Emilia Castañeda, 1943 | The Secret Gardens

Emilia Castañeda Martinez is a Spanish painter.

She was born in Madrid, but moved to Barcelona with her family as a child. She began training in 1956 at the academy of the painter Víctor Esteban Ripaux and at Escola de la Llotja in 1959 and Escuela Massana in 1969.

By the 70s she had finished her studies and became a professional painter.

Her works focus on the nude, generally placed in an abstract and dreamlike background that include objects that offer clues to the story told by the central figures.

Her work has been compared with that of modernists such as Gustav Klimt, Anglada Camarasa and with the French symbolist school.

Some of her works have been rejected by art galleries due to their erotic themes. | © Wikipedia

Victor Bauer, 1969 | Figurative painter

My name is Victor Bauer🎨 and currently I live and work in New York. My work can be found in corporate and private collections in the US, Europe and Canada. I consider myself a self taught artist. Painting comes as natural as walking to me. My father was a painter, and I grew up playing in his studio, drawing experimenting with colors.

My earlier works were mostly abstracts and during these years I developed my own style and technique using mostly just a palette knife. My fascination with the human figure for its timeless sensitivity is reflected in my latest works. In my paintings I try not only just to replicate a scene, but to create the mood and feelings. Sometime when I feel it, I incorporate abstract fragments in a composition.

Raffaello Sorbi (1844-1931) | Genre painter

Raffaello Sorbi was an Italian painter🎨.

He was born in Florence. As a young man, he studied design in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Florence; then painting under professor Antonio Ciseri.

By 18 years, he had completed his first major work: Corso Donati mortally wounded is transported by Monks of San Salvi to their Abbey.

Leon Kroll (1884-1974) | Realist painter

Leon Kroll was an American painter🎨 and lithographer.

Born into a musical family on lower Second Avenue in New York City, Kroll's father was a violinist and his cousin was William Kroll.

He studied at the Art Students League of New York under John Henry Twachtman, and at the Académie Julian in Paris with Jean Paul Laurens in the late 1900s. In 1913 Kroll showed work at the Armory Show.

Dasil (David Silva) | Surrealist painter

Resident in region of Montreal since the spring of 2002, Dasil (David Silva) Mexican🎨-born painter, is a professional, self-taught, fine art artist, continuously active for almost twenty years.

In parallel with a multi-year career in commercial photography, corporate communications and television programming production, Dasil has developed a rich pictorial work, original and very personal.

Upon his recent arrival in his new adoptive country, he confirmed his firm will to devote himself totally from now on to the development of his painting.

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta | Rococo Era painter

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, also called Giambattista Piazetta, (born Feb. 13, 1682, Venice [Italy] - died April 28, 1754, Venice), painter, illustrator and designer who was one of the outstanding Venetian artists🎨 of the 18th century. His art evolved from Italian Baroque🎨 traditions of the 17th century to a Rococo manner in his mature style.

Piazzetta began his career in the studio of his father, Giacomo, a woodcarver. Soon after assisting the latter to carve the still-surviving bookcases of the library of the Church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo at Venice, he abandoned the family profession and began to study painting under Antonio Molinari.

In about 1703 he went to Bologna, where he worked in the studio of Giuseppi Maria Crespi. He was back in Venice by 1711 and continued to work there until his death.

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo | Rococo painter

The Venetian Giovanni Battista Tièpolo (1696-1770) was arguably the greatest painter of eighteenth-century Europe and the outstanding first master of the Grand Manner.

His art celebrates the imagination by transposing the world of ancient history and myth, the scriptures, and sacred legends into a grandiose, even theatrical language.

Colonna’s perspective framework for Tiepolo’s frescoes is crucial to understanding the eighteenth-century notion of painting as a staged fiction-something intended to involve the viewer on a purely imaginative level.

This was in line with theater practice of the day-especially opera.

Emily Dickinson | Se tu dovessi venire in autunno /If you were coming in the Fall

Alan King, 1952 | Massurrealism Art Movement

Se tu dovessi venire in autunno

mi leverei di torno l’estate

con un gesto stizzito ed un sorrisetto,

come fa la massaia con la mosca.

Se entro un anno potessi rivederti,

avvolgerei in gomitoli i mesi,

per poi metterli in cassetti separati -

per paura che i numeri si mescolino.