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Russian artist Viktor Karlovich Stemberg

Russian portrait painter, master of nudity, Victor Karlovich Stemberg (1863-1921) was born in Moscow into a family of Russified Germans.
From 1881 to 1883, was a free student at the Imperial Academy of arts.
From 1884 to 1885, he attended the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture, and from 1885, 1887 - at the Academy of Juliane, where his teachers were famous French artists William Adolphe Bouguereau and Antoine Robert-Fleury.
In the early 1890s, the artist settled in Moscow and began teaching in a private school of drawing.
In 1917 he moved to Petrograd, and in 1920 - in Nakhichevan.

Portrait Of Sophia Mikhailovna The Great (1907). Hermitage Museum

Bruno Bruni (G. R. 1935)

Francesco Hayez (1791-1882)

Henri Hayden (1883-1970)

Édouard Pignon (1905-1993)

Watercolor still lifes
Shirley Of Trevena

http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?&id=HN.608...d=1.9&rs=0&p=0 Shirley of Trevena (Shirley Trevena) was born in London. Her mother and grandmother were dancers and singers, and his father worked on the creation of fantastic films for television. Shirley admits that paints the big screen most directly influenced the bright colors of her songs when she began to draw. The fact that the artist she was not immediately and almost by accident. Shirley worked in the municipal bodies. But one day she got a box of watercolor paints. Shirley just "disappeared", to find that the painting is what she had to do in my life from the very beginning.

http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?&id=HN.607...d=1.9&rs=0&p=0 She enjoys working in watercolor mixed media. Her passion - still life, still she paints abstract landscapes.
[U]the Artist priznaetsa@ "me painting relationship kind of love-hate. I'd rather do something else than to start painting: clean oven, make lists, or even stroke. But as soon as I get into the Studio and make the first brush strokes on white paper, then immersed in a world of my own feelings, not paying attention to anything except colors and shapes.
I believe that creativity is hard to start, but even harder to get away from him. As well as painting, I love to play piano, watch TV and knit. I always tried to break the rules of traditional watercolors and chetverg century has developed a free manner of painting using dynamic color picker".

The artist has established itself internationally and is considered one of the most innovative watercolorists England. Has a whole Arsenal of awards and prizes, regularly exhibited in prestigious galleries.

Shirley of Trevena is the author of three popular books-books on watercolor painting.

Ernst Fuchs (G. R. 1930)

Misha Brewers (G. R. 1971)

Peter Doig (G. R. 1959)

Boris A. Semenov (G. R. 1939)