Shaun Smith | Ocean Waves

Shaun Smith is a playful water photographer who sees the bright side in the smallest things in life.

Like many surfers before him, Shaun started bringing a camera in the water to shoot his friends and document his own rides, as a way to relive the fun.

Growing up on the coast of California, Shaun started swimming age two, took to bodyboarding at seven and hasn’t stopped since.

"I love the feeling of getting barreled. There's really nothing else like it".

Starting at the Wedge and staring down barrels, Shaun found his style in the mini-waves movement, capturing in ripples the universal beauty of undulating water.

Shaun Smith is obsessed with listening to the call of the ocean, using the lens to record the mood of the sea, the dance of the waves in the wind, like the lonely but not lonely soul of the sea.

Hemen Majumdar (India, 1894-1948)

Hemendranath Majumdar was an Indian painter who lived in Bengal. In 2002, there was a huge uproar when his painting was stolen and found with an art dealer.

His birthplace Kishoreganj now belongs to Bangladesh.

In 1911 he decorated the gates to welcome King George V, on his visit to India.

He was one of the founding members of Indian Academy of Fine Art, Kolkata in 1919 along with Jogeshchandra Seal, Jamini Roy, Bhabani Charan Law and Atul Bose.

He remained a celebrated artist during his lifetime and has been invited by many rulers to draw their portraits and also gave him the position of court artist.

Tiziano Baravelli, 1963

Nato in provincia di Bologna, Tiziano Baravelli scopre l'arte fin da bambino, diventando prima un musicista e poi un produttore musicale.

Finché, a 40 anni, capisce che la sua vera passione è, invece, la pittura ed inizia a dipingere, affermandosi da subito nel panorama nazionale.

Tra i soggetti dei suoi quadri più famosi troviamo ritratti, dipinti di oggetti e paesaggi.

Oggi il pittore è apprezzato soprattutto per i suoi ritratti: il volto umano è descritto dal pittore come la massima espressione della complessità dell’essere umano.

Grande attenzione, ad esempio, è data alla figura femminile, dipinta in modo da sottolinearne la delicatezza con colori neutri ed opachi che riproducono sulla tela la grazia della donna.

Pedro Salinas / Chagall | "Per vivere non voglio isole, palazzi, torri.."

To live I don't want

islands, palaces, towers.

What steeper joy

Than living in pronouns!

Take off your clothing,

features, pictures;

I don't want you like that,

masked as another,

always a daughter of something.

Marc Chagall | Over the town / Sulla città, 1918

Luca Carlevarijs | Baroque Era / Veduta painter

Luca Carlevarijs or Carlevaris (1663-1730) was an Italian painter and engraver working mainly in Venice.

He pioneered the genre of the cityscapes (vedute) of Venice, a genre that was later widely followed by artists such as Canaletto and Francesco Guardi.

Carlevarijs was born in Udine.

He was also known as 'Luca Casanobrio' or 'Luca di ca Zenobrio', for his patronage by the latter family.