Michael Carson, 1972 | Expressionist painter

Michael Carson was born in Minneapolis, MN. He graduated from the Minneapolis Institute of Art and Design in 1996. Working as a graphic Artist, he painted his first painting three years after graduating from college.

He knew he had found his calling and in 2001, started painting full time.

Influenced by the paintings of Toulouse Lautrec, John Singer Sargent, Norman Rockwell, Malcolm Liepke, and Milt Kobayashi, Michael Carson is primarily a figurative Artist who likes to tell a story.

His figures usually find themselves in bars, nightclubs, cafes, and jazz clubs; even at home in intimate settings.

Daria Kropacheva, 1989 | Symbolist painter

Daria Kropacheva is an Moldovan Neo baroque and Symbolist painter who lives in a place called Chisinau in Moldova.

We were unable to find any more detail on Daria but perhaps there is little need - her art speaks loudly for itself - it sure is stunningly beautiful.

Her perfectly rendered characters dominate the canvas bursting with life, a sense of immortality and a subtle dark undercurrent of mystery.

George Tooker | Il pittore che catturò le ansie moderne

"Non penso di essere un creatore. Sento di essere un vaso passivo, un recettore o un traduttore... La cosa affascinante della pittura è la scoperta" - George Clair Tooker Jr. (pittore Statunitense. 1920-2011).

Tooker mescolava metodicamente i suoi colori a mano, usando acqua, tuorlo d'uovo e pigmento in polvere.

Ogni dipinto non è stato solo eseguito con cura, ma profondamente considerato intellettualmente.

La tempera è un metodo di pittura noioso e ad asciugatura rapida che è difficile da cambiare dopo essere stato applicato, e questo metodo deliberato si adattava alla disposizione ed alla teoria artistica di Tooker.

Gustav Klimt | L'astro del Secessionismo viennese

Sempre più in contrasto con i rigidi canoni accademici, nel 1897 il pittore Austriaco Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) fondò, insieme ad altri diciannove artisti la Wiener Sezession (Secessione Viennese), attuando anche il progetto di un periodico-manifesto del gruppo, Ver Sacrum (Primavera sacra), del quale verranno pubblicati 96 numeri, fino al 1903.

Gli artisti della Secessione aspiravano, oltre a portare l'arte al di fuori dei confini della tradizione accademica, in un florilegio di arti plastiche, design e architettura, anche ad una rinascita delle arti e dei mestieri: non vi era uno stile prediletto, sicché sotto l'egida di questo gruppo si riunirono i simbolisti, i naturalisti ed i modernisti.

Franz Marc | Espressionista tedesco

Franz Marc è stato un pittore Tedesco, uno dei fondatori del movimento Der Blaue Reiter - The Blue Rider.

È considerato uno dei pittori più rappresentativi del XX secolo e uno dei più rilevanti rappresentanti dell'espressionismo tedesco.

Nel 1900 si iscrive all'Accademia delle Belle Arti di Monaco.

Compì diversi viaggi, i più importanti due soggiorni a Parigi del 1903 e del 1907.

Tornato dalla prima visita Marc lasciò l'accademia. La seconda esperienza lasciò tracce ancora più evidenti dallo studio dell’opera di Van Gogh.

Angelo Inganni | Romantic Veduta painter

Angelo Inganni (November 24, 1807 - December 2, 1880) was an Italian painter.

Inganni exhibited views of various Italian cities in national and international exhibitions.

He was born in Brescia.

Angelo Inganni was taught the basics of art by his father Giovanni and his elder brother Francesco, with whom he worked on fresco decorations from when he was young.

Elie Anatole Pavil (1873-1948)

Nato a Odessa, Elie Anatole Pavil arrivò a Parigi nel 1892 e si dedicò a catturarne l'atmosfera su tela.

Per la maggior parte dei successivi cinquant'anni dipinse i caffè, le belle donne, i gruppi jazz e gli atelier di artisti di Parigi.

I suoi dipinti mostrano una conoscenza intima degli abitanti delle strade e dei vicoli di Montmartre.

Eleganti coppie che ballano, bellissime modelle in posa, uomini che lavorano che finiscono la giornata con un drink al bar, tutto è stato catturato nelle composizioni attentamente bilanciate di Pavil, molte delle quali mostrano la distinta influenza di Degas e Renoir.

Crawfurd Adamson, 1953 | Figurative painter

Crawfurd Adamson, born in Edinburgh, is a noted figurative artist from Scotland, although he has spent much of his career in the South of England.

He has exhibited widely and internationally, and has paintings in major collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the National Fleming Collection in London.

He came to note in the 1980s and 90s, with extensive international shows including Monaco, Hong Kong and Spain. His work fell out of fashion during the late 90s, as the art market took a preference to conceptual works, rather than traditional media such as oil painting or pastels.

Pavel Bergr, 1957 | Imaginative painter

Pavel Bergr was born in the city of Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic. He spent his childhood in a Gothic castle in Střekov and a Renaissance palace in Libochovice.

He studied glass making and blowing at the Shool of Glasses in Zelezny Brod, illustration and graphic design at the School of Applied Arts in Prague and at the "Accademia di Belle Arti Pietro Vannucci", in Perugia, Italy.

Member of the International Imaginative Artists Association (IIAA).

Since 1986 Bergr realizes more than 40 individual exhibitoins: Czech and Slovak Republic, Germany, Austria.

Rembrandt: "La pittura è nipote della natura"

• "Choose only one master - Nature!"

• "Scegliete un solo maestro - La Natura!"

• "Without atmosphere a painting is nothing".

• "Senza l'atmosfera, un quadro non è niente".

Christian Krohg | Naturalist / Genre painter

Christian Krohg (1852-1925) was a Norwegian naturalist painter, illustrator, author and journalist. Krohg was inspired by the realism art movement and often chose motives from everyday life.

He was the director and served as the first professor at the Norwegian Academy of Arts from 1909-1925.

Christian Krohg was born at Vestre Aker (now Oslo), Norway. His father was a civil servant, journalist and author.

From 1861, he attended Hartvig Nissen School.

His father had asked him to pursue a legal career. Krohg studied law at the University of Oslo (then Christiania) graduating cand.jur. in 1873, the same year in which his father died.

Jeff Rowland, 1964 | Il pittore Romantico della pioggia

• "Credo che se hai intenzione di fare qualcosa di creativo dovresti arrivare al cuore di esso, e spesso mi siedo fuori a disegnare sotto la pioggia per vedere in prima persona come rimbalza sui tetti delle auto e sul terreno.

La pioggia che cade crea riflessi straordinari da auto e lampioni, e ho sviluppato una tecnica di punteggiatura della vernice con un vecchio pennello da decoratore che riesce a lasciare segni di vernice non vincolati ad un motivo uniforme. I peli spaccati di questa vecchia spazzola permettono ai tratti di diventare pioggia".

Albert Anker (1831-1910) | Genre painter

Albrecht Samuel Anker was a Swiss painter🎨 and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduringly popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life.

Born in Ins as the son of veterinarian Samuel Anker (then a member of the constituent assembly of the Canton of Bern), Anker attended school in Neuchâtel, where he and Auguste Bachelin, later a fellow artist, took early drawing lessons with Louis Wallinger in 1845-48.

Pramod Kurlekar, 1978 | Figurative painter

Born in Satara, Pramod Kurlekar is an professional artist - internationally acclaimed artist from India. He earned a graduate diploma in Art from Kalavishwa Mahavidhyalaya Sangli in the year 2000 with first class.

He had a distinguished sense of color and creativity in his early years. His studies at an art school helped to mold the true artist in him. He has participated in several art events. He took part in a two year fine arts residential program under the great artist Shri. Vasudeo Kamat.

He has received several scholarships during the course of his study. Pramod Kurlekar paintings mainly portrays female subjects and children.

Vladimir Dunjic, 1957 | Abstract/Figurative painter | Page 2

Born in Čačak, Serbian painter Vladimir Dunjić🎨 graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in the class of Professor Mladen Srbinović in 1981.

He has been a member of Ulus (The Serbian Association of Fine Arts) since 1982.

He took part in several solo and group exhibitions, both in Yugoslavia and abroad.

Vladimir Dunjic lives and works in Belgrade.

Jean Raoux | Rococo painter

Jean Raoux, French painter, was born at Montpellier.

After the usual course of training he became a member of the Academy in 1717 as an historical painter.

His reputation had been previously established by the acclaimed decorations executed during his three years in Italy on the palace of Giustiniani Solini in Venice, and by some easel paintings, the Four Ages of Man (National Gallery), commissioned by the grand prior of Vendôme.

Julius LeBlanc Stewart | Un americano al Salone di Parigi

Julius LeBlanc Stewart (1855, Philadelphia - 5 gennaio 1919, Parigi), è stato un artista Americano che ha trascorso la sua carriera a Parigi.

Contemporaneo del pittore espatriato, John Singer Sargent, Stewart è stato soprannominato "il parigino di Philadelphia".

Suo padre, il milionario dello zucchero William Hood Stewart, trasferì la famiglia da Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a Parigi nel 1865, e divenne un illustre collezionista d'arte e uno dei primi mecenati di Marià Fortuny e degli artisti di Barbizon.

Bessie Davidson | An Australian Impressionist in Paris

Bessie Ellen Davidson (1879-1965) was an Australian painter🎨 known for her impressionist, light-filled landscapes and interiors.

Davidson was born on 22 May 1879 in North Adelaide, South Australia, to a family of Scottish and English origin.

In 1904, after her mother's death, she went to Europe to study art in company with Preston.

They spent the first few months in Munich, where Davidson studied briefly at the Künstlerinner Verein, before moving on to Paris.

There she studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, under René-Xavier Prinet🎨, where she met and began a lifelong friendship with Philippe Besnard's future wife, Germaine Desgranges. She also took classes with Raphael Collin, Richard Miller and Gustave Courtois.

Hendrick ter Brugghen | Baroque painter

Hendrik Terbrugghen (1588-1629), Dutch painter, among the earliest northern followers of the Italian painter Caravaggio.

In the early 1590s Terbrugghen’s family moved to Utrecht, a strong Roman Catholic centre, where he studied with Abraham Bloemaert.

Terbrugghen reportedly spent 10 years in Italy, having arrived in Rome about 1604, and thus could have had direct contact with Caravaggio, who left Rome in 1606.

Jackie Morris, 1961 | Children's book Illustrator

Jackie Morris is a British🎨 writer and illustrator. She was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal🎨 in 2016 and won it in 2019 for her illustration of "The Lost Words", voted the most beautiful book of 2016 by UK booksellers.

"I was born in Birmingham and lived there until at the age of four my parents moved away to Evesham. Here I grew up and remember little of those times. I do know that from at least the age of six I wanted to be an artist.

I watched my dad drawing a picture of a lapwing, making a bird appear on a piece of paper using only a pencil, and I thought it was some magic that made this happen. So there and then I decided to learn how to conjure birds from paper and colour.

I went to school in Evesham to Prince Henry's High School and I remember walking to school past shop fronts above which elegant buildings grew. I used to get told off at school for drawing and dreaming. Now I get paid to do both".

Vala Ola, 1962 | Figurative sculptor

Vala Ola was born and raised in Iceland. She has lived in the US since 1994. After 8 years in Santa Fe, NM, she relocated to Arizona.

Vala Ola's artistic talent was apparent at age 4, and from the age of thirteen she attended classes drawing models from life.

Graduating from the College of Hamrahlid, she furthered her studies at the Icelandic College of the Arts, and later graduated from The Arts Institute in Bournemouth, England.

Damian Lechoszest, 1976 | Genre painter

Polish painter🎨 Damian Lechoszest was born in Raciborz. At first his great interest was drawing. From the early childhood he liked to copy various characters of comics and fairy tales.

His childish sketches were so good that many people from his nearest neighborhood were very astonished.

At the first school years he took part in many artistic high-level competitions. His artistic works were often rewarded and got good opinions of critics.

George Tooker | Magic realism painter

George Clair Tooker, Jr., American painter (born Aug. 5, 1920, Brooklyn, N.Y. - died March 27, 2011, Hartland, Vt.), created luminous canvasses of social significance that echoed themes of love, death, grief, alienation, aging, isolation and faith.

Tooker’s egg-tempera paintings depicted eerie and haunting situations with mythic overtones. Some of his most chilling offerings include Children and Spastics (1946), sadists bullying three effeminate men; Subway (1950), harried commuters congregating with strangers; The Waiting Room (1957), seemingly catatonic patrons biding their time; and Landscape with Figures (1965-66), the heads of office workers bobbing above a maze of cubicles.

Edna St. Vincent Millay | Love is not blind / L'amore non è cieco

Vincent van Gogh🎨 | The starry night, 1888

Love is not blind. I see with single eye

Your ugliness and other women's grace.

I know the imperfection of your face, -

The eyes too wide apart, the brow too high

For beauty. Learned from earliest youth am I

In loveliness, and cannot so erase

Its letters from my mind, that I may trace

You faultless, I must love until I die.

David Martiashvili, 1978 | Naif painter

Artist at the third generation, David Martiashvili was born in in Tbilisi, Georgia.

He graduated from the "School of the Arts" for gifted children, then - Tbilisi Art Academy.

The artist works in the style of primitivism, with colorful Georgian overtones.

Aesthetics of the school creatively rethought their conscious and became motivated to find new means of expression.

Nancy Guzik, 1944 | Impressionist painter

American painter🎨 Nancy studied at The American Academy of Art in Chicago and The Lyme Academy of Fine Art in Old Lyme, Connecticut. However, it was her close association and ensuing relationship with Richard Schmid🎨, that brought her painting to its full potential. Nancy and Richard married in April of 1998.

Her art has been recognized with many awards🎨, including the 2007 Award of Excellence by the Women Artist of the West, Grand Prize from International Artist Magazine, three Gold Medals from the Palette and Chisel Academy, and First Prize from the Midwest Pastel Society.

Susan Ryder, 1944

British painter Susan Ryder began painting professionally at an early age. Encouraged by her father, Robert Ryder VC, an enthusiastic amateur painter who imbued his daughter with a similar passion, she entered the prestigious Byam Shaw School of Art.

There, her tutor, Bernard Dunstan, introduced her to the work of the post- Impressionist Edouard Vuillard, whose gentle scenes of intimate interiors, domestic spaces and gardens in soft blurred colours proved a significant influence on her painting style and choice of subject for the rest of her career.

Sue was only 18, and still a student, when she first exhibited at the Royal Academy. Shortly after, she married Martin Bates and spent the next decade juggling the demands of her career with that of her young family, painting both interiors and portraits.

Louis Icart | Art Déco painter

Louis Icart's nickname was Helli derived from his initials L.I. Louis Icart (1890-1950), was a French Art Deco painter and designer. Icart was born in 1890 in Toulouse and died in Paris in 1950. He became most well known as an artist in New York in the 1920's.

Icart made over 500 engravings and illustrated more than 30 books.

Life

Louis Justin Laurent Icart was the first son of Jean and Elisabeth Icart. He started drawing early on. His aunt, who was impressed by his talent during a visit, brought him to Paris in 1907, where he dedicated himself to painting, drawing and the production of numerous etchings.

In the studio, where he initially produced frivolous postcards with copies of existing images, he soon designed his own works. Thereupon he received orders for the design of title pages for the magazine La Critique Théâtrale. Fashion houses hired Icart to create fashion sketches, with which he soon became known.

Jose De la Barra, 1956 | Magic Realism painter

Jose De la Barra, Peruvian painter has created a dream-like world through his expressing the internal and external fantasies of his imagination with his precise talents in painting and drawing.

The expressions and the sensual movements that appear in each piece, create mystic allegories about the universe.

By combining his interest in the human form with his desire for symbolic content, he has engendered a language that explains the human condition through a unique perspective.

There is a method through with he develops his art replying on material and composition to develop his personal, magical universe.

Jean-Pierre Cassigneul, 1935 | Post-Impressionist painter

French painter Jean Pierre Cassigneul studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris and held his first one-man exhibition there at the age of 17.

Since then, his work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe, Japan and the United States, including shows at the Galerie Tivey Faucon and Galerie Bellechase, Paris; Gallery Tamenaga, Japan and Wally Fihdlay Gallery, New York.

Michael Malm, 1972 | Figurative painter

"The human figure, in my mind is the most beautiful of God’s creations. So much can be communicated through the tilt of the head, or the gesture of the hand. I strive to capture subtle things such as these in hopes of creating something emotional and moving"- Michael Malm.

Well versed in a variety of painting styles, from still lifes to landscapes, Michael Malm is perhaps best known for his impressionistic paintings of figures.

A native of Utah, Michael Malm is a painter of figurative subjects, especially females in western landscape, often with horses.

Vladimir Davidenko, 1966 | Genre / Landscape painter

Владимир Давыденко / Vladimir Davydenko is an Russian painter, born in Lipetsk.

Member of the Artists Trade Union of Russia.

Member of the Petrovsky Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The paintings of Davydenko are in private collections in England, Germany, Japan, Hungary.

Vladimir Davydenko is a realist artist.

Susan Lyon, 1969 | Realist/Impressionist painter

Susan Lyon grew up in Oak Park, Illinois. Her initial interest in art was sparked by a PBS television show on Georgia O’Keeffe🎨 that inspired her to take drawing classes.

Lyon studied art at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and was an active participant in Chicago's Palette and Chisel Club. It is there she first began exhibiting and selling her work; at twenty-three she was the youngest winner of the prestigious Gold Medal🎨 which she won two consecutive years in the annual Oil Painting show plus a third place in the Silver Medal show. Medal Watercolor show.

She entered the Oil Painters of America show once and got 7th place. In 1998 and 2000 she won an artist choice award🎨 in the Northwest Rendezvous Show.

Alessandro Granata | Genre painter

Neapolitan artist🎨 Alessandro Granata was born in Salerno. He showed a strong passion for painting from an early age. He graduated at the Art High School in Naples.

He was awarded the "Alfonso Gatto" award🎨 the graphic and painting section, by the Province of Salerno.

The artist made large-scale sacred-themed paintings.

In 2020 he participated in the collective exhibition "Le Madonna di Raffaello" at the diocesan museum of Salerno, where he received the "Special Jury" award.

Mark Kostabi, 1960 | Pop Symbolism painter

Painter and Composer Mark Kostabi was born in Los Angeles to Estonian immigrants. Raised in Whittier, California, he studied drawing and painting at California State University, Fullerton.

Kostabi moved to New York in 1982, and by 1984, emerged as a leading figure in the East Village art scene where he cultivated a provocative media persona by publishing self-interviews reflecting on the commodification of contemporary art.

By 1987, his work was widely exhibited in New York galleries as well as prominently throughout the United States, Japan, Germany and Australia.

He inspired extensive international press coverage in 1988 when he founded Kostabi World, his Manhattan art studio, which employs numerous painting assistants and idea people.

Beginning in the early 1990s Kostabi's work has been widely exhibited throughout Italy. Kostabi established a second home in Rome in 1996. Dividing his time between Rome and New York enabled him to dramatically enhance his presence in the Italian art scene.

Antonietta Varallo, 1954 | Landscape painter

Born in Talsamo (Taranto province, Southern Italy) and a livornese adoptee, Antonietta Varallo approaches painting when she was just fifteen. Varallo, for one year, attended at the Free Academy "Trossi-Uberti" directed by Voltolino Fontani, then the maestro Luciano Torsi has been her guide up to her artistic maturity after eighteen years of teaching.

On 1976 Varallo won the first prize🎨 "Chimera" held in the city of Arezzo (Tuscany).

Nowadays she’s still a honorary professor of the Academy of "Machiavello" in Florence as well as in the Academy "G. Marconi" in Bologna.

Angelo Morbelli | For 80 cents!, 1895

Angelo Morbelli's work, one of the masterpieces of the Burgundy Museum, was purchased in 1912 at the Art Exhibition of the irrigated countryside held in Vercelli, a few years after the Museum opened to the public.

The painting, signed and dated 1895, underwent a long and tormented elaboration, as evidenced by the correspondence between the artist and his colleague Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo: begun in 1893, it was resumed before being exhibited in 1895 at the Venice Biennale.

The canvas assumes an important role for the collection, not only for its belonging to the pictorial current of Divisionism, but above all for the subject strongly connected to the Vercelli area.

Franz Liszt: "Truth is a great flirt"

• Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
• I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other master works as well, stand in no further need of my services.
• I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment… rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.
• I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
• I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.
• In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
• Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
• It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
• It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

Franz Liszt Fantasizing at the Piano, 1840 (detail) by Josef Danhauser ▪ Alte Nationalgalerie ▪

Joanna Zjawinska, 1950 | Figurative painter

Joanna Zjawinska began to paint at the early age of six. She earned her B.A. degree in 1972 from the School of Architecture in Warsaw.

To follow her own dream of being an artist, Joanna then studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts where she perfected her unique style of oil and watercolor painting.

In 1978 she was awarded a masters degree in Graphic Design with honors in painting from the academy which is one of the most prestigious school in Europe.

Bryce Liston, 1965 | Plein air / Figurative painter

Liston’s artistic inspiration comes largely from the late-19th century; he lists John William Waterhouse, John Singer Sargent🎨, Joaquin Sorolla🎨, Anders Zorn and William Bouguereau🎨 among his strongest influences.

“As an artist my career is dedicated to the integrity and quality of representational fine art”, says Liston. “My goal is to regain the traditions of the past along with the standards of craftsmanship and training. By studying the great artists of the past, we artists of today can once again regain a full command of proficiency to create great works of art… art about life”.

Louise Glück, 1943 | Nobel Prize for Literature

© BBC - This year's Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to the US poet Louise Glück.

Glück was recognised for "her unmistakable poetic voice, that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal" said the Swedish Academy, which oversees the award.

The Academy added she was "surprised" when she received their phone call.

Glück, born in New York, lives in Massachusetts and is also professor of English at Yale University.

The Academy's permanent secretary Mats Malm said he had spoken to Glück just before making the announcement.

"The message came as a surprise, but a welcome one as far as I could tell" - he said.

Louise Gluck / Fabian Perez | Retreating Wind / Vento calante

When I made you, I loved you.

Now I pity you.

I gave you all you needed:

bed of earth, blanket of blue air -

As I get further away from you

I see you more clearly.

Your souls should have been immense by now,

not what they are,

small talking things--

Nino Chakvetadze, 1971 | Kid's Book illustrator

Nino Chakvetadze in an Georgian painter and Kid’s Book illustrator.

She draws inspiration from everyday moments and her paintings depict love, friendship, human relationships, and peace.

According to the artist, she found her particular style in 2010 and her nostalgic paintings are based on memories that are relatable for many viewers.

El Greco | L'eredità artistica

El Greco (1541-1614) fu molto poco considerato dalle generazioni immediatamente successive, perché il suo lavoro sotto molti aspetti era opposto ai principi del primo stile barocco che iniziò ad imporsi verso gli inizi del XVII secolo e che presto finì per soppiantare gli ultimi fuochi del manierismo del XVI secolo.

El Greco fu giudicato incomprensibile e non ebbe seguaci di rilievo.

Solo suo figlio e alcuni altri sconosciuti pittori realizzarono delle poco valide imitazioni dei suoi lavori.

Tra la fine del XVII secolo e l'inizio del XVIII dei critici spagnoli iniziarono a lodare la sua abilità, criticando però al contempo il suo stile anti-naturalistico e la sua complessa iconografia.

Sir Alfred Munnings | Romantic Equestrian painter

Sir Alfred James Munnings, KCVO, PRA (8 October 1878 - 17 July 1959) was known as one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken critic of Modernism.

Engaged by Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian War Memorials Fund, he earned several prestigious commissions after the Great War that made him wealthy.

Munnings was elected president of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1944.

Adam Styka | Under the African Sun

Polish-born French painter Adam Styka (1890-1959) completed his education at the French Academy of Fine Arts, Academie des Beaux-Arts, and painted closely under the tutelage of his father, Jan Styka.

Each year Adam exhibited his paintings in the Paris' most prestigious galleries such as Salon de Paris, Champs Des Elysees and others in Europe and countries of both Americas, where he constantly was awarded highest accolades.

Edna St. Vincent Millay / Edward Steichen | Night is my sister / La notte è mia sorella

Edward Steichen (American🎨 photographer, painter, and curator, 1879-1973)| Greta Garbo

Night is my sister, and how deep in love,

How drowned in love and weedily washed ashore,

There to be fretted by the drag and shove

At the tide's edge, I lie - these things and more:

Whose arm alone between me and the sand,

Whose voice alone, whose pitiful breath brought near,

Could thaw these nostrils and unlock this hand,

She could advise you, should you care to hear.

André Martins De Barros, 1942 | Fantastic Realism painter

André Martins de Barros: "The conflict of man fighting his fellow man, the role of nature, and the struggle for existence are all constant themes in my imaginative paintings: from simple joys and beauty to troubling scenes of apocalyptic proportions.

Yet, in each piece, a sense of optimism and even whimsy is readily apparent".

André Martins de Barros was born in Pau, a small town in the foothills of the Pyrenees near the Spanish border.

He started to paint from the age of 15 and just after completing his military service decided to devote all his time to passion- Painting.

George Hitchcock | Genre painter

George Hitchcock (1850-1913) was born in Providence, Rhode Island. George Hitchcock attended Brown University and then Harvard Law School.

He became disenchanted with the practice of law, however, and at age 29 left for Paris to study at the Académie Julian.

One of a generation of American expatriate painters, Hitchcock travelled extensively throughout Europe, studying in London, The Hague, and Munich.

He finally settled permanently in Holland during the 1880s.

Gyuri Lohmuller, 1962 | Surrealist painter

Gyuri Lohmuller was born in Gataia, Romania.

Self-educated painter, having exhibitions in Austria, Germany, France and Hungary, is willing to share his inner world.

His paintings reflect his deepest emotions.

"The emotion", he says, "Is Art".

He prefers the surrealist themes.