Andy Warhol | Pop Art painter

Andy Warhol, original name Andrew Warhola, (August 6, 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. - February 22, 1987, New York), American artist** and filmmaker, an initiator and leading exponent of the Pop art movement of the 1960s whose mass-produced art apotheosized the supposed banality of the commercial culture of the United States.
An adroit self-publicist, he projected a concept of the artist as an impersonal, even vacuous, figure who is nevertheless a successful celebrity, businessman, and social climber.

George Underwood, 1947 | Pittore Fantasy

Richard George Underwood è un artista e musicista Britannico.

È noto soprattutto per la progettazione di copertine di album per numerose band negli anni '70 e per le sue collaborazioni con l'amico di lunga data, il cantautore David Bowie.

George Underwood ha frequentato la Bromley Technical High School dove ha sviluppato l'interesse per la musica insieme ai compagni di classe David Bowie e Peter Frampton.

La band di Underwood e Bowie, George and the Dragons è stata di breve durata a causa di Underwood che ha preso a pugni Bowie nell'occhio sinistro mentre indossava un anello al dito, durante una lite per una ragazza, causando la paralisi nella pupilla sinistra di Bowie ed il suo caratteristico disallineamento aspetto.

Hans Memling | Northern Renaissance painter

Hans Memling, Memling also spelled Memlinc, (born c. 1430-40, Seligenstadt, near Frankfurt am Main [Germany] - died August 11, 1494, Bruges [Belgium]), leading South Netherlandish painter of the Bruges school during the period of the city’s political and commercial decline.

The number of his imitators and followers testifies to his popularity throughout Flanders.

His last commission, which has been widely copied, is a Crucifixion panel from the Passion triptych (1491).

Memling, born in the region of the Middle Rhine, was apparently first schooled in the art of Cologne and then traveled to the Netherlands (c. 1455-60), where he probably trained in the workshop of the painter Rogier van der Weyden.

He settled in Bruges (Brugge) in 1465; there he established a large shop and executed numerous altarpieces and portraits. Indeed, he was very successful in Bruges: it is known that he owned a large stone house and by 1480 was listed among the wealthiest citizens on the city tax accounts.

Sometime between 1470-1480 Memling married Anna de Valkenaere (died 1487), with whom he had three children.

Maria Oosthuizen, 1972 | Modern / Figurative painter

South African artist Maria Magdalena Oosthuizen paints figurative portraits emanating innocence and hope that pay tribute both to her devotion to God and her belief in the intrinsic goodness of the people of this world.
Using balanced, harmonic compositions and a dedication to detail, Maria focuses on the interplay of light and shadow in her works, with particular attention to how light impacts form, conveying the powerful message that underscores all her work: that light has the power to expel darkness and reveal the goodness and abundance in life.

Robert Campin | Northern Renaissance painter

Robert Campin, (born c. 1378, Tournai, France - died April 26, 1444, Tournai), one of the earliest and greatest masters of Flemish painting. He has been identified with the Master of Flémalle on stylistic and other grounds.

Characterized by a naturalistic conception of form and a poetic representation of the objects of daily life, Campin’s work marks a break with the prevailing International Gothic style and prefigures the achievements of Jan van Eyck and the painters of the Northern Renaissance.

Documents show that Campin was established as a master painter in Tournai in 1406. Two pupils are mentioned as entering his studio in 1427 - Rogelet de la Pasture (generally identified with the great Rogier van der Weyden) and Jacques Daret.

Viktor Sheleg, 1962 | Abstract painter

Russian painter Виктор Шелег was born in Lomonosov, near Saint-Petersburg, Russia. His family moved to Latvia when he was three.

Viktor has been drawing since early childhood and started painting at the age of twelve. Self-taught, his creativity is based on his personal worldview, which earned him a solid reputation of an independent artist.

John Frederick Lewis RA | Orientalist / Genre painter

British painter John Frederick Lewis RA (1805-1876) is the one of finest of the Orientalist painters. Because of his painstaking "Pre-Raphaelite" technique, his finished paintings are rare.

John Frederick Lewis was born in London in 1805, the son of a master engraver, Frederick Christian Lewis

Luciano Ventrone (1942-2021)

"Lo studio della pittura non è la mera rappresentazione dell'oggetto ma è colore e luce: i giusti rapporti fra le due cose danno la forma nello spazio. Il soggetto non va visto come tale ma astrattamente" - Luciano Ventrone.

Luciano Ventrone, pittore italiano, nasce a Roma. All'età di quattro anni viene ospitato in Danimarca da Metha Petersen, donna benestante ma soprattutto amorevole. Lo ricopre di cure e doni: fra le altre cose, gli regalerà una scatola di colori... quegli stessi colori che avrebbero segnato il suo futuro.