Shirley Novak, 1948 | Still Life / Flowers painter

Born and raised in California, Shirley feels her inner voice has called to her to paint for as long as she can remember.
Her childhood passions were growing, drawing and painting flowers.
She majored in art and took many workshops and classes over the years, eventually turning her attention to painting full-time under the tutelage of her mentor, Len Chmiel. Shirley paints in oils using a wet-on-wet technique.

Charles Gates Sheldon | Pin-up portrait painter

Charles Gates Sheldon (1889-1960) was a prolific and gifted early 1900's American Illustrator who specialized in three main subjects: Hollywood, fashion and hair - themed cover portraiture and advertising in the Art Nouveau and Edwardian styles.

After studying at the Art Students League, he went to Paris to study under the legendary Alphonse Mucha.

He returned to America and set up a studio at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Guido Reni | Stile artistico

Guido Reni (1575-1642) si consolida come pittore classicista tra i più importanti della pittura Italiana del Seicento.

I suoi primordiali studi musicali sono motivo dell'influenza nelle sue composizioni dove i personaggi ritratti talvolta palesano nei loro atteggiamenti o nelle posture un modo musicale-danzante; è questo il caso del Sansone vittorioso dell'Atalanta ed Ippomene od anche del gruppo di tele sulle Fatiche di Ercole per le collezioni Gonzaga.

Fu influenzato anche dai modi pittorici del Cavalier d'Arpino, a cui il Reni guardò molto durante i suoi primi anni di attività, a testimonianza di ciò il cospicuo numero di piccoli oli su rame, peculiarità stilistica del Cesari, che il bolognese eseguì nel primo decennio del Seicento.

Giovanni Carnovali | Romantic painter

Giovanni Carnovali (1804-1873), known as Il Piccio ("the little one"), was an Italian painter.

Carnovali was born in Montegrino Valtravaglia (Varese).

In 1815, at the age of just 11, he was admitted to the Carrara Academy in Bergamo under the guidance of the director Giuseppe Diotti, who immediately recognised his young pupil’s natural talent.

The artist soon began to break away from the strict Neoclassicism of his academic training and return to the figurative tradition of the 16th and 17th century, which he interpreted with great expressive freedom, especially in portrait painting.

Malcolm T. Liepke, 1953

Malcolm T. Liepke è un pittore Americano contemporaneo noto per le sue raffigurazioni di figure vagamente spazzolate ma agilmente eseguite in ambienti interni.

Malcolm T. Liepke è nato a Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Ha studiato all'Art Center College of Design di Los Angeles, in California, ma ha abbandonato gli studi dopo un anno e mezzo.

Si trasferisce a New York e inizia a studiare da solo artisti come John Singer Sargent, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Diego Velázquez, James McNeill Whistler e Édouard Vuillard.

Dmitry Kustanovich, 1970 | Palette Knife painter

Dmitry Kustanovich /Дмитрий Кустанович, born in Minsk, nickname Kust/Куст, is a Belarusian-born artist that currently resides in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

Kustanovich graduated from the Belarusian State Pedagogical University in 1996, served in the Soviet Army and worked as a construction worker.

Kustanovich has developed an original technique based on the wider use of palette knifes rather than brushes.

Janet Kruskamp, 1934 | Romantic realist painter

Born in Oregon, Kruskamp has been earning plaudits for her artisitc talents since was a child.

Working in a style that combines both romantic and realistic aspects, Janet Kruskamp paints charming images of ordinary scenes and objects that reveal their underlying beauty.

Her studies of the American scene have been exhibited in many shows in the U.S.A. and France, including exhibits at the Long Beach Museum of Art, C.A., De Young Memorial Museum, San Fransisco and the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara.

Mikhail Lermontov | I Go Out On The Road Alone / Sulla strada esco solo

René Magritte

Sulla strada esco solo.

Nella nebbia è chiaro il cammino sassoso.

Calma è la notte.

Il deserto volge l'orecchio a Dio

E le stelle parlano tra loro.

Meraviglioso e solenne il cielo!

Dorme la terra in un azzurro nembo.