Claude Théberge (1934-2008) | Abstract painter

The career of Claude Théberge provides a prime example of how time works in magical and often unforeseen ways…

This Canadian painter🎨, a graduate of Quebec City’s École des Beaux-Arts, won bursaries from both the Canada Arts Council and the Quebec Government and attended the greatest art and design schools in France.

He captured the top prize in a United Nations competition involving 65.000 graphic artists from throughout the world.

Armand Guillaumin | Paysages | Page 3

Armand Guillaumin (February 16, 1841 - June 26, 1927), was a French impressionist painter, best remembered for his landscapes of Paris, the Creuse département, and the area around Les Adrets-de-l'Estérel near the Mediterranean coast in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region of France.

Francesco Lojacono | Scenery painter

Francesco Lojacono or Lo Jacono (1838-1915) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes and seascapes.

He was born in Palermo, Sicily, and received his early training there with his father Luigi, a history painter, and Salvatore Lo Forte.

Francesco Lojacono won a gold medal for a small canvas presented at an exhibition in Palermo, and this gained him a stipend to move in 1856 to Naples, where attended the school of Filippo Palizzi.

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) | Quotes

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance

Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer, one of the fathers of the modern short story.

• "I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt".
• "I took the book from him reverently, and I gazed at these forms incomprehensible to me, but which revealed the immortal thoughts of the greatest shatterer of dreams who had ever dwelt on earth".
• "You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government".

Elin Danielson-Gambogi | Naturalist painter

Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi (3 September 1861 - 31 December 1919) was a Finnish painter, best known for her realist works and portraits. Danielson-Gambogi was part of the first generation of Finnish women artists who received professional education in art, the so-called "Painter sisters' generation".

The group also included Helene Schjerfbeck.

Early life and studies

Elin Danielson was born in the small village of Noormarkku, near the city of Pori in Western Finland to Karl Danielson and Rosa Amalia Danielson.

Her early years were however spent at Ilmajoki as her father attempted farming there. Because of the Finnish famine of 1866–68, the farm failed. After being forced to sell the farm, her father Karl shot himself.

Her mother Rosa returned to Noormarkku with her two daughters.