Ben Goossens 1945 ~ Surrealist photographer | Part. 2

Ben Goossens was born in Liezele, Belgium and attended the St Lucas Art School in Brussels where he studied Illustration and Photography.
After four years in Art School, illustration and photography became his obsession. He worked in advertising for 32 years, mostly as an Art Director, where he gained 15 years of Photoshop experience. His source of inspiration in advertising came from surrealist paintings and still does in his work now. His hobby and passion now is creating ‘experimental/surreal photomontages’, these images are very seamless yet painterly dreamscapes. With each shooting he tries to create his own personal image, either simple or complex the idea behind his images is more important than the technique. He believes that the work he makes now is a logical follow-up to what he did professionally.

Paolo Uccello | Early Renaissance painter

Paolo di Dono [1397-1475], detto Paolo Uccello è stato un pittore e mosaicista italiano. Fu tra i protagonisti della scena artistica fiorentina della metà del XV secolo.Secondo quanto racconta Vasari nelle sue Vite, Paolo Uccello "non ebbe altro diletto che d'investigare alcune cose di prospettiva difficili et impossibili".

Sam Weber | Visionary illustrator

Born in Alaska, Sam grew up in Deep River Ontario, Canada. After attending the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, he moved to New York to pursue illustration and attend graduate school at The School of Visual Arts.

In addition to drawing, Sam works part time as assistant art director of the OpEd page at the New York Times, with senior art director Brian Rea.

Current likes include Italian and Japanese comics, David Lynch movies, and hanging out with Jillian.

Timur Tsaku 1971 ~ Surreal Hyperrealist painter

Tsaku was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In 1991, Tsaku returned to his homeland and became an Instructor of painting and drawing at the Tashkent Academy of Art and Theater. In 2001 he returned to Israel to start a new line of works taking its motif in the Old Testament. Tsaku's paintings were acquired for the permanent collections of the Israel Museum and the President's Residence, both in Jerusalem.

Michael Solovyev, 1972

Solovyev was born in the city Sarov, Russia. His childhood was spent in Moscow and later Ivanovo where he attended high school and the art conservatory. In 1991 he graduated from Ivanovo Art College with a degree in Architectural Design. In 1996 Mr. Solovyov graduated from the Ivanovo Textile Academy with a degree in Costume Design. From 1996-2001 he worked in the Kemerovo Regional Drama Theatre as the Chief Set Scenic Designer.

Tatiana Deriy, 1973 | Figurative painter

Tatiana Deriy is a dynamically growing painter, whose major creative goal is comprehension of unity of the world's esthetic beauty and its profound meaning as well as rendering them to viewers through painting.
Born in a wonderful part of Moscow region, not far from ''Archangelskoye'' estate full of creations of famous architects and sculptors, refinement of palace parks and canvases by Veronese and Tintoretto*, at an early age she developed special world outlook which later on defined the tenor of her work, based on the sense of harmony and beauty.

Ricardo Fernandez Ortega 1971 ~ Surrealist painter

Ricardo Fernandez Ortega was born in 1971 in Durango, Mexico. The surreal paintings by Ortega invites us to travel to another time, his style reminds us of the greatest classical masters, however, his painting is modern.

Édouard Cortès | Post-Impressionist painter

Édouard Leon Cortès (1882-1969), of french and spanish ancestry, was born in Lagny-sur-Marne, a few miles east of Paris.

As an adolescent, he became fascinated with the arts and at seventeen began his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

The year 1901 marked the artist's first exhibition at the Salon des Artistes Francais.

His piece depicting a dramatic Paris street scene at dusk brought him immediate recognition and fame.