David Hockney, 1937 | Pop Art painter

David Hockney is a British painter, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. As an important contributor to the Pop Art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century.

He began this style of art by taking Polaroid photographs of one subject and arranging them into a grid layout. The subject would actually move while being photographed so that the piece would show the movements of the subject seen from the photographer’s perspective.

Ikushima Hiroshi 生 島 浩 , 1958 | Figurative painter

Born in Osaka, Ikushima Hiroshi 生 島 浩 is a Japanese award winning🎨 painter.

1983 - Graduated from Kyoto Seika University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Course.

1988 - Went to the United States ('89 to Europe '94 Returned to Japan).

1996 - Opened the painting class in Osaka.

1999 - Entered for the first time in the Hakujitsu Exhibition ('00 Hakujitsu Award, '02 Tomita Award, '05 Sanyo Art Encouragement Award, '10 The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award, '12 Prime Minister Award).

Alexander Pushkin | A magic moment I remember / Ricordo il magico istante..

Boris Valentinovich Shcherbakov (1916-1995) | Pushkin in Mikhailovsky, 1969 (detail)

A magic moment I remember:

I raised my eyes and you were there,

A fleeting vision, the quintessence

Of all that's beautiful and rare

I pray to mute despair and anguish,

To vain the pursuits world esteems,

Long did I hear your soothing accents,

Long did your features haunt my dreams.

Alessandro Milesi | Genre painter

Alessandro Milesi (1856-1945) was an Venetian painter, mainly depicting genre subjects.

Milesi was a pupil of Napoleone Nani at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts from 1869-1874, when he followed his master to Verona, returning to his hometown in 1876.

The work he presented at the national exhibitions held in Milan (1881) and Venice (1887) established his reputation as a painter of everyday Venetian life, carrying on the tradition of Giacomo Favretto but also influenced by the new artistic approach of Ettore Tito and Cesare Laurenti.

Mark Keathley, 1963 | Romantic painter

Mark Keathley grew up on the family cattle farm in East Texas and loved romping through the woods and across open fields.

In the early 1990’s, he entered a couple of paintings in the Cheyenne, Wyoming “Old West Museum Show” and won a couple of awards for his work.