William Whitaker | Academic painter

The only son of an artist father, William Whitaker (1943-2018), American painter, grew up in the special world of the working artist.

He had access to the finest art materials and was painting in watercolor and oil at the age of six.

His fondest early memories are of the sights sounds and smells of the art studio.

Whitaker loves to paint from life in an old fashioned studio. No matter what direction his art takes him, he always comes back to the model in the studio, the form bathed in the beautiful quiet cool light coming down from a high north window.

Maria Ilieva, 1973 | Portrait / Still life painter

Maria Ilieva was born in Sofia, Bulgaria.

In 1991, she graduated from National School of Fine Arts, and in 1997, the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, with speciality Mural Painting.

Since 1997, Maria Ilieva is a member of the Association of Bulgarian Artists.

She works in the field of the murals, portraits, still lifes, illustrations and fine arts painting.

Her works are property of private collections in Germany, United Kingdom, France, Japan, Russia and USA.

Jose Roosevelt, 1958 | Surrealist painter / Illustrator

José Roosevelt was born in Rio de Janeiro. When he was only 15 years old he decided to take up painting, being fascinated by the surrealism of Dali🎨, and the then emerging fantasy art.

He taught himself primarily through visiting museums and art galleries and read extensively about the history of painting and its techniques. Initially he began by writing and illustrating graphic novels, but from about 1977 painting became Roosevelt's main focus.

His first solo exhibition was held in Brasília in 1979 in which he displayed thirty surrealist pictures🎨, mostly painted in acrylic on canvas.

In 1987 he had an exhibition at the Galerie Bleue in Switzerland and then travelled around Europe for a year visiting museums and art collections, going to Paris, Florence and Rome. Arising out of this, he moved to Switzerland in 1990, set up a studio and began creating his now well known oil paintings.

Alejandro Rosemberg, 1981 | Realist painter

Alejandro Rosemberg  is an Argentinian artist living in Beunos Aires, where he paints and teaches classical techniques. He has a deep interest in art from his early childhood, and obtained a fine arts degree at the National University of Cordoba, Argentina, where he studied figure drawing and painting.

Rosemberg continued his study of classical painting based on the Italian Great Masters Tradition with Maestro Claudio Bogino.

His works have been exhibited worldwide, many of his pieces are sold and owned by some of the most renowned private Art Collectors.

Dorina Costras, 1967 | Surrealist Figurative painter

Dorina Costras was born in Iasi, Romania.

Costras worked as a designer and as teacher of fine arts. Now I collaborate with decorating companies as indoor designer and I paint.

I like to transpose on canvas inner states, to interpret and render them.

I paint from imagination and the favorite theme whereat revert again and again is costumes and masks of carnival and also a fantastic universe with the atmosphere of the story away from our days. I alternate between them depending on my mood and inspiration of the moment.

Oleg Korolev, 1968 | Visionary painter

Oleg Korolev /Олег Королёв, is Russian artist whose paintings have been exhibited and represented in the private and corporate art collections of Russia, Europe, North America, and Australia.

Since 1979 studied in the Studio of the Classical Drawing (Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR).

In 1981 in the Art Studio and in the Art School (Yevpatoria, Ukrainian SSR).

From 1984-1990 he studied and graduated from the Crimean Art College in Simferopol (Ukrainian SSR).

Rolando Cubero, 1957 | Figurative painter

Cubero's career as a painter began in 1975 with a work by surrealist tendency.

Since then his paintings began to exhibit in both Costa Rica and international exhibitions in Central America.

For the 80's his work falls under the influence of Latin American magical realism and is shown in galleries and events in Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and México.

Wassily Kandinsky | Art Quotes / Aforismi sull'arte

✔ Ogni opera d'arte è figlia del suo tempo e spesso è madre della nostra sensibilità.

✔ Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions.

✔ Color is a power which directly influences the soul.

✔ Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.

✔ L'arte oltrepassa i limiti nei quali il tempo vorrebbe comprimerla, ed indica il contenuto del futuro.

✔ Il colore è un mezzo di esercitare sull'anima un'influenza diretta. Il colore è un tasto, l'occhio il martelletto che lo colpisce, l'anima lo strumento dalle mille corde.

✔ An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

✔ Mi sembrava che l'anima viva dei colori emettesse un richiamo musicale, quando l'inflessibile volontà del pennello strappava loro una parte di vita.