Francesco Furini | Baroque Era painter

Francesco Furini (1600-1646) was an Italian painter🎨 of Florence, known for working in the Baroque style🎨 and Mannerist style of Florence.

His early training was by Matteo Rosselli - other pupils include Lorenzo Lippi and Baldassare Franceschini, though Furini is also described as influenced by Domenico Passignano and Giovanni Biliverti.

He befriended Giovanni da San Giovanni. Traveling to Rome in 1619, he also would have been exposed to the influence of Caravaggio🎨 and his followers.

Tomás Taure Alonso, 1944 | Figurative painter

Tomás Taure Alonso is a self-taught Spanish painter🎨 who works in a figurative style.

By profession, he is a doctor and surgeon.

Since 2000, he has been studying in the studio of painter Roberto Fuentes.

Taure uses an agile brushstroke to present the human figure, especially the feminine form and thus shows off his virtuosity with color and form.

His oil paintings give the feeling of being unfinished, his intention being that the viewer finish the painting conceptually.

His artworks are found in private collections in Spain, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Brazil, the United States, Argentina, Mexico.

Maria Jose Aguilar,1964 | Symbolic Realism painter

Maria José Aguilar was born in the city of Sevilla, in the centre’s San Lorenzo district.

she spent her childhood and early adolescence among her native city, the bay of Cadiz and the Jaén mountains.

From early on she showed artistic leanings and gifts fed by appropriate surroundings. She grew up with a passion for the great spanish masters, especially Velázquez, Murillo, Zurbarán and Valdés Leal, etc.

Antonio Fuertes (1940-1988)

Antonio Fuertes, born in Madrid, is a self-taught painter. He worked in a shop advertising, engaged on the facades of cinemas and theaters in Madrid. In his works often present with Oriental theme Arabic.

He paints men and women in Moroccan landscapes or the Alhambra in Granada in the background.

His first exhibition was held in Toledo in 1982 and a year later participated in the same city, in a thematic exhibition at the Museum Sephardic Jewish.

Laimonas Šmergelis, 1972 | Surrealist painter

Born in Utena, Lithuania.

Utena Children Arts School, 1985.

1989 repeatedly graduated from Utena Children Arts School.

Siauliai Pedagogical University, Bachelor Degree in Arts and Crafts, 1995.

Siauliai Pedagogical University, Master’s Degree in Humanitarian Sciences, Fine Arts Studies, 1997. Worked as arts teacher in a primary school. Since 2003 organizes courses in Utena Region Association for Disabled.Organized about 20 personal exhibitions. Since 1990 participates in group exhibitions, about 40 exhibitions.