Eric Zener born in 1968 in Astoria, Oregon is a self-taught figurative artist. As of 2004 he had created more than 600 pieces of work. His paintings, mostly in oil, are in a photorealist or super-realist style Zener describes as Contemporary Renaissance. Zener became interested in watching bathers, and began a series of paintings of water, and of people interacting with water. Many paintings from this period depict women swimming underwater amidst air bubbles, or diving into the water. Eric Zener
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Eric Zener born in 1968 in Astoria, Oregon is a self-taught figurative artist. As of 2004 he had created more than 600 pieces of work. His paintings, mostly in oil, are in a photorealist or super-realist style Zener describes as Contemporary Renaissance. Zener became interested in watching bathers, and began a series of paintings of water, and of people interacting with water. Many paintings from this period depict women swimming underwater amidst air bubbles, or diving into the water.
Francis Bacon 28 October 1909 was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, graphic and emotionally raw imagery. Bacon's painterly but abstracted figures typically appear isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds. He began painting during his early 20s and worked only sporadically until his mid-30s. From the mid-1960s, Bacon mainly produced portrait heads of friends. He often said in interviews that he saw images "in series", and his artistic output often saw him focus on single themes for sustained periods – including his crucifixion, Papal heads and later single and triptych heads series.
Francis Bacon
PicassoPablo Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso (25th October 1881 was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.
Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects. Klimt's primary subject was the female body; his works are marked by a frank eroticism.
Jason deCaires TaylorBorn in 1974 to an English father and Guyanese mother, With over 17 years diving experience under his belt, Taylor is an award winning underwater photographer, famous for his dramatic images, which capture the metamorphosing effects of the ocean on his evolving sculptures. He grew up in Europe and Asia, where he spent much of his early childhood exploring the coral reefs of Malaysia.
