Tomás Taure Alonso, 1944 | Figurative painter

Tomás Taure Alonso is a self-taught Spanish painter🎨 who works in a figurative style.

By profession, he is a doctor and surgeon.

Since 2000, he has been studying in the studio of painter Roberto Fuentes.

Taure uses an agile brushstroke to present the human figure, especially the feminine form and thus shows off his virtuosity with color and form.

His oil paintings give the feeling of being unfinished, his intention being that the viewer finish the painting conceptually.

His artworks are found in private collections in Spain, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Brazil, the United States, Argentina, Mexico.

Maria Jose Aguilar,1964 | Symbolic Realism painter

Maria José Aguilar was born in the city of Sevilla, in the centre’s San Lorenzo district.

she spent her childhood and early adolescence among her native city, the bay of Cadiz and the Jaén mountains.

From early on she showed artistic leanings and gifts fed by appropriate surroundings. She grew up with a passion for the great spanish masters, especially Velázquez, Murillo, Zurbarán and Valdés Leal, etc.

Antonio Fuertes (1940-1988)

Antonio Fuertes, born in Madrid, is a self-taught painter. He worked in a shop advertising, engaged on the facades of cinemas and theaters in Madrid. In his works often present with Oriental theme Arabic.

He paints men and women in Moroccan landscapes or the Alhambra in Granada in the background.

His first exhibition was held in Toledo in 1982 and a year later participated in the same city, in a thematic exhibition at the Museum Sephardic Jewish.

Laimonas Šmergelis, 1972 | Surrealist painter

Born in Utena, Lithuania.

Utena Children Arts School, 1985.

1989 repeatedly graduated from Utena Children Arts School.

Siauliai Pedagogical University, Bachelor Degree in Arts and Crafts, 1995.

Siauliai Pedagogical University, Master’s Degree in Humanitarian Sciences, Fine Arts Studies, 1997. Worked as arts teacher in a primary school. Since 2003 organizes courses in Utena Region Association for Disabled.Organized about 20 personal exhibitions. Since 1990 participates in group exhibitions, about 40 exhibitions.

Albert Edelfelt | Pittore naturalista

Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt (Porvoo, 1854-1905) è considerato uno degli artisti più importanti dell'Età d'Oro dell'arte Finlandese.

Ha vissuto nel Granducato di Finlandia e ha reso visibile la cultura Finlandese all'estero, prima che la Finlandia ottenesse la piena indipendenza.

Edelfelt nacque nel 1854 a Porvoo, figlio dei finlandesi di lingua svedese Carl Albert Edelfelt (1818-1869), un architetto, e di Alexandra Edelfelt, nata Brandt (1833-1901).

Tom Roberts | Impressionist painter

Tom Roberts, byname of Thomas William Roberts, (born March 9, 1856, Dorchester, Dorset, England - died September 14, 1931, Kallista, Victoria, Australia), painter who introduced Impressionism to Australia🎨.

Arriving in Melbourne at age 13, Roberts worked as a photographer, supplementing his meagre earnings with paintings produced as an evening art student.

In 1881 he went to England to study at the Royal Academy in London and toured Spain and France, where he was exposed to Impressionism.

Henri Le Sidaner's 157th Birthday

French painter🎨 Henri Eugène Augustin Le Sidaner (1862-1939) was born 157 years ago on this day - August 7th 1862, into a French family, in Port Louis, Mauritius.

He studied under Alexandre Cabanel🎨 until 1885 and was introduced to the work of Edouard Manet🎨 who influenced Le Sidaner’s artistic development.

Henri Le Sidaner was one such individual: a contemporary of the Post-Impressionists who painted in dots but was not a Pointillist🎨; revelled in complementary colours but was not a Fauve; and drew a veil of dreams over reality but was not a Symbolist🎨, or only briefly.

He was, as his friend the critic Gabriel Mourey described him, "a sort of mystic who has no faith".

Walter Ernest Webster (British, 1878-1959)

Walter Ernest Webster RI ROI RP (17 November 1877 - 30 April 1959) was a British figure and portrait painter. He also worked as an illustrator.

Webster was born on 17 November 1877.

His parents were Robert Walter Waithman Webster (born c. 1853), a salesman, and Mary Lowe (born c. 1856), the daughter of bookkeeper Edwin Lowe.

He was baptised in Manchester Church of England Cathedral on 10 January 1878.