Othon Friesz | Fauve painter

Achille-Émile Othon Friesz (6 February 1879 - 10 January 1949), who later called himself Othon Friesz, a native of Le Havre, was a French artist of the Fauvist movement.

Othon Friesz was born in Le Havre, the son of a long line of shipbuilders and sea captains.

He went to school in his native city. It was while he was at the Lycée that he met his lifelong friend Raoul Dufy.

He and Dufy studied at the Le Havre School of Fine Arts in 1895-96 and then went to Paris together for further study.

Edward Hopper: "More of me comes out when I improvise"

• "What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house".

• "After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface".

Albena Vatcheva, 1967 | Fantasy painter

Albena Vatcheva is an French artist of Bulgarian origin who advances in a spectacular way.

Her painting has inherited various traditions, including that of masters of the icon.

Using different oriental sources, she has created a world of troubling fairy, which is a real fascination for the eye, as her glowing colors create magic.

Tender, loving, her characters live in a world of peace, harmony and mutual consolation.

Ryo Shiotani / 塩谷 亮, 1975 | Figurative painter

"I paint realist paintings because I can make new discoveries as I thoroughly look at my subject. That is enjoyable".

Award winning Japanese painter Ryo Shiotani 塩谷 亮 was born in Tokyo.

After graduating from Musashino Art University, Ryo Shiotani spent one year studying in Florence on an Agency for Cultural Affairs scholarship, where he had a chance to copy the works of Leonardo da Vinci.

The Marathon Boy, 340-330 bc | Underwater discoveries

• National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece
• Marathon Youth or Ephebe of Marathon. 
• Bronze statue of a young athlete, found in the sea near Marathon (Attic coast). 
• The left hand was replaced at a later date by another shaped as a lamp. 
• Work of the Praxiteles school, ca. 340-330 B.C.
• Dimensions H. 1.3 m (4 ft. 3 in.)
• Accession number X 15118
• Department of Sculptures

The Marathon Boy or Ephebe of Marathon is a Greek bronze sculpture found in the Aegean Sea in the bay of Marathon in 1925. It is conserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens where it is dated to around 340-330 BC. The Museum suggests that the subject is the winner of an athletic competition.