Georgia O'Keeffe: "Non basta essere gentili nella vita. Devi avere coraggio"

"Un fiore è relativamente piccolo. Ognuno ha molte associazioni con un fiore - l'idea dei fiori. Allunghi la mano per toccare il fiore - ti pieghi in avanti per annusarlo - forse lo tocchi con le labbra quasi senza pensarci - o lo dai a qualcuno per compiacerlo. Eppure - in un certo senso - nessuno vede un fiore - davvero - è così piccolo - non abbiamo tempo - e per vedere ci vuole tempo, come per avere un amico ci vuole tempo... Così mi sono detto - Dipingerò quello che vedo - cos'è il fiore per me, ma lo dipingerò in grande e loro saranno sorpresi nel prendersi del tempo per guardarlo - farò in modo che anche i newyorkesi indaffarati si prendano del tempo per vedere quello che vedo dei fiori.. . Beh, ti ho fatto prendere del tempo per guardare ciò che ho visto e quando ti sei preso del tempo per notare davvero il mio fiore.".

Georgia O'Keeffe | Abstract painter

For several decades Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was a major figure in American art who, remarkably, maintained her independence from shifting artistic trends.

She painted prolifically, and almost exclusively, the flowers, animal bones, and landscapes around her studios in Lake George, New York and New Mexico, and these subjects became her signature images.

She remained true to her own unique artistic vision and created a highly individual style of painting, which synthesized the formal language of modern European abstraction and the subjects of traditional American pictorialism.

Alex Levin, 1975 | Surrealist painter

Levin comes from Kiev, Ukraine, where he was born and later on attended Art Academy, which he graduated with honors.

In 1990 Alex Levin immigrated to Israel, where he continues to live in a city of Herzeliya.

With most productive and hectic schedule, Alex Levin finds additional time to grow as an artist and studies new techniques with Professor Baruch Elron who was the Chairman of Israel Artist Association.

The main painting styles are Surrealism and Realism.

Artworks of Levin admired worldwide and were purchased for numerous private, corporate and institutional collections in the United States of America, Israel, France, Italy, Ukraine, Switzerland and Belgium.

Vadim Suljakov 1960 | Urban landscape painter

Вадим Суляков was born in the cultural center of Moscow. His parents gave him an excellent home education and he began painting at the age of seven. He continued with Russia's most rigid and traditional art education. The schools were very strict and difficult, and only a few were chosen to go on to the next level.

Morgan Weistling, 1964 | Romantic painter

Morgan studied art at an early age with his father, a former art student. His parents both met at art school. His father, Howard, a POW in Germany, entertained his fellow American prisoners in Stalag 1 with a daily comic strip that he created and drew to keep morale up. Drawn on scraps of paper found on the prison grounds, he crafted a humorous world of characters that managed to bring a smile to imprisoned soldiers. In the last days of the war and feeling the Russians would be coming, his talents with painting saved his life. Using some paints supplied by the Geneva Convention, he painted a American Flag on the shoulder of his prisoner uniform so that the Russians invading Germany would identify him and not shoot him. It worked.

François Joseph Bosio | Neoclassical sculptor

Baron François Joseph Bosio (19 March 1768 - 29 July 1845) was a French sculptor who achieved distinction in the first quarter of the nineteenth century with his work for Napoleon and for the restored French monarchy.

Born in Monaco, Bosio was given a scholarship by prince Honoré I to study in Paris with the eminent sculptor Augustin Pajou.

After brief service in the Revolutionary army he lived in Florence, Rome and Naples, providing sculpture for churches under the French hegemony in Italy in the 1790s.

William Powell Frith | Victorian Era painter

Frith [1819-1909] was an British painter, specialising in Genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian Era.

He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1852.

He has been described as the "greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth".

Jacques-Laurent Agasse

Born at Geneva, Agasse [1767-1849] studied in the public art school of that city. Before he turned twenty he went to Paris to study in veterinary school to make himself fully acquainted with the anatomy of horses and other animals. He seems to have subsequently returned to Switzerland.