Michele Van Cotthem, 1939

Michèle Van Cotthem est née le 5 novembre 1939 à Revin (Ardennes). Ecole des Beaux-arts de Lyon. Première exposition à Lyon en 1962. Sociétaire du Salon d'Automne de Paris. Vice-présidente de la Société Lyonnaise des Beaux-arts.Participe aux principaux salons et obtient les plus grandes récompenses.

Joaquín Sorolla | Impressionist painter

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923) was a leading Spanish painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Born in Valencia in 1863 but orphaned as an infant, he was raised by an aunt who recognised and encouraged his precocious artistic talent.

He was studying drawing by eleven, painting at the Academy in Valencia in his late teens, and soon exhibiting in Madrid.

Not yet 21, his first large history painting was acquired by the Spanish government in 1884.

Frida Kahlo: "Dipingo i fiori così non moriranno"

"I fiori della primavera sono i sogni dell'inverno raccontati, la mattina, al tavolo degli angeli".

Khalil Gibran

Pierre Auguste Renoir 1841-1919

"Chi cerca di possedere un fiore, vede la sua bellezza appassire, ma chi lo ammira in un campo, lo porterà sempre con sé.

Perché il fiore si fonderà con il pomeriggio, con il tramonto, con l'odore di terra bagnata e con le nuvole all'orizzonte".

Paulo Coelho

Benozzo Gozzoli | Late Gothic / Renaissance painter

Benozzo Gozzoli, also called Benozzo di Lese (born c. 1421, Florence [Italy]-died Oct. 4, 1497, Pistoia), early Italian Renaissance painter whose masterpiece, a fresco cycle in the chapel of the Medici-Riccardi Palace, Florence, reveals a new interest in nature (a careful study of realistic detail in landscape and the costumed figure) and in the representation of human features as definite portraiture.

Alexander Saidoff, 1970 | Magic realism painter

Alexander Saidoff was born in Pavlovsk, Dagestan, Russia. Alexander’s family belonged to a clan which at one point ruled the mountainous region in Dagestan, but which eventually dissipated through a long series of feuds with other clans.

His family abounded with artistic talent; many of its members were dancers, singers, musicians, and painters.