Erté (Romain de Tirtoff)

Romain de Tirtoff [1892-1990] was a Russian-born French painter and designer known by the pseudonym Erté, a French pronunciation of initials R.T. Tirtoff was born as Roman Petrov de Tyrtov [Роман Петрович Тыртов] in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire in a very distinguished family with roots traced back to 1548.

His father Pyotr Ivanovich de Tyrtov was a Fleet Admiral.

In 1910-1912 Romain moved to Paris to pursue a career as a designer. This decision was made over strong objections of his father, who wanted Romain to continue a family tradition and to become a naval officer. Romain assumed the pseudonym to avoid disgracing the family.

In 1915 he got his first significant contract with Harper's Bazaar magazine, and he went on to an illustrious career that included designing costumes and stage sets.

Erté is perhaps most famous for his elegant fashion designs which capture the art deco period in which he worked. His delicate figures and sophisticated, glamorous designs are instantly recognizable, and his ideas and art influence fashion into the 21st century.

Alexander Hodyukov, 1966 | Impressionist painter | Figures

Ходюков Александр🎨 was born in the city of Vitebsk. Here he lives and works.

His works were performed in different directions: realism, impressionism, art nouveau.

They can be seen not only landscapes, still lifes, seascapes and portraits, and surreal worlds in the style of fantasy and surrealism, harmony and beauty in the nude.

Technique works too wide: oil, watercolor, acrylic.

Albert Joseph Moore ~ Academic/Classicist painter

Albert Joseph Moore [1841-1893], known for his depictions of langorous female figures set against the luxury and decadence of the classical world, was the youngest of the fourteen children of the artist William Moore of York who in the first half of the 19th century enjoyed a considerable reputation in the North of England as a painter of portraits and landscape.

Ignacio Larra, 1954 ~ Figurativ Mural painter

The modern Spanish painter Venezuelan in San Juan County (Caracas) Venezuela, but in the age of 14 with his parents emigrated to Spain where he lives so far.

Philippe Faraut, 1963 ~ Figurative sculptor

Philippe Faraut is a figurative artist specializing in life-size portrait sculptures and monumental stone sculptures. His media of choice are water-based clay and marble.

Margarita Georgiadis, 1968 ~ Narrative painter

Margarita Georgiadis was born in Sydney, Australia. She educated herself in philosophy and physics. This research underpins her work, to such an extent that she fondly compares painting to writing. Georgiadis had an epiphany after the passing of her father.

Albert Bierstadt | Hudson River School

German-born American painter Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), recognized as the foremost painter of the american frontier during the nineteenth-century, was born in Solingen, Germany, in 1830.

At the age of two, he and his family emigrated to the United States, settling in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Edgar Degas | The Ballet dancers

Among the supreme masterpieces of the century are Degas's pictures of the ballet and its dancers.

The impulse towards painting the contemporary scene came to him not only from Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) and Manet (1832-1883) but from his friend, the critic Duranty, the exponent of the aesthetics of naturalism.

Yet in the particular direction of his tastes and his conception of design he was entirely individual.

To study and convey movement was a chosen task, first undertaken on the race course and then in his many pictures of the Opera, viewed from behind the scenes, in the wings, or from the orchestra stalls during a performance.