Arkady Plastov (1893-1972) Socialist Realist painter

Arkady Alexandrovich Plastov / Аркадий Александрович Пластов was a Russian🎨 socialist realist painter. Plastov was born into a family of icon painters in the village Prislonikha in the Russian Governorate of Simbirsk.

He attended the sculpture department of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture beginning in 1914.

César Pattein (1850-1931) | Genre painter

César Pattein was a French painter active from 1882-1914.

Pattein studied under French Naturalist painter Jules Breton (1827-1906) .

He was exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris, where he was awarded a third-class medal in 1896.

Born in Steenvoorde, in northern France, Pattein was raised among farmers and maintained a close connection to the rural region throughout his life.

Hermann Hesse: A dance by Chopin, 1901

Frédéric Chopin, 1906 - Parc Monceau, Paris, France - Jacques Froment-Meurice (1864-1947)

A dance by Chopin sounds loudly in the ballroom,

A wild, riotous dance.

The windows gleam pallidly because of the weather,

The grand piano is adorned by a wilted wreath.

Un walzer di Chopin riempie la sala

una danza selvaggia e scatenata.

Alla fine pallido chiarore,

il pianoforte adorna un'appassita ghirlanda.

Sir Thomas Francis Dicksee | Victorian painter

Sir Frank Bernard Dicksee PRA (1853-1928) was an English Victorian painter and illustrator, best known for his pictures of dramatic literary, historical, and legendary scenes.

He also was a noted painter of portraits of fashionable women, which helped to bring him success in his own time.

Bo Bartlett, 1955 | Realist / Figurative painter

Bo Bartlett is an American🎨 Realist painter with a modernist vision. His paintings are within the tradition of American Realism as defined by artists such as Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth.

Like these artists, Bartlett looks at America's land and people to describe the beauty he finds in everyday life. His paintings celebrate the underlying epic nature of the commonplace and the personal significance of the extraordinary.

"Bartlett was educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where realist principles must be grasped before modernist ventures are encouraged.