Santeri Salokivi | Impressionist painter

Toivo Santeri Salokivi (Turku, September 2, 1886 - Helsinki, March 26, 1940) was a Finnish painter and art teacher, known for his Impressionist style of landscapes.

Salokivi was also a graphic artist.

Salokivi studied at the Turku Drawing School between 1900-1904 and thereafter in Munich and Paris.

Salokivi's trip to Venice in 1911 was also significant for his artistic development.

Salokivi worked as a drawing teacher at the Turku School of Drawing and as a drawing teacher at the Finnish Classical and Real Lyceum from 1914-1917.

Digital Art by Sergey Shaposhnikov

Sergey Shaposhnikov / Сергей Шапошников is an professional photographer from City of St. Petersburg.

Alberto Giacometti | Surrealist sculptor

Giacometti, Alberto (1901-1966) - Sculptor, painter, draughtsman and printmaker, son of Giovanni Giacometti.

Early studies and works, to 1927

He began drawing around 1910-12, followed by painting and sculpting in 1913-15. While at secondary school in Schiers, near Chur (1914-19), he developed his drawing style primarily through portraiture.

In 1919-20 in Geneva he studied painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and sculpture at the Ecole des Arts et Métiers but was more impressed by subsequent visits to Italy (1920-21), where he worked without formal instruction.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - The Lovers, 1875

Claude Gaveau, 1940 | Abstract painter

Claude Gaveau was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Gaveau was almost born into art, as his grandfather was the creator of the green houses of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.One of his uncles, Emile, was a painter and another, Marcel a cabinetmaker.

At the age of five he remembers the morning when Uncle Marcel put an easel, a canvas and a box of colors in his hands and together they both painted the landscape around geysers.

Claude Gaveau seems to talk about birth date as it was from that day on, when painting became a necessity for him.