Lyubena Fox / Любена Фокс, 1994 | Classical painter

Bulgarian painter Lyubena Fox / Любена Фокс is born in Sofia. In 2013 she graduates from the Bulgarian National School of Fine Arts, specializing in Illustration.

The same year she starts her studies with John M.Angel, moving to Florence, Italy and in 2016 graduates from the Angel Academy Florence.

Right after, she has a study session with Alessandro Dari.

Vladimir Kush, 1965 | Flamenco Dancer

Dance is an ecstatic state that changes the dancers, igniting their passion and, one and all, placing them on fire in the flame of love.

The metamorphosis of people into plants or vice versa was widely used in the mythopoetic ideas of the ancients.

"It is only the gods who taste of death," remarked Oscar Wilde, "Apollo has passed away, but Hyacinth, whom men say he slew, lives on. Nero and Narcissus are always with us".

Edward Okun | Symbolist / Art Nouveau painter

Edward Okuń (1872-1945) was a Polish Art Nouveau painter and freemason.

He painted landscapes, portraits, designed covers and llustrated magazines, including the German magazine "Jugend".

Biography

Okuń was born to a noble family and was orphaned early. He grew up with his grandparents on the maternal side.

After inheriting a large fortune, he soon began drawing lessons with great painters. In 1891 he studied at the Warsaw School of Drawing.

From 1891-1893 he studied under the direction of Isidore Jablonski and Jan Matejko at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts.

He continued his studies in Munich and Paris.

Lydia Velasco, 1942 | Figurative painter

Lydia Velasco was born in the town of Navotas, Philippines. Velasco’s love for the arts is an innate calling she traces back to her childhood.

She pursued Fine Arts major in advertising at University of Santo Tomas and then worked for many years as an artist for an advertising agency wherein her art directors turned out to be H.R. Ocampo and Cesar Legazpi, who are both national artists now.

Velasco is regarded as one of the top women artists in the Philippines today.

Johann Jakob Frey (1813-1865) | Paysages painter

Johann Jakob Frey, a Swiss landscape painter, a native of Basle, studied principally in Italy, and his views of that country are much valued.

He was first taught by his father, the painter and lithographer Samuel Frey (1785-1836). He later studied in Paris (1830) and in Munich (1834), the most vibrant artistic centre in Germany.

After travelling in Italy and Egypt, he settled in Rome where he specialised in landscape painting.

From Egypt, whither he accompanied Professor Lepsius, he brought many excellent sketches of the Pyramids, Labyrinths, ecc.