John Collier | Pre-Raphaelite painter

The Honourable John Maler Collier, called 'Jack' by his family and friends, was a leading British painter and an writer.

He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation.

Both his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry Huxley.

He studied painting at the Munich Academy where he enrolled on 14 April 1875 at the age of 25.

Franco Gentilini (1909-1981)

Italian painter Franco Gentilini was born in 1909 in Faenza (RA), Italy. Worked as a ceramist in Faenza and collaborated with Giovanni Romagnoli and Giorgio Morandi in Bologna.

He took part in numerous editions of the Venice Biennale, beginning with the acceptance of his work for the 17th Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Città of Venice in 1930, when he also visited Paris.

Sebastian Krüger, 1963 | New Pop Art

Sebastian Krüger is a German painter and caricaturist.

His primary medium is acrylic paint, and his caricatures are hyper-realistic in detail, yet also extremely grotesque in their distortion.

The Times praised him for "capturing the essence of his subjects" in his renderings.

He is well known for his lifelike depictions of The Rolling Stones, in particular, Keith Richards.

Stendhal | Quotes / Aforismi

• Only great minds can afford a simple style.
• If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
• One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
• The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
• I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Fernando Amorsolo | Pittore di genere

Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto, semplicemente noto come Fernando Amorsolo (Manila, 30 maggio 1892 - Manila, 24 aprile 1972) è stato un pittore Filippino, considerato uno dei protagonisti assoluti dello scenario artistico filippino del XX secolo.

Tra i pionieri della pittura nel Paese, assieme a Juan Luna e Fernando Zóbel, Amorsolo fu ritrattista e pittore di paesaggi rurali filippini, particolarmente noto per il suo tocco “artigianale” e la maestria nell'uso della luce e dell'ombra.

Nativo del quartiere di Paco, terminò i propri studi presso il Liceo de Manila Art School nel 1909.

Tomás Sánchez, 1948 ~ The Enchanting Forests

Tomás Sánchez, one of the most important and celebrated living Cuban Master. His work is meticulous in its breathtaking detail, but the objective of the artist is not so much the recreation of reality as it is displaying the magnificence of a lyrical universe.
Tomás Sánchez, born in Cuba in 1948, invents richly spiritual images of nature in his art. Sánchez graduated in 1971 in National Art School, Cuba. Tomás Sánchez was awarded the 1st prize of Drawing for Young Artists in the National Exhibition of Arts.

Paul Signac | Neo-impressionist painter

French painter Paul Signac (1863-1935) was born in Paris.

He followed a course of training in architecture before deciding at the age of 18 to pursue a career as a painter.

He sailed around the coasts of Europe, painting the landscapes he encountered.

He also painted scenes of cities in France in his later years.

Clarence Holbrook Carter (1904-2000)

Clarence Holbrook Carter born in Portsmouth, Ohio, was an American painter.

Carter's work is found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; the James A. Michener Art Museum; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; and many others.