Painting By Pierre Farel 1957(32 PICS)

Farel was born in Orange in the south of France. Former student at the Avignon School of "Beaux Arts", he now lives and works in the Mediterranean Island of Corsica. To date, he has created 1600 oil paintings, 180 watercolours and oil on paper, 16 lithographs, 1 Art book with 158 pages, 2 jewellery collections, 2 jazz CD covers, 1 Corsican CD « Distinu », a bronze sculpture, a wine label, the covers of 4 novels, illustrations for poems and 35 reproductions of his oil paintings have been edited by Braun editions.He has exhibited on numerous occasions in Paris, London, Marseilles, Lyons, Saint Paul de Vence, Avignon, Cassis, Annecy, Draguignan, Chartres, Bordeaux, Nancy, in Corsica and on the French Riviera as well as in the international cities of New-York, Miami, Barcelona, Brussels, Berlin, Lausanne, Hamburg, Beijing, Hong-Kong and Shanghai.

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Painting By Pedro Álvarez Castelló(11 PICS)

Pedro Reinaldo Álvarez Castelló (1967-2004) was a Cuban painter who rose to prominence during Cuba's Special Period. Alvarez was a native of Havana, Cuba. He studied art at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" from 1980-1985 and the Instituto Superior Pedagogico Enrique Jose Varona from 1986-1991. He was a member of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. He married a Cuban woman and had a child. When he wasn't travelling to promote his work, he divided his time between Malaga, Spain and Havana.

Álvarez works sizzle with the heat of the dramatic dances he depicts. An artist whose work largely focuses on dance themes, such as the tango, he was originally employed in electrical circuitry until his all-consuming passion for dancing compelled him to express it in painting. A prolific artist, Álvarez worked at a blazing pace, expressed in swift, sweeping brushstrokes, which has become more leisurely following a move to rural Spain two years ago.

According to John Becker, the attorney designated by Arizona State University to help distribute Álvarez's work after his death, Álvarez and his wife later divorced, then they each married Spanish spouses with the intention of eventually divorcing their new spouses and remarrying each other. On February 12, 2004, Álvarez died after jumping out of the fifth-floor window of a hotel in Tempe, Arizona just five days after the beginning of a major solo exhibition of his work, "Landscape in the Fireplace", at the Arizona State University Art Museum. Police found no evidence of drug or alcohol use. He didn't leave a suicide note, and his death was a shock to people who had spoken with him just hours before.