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Clive Madgwick is an English painter known for his realistic English countryside scenery paintings, which depict trout fishermen, farmers working in the fields, and sleepy port towns. He was born in Surrey, England in 1934, studied dentistry at Gay Hospital, and took painting as a hobby until he became a professional in middle age.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Madgwick traveled to Italy, where he painted the landscapes and architecture of Venice and Florence. He was a member of the Royal Society of British Painters and often exhibited in his hometown, England, until his death in Suffolk, England in 2005. McGwick’s oil paintings are in the collection of Queen Elizabeth II of Windsor Castle.

Korovin is Russia's leading impressionist painter, and his name is closely related to Russian Impressionism. This art genre was born in France and was widely spread throughout Europe in the last 25 years of the 19th century.

Korovin was born in a merchant family as "peasants of Vladimir Siberian" in Moscow. His father Aleksey Mikhailovich Korovin received a university degree and inherited the family business established by Korovin's grandfather. Korovin's older brother, Sergeor Korovin, is a notable realist painter.

In 1875, Korovin entered the Moscow Academy of Architecture and Art to study painting, and studied with Vasily Perov and Alexei Safrasov. At that time, his brother Sergey was already a student in this school. When Korovin was a student, he became friends with classmates Valentin Serov and Isaac Levitan, and maintained their friendship throughout their lives.

In 1885, Korovin went to Paris and Spain. "Paris was shocking to me...Impressionists...with them, I learned everything that I could not learn in Moscow," he later wrote.

Light and color became the "protagonists" of Impressionist paintings, represented by Monet, Sisley, Van Gogh, Renoir and others.

During World War I, Korovin served as a disguise consultant in the Russian army. Prior to this, he had been working in theaters in 1900, having served as stage manager at the Bolshoi Theater, Mariinsky Theater, and Milan La Scala.

He has traveled to the Caucasus, Ukraine, Spain and France. Paris has always been a very special place, which has had a profound influence on Korovin's artistic creation. On September 11, 1939, Korovin died in Paris, France.

This work is in sharp contrast to the gloomy landscape created by the dark Northern Expedition of Norway and Russia in the beginning of this century. It is the white lady sitting in the garden, which is the color and light of his mature works. Since 1915, when the work was painted, he rejected his more monotonous palette and adopted a bolder spectrum. He felt that only such creation could express "the breath of nature".

Korovin further experimented with the interaction between color and light of a white lady sitting in a garden. The central figure dressed in white lights up the composition and inspires the apple green hue on the surrounding trees and lawns. The white on the tablecloth and the contrast texture in the leaves of the trees cleverly use to further enhance the effect. These abbreviations can also be seen in Corwin's "terrace" in 1916, in which Corwin used similar elements to create the brilliance of natural sunlight.

Impressionist painters often work outdoors. Therefore, their works are full of unprecedented freshness and pure colors. These paintings reflect a reflection on self-consciousness and ordinary life. This randomness does not follow the general rules of composition. "Portrait of a Choir Girl" (1883) is considered to be the earliest Russian impressionist work.

Paul Henry, a post-Impressionist painter, is good at landscape painting. The world he paints is always clean and beautiful. The blue sky is full of white clouds and people are leisurely doing farm work. His painting makes people want to live in the picture, feel the beauty every day.

Paul Henry R.H.A. (1876-1958), one of the most influential and well-known landscape artists in the 20th century in Ireland, was born in Belfast, Ireland and studied at the Belfast Academy of Art. In 1898, he went to study at the Julian Academy in Paris and was influenced by Jean Francois Millet's rural realism.

Later, he moved to Academie Carmen, opened by James Abbott McNeill Whistler. In Paris, he met his first wife, grace, and married in 1903. Henry worked in London until 1910, when he had been painting for books and magazines. In 1912, Henry moved to Achill Island, where the local scenery became the main theme of his paintings.

In 1920, Henry moved to Dublin and established the Dublin Painters Association with his wife, Jack B. Yeats and Mary Swanzy and other painters. In 1929, he separated from his wife. He stayed in Dublin for twelve years, frequently traveling back to western Ireland, and then moved to Wicklow with his second wife, artist Mabel Young, who married in 1954.

Paul Henry is widely regarded as the most important landscape painter in Ireland. His works can be found in the National Gallery of Ireland, Hugh Lane Gallery, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ulster Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris.

Jacques Volpi is a very famous painter from the south of France. He was born in Ales, Gare in 1948. He has painted in Cévenole and Provencal and has won many awards and medals. He uses the technique of the "knife" to paint, the subject is vivid characters, and the colors are lively. He is famous for the characters in the rain of noon of France in his works. He exposes internationally and his works are part of prestigious collections around the world.

Morgan Weistling, born in 1964, is recognized as one of the top contemporary painters in the United States. His father is an artist. He was influenced by his father and grew up in an artistic family.

His works are ubiquitous in pursuit of the discovery of beauty. Whether it is oil painting or sketching, character or natural painting, they are all refined, rigorous, soft and illusory, giving people a refreshing and elegant enjoyment of beauty. Using the pen boldly, the shape and color are well combined, the color is rich and transparent, his paintings are expressive and appealing, and very penetrating in the details.

As a successful illustrator in the Hollywood film industry for 14 years, Morgan made a change to the art world in 1998. In a small sense, the change was rapid. His earliest influence came from his father. When he was 19 months old, Morgan sketched on his father's lap. At the age of 15, he began professional art training at the Brandes art Institute in Los Angeles.

At the age of 19, Morgan graduated from art school and was hired by Bacon Reneric Design, Hollywood's top advertising company. For 14 years, he worked with every major studio in the entertainment industry to make movie posters. Morgan thrived in the challenges faced by the highly stressed poster industry, but he was also looking forward to greater development in art.

After leaving the illustration, Morgan quickly became famous throughout the country for his superb oil paintings. These oil paintings show his time-honed painting ability and his masterful control of value, edges and light. He can use his years of illustrator experience to create superb works with multiple characters and single character settings. In most cases, his works are works of the times, evoking a more gentle and elegant era. He grasped the mood and atmosphere of the past, and his attention to the historical aspects of the subject matter came from his depiction of the truth, goodness and beauty of American pioneering spirit.

His canvas is full of stories that transcend themes. Like a skilled film director, he manipulates the focus of interest through suggestions and impressions of almost impossible forms, allowing the audience's imagination to fill in the details. Morgan added: "There is a story behind my painting. I didn't hide the process of how I painted it. You can see these layers and count the strokes to get there.

Although collectors' demand for his original paintings has soared, few paintings have left his studio. Morgan admitted that I am not the most prolific painter in the world! I decided early on that unless I feel good, I would not take a painting out of the studio. Sometimes this means living with a painting for several months to get a good understanding of what is useful and what is not.

I think that as artists, we will turn a blind eye to our own mistakes. That's why I rely on my wife JoAnn and other artist friends to comment on each work before I send it out. I think it is very valuable for an artist to have people around him willing to give him an honest opinion.

Morgan's paintings have won multiple awards and are in the permanent collections of major museums. He is still the youngest recipient of the Oklahoma City National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. He also won the award for the second time in 2008.

When it comes to oil painting, some people's first reaction is expensive! Why is oil painting so expensive? How much time and energy does a painter spend on drawing a sketch painting? You'll see from below.

1. The beauty of color in oil painting

To appreciate oil paintings, you must appreciate the colors. The oil paintings before Impressionism mostly accepted realistic painting methods, detailed descriptions, and rigorous and meticulous look from far and near, but lost a lot of space, atmosphere and subtle color feelings. Countless color masters devoted themselves to the study of color science so that oil painting could have irreplaceable color beauty.

In order to complete a painting, many painters go to far away to sketch, go deep into nature, and feel the beauty of nature firsthand. It takes a lot of effort in the process. Do you know how much it costs to complete a painting?

2. Ever-changing brushstrokes
If we only want to record the beauty of nature, why do we still need to draw oil paintings with cameras?

Obviously, we need unique beauty. The unique brushstrokes are like the unique DNA of the artist, making their work unique. We can easily distinguish Van Gogh, Monet, and Seurat through brushstrokes. Either meticulous or bold, the flexibility and rhythm in the brushstrokes make the still picture of oil painting have infinite language.

Painting oil painting is time-consuming and labor-intensive. But it is time and effort that makes oil painting thick and formal. An oil painting may take several months or a year, several years or even more. In the process of painting, the painter needs to invest his emotions all the time. The resulting painting seems to tell his mood at the time. They painstakingly study and paint over and over again, and they not only paint for the sake of painting, but more importantly, they give the painting soul and make it "live".

3. The art of light and shadow is fascinating
In the same landscape, the painter distinguishes morning and evening with hues. Some oil paintings are not realistic, but the unique light and shadow can always move people.

4. The scene of oil painting is beautiful
Why do painters like to go to places with beautiful scenery to sketch from life? There are not only beautiful scenery in the oil painting, but also the author's own feelings. The painter does not copy the scenery mechanically, but also originates from life, higher than life, casting beauty with his years of precipitation!

The superb skills and profound knowledge gained through many years of time, money and energy. The artist would rather save money for meals or other pockets to buy books and painting materials. With hard-earned money to buy knowledge, we should understand and support it.

5. Oil painting is the carrier of art history
When mentioning culture, what comes to your mind? Classical oil paintings of the Renaissance? The masterpieces of Impressionism? Or the classic works of contemporary painters? Oil painting is a very important carrier in the history of art. An oil painting is also a cultural integration of its time.

This is why an oil painting is very expensive, but there are still countless people who like to buy and collect it. Appreciation of oil painting can bring us spiritual comfort and unlimited enjoyment of beauty.

Juan Miro is a 20th-century surrealist painter who is as famous as Picasso and Dali. He is also an artist with the most children's perspective. He likes to draw random lines and shapes on brightly colored backgrounds. Although the characters, scenery, and animals in the paintings are abstract, they are vivid and full of childishness.

Harlequin's Carnival, Joan Miro,1925

Juan Miro was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1893. He entered the Barcelona School of Fine Arts at the age of 14. He was regarded as "a rare foolishness" by the teachers because of his introversion and reluctance.

At the age of 17, Miro became a business clerk. Because of depression and overwork all day long, he broke down in less than a year, so his parents had to send him to the countryside for recuperation. After recovering from his illness, Miro chose to stick to his dream and enter another art school in Barcelona.

In 1919, Miro left his hometown and came to Paris, the art capital of the world. During this period, Paris was full of famous artists, art galleries and museum treasures. But no one cares about Miro's paintings. He starves almost every day in Paris. Fortunately, thanks to the blessing of fortune, he met many friends in the art circle, especially Picasso from his motherland. Picasso bought a self-portrait of him and kept it forever.

In 1925, Miro participated in the first surrealist exhibition held at the Pierre Art Museum and completed the first truly "surrealist painting-"Harlequin's Carnival". Since then, his works have been called dream paintings.

Self-portrait

Since 1930, Miro's works have been regularly displayed in New York and other cities. As a leader of surrealism, he has a great influence in the painting world, and his reputation is second only to Picasso.

There is no specific image in Miro's works, just like children's graffiti, full of childishness. He uses various colors to paint color blocks. In his paintings, whether it's people, scenery or animals, although they are abstract and lively, they seem relaxed and free, but even abstract paintings do not prevent us from using our brains to imagine and restore according to our life experience.

Blue II, Joan Miro, 1961

Dmitri Danish, a Ukrainian painter, was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1966. He was a born artist from the beginning, holding his first pencil when he first learned to walk but could not speak. His mother was also an artist and the first to discover Dmitry's talent.

She saw her child express his thoughts, feelings and desires through his creation, so she began to communicate with her son through colors and shapes. For Danes, painting is as natural as breathing, eating or sleeping. By the age of 5, Dmitri began to take his first professional painting course; he was able to paint high-quality landscape, portraits, still life and abstract paintings. At the age of 13, he was admitted to a gifted children's art school in Kharkiv. At the age of 15, he entered the Kharkiv State Academy of Arts.

Dmitri's favorite genre is the urban landscape. He drew the cities he read in books, the cities he heard on the radio or in people's conversations, and the cities he saw on stamps. He created new countries in his mind and painted their cities, streets, canals, doors and windows. Dmitri likes painting doors and windows most because of their symbolic appeal. They let him see and enter the unknown world, which he can't do in reality. His imagination can take him to the unusual and magical world he saw in his dreams.

In college, Dmitri was fascinated by the city of Kharkiv, where he was born and grew up. He painted all kinds of buildings, wooden houses and walls, small cafes under huge old trees, and doors and windows of his southern city. His paintings depict Kharkiv as a warm and comfortable place to live.

Sketch, a classic between white and black. A good sketch is not just a sketch, it is a work of art!

The origin of sketch generally begins with the Renaissance. In fact, Greek vase painting and sculpture have a good sketch foundation. In the early stage, sketch was regarded as the draft of painting. For example, to make murals, we should first have the draft of conception, then the draft of sketch, and at the same time, we should also have the precise sketch of hands and faces. It's a habit not to look at the model's sketching in mural painting, but to rely on the preparation in advance and the memory of the painter. Modern sketch has been separated from the original status of manuscript and composition, and can be appreciated as a work of art. The attitude of drawing sketch not only cultivates the ability of description, but also cultivates the ability of modeling. Finally, only sketching can be regarded as a work to appreciate. On the contrary, you can know the author's accomplishments in sketching only by looking at the oil paintings. Therefore, sketching is not only the basis of painting, but also the skeleton of painting. People who are new to painting must learn to sketch first. Strictly speaking, sketches consist of only monochrome black and white, but if you add light paints or colors, they can still be regarded as sketches.

Writers express themselves in the form of abstract ideas. But the painter uses sketch and color to embody his feeling and perception. --Cezanne

I want to draw touching sketches. What I want to express through characters or landscapes is not sentimental melancholy, but sincere sadness. --Van Gogh

The arrival of the Winter Solstice Festival signifies the official beginning of the severe cold weather, entering the coldest days of the year. At all times and all over the world, artists have painted a large number of winter ice and snow-themed works. Today, 16 famous paintings of Chinese and foreign painting masters are selected for readers.

"The Unknown Woman" by the Russian painter Ivan Kramskoi is collected in Moscow's Trechakov Art Museum. This is a portrait of a character with great aesthetic value. The artist expresses the spiritual temperament of the subject with superb skills. The unknown woman in the painting is arrogant and self-respecting. She is dressed in luxurious Russian upper-class costumes and sits on a sumptuous cabriolet. The background is the famous Alexander Theater in St. Petersburg. Who is the "unknown woman" is still a mystery. The painter created a new style of expression in the portrait painting, that is, depicting portraits with thematic plots, showing a resolute, decisive, thoughtful, and youthful Russian intellectual female image.

"The Hunters in the Snow" was created by Peter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569). In a snowy scene wrapped in silver, dark black trees stand on the left side of the picture, and they form a vertical line with the edge of the painting. The trees follow the direction of the hunter's advancement, and follow the "shortening method" of perspective. Guided by the vision, the viewer walked to the ice in the valley, and the villagers frolicking on it. A black magpie flying over their heads just connects the nearby trees with the mountain in the future. The viewer will be immersed in this world of ice and snow and will never forget to return.

"Napoleon Crossing the Alps" was ordered by King Charles IV of Spain from David. David arranges the character in the picture on the snow-covered steep slopes of the Saint Bernard Pass. The gloomy sky and the dangerous terrain strengthen the heroism of the work, and the red cloak makes the picture brilliant and exciting. During the Second Anti-French Alliance War from 1799 to 1802, Napoleon led an army of 40,000 to climb the steep Alps and take a short cut across the Saint Bernard Pass to enter Italy in order to gain time.

This painting was created by British romantic master William Turner. The steamboat sailing on the rough sea, the storm and fog that filled the sea, formed a whirlpool in the sky...The blizzard seemed to destroy the ship. This painting that seems to involve the viewer is the masterpiece "Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth" completed by Turner, risking his life. The work is restless and novel, and the name it takes adds another layer of meaning to the mystery in the painting, which has been a mystery to his early audience. His public statement depicts what can actually be observed: a steamboat, in potential danger, trapped in a vortex of wind, waves and snow. The white light shining behind the mast came from a flash of light, which was an alarm to others that the ship was in trouble. The big wave surging on the left is frightening. It surpasses the horizon and breaks any possible sense of security. Nevertheless, the title of this painting still implies that security is coming.

"The Last Tavern at the City Gates" by Vasily Perov, the mainstay of the Peredvizhniki, is a masterpiece of Russian art. In the dim light of a cold winter night, the window of the tavern shines turbid light, where the farmers squander the meager income of the day. In a gust of wind, a poor figure wrapped in a turban, shivering on the sled. This is a female farmer waiting for her foster family to drink and have fun. The dark colors and brown tones are like sad chords, and through expressive brush strokes, the feeling of sadness and despair is enhanced. In the mature works of the painter Perov, the theme of deep pity for those who sacrificed as a cruel and unfair society becomes very obvious.

Vasily Perov's "Troika" is one of the masterpieces on the subject of children. The painter's delicate brushwork with care and love depicts the scene of three children struggling to transport water in the cold winter. The painter emphasized the extreme fatigue and sleepiness of children, which aroused people's sympathy and love for poor children.

This painting is an illustration by Ivan Shishkin for Lermontov's poem "Northland in the Wilderness". The land is covered with snow and ice, and under the night, it looks deeper and wider. On the snow-covered rock, a small pine tree is wrapped in silver clothes, like a glamorous beauty, standing proudly. The whole picture is full of rich poetry. In fact, Shishkin's landscape paintings have always contained a poetic mood. "In the Wild North" is based on the light and shadow characteristics of moonlight, and the composition is simple, neat and magnificent to highlight its poetic mood. This is an immortal masterpiece in the history of Russian landscape painting.

Impressionist Monet's "The Magpie" was completed in 1869. It is the first snow scene painting and the largest winter painting created by Monet. It depicts a lonely black magpie perching on a fence, the sun shining on the blue shadow of fresh snow. This painting is the first example of Monet's use of colored shadows, and later became one of the characteristics of impressionist works. The painting was held privately until the Orsay Museum acquired it in 1984, and it is considered one of the most popular works in its permanent collection.

"Boulevard Montmartre, morning, cloudy weather" is the representative oil painting of the French impressionist Camille Pissarro in his later years. The pictures on both sides of the street are full of scenes, crowds are flowing, and there are many cars and horses. Because of the wide angle of view, the buildings are lined, the cars, horses and crowds are very small, it can only be drawn with thick brushes based on feeling, but it is very vivid, and the perspective is accurate. Moving in the painting, it depicts the busy and lively scenes of modern cities. It foreshadows the scene that futuristic painters in the 20th century are keen to depict-the rapid movement rhythm of modern cities.

In this painting, the composition is magnificent, the street scene is solemn and grand; the colors are rich and soft, in the contrast of cold and warm colors, full of the transition of midtones, forming a detailed and varied gray tone, but it is very bright. It shows the full light, the brushstrokes are even without losing the lively changes, the roughness and the meticulousness are integrated, showing the unique artistic style of Pissarro.

Snow on Pines at the Western Peak by Hong Ren (Qing Dynasty)

The picture is a partial close-up of the majestic mountain peaks, with outlines as the main theme. The snow scene "borrowed to be white" is painted slightly, with the rocks on the sunny side being left blank, the shaded side with ink, and the trees with thicker ink. The composition is complex, the brushwork is pure and healthy, and the artistic conception is ancient. The painting deliberately depicts pine trees and white snow that symbolize nobility and purity. The image is concise. It is the shadow of the author's highly purified spirit, giving people a majestic, quiet, holy, and spotless beauty.