Alda Merini / Marc Chagall | I do not need money / Io non ho bisogno di denaro..

I do not need money.

I have need of feelings

of words, words chosen wisely

of flowers called thoughts,

of roses called presences

of dreams inhabiting the trees,

of songs that make statues dance,

of stars that murmur to the ear of lovers.

I need poetry

this spell which burns the weight of words

that arouses emotions and gives new colors.

Alda Merini* (Milan, 21 March 1931 – Milan, 1 November 2009) Italian* writer and poet.

Robert Auer | Art Nouveau painter

Schooled at the academy in Vienna and Munich at the time when the Art Nouveau🎨 wave swept across Europe and greatly influenced the European cultural centres, Robert Auer [1873-1952]🎨 is often tied to this particular artistic style.

He gained popularity as a portraitist of the upper city class, having painted more than 150 portraits, and just as many figures and symbolic compositions.

Andrey Shishkin, 1960 | Academic painter

Russian artist Andrey Shishkin / Андрей Алексеевич Шишкин was born in Moscow and hasn’t received any art education but he was self-taught.

Here he lives and works in his own studio to this day.

Andrey has been an Artist for more than 15 years.

Andrey Shishkin works in the genre of a realistic academic painting and creates psychological portraits, that amaze by their magnificence.

龐卡 Pang Ka Karl Bang, 1935 | Visionary painter

龐卡 Pang Ka (Karl Bang) was born in Bong Ka, Shanghai. He was formally trained by the master artists of Chinese painting and he also formally trained in the European painting tradition in France and Belgium.

These multiple styles led to Karl Bang's multi-cultural blending of the traditional Chinese artistic discipline with the more personally expressive European style, and later also included traditions from around the entire globe.

Carne Griffiths, 1973 | Abstract | Portrait painter

Carne Griffiths* is an British illustrator* known for working in the Abstract style*.

Griffiths creates amazing portraits of individuals and combined with fantasy elements with uncommon mediums, notably materials such as wisky, tea, and brandy.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Griffiths see:

• Carne Griffiths, 1973 | Abstract Portrait painter ➦