Gaetano Cellini | Humanity Against Evil / L'umanità contro il male, 1908

L’umanità contro il male /Humanity against Evil, now at Rome’s National Gallery of Modern Art (GNAM), was one of the first works by Ravenna-born sculptor Gaetano Cellini (1873-1937).

Cellini presented the plaster model at the Milan Expo of 1906, for which he won the prestigious "Premio Fumagalli dell'Accademia di Brera".

On the base, he inscribed the title of the work and a couplet explaining its meaning:

"Thus I’ll extirpate using my teeth and nails

the eternal pain that stings my heart".

André Rieu, 1949 | The King of Waltz

André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu is a Dutch violinist and conductor best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra.

Together they have turned classical and waltz music into a worldwide concert touring act, as successful as some of the biggest global pop and rock music acts.

For his work, Rieu has been awarded such honours as the Order of the Netherlands Lion by the Netherlands, the Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France, and the Honorary Medal by his native Province of Limburg.

Pablo Picasso | The Bathers

Il tema delle bagnanti "The Bathers" - l’inserimento del nudo nel paesaggio, occupa una parte cospicua nella produzione pittorica dei grandi maestri, diventando fondamentale per la stessa storia dell'Arte.

Le numerosissime tele di Cézanne influenzarono profondamente tutti i protagonisti delle avanguardie, da Matisse a Braque, da Picasso a Moore.

Soprattutto Picasso e Matisse, e tramite loro gran parte dei pittori del Novecento, pur attraverso percorsi diversi, gli saranno debitori di nuove possibilità espressive del linguaggio pittorico.

Lyudmila Agrich | Ballet dancer

Ukrainian-born Lyudmila Agrich moved to Denver almost 20 years ago and has made a name for herself in the Colorado art scene with her unparalleled palette knife mastery.

For biographical notes and other works by Agrich see Lyudmila Agrich | Impressionism Expressionist painter.

Lyudmila Agrich | Impressionism Expressionist painter

Lyudmila Agrich was born in Russia. After changing her place of residency several times, her family finally settled down in the beautiful city of Odessa in Ukraine by the Black Sea. As a child she got all attention and love from her parents. They were always encouraging in all of her creative expressions. As a result she spent several years in musical school and the school of fine arts for children.

Gino Severini | Cubo-Futurism painter

Gino Severini, (born April 7, 1883, Cortona, Italy-died February 27, 1966, Paris, France) Italian painter who synthesized the styles of Futurism and Cubism.

Severini began his painting career in 1900 as a student of Giacomo Balla, an Italian pointillist painter who later became a prominent Futurist.

Stimulated by Balla’s account of the new painting in France, Severini moved to Paris in 1906 and met leading members of the French avant-garde, such as the Cubist painters Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso and the writer Guillaume Apollinaire.

Giacomo Balla | Futurist painter

Giacomo Balla (1871-1958) Italian artist and founding member of the Futurist movement in painting.

Balla had little formal art training, having attended briefly an academy in Turin. He moved to Rome in his twenties.

As a young artist, he was greatly influenced by French Neo-Impressionism during a sojourn he made in Paris in 1900. Upon his return to Rome, he adopted the Neo-Impressionist style and imparted it to two younger artists, Umberto Boccioni and Gino Severini. Balla’s early works reflect contemporary French trends but also hint at his lifelong interest in rendering light and its effects.

Adebanji Alade ROI, 1972 | Figurative / Cityscape painter

Adebanji Alade - ROI (Member of The Royal Institute Of Oil Painters) was born in Nigeria, and trained at Yaba College of Technology (a renowned art college in Nigeria). He extended his studies at Heatherly’s School of Fine Art in Chelsea in the UK.

Adebanji is a professional artist working in Chelsea, London. He is primarily a figurative and portrait artist with a fascination for painting and sketching people and draws inspiration from the people he sees travelling on public transport.  Adebanji, along with five other acrylic painters, was one of the first to try our new Artists’ Acrylic colours.