Emile Claus | Luminist / Genre painter

Emile Clause (27 September 1849 - 14 June 1924) was a Belgian painter who developed the distinct style of impressionism known as "Luminism".

Emile Claus was born in Sint-Eloois-Vijve, a village in West-Flanders (Belgium), at the banks of the river Lys.

Emile was the twelfth child in a family of thirteen. Father Alexander was a grocer-publican and for some time town councillor.

Mother Celestine Verbauwhede came from a Brabant skipper’s family and had her hands full with her offspring.

Evariste Carpentier | Genre / Luminist painter

Évariste Carpentier, (1845 in Kuurne - 1922 in Liège), was a Belgian painter of Genre scenes🎨 and animated landscapes.

Over the years, his painting evolved from the academic art to impressionism🎨. He is, alongside Emile Claus, one of the earliest representatives of Luminism🎨 in Belgium.

During his life, Carpentier achieved a great success.

Throughout his career, he won many prizes and awards🎨 at international exhibitions, both in Europe and in the United States, receiving the golden medals at Antwerp, Munich and Berlin for Summer sun (1896), Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Nice.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze | Broken Eggs, 1756

Broken Eggs attracted favorable comment when exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1757.

One critic noted that the young serving girl had a noble pose worthy of a history painter.

The canvas was painted in Rome, but the principal source may have been a seventeenth-century Dutch work by Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635-1681) - State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, which Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French painter, 1725-1805) would have known from an engraving.

The broken eggs symbolize the loss of the girl's virginity. | © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lusia Popenko, 1955

Russian painter Людмила Попенко was born in Volgograd, and now lives in Moscow.

She had numerous personal and group exhibits in Russia and other countries, her paintings were presented at Christie's Charity Auctions of Russian Art.

Lusia Popenko populates her works with characters brought from memory and imagination. Her paintings are pastoral: everything here is the way you want it to be: you have many lives and all of them are happy.

These lives' stories resemble the novels you've read and movies you've seen. Everything here is an incarnation of your dreams of beauty and perfection.

Henri Lebasque | Painter of light

Painter of light, colorist and designer, French painter🎨 Joseph Henri Baptiste Lebasque🎨 (1865-1937) expresses in his art his zestful vision of life.

Henri Lebasque was born on September 25, 1865, in Champigné - Maine-et-Loire.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- by Henri see:

• Henri Lebasque | Post-Impressionist painter🎨

For other works see:

• Henri Lebasque | Paysages🎨
• Henri Lebasque | Figures🎨