George McNeil | Abstract expressionist painter

A pioneer Abstract Expressionist of the New York School, George McNeil (1908-1995) had over forty solo exhibitions during his lifetime.

Between the ’40s and until the mid ’60s his art was decidedly abstract but it was always joined to metaphor. George McNeil had a career that spanned the entire postwar American art era.

McNeil attended Pratt Institute and the Art Students’ League, where he studied with Jan Matulka.

Ben Nicholson | Abstract painter

Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM (1894-1982) was an English painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscapes and still-life.

He was one of the leading promoters of abstract art in his country.

Born in Denham, Buckinghamshire, Nicholson was the son of the painters Sir William Nicholson and Mabel Pryde, and the brother of artist Nancy Nicholson, architect Christopher Nicholson and Anthony Nicholson.

Friedrich Nietzsche / Renoir: "Abbiamo l'arte per non morire di realtà"!

• "The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world".

• "Il grande fine dell'Arte è colpire l'immaginazione con la forza di un'anima che rifiuta di ammettere la sconfitta anche nel mezzo di un mondo che crolla.".

•"L'Arte: La grande creatrice della possibilità di vivere,

la grande seduttrice della vita,

grande stimolante per vivere.."

Arturo Souto Feijoo [1902-1964]

Arturo Souto Feijoo was an important spanish painter who studied in Seville and Madrid and then traveled to Paris in the 1920s where he was influenced by the avant-garde. Prior to his exile from Spain following the Spanish Civil War, Souto exhibited throughout Europe. While living in Havana, Mexico, and the U.S. during the 1940s until his death in 1964, Souto continued to exhibit and developed a reputation as one of the outstanding spanish painters of the twentieth century.

Angelica Privalihin

Angelica Privalihin was born in a small village called Uzlovaja in the Tula region of Russia. She attended the Special School for Gifted in Arts for children in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. She was taught to see the beauty of the world, and to depict it not realistically, but through her own feelings and vision. When not with her family Angelica devotes all of her time to painting, participating in exhibitions in both Russia and abroad. Her works are held in the Art Museum of the city of Krasnoyarsk and Art Museum of Divnogorsk and other museums in Siberia and the Far East and in private collections in Russia, Israel, Germany, USA, China and now, UK.

Anatoly Dverin, 1935 | Impressionist painter

Anatoly Dverin was born in Ukraine, studied in St. Petersburg and earned wide recognition and success before leaving the Soviet Union in 1976, eventually settling in Massachusetts.

Since that time, he has amassed numerous awards and created a breathtaking body of work.

He is a popular demonstrator at the major pastel societies.

He recently published a book of his life and work, Anatoly Dverin - American Impressionist.

Mariusz Lewandowski

Mariusz Lewandowski è nato nel 1931 a Dzialdowo. Fin dall'infanzia ha sentito la necessità di creare. Nel 1975 dipinse il suo primo quadro ad olio. Da allora, inizia a prendere parte attiva all'aria aperta e varie mostre. Oggi i suoi quadri rappresentano l'orgoglio di molti collezionisti, sia in patria che all'estero.

Eser Afacan, 1953 | Figurative painter

Eser Afacan is a Turkish artist, painter, and sculptor of Assyrian ethnicity.

His father, also an artist, is Assyrian, while his mother is of Greek origin.

Afacan began drawing at a young age.

Eser Afacan, Turkish painter, studied in Manchester, England before moving to Norway in 1978 to study Mathematics and Physics at the University of Bergen.