Snehal Page is an artist from Maharashtra, India. She acquired diplomas in Applied Art and Art Education at Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya in Pune, India, and also studied for three years at Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia, here in the U.S. (see my recent profile of Studio Incamminati founder and Artistic Director Nelson Shanks).

Page’s website has galleries of her work in landscape, still life, portrait and figurative subjects. In all of them she has a direct, painterly style, but also experiments with different approaches. Some of the experimentation is likely from her studies.

Among her portraits are a portrait of Studio Incamminati instructor Stephen Early (above, third down, right), a self portrait (third down, left) and the painting “Voluntary Simplicity” (above, top) which was awarded certificate of excellence in the International Portrait Conference of the Portrait Society of America.

Her landscapes, in oil and watercolor, appear to be primarily of India, with depictions of both dramatic architecture and commonplace scenes.

[Via FineArtViews]

Though it's acceptance among critics and collectors was slow, the influence of the revolution of French Impressionism on other artists, and the spread of that impact to other countries in Europe and elsewhere was dramatic.

In Slovenia, several artists picked up on the bright broken color, lively impasto application of paint and freedom from academic restraints that characterized the new direction in painting. Notable among the was Ivan Grohar.

Grohar was orphaned at an early age and left in poverty, and though his abilities eventually enabled him to study art, his life and career were marked by difficulty. He gained the respect of his fellow artists, however and left a legacy of noteworthy paintings after his untimely death from terberculosis oin his mid forties.

He started his career as a painter of religious subjects, moved into a form of realism and then into his later style that showed the influence of Imprssionism.

He is known particularly for images like “The Sower” (image above, top).

There is an Ivan Grohar Gallery at the Loski Museum in Ljubljana.