Maurice Prendergast | Post-Impressionist painter

Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858-1924) was born in Saint John's, Newfoundland, to a shopkeeper who moved the family to Boston in 1868.

He left school after only eight or nine years and went to work for a commercial art firm. He never married and throughout his life was accompanied and supported by his brother Charles, a gifted craftsman and artist in his own right.

According to Charles, Maurice always wanted to be an artist and spent every available moment sketching. In 1892, Maurice traveled to Paris, where he spent three years.

Seung Mo Park, 1969 | Wire Sculptor

South Korean artist Seung Mo Park 성 명 박 승 모 (朴勝模) creates gorgeous sculptures from tightly wrapped aluminium wire over fibreglass forms.

Park gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Dong A University in Busan, South Korea’s second largest city after Seoul.

Making up Park’s ‘Human’ series, the figures display painstaking attention to detail, from the bone structure and curves of the human bodies, to the delicate strands of hair and the folds and wrinkles of draped clothing.

Richard Stainthorp | Wire Figurative Sculptor

British sculptor Richard Stainthorp captures the beautiful energy and fluidity of the human body using wire. The life-sized sculptures feature both figures in motion and at rest, expressed in the form of large-gauged strands that are densely wrapped around and through one another. By doing this, he gives the work an undeniable presence. Stainthorp also allows the bent wires to shine by keeping their metallic appearance free from any obvious painting or additions.

Georges Braque | Fauve / Cubist painter

Georges Braque, (born May 13, 1882, Argenteuil, France-died August 31, 1963, Paris), French painter, one of the important revolutionaries of 20th-century art who, together with Pablo Picasso, developed Cubism.

His paintings consist primarily of still lifes that are remarkable for their robust construction, low-key colour harmonies and serene, meditative quality.

Albert Marquet | Fauve painter

Albert Marquet (Bordeaux, 26 Mar. 1875 - Paris, 14 June 1947) was a French painter and draughtsman.

He was one of the Fauves, and for a time his boldness of colour almost matched that of Matisse (his lifelong friend).

However, he soon abandoned Fauvism and turned to a comparatively naturalistic style.

He painted some fine portraits and did a number of powerful female figures (1910-14), but he was primarily a landscapist.