Antonio Sgarbossa, 1945 | Dreaming In Venice

Antonio Sgarbossa was born in Fontana Viva, Italy

He started his artistic career at the age of twelve, attending an artistic ceramics workshop in Bassano.

In 1971 he moved to Nouchatel, in Switzerland, where he lived for a few years. It was here with a group of European artists that he gave life to an art studio, named the "La Soffitta" (Attic) and was first recognized for his work.

Antonio Sgarbossa, 1945 | Waiting...

Antonio Sgarbossa is an Italian painter, known for working in the Figurative style.
Sgarbossa was born in Fontana Viva, Italy, the 18th of July 1945. He started to use oil colors when he was really young and a few time later, his parents decided to send him to study in a workshop the technique of painting pot dishes.

Anton Yakutovych, 1957 | Magic Realism painter

Born in Kiev, Anton Yakutovych [Антон Якутович] Ukrainian painter, lives and works in Paris.
He grew up in an artists' family, and graduated from the National Academy of the Arts and Architecture of Kiev.
Anton has been practicing drawing, etching, lithography and painting since his early childhood.
For him, these disciplines are complementary and about them he says: «graphic arts maintain rigour, painting, a spirit of freedom ".

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.