Clemente Tafuri | Genre painter

Clemente Tafuri (Salerno, 1903 - Genoa, 1971) was an Italian painter and illustrator. Nephew of the painter Salerno Raffaele Tafuri.

After completing a course of study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, he began painting early to reveal the attention of critics.

Best known among the twenties and sixties the XX century also as an advertising poster artist, illustrator of postcards and necklaces libraries, often devoted to illustrating World War episodes and he painted a portrait of Crown Prince Umberto II of Savoy and the Queen Elena of Montenegro.

Michelangelo: "The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has"

• "My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness".

• "The best artist has that thought alone which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone".

• "The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself".

Victor Nizovtsev, 1965 | Magic Realism painter

Виктор Низовцев is a Russian painter, a master of whimsical and narrative art. Subjects include fantasy landscapes, russian folklore, theatre and mermaids.

Victor’s art can be highly symbolic with hidden clues to help decipher the images. His work can also be humbly simple with images and subjects of universal appeal.

They can be equally viewed for their vibrant textured colors that fill the canvas and contrast with the translucent glazes that make the paintings dance with light and pull in those who view it.

Kris Lewis, 1978 | Pop-Surrealist painter

Kris Lewis born in Ocean County, NJ, is a New Jersey Shore based artist whose influences include Alfonse Bouguereau, Andrew Wyeth, Hans Holbein, Albrecht Durer, Hieronymus Bosch, Gustav Klimt and Jules-Bastien LePage.

His reverence for masters of old is apparent in his depiction of the human figure, which he uses as a vector for hidden stories, delicate emotion and finding truth.

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Claude Monet | Meules, 1891 | Sotheby's

"Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than (John Singer) Sargent thinks".

- Claude Monet🎨 (1840-1926)

"Ho avuto il solo merito di aver dipinto direttamente di fronte alla natura, cercando di rendere le mie impressioni davanti agli effetti più fuggevoli, e sono desolato di essere stato la causa del nome dato ad un gruppo, la maggior parte del quale non aveva nulla di impressionista".

- Claude Monet🎨 (1840-1926)

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Vincent Van Gogh

• Faccio sempre ciò che non so fare, per imparare come va fatto.

• Non è tanto il linguaggio del pittore che si deve sentire, quanto quello della natura.

• Ciò che desidero, è che tutto sia circolare e che non ci sia, per così dire, né inizio né fine nella forma, ma che essa dia, invece, l'idea di un insieme armonioso, quello della vita.

• Così il pennello sta alle mie dita come l'archetto al violino e assolutamente per mio piacere.

Ramiro Ramírez Cardona, 1954 | Surrealist / Realist painter

Ramiro Ramírez Cardona was born in Columbia, in a family of self-taught artists, sculptors and painters.

The human body rather than a being erotic or leakage eager libido, is itself, by its immediate essence, a dreamer, a creator and it is through the body, of that battered body, which has become a being communicating with dreams, ambitions, doubts and loneliness, that man has imagined and amazes us every day.

Édouard Vuillard | Post-Impressionist painter

Jean-Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) was a French painter and printmaker.

Born in 1868 in Cuiseaux, a sleepy commune in the Saône-et-Loire region of Bourgogne in eastern France, it was assumed that Jean-Édouard Vuillard would follow in his father's footsteps and join the military.

But when he was 10 years old his family moved to Paris, where his eyes were opened to the arts and academia.

Awarded a scholarship to the prestigious Lycée Condorcet, Vuillard met Ker-Xavier Roussel and Maurice Denis, with whom he would become lifelong friends.