Paul Serusier | Symbolist / Post-impressionist painter

Paul Sérusier, in full Louis-Paul-Henri Sérusier (born November 9, 1864, Paris-died October 6, 1927, Morlaix, France), French Post-Impressionist painter and theorist who was instrumental in the formation of the short-lived, but highly influential, late 19th-century art movement known as the Nabis.

The group was noted for its expressive use of colour and pattern in the mode of Paul Gauguin. Sérusier’s early paintings featuring the people and landscapes of Brittany are noteworthy for their muted, contemplative mood, which the artist achieved by using firm contours and blocks of unmodulated colour.

Le Talisman, 1888, Paris, musée d'Orsay.

Alain Bonnefoit, 1937 | Impressionist painter

Painter, engraver and sculptor, Alain Bonnefoit was born in Montmartre, Paris.

From 1953 he attended the École des Arts Appliqués, from 1956 the École des Beaux Arts in Paris and from 1959 also the École des Beaux Arts in Brussels Engraving and Sculpture Department.

In 1961 he began a two year period in the studio of the sculptor Volti who would become his maestro in both art and life.

In 1964 he arrived at the form of expression that later made him famous: the female figures.

In 1965 he moved to Tuscany but kept on his studio in Paris.

Liu Yuanshou, 1967 | Figurative painter

Liu Yuanshou [劉元壽], Chinese painter, was born in Beijing in 1967.

He earned a degree in oil painting from the Capital Normal University of Beijing in 1991, and has exhibited in and won awards in many prestigious exhibitions throughout Asia, including China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan.

While Liu Yuanshou hails from the austere north of China, he has become fascinated by the seductively temperate cultural and physical climate of the eastern coastal province of Jiangsu, which lies east of Anhui and north of Shanghai.

I Violini di Chagall

La felicità non è felicità senza una capra che suona il violino, scriveva Marc Chagall 1887-1985, il poeta con ali da pittore, secondo la definizione dello scrittore statunitense Henry Miller (1891-1980).

L'interesse di Chagall per la musica risale al periodo dell'infanzia ed è connesso ai riti della comunità ebraico-chassidica di Vitebsk, di cui la sua famiglia faceva parte con profonda devozione.

Francesco Bachiacca | Renaissance painter

A Florentine painter and draughtsman Francesco Ubertini (1494-1557), alias Bachiacca is chiefly recognized as an artist who helped evolve the style of Mannerism.

He is said to have studied with Umbrian painter, Pietro Perugino (1446-1524) and also collaborated with other artists of the time such as Franciabigio (1482-1525) and Pontormo (1494-1557).