Jean-Baptiste Greuze | Broken Eggs, 1756

Broken Eggs attracted favorable comment when exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1757.

One critic noted that the young serving girl had a noble pose worthy of a history painter.

The canvas was painted in Rome, but the principal source may have been a seventeenth-century Dutch work by Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635-1681) - State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, which Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French painter, 1725-1805) would have known from an engraving.

The broken eggs symbolize the loss of the girl's virginity. | © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lusia Popenko, 1955

Russian painter Людмила Попенко was born in Volgograd, and now lives in Moscow.

She had numerous personal and group exhibits in Russia and other countries, her paintings were presented at Christie's Charity Auctions of Russian Art.

Lusia Popenko populates her works with characters brought from memory and imagination. Her paintings are pastoral: everything here is the way you want it to be: you have many lives and all of them are happy.

These lives' stories resemble the novels you've read and movies you've seen. Everything here is an incarnation of your dreams of beauty and perfection.

Henri Lebasque | Painter of light

Painter of light, colorist and designer, French painter🎨 Joseph Henri Baptiste Lebasque🎨 (1865-1937) expresses in his art his zestful vision of life.

Henri Lebasque was born on September 25, 1865, in Champigné - Maine-et-Loire.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- by Henri see:

• Henri Lebasque | Post-Impressionist painter🎨

For other works see:

• Henri Lebasque | Paysages🎨
• Henri Lebasque | Figures🎨

Henri Lebasque | Figures

Joseph Henri Baptiste Lebasque🎨 (1865-1937) was an French painter🎨, known for working in the post-impressionist style.

Henri Lebasque was born on September 25, 1865, in Champigné, France.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- by Henri see:

• Henri Lebasque | Post-Impressionist painter🎨

For other works by Henri see:

• Henri Lebasque | Post-Impressionist painter | Paysages🎨

Arthur Sarnoff (1912-2000) | Vintage Pinup painter

Arthur Saron Sarnoff  was an American artist. Prior to working as an illustrator, Sarnoff studied at the Industrial School and the Grand Central School of Art in New York City. He was a member of the Society of Illustrators and exhibited widely including the National Academy of Design.

Sulamith Wülfing | Visionary painter

Sulamith Wülfing (1901-1989) was a German painter and illustrator. Her ethereal, enigmatic works depict fairy tales or mystical subjects.Born in Elberfeld, Rhine Province to Theosophist parents Karl and Hedwig Wülfing, as a child Sulamith had visions of angels, fairies, gnomes, and nature spirits. She first began drawing these creatures at the age of four. The visions continued throughout her life, and directly inspired her paintings.

Sulamith Wülfing graduated from the Art College in Wuppertal in 1921, and in 1932 married Otto Schulze, a professor at the Art College. Together, they created the Sulamith Wülfing Verlag (publishing house).

During World War II, the industrial area around Wuppertal became a bombing target, and Wülfing's house was destroyed, along with many of her paintings.

Alexey Slusar, 1961 | Flamenco dancers

Aлексей Cлюсар was born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.

He received his art education at the secondary art school in Dnepropetrovsk and at the Academy of Architecture in Dnepropetrovsk.
He worked as an architect, interior designer, sculptor and decorator after his studies.
In 1988, Alexey launched his private design studio in Dnepropetrovsk.

Rabindranath Tagore ~ Metaphorical painter | 120 artworks | Page²

O woman, you are not merely the

handiwork of God, but also of men;

these are ever endowing you with

beauty from their hearts.

Poets are weaving for you a web

with threads of golden imagery;

painters are giving your form ever