Henry Bacon | Orientalist painter

Henry A. Bacon (1839-1912) was an American painter, author, illustrator, and translator.

Before his formal training as an artist, he served as a soldier and war artist during the American Civil War, and was badly wounded in the Second Battle of Bull Run.

He then studied in France, and became a member of the Pont-Aven School, painting genre subjects of French country life, many sold back in America.

He first traveled to Egypt in 1897, and then developed an interest in Orientalist painting, soon spending his winters in the Middle East, dying in Cairo.

Adam Scott Rote | Hollywood legends

Adam Scott Rote is a uniquely American painter, and his work draws equally on american architecture and classic cinema to create an enduring sense of aesthetic timelessness. Rote’s work throughout the last decade has been influenced by architecture, fashion, and classic cinema.

He is a self-taught artist who studied early icons including pinup legends Vargas, Robert McGinnis, and master photographer George Hurrell. setting the stage for the elegant and realist styles his figures would garner.

Wassily Kandinsky | Lend your ears to music../ Presta le tue orecchie alla musica..

"…Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking!

Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to “walk about” into a hitherto unknown world.

If the answer is yes, what more do you want?"

Sergey Shenderovsky, 1964

Riccardo Galli (Italian painter, 1869-1944)

Riccardo Galli was an Italian painter and illustrator.

Riccardo Galli was born in Milan in 1869, as well as a painter he was also a poet and illustrator for well-known magazines of the time and for the publisher Ricordi and musician. He was a pupil of Giuseppe Bertini (painter) at the Brera Academy.

His painting at the beginning was inspired by life and which found its themes in peasant and countryside life. A painting built with color superimposed in dense brushstrokes and which was directed by patriotic ideals towards Lombard naturalism.

Olivier Lamboray, 1968 | Surrealist painter

Internationally award winning🎨, Olivier Lamboray is a Belgian🎨 Surrealist painter🎨 who currently lives in Indonesia with his daughter.

He has been painting since 1992 and has, to date, had many successful exhibitions in Belgium, USA, Monaco, Italy, England, France,Thailand, Netherlands, Indonesia and Guinea.

"Painting is my Life"...

Would really define who I am.

Surrealism is very present in Belgian culture and I have been fascinated by it since his early years..

"The magical feeling of the surreal dream..."