Yan Pei-Ming, 1960 | Pop Art / Portrait painter

Yan Pei-Ming / 严培明 is a Chinese-born French painter based in Dijon, France.

He is best known for his immense, and almost exclusively monochrome, portraits that draw upon Chinese cultural history and Western portraiture tradition.

Some of his most acclaimed portraits depict the figures of Mao Zedong, Bruce Lee and Barack Obama.

Alongside and against these public figures, Pei-Mings’ portraits extend to those of his father as well as himself.

Helen Illichova, 1958 | Abstract Figurative painter

Елена Ильичева is an Ukrainian painter, une of the most exclusive artists in the Eastern Europe.

Helen Illichova is the only painter in the world who uses rather unusual authoring techniques for writing paintings.

The artist paints the picture with his hand with the cotton sock on it.
With this special technique, Elena achieves a vivid expressiveness of the images, in which her characteristic acute sense of the beauty of the surrounding world is reflected.

Elena is rightfully called a master of still life and a woman's image.

Damian Klaczkiewicz | Figurative painter

Damian Klaczkiewicz, Polish painter🎨, studied art in 2009 at Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. He loves painting portraits and female figures and has many paintings to his credit.
The women of his paintings are beautiful, very feminine, looks qually intense and provocative. Very nice art of Damian, traits determined and confident but very personal, the colors are beautiful, very vivid and intense. Technical artist is acrylic on canvas.

George Henry | The Glasgow School of Art

Scottish painter Gorge Henry (1858-1943), born in Ayrshire, gained his formative training at Glasgow School of Art in the early 1880s and attended informal classes at William York Macgregor's studio in Bath Street.

He later studied in Paris furthering his development as a figure painter and portraitist of the utmost refinement.

James Tissot and the Belle Époque

James Jacques Joseph Tissot [1836-1902], French painter, illustrator and etcher, born at Nantes.

Studied from c.1856 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under Lamothe and H. Flandrin; became friendly with Whistler and Degas.

Early influenced by Henri Leys and painted pictures of Faust and Marguerite.

Later turned to scenes from contemporary life, especially of fashionable women, under the influence of Manet and Alfred Stevens.

Josef Kote, 1964 | Modern Impressionist painter

Born in the scenic port town of Vlore, Albania, modern artist Josef Kote, emerged eager to share his unique vision with the world.

Kote immersed himself in the arts early on, the atmosphere around him constantly inspired the young visionary living in the metropolis of Vlore of commercial industry and old world charm.

This was the perfect backdrop for an aspiring artist talent like Kote, the city's handsome, bright buildings and coastline provided Kote with an abundance of creative material.

Yuri Klapouh, 1963 | Genre / Landscape painter

Ukrainian painter Юрий Клапоух graduated from the Moscow Institute of painting of V.I.Surikov in 1993.

Professionally engaged in painting during 15 years.

His favorite themes are Russian landscape, classical portrait and genre scene of the rural life.

Took part in many group and personal exhibitions. His paintings are in private collections in the USA, Czechia, Poland, Austria, the Republic of South Africa and Germany.

Rolf Armstrong | Pin-up painter

Rolf Armstrong (1889-1960) was born in Bay City, Michigan to Richard and Harriet (Scott) Armstrong. Armstrong's work for the Pictorial Review was largely responsible for that magazine achieving a circulation of more than two million by 1926.
A year later, he was the best selling calendar artist at Brown and Bigelow.
In 1930, RCA hired him to paint pin-ups to advertise their products, and in 1933 the Thomas D. Murphy Company signed him to produce a series of paintings for their line.
Rolf Armstrong died in 1960 on the island of Oahu, Hawaii as one of the best "pin-up" artists of the first half of the twentieth century.