• "I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality".
• "If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it".
• "We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art".
Bal du moulin de la Galette [Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette] is doubtless Renoir's most important work of the mid 1870's and was shown at the Impressionist exhibition in 1877.
Bartolomeo Bezzi was born in Fucine di Ossana (Trento), then in the Austrian Empire.
Having lost his father as a child, Bezzi lived with an uncle and enrolled at the Brera Academy in Milan at the age of twenty, exhibiting for the first time in 1878.
He won the Fumagalli Prize in 1882 and the following year he took part in the Esposizione di Belle Arti di Roma, receiving general acclaim for his landscape painting.
Vladimir Mukhin captivates audiences with his art, seamlessly blending lyricism, refined lines, and vibrant energy.
His works harmoniously merge the rich color palette of impressionism with the dynamism of Art Nouveau and the foundational techniques of traditional academic painting.
Born in Kazakhstan, Vladimir Mukhin honed his skills at the Penza Savitsky Art College before embarking on a transformative journey at the renowned Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in Moscow.
Son of a Spanish painter, Georges Corominas, after studying at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts d'Alger, returned to France in 1962, where his paintings were quickly noticed.
Corominas is an artist who, while in search of the deep soul of the world, presents his "joie de vivre" as well as his emotions, passions and fascination for the perfect beauty to life, all in a bright enchantment.
Laureate of prestigious price, result of participation in the famous national and international exhibitions, his painting is pointed out by the collectors.
David's Gray signature style reveals a personal and contemporary expression of beauty and order which pays homage to the Classical Tradition in its craftsmanship.
Collectors of David's work often relate that his painting provoke a sense of peace, stillness, or a contemplative mood.
His award winning works have been covered by major art publications including Southwest Art, Art of the West, and American Art Collector.
Ferri's way of painting is elevated by a technique which is almost virtuosity, where the traditional tools of the surrealism are inserted onto the traditional iconographic elements.
His career took on greater notoriety for having been in charge of portraying Pope Francis.
There were two works commissioned from the Italian artist, which occupy privileged places in the Vatican.
Vincenzo Sorrentino was born in Torre Annunziata, (Naples) Italy.
He is an illustrator, painter, sculptor and modeler of ceramic works.
His exhibition activity began in 1984 in institutional places, private galleries and at cultural institutes.
He taught painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, and since 2001 he his a professor of fresco theory and technique at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.
Jacques Van den Abeele, Belgian sculptor, is exhibited in galleries spread over Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Switzerland and the United States of America.
He realized also monumental sculptures for state orders.
For Jacques Van den Abeele, art is above all a quest for the essential foundations of existence, moving towards what lies behind appearances: feelings, emotions, fears.
Encouraged by an independent, educationally oriented mother, Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856-1942) was a copyist in the Luxembourg Museum and studied at the Académie Julien in Paris.
She enjoyed an education guided by the concept that women artists could compete with their male counterparts.
In her memoirs of 1940, Klumpke cites a most influential moment in her childhood: receiving the gift of a Rosa Bonheur doll.
Her admiration of Bonheur, the French painter of animals, led her to paint the aging woman’s portrait - which is considered a companion piece to her portrait of leading suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
David Michael Bowers was born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania and graduated from art school in Pittsburgh in 1979.
He began working as a staff artist at various studios in the Pittsburgh, PA area.
Two years later, David began teaching his craft at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh where he lectured for ten years and was honored as the Keynote Speaker for the Class of 2003.
In 1991, David began his illustration career working mostly with book publishers in New York City in which he completed over one hundred book covers in the span of over ten years.
The Valencian painter Francisco Sanchis Cortés has an enviable genetic line that leads him in pursuit of the fine arts.
A line that genetically connects the best manners of Hispanic roots, heir to the demonic fictional painting of the Pinazo, Emilio Sala, Mongrell and Sorolla.
A narrative line in which he tells a lot about the story of the matter and his ability to move.
A line in which knowing how to paint is essentially valued, precisely to characterize the motifs, with humanity in the gestures of the characters and above all with an outcrop of a romantic character.
Nancy Boren’s first painting, a watercolor, was done at age 12 while sitting next to her artist father, James Boren, as he painted at the Grand Canyon.
Since then she has branched out to original print making and oil painting, depicting a variety of landscape and marine subjects, and is often captivated by scenes in which the figure fills the canvas.
She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Abilene Christian University and cites the influence of notable traditional painters such as Sargent, Sorolla and Fechin.
Rosmery Mamani Ventura is an award winning hyperrealistic pastel artists from Bolivia.
She was born in Omasuyos, near Lake Titicaca where she lived until 1998.
At 14 she migrated from her rural Aymara indigenous community to the city of El Alto to work as a maid, a move that brought excitement, but also struggle.
Despite the hardships, that move was also the first step toward discovering her talent as an artist.
Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometres (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad.
Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia.
Its rulers established two important empires in antiquity, the 19th-16th century BC Old Babylonian Empire, and the 7th-6th century BC Neo-Babylonian Empire.
Babylon was also used as a regional capital of other empires, such as the Achaemenid Empire.
Babylon was one of the most important urban centres of the ancient Near East, until its decline during the Hellenistic period.
Nearby ancient sites are Kish, Borsippa, Dilbat and Kutha.
An artist's depiction of Ishtar Gate as it may have appeared around the time it was constructed in Babylon c. 575 BCE. From the game Old World
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