PAINTERS

GAETANO CAPONE 1/2 – He is the son of a painter. Along his career, he was the greatest exponent of an artistic movement, the one where the painters were nicknamed “Painters of Maiori.” He was the founder of an artistic experience that has grown on the Amalfi coast. In his works, the landscape it has become one load concerns and …

KENT WILLIAMS 1/2 – He was born in North Carolina, attended the Pratt Institute in New York and graduated in 1984. He, illustrator and graphic novel artist, has realized his work through various other artistic channels. Boldly articulated figures are often obscured or surrounded by abstracted, neo-expressionistic environments. His work is characterized by strong, gestural forms combined with areas of …

JACEK YERKA 1/2 – Jacek Yerka is a Polish surrealist painter that was born into an artistic family. What he paints not only speaks to the curiosity of our eyes, but calls for emotional responses, from the bottom of each viewer. As a child, he loved to draw and make sculptures, creating and exploring his own world, which resulted in …

HERMAN WAHLBERG 1/2 – He was born in Stockholm, one day in February of 1834. His father also was a painter. After receiving preparatory education at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, he moved to Düsseldorf, to train to paint. He returned to Stockholm, then moved to Paris, where his art collecting critical acclaim. HERMAN WAHLBERG 2/2 – He started …

ANTONIO DONGHI 1/4 – Magical realism, is a term that is used both to indicate, in the visual arts, a pictorial trend of the first half of the twentieth century, one that identifies a vision clearly stunned the real. This definition was used for the first time by an art critic, to describe a reality characterized by a meticulous rendering …