Alexander Pushkin | A magic moment I remember / Ricordo il magico istante..

Boris Valentinovich Shcherbakov (1916-1995) | Pushkin in Mikhailovsky, 1969 (detail)

A magic moment I remember:

I raised my eyes and you were there,

A fleeting vision, the quintessence

Of all that's beautiful and rare

I pray to mute despair and anguish,

To vain the pursuits world esteems,

Long did I hear your soothing accents,

Long did your features haunt my dreams.

Colin Campbell Cooper ~ Impressionist painter

Colin Campbell Cooper (1856-1937) was an American painter who was held in high regard as an Impressionist painter both internationally and in America.

He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 8, 1856 to an upper class family that encouraged him to pursue an art career at an early age.

He initially studied with Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and then later, he made the pilgrimage to Paris and studied at the Academies, Julian, Vitti and Delecluse.

Alessandro Milesi | Genre painter

Alessandro Milesi (1856-1945) was an Venetian painter, mainly depicting genre subjects.

Milesi was a pupil of Napoleone Nani at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts from 1869-1874, when he followed his master to Verona, returning to his hometown in 1876.

The work he presented at the national exhibitions held in Milan (1881) and Venice (1887) established his reputation as a painter of everyday Venetian life, carrying on the tradition of Giacomo Favretto but also influenced by the new artistic approach of Ettore Tito and Cesare Laurenti.

Mark Keathley, 1963 | Romantic painter

Mark Keathley grew up on the family cattle farm in East Texas and loved romping through the woods and across open fields.

In the early 1990’s, he entered a couple of paintings in the Cheyenne, Wyoming “Old West Museum Show” and won a couple of awards for his work.

Nguyen Thanh Binh, 1954 | Ballet dancers

Born in Hanoi, Nguyễn Thanh Bình is an Vietnamese artist known for his series of paintings of young women, ballet dancer, mother and child in various compositions and a romantic realistic style which is uniquely, and distinctively his over the past 30 years.

From 1965-1972: Graduated from The Vietnam Fine Arts College, Hanoi.

Marina Podgaevskaya, 1963 | Abstract painter

Professional artist from Saint Petersburg Marina Podgaevskaya is a prolific painter, she has created more than 2000 canvases.

Marina Podgaevskaja graduated from the Higher Art School in 1983 with a degree in "interior designer", in 1998 - the school-studio at the old painting techniques.

Andrey Remnev, 1962 | Magic Realism painter

Aндрей Ремнев was born in Yakhroma town, in the vicinity of Moscow. "It is situated on high hills, from where broad Brueghelian vistas are open.

The uneven terrain with significant differences of high and low; a canal between the Moskva river and the Volga; small rivers, woods and villages; a nearby ancient town of Dmitrov, which is equal to Moscow in age; ships cruising the canal and trains outdistancing them - all this I saw from my window since my early years.

Simon Pasini, 1976 | Street scenes painter

For Italian painter🎨 Simon Pasini light plays a very important role in his paintings.

Most of his paintings are painted in Italy and the subjects of the paintings are also mostly related to Italy.

His inspiration is mostly actions in daily life, it looks like people are not posing in his painting. He uses oil paint to manufacture his paintings, you can tell from the way he uses his brush on the canvas that he has a lot of experience with completing frescoes.