Abraham Brueghel (1631-1690) Baroque painter

Abraham Brueghel was a Flemish painter from the famous Brueghel family of artists.

He emigrated at a young age to Italy where he played an important role in the development of the style of decorative Baroque still lifes.

Early life

Abraham was born in Antwerp, the son of Jan Brueghel the Younger, the grandson of Jan Brueghel the Elder and the great-grandson of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Much of his artistic training came from his father Jan Brueghel the Younger, prolific painter and regular collaborator with Rubens.

Abraham showed great promise as an artist from an early age, and started to make a name for himself in his teenage years. His father sold one of Abraham's floral still lives when he was only 15 years old.

Pedro Salinas / Jean Delville | Sospingimi.. / Empújame..

Sospingimi, lanciami

da te, dalle tue guance,

come da isole di corallo,

a navigare, ad andare lontano

per cercarti, a cercare

fuori di te ciò che possiedi,

ciò che non mi vuoi dare.

Per rimanere sola,

inventami foreste vergini

con alberi di metallo

Jean Delville (Belgian Symbolist painter, 1867-1953)

Geliy Korzhev / Гелий Коржев (1925-2012)

Geliy Mikhailovich Korzhev-Chuvelyov / Гелий Михайлович Коржев-Чувелёв was a Russian painter of a unique nature and scale with an extremely recognisable style.

Being an exponent of the Realist movement, the artist was also engaged in teaching activities for about thirty years, he acquired the status of the Professor of the Academy of Arts and was awarded honorary medals for his paintings on numerous occasions.

Francois Bard / Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Have a Dream

delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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.. And when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

Free at last! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

Evgeny Balakshin / Евгений Балакшин, 1962

The creativity of Evgeny Balakshin stylistically belongs to the Russian🎨 realistic school of painting, with its subtle color and light transmission, rich color palette.

Evgeny Balakshin / Евгений Балакшин was born in Saransk, the capital city of the Republic of Mordovia, Russia. A member of the Professional Union of Artists of Russia, he received systematic art education in Saransk Art School under the direct tutelage of M. P. Shanin.

Martin Luther King: "I Have a Dream"!

"I have a dream" - "Ho un sogno" - è la frase con cui viene identificato il discorso tenuto da Martin Luther King il 28 agosto del 1963 davanti al Lincoln Memorial di Washington al termine di una marcia di protesta per i diritti civili.

"Sì, è vero, io stesso sono vittima di sogni svaniti, di speranze rovinate, ma nonostante tutto voglio concludere dicendo che ho ancora dei sogni, perché so che nella vita non bisogna mai cedere.

Se perdete la speranza, perdete anche quella vitalità che rende degna la vita, quel coraggio di essere voi stessi, quella forza che vi fa continuare nonostante tutto.

Ecco perché io ho ancora un sogno...

Ho il sogno che un giorno gli uomini si rizzeranno in piedi e si renderanno conto che sono stati creati per vivere insieme come fratelli".

Carl Wilhelmson | Genre painter

Carl Wilhelm Wilhelmson (186-1928) was a Swedish painter, graphic artist, amateur photographer and art teacher.

His father, Anders Wilhelmson, was a "Bästeman" (a type of Naval Master), who died in a shipwreck in 1875. His mother, Amalia, opened a small shop to support the family.

Some relatives were in the printing business so, in 1881, he was apprenticed to the lithographers Meyer and Köster in Gothenburg.

He also took evening classes at the School of Design and Crafts. He later became a full time student of Carl Larsson🎨 at the Valand Academy.

Willem Haenraets, 1940 | Impressionist painter

With soft colors, the artist conjures up a romantic world of beautiful illusion on his canvasses. Hollandaise painter Willem Haenraets was born in Rotterdam and his talent was discovered at an early age.

Haenraets was just 16 when he started his training at the academy in Maastricht, which he followed with further education at the Antwerp art academy.

Granted a scholarship for talented students, he received his artistic polish as a master craftsman student of the renowned professors Sarina and Vaarten.

Haenraets’ creations are evidence that the great tradition of the Belgian-Dutch school has received a flourishing sequel. The old masters certainly would have given him a nod of approval.