Thomas Couture | History / Genre painter

Thomas Couture (21 December 1815 - 30 March 1879) was a French history painter and teacher.

He taught such later luminaries of the art world as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Karel Javůrek and J-N Sylvestre.

Couture was born at Senlis, Oise, France.

When he was 11 his family moved to Paris, where he would study at the industrial arts school (École des Arts et Métiers) and later at the École des Beaux-Arts.

Cesar Pattein | Les blés, 1891

Nato a Steenvoorde, nel nord della Francia, César Pattein (1850-1931), figlio di un contadino, è cresciuto tra gli agricoltori e ha mantenuto uno stretto legame con la regione rurale per tutta la vita.

In primo luogo ha studiato incisione sotto Guillaume Alphonse Cabasson.

Nel 1878 entra all'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lille negli atelier di Alphonse Colas, ritrattista e pittore di scene religiose nato e cresciuto a Lille ed un certo Mr. Bascoppet.

Raramente ha viaggiato molto più lontano di Lille, con il viaggio occasionale a Parigi quando espone al Salon.

Caro Guarinos, 1963 | Surrealist painter

Caro Guarinos is an Spanish painter, born in Alcoy (Alicante).

If we talk about artists, we think, is it born or made?

Well, the artist is born, but the environment where he lives configures his training. This is the case of Caro Guarinos, in which we enter into his surroundings and meet her paternal grandfather who was already a good painter and cartoonist, and much appreciated by Alcoyana society.

Her father, a great artist of wood and creator of innovations and forms of great quality and personality, so on the basis, they influence Caro.

Picasso's Women

"Often while reading a book one feels that the author would heave preferred to paint rather than to write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors". Pablo Picasso

"For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart". Pablo Picasso

Richard Macneil, 1956 | Ballet dancers

Self-taught artist Richard Macneil paints diverse contemporary scenes with oil, joy, and lightness of heart.

His subjects include city scenes, couples, romance, shopping, outdoor scenes, weddings, flowers, children and Christmas. His vibrant work has a beauty that can lift any spirit.

Richard Macneil has always worked in the creative industry.