https://www.overstockart.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/lana-bg.jpg Lana Frey is a modern artist who is originally from Belarus but now lives and works in Prague. She is self-taught in art, but has also studied design and décor. Her works have been shown in exhibits all around the world, including Japan and Poland. She has been an artist for longer than she can remember and finds her inspiration somewhere new every time she looks. Frey works in both oil paints and acrylic paints on canvas. She enjoys experimenting with new techniques and styles. She especially enjoys the challenge of comb ..read more

https://www.overstockart.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/102022.jpg On October 25th, we celebrate the birthday of Pablo Ruiz Picasso, a Spanish artist who was a great influence with 20th century art. Although he was born in Spain, he spent most of his career in France. He demonstrated natural talent early on and even without formal education, he studied many different art movements. During his career he made friends with a variety of other innovative artists and their influence can be seen in his changing technique. Picasso was an artist who was able to enjoy critical acclaim and success ..read more

https://www.overstockart.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Blog-3.jpg Olga Matyunina is a Russian artist who lives and works in Russia. She began to love art as a child, but didn’t consider herself a professional artist until 2019. The first piece of art she ever sold was one she originally painted for herself. Since then, she has shown her art in many online galleries and platforms. It can sometimes be difficult finding places that offer opportunities to artists inside of Russia, but she continues to find admirers of her work form around the world. She works primarily in watercolors and en ..read more

https://www.overstockart.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Blog-1.jpg Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish Painter who was born in 1908 and died in 1973. Picasso began to practice art at a very young age, but it wasn’t until he found inspiration in artists like Henri Matisse that he began to experiment with newer styles. He was both a painter and a sculptor, and he is most well-known for creating the cubist movement. Picasso transitioned his artwork through various different artistic period and was quite popular during his lifetime. He would later be considered one of the most influential artist ..read more

https://www.overstockart.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Blog-4.jpg Heloisa Castro is a Brazilian artist from Rio de Janeiro. She was born in a place known as “The Montmatre Carioca”. After going to school for journalism, she pursued visual and graphics art, as well as obtaining a postgraduate degree in marketing. Her art career began with traditional painting, but then turned towards digital art. Although many of her pieces resemble photography, she is able to use modern technology to create images that go far beyond anything found in the natural world around us. Castro is a great admire ..read more

https://www.overstockart.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/fridakahlo-diary-pages-01.jpg Frida Kahlo art journals reveal handwritten entries, letters, and colored-ink entries also full of doodles, sketches, and paintings. Over her lifetime, the artist contributed over 200 paintings to Surrealism, self-portraits, portraits of family and friends, and still, life works primarily. Kahlo proved to be very resilient as a person; though suffering from polio at age six and other accidents and illnesses, as a child, she participated in sports and loved to ride her bicycle. Of her siblings, she was he ..read more

https://www.overstockart.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/dali-dreams.jpg Artistic inspiration comes from a variety of sources: nature, people, other works of art, a piece of music and dreams.  Dreams, especially, are the diamonds mined from the unconscious. For the father of the Surrealist movement, Salvador Dali, dreams, visions and symbols supplied fantastical images for his work. Dali described his paintings as “hand-painted dream photographs.”  One of his favorite recurring images, bent and flowing watches, look as if they’re made of wax, melting away on a hot summer day in t ..read more

https://www.overstockart.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/franz-marc.jpg The beginning of October is usually when we celebrate Ocktoberfest, but due to COVID-19 most of those festivities have been canceled. That doesn’t mean that you can’t still celebrate German culture in your own home. One of the greatest German painters, Franz Marc, was an important part of the German Expressionism movement. His works were known for the use of bright colors and bold shapes. His eye-catching abstract designs are meant to evoke strong emotions from the audience, in keeping with the movement. Franz Marc wa ..read more

https://www.overstockart.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/blog-3.jpg April 22nd is the birthday of French painter Bertrand Jean Redon, or better know as, Odilon Redon. Born in 1840, he is considered one of the great symbolist artists of his time. He loved art as a child and drew often. He won a drawing prize at his school at the age of ten. Despit his talents, his father insisted he study architecture. After failing to pass the required exams, Redon pursued art in various forms. He fought in the Franco-Prussian war and when the war ended, moved to Paris. In the early 20th century, Redon was ..read more

https://www.overstockart.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/blog.jpg Born in the city of Kursk, in Russia, Sergey Kirillov is a painter, illustrator, and fashion designer. He began to draw at a young age and attended art school before starting his own women’s fashion line. Outside of his art, he also loves windsurfing and a good cup of coffee. A great deal of time is spent by the ocean, where he draws enjoyment and inspiration. Sergey Kirillov considers his art to be both realism and surrealism, attempting to bring to life what his mind imagines. He prefers to create positive images but also ..read more