Graham Gercken, 1960 | Landscape painter

Award Winning Australian painter🎨 Graham Gercken was born at Southport Qld, but spent most of his life in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney.

Predominantly self taught he chose oil paints as his medium and painted wet into wet, which is the style of the impressionist artists and lends itself best for outdoor painting like those of the Australian Heidelberg school of artists.

Albert Einstein / Giuseppe Arcimboldo: "La creatività è l'intelligenza che si diverte"!

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593)🎨 | The Librarian. 1566 | Skokloster Castle Sweden

"Creativity is intelligence having fun".

"La creatività è l'intelligenza che si diverte".

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)🎨

David Hettinger, 1946

L'artista pluripremiato David Hettinger ha iniziato la sua carriera quando è salito su un aereo dalla città ferroviaria di Aurora, Illinois, ed è atterrato a New York City.

Si trasferì a New York su consiglio di Joseph Welna, proprietario della Welna Gallery di Chicago, non avendo praticamente alcuna saggezza mondana, solo un feroce desiderio di "imparare cosa fosse essere un vero artista".

Welna iniziò a mostrare il lavoro di Hettinger mentre il giovane artista frequentava ancora l'American Academy of Art, a Chicago.

Ha diretto Hettinger a studiare con David Leffel e Richard Schmid a New York e su come guadagnarsi da vivere come artista sin dal primo giorno.

Bob Quinn, 1948 | Figurative sculptor

Bob Quinn works full time as a sculptor in Blackrock Co Dublin.

He has pursued his love of drawing and sculpture throughout his career and has illustrated several publications and has been a regular contributor of illustrations to Independent Newspapers.

His sculptures appear in private collections and gardens throughout Ireland, Britain and Europe.

Dan Thompson | Figurative painter

American painter🎨 Dan Thompson was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and graduated from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC.

He earned his MFA from the Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art, and supplemented his training with several additional years of private study and studio apprenticeships along the east coast of the United States.

He has been awarded🎨 two grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and has twice received the Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Award🎨 for Excellence in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Design. In 2001, Thompson won Best of Show in the American Society of Portrait Artist’s International Portrait Competition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

In 2006 Dan Thompson co-founded the Grand Central Academy of Art in New York.

In 2008, he co-founded the Janus Collaborative School of Art in New York. Dan Thompson has also instructed privately at Studio 126 in New York and is on the faculty of Parsons the New School for Design, the New York Academy of Art, The Art Students League of New York, and Studio Incamminati, in Philadelphia, PA.

He has demonstrated and taught workshops in San Francisco, Seattle, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Washington, D.C, and Sarasota, FL. He has also demonstrated and instructed internationally in Toronto, Canada, Subiaco, Italy, and in the Provence region of France.  In 2007, Thompson was selected an ARC Living Master Artist.

Since 2002 Mr. Thompson has demonstrated portrait drawing and painting and served as a juror and board member for the Portrait Society of Canada’s International Portrait Conference in Toronto.

He has also lectured at the Dahesh Museum of Art, served as a speaker at Studio Incamminati’s Advanced Portrait Workshop and Symposium, and written on technique and painting practice for several art publications across the United States.

His work can be found in public and private collections throughout the United States, and in Canada, Europe, and the Middle East.

Nathan Altman | Avant-garde artist

Nathan Isaevich Altman / Натан Исаевич Альтман (1889-1970) was a Russian avant-garde artist, Cubist painter, stage designer and book illustrator and book illustrator, who was born in Ukraine in the Russian Empire and worked in France and the Soviet Union.

Altman was born in Vinnytsia, in the Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) to a family of Jewish merchants.

From 1902-1907, he studied painting and sculpture at the Art College in Odessa (now independent Ukraine).

In 1906, he had his first exhibition in Odessa.

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) | Quotes

• "I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true".

• "Art is a line around your thoughts".

• "Today I want to start working again in earnest I'm looking forward to it because doing nothing does become rather boring after a while".

• "There is nothing that special to see when looking at me".

• "All art is erotic".

• "Tutta l'arte è erotica".

Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1469) | Early Renaissance painter

Fra Filippo Lippi, Florentine painter in the second generation of Renaissance artists.

While exhibiting the strong influence of Masaccio (e.g., in Madonna and Child, 1437) and Fra Angelico** (e.g., in Coronation of the Virgin, c. 1445), his work achieved a distinctive clarity of expression. Legend and tradition surround his unconventional life.