George Gross

George Gross (1909-2003) was a great pulp magazine cover artist. His first pulp cover assignments were for Mystery Novels Magazine and Double Action Western, which were both Winford Publications. George Gross next found work at Fiction House, where he soon became their top illustrator. He painted hundreds of freelance pulp covers for Action Stories, Air Stories, Baseball Stories, Complete Northwest, Detective Book Magazine, Fight Stories, Football Stories, Jungle Stories, North West Romances, and Wings.

Two Pieces of Leonardo

One of the most provocative works of Leonardo da Vinci "Angel Incarnate" will be exhibited at the Cantonal Art Museum in Lugano at January 2012. "Angel Incarnate", made ​​in early 1500 with a charcoal or pastel, is the figure of the androgyne, the perfect result of mixing of the masculine and feminine.



There is similar work of Léonard de Vinci in Musée du Louvre. We can compare these 2 pieces. As we can see it's the same model on both pieces but the second one's title is 'Saint Jean-Baptiste'

Gil Elvgren

Gil Elvgren is wide known American painter of pin-up girls, advertising and illustration. He was one of the most popular pin-up and glamour artists of the twentieth century.

I guess everyone loves vintage Pin-ups, as an art style, it's somthing like idealized versions of the way of how beautiful or attractive woman should look like. Someone said that Pin-up art is not only an image of a person sufficiently attractive that a viewer would pin it to a wall, but the part of art we have enjoyed frequently and that's wonderful. Just look at this fabulous woman painted by Gil Elvgren.

Here is the site of artist - http://www.gilelvgren.com/GE/paintings.php?categoryID=1
It's real enjoyment.

Jules-Abel Faivre

Jules-Abel Faivre - French painter, caricaturist, illustrator, lithographer, 1867-194.

She Walks In Beauty - Lord Byron

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.


One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.


And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

Giovanni Boldini

I love paintigs of Giovanni Boldini very much and would like you open the art of this genius artist for yourself. Giovanni Boldini (December 31, 1842 - July 11, 1931) was an Italian genre and portrait painter, belonging to the Parisian school. According to a 1933 article in Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style of painting.



Boldini was born in Ferrara, the son of a painter of religious subjects, and went to Florence in 1862 to study painting, meeting there the realist painters known as the Macchiaioli. Their influence is seen in Boldini's landscapes which show his spontaneous response to nature, although it is for his portraits that he became best known.



He attained great success in London as a portraitist. From 1872 Boldini lived in Paris, where he became a friend of Edgar Degas. He also became the most fashionable portrait painter in Paris in the late 19th century, with a dashing style of painting which shows some Impressionist influence but which most closely resembles the work of his contemporaries John Singer Sargent and Paul Helleu.



He was nominated commissioner of the Italian section of the Paris Exposition in 1889, and received the Legion d'honneur for this appointment. He died in Paris in 1931. (From Wikipedia)

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, one of the most famous Irish born English artist of 20th century was was born October 28, 1909, in Dublin. At the age of 16, he moved to London and subsequently lived for about two years in Berlin and Paris.

It's well known that Francis Bacon was a homosexual artist that sometimes depicted male lovers making love and this Two Figures Painting reflects that as well.



"The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure; it’s a little like making love, the physical act of love."
Francis Bacon



"Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. "
Francis Bacon




Bacon's dramatic and riveting work gained international recognition and acclaim. He did not belong to any art movement, but developed his own style. "Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid", he said.The artist died April 28, 1992, in Madrid.