Daniel Mirante, 1977 | Visionary painter

Daniel Mirante is a painter, art teacher and designer, born in Chester, a Roman city situated on the border of Wales and England.

He is an independent fine art professional, writer and researcher, and educator of painting practice, art history and contemporary esoteric art.

Daniel is the co-founder and director of Art Pilgrim, a UK based educational project that specialises in instruction in painting approaches and exploration of translation from traditional to contemporary culture.

Odalisque paintings

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Odalisque | National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

An odalisque (Turkish: odalık / اوطه‌لق) was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan.

The word "odalisque" is French in form and originates from the Turkish odalık, meaning "chambermaid", from oda, "chamber" or "room". It can also be transliterated odahlic, odalisk and odaliq.

Thor Lindeneg, 1941 | Surrealist painter

Thor Lindeneg is a Danish surrealist painter who currently resides and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Lindeneg was born in in Copenhagen.

Thor Lindeneg belong to the new surrealistic school called Fantastic Figuration.

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.