Tony Pavone | Last Lover

Born in Ohio from parents of European descent, Tony Pavone's childhood was filled with art, operas, musicals and passion for culture.

His artistic abilities became evident when, at the age of 3, he opened his father's anatomy and art books and drew the internal anatomy of the human body.

At the age of 10, his family moved to Florida, and after high school, Tony received a full scholarship to the University of South Florida for symphonic string bass.

"The more I played music, the more art pulled at me". Before long, Tony left USF and enrolled in the Ringling School of Art and Design. Earlier in his professional career Tony worked as a graphic illustrator and rose quickly to creative director, then to Art director.

Albert Rieger | Landscape painter

Austrian🎨 landscape and marine painter Albert Rieger (Trieste, 1834 - Vienna,1905) was the son and pupil of painter Giuseppe Rieger. He was also influenced by the works of the German artist Bernhard Fiedler (1816-1904). Rieger's preferred subjects were marines and landscapes.

In 1838 settled he with the family in Vienna.

His works were exhibited in many exhibitions in Munich and Paris works are presented in important collections, for example at the Museum of Altenburg and in Wroclaw.

Crown prince Rudolf bought his landscapes "Am Traunsee" and "Gosausee".

Rieger was awarded🎨 with Gold Austrian Medal and Great Golden Swedish-Norwegian Medal.

Pittore paesaggista, figlio del pittore Giuseppe, Albert Rieger nasce a Trieste nel 1932 (altri lo fanno nascere nel 1833 e nel 1834).

Dopo aver appreso i primi rudimenti dell’arte pittorica nello studio del padre grazie all’appoggio economico del barone Revoltella frequenta l’Accademia delle Belle Arti di Venezia dopo di che torna a Trieste ove apre uno studio e ove rimane sino al 1970 (qualche autore lo fa trasferire nel 1874), anno in cui si trasferisce a Vienna dove muore nel 1904.

Risulta abbia operato anche all’estero: Grecia, Italia, Francia, Gran Bretagna, Scandinavia ecc.

Molti dei suoi quadri (acquarelli e olio) sono stati utilizzati per incisioni e riproduzioni cromolitografiche; il suo nome è legato al mondo delle grotte per varie litografie della Grotta di Adelsberg (Postumia, Postojna, firmate assieme al padre Giuseppe), l’entrata della stessa grotte e per un opuscolo, sempre di litografie, sulla Grotta di Corniale (Vilenica jama) che risulta abbia visitato il 23 giugno 1849, dove firma sul libro dei visitatori.

Henri Matisse | Fauve painter / sculptor

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse [1869-1954] French painter, sculptor, draughtsman, printmaker and designer, one of the most illustrious artists of the 20th century.

From the 1920s he enjoyed an international reputation alongside Picasso as the foremost painter of his time.

Unlike Picasso, he was a late starter in art, and he was not quite so prolific or versatile, but for sensitivity of line and beauty of colouring he stands unrivalled among his contemporaries.

Mario Henrique, 1983 | Abstract portraitist

Mario Henrique is an artist based in Cascais, Portugal.

Graduated in Design from Lisbon’s University of Fine Arts, he started his career in online marketing and web development agencies.

Later on, as a creative director, he recruited and led teams in Portugal, Spain and Brazil.

As partner and head of design in one of these projects, he would eventually be part of a successful exit via acquisition, and then shifted his focus to contemporary painting, which had always been a parallel interest.

Victor Ostrovsky, 1949 | Best selling author

Victor Ostrovsky is the best selling author, and screenplay writer, of four books which were a worldwide phenomenon. His expertise on Judaism, Islam and security issues, made him a thought after speaker.

Victor has appeared on Larry King Live, The ABC, NBC, and CBS Nightly News, Prime Time Live, and dozens of other media venues worldwide.

His book "By Way of Deception" was banned for one week, but was overturned by the appeals court.

"The Israeli government, which won the temporary restraining order Wednesday, failed to prove that its agents' lives were endangered," said a statement by a four-judge panel of the New York Appellate Division.

20th century Art History and Sitemap

Twentieth-century art - and what it became as modern art - began with modernism in the late nineteenth century.

Nineteenth-century movements of Post-Impressionism (Les Nabis), Art Nouveau and Symbolism led to the first twentieth-century art movements of Fauvism in France and Die Brücke ("The Bridge") in Germany.

Fauvism in Paris introduced heightened non-representational colour into figurative painting.

Die Brücke strove for emotional Expressionism.

Henri Matisse | Woman on a Terrace, 1907 | Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg

Francis De Saint-Genies | Surrealist / Symbolist painter

Francis De Lassus Saint-Genies (1925-2018) was a French artist born in Brittany at Val André.

After his studies at Julian's Academy in Paris, he dedicates himself for a long time to the portrait.

In search of the secret character of his models, he has to reach a very personal expression where the outer world, often inversed, encloses the reflection of the individual mystery.