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Theodor Severin Kittelsen (April 27, 1857 January 21, 1914) was a Norwegian artist. He is one of the most popular artists in Norway. Kittelsen became famous for his nature paintings, as well as for his illustrations of fairy tales and legends, especially of trolls. Kittelsen was born in the coastal town of Kragerø in Telemark county, Norway. His father died at an early age, leaving a wife and 8 children in straightened circumstances. Theodor was only 11 years old when he was apprenticed to a ...

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Victor Safonkin (born August 22, 1967 at Saransk) is a surrealist painter. Victor Safonkin's work is self-described as Eurosurrealism, or European classic surrealism & symbolism. His work is redolent of Salvador Dali. Victor's work has been highly acclaimed, and in 2005 he was invited to exhibit at the European Parliament in Brussels. The rock band Killing Joke used his Inhuman Rearing as an album cover in 2006. Viktor Safonkin is featured in the 2007 Venus and the Female Intuition ...

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Brigid Marlin (born January 16, 1936) is a fantasy and portrait artist living in England. She paints in the Mische Technique, a medieval method revived by Austrian artist Ernst Fuchs, with whom she studied in Vienna. Her fantasy work can be classified as Fantastic Realism, ie using figurative elements to represent visionary and psychic subjects, often with scriptural themes. She has painted portraits, inter alia, of the Dalai Lama, JG Ballard and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Her ...

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www.francisawilley.com www.youtube.com (This video can also be viewed at artist channel) Music:Francis Willey - The Parlour Kiss

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Jack Vettriano OBE born Jack Hoggan (born 17 November 1951), is a Scottish painter. Jack Vettriano grew up in the industrial seaside town of Methil, Fife. He left school at 16 and later became an apprentice mining engineer. Vettriano only took up painting as a hobby in the 1970s, when a schoolteacher friend bought him a set of watercolours for his 21st birthday.His earliest paintings, under the name "Jack Hoggan", were copies or pastiches of impressionist paintings his first painting was a ...

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Yoshitaka Amano (born July 28, 1952) is a Japanese artist known for his illustrations for Vampire Hunter D and for his character designs, image illustrations and title logo designs for the Final Fantasy video game series developed by Square Enix (formerly Square). Amano was born in Shizuoka, Japan; as a young adolescent, he was fascinated with drawing. In 1967, he began working for Tatsunoko Productions in the animation department, where he was introduced to the early Japanese anime movement ...

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Paul Gustave Doré (January 6, 1832 January 23, 1883) was a French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor. Doré worked primarily with wood engraving and steel engraving. Doré was born in Strasbourg and his first illustrated story was published at the age of fifteen. Doré began work as a literary illustrator in Paris. Doré commissions include works by Rabelais, Balzac, Milton and Dante. In 1853 Doré was asked to illustrate the works of Lord Byron. This commission was followed by additional ...

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Michael Parkes (born in 1944 in Sikeston, Missouri) is an American-born artist living in Spain who is best known for work in the areas of fantasy art and magic realism. He specializes in painting, stone lithography and sculpture. Parkes' work is widely available in the form of self published mass production poster prints and nine published books. Parkes studied graphic art and painting at the University of Kansas. As a student, Parkes was fascinated by various graphic processes, and he later ...

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John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 13 October 1893) was a Victorian-era artist, a "remarkable and imaginative painter" known for his city scenes and landscapes. He was born 6 September 1836 in Leeds. In 1856 he married his cousin Frances Hubbard (1835-1917). In 1861, at the age of 24, to the dismay of his parents, he departed from his first job as a clerk for the Great Northern Railway to pursue a career in art. He began exhibiting in 1862, under the patronage of the Leeds ...

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Vilhelm Hammershøi,often written in English Vilhelm Hammershoi (May 15, 1864 February 13, 1916), was a Danish painter. He is known for his poetic, low-key portraits and interiors.In 1997, Denmark issued a postage stamp in his honor. Vilhelm Hammershøi was born on May 15, 1864 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The son of a well-to-do merchant, Christian Hammershøi, and his wife, Frederikke (née Rentzmann), Hammershøi studied drawing from the age of eight with Niels Christian Kierkegaard and Holger ...

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