Serhiy Reznichenko, 1968 | Abstract painter

Serhiy Reznichenko is an Ukrainian painter, known for working in Abstract style.

Reznichenko was born in Cherkasy, province of central Ukraine.

He graduated from Vira Mukhina state art-industrial college in St. Petersburg, speciality - monumental painting.

Reznichenko is a member of the Ukrainian National Society of Artists.

Charis Tsevis, 1967 | Neo-futuristic designer

Χάρης Τσέβης is an Greek visual designer living and working in Paphos, Cyprus.

He holds a Diploma in Graphic Design from the Akademie für das Grafische Gewerbe, München and a Master in Visual Design from the Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milano.

He manages a modest studio on the island of Cyprus serving clients all over the world.

Gustav Klimt | Art Nouveau painter

Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) - Austrian painter, draughtsman, and designer, one of the leading figures in one of the most exciting epochs of Vienna's cultural history.

Early in his career he was highly successful as a painter of lavish ornamental schemes in the grandiose tradition of Makart, whose staircase decoration in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna he completed after Makart's death in 1884.

Ed Sandoval | Romantic Impressionist /Expressionist painter

Ed Sandoval was born in Nambe, New Mexico, to a prominent Spanish family. Hespent the childhood with a foot in two worlds; on his family’s ranch in Nambe and in Los Alamos, where his father worked as an engineer. Benefiting from a great education both Academically and in the Arts, Ed graduated from Los Alamos High School, before earning his B.A in Fine Arts from Eastern New Mexico University.

He received a Masters Degree in Psychology from the University of Utah and after teaching Art there, for two years, he returned to Northern New Mexico where he headed up the Art Department at Los Alamos High School for almost a decade.

Brad Kunkle, 1978 | Symbolist painter

Brad Kunkle was born in Lehighton, Pennsylvania, and has a BFA in painting from Kutztown University. He lives and works in New York City. N.B.

Brad’s work is a blend of conceptual art and impeccable technical skills. He produces works that tell secret, complex stories in a mood that is influenced by his use of overcast lighting and a nearly monochromatic color scheme. He merges realism, fantasy and psychological depth.

His works are considered to be Symbolist and Surrealist in style, rather than Realist. Though there are elements of Realism in his works.

He started using gold after a trip to the Louvre Museum in Paris. He was inspired by the gilded ceilings and decided to start including gold in his paintings.

Victor Sheng Wang | Symbolist / Figurative painter

Victor Sheng Wang is a Chinese-born American painter and Professor of Arts at Fontbonne University.

He is best known for his blend of luminous color and buttery texture that evoke the enigmatic environment where moments of meditation originate. He uses profusely colored, thickly texturized, monumental portraits of expressive western women invariably accompanied by sunflower plant motifs representing memories from his rural upbringing.

Wang was born and completed high school in Qiqihar, excelling in visual creativity.

Victor Sheng Wang was forcibly confined by by the Maoist's Cultural Revolution to the northernmost region of Manchuria to cultivate sunflower fields for two and a half years, after which he was admitted to the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts (Shenyang, Liaoning province) where he graduated in 1983.

Hasan Saygin, 1958 | Abstract Realist painter

Hasan Saygin was born in Karamanli, Turkey. He spent his childhood and followed his primary education in his native town, Karamanli.

In 1977, he entered the School of Fine Arts in Istanbul.

In 1982, he decided to come to Paris and settled permanently.

He organized personal exhibitions in many Parisian galleries: 26 Gallery (Place des Vosges), Vendôme Gallery (rue de la Paix) and Michèle Boulet Gallery; in the Draguignan Museum, in the castle of Gordes, in Salerno in France, in the castle of Vascoeuil in France, as well as in Belgium (Gevaert Gallery in Bruges, castle of Ingelmunster, etc ...), in Almeria, Spain and in the U.S (in Vero Beach, Florida).

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