Andy Warhol: "Security breeds stagnation"

• "Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?"

• "The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying".

• "Most people in America think Art is a man's name".

• "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details".

Andy Warhol | Pop Art painter

Andy Warhol, original name Andrew Warhola, (1928-1987), American artist and filmmaker, an initiator and leading exponent of the Pop art movement of the 1960s whose mass-produced art apotheosized the supposed banality of the commercial culture of the United States

An adroit self-publicist, he projected a concept of the artist as an impersonal, even vacuous, figure who is nevertheless a successful celebrity, businessman, and social climber.

The son of Ruthenian (Rusyn) immigrants from what is now eastern Slovakia, Warhol graduated in 1949 from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), Pittsburgh, with a degree in pictorial design.

George Underwood, 1947 | Pittore Fantasy

Richard George Underwood è un artista e musicista Britannico.

È noto soprattutto per la progettazione di copertine di album per numerose band negli anni '70 e per le sue collaborazioni con l'amico di lunga data, il cantautore David Bowie.

George Underwood ha frequentato la Bromley Technical High School dove ha sviluppato l'interesse per la musica insieme ai compagni di classe David Bowie e Peter Frampton.

La band di Underwood e Bowie, George and the Dragons è stata di breve durata a causa di Underwood che ha preso a pugni Bowie nell'occhio sinistro mentre indossava un anello al dito, durante una lite per una ragazza, causando la paralisi nella pupilla sinistra di Bowie ed il suo caratteristico disallineamento aspetto.

Hans Memling | Northern Renaissance painter

Hans Memling, Memling also spelled Memlinc, (born c. 1430-40, Seligenstadt, near Frankfurt am Main [Germany] - died August 11, 1494, Bruges [Belgium]), leading South Netherlandish painter of the Bruges school during the period of the city’s political and commercial decline.

The number of his imitators and followers testifies to his popularity throughout Flanders.

His last commission, which has been widely copied, is a Crucifixion panel from the Passion triptych (1491).

Memling, born in the region of the Middle Rhine, was apparently first schooled in the art of Cologne and then traveled to the Netherlands (c. 1455-60), where he probably trained in the workshop of the painter Rogier van der Weyden.

He settled in Bruges (Brugge) in 1465; there he established a large shop and executed numerous altarpieces and portraits. Indeed, he was very successful in Bruges: it is known that he owned a large stone house and by 1480 was listed among the wealthiest citizens on the city tax accounts.

Sometime between 1470-1480 Memling married Anna de Valkenaere (died 1487), with whom he had three children.

Maria Oosthuizen, 1972 | Modern / Figurative painter

South African artist Maria Magdalena Oosthuizen paints figurative portraits emanating innocence and hope that pay tribute both to her devotion to God and her belief in the intrinsic goodness of the people of this world.
Using balanced, harmonic compositions and a dedication to detail, Maria focuses on the interplay of light and shadow in her works, with particular attention to how light impacts form, conveying the powerful message that underscores all her work: that light has the power to expel darkness and reveal the goodness and abundance in life.