Paul Hedley, 1947 | Figurative painter

Paul Hedley spending his childhood in Chatham, Kent. He studied art at Medway College of Art from 1966-68, and then later at Maidstone College of Art where he was awarded the Diploma in Art and Design.

Paul Hedley has been painting ever since he can remember. An education based on traditional art techniques of drawing and painting plus the influence the French artists Edgar Degas 1834-1917 and Edouard Vuillard 1868-1940 have influenced the development of his art works.

Paul Verlaine | Art Poétique / L'Arte Poetica, 1882

Arte poetica /Art Poétique fu scritta dal poeta simbolista francese Paul Marie Verlaine (1844-1896) nel 1882, mentre era in carcere in Belgio.

Il titolo richiama l'analogo poemetto del poeta latino Orazio, assunto, nei secoli, come la migliore sintesi della visione classicista del poetare.

La celebre lirica di Verlaine, riscrivendo le regole della poesia, fu subito considerata Il Manifesto della nuova scuola Simbolista.

Edgar Degas - Young Girl Reading on the Floor

Gottfrid Kallstenius | Romantic painter

Gottfrid Samuel Nikolaus Kallstenius (13 July 1861 - 26 May 1943, Nacka) was a Swedish painter.

Gottfrid Kallstenius was born at Västervik, Sweden. His brother Evald Gustaf Götrik Kallstenius (born 1868) was a zoologist and member of the ill-fatedBjörling–Kallstenius Expedition. After preparatory studies with Edvard Perséus, he was admitted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in 1884 and graduated in 1888 after receiving two medals for his work.

In 1891, he married the painter Gerda Roosval.

Shortly after, he was awarded a travel scholarship and they spent a summer in Paris, completing their educations.

The Saliga, 1901-1909

Ewelina Ladzinska | Abstract Figurative painter

Ewelina Ładzińska, polish painter, is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts. Painting becomes a pretext for the creative process, women in the case of Ładzińskiej are the epitome of the elements, trying to harness the seemingly opposite colors are included in the amazing coherent whole feminine features.

The artist can show the inside of their models, using the expression, which can be read in each line left to stain or color.

Suspended somewhere between abstraction and chaotic perception, touch, gaze and the individual characteristics of the concrete, unambiguous assessment of escape.

Emma Ciardi (1879-1933) | Impressionist painter

Emma Ciardi (1879-1933), Italian painter🎨 born in Venice🎨, daughter of the painter Guglielmo Ciardi and the sister of Beppe Ciardi.

Studied with her father, who taught her to paint directly from nature. Partly through her admiration for Guardi, began to paint Venetian views and the gardens of the great Italian villas with their fountains, statues, cypresses etc., animating these scenes with imaginary figures in elegant eighteenth-century costumes.

Louis Béroud | Mona Lisa al Louvre, 1911

Louis Béroud (Lione, 17 gennaio 1852 - Parigi, 9 ottobre 1930) è stato un pittore Francese.

Louis Béroud nacque a Lione, ma quando aveva nove anni la famiglia si trasferì a Parigi, dove egli avrebbe trascorso tutta la vita.

Giovanissimo, entrò nell'atelier di Léon Bonnat per studiare pittura e, già a partire dal 1873, iniziò ad esporre al Salon.

Alcuni dei suoi dipinti sono visibili al Musée Carnavalet ed al Louvre di Parigi.

Il 22 agosto 1911, Béroud entrò nel Louvre ed andò al Salon Carré dove la "Monna Lisa" era stata in mostra per cinque anni.

Ma sul muro dove il "Monna Lisa" era solito appendere, tra i Correggio "Matrimonio mistico" e di Tiziano "Allegoria di Alfonso d'Avalos", sedeva solo quattro pioli di ferro.

Louis Béroud | Mona Lisa au Louvre, 1911

James Pradier | Neoclassical sculptor

Jean-Jacques Pradier (1792-1852) was born in Geneva to a family of horologists, like his celebrated namesake Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778).

He apprenticed as a watchcase engraver and then trained at Geneva's Ecole de Dessin before joining his elder brother, engraver Charles-Simon Pradier, in Paris around 1807-1808.

He entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and worked with painter Baron Gérard, who remained a vital influence and ally, and studied sculpture with François-Frédéric Lemot, won the Prix de Rome in 1813, and stayed at the Villa Medici as a pensionnaire until late 1818.

Albert Desmangles, 1957 | Fantasy painter

Self-taught renowned artist Albert Desmangles was born in Port-au-Prince.

His interest in art began at a very early age.

By the age of six he was sketching faces in the dust of the school's tiles. In high school, his brother, noted artist Henry Bastien, taught him drawing, perspective and the use of color.

Bastien also gave him several lessons in gouáçhe - a technique using paints mixed with water and gum to create opaque colors.

Since 1980, he has participated in many exhibits in Haiti, Europe, United States, and Japan.

His work is highly valued by art collectors worldwide.