Piotr Topolski was born in 1960 in Kielce. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He specializes in painting oil portraits. The artist creatively draws upon the traditional painting style of the Old Masters.
Realism | Contemporary art
Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative fiction and supernatural elements. Realism rejects imaginative idealization in favour of a close observation of outward appearances. Think of realistic portraits, landscapes, and still life paintings. These are all forms of realism which aim to capture the subject in a realistic style, and possibly to portray the subject in a way that captures the realities of life.
Daria Kropacheva was born in 1989, in the city of Bender, Moldova. ” I graduated from the Bender Art College 2008. After, I moved to the capital of Moldova and graduated from the Academy of Art for easel painting in 2012. I enrolled in the magistracy and graduated in 2015 with honours.
Jeremy Winborg is best known for his figurative work of Native American subjects that blend realism with abstract backgrounds. Winborg has had a passion for creating art since he was a child.
Francesco Capello was born in Chivasso (TO) on 11 February, 1944. After the maturità artistica ( Advanced Level or high school graduation, with specialization in Art), he became a pupil of Francesco Menzio and Enrico Paulucci at the Academy of Belles Arts in Turin, where he gained a diploma and was awarded the prize reserved for the best students.
Dmitriy Krestniy is an artist from Ukraine. He is an bold artist with a talent to create provocative and sensual photorealism images. Painstakingly focussing his attention to detail using pastels, oils and charcoal. His sensual style with the feminine form is often at the centre of his canvas.
Realist painter Victoria Novak began her artistic career as an interior designer in her native Russia, where she graduated from the Academy of Arts.
Anatoly Piatkevich was born in 1969 in a small town in the heart of Belarus, once a Republic of the former Soviet Union. The countryside has a mixture of serene forests, rivers, meadows and ruins of old castles and other remnants of his predecessors.
Montague Dawson (1895–1973) was a British painter who was renowned as a maritime artist. His most famous paintings depict sailing ships, usually clippers or warships of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Robert Hagan is an artist from Australia. “I was born in Murwillumbah, NSW Australia and spent my youth between Brunswick Heads and Chillingham in and about the beautiful Tweed Valley. I attended Murwillumbah High School and excelled at nothing very much other than football and the final exams which got me a scholarship to University. 4 years later I graduated with an Arts degree in Economics and a Diploma in Education.