Tamara de Lempicka's 120th Birthday

'Among a hundred paintings, you could recognize mine,

my goal was:

Do not copy. Create a new style...

colors light and bright,

return to elegance in my models'..

Tamara De Lempicka

Salvatore Quasimodo | Ora che sale il giorno / Now that the day rises..

Edvard Munch⏭ | Young woman on the veranda, 1924

Finita è la notte e la luna

si scioglie lenta nel sereno,

tramonta nei canali.

The night is over and the moon

melts slowly in cloudless sky,

sets into the canals.

Dan Beck, 1955 | The Dreamers | VideoArt

For American painter Dan Beck🎨, painting is "a balancing act between opposite ideas - direct observation and instinct, control and spontaneity, even between the literal and the symbolic.

It seems to me that although a painter is deeply involved with his own private investigation, his real aim is to communicate something that only the person looking at the painting really understands".

Dan Beck, 1955 | Figurative painter

Equally adept at figurative, still-life and landscape, Dan Beck is an award winning artist and sought after teacher.

His paintings have found collectors in both the private and corporate world on a national level as well as from such diverse places as Canada, Japan and the Middle East. Dan's work has also been featured in "Southwest Art", "Art of the West" magazines and "Art Talk".

Jaume Plensa, 1955 | Conceptual sculptor

Jaume Plensa is a Spanish artist and sculptor.

Plensa's works include the Crown Fountain at Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois, which opened in July 2004.

The fountain is composed of a black granite reflecting pool placed between a pair of glass brick towers. The towers are 50 feet (15 m) tall, and they use light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to display digital videos on the inward faces.

In the summer of 2007 he participated in the Chicago Public Art exhibit, Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet.

Another Plensa piece is Blake in Gateshead in North East England, a laser beam that on special occasions shines high into the night sky over Gateshead's Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.