Andy Warhol: "In futuro tutti saranno famosi per quindici minuti.."

Affascinato dalla cultura del consumo, dai media e dalla fama, lo stesso Andy Warhol divenne uno degli artisti più famosi e importanti del ventesimo secolo.

Figlio di immigrati cecoslovacchi, Andrew Warhola è cresciuto a Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania, studiando arte al Carnegie Institute of Technology dal 1945 al 1949.

Subito dopo la laurea si è trasferito a New York City, dove ha abbreviato il suo nome in Andy Warhol e ha iniziato a lavorare come un designer commerciale e artista di vetrine, vincendo numerosi premi per i suoi distintivi design pubblicitari.

Salvador Dalí | Personality

Dalí was renowned for his eccentric and ostentatious behavior throughout his career.

In 1941, the Director of Exhibitions and Publications at MoMA wrote: "The fame of Salvador Dalí has been an issue of particular controversy for more than a decade...Dalí's conduct may have been undignified, but the greater part of his art is a matter of dead earnest".

When Dalí was elected to the French Academy of Fine Arts in 1979, one of his fellow academicians stated that he hoped Dalí would now abandon his "clowneries".

In 1936, at the premiere screening of Joseph Cornell's film Rose Hobart at Julien Levy's gallery in New York City, Dalí knocked over the projector in a rage.

"My idea for a film is exactly that", he said shortly afterward, "I never wrote it down or told anyone, but it is as if he had stolen it!"

Gerard van Honthorst | Baroque Era painter

Gerard van Honthorst (1590-1656) became one of the main Dutch followers of Caravaggio, whose style he popularised in Holland on his return from a stay in Rome, 1610-20.

With paintings such as 'Christ before the High Priest' he became one of the few Dutch painters to achieve international fame.

Józef Pankiewicz | Impressionist painter

Józef Pankiewicz (29 November 1866 in Lublin - 4 July 1940 in La Ciotat) was a Polish impressionist painter, graphic artist and teacher who spent much of his career in France.

From 1884-1885, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw under Wojciech Gerson and Aleksander Kamiński.

After obtaining a scholarship, he went to Saint Petersburg to study at the Imperial Academy of Arts.

In 1889, he and his studio partner Władysław Podkowiński went to Paris to participate in the Exposition Universelle and he was awarded a silver medal for his painting of a vegetable market.

Rémi LaBarre, 1977 | Figurative painter

Rémi LaBarre is a painter based in Montreal, Quebec. Inspired by romance lovers, music, he painted series of modern portraits in a vintage theme.

Rémi LaBarre has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions and has won different prizes and has received an important press coverage.

In 1977, in Thetford Mines, Rémi LaBarre, Canadian painter, gets a first glance of the world. In his childhood, he draws, often, on paperboards and paper. One day, a friend who paints suggests testing this medium.