Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter, architect, inventor, and student of all things scientific. His natural genius crossed so many disciplines that he epitomized the term “Renaissance man.” Today he remains best known for his art, including two paintings that remain among the world’s most famous and admired, Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through”      – Jackson Pollock

Picasso was exceptionally prolific throughout his long lifetime. The total number of artworks he produced has been estimated at 50,000, comprising 1,885 paintings; 1,228 sculptures; 2,880 ceramics, roughly 12,000 drawings, many thousands of prints, and numerous tapestries and rugs.^[67]

The medium in which Picasso made his most important contribution was painting.^[68] In his paintings, Picasso used color as an expressive element, but relied on drawing rather than subtleties of color to create form and space.^[68] He sometimes added sand to his paint to vary its texture. A nanoprobe of Picasso’s The Red Armchair (1931) by physicists at Argonne National Laboratory in 2012 confirmed art historians’ belief that Picasso used common house paint in many of his paintings.^[69] Much of his painting was done at night by artificial light.

I started drawing and painting at a very young age. After graduating from college with a BA in Fine Art, I continued my art studies in NYC at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Art. I’ve taken plein air workshops in France, Cape Cod, Massachussets and Laguna Beach, California. I spent many years as a courtroom artist covering famous trials for major television networks. Even during my years of being a courtroom artist I was always working with speed to try to capture a moment in time. Today I continue with this challenge outdoors. Light is fleeting, nature is ever changing and weather can be unforgiving. Working outdoors in NYC presents a unique set of challenges for a plein air painter. There are always people around- both interesting and interested. It’s important to remain focused. This vibrant city provides a never ending supply of exciting subject matter to paint.

From the day she was able to grasp a pencil, Dona has had a love for art. After graduating from California State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Art, Gelsinger’s first major commission was to paint the Stations of the Cross for St. Denis Church in Diamond Bar, Calif. This project, the creation of 14 near life-size paintings, consumed her artistic energies for nearly two years and won her widespread acclaim.
Early in the 1990s, Dona worked with Thomas Kinkade publisher, Lightpost Publishing to expose her artwork to the retail community. As demand for Dona’s artwork began to grow our family decided it was time to form our own business and pour all of our efforts into promoting the Dona Gelsinger brand. In 1994, Brian and Dona founded Little Angel Publishing and began offering Dona’s artwork on limited edition prints.

Just twelve years he exhibited two of his works in the annual Bourbon Show, where in 1833 he won the silver medal for the painting class II Square Vicar, then bought by Queen Isabella of Bourbon, then two years later he won the medal The silver class.
It soon became famous in the Neapolitan art, thanks to the favor of powerful families of the time, as Goerace Meuricoffre and, in addition to his ties of friendship with the Earl of Montesantangelo.

David Moore, Australia’s most renowned and widely travelled photo journalist, died aged 75 on 23 January 2003, two days before the opening of his retrospective at the National Gallery of Australia. His extraordinary and meticulously catalogued archive covers both his homeland and the many countries and subjects he has visited over a sixty year career.