Robert Liberace, the poet artist who with the Portrait Society of America will beat the Guinness Book of Records on World Design Day, August 27, 2020.

Robert Liberace is considered one of the most talented contemporary American artists. He has participated in several editions of FACE-Figurative Art Convention and Expo- and this year will be the icing on the cake of the 22nd edition of the Portrait Society of America, from which he received his first prize, the Grand Prize Award, in 2003 and with which in a few days, August 27 from 4:30 pm to ...

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Between feelings and affections: a journey through the artistic meanders of Jesus Emmanuel Villarreal

Sunday Morning by Jesus Emmanuel Villarreal.  Oil on panel, 32x24”.  Konrad Lorenz had demonstrated in his ethology studies that imprinting is the first form of learning through which we acquire behaviours, knowledge, skills and values, not known, in the early stages of life. Lorenz's theories have undoubtedly proved to be true for Jesus Emmanuel Villarreal who saw his father, a self-taught artist and musician, paint his canvases and play his ...

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The exaltation of nature by Giovanni Segantini.

Giovanni Segantini, 1858-1899, was a great Italian painter capable of revealing new artistic sensations that contributed to make his character a legend: he was in fact able to transform the negative events of his life into works of art. Born in Trentino Segantini was orphaned by his mother at the age of 7 and lost his father the following year.  He lived his childhood in poverty and loneliness with great ...

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Howard Terpning, the painter of the American Western: on tiptoe in the representation of the natives of America.

Among the great representatives of contemporary Western art, Howard Terpning, born in 1927, is undoubtedly one of the great American painters and illustrators. In his works he mainly represents the natives of America in scenes of everyday life and portraits. Like all great artists he has been drawing since childhood, at the age of 17 he served in the Marine Corps for two years, after which he enrolled at the ...

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The intensity of Damian Lechoszest, a realistic synthesis between abstractionism and expressionism.

Graduated from the Opole University of Technology in 2012, Damian Lechoszest shows particular familiarity and skill in drawing from an early age, which is why his primary school plastic art teacher decides to personally take care of him and give him lessons in his own art studio. Damian Lechoszest is a perfectionist in his field and is able to physically destroy a work of art if it does not completely ...

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Albrecht Dürer and the Northern Renaissance.

One of the greatest representatives of the Northern Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer, born in 1471, was a great painter, engraver, and mathematician of art history. I had the opportunity, in 2015, shortly before moving to the USA, to stay in Nuremberg to visit the house where he lived from 1509 onwards: a massive half-timbered house containing a large printing machine and reference objects similar to those used by the artist. It ...

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Face to FACE with Steven Alan Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt, founders of The Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realist Painters

If the Baltimore Museum of Art's news of wanting to only buy works by female artists in 2020, taking a stand on the gender imbalance within the institution, has somehow shaken up the art market, certainly, the initiative did not surprise Steven Alan Bennett and his wife, and co-curator, Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt.  Art collectors from San Antonio, Texas, Steven Alan Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt began collecting works of ...

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Vademecum for Miami Art Week 2019

Miami Art Week is Miami's craziest week. It presses like a whirlwind with fairs, exhibitions and scattered installations that begin with preparations, installations and press releases months before the official opening, which takes place during the first week of December and involves international fairs (first of all by order of importance and numbers, Art Basel), museums, galleries, private collections, complexes and art studios, which attract to themselves thousands of people ...

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Face to FACE: Where Art Dreams Come True.

FACE (The Figurative Art Convention & Expo) has seen many faces this year coming from as many as 34 countries among which the United States and Canada.  This year debuted in the colors of blue and light blue with the beautiful Greek face that inhabits the A in the logo, adoring the colonial history of the city that hosted it. FACE is "A dream come true", as Fine Art Connoisseur ...

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Rythmical Brushtrokes: Figurative Art Movement in Florida.

A great evening organized by MIFA - Miami International Fine Arts - to celebrate the opening of the exhibition: Rhythmic Brush, the figurative artistic movement in Florida, on display until January 25th, 2020. The MIFA exhibition, is the celebration of contemporary realism in all its artistic forms from portrait to still-life, from still life to landscape, from sculpture to ceramics to photography, which highlight a multiplicity of applied artistic techniques: charcoal, ...

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