr. Gester firmly established himself in the art world with his exceptional waterfall paintings. His paintings have been displayed on numerous magazine covers; he has been the featured artist in American Artist and Wildlife Art. His accomplishments have earned him one-man exhibitions throughout the world. Yankel Ginzburg   Ginzburg was born in Alma-ata, Russia in 1945 and is the son of a Russian Orthodox mother and a Polish Jewish father. He learned of his Jewish heritage when he was nine and discovered a wooden toy made by the Nazis that cruelly depicted a Jew praying. He thrives on creative challenges, especially those that involve three dimensional spaces. The essence of his abstract paintings has been, as he defines it, “the harvesting of light on canvas, penetrating colors and organic shapes intertwined into environmental compositions”. Ginzburg started his career as a writer. He was accepted to the Institute of Art in Israel in 1958 and became one of their youngest students. After his induction and two year service in the Israeli army, Ginzburg continued his painting and received 1st prize in the art competition at Bat-Yam Museum Israel which is now being renamed The Yankel Ginzburg Museum. Chaim Goldberg   Chaim Goldberg (1917-2004) has worked in nearly every medium available to the visual artist from watercolors to sculpture. But throughout his long career, one theme has been central to all his work-the dignity and nobleness of man. Goldberg has a deep understanding of human values, for he has spent much of his 60-odd years searching for them. Born in a Polish village in 1917 in the Jewish \"shtetl\" he later moved to Siberia where the Soviets took a dim view of his realistic depictions of the simple peasants. Returning to Poland, he found the Russians had made it difficult for him to work there as well. He took his family to Israel and then finally America, where he now lives and works. But the \"shietl,\" until recently, has remained the main motif in his art, just as it has for those two other famous Slavic emigrants, Marc Chagall and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Singer has said Goldberg\'s work \"is enriching Jewish art and the image of our tradition.\" Chagall has undoubtedly had a strong influence on Goldberg. They both celebrate the everyday village life as they remember it from childhood. Goldberg\'s domestic scenes may be more realistic on the surface, with fewer flights of inspired fancy, but they are no less true to their time and place. His watercolors are flowing and lyrical, vibrant in their bright colors. His people always seem to be in motion, moving in rhythm to the merry tune of that proverbial fiddler on the roof. In one painting it is a pair of young lovers dancing, in another a white-bearded water carrier kicking up his heels as he trods down a country road with his watery load. In a third canvass it is the musicians themselves who are the subject, beating the drum and playing the horn so the people can forget the misery of repression and prejudice for a time. And despite the darkness of civilization, life goes on. Babies are born, lovers are wed, and the teachings of the elders are passed on to the next generation. It is these themes of continuity and optimism that Chaim Goldberg has chosen to explore and reaffirm in his art. At an age when most men are thinking of retiring or at least resting on their laurels, Goldberg continues to investigate new forms of expression to illuminate the human experience. Of his back yard studio in Houston, where he now lives, he says: \"This is the place I\'ve always dreamed about. I work in the sun. I am making new art now. More than ever before my work now expresses lightness, an optimism, a more expansive love to mankind that knows no barriers-religious, cultural or governmental.\" PERMANENT COLLECTIONS • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York • National Museum of Fine Art, Warsaw • President\'s House, Jerusalem • Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. • Museum Petit Palais, Geneva • Museum Yad Vashem, Jerusalem • Museum of History, Warsaw • Museum Yad Labanim, Israel • Klingspor Museum, Offenbach, Germany • National College of Fine Art, Washington, D.C. • Museum of Modern Art, New York • Philadelphia Musuem of Art, Philadelphia • Museum of Fine Art, Boston • Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut • Judaica Museum, Phoenix, Arizona Michael Gorban   Born in 1956 in the former Soviet Union. In 1976, Gorban graduated from the Kishinev Higher School for the Painting Arts in Moldavia and in 1982, he graduated from the Academy for Painting in the city of Lvov, majoring in graphics. Gorban received a grant in 1988-1990 from the Artists Association of the Soviet Union. And he emigrated to Israel with his family in 1990. It is doubtful whether any other artist studied art for 21 years before displaying his paintings on the market. Michael Gorban completed his studies at age 30, with a record behind him of working closely with the finest of Russian artists, and using dozens of painting techniques. At age 30 Gorban received the honor of exhibiting his paintings at an international exhibition beside the likes of Salvador Dali, Kandinsky, Chagall, and others, in the Hermitage museum in Leningrad. A third of Gorban\'s paintings hung in the Hermitage, one of the world\'s largest and most prestigious museums, for over a year. Gorban managed to receive a 140 square meter studio in Moscow from the government. In the national album of Russian art history, Gorban is prominently featured with three of his paintings as one of the young artists to impact the 20th century between 1960 and 1980. \"Painting is a sensual experience,\" claims Gorban today from his studio in Petach Tikva, near Tel Aviv. \"I will not sign my name until I am completely satisfied.\" Concerning the subtle difference between an artist and a painter, he adds, \"An artist can hear what the painting wants; a painter cannot. I never painted under duress or according to order. My success comes from people feeling the same satisfaction that I myself felt upon completing the painting.\" In 1990 Gorban decided to emigrate to Israel. The fact of his Jewishness had been repressed for years and was unknown to most people. Yet, feeling a special warmth for Israel, Gorban resolved to leave everything behind – the exhibitions, the recognition, the spacious Moscow studio, the summer cottage on the Black Sea – and make the move to Israel. Michael Gorban\'s paintings are now displayed in galleries and museums throughout the Soviet Union, as well as private collections in the United States, Canada, England, Japan, Belgium, France, Germany, Australia and Israel. His name has returned to the headlines, not as a leading Russian artist, but as a first-rate Israeli artist. Harry Guttman   Harry Guttman was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1933. He graduated with distinction from the Romanian Academy of Fine Art in 1960. Many of his paintings and lithographs were purchased and displayed at the official exhibitions by the Romanian Government. With the loosening of the iron curtain in Europe, Guttman was able to immigrate to Israel in 1974. Since that time he has been extremely active putting on one man shows in Europe, Israel and North America. He has been critically acclaimed throughout the world. Bracha Guy   Guy offers a unique and feminine insight into the lives of women and their environment. She also sends a powerful message that people everywhere can live calmly, peacefully, and in harmony with nature. Through her remarkable ability to interpret complex subjects and her unusual talent for combining vibrant colors and intense detail, Guy documents the energy of life and expresses a basic optimism about life. With her rich palette and dramatic use of light and color, she is often described as a \'modern Matisse\' who blends his style with a modern wave. Kerry Hallam   Hallam, born and raised in Northern England, showed early artistic talent when he won a six-year college scholarship to London University. He later established his first studio in Boston and opened a studio and gallery on Nantucket Island. Hallam is noted for his power to evoke emotion, opulence of light and distinctive color harmonies. The artist\\\\\\\'s panoramas draw accolades and, recently, a first place award by the prestigious Association Pour le Promotion Artistique Francais. Hallam\\\\\\\'s work is included in private collections throughout Europe and the United States, and has been honored with many one-man shows. Keith Haring   When he first hit the New York City subways with chalk in hand, he became an art sensation almost overnight. What was in the beginning a radical gesture of graffiti, soon transformed into an art form that would thereafter be seen in galleries and museums around the world. Haring has created a truly unique array of symbols and images which inhabit monumental sculpture to original drawings and prints. Frederick Hart   Hart was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1943. He attended the University of South Carolina, Corcoran School of Art, American University. He opened his own sculpture studio in 1972. He was commissioned to do famous projects such as the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial Sculpture, bronze bust of James Webb NASA Administrator, for the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institute. During his career he has received many honors. Ray Hesler   Ray Hesler approaches his paintings with a refreshing and spirited outlook. He creates images through a bold palette, captivating light, color and emotion. His distinctive color harmonies translates the moment into a magical world, one which revitalizes the world\'s simple pleasures. Mary Ann Howard   is a Texas native. She attended the University of Alabama in Huntsville, majoring in Art. Ms. Howard was an industrial artist with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for 14 years. Some of her works are on display at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. Cary Howard   Cary Howard creates art, straight from his heart. Whether a masterpiece in oil or acrylic, a breathtaking watercolor or a one-of-a-kind pieces, his works adorn many of the finest homes from coast to coast. But, Mr. Howard\'s artistic creations reach much further than private collections, his talents can be realized in the numerous wildlife illustrations he has done for award-winning magazines including National Geographic, Life, The New Yorker, U.S. News and World Report; in the famous motion picture sets he has designed and constructed for feature films including Good Morning, Vietnam, Superman the movie and Dracula; and in the hundreds of graphic designs he has created for top advertising agencies, corporations and clients all over the world, which include: Young & Rubicam (YR), Ogilvy & Mather, J. Walter Thompson, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, Mercedes-Benz, Ford and more. Notable other clients include: Clairol, Avon, Roche Perfume, Owens-Corning Fiberglass, General Mills and more. Additionally, he and his brother owned an animation studio in New York, The Image Factory, where they produced animated graphics for all major agencies and TV production companies Cary Howard was educated in New York at The High School of Art and Design and received his Fine Arts degree from Cooper Union College. Currently, he resides in Deerfield Beach, Florida, with his family, where he continues to create art from the heart to benefit all those who see his works. Urbain Huchet   URBAIN HUCHET was born in Rennes on April 28,1930. After studying law and owning a textile factory for four years, he decided in 1960 to devote himself entirely to painting. Mr Huchet spent his first three years as an artist in Pont-Aven, following in the footsteps of Gauguin and Emile Bernard, both of whom influenced him a great deal. He does many paintings of the landscape and the typical people this region. His love of the Brittany coast and the sea can always be seen in his work. After moving to Paris in 1963, his love of adventure and travel led him to spend time painting and writing in Europe, the Middle East, and South America, where he produced many paintings of the Indian markets and the great scenery. He made 14 trips of more than 4 months each, from Mexico to Brazil via Peru, Central America and the Caribbean Islands. In addition to the paintings, he has written a book about these beautiful countries. A luxurious portfolio of paintings of Egypt shows his love of that country. Urbain Huchet has held exhibitions in New York, London and New Orleans, and several in Egypt. However, Paris is where his largest number of works have been produced. At least 300 editions of lithographs have been printed of his works, all produced by the artist himself in different workshops in Paris and Cannes. His \"nature de Breton\" and his love of the sea and ships have inspired numerous editions of lithographs and works of the sea. Robert Indiana   Indiana was born in New Castle, Indiana. Between 1945 and 1948 he studied at art schools in Indianapolis and Utica, and from 1949 to 1953 at the Chicago Art Institute School and the Skowhgan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. In 1953 and 1954 he studied at the Edinburgh College of Art and London University, after which he settled in New York. His early works were inspired by traffic signs, automatic amusement machines, commercial stencils and old tradenames. In the early sixties he did sculpture assemblages and developed his style of vivid color surfaces, involving letters, words and numbers. He became known for silkscreen prints, posters and sculptures. The brash directness of these works stemmed from their symmetrical arrangements of color and form. Phillipe Judge   is an Austrian by birth and training has been living in the United States for many years. Judge has been painting since his early teens and is exhibited widely in Europe and the U.S. His early work was primarily abstract, but soon evolved into cut out figure forms in space age settings. These early interests continue to appear in the present abstract paintings. Figurative imagery relates directly to Judge’s space form paintings. Judge declares that contemporary art comes from the artificial. The human condition has undergone fundamental changes in this century. Traditional values and assumptions have been attacked and upset and not been replaced. Judge therefore paints the unexpected and is drawn to contrast especially the juxtaposition between simple forms and complex layers. Judge looks for the structure under the surface and at the same time capture the unusual light, the play of shadow, the voluptuous color, and the sensual surprise of a figurative abstract in the forefront of his art creations. Happiness comes for Judge when he is creating images, forms and landscapes. Phillipe Judge is a self-taught artist who moved to the United States from Europe and now resides and paints from his West Palm Beach, Florida studio. Raffi Kaiser   Raffi Kaiser has shown extensively in Europe, North America and Israel, and was trained in Paris and Florence. Max Karp   American Artist Max Karp is one of the few contemporary painters to use enamel for his artistic work. He is internationally acclaimed as the “father of modern enameling.” His place in art history is assured, both because of his enormous talent and the fact that he has perfected unique processes, which allow the creation of museum-quality, kiln-fired collectibles. A self-taught artist, Karp was born in Ohio in 1916 and raised in California. He lives in Southern California. Karp began painting by recording in his oils various species of birds and insects for his father who was an ornithologist/entomologist. In the mid-1960\'s, Karp became interested in the enamel process. Beginning on a small scale, he taught himself the enamel technique and later experimented with the large paintings in enamel for which he is best known. During the last decade, Karp\'s enamel paintings have received critical recognition. In 1970 Hamilton Mint commissioned Karp to produce four paintings of the seasons of the year, which were then issued as a limited edition of plates on precious metal. In 1980 Karp\'s 20 x 24-inch enamel portrait of Beverly Sills was presented to the American Queen of Opera following her final performance on full-length opera. In addition, numerous private art collectors, including Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Happy Rockefeller and Sarah Churchill, have acquired works by Max Karp for their collections. Alex Katz   was born in New York City in 1927. He studied art at the Cooper Union from 1945 to 1949. He is a leading artist of the new realism movement in contemporary art. Katz\'s paintings from the late 1950s to the present have been characterized by expressive and literal portrayals of human figures. He is best known for his realistic portraits of friends and family, notable for their relaxed attitudes and uncomplicated bearing. Stylistically, his figures are simplified in form, but not disfigured or caricatured. On the contrary, one of the hallmarks of Katz\'s figures is their apparent normalcy. His figures are typically presented at close range from a frontal perspective, and in a flattened manner somewhat suggestive of a Polaroid snapshot. Throughout the 1960s, Katz taught painting at such institutions as the School of the Visual Arts in New York, the New York Studio School, and the Pratt Institute. John Kelly   John Kelly and his distinctive style of painting, have become a familiar mainstay in American Maritime Art. But, along with his popularity and fame, Kelly has displayed his versatility in capturing the heart of many landmarks during his world travels and has shared with the world his love of Tahiti, Great Britain, Russia, China, Italy, and many other countries. Statements made by appraisers and curators praise kelly\'s work in pastels as some of the finest they have ever seen and his subject matter as exciting and unique. Born in Scotland, kelly comes from a seafaring family that emigrated to Canada when he was a boy. His talent as a musician as well as an artist allowed him to come to Los Angeles for intensive studies at the Art Center School. Kelly has over twenty-five years of honors and awards, is collected in both permanent collections of institutions as well as in private collections. Stan Kettering   Stan Kettering - Artist who is known as Stan K, was born in January, 1940. At the age of 10, his family moved to Italy where the young Stan K began touring museums. He knew instinctively that God had given him a special talent – an ability to transfer to canvas the reflections of nature and of his inner self. Educated at the Accademia of Belle Arti in Naples, Stan K rapidly was becoming the talk of Italian art circles. His works steeped reflective tradition of the masters of the 16th and 17th centuries, bringing forth a clamoring of students of art wishing to learn his techniques. In 1970 at the young age of 30, he returned to America to pursue his love of art. Although his popularity in Italian galleries had grown, his lifelong dream was to show in America and the rest of the world. To achieve success in America, Stan K continued his study of art, in addition to experiencing the new culture. With a talent of his magnitude – his hopes of success were quickly realized. Since returning to his birth place, he has exhibited in numerous personal and collective shows in which he has earned many awards and the recognition of well-known art critics. Mark King   King, a champion of Impressionism and the Ecole de Paris, was born in Bombay of British parents. He is the product of an exotic upbringing in India, where he lived until the age of sixteen during the last days of the British Raj. After spending seven years as scenic designer at the Oxford Playhouse Theatre, King decided to concentrate on painting and moved to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beauxs-Arts and the Louvre. King meticulously layers colors, as substrata for the small percent of the acrylic paint that floats on top and forms the finished composition. The underpainting filters through to the surface creating depth and texture. King is the rare artist who is able to meld the traditions of Impressionism with a myriad of subjects, isolating the elements of a scene with dramatic waves of color on canvas. Piet Klaasse   1918-2001 Mark Kostabi   Kostabi has had an impact on the art world unrivaled since the days of Andy Warhol\'s Factory. Kostabi\'s original artwork often fetches tens of thousands of dollars - but he doesn\'t even paint them. In the 80\'s, Kostabi hired \"idea people\" through ads in the Village Voice. These artists were paid $4 to $10 an hour to imitate Kostabi\'s earlier works. His Fiancee earned $300 a week thinking of ideas for his staff to paint. Kostabi studied art for a few years at Fullerton College and at Cal State Fullerton and flunked a business-economics marketing course. \"Nobody understood that I could sell things by insulting people, which is what I did for class demonstrations\", he says. \"But it worked, and that\'s just what I do now.\" Mikulas Kravjansky   Kravjansky was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928, and as a young man, attended the Academy of Arts in Bratislava. He went on to become one of the foremost set and costume designers in the Czechoslovakian theater as well as for Czechoslovakian State Television. In 1968, Kravjansky and his family left Czechoslovakia and settled in Canada, where he became Assistant Master of Art at Toronto’s Humber College. The artist eventually relocated to Florida where he began creating the limited-edition intaglios. Kravjansky’s previous association with the performing arts fueled his passion for theater, one of several motifs explored in his graphic art. Among the artist’s finest intaglios are his exquisite images from the world’s best-loved Shakespearean dramas, “Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Romeo and Juliet.” A fascination with the Orient spawned the creation of his two stunning triptychs, “The Tea House”, and “Cherry Blossoms.” The newer pieces boast his extraordinary palette expressed in lovely garden scenes and other images that suggest something of a “post-Maxfield Parrish” style. But what transcends the varied themes is the exceptional quality and technique perfected by one of the world’s masters of intaglio, Mikulas Kravjansky. Annmarie Kristina   Kristina has spent years developing a unique style of painting for which she is known. She paints in Oil and Acrylic using techniques ranging from photo-realism to impressionism, with the combination of both being his most popular. While living in South America, Kristina firmly established herself in the art world with her exceptional scenic paintings of wine vineyards and poppy fields. Her paintings have been displayed on numerous magazine covers; she has been the featured artist in American Artist. Her accomplishments have earned him one-man exhibitions throughout the world. Ting Shao Kuang   Ting was born in Chenggu, a village located in the norther province of Shanxi, China in 1939. By the age of 11 he was painting everyday, using cooking oil as a medium for his pigment. Despite this lack of adequate supplies, he evidenced such remarkable talent that in 1954 he was given the opportunity to attend the prestigious high school affiliated with the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. In 1957, Ting was accepted at Beijing’s Central Academy of Arts and Crafts. Muramasa Kudo   As an artist, Kudo’s most successful images lure the viewer into a fantasy world of exotic women in placid, almost dream-like settings, enticingly garbed in fine silks, perhaps offering fruit or the potential of themselves. When one thinks of a Kudo painting, a sense of illusion is conjured. A peaceful world the way it could be. But then there is that bolt of lightning in the background, or that longing look of the fisherman returning his catch the mermaid to the sea. Or the demure expression on the face of his female subjects whose appearance could as easily be an invitation to a storm of wanton excitement. In his quest for serenity, Kudo relates opposing forces in his work, and in his life. “I am not against, but I am according. I don’t fight with anybody, except with myself; ego, pride and greed”. In a summer scene, he will incorporate a poem about winter. On a black sheet of Arches paper, he will render a blazingly colorful line drawing of a female nude. His strong and beautiful sense of color is very Japanese, balanced and tight yet bold and primary. Alan Lass   Painterly, yet technically precise, Alan Lass\' virtuosity continues to blossom with each new body of work. The artist continues to integrate emotion into his compositions. Although he considers himself an abstract painter first, by allowing the figurative elements of each work to evolve, creates a means of higher expression. Alan Lass travels throughout the world to stimulate the creativity of his scenes. A peaceful serenity is almost always enjoyed by collector\'s and admirer\'s of Lass\' paintings. Serge Lassus   Serge Lassus was born in Hendaye, France, near the Spanish border in 1933. After graduating secondary school, he took drawing lessons and passed the entrance examination to the Paris School of Applied Arts. He is famous for his horses. Marie Laurencien   French painter, illustrator, and stage designer, born in Paris. Apart from evening classes in drawing, she was self-taught as an artist. In 1907 she was introduced by the picture dealer Clovis Sagot to Apollinaire, Picasso and their circle (she painted a group portrait of several of her famous friends in 1908; The Guests, Baltimore Museum of Art). For several years she lived with Apollinaire, and she exhibited with the Cubists. Her work, however, was entirely peripheral to the Cubist movement. She specialized in portraits of oval-faced, almond-eyed young girls painted in pastel colours, and although she borrowed a few tricks of stylization from her Cubist friends, her style remained essentially unaffected by them. Her work was lyrically charming and rather repetitive. From 1914 to 1920 she lived in Spain and Germany, then returned to Paris. Apart from paintings, her work included book illustrations and set and costume designs for the ballet and theatre. John Pierre Laurent   Laurant is a contemporary French painter, classically trained in France, who specializes in capturing scenes from the area of his youth. He is one of the most famous landscape figurative painters of our time. Many of his works are found in the French National Archives. Charles Lee   Korean-born Lee is a diverse, multi-talented artist with the c capability of creating many different types of art, from pencil drawn portraitures to tranquil landscapes and arresting abstracts. Lee began showing an affinity for art in 1955 at the young age of seven. In order to hone his skills, he attended middle and high school in his hometown of Seoul. It was in high school that he received his first honor in art creativity: a gold medal in an international competition. He went on to graduate from a university where he majored in art, and has his first personal show at the age of 23. Shortly after, in the 1970’s, Lee exhibited the Hong Kong and Tokyo Group Shows. The middle to latter part of that same decade brought Lee wider acclaim when he presented his second one man show and had his works displayed at the Tae Yoon and Man Kang Galleries in Seoul. Subsequently, during the 1980’s, while employed at the Gaius Art Studio, many of his works were exported to America. Lee arrived in the United States at the onset of the 1990’s and worked for Art USA in Miami, a wholesaler of fine art. He became an exclusive artist for a published in Fort Lauderdale in 1993. Lee shows his true talent and versatility as an artist. His art reflects his uncompromising high standards. His paintings are a compelling combination of traditional and neo-classic. In the execution of his designs, Lee embraces oils, watercolors, and acrylics. He also has a penchant for a bright and eye-catching palette (including gold foil) that demonstrates his keen sense of color; yet, in spite of such vibrant imagery, he presents his subjects in a calm, reflective and almost ethereal way. David Lee   David Lee was born in Canton, China in 1944 and in 1946 moved with his family to Hong Kong, where he was raised. He began painting at age 4. He was educated in Hong Kong and attended Taiwan University, where he received a B.A. in Fine Arts. He also attended Kaoshung University in Taiwan and the Far East Academy of Art in Hong Kong. David Lee was the youngest winner ever of the prestigious Chinese National Painting Competition. After moving to Hawaii, where he initially worked for the Consulate General of the Republic of China in the Foreign Affairs Department, David Lee devoted himself to his artwork full-time. He has had numerous one-man shows throughout the world including Hawaii, the U.S. Mainland, Canada, Japan, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Taiwan. David Lee\'s paintings hang in the permanent collection of the Taiwan University, in the National Museum of Taiwan, and the Chuk-Yun Museum in Hong Kong. Worldwide, his art is shown in over 300 art galleries, universities, and museums, as well as many noteworthy private collections in the U.S., Asia, Europe, and Canada, including the collection of the Imperial Family of Japan. Among the numerous honors David Lee has received are awards from the government of the Republic of China, the government of Switzerland, the City and County of Honolulu, and the City of Osaka, Japan, where he received the Gold Key to the City for his achievements. David Lee has decided to fulfill a life long dream of painting abroad. Beginning in January 2004 he has decided to move from Hawaii and travel the world seeking new inspirations for his art. While he will be traveling he will continue to paint and his Maui Studio will be showing all of his newest works. Barry Leighton-Jones   Born in London, England on October 17, 1932, Barry Leighton-Jones has been creating paintings and prints for over forty years. Major art publishers in Europe and the United States have made his name synonymous with clowns and satire. He has painted in many different styles, ranging from photorealism to abstract expressionism (and successfully exhibited in many countries) but always returns to his personal forte, creating images with a totally universal appeal. His original works grace the walls (and ceiling) of stately homes throughout the world, including the palace of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, but his art is not only collected by the rich and famous. His popular prints, notably of clowns and urchins, has been successful in one hundred and forty-two countries! Arthur Lidov   sculptor, engraver and designer, was a professional artist since 1937. He received his Fine Arts Degree from the University of Chicago. His list of accomplishments includes five Annual Awards from the New York Society of Illustrators and many other Awards too numerous to mention. He is considered one of the world’s finest medical illustrators. is a Texas native. He attended the University of Alabama in Huntsville, majoring in Art. Mr. Howard was an industrial artist with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for 14 years. Some of his works are on display at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. Zhou Ling   Ling was born in Tian Jing, China in 1941. She studied Chinese history and art as well as Western art history from the Renaissance through Modernism at the Central Institute Nationalities in Beijing. After becoming a prominent painter in the Peoples Republic, she was promoted to the position of Associate Art Professor of the Institute of Nationalities. In her paintings, she seeks to illustrate the beauty of a strong emotion, an imposing strength and eternity. Harold Edward Little   was born in 1942, in Aurora, Illinois and educated in Virginia schools. He studied printmaking and painting in Florence, Italy from 1965-67 and also the summer of 1971 under tutelage of American painter Richard Serrin, then of Fiesole and Swietlan Kraczyna of Florence. He began making woodcuts in 1969 moving to etching plates in 1972. To date Little has executed 180 Plates in all sizes of editions. All plates are printed by the artist at his studio in Fincastle, Virginia where he lives and works with his wife, Harriet and son, Ian. Also involved with oil painting, Little produces landscapes of town and country scenes as well as views of the Outer Banks in North Carolina where the family frequently vacations in autumn. Xinhua Liu   born in Beijing China, had a remarkable family, several of which were already well known artists in the area. As a child, he started taking lessons in figure sketch, water-color and landscape painting in both Chinese and Western style. In 1977, he was admitted at the Central Institute of Art and Design, the most prestigious art school in China. During that time he was exposed to the great masters like Picasso, Paul Klee, and Modogliani. This gave him the inspiration to create new themes and experiment with new techniques. After graduating with the highest honors in 1981, he was assigned to be a teacher at the institute. In 1987 he came to the United States where he found intellectual and artistic freedom. Liu has skillfully used his basic traditional Chinese painting techniques and his western influenced mind to create his own style of art. He expresses a beauty of emotion, strength and eternity. These characteristics have set him apart from all other Chinese artists. John T. Lotton   John T. Lotton is the creator of unique hand-crafted glass artwork. He follows his father, Charles Lotton, and brothers, David and Daniel, in a life-long family quest to perfect the art of glassblowing. He began working as an apprentice in his father\'s glass shop in 1976, making jewelry and a few paperweights, then later along with his brother Daniel, finished and polished his father\'s glass works. Under his father\'s direction, John soon advanced to producing glass creations of his own. The past nineteen years have been spent perfecting his skills and techniques to achieve the outstanding results seen in his pieces today. His artwork can be viewed in fine galleries and private collections across North America. L LuHong   LuHong painted, studied and absorbed information from every available source open to him. He was influenced by the works of Jiang Tiefeng, Ting Shao Kuang, Paul Klee, Modiglani and Picasso. Seeking intellectual and artistic freedom, Lu Hong moved from China to the United States in 1986, where he was reunited with his teacher Ting Shao Kuang. In just three years, he became one of the most acclaimed contemporary Chinese artists in America. Lu Hong\'s Paintings are reminiscent of ancient Chinese art, American Indian art, and the work of Picasso. Student of the Master\'s Jiang Tiefeng and Ting Shao Kuang. Aldo Luongo   Luongo was educated at the Buenos Aires Academy of Fine Art and had his first gallery show in 1968 after a successful career as a designer. Well known in galleries across the country for his post-Impressionist portraits and genre scenes. His celebrity collectors include the late Yul Brynner and Cary Grant, Dionne Warwick, football star Marcus Allen and singer Christopher Cross. Richard MacDonald   Born and raised in California during an unkind era for figurative art, MacDonald was tossed into artistic waters by his uncle, who was a leading graphic designer in the United States. A master at rendering surface, MacDonald has become a choreographer of shape, knowing instinctively at what point the body becomes sensual and vital, as parts transcend form and move into dance. Like a mental siren, he seduces his audience as he plays to their expectations of beauty and their perceptions of the perfect form. In this light, he considers his own work successful simply because others are touched by it, feeling its natural progression from artist to body and soul. Art does many things for human beings; when it touches them in any way, it becomes successful. The mere creation of art, that a human being can achieve is success in itself. With little initial awareness of the magnitude of his project, MacDonald approached Flair Across America without fear or anxiety, thinking not of barriers, but of possibilities. As the master creator, he seeks not permission, but rather, potential. For MacDonald, art is the celebration of life. Bill Mack   Macks art elicits an immediate emotional response. In his art a moment of time is stopped, the grace of a body in motion is captured. The viewer becomes a participant. Much of this impact is created not only through Macks realistic portrayal of the subject matter, but by his choice and manipulation of materials. He complements his artistic nature with his technical ability to use porcelain, resins, urethanes, epoxies, silicones, acrylics, gypsum, and other modern materials not commonly used in contemporary art. He also takes into account that people like to touch sculpture. Unlike some settings where touching the art is a cultural faux pas, Mack likes his work to be displayed in settings that invite a viewer to caress the art and enjoy a tactile experience. Yuval Mahler   Born in 1951 in Haifa, Israel, Yuval Mahler studied graphic design and animation at School of Visual Arts in New York City. While living in New York, he also participated in several group shows in Soho. Mahler draws on rich supply of wry humor, satire, caricature, and comedy to produce his insightful studies of human behavior. His paintings explore human relationships under various conditions of life the world over. Mahler’s work appeals to the child in us all, to optimists as well as those who simply want their spirits lifted. The artist works in varied media… acrylic, colored pencil, gouache, pastels, and serigraphs… to achieve his delightful depictions of human condition. His paintings have been shown in galleries and exhibitions in many countries, including Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Israel, and United States. Isaac Maimon   Maimon studied at the renowned Avni Institute of Fine Art in Tel Aviv, graduating in 1976. He has exhibited extensively both in Israel and abroad, and in addition to being an accomplished artist, taught art at the School of Visual Arts in Deer-Sheba, and at the Kay Art Academy. His warm palette has been influenced by early 20th century European art, yet he brings to the canvas a strength which is characteristic of his works. Darina Marko   Darina Marko was born in Bulgaria in 1966. At an early age she focused her studies on fine art. After specializing in fine art in secondary school she went on to study at the Academy of Fine Art in Bulgaria for an additional five years focusing her studies on silk printing and batik. After completion, Darina moved to London, England for four years. Darina has spent considerable time traveling across Europe and North and South America and has exhibited her work in England, Germany, Italy and Finland. Inspired by artists including Egon Schiele and Matisse, Darina bends, twists and distorts her subject matter and perspective. She freely employs mixed media including acrylic, water colour, oil and pastel. By concentrating on the interactions between visual elements including form, colour, texture and light, her still life work acquires its abstracted aesthetic. Andras Markos   Andras Markos studied fine arts at the Kunstakademie Ion Andreesseu in Kolozsvar, Romania. After graduation he worked as a graphic designer for many years, then turned his attention to being curator of medieval church art at the Komitatsmuseum in Cskszereda and Set Designer for the Hungarian State Theatre. By 1981 Markos had showings throughout Europe and finally in America, establishing himself as an internationally renowned artist. His list of group shows include appearances at \"Zalavar 74,\" Hungary in 1974; \"Joan Miro\" International Competition for drawing, Barcelona, Spain and \"Clausur\" with \"Die Gruppe\" at L’Esplanade la Defense, Paris in 1984. Also, his one-person shows have appeared at Galerie Basilisk, Vienna in 1981; Neues Rathaus Galerie, Leonberg, Germany; Maison des Arts, Belford, France in 1987. Spanning Markos’ long career, several distinctions including First Prize of Kiel, West Germany in 1983 and Prize at the International Graphic Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil, have been awarded to him, along with permanent museums showing collections of his work at Collection of the Catholic University, Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Museum of Fine Art, Bucharest, Romania and Museum of Opole, Poland. Felix Mas   Mas received formal art training at the San Jorge Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under masters of Spanish and French schools of painting. An outstanding student, he was awarded a scholarship for additional studies in London. He returned to the continent and continued working and studying in Paris. Before long, Mas works were being shown in galleries in London, Paris, Barcelona, and Madrid. One of Mas principal themes is the beauty of women. Romantic, delicate, reverent paintings of female faces and figures portray the thoughtfulness, sensitivity and fantasies of women. Henri Matisse   Henri Matisse is often regarded as one of the most important French painters of the 20th century. Early in his career, he was the leader of the Fauvist (meaning Wild Beasts) Movement, a painting style which focused on pure colors used in an aggressive and direct manner. His style changed many times over the years, but he never gave up his art. Matisse continued creating even into his 80s, when cancer had taken over his body. This was the time when he created the papercuttings that he is perhaps best known for. Matisse understood perfectly the relationship between color and shape, a talent which rightfully earned him the name Master of Color. Peter Max   Max is one of Americas most famous and collected artists, in the league with Erte and LeRoy Neiman, but with a 60s spin. Famous for his leading role in the psychedelic art of the hippie generation. Exhibitions include The World of Peter Max at the M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco and the Images of an Era show at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. Comissions include 235 border murals at entry points to Canada and Mexico by U.S. General Services and six Liberty portraits at the White House at the invitation of Mrs. Reagan. Monuments include 1989 Liberty Heads, dedicated to the students of Beijing. Tim Mayer   Tim Mayer\'s extraordinary wildlife paintings offer the viewer a unique vantage point. His paintings express more than the physical characteristics of a species; they reveal something of its personality. Now living in the U.S., Hillier was born in Buckingham, England, in 1943. Drawing and painting animals is something Tim has loved to do since he was a child. When he made the transition from an illustrator to a wildlife artist, he also switched to acrylic because it involves a looser painting process. Traveling widely in search of subjects to study and paint, Mayer’s favorite subjects come from Southeast Asia, Florida & Louisiana wetlands. He is drawn to water birds. Since moving to the States, he has begun painting North American subjects in addition to the dramatic African and bird subjects for which he is renowned. Mayer studied at Art in London and graduated with distinction. He has exhibited at the Pastel Society, the Society of Wildlife Artists, and the Society of Animal Artists. He has had one-man exhibitions throughout Great Britain and the United States. The love Mayer feels for his subject is evident in his work. He says, \"I paint anything that moves. I love animals, their natural environment and being a part of their world is a privilege.\" Jean-Francois Millet   was born in 1814 in the Norman village of Gruchy, the eldest child in a large, closely knit family of farmers living in modest prosperity on their own land. His parents, saw to it that he received a good education, which gave him a knowledge of Latin and a lifelong interest in literature. Having shown early signs of talent, the youth was sent to Cherbourg in 1833 to work with a local portrait painter. Two years later, he entered the studio of Lucien-Théophile Langlois. In 1837, provided with a stipend by the city of Cherbourg, Millet went to Paris, to enroll at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. After two unhappy years of study, Millet competed unsuccessfully for the Rome Prize, left his teacher, and lost his stipend. Back in Cherbourg, he set himself up as a portrait painter. One of his portraits was accepted for the Paris Salon of 1840, but another, commissioned by the city of Cherbourg, was returned to him as a poor likeness. Discouraged, Millet decided to seek better luck in Paris, where he established himself with his wife, barely twenty years old. His portraits of that time, modeled in hard contrasts of light and shadow are indebted to the Spanish painters whose work he was able to study in the Galerie Espagnole at the Louvre. While he struggled for a livelihood, his wife contracted tuberculosis and died. Millet returned to Cherbourg in 1844. He moved to Paris (1846), where he continued to woo the public with mildly erotic compositions. Don Mingolla   Don Mingolla has painted abstract his entire career. Inspired by Paul Jenkins, Mingolla primarily paints in watercolor, explaining that the blend of color is most effective in this medium. Mingolla paintings are wonderfully colored contemporary abstracts with a combination of whimsy and sophistication. The loose brushstroke and simplistic imagery combined with bold primary color produce a high-impact work of art. His paintings are a must-see for those who enjoy strong color. Joan Miro   Miro was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1893 and died in 1983. I make no distinction between painting and poetry.... The poetic paintings of 20th century master Joan Miro amuse, inspire and captivate audiences worldwide. Miro studied art at School of Fine Arts at La Llotja and Galis Escola de Art. His earliest works show the influence of the Fauve and Cubist movements which were fashionable in Spain during the early part of the century. In 1920, Miro traveled to Paris and painted with Surrealists Andr, Masson and Max Ernst. While frequently identified with the Surrealist movement, Miro never fully accepted the movements creed and refused to sign the Surrealist Manifesto. His vibrant canvases transport the viewer to alien worlds inhabited by all manner of whimsical creatures. Throughout his life, Miro felt a deep connection to his Catalan heritage and much of the symbolism that is so prevalent in his work is deeply rooted in this bond. In 1940 Miro returned to Spain and began to explore new media including large scale sculpture, ceramics, murals and tapestries. Following his first retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in 1941, Miro achieved international acclaim and is recognized as a pioneer of Modernism. Dan Mitra   Before coming to the United States from Romania, Dan Mitra worked as a graphic designer for both motion pictures and theater. He published graphics in various magazines, and won prizes in several art competitions in Italy. Although he has excelled in such varied media as painting, sculpture, and drawing, Mitra first began to explore the field of etching after traveling to the United States. A natural talent added to an intense enthusiasm assured his immediate success. His subject matter covers a wide range of topics, but he approaches it always from a decorative viewpoint and creates a pleasing addition to any interior with his distinctively fine line, unflawed technique, and attention to subtle detail. Vicky Montesinos   Montesinos was born in Mexico City. After attending college in Mexico and Argentina, she studied art in Mexico with the Spanish artist Jose Bardasano, and in Buenos Aires with the painter and muralist Quinquella Martin. Her work has been critically praised for its brilliant colors which are in striking contrast to the shadowy depths of the background. Fernando Montoya   Born in Colombia , South America, Montoya is a self-taught artist. Montoya participated in the International Joan Miro painting contest in Barcelona, Spain, where he won an honor award. This recognition motivated Montoya to enter the job force as a plastic artist . The labor of Montoya is comprised with sweet erotism, and a beautiful sensuality. His pictorial imagination creates figures that pertain vivid realism. He shows life to his artistic work, which gives an image that mixes into perfectionism. His paintings portray symbolic elements of realism, that evokes sensuality of the human body through the execution of imagery. Montoya has participated in more than 30 individual exhibitions. His work has been shown throughout Europe, South, Latin and North America. Wayland Moore   Wayland Moore is a native of Belton, S.C. and a graduate of the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Fla.,\" according to his biographical sketch. \"His commissions and assignments have brought him international acclaim as an artist who has captured the excitement of events such as the Winter and Summer Olympics, America\'s Cup, U.S. Open, the Masters, P.G.A., U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, Maccabiah Games of Israel, Davis Cup and many other international events. Moore has exhibited in numerous one-man shows throughout the United States and Europe. His original works and limited edition prints hang in private and corporate collections and he is listed in Who\'s Who in American Art. The artist\'s studio has been the hot and dry bush of Africa, often only yards away from lions, zebra and wildebeest; and his palette has captured the excitement and intrigue of the white waters of Alaska, Montana rodeos and European landscapes. In addition to Moore\'s reputation as an artist, he conducts workshops and has taught painting in evening classes at Emory University for 15 years. His concept of teaching art to federal inmates earned him a commendation from the White House. He is in demand as a lecturer and is a powerful storyteller whose company is always treasured, whether it be in offices, galleries or around a warm campfire.\" Henry Moore   Sculptor Henry Moore was born on July 30, 1898, in Yorkshire, England. His father was a coal miner and as a boy Moore remembered sculpting with clay obtained from the pits. In Sunday school, Moore’s teacher told the students about the \"greatest sculptor who ever lived- Michelangelo,\" and Moore became interested in the Renaissance master’s life and work. At age 18 he went to London for the first time to join the military. Before his departure to the Western Front in France, he was able to see the British Museum and the National Gallery. When he returned from the war, he went to the Leeds School of Art and was subsequently admitted to the Royal Academy. A scholarship allowed him to travel to Italy, where he admired the work of painters Giotto and Masaccio. Although his style was much less conservative than that of the Academy, Moore was offered a teaching position at the prestigious institution. Moore’s influences were incredibly diverse, including such sources as Mexican Pre-Columbian sculpture, African art, Oceanic and Cycladic pieces. Three-piece Reclining Fig. No. 2: Bridge- Prop shows the effect that seeing the Pre-Columbian reclining figure of Chac Mool, the Mayan God of Rain. Of Auguste Rodin, Moore stated, \"Rodin of course knew what sculpture is: he once said that sculpture is the science of the bump and the hollow.\" Among modern artists, Moore favored Sir Jacob Epstein, Constantin Brancusi, and Pablo Picasso. He was also struck by Paul CÈzanne’s Large Bathers, which Moore said looked \"as if they’d been sliced out of mountain rock.\" In 1936, Moore exhibited in the International Surrealist Exhibition in London. However, he did not share the Surrealists’ philosophies. Moore was intrigued by the organic forms of the real world, not by the shapes that haunt our dreams. His work explored not only the solid forms of the sculpted material, but also the voids created by the removal of material. Moore received many commissions, including ones from Time-Life, Lincoln Center in New York City, and UNESCO. He hoped that he would be able to live at least as long as his idol, Michelangelo, who lived to the age of 89. Moore almost achieved that goal. He died at age 88 in 1986. Valter Morais   Imagine a colorful, romantic and fun world, where people celebrate peace, love, freedom and happiness . That is the Valter Morais art world. His works reveal his visionary impression of our everyday life and also reflect his great sense of humor that is always present in all of his paintings. Morais was born in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil in 1948. As a child, he had wanted to be a football player. However, his destiny was drawn to the arts. He has been committed to the fine arts since he was fifteen years old. Morais opted to dedicate his life to painting a happy world. It is a pleasure to know that my paintings can create a nice environment. He became a professional painter in 1981, when he received a bachelor of Fine Arts degree in the University of Mogi das Cruzes in São Paulo. He also had an academic experience teaching for many years at the University, where he willingly shared his knowledge with many students. In 1988, he came to The United States in an attempt to achieve his main goal - to conquer the American art market. By that time, he was settled in his mind to show his works that go from classic academic to pop art style represented in oil, acrylic and watercolor. Through his eclecticism, Morais would establish a wide international reputation showing his works in many nationally recognized art shows in New York, Kansas City, Las Vegas and Hawaii and also international shows in Brazil, Paris, Germany, Australia, England, Canada, and other major art centers. Valter Morais works are deeply rooted in the cubism represented by Picasso and a pop art style , movement that emerged in the late 1950s. His works are inspired on his own romantic feeling of the world. The choice of this kind of matter, is guided by a reference to the beautiful models, dances, musical instruments and, why not, the daily life. Morais moved from Boston to exhibit his pictures that perfectly combine to the tropical atmosphere. He became involved in painting different themes characterized by the deep perspective, colorful backgrounds and unexpected dimensions. Robin Morris   Morris has come to the forefront of the Art Deco revival with a unique style of her own. “New Deco” combines the elegance and whimsy of classic Deco with a bold contemporary flair. Robin’s compositions are calculated statements that encompass both engaging form and social style. Her figures are beautiful, their scene urban, their attitude chic. With the publication of “The Couple” lithograph in 1982, Robin’s work was launched. Much of the success of her limited edition lithographs may be attributed to Master Printers Joseph Kleineman and Maureen Turci of J.K. Fine Art editions in New York. Robin has sold out solo shows in New York and Florida and her original paintings are in collections worldwide. Recent commissions include Bloomingdales, Edward Fields, Inc. and Radio City Music Hall. Robin was born in New York in 1953. She was educated at Syracuse University and C.W. Post College on Long Island. In many ways, New Deco brings forth more colorful, even more decorative elements than were present 50 years ago. Alphonse Mucha   was born in Czechoslovakia and emigrated to Paris when he was twenty-nine years old. It was there that he achieved great fame as one of the most important exponents of the art nouveau movement. He created prints, posters (many featuring the legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt), illustrations for books and magazines, and jewelry. Almost all of his designs were centered on romanticized female figures, highlighted by great flourishes. It has been said that his popularity came too quickly and he saturated his market with too many products, thereby causing a decline in quality and, eventually, demand. His early prints, in mint condition, are considered valuable today because they are some of the best representational art of his era and because Mucha earned an important place in European art history. Dennis Mukai   Mukai was born in Hiroshima, Japan and was influenced by Japan\'s master printmakers such as Utamaro, Hiroshige, and Hokusai. Not only did he appreciate their asymmetrical use of space, he adopted their fascination for the beauty of women. Mukai\'s art depicts the rarefied world of high fashion and feminine beauty with an original sense of style. In limited edition serigraphs, Mukai demonstrates this unparalled vision. The fashion models are rendered in bright, unconventional tones and flowing lines to maintain a delicate balance between reality and illusion. The beauty of these models is idealized without losing the individual characteristics that allow them the aspect of portraiture. Mukai\'s lyrical compostions transcend their connection to illustration to becoming contemporary icons, coolly restrained yet humanistic images. His reductive line, the inventive use of negative space, and composstional refinement imbue his subjects with seductive mystery. Patrick Nagel   Nagel was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1946 and died in 1984. He synthesized components of graphic design, fashion illustration and a sensuous approach to painting the figure into a stylized personal vision which altered attitudes towards illustrating fashions in the 80s. Nagel lived and worked most of his life in California studying painting and graphic design. After graduation, he began teaching at the Art Center College of Design, while simultaneously establishing himself as a successful freelance designer, illustrator and painter. Influenced by the design of Japanese woodblock prints, Nagel\'s figures are silhouetted against a neutral background, with bold linear elements, strong shape relationships and unusual angles forcing perspective from a two-dimensional surface. In addition to paintings, Nagel created more than sixty graphic editions, posters, commemorative editions and several commissions for Playboy and Architectural Digest, as well as the 1983 Duran Duran album cover on what became the number one record in the world. Beginning with his distinctive work for Playboy, Nagel\'s reputation as a designer was well-recognized and he produced numerous magazine covers and illustrations over the years. Robert Natkin   Robert Natkin is considered to be the evocative poet of post-war American abstract art. Over the course of four decades, his work has been internationally recognized and it represented in the collections of major museums throughout the world including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum; the Whitney Museum of American Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Joseph H. Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The San Francisco Museum of Art; and the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT. While much of the post-war abstract art exudes raw power, angst, and/or reflects the detritus of modern life, Robert Natkin’s work teases, tantalizes, and searches for the sublime. Like Paul Klee, whom he considered to be his greatest inspiration, Natkin is fascinated by the mystery of creativity and the exploration of metaphysical relationships. These ideas are often expressed through evocative forms that reappear in a number of his paintings, like strangely familiar characters from some serial drama. The artist creates improvisational surfaces preoccupied with the structuring of light through color modulation and textural manipulation. His works, like spontaneous rituals, are at once imbued with the solemn and the humorous, the scared and the profane, the serious and the irreverent. Natkin, as both an artist and a free-thinking individualist, is a man who consistently embraces paradox. LeRoy Neiman   Neiman is a sports artist, a chronicler of contemporary lifestyles and a creator of the action-subject. He is credited with reviving figure painting during the years of the abstract movement when the figure, and realism in general, were abandoned. Neiman paints with a technique that often starts with his own Impressionistic style and continues with a process that looks very similar to the action paintings of the Abstract Expressionists. Accident and chance seem to play significant roles in determining the final appearance of his creations. This is seen in Neimans spontaneous application of paint and color. He paints quickly to grasp moments in time. Explains Neiman, I do not really examine other people as to what they are all about. The way people look, the way they fix themselves ... I am fascinated by the superficial. His works are held in the collections of both the Baseball and Football Halls of Fame, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Portland Museum of Art, The Hermitage Museum in Leningrad and universities throughout the United States. William Nelson   Is one of the premiere marine artists. Nelson is an environmentalist and leading community figure in his home Hawaii. Also innovator of the two worlds compositional format. Celebrity collectors include former President , Ronald Reagan, and wife. Nelson has works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and in the Museum of Natural History, New York. Lowell Nesbitt   Lowell Nesbitt was born in Baltimore in 1933. He received a BFA degree from Temple University\'s Tyler School of Fine Arts and then attended the Royal College of Art in London. An artist with a highly personal style, Nesbitt has made realistic studies of many themes throughout his career. His most well-known series, and perhaps his most beautiful and poetic, are the more than four hundred works he created using the flower as theme. Since his first show in 1957, Nesbitt has had more than eighty one-man shows in galleries and museums internationally. His paintings, drawings, and prints are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, the Corcoran Gallery and the National Gallery of Fine Art in Washington, D.C., the Detroit Institute of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the La Jolla Museum in California, among others. Bo Newell   Bo Newell is at once a precisely detailed wildlife painter and a master of multiple perspectives. his surrealistic style superimposes one layer of interpretation upon another, or sets one painting within another. Every viewer sees a different story in each of his paintings. \"I come up with the concept,\" says Newell. \"Very rarely do I have a deliberate statement that I\'m trying to make. I try to leave that up to the viewer.\" To those who come to recognize and appreciate the unusual style of Newell art will spend more time with each image, contemplating the levels of meaning. The artist has profound respect and awe for his subject, whether it is native peoples, jungle cats, horses, or a more abstract object, shines out of each canvas brilliant and serene. Whatever the image, the effect is stirring. Denis Noyer   Noyer was born in Paris in 1944 to the illustrious French artist, Philippe Noyer. At an early age, Denis was an avid sketcher. Encouraged by his famous father, Denis studied at the Ecole Bequx Arts de Troyes. Proud of his son’s exciting talent, the elder Noyer, encouraged and directed his art education which culminated in Denis\' international reputation as a distinguished painter with a variety of electrifying subjects successfully illustrated in both oil and watercolor. Denis treats his subjects with the same ease in both oils, watercolor, and graphics. Having mastered each, he applies different techniques while maintaining what makes his work so distinctive. In his graphics, Denis uses the white of the paper to create an unusual, very refreshing rhythm to his work while on canvas he uses his oils to bring forth very refined and subtle textures to charm the eye. Over the years, Denis and his father developed this very special technique. In an ongoing exchange over a period of twenty-two years, both artists worked together and separately to create what in the end – is a totally original inspiration and graphic vision. Since the death of his father in 1985, Denis has continued to nurture this special art which is at its very best in the paintings of women. Denis’ reputation throughout the international art scene is a result of his enchanting, realistic street scenes and depiction of beautiful women. A talented, inspiring, energetic and prolific artist, Denis again demonstrates he is a major talent, one who has diversity and enthusiasm for the wonderful world of art.\" Philippe Noyer   \"My paintings are what they appear to be, nothing more, nothing less,\" Philippe Noyer Philippe Noyer was born June 28, 1917 in Lyon (central France). After a traditional course of study at the elite Ecole des Roches, Noyer enrolled in the Beaux Arts (Fine Arts) School of Lyon, before going to Paris to study at the Paul Colin School of Art and experience the whirlwinds of Surrealism first hand on Paris\' Left Bank. Philippe Noyer started his painting career in 1943. That same year he met the famous Paris art dealer, Emmanuel David, who promoted world-known \"School of Paris\" painters from 1943 - 1950. David immediately put Noyer on contract with the prestigious DROUANT-DAVID Gallery of Paris. Parallel to his paintings, which at the time, represented owls wrapped in leaves and round-faced urchins with their pet animals, Philippe Noyer soon became one of the most sought after portraitist of Paris and London high society. The Gallery gave him his first one-man show in 1947, which immediately crowned him with instant success. Life was good. While he was with the DROUANT-DAVID Gallery, Philippe Noyer says his stroke of luck for his success in the United States can be attributed to Mr. Robert Goldstein, the former President of the 20th Century Fox movie company. It was in 1949. The Gallery gave twenty of Philippe Noyer\'s paintings on consignment to an American art dealer who had agreed to organize an exhibition of them in the United States. The American dealer, however, was a heavy gambler and one night, before the show, he suffered unprecedented losses and was forced to sell off the paintings without a profit. The buyer turned out to be Robert Goldstein who was so pleased with his purchase that he distributed the art to his friends, including the legendary Samuel Goldwyn, who, in turn, made Philippe Noyer\'s name known on the West Coast. A deep and long lasting friendship between Noyer and Goldstein ensued. In 1960 when, like it happens to all artists, Philippe Noyer was in a difficult financial situation, Goldstein jetted Philippe from Paris to London and organized an auction at which all of Noyer\'s current paintings were sold to Goldstein\'s friends. In those following years, Philippe was commissioned to paint the portraits of dozens of personalities including Elizabeth Taylor, Dinah Shore, Jean Wallace and the children of actor Alan Ladd and producer Alan Lerner. As his art matured, however, he put aside this career as a portraitist to devote himself entirely to the delicate, sophisticated, slim, long-limbed ladies who had progressively replaced children as his favorite subjects. \"My paintings are what they appear to be, nothing more, nothing less,\" Philippe Noyer once told a critic. \"Some are serious, some are not. But I have always painted what I have felt.\" From the leaf-clad owls of his first paintings to the litho maidens and languorous cheetahs of his later works, Philippe Noyer\'s art has always remained quite unique. The elements Philippe uses in his paintings - the women, the monuments, the animals and the flowers - come alive under the brush which translates them in strictly realist terms in compositions that are the fruits of his fantasy and intellectual or literary reminiscences. Like in the paintings of any artist, there are pet themes and objects that recur like good luck charms - eggs, hats, shoes - but as the artist himself warns, it would be vain to seek in them some hidden symbolism or draw oversimplified Freudian conclusions. Thirteen years of careful personal research brought Philippe Noyer to the technique which gives his paintings their very special transparency and light. The technique, which Philippe Noyer finished perfecting in 1956 eliminates the use of white in favor of pure colors which give the rocks their roughness, bring alive the subtle glow of a seashell and give the subjects\' skins a peach-like softness one can feel without touching. Noyer\'s honesty with himself, his inborn draftsmanship and eye for color have earned Philippe Noyer a worldwide reputation. He married Nora Kern in 1939 and fathered four children: Denis Paul, Corinne, Laurence and Ariel. Noyer died circa 1980. Currently 2,000 of his oil paintings and watercolors are in museums, collections and private collections. Jovan Obican   Obican was born in 1918 in Cannes, France of Yugoslav parents. He died in 1986. His father was also an artist. The family wanted him to study law, which he eventually did but never wanted to practice. From childhood on, Jovan practically devoted himself to art, scratching designs on mud pies when paper was unavailable. He trained with many important teachers and in many important styles. He finished his training, imbued with the spirit of his native country, the people, their legends, their philosophy. It has been said that his work has a “timeless quality” and a naïve, child-like primitive style. Leo Ofremon   The artist Leo Ofremon was born in Vitebsk, Belarus in 1955-- the same town where Mark Chagall was born. Ofremon graduated from Vitebsk Art School The school was founded by Mark Chagall in 1921 . Along with Chagall, Malevich and Kandinsky, Ofremon is a member of the famous Vitebsk painting school. Ofremon worked a lot and participated in different exhibitions in Vitebsk. Since 1990 he has lived in Israel. The artist has his own unique style. He doesn\'t use brushes to paint - he uses a palette-knife. Original, light-colored, and gentle style that had been worked out for years is the main distinction of the artist. De Berardinis Olivia   Olivia was born in 1948 and was raised on the eastern seaboard. In the history of Pin Up art, no one has depicted the female form quite as skillfully. She began her paintings of women as a child, using her disarmingly beautiful mother as a model. I was always amazed at the impact my mother had on men says the artist. So began her fascination with the feminine mystique. In 1966 she came to New York to attend the School of Visual Arts. Dabbling in minimalism for a short period of time, she quickly returned to her paintings of women. Olivias work is ever changing, always new yet wonderfully timeless. Her current popularity has created a clamoring for her work world-wide. Her technical virtuosity includes works in pencil, gouache, pastel, acrylic, oils and watercolors. Orlando AB Orlando   Orlando has sustained his artistic and philosophical dialogue in powerful paintings that reflect the artists own personal development and natural curiosity for more than twenty five years. Articulating a vision of humanity with dignity Orlandos paintings give one an enlarged sense of life, both here and hereafter. There is a quality of empowerment one feels when viewing his work that enriches and alters the spirit and it is that profound power that lies at the core of his art. Orlando was born in the Andes Mountains of Colombia, South America in 1946 into a family of twelve. My work is a vehicle for my own self-examination,says the forty-nine year old painter. I struggle in each and every piece to discover something about humanity and to attempt to communicate it. Creating images drawn from his psyche his deftly drawn forms radiate an uncanny aura and sensual richness which appeal to our deepest level of consciousness. His recurring themes of education, family, spirituality his love of music, as well as the exploration of his Latin heritage attest to his belief in the educational and healing powers of art. Orlando Agudelo-Botero was the 1988 recipient of the White House Hispanic Heritage Award for the Visual Arts and is a former Trustee of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. His work is held in many important collections both private and public and his art is exhibited worldwide. Emilija Pasagic   was born in Yugoslavia and arrived in Canada in 1993 and was educated formally in Landscape Architecture. Since Emilija’s arrival to Canada, she has been a member of various artistic organizations including “The Scollard Street artistic Cooperative”, and the “VAO” (Visual Art of Ontario). In exploring her artistic side, Emilija began painting in various mediums including oils, encaustic and painting on silk. As a self-taught artist she continues creating her art in mixed media on various surfaces. Currently, her body of work includes painting on furniture. Lorna Patrick   Her creative drive, imagination and technical virtuosity has forged a unique style of work that had begun at a young age. As an aspiring painter, she was captured in her kindergarten photograph standing at an artist’s easel. In grammar school, parents for portraits of her classmates commissioned Patrick. While still a teenager, the artist had refined her talent so impressively that Patrick’s mother exhibited the artist’s oil paintings in her Palm Desert, California gallery. Patrick’s relocation to New Mexico at twenty-one marks an important turning point in the life of the artist. While teaching at the Albuquerque Institute of Art, Patrick felt what she describes as “the enveloping spiritual energy of sunlight.” She began to understand and to interpret the profound relationship between the people and their environment. A deep, spiritual and philosophical belief in man’s harmony with nature emerged as a result of these experiences and has become the basis and subject of Patrick’s art. Currently residing in Southern California, Patrick regularly travels to New Mexico to compile slides of new images, which she will meticulously transform, into works of art. She tours the dirt roads of the mountains near Albuquerque and Santa Fe with props of cacti, rugs, pillows and pottery. When the artist locates a site that she envisions as a perfect setting for a painting, she spends days photographing the different inspiring compositions created by the play of light and shadow against the landscape, architecture, furniture and props. Upon the return to her studio, Patrick reviews the images and selects those in which her preferred subject of light is most powerfully depicted and her philosophy communicated. The slide becomes an evocative reminder of the visual and emotional impact the artist feels while photographing the subject. Just as the artist’s images draw collectors, New Mexico continues to draw the artist. Within the mountains of this vast wilderness is a hilltop which will some day become the artist’s home. Here, in her studio, she will always be a part of that which she continue to paint. K. Paul   K. Paul was born in America in the early 1950’s. K. Paul paints in a realistic, impressionist style, painting his favorite European scenes. As he captures the warmth and beauty of the Tuscan fields, his use of light and depth is what gives the work a special, romantic quality that draws collectors into his painting. Most impressive is K. Paul’s use of shadow and perspective. He clearly captures the depth of each scene by his rich use of color, outlined by the blending of shades and light displayed across each canvas. Utilizing brush and palette knife techniques, K. Paul’s extensive texture demands attention. Linnea Pergola   Pergola\'s unique creativity is the driving force that inspires and guides her to meld the diverse elements of drama and naive charm in her multi-media paintings and serigraphs. Pergola\'s body of work is a collection of captivating and enchanting portrayals of life infused with fantasy to reveal the artist\'s pure and unaffected response to her subject. Although many subjects inspire Pergola, cityscapes are most often seen throughout the body of her work. Being a native of Los Angeles has given Pergola a distinctive regard for urban environments, and their unique atmospheres. Raymond Peynet   he is called the \"Painter of Lovers,\" Peynet was born in Paris in 1908. During the War Years of 1939-1945, he would go to the public gardens in Valence and would paint the young lovers who would walk around the Music Kiosk in the center of the park. Seeing the lovers gave him the idea of painting bright and cheerful people, oblivious to all the problems facing them outside the lovely park. His delightful subjects made him famous all through Europe and the world. In 1980, the Museum he opened in Tokyo with a special limited edition of lithographs. In 1981 the City of Carros, France, commissioned a Peynet mural stretching 120 feet long and 24 feet high. Exhibitions were held every year in galleries in Europe and Japan, where the artist was popular and loved until he died in 1991. Frederick Phillips   Born in 1953 in the English pottery-manufacturing town of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, Frederick Phillips descends from an artistic family background which includes the distinguished Victorian artist, Francis W. Topham. Influenced by Topham\'s paintings, Phillips became an accomplished watercolorist by the age of twelve. Awarded a scholarship at age seventeen, Phillips began studying at Burslem College of Art. Here he encountered the work of the Surrealist artists and realized that he, too, had begun to create images that could be called \"surrealist\". Phillips graduated with an Honors Degree in Fine Art at the age of twenty-one. In 1975, Phillips achieved recognition with his first one-man show at the Norton Gallery, Birmingham, England; reviews compared his early work to the paintings of Magritte. By 1984, at age thirty-one, Phillips\' work was being shown at several London galleries and his art was sold at auction by Christie\'s, London. In 1985, Phillips was introduced to American collectors by Atlas Galleries, Chicago, where his first exhibition of paintings met with great success. In 1990, Phillips moved to the U.S. through an \'Artist of Exceptional Ability\' visa in order to accommodate the practical demands of his rapidly expanding career. In the course of a career which now spans twenty-five years, Frederick Phillips\' art has moved from its original inspiration in 19th century Romanticism through Surrealism and its cousin, Symbolism, to where the artist stands today. In recent years, Phillips has moved away from the visual constructs of overt Surrealism towards a more subtle and individual approach where reality itself begins to reveal inherent surrealities of time, place, and atmosphere. The unique qualities of Phillips\' work have been recognized by writers and art critics including: David Sylvester, English art critic, author and curator-listed as one of the most influential people in art. Having spoken of Phillips as a phenomenal new talent, he later wrote of the artist as \"... a certain kind of Romantic painter, very much in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich.\" Bill Hopkins, English writer and art critic. Dubbed Phillips\' singular style \'Quintessential\' - quintessence being the fifth and most mysterious element, the ultimate substance of which all else is composed. Joseph Merkel, New York art critic. Described Phillips\' work as a \"...fresh style on the New York art scene...\" Merkel continued, \"His imagery is ultra-clean, rendered in a precise, meticulous manner. These prints and paintings reveal a modern development of Surrealism, [combining] a Dali-like fineness of execution with clarity and isolation of image.\" Frederick Phillips\' artwork has been exhibited in cities throughout the world including New York, Hong Kong, Boston, San Francisco, London, Tokyo and Chicago. Pablo Picasso   Picasso was born in 1881 in Spain. He was the son of a drawing master, under whom he began his study of art. Picasso is recognized as a major contributor to the art of the 20th century because of the brilliant manner in which he visualized his objects and scenes. He began painting in the city of Corunna in 1891. In 1895, and up until 1904, he painted in Barcelona; however, during this time, he made his first trip to Paris, where he was greatly influenced by the artwork of Toulouse-Lautrec. From 1900 to 1907, Picasso completed his first two artistic periods: the Blue Period and the Rose Period. Both periods reflect his visions of society at the time. The scenes and people depicted were usually impoverished, and he tended to focus on the outcasts of society. In 1906, Picasso met Matisse, who was to become his longtime friend. Picasso admired Matisse\'s Fauvist style, but would not copy it, concentrating instead on simplifying his forms rather than dealing with color issues. Shortly afterward, Picasso began to work with Georges Braque and Joan Miro, starting the movement known as Cubism. As an artistic movement, Cubism is the exact reproduction of an image seen from a variety of perspectives at the same time. Picasso\'s Cubist works were somewhat more emotional than many Cubist-style paintings. He tended to give creative life to the feelings of anguish and despair he was experiencing at the time. In his later years, Picasso abandoned painting and devoted himself to drawing, printmaking, sculpture and ceramics. Jean-Claude Picot   born in Paris on October 21, 1933. He is a self-taught artist, his career as a painter began in 1956. He has been highly praised by European critics who see his brilliant colors and infectious \"joie de vivre\" as belonging to the Fauvist tradition of Dufy, Van Dongen and Vlaminck. The inspiration for many of Picot\'s works comes from the vibrant life of the French Rivera and idyllic charm of the French countryside. They bring to the viewer an instant impression of the carefree, happy days to be found in this most favored of European regions. Picot communicates his happy world with a warmth, gaiety and rare skill that has delighted art lovers not only in his native Paris but also throughout the world. He is a regular exhibitor at the Salon De l\'ille De France, Salon D\'Anthony, Salon De Clamart, and the Moulin De Vauboyen. Thomas Pike   Pike’s calculated renderings of the “European Street Scene” create a photo-realism mixed with impressionistic style. Reality is made to look so overpoweringly real as to make it pure illusion. Through the basically magical means of point-for-point precisionist rendering the actual is portrayed as being so real that the viewer believes it exists. What does exist off the canvas is the mind, which conceived of the idea of the painting of a photograph of reality, in all its intrinsic implausibility. Whereas classical painters through the ages have idealized reality itself, the “classical” New Realists have totally devalued reality in order vastly to completely abstract the human brain. Pike admits “Photo-Realism mixed in with Impressionism is basically not realism at all. More correctly, it is the plastic offshoot of today’s conceptual arts. Born in Brussels in 1936, Thomas Pike first came to the United States in 1967. He began his studies with Architecture but soon found more opportunities for expression within the art world. He eventually studied art in Paris at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts. His subjects have been almost exclusively European street scenes. That an artist can concentrate so masterfully on one theme is enticing and his renderings have brought great appeal and success. Currently, Thomas Pike resides and has studios in both Paris and southern Florida. With his work in private collections around the world, original paintings by Thomas Pike can be found in galleries nationwide. Percy Pond   Winter & Pond’s strikingly beautiful photographs contain a wealth of information about the changing native cultures in Alaska. Lloyd Winter was by training, a portrait painter, and had studied at the California School of Design. At age 27, in 1893, Winter traveled to Juneau, Alaska, to explore the gold-mining possibilities. A friend, Percy Pond, with whom he opened a photo studio, later joined him. They developed special relationships with Alaskan Indians because of their yearlong tenure, displaying genuine interest in their culture and lives. Some of their most striking images were taken in the winter of 1895-95, and include views of the Whale House at Klukwan, where they recorded the interiors and ceremonial regalia. Together, they continued to have a deep personal interest in the Indians throughout their lives, and in 1928 Winter applied for membership of the Alaska Native Brotherhood, an all-Indian organization. He was accepted, as he was able to give references of Chilkat me who adopted him 34 years before. Winter & Pond operated their studio until Pond’s death in 1943. Winter died in 1945 and 6 Indian’s served as honorary pallbearers. Maurice Prendergast   Canadian native Maurice Prendergast was born in 1859 in St. John\'s, Newfoundland. Early on his family moved to Boston where his formal education ended in the 8th grade. Apprenticed to a commercial-art firm, he learned graphic design and illustration. During 1891-94 he studied in Paris at the Academie Julian and the Atelier Colorossi like many of his contemporaries. Upon his return, he managed a frame shop with his brother Charles. Throughout his career he became known as a Post Impressionist painter specializing in oils and watercolors of charming scenes of people enjoying the park, the seashore and other recreational places. These were the types of paintings displayed in his first one-man shows at Chase Gallery, Boston in 1897 and 1899; his first New York City exhibit was at the Watercolor Society in 1897. Prestigious exhibitions followed at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Boston Watercolor Club, resulting in the patronage of fellow painter Sarah Coate Sears and others. During 1898-99, Prendergast traveled throughout Italy and France where he produced many lovely watercolors. Prendergast exhibited in the now infamous Armory Show of 1913, where Picasso shocked the world with his painting \"Les Demoiselles des Avignon.\" Fine Art Posters & Prints   Prints and Fine Art Posters @ art4sale.com Vladimir Pronin   Russian artist, Vladimir Pronin. Pronin\'s artistic virtuosity and solemn rendition of ornamental detail define this artist\'s style. He gives birth to the richness of his paintings, drawn up from the depths of world culture and tradition. His work is ornamental neo-symbolism. He has exhibited in both Moscow and the United States in numerous one man shows and group exhibitions. His powerful statment makes him a unique artist, very sought after in international circles. Alicia Quaini   Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Alicia Quaini was recognized as a painter at an early age. She studied with masters Amicarelli and Carpanelli and in the Mutualidad de Egresados de Bellas Artes, located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In Mexico, she studied with Melquiedades Ejido, a prominent Mexican muralist. Quaini equates her life and art with drama. Provocative bold shapes and fruits laden with symbolic meaning. Her paintings incorporate an originality that sets them outside the ordinary. She paints with varying depths of light and sensual colors, which are coupled with remarkable textural contrasts. As a multi-faceted artist, it isn\'t surprising that Alicia Quaini is also a singer, songwriter, musician, conductor and scenographer. R Rafael   Rafael, known for his Stylized Deco Art, was inspired by Erte. His compositions reflect sensual feelings, with soft contemporary lines. He has painted since early childhood. Originally from South America, Rafael found his home in America in the 70\'s when the Art Deco movement resurrected. He has held one-man exhibitions in cities across America, Canada and Brazil. Rafael still paints today, describing his style as classic, one that never ages. His classic imagery can be found in galleries throughout the US, Canada and South America. Auguste Renoir   Renoir was born in 1841 and died in 1919. A French impressionist painter and sculptor, b. Limoges. Renoir went to work at the age of 13 in Paris as a decorator of factory-made porcelain, copying the works of Boucher. In 1862 he entered M. C. Gleyre\'s studio, where he formed lasting friendships with Bazille, Monet and Sisley. His early work reflected a myriad of influences including those of Courbet, Manet, Corot, Ingres and Delacroix. He began to earn his living with portraiture in the 1870s; an important work of this period was Madame Charpentier and her Children (1876; Metropolitan Mus.). Simultaneously he developed the ability to paint joyous, shimmering color and flickering light in outdoor scenes such as The Swing and the festive Moulin de la Galette (both: 1876; Louvre). Renoir traveled in Algeria and in Italy (1881–82), returning to Paris where a successful exhibition (1883) established him financially. He had gone beyond impressionism. His ecstatic sensuality, particularly in his opulent, generalized images of women, and his admiration of the Italian masters removed him from the primary impressionist concern: to imitate the effects of natural light. After a brief period, often termed “harsh” or “tight,” in which his forms were closely defined in outline (e.g., The Bathers, 1884–87; private coll.), his style of the 1890s changed, diffusing both light and outline, and with dazzling, opalescent colors describing voluptuous nudes, radiant children, and lush summer landscapes. From 1903, Renoir fought the encroaching paralysis of arthritis at the same time that his work attained its greatest sensual power and monumentality. Despite illness and personal tragedy he began to produce major works of sculpture (e.g., Victorious Venus, Renoir Mus., Cagnes-sur-Mer). Among his most celebrated paintings are: Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881; Phillips Coll., Washington, D.C.); Dance at Bougival (1883; Mus. of Fine Arts, Boston); Lady Sewing (Art Inst., Chicago); and Bather (1917–18; Philadelphia Mus. of Art). Renoir\'s work is represented in most of the important galleries in the world. The Art Institute of Chicago; the Barnes Collection, Merion, Pa.; Clark Institute, Williamstown, Mass.; and the Louvre have large collections. His son, the film director Jean Renoir, wrote a biography (tr. 1962). Andre Renoux   Renoux was the leading French artist in what has became known as “Urban Realist” painting for over thirty years. Renoux, is known for being the father and inventor of this style of painting. He had been documenting the Parisian streets, each with its own personality and individual charm. His paintings capture and ambiance that is timeless. Renoux painted the surrounding mood of the street as well as the buildings with a hollowness that captures the soul of the city. Many of the works are void of people to allow the viewers to personally visualize, from their own perspective, the moment in time. Renoux passed away in January 2002 at the age of 62. Hilda Rindom   She is a natural talent and acclaimed artist. She received her early formal art training in her native Cuba and continued her studies in Europe and in Miami, at the Miami Art Institute. Rindom has been a professional in fine arts for over twenty years and has mastered her own style. Her contemporary work has been described as “Objective Abstract”. Her use of vibrant colors, skillful composition and variety of mood at first glance may appear abstract, but gradually definite forms emerge. Her paintings have been exhibited in many museums and are in the collections of major corporations and art collectors around the world. Rindom is collected by the Getty Foundation and Rockefeller Museum and similar patrons. Susan Rios   Rios paints with an artistic honesty and emotional control that is both unique and refreshing. She is a painter of emotion. Her subjects focus on romantic places and delicate ideas - soft, inviting rooms and lush floral gardens that stretch beyond the imagination. Rios won an art scholarship to California State University, Northridge in Los Angeles. Rios has taken inspiration from Henri Matisses striking use of color and form. She was also influenced by the decorative patterns and precision observation of detail found in the paintings of Gustav Klimpt, an artist associated with the avant-garde Vienna Secession at the turn of the century. Jan River   Jan River was born in New Orleans in 1963. From the time River was old enough to hold a crayon, her artist skills were present. Her Father, a professional commercial artist, taught River the concept of layout and space. In the 1980s, River lived in Europe, Asia and Carribean islands. There she developed diversity and interests led her to explore many disciplines. Inspired by artists Miro and Dali, a sense of primitive-abstract is most present in her work. When River first dips a brush in color, she literally does not know what she is going to paint until the brush touches the canvas. So many images enchant her -- alluring the viewer to ask about her mixed media paintings, \"What is the arist thinking about on this one?\" River now resides in south Florida and is shown in several galleries across America. Norman Rockwell   Rockwell created a pictorial history of his times with more than 2,000 artworks. His work has been reproduced more often than Michelangelo, Picasso and Rembrandt put together. Rockwell gained national prominence as an illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post and Life Magazine. Rockwell attended the Chase School of Fine and Applied Arts and the National Academy of Design. Rockwell was named \"artist of the year\" in 1969 by his colleagues of the Artists Guild of New York, and in 1976, former President Ford presented him with the Medal of Freedom, the nation\'s highest decoration for civilian Americans. Alexi Romenelle   Romanelli was born in Naples in 1934 and studied at the Art Institute in his city. He started painting when only 15 years old, and since then has continually sought the best, with remarkable results: the settings and range make his works a valued item to connoisseurs the world over. Romenelli’s great fantasy cannot be denied, given the great variety of his subjects, to which he gives a very special immediacy. Who wouldn\'t be drawn to admire his body of works? With their rich colors portrayed with vivid, essential, sharp strokes, along with heavy texture and alluring scenic views from around the world. As his popularity increases, so do the many national and international exhibitions, making Romanelli an artist to watch! Loredano Rosin   (1936-1992) Taught by one of Murano\'s most respected masters, advanced hot sculpture draws from the Venetian glass tradition to discover processes of free-form modeling for molten glass. Utilizing the immediacy, fluidity, and freedom of design that characterizes hot glass, Rosin\'s understanding of the nature of glass created new possibilities to explore the sculptural potential of this plastic medium. Rosin techniques for shaping the glass skillfully to meet the needs of individual designs. As a master glassworker in Murano, Italy, Rosin was born into a family of Murano glass artists. Rosin mastered solidworked glass and cold-forming techniques at an early age. For more than twenty years, he ceated large sculptures that have been shown in prestigious galleries throughout the world. Georges Roualt   French expressionist and religious painter. Son of a cabinetmaker. Trained as a maker of stained-glass windows (1885-90) before studying at the School of Fine Arts in Paris where he was encouraged to develop his talent (1891-98). After his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1895 he concentrated on Biblical themes in his paintings, etchings and lithographs. In 1905 he exhibited with the Fauves (Matisse, etc) but wasn\'t influenced by them. Instead he came under the broader expressionist school which dealt with intensely felt human emotions (Chaim Soutine, Edvard Munch, etc). Georges also painted scenes from the street, prostitutes, judges and tragic clowns as well as some still lifes. His style was basically melancholy, portraying the tragedy of the human condition, but with hope in Jesus. Helen Rundell   A native of Long Island, New York, Rundell has developed a uniquely inspired vision of the American northeast. For her subjects, she chooses the trees, barns and landscapes of New England and Long Island. Her form of realism is particularly suited to these simple rustic scenes, which she re-creates with honesty and emotion. By working originally in an egg tempera medium, the artist is able to achieve stroke by stroke detail. The resulting effect is one that goes beyond the visual to encompass all the senses. She has been honored with exhibits in the Smithsonian Institution, the West Point Museum of Art and many American embassies throughout the World. Susan Sahall   A perennially popular artist, who brings a sensitive and original eye to traditional subjects, Sahall combines a vigorous palette with uncommon purity of composition in her oils and acrylics. She has had solo shows in Los Angeles and in New York. She has produced an impressive body of paintings, many of them impeccably reproduced in limited editions of hand-drawn flatbed lithographs, signed and numbered by the artist, along with special editions of print uniques, highlighted by hand-painting to produce a yet more vivid effect. Sahall’s work has an assertive thrust which carries it beyond mere representation into the realm of abstraction as she dramatically probes the formal values of her subjects. Although she never departs from the concrete in her representation, her mass and color are allowed to follow their own inner logic to produce images of great emotional impact. Edwina Sandys   A renowned novelist, painter and sculptor, Edwina Sandys (pronounced \"Sands\") was born in England and lived for many years in Tuscany, Italy before moving to New York City where she now lives. A \"citizen of the world\" in more ways than one, Sandys’ work occupies a position of central importance in the closely related realms of international art and politics. Her work has always reflected a strong social consciousness, focusing on several key issues of contemporary society: child, family, war and peace, woman, and the environment. Her monumental marble sculptures have been commissioned by United Nations in Rio de Janeiro, Geneva, Vienna and New York City. In 1990, her political and artistic passions were combined once again in a major piece entitled Breakthrough. This sculpture, constructed from eight massive sections of the Berlin Wall features male and female forms cut out from the wall’s concrete surface. The work invites its viewers to walk through a once impassable barrier and has been visited by both Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. Sandys is currently at work on another global project entitled Millenium Circles. These large rings of interconnected male and female figures are to be constructed out of materials native to each climate and culture and installed on each of the continents, providing a permanent link between the world’s varied people and places. Kim Sargent   \"The artwork I create produces a concentration of three things; my love and passion to create, my education in traditional style and a vision of color\". By combining these elements, Kim Sargent conveys in her paintings quiet images that are either remembered or of which we are ever watchful for. Kim Sargent was born in 1948. Until she traveled to the Mediterranean, her paintings remained in the landscape genre. At 20, Kim traveled throughout Europe and remained enrolled in art classes. She returned to America in 1981 with a style influenced by world travel. Her paintings can be seen throughout galleries in the United States, Canada and Europe. She has held over 15 one-woman gallery exhibits. Thomas Scarff   he studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1960 - 1964. During this time he received the John Quincy Adams Traveling Fellowship. Scarff has twice been honored with Artist Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1976 he was awarded a Bronze Hugo by the Chicago International Film Festival. Scarff\'s works are included in the public collection of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and the corporate collections of Johnson Products Company and Dayton Hudson. Henry Schaare   is one of the few artists who have ventured into as many different areas in art making as illustrator Harry J. Schaare In addition to his graphic works he is a regular illustrator for such magazines as Readers Digest and Aviation Week and is a frequent designer of book covers, having worked for practically every major paperback publisher in New York. He even painted the macquette for a \\\"Star Wars\\\" bedspread. Born in Jamaica, NY, in May 1922, he attended N.Y.U. School of Architecture, and graduated from Pratt Institute in 1947. He served as pilot in the Air Corp during WWII and has since traveled around the world as artist for the U.S. Air Force. Kenny Scharf   Scharf was born in 1958 in Hollywood and grew up in Sherman Oaks California. As a young child he did a lot of drawing and finger-painting, and was influenced by the cartoons he watched on TV He attended the University of California-Santa Barbara in 1976 and enrolled in The School of Visual Arts in New York in 1978. In the 80\'s the artist started spending extensive time in Brazil where his work started to take on a samba beat and an ecological edge. Since 1990 Scharf has made sweeping multicultural panoramas that display a rich repertory of photo silk screened visuals advertising early 1960\'s merchandise. Scharf\'s allegories are politically engaged while appearing to be no more than just stylish modern art. Maestro Gianni Seguso   Maestro Gianni Seguso, the founder of our glassworks, was born in 1951 into the world of glass created by his father Guido Seguso. His first experiments with glass began when he was just a child, when he would play with it and start to learn its secrets. Thus from the very beginning he has always been fascinated with the great art of glass. This highly gifted artist learned the techniques and the mysteries of Murano glass workmanship that the Seguso family has handed down from father to son for centuries. He was only eighteen years old when he obtained the most sought-after title in Murano - that of ‘Maestro Vetraio’ or Master Glassworker. Even his very first pieces were executed with a quality and style usually seen only in much more experienced artists. Maestro Seguso loves the transparency and lightness created by the extraordinary world of glass. His boundless passion which fires the glass, together with the classical style of his vases, are the ingredients of his world-famous masterpieces in glass art. \"Seguso Gianni & Co.\" was founded in 1982 to express the talents of a master who is open to any idea, and thus creates a never-ending series of shapes and experiments. They free his imagination for new forms of art that actually become concrete applications for home and interior design. Our tireless passion for experimenting with new forms of glass art has been achieved through years of close collaboration with artists and designers. Our years of experience allow us to turn custom-made projects into pieces of art. Dr. Seuss   Seuss was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1904. He graduated Dartmouth College and attended Oxford University. Geisel was a Lt. Colonel in the Army in World War II. After the war he and his first wife, Helen moved from Los Angeles to La Jolla. There they built a house on 6 ½ acres next to an observation tower that eventually became part of his living room wall. Within a year of Helen’s death in 1967, Geisel married Audrey Stone Dimond, a nurse 20 years his junior, the two remained together until his death. By the time he died in 1991, he wrote and illustrated nearly 50 books. During his lifetime his books sold over 100 million copies and have been translated into 20 different languages and that number continues to rise at an accelerated rate. Dr.Seuss Collection of Unorthodox Taxidermy: In 1934 Ted Geisel created a collection of three-dimensional work from real animal breaks, horns, feathers and hair. They were derived from characters which appeared in his early political cartoon and advertising illustrations. These sculptures have remained quietly tucked away in his home for over 60 years ... until now! Bob Shepherd   E.R. Shepherd, a native of New Orleans, was born to paint. He was influenced by the grand old city architecture. His passion for painting was evident throughout his school years, where Mr Shepherd excelled in artwork. Mr Shepherd attended Delgado College, studying Fine Art, Graphics and Advertising. His unusual degree of creativity allowed him to arrive at greatness at a very young age. He worked in the commercial trade for 47 years in New Orleans, Atlanta, Las Vegas and San Diego. His resume includes movie production artwork in films such as “Starman”, “The Twilight Zone” and various Cheech & Chong movies. Mr Shepherd has been featured in numerous magazine articles including Art Design, Art Business News, Artist’s Review, Sign Craft and Signs of the Times for his creative skills in design and concept. For over 50 years, his work in various mediums, including oils, watercolors, charcoal and pastels, to name a few, have gained national acclaim. His diversity in painting and sketching landscapes, still life, abstracts and portraits display his extraordinary talent. Although past paintings were predominantly traditional style, Mr Shepherd recently introduced a more modern approach to the abstract. Favorable attention is given to shades of color, with emphasis on pleasing compositions. As a trained realist, Mr Shepherd finds himself ever returning to his first true love. Wong Shue   Shue was born December 1952 in Jamaica, West Indies, of Cantonese Jamaican parents. At age 7 he began experimenting with colors from flower petals and executed his first deliberate painting. It was a painting of the Giant Green Dog, a legendary dog from the hills of St. Andrew. From that point, painting became an obsession. At the age of 17 Wong Shue began the study of charcoal drawing with private instruction from Alfred Chin of Canton, China. At age 16 he was the personal student of Alexander Cooper at Kingston College. In less than three decades, Wong Shue experienced the social and political changes of colonialism, independence and socialism. Isolation, as a child and teenager, produced a sensitivity to life, as expressed in his paintings. His earlier pen and ink drawings were realistic images of daily life and communicate the full scope of human emotion. Wong Shue was always encouraged to experiment towards self discovery and freedom, both in this art and in his life. He has always been an artist, a painter, and never questioned art being his life passion. After visiting the United States several times, Wong Shue moved to Los Angeles in 1980 where he found individual freedom. Later he attended Antioch University where he graduated with a B.A. in psychology. Nicola Simbari   Simbari was born in San Lucido, a small village in Calabria, deep in the south of Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea. He was raised in Rome where his father, an architect, worked for the Vatican. Young Simbari was influenced by all of the great art treasures of Rome. Simbari showed his paintings for the first time in Rome in 1953. Each piece expressed his passion for life, and all those who saw the show were impressed with his wonderful paintings. An exhibition in London followed, then New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and the rest is history. Today his original paintings sell for as much as $40,000. Robert Simon   Robert Stephen Simon is an artist of tremendous technical skills, working as easily with collages of sports art, meticulous reproductions of the masters, or portraits from live sittings, to creating his own original art. His range of technique, mediums and style is truly amazing and unique among contemporary artists. Anton Sipos   Anton Sipos was born in 1938 in the small village of Donji Vakuf in the Bosna central mountain region of Yugoslavia. His hypnotic interest in drawing manifested itself at an early age. Drawing has been the anchor of his restless, unsettled life. He left home I his teens and supported himself as a film animation artist.His very first collaboration Surrogat (1961) won an Academy Award for best animated short subject. Doing freelance work for movie studios never took him away from his painting. Six years in Paris saw him become one of the elite painters of the Ecole de Paris. His paintings from this period hang in major galleries throughout Europe in the company of works by Pugni, Clave, Chagall, Buffet, Pignon, and others. He exhibited annually at the Salon des Artists Francais in the Grand Palais, and worked as an instructor at several note-worthy ateliers. In 1970 Anton arrived in Los Angeles and immersed himself in his work. Never submitting to pressures of the marketplace he often resorted to working as an artist for the major studios. His superb classical training won him a contract with the Eleanor Ettinger Studios in New York to work with Norman Rockwell, transposing his original oils to lithographic plates. His first major New York exhibition took place at the Jasper Gallery on 57th Street in 1977. His latest film collaboration was with Andrei Konchalovsky on Maria’s Lovers (1984), a film in which Anton appears in a scene with Natassja Kinski. For more than 30 years, Anton Sipos’ unflagging devotion to his own unique impressionist vision, has resulted in a rich harvest of paintings, which stand the test of time. Stan Solomon   Viewers feel like they are taking a voyage through outer space when they see the brightly colored spheres and geometric forms that make up the fantastic 21st century images of futuristic painter Stan Solomon. Observing a “Solomon” has been compared to the discovery of a new dimension in space; both experiences are sure to be exciting and unforgettable experiences. A graduate of Brooks institute in California and New York Institute of Technology, Solomon uses a self developed technique of hard-edged acrylic painting to create images that consistently amaze, entertain, and provoke the imagination of his audience. Born in New York City in 1946, Solomon has lived in Japan and California, and is currently living in St. Louis, Missouri. Here he paints from eight to eighteen hours a day in his turn-of-the-century home where he surrounds himself with his acrylics, canvases, brushes, tape, and pepsi cans. His work has created an incredible splash within the art world, resulting in the instant success of his dynamic images with art lovers everywhere and of every age. He is recognized as a master of illusion, perspective, and imagination whose “Neo-Geo” works merit the acknowledgement that they are receiving now and will surely be receiving throughout the 21st century. Hijime Sorayama   Intensely erotic, artistically extreme, Hajime Sorayama has taken the art of eroticism to its most seductive and possible shocking level. There is an intensity to Sorayama’s work, as if there is a provocative need to both arouse and shock the viewer, with a painstaking perfectionism and technical brilliance few artists can ever achieve. So what is it that inspires this charming, friendly and surprisingly modest artist to push moral and sexual boundaries to such an extreme? Certainly the desire to expose the more forbidden side of sexuality is apparent in many of his most recent paintings. Perhaps it’s Sorayama’s belief that he must engage his audience with more than just visual stimulation, but in fact should question contemporary values and introduce alternative views even if the outcome is ridicule and rejection. Or it is what drives all great artists, an overwhelming and insatiable passion to create. Tom Spencer   a native of Tennessee, studied at the Art Student’s League in New York City, Ringling School of Art is Sarasota, Florida and the Art Center in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Spencer worked as a staff artist for Boeing and Lockhead, along with various technical illustrator agencies. Some of his works are on display at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., NASA in Huntsville, Alabama, and the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville. He is also exhibited at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. John Stango   Stango has been painting since early childhood. Born in 1958 he held his first one-man show at the age of 19 at the Race Street Gallery in Pennsylvania prior to graduating with a BFA in Painting Design from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Using a free associative thought process and the vibrant use of color characterize Stango’s paintings and limited edition serigraphs. Galleries across the country are eager to acquire Stango POP ART. As an emerging American artist, John Stango’s artwork is represented New York, Washington, D.C., Texas, California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida to name a few. His art appears in public and private collections throughout the country including Kristi Yamaguchi, Olympic Gold Medallist, Fred J. Kliesner, President and CEO, Westin Hotels and Resorts, designer Nicole Miller, The Dallas Cowboys and The Walt Disney Company. As well as painting, Stango also designed a line of sportswear called Stango International. His clothing has been featured in stores such as Macys, Bloomingdales and Fiorucci. John Stango has donated his art to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, The Ronald McDonald House, The Make a Wish Foundation, and most recently, Helping Hands, a non-profit organization that places special monkey helpers with severely disabled individuals. John Stango is big ~ and HOT ~ and happening! His subjects include pop sports like Michael Jordan and Dan Marino, entertainment stars James Dean, Elvis Presley, and Marilyn Monroe and even comic book icons such as Superman, Batman and Mickey Mouse. Lynn Taber-Borcherdt   Born 1943 in California. Selected Collections: Osaka Triennial, Osaka, JAPAN - Smith College Museum of Art, MA – Tampa Museum of Art , FL – Phoenix Art Museum, AZ – Tucson Museum of Art, AZ Seikichi Takara   Born in 1929 in Hawaii, Takara knew from an early age that he wanted to be an artist. His sixth grade teacher recognized his potential, and because he came from a poor family, she paid his tuition at the Honolulu Academy of Art. In 1968, after several small exhibitions, Takara won the Public Prize for his oil painting “Erosion” at the Hanalei Art Festival in Kauai. Later while working as a graphic artist, screen printer, and commercial artist, Takara refined his technique and understanding of movement and color. In a studio in his home in Hawaii, Takara works in oils, watercolors and ink drawings, and some of these images will become serigraphs, lithographs and poster art. James Talmadge   From the time James Talmadge was old enough to hold a crayon, he knew he wanted to be an artist. At the age of 14, he was given his first one man exhibition. Shortly thereafter, he was awarded a scholarship to the Los Angeles based Art Center School of Design -- an award presented to one student per year. After his formal education came to an end, Talmadge’s interests were pulled in many challenging directions. Projects included developing educational programs used by school systems across the United States to help disadvantaged and learning disabled students. While in his 20’s, companies such as Sony, Atlantic Records, Doubleday Publishing, Max Factor, JBL International, ABC, CBS and KCET employed the artist’s talents in various creative endeavors. His diversity and interests led him to explore many disciplines, from producing animated films for Sesame Street, Cheech and Chong and Sonny Bono to creating graphics for The Bill Cosby Show. During this period, Talmadge continued to hone his skills, painting every spare minute. The art finally demanded his full-time attention, and in his mid-30’s, began concentrating exclusively on his art. James Talmadge has had over 100 exhibitions since 1961 throughout the United States and the Far East. His works are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; The Museum of Modern Art, Osaka; and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Jamaica. His artwork can be found in the collections of Charlie Sheen, Andre Agassi & Brook Shields, Mr. & Mrs. Martin Sheen, Louie Anderson, Elgen Baylor, Sony Corporation, Doubleday Publishing, Hormel Corporation, Los Angeles Times, Max Factor , Ampex Corporation, Atlantic Records, among others. When James Talmadge first picks up a stick of oil pastel or dips a brush in color, he says he literally doesn’t know what he is going to paint until the brush touches the canvas. So many images enchant him -- the romance of a night at the theater, umbrellas in the rain, the glow of lights on a rain splattered street. Barbie Tidwell   Barbie is originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Tulsa. She began her artistic endeavors concentrating on oils and watercolors. This gave her a good foundation to develop her own style and sense of color. After college, she decided to go into commercial art, even though she had fallen in love with etching after taking a few etching courses at the university. She hoped that one day she would be able to continue with etchings. She worked for several years as a graphic artist in advertising and sign design. In 1988, she became acquainted with an established printmaker. It didn’t take long for her to begin working in the printmaker’s studio producing her own etchings. Barbie has since cut several of her own plates and established herself in the art industry as one of the printmaker’s in demand. Stating the process with zinc plates, fine Italian paper, and finishing the process with handcoloring each etching, Barbie has been able to satisfy the creative need she has as an artist that was never satisfied with any other medium. Presently, Barbie lives in rural Middle Tennessee fulfilling her dream of becoming a professional artist / printmaker. The art of etching is a very old process. One of the first known etchers was Rembrandt. A zinc or copper plate is used for the artist’s design, and acid does the work of etching the design into the metal. After it is completed, the plate is inked, damp paper is placed onto it, and then they are run through a press. The tremendous pressure pushes the paper into the etched lines of the plate picking up the ink into the etched lines of the plate picking up the ink onto the damp paper. Each one is hand-pulled, one at a time, therefore each etching will have small differences making each one an original. Theo Tobiasse   Tobiasse lived through the German occupation of France during World War II. On July 16, 1942 his father bolted the shutters to their small apartment in Paris as Tobiasse watched the Nazi soldiers rounding up the Jews. The family lived through these years of German occupation under the most incredible circumstances. The only light they had was that which filtered through the closed shutters. Their meager food was what little a resistance fighter left outside their door disguised as garbage. Many times they feared they were close to discovery. Yet during this time, Tobiasse retained his sanity and sense of hope by reading and drawing. For the first 15 years after WWII ended, Tobiasse earned a living as a graphic and window designer. By 1950, he had moved to Nice. He continued to paint for his own pleasure, and when he showed his work at an exhibition for young painters he won the grand prize. Within two years he gave up his successful commercial career and devoted himself exclusively to painting. Ernest Trova   Ernest Tino Trova, a self-trained St. Louis native, became one of the significant artists of the late twentieth century. Best known for his signature image, the Falling Man, Trova considered his entire output a single work in progress. A collector of classic American comic character toys, Trova admired their surrealism and used them in some of his pieces. He began as a painter, progressing through three-dimensional constructions to his mature medium, sculpture. Trova’s gift of forty of his works led to the opening of the Laumeier Sculpture Park. With his Falling Man, Ernest Trova created one of the defining artistic images of his time. His work is exhibited in all the Major Museums in the world. Victor Vasarely   Vasarely is one of the creators of Kinetic and Op Art. Before emigrating to France in 1930 , Vasarely attended the Academy of Painting and taught at The Bauhaus in Budapest in 1929. In his early works, he explored Symbolism, Post-Cubism, Surrealism and Gestural Painting. A superb graphic artist, Vasarely studiously developed his techniques since his first published print in 1949. Poteet Victory   Poteet Victory was born and raised in the middle of the Choctaw Nation in Idabel, Oklahoma. His direct paternal ancestors were relocated from their homelands in Mississippi to Oklahoma during the forced migration known as the Trail of Tears. Poteet is the last of the Victory’s on his paternal Grandmother’s side, which included such leaders as C.C. Victory, Vice Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation for 22 years. Within his Choctaw ancestry, on his paternal Grandfather’s side, Poteet Victory is related to the famous statesman Andrew Jolly Jones. Jaques Villon   French painter, born in Damville; died in Puteaux. Villon was the brother of Marcel Duchamp, Raymond DuchampVillon and Suzanne Duchamp. After studying law he settled in Paris in 1894, where he worked in Cormon\'s studio and earned his living as a draughtsman. During this period he contributed to the magazines Le Chat noir, Gil Blas, Lassiette au Beurre and Le Courrier franqais. In 1904 he became a founder member of the Salon d\'Automne, in which he regularly exhibited. In 1912 he helped to organize the Section d\'Or exhibition, and in 1913 took part in the International Exhibition of Modern Art (the Armory Show) in New York, at which he sold nine pictures. Between 1921 and 1930 he produced thirty-four prints for Architectures. Andy Warhol   Warhol was born in 1928 and died in 1987. He is best remembered for his declaration that everyone would have fifteen minutes of fame. Andy Warhol cultivated celebrity status and achieved a level of notoriety normally reserved for Hollywood stars. Born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the artist began studies there at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1945. In 1949, Warhol moved to New York where he established himself as a successful commercial designer working for leading fashion houses. Taking his inspiration from commercial art and popular culture, Warhol produced a series of works that appropriated imagery from advertisements and tabloids, eliminating personal references and any trace of the artist\'s hand. His mechanically produced works were in stark contrast to the highly personal statements of the Abstract Expressionist movement that dominated the art world. A 1962 exhibition that featured his \"Campbell\'s Soup Cans\" and \"Coca-Cola Bottles\" brought Warhol instantaneous celebrity status and he was proclaimed the leader of the Pop Art movement. In 1963 Warhol established his New York studio which he called \"The Factory\" and increasingly relied on assistants to produce his work. In 1965 the artist shifted his focus to film and performance art. He produced numerous multi-media events he labeled \"The Exploding Plastic Inevitable.\" The Andy Warhol Museum opened in the artist\'s hometown of Pittsburgh in 1994. Barrie Wentzell   Barrie Wentzell is an internationally recognized photographer born in the mists of Northern England, now living in Toronto. Barrie was the chief photographer for Melody Maker Magazine, forerunner to Rolling Stone Magazine from 1965 - 1975. During that time he had access to the public and private lives of the music makers of the Golden Age of Rock and Roll. His black and white photo journalistic portraits seen here are just a few from a Limited Edition print series, which provides us with an honest and unique depiction of the personalities whose lyrics and music inspired generations and gave voice to the future. Barries commitment to his work coupled with his uncanny ability to capture the essence of the subjects he portrays has gained him public and critical acclaim. As Barrie once confided, The picture gives you an impression, the music tells you everything. I wasn’t trying to make them God, I was trying to make them truthful. Barries Legends include Neil Young, Diana Ross, Led Zeppelin, Leonard Cohen, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Plant, The Beatles, Jimmy Page, Leon Russell, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Elton John, Bo Diddley and Jerry Lee Lewis just to name a few. Individuals, as well as, public and private galleries and institutions worldwide collect Mr. Wentzells Legend Series. Barries photographic contributions are well circulated in magazines, newspapers, periodicals, books, records and c.d.s. Lee White   born in Miami in 1948, White began his artistic career at the age of only 12 after receiving the Mayor’s trophy for artists sponsored by the Miami Herald. He began his formal studies in California at the California College of Commercial Design, the City College of Los Angeles, the Santa Monica Art League and the University of Southern California, advancing to a fine art degree at the California Institute of Arts. During the 1970’s and 1980’s, he studied and developed his serigraphy talents under the supervision Mr. Warren Woodward, a famed master of printmaking. When humanistic art is expressed in figurative form, White defines the complete figurative. His works are textured emotions from the invisibly smooth to the rawest raw, compelling the observer. His prolific work, original figuratives, abstract expressionism, still lifes and collage are in private and corporate collections and exhibited throughout the world. Michael Wilkinson   Wilkinson\'s acrylic sculptures are something of an anomaly: cast in one of the newest substance in the arts it nevertheless represents a return to the romantic tradition. One of the very few artists working in clear acrylic, Wilkinson is also an accomplished sculptor in bronze, to which he brings the same sensitive and elevated spirit. However in his work in acrylic, he is able to create illusions impossible to an opaque medium. Wilkinson was influenced by Michelangelo and Rodin in his developmental years. Barbara Wood   BARBARA A. WOOD is a native of Columbus, Ohio. Barbara never knowing her real father, was raised by her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Her mother having to work in order to make ends meet, would often leave Barbara in the care of the grandmothers. The personalities of the three women formed a catalyst for her art. As an only child and sometimes a lonely child, she was afflicted with bouts of pneumonia and asthma and spent many hours secluded in her room longing to be with her friends. \"It seemed I was always on the inside looking out.\" Perhaps that could explain the sensitivity in so many of her paintings. Barbara remembers her mother encouraging her to sketch and paint and always keeping her in ample supplies of artist materials. Sometimes her only friends were the ones she created on her drawing board. Following high school she attended Traphagen School of Fashion on a scholarship, however one of her instructors encouraged her to turn her talents to fine art. We are grateful to this instructor, whoever he is, for now we are the recipients of an art rich in imagery. Taking this advice, Barbara transferred to the New York Art Students League. She continued her studies, marries and moved to California. Barbara continued to paint and study while raising her three children. She attended the Otis Parsons School of Art and later the Pasadena School of Fine Arts. Over the past three decades Barbara A. Wood has painted with vitalized energy, becoming an international artist. Her list of collectors is a virtual \"Who’s Who\" of celebrities and collectors around the world. She has traveled from London to Scotland to Alaska to Japan exhibiting in one women shows. Through her works of art she has been able to reach an audience far and wide. Now, we can enjoy the fruits of her creativity and special gift. Hiromichi Yamagata   Yamagata was born in 1948 in Maibara, Japan. After finishing high school in 1967, he began his study of art at a private school. Yamagata\'s work has been heavily influenced by the Belgian born painter Pieter Brughel, who lived in the late 1400\'s and painted during the early renaissance period with bright colors and vivid detail. Invited to study, tuition - free, at the prestigious Ecole de Beaux Arts, Yamagata moved to Paris in 1972. By 1973 he had become well known in Paris. In October, 1978, Yamagata left Paris to work in Los Angeles, California. In just a few short years since he first emigrated to America, Yamagata has become one of the best known and best selling artists in the United States. Michael Young   A master of nostalgic perspective, hidden themes and subtle wit, Michael Young creates an environment that entices viewers to vicariously share in his vision. A native of Kansas, Young honed his draftsmanship skills under technical tutors who emphasized rigid laws of perspective and respect for detail. His later tenure in commercial art provided the self-imposed discipline required for successful illustration. After formal training at the Art Students\' League in New York, Youngs first presentation was entirely purchased by a national gallery chain. Exhibited widely throughout the United States, Europe and Japan, his work can be found both in private and corporate collections. His impeccable technique and meticulous attention to period detail has attracted an ever-growing legion of appreciative fans. Perhaps it is because his art heightens and focuses viewer perception. To look is to enter . . . to enter is to linger . . . to linger is to be etherally touched by America\'s eloquent past or untenable future. Yuri Yuroz   Yuroz has an international reputation. His works have been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide. His art has been the centerpiece for many popular events, including Baywatch, The Grammy Awards and Comic Relief. Collectors worldwide have sought out and aquired Yuroz\'s work -- from Italy, Greece, Japan, Holland, Switzerland, Canada and South Africa, to name only a few. He has made a distinctive impression in the international fine art community. Recently one of his pastels was chosen for a traveling museum exhibition of the Degas Pastel Society, and other museum shows include the Fine Arts Museum of Long Island; the Fuller Art Museum; and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry(OMSI). His work has been featured in numerous one man shows as well as art fairs in New York, Los Angeles, and Japan -- and Barbizon, France, at one of the oldest art shows in the world, where the artist was the guest of honor. Laurie Zeszut   Zeszut\'s work is exuberant and vivid. It first captures the eye then the imagination. Perspective varies as objects freely careen across the surface. With work as inspired as that of Matisse or Picasso, it is surprising to know that Zeszut is actually a self taught painter. A shortage of gift wrap led to her first artistic endeavor as she quickly covered butcher paper with watercolor patterns in a hasty effort to deliver a birthday present. The friend was so impressed with the makeshift paper that Zeszut was encouraged to attend a watercolor class which further pushed the artist towards what would soon become a career. Joanna Zjawinska   Zjawinskas inimitable style transports us to worlds of mystery and elegance in images that explore complex, enigmatic relationships. Whether set in fashionable locales or in dreamlike fantasy, Zjawinskas portrayals of alluring personalities draw us into exotic reverie. Born in Poland, Zjawinska showed artistic talent at an early age. She pursued her studies at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. In 1979, she moved to New York City to launch her career. Aaron Zule   Memories can often be more vivid than the realities that inspired them. Evocative, heartfelt remembrances, especially those from childhood, burn deeply in most peoples souls - and even more deeply in that of an artist. Zule\'s feet (or should we say brushes) are firmly rooted in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 1925 through the 1930\'s. The energy, romance and excitement of life in “Caminito”, the artist\'s quarter, is evident in each of her works. Growing up in a city affectionately dubbed the “Paris of South America”, Zule was greatly moved and inspired by the city\'s most famous artist of the time - Kinkila Martin. In the early 1920\'s Martin felt Caminito needed an infusion of life - a stroke of vibrancy. Armed with a wide array of paints he strolled through the entire neighborhood making a splash of color on each house - an aesthetic suggestion to the homeowner as to what might spruce up the neighborhood. - literally, and perhaps more importantly, spiritually. Abetted by his vaulted position, his bold action took hold and the artist\'s quarter was transformed into the place etched in Zule\'s memory and artwork. Cafe society took hold of Caminito and Zule captures that laissez-faire attitude with her flowing pastels and bold paintings. Using only her thumbs as tools to create the pastels, Zule, like Martin before her, makes rich color slashes as individual gestures that when taken as a whole, form an ever pleasing panorama. Women always dominate the works, with men playing a supporting, albeit, chivalric role. Horse drawn carriages and gas lit lampposts evoke a time that Zule will never let die. Trained and schooled in Argentina, Zule\'s dream of becoming an established and successful artist has come true. In 1962 she realized another dream, and moved her entire family across the world to the land of Israel were she still lives today. ART4SALE.com ~ Swahn Galleries 561.630.5050 We Support Our Troops! ©1996-2009 ART4SALE.com, All Rights reserved Send any comments or suggestions to question@art4sale.com