Thomas Saliot, 1968 | Figurative painter

Born in Paris, French artist🎨 Thomas Saliot has been painting and travelling for the last 20 years. He paints amazing figurative oil on canvases with bokeh style in some of his works that have the appealing out of focus effect.

He now lives between Marrakech and Paris.

" - I work «free hand» from photos i find all over the web. It is a bit in the spirit of a blog (terrible word) where i use icomic images like snapshot of our centuries".

Gerard ter Borch (1618-1681)

Gerard ter Borch was an influential and pioneering Dutch genre painter who lived in the Dutch Golden Age.

He influenced fellow Dutch painters Gabriel Metsu, Gerrit Dou, Eglon van der Neer and Johannes Vermeer.

Enric Torres Prat, 1940 | Fantasy Illustrator

Nato a Barcellona, Enric Torres Prat scoprì la vocazione pittorica fin da bambino, interessandosi sia alla pittura che alla fotografia, ed optando per quest'ultima quando ha scoperto che era il mezzo migliore per catturare le sue idee.

Ha studiato all'Accademia di Sant Jordi e ha girato vari paesi europei e gli Stati Uniti, studiando - strada facendo - la pittura dei vari musei.

Di questi, quello che più lo ha influenzato è stato il Rijkmuseum di Amsterdam, in particolare Rembrandt.

Iniziò a lavorare presso l'agenzia Selecciones Ilustradas quando aveva poco più di 20 anni.

Cercando di trovare un modo per diventare indipendente da Selecciones, si unì a Rafael López Espí ed insieme disegnarono copertine per varie pubblicazioni di suspense e supereroi da Editorial Vértice.

Otto Eduard Pippel | Ballet dancers

Otto Eduard Pippel was born in 1878 in Lodz, then a Russian city but now in Poland.

He died in Planegg on the outskirts of Munich in 1960.

He began his artistic career at the School of Applied Arts in Strasbourg training to work on decorative projects, but his studies were interrupted when he was drafted into the Russian army for four years.

Oscar Wilde / Vladimir Kush | Quotes

• The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

• To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

• A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

• A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.