Coronavirus and Art | Franco Rivolli, 1979 | Angels

Franco Rivolli, 1979 | Angels, 2020

Il disegnatore freelance di Venezia Franco Rivolli ha commosso il mondo intero con quest'opera - La dottoressa con la mascherina che culla l'Italia - che rappresenta il sentimento di una intera nazione, l'amore ed il duro lavoro di medici ed infermieri italiani in questa emergenza di Covid-19.

Il disegno ha fatto il giro del mondo, portando speranza e fiducia che ne usciremo presto.

Zhaoming Wu 吴兆铭, 1955 | Figurative painter

Chinese painter Zhaoming Wu 吴兆铭 was born and grew up in Guangzhou City.

He received his BFA from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art China, where he earned a BFA in painting and received his MFA in painting from Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California.

Since 1983, he has been exhibiting his work in Asia, Europe, the United States and other countries around the world.

Xi Pan 潘曦, 1971 | Figurative painter

Chinese painter Pan Xi 潘曦, known as Xixi, was born in november in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province.

In her childhood, every week, with her sister, she visited artists' workshops, from the Art Institute headed by his father and developped her taste for drawing and painting.

Xi Pan began her fine art studies in 1989 at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou China.

David Garrett, 1980 | The Devil's violinist

David Garrett (born David Christian Bongartz) is a record-breaking German pop and crossover violinist and recording artist.

Garrett was born in Aachen, Germany, to an American prima ballerina, Dove Garrett, and a German jurist, Georg Bongartz. He adopted his mother's maiden name as his stage name, as "it was more pronounceable".

Séverine Pineaux, 1960 | Fantasy painter

Séverine Pineaux is a French🎨 Illustrator, painter and designer.

After her beginnings in fantasy illustration, she specialized in magical representations where trees mingle with creatures and men.

His Ysambre series, composed of two volumes, "Le monde-arbre" and "La femme-graine", won an award🎨 at the Printemps des Légendes de Monthermé.

Séverine Pineaux has always evolved in a world of fairyland and heroic-fantasy.

René Magritte | Quotes / Aforismi

• "To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been".
• "Essere surrealisti significa escludere dalla tua mente ogni ricordo di ciò che hai visto ed essere sempre alla ricerca di ciò che non è mai stato".
• "Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist".
• L'arte evoca il mistero senza il quale il mondo non esisterebbe".
• "Life obliges me to do something, so I paint".
• "La vita mi obbliga a fare qualcosa, quindi dipingo".

Catherine Abel, 1966 | Art Déco painter

Australian artist, Catherine Abel is renowned internationally for her striking figurative oil paintings. Combining the sleek, stylised geometry of the Art Déco period with the clarity, richness of colour, and depth of light of the Italian Renaissance Masters, her works are powerfully seductive compositions of beauty, elegance, strength and grace.

Long inspired by the art movements and the bold angular shapes of the early 20th century, Australian artist Catherine Abel creates striking figurative oil paintings.

Nicolai Fechin (1881-1955) Impressionist painter

Николай Иванович Фешин was a Russian-born American painter, known for his portraits and works featuring Native Americans.

After graduating with the highest marks from the Imperial Academy of Arts and traveling in Europe under a Prix de Rome, he returned to his native Kazan, where he taught and painted.

He exhibited his first work in the United States in 1910 in an international exhibition in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.