Pierre Grisot (1911-1995) | Ballet dancers

Pierre Grisot was born in Paris. He was a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and exhibited frequently in Paris, in particular at the Salon des Independants and with the group of The Paris School, showing together with the contemporary artists Vlaminck🎨, Raoul Dufy🎨 and Villon.

Léon Zeytline (1885-1962) | Paris painting

Léon Zeytline / Леон Цейтлин was a Russian painter🎨 whom moved from Moscow to the capital of France at the beginning of the 20th century.

He started depicting daily life of Paris during the 1920's, illustrating the numerous and famous squares and boulevards, such as the "Boulevard de l'Opéra" and "Les Champs Elysées" for example.

Swiss Art History and Sitemap

Alberto Giacometti | Surrealist/Existentialist/Figure sculptor

Switzerland lies at the crossroads of several major European cultures. Three of the continent's major languages, German, French and Italian, are national languages of Switzerland, along with Romansh, spoken by a small minority.

Therefore, Swiss culture is characterized by diversity, which is reflected in a wide range of traditional customs. The 26 cantons also account for the large cultural diversity.

Edgar Degas | Art Quotes

• "Art is not what you see, but what you make others see".
• "L'arte non è ciò che vedi, ma ciò che fai vedere agli altri".
• "Bisogna rifare dieci volte, cento volte lo stesso soggetto. Niente, in arte, deve sembrare dovuto al caso".
• "Do it again, ten times, a hundred times. Nothing in art must seem to be an accident, not even movement".

Paul Jones (1921-1997) | Flowers of May

Paul Jones is an Australian painter who has painted these beautiful botanical illustrations in a manner very reminiscent of Thornton’s Temple of Flora.

His watercolor paintings are widely held in museum collections and included in several interesting exhibits linked below, at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the Smithsonian in Washington DC and he is considered one of the finest botanical artists of the last 150 years.