Degas and Mary Cassatt | A Love story...

From the moment the American Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) made her debut in 1879 with the group of artists known as the Impressionists*, her name has been linked with that of the Frenchman Edgar Degas (1834-1917). 

Cassatt stated that her first encounter with Degas’s art “changed my life,” while Degas, upon seeing Cassatt’s art for the first time, reputedly remarked, “there is someone who feels as I do”. 

It was this shared sensibility as much as Cassatt’s extraordinary talent that drew Degas’s attention.

Sir Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [1874-1965] è stato un politico, storico e giornalista britannico. Sulla scena politica per quasi sessant'anni e conosciuto principalmente per aver guidato la Gran Bretagna durante la seconda guerra mondiale, è stato primo ministro del Regno Unito dal 1940-1945 e successivamente dal 1951-1955. Churchill fu inoltre autore prolifico, vinse il Premio Nobel per la Letteratura nel 1953 per i suoi scritti storici.

Myoe Win Aung, 1972 | Watercolour painter

Burmese painter Myoe Win Aung was born in Yangon and studied under several masters, including U Lun Gywe. He started painting in 1989 and graduated from the State School of Fine Arts in 1992. He now works as a full time artist. As with most painters in Burma today, religious life and Buddhism influence his artistic expression. He has regular shows in Rangoon and has also exhibited in Singapore.

Shin Jong Sik | Watercolor painter

Watercolorist Shin Jong Sik is famous for expressing clean, transparent colors and his still life paintings express colorful, dignified and deep feeling.

Taking flowers, dishes and hemp cloth as materials, he does not compose as they are seen but recomposes with new ideas.

His excellent talent of lighting the hue reaches the vivid expression of emphasizing points of main materials according to hue and the background of his paintings are usually left blank.

Michael Alfano | Figurative and surrealistic sculptures

American sculptor Michael Alfano has been sculpting for over fifteen years. A native of New York, he now lives and works in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. His major influences are Salvador Dali, Jo Davidson, and Jean-Antoine Houdon, as well as Buddhist, Taoist, Sufi and other eastern philosophy and literature. He first studied at the Art Students League of New York, with an emphasis on life-size sculpture from the model. His formal education continued at Boston University and was augmented by internships with several prominent sculptors.

Noell Oszvald, 1991 | Surrealist photographer

Hungarian photographer Noell S. Oszvald is a self-taught photographer and visual artist from Budapest. Her black and white photographs resemble mid-century fashion photography as much as it does the work of her surrealist influences.

Severe contrasts between light and dark create graceful lines and a definite composition for each piece. In this way each image is intriguing, not only for its dreamy content but also because they are simply pleasing to look at.

Perhaps what is most surprising, though, is the fact Oszvald’s relationship with the camera is relatively new. Only twenty-two years old Oszvald has only been using the medium for a little over a year.

Minjae Lee, 1989 | Pop Surrealism painter

Minjae Lee is a young South Korean painter and illustrator, whose work expresses a semi-disturbing inner tension that is tough to ignore, even if you feel that you’d like to. It draws you in with its powerful colors, halting imagery and clever juxtaposition of beauty, innocence and fragility with brash, loud and aggressive.
What characterizes his work overall is drama. The ethereal females that populate most of his work exude a dark, organic tension, and it seems that even the brightest marker colors do not quite manage to save them from some sort of looming peril.

Francisco Sanchis Cortés / Stendhal

"La vista di tutto ciò che è estremamente bello, in arte o in natura, richiama con la rapidità del fulmine il ricordo di chi si ama".

Stendhal (1783-1842)*, scrittore Francese° e reporter di viaggio.

Francisco Sanchis Cortés, 1969