Arthur Hughes | Pre-Raphaelite painter

Arthur Hughes (1832-1915) was born in London. His best-known paintings are "April Love🎨" and "The Long Engagement", both of which depict troubled couples contemplating the transience of love and beauty.

He entered the School of Design, Somerset House, in 1846 and studied there under Alfred Stevens🎨. In 1847 he enrolled in the Antique Schools at the Royal Academy.

Barbara Jaskiewicz, 1957 | Scenery painter

Polish painter🎨 Barbara Jaskiewicz was born in Wroclaw, the city in which she still lives today. She graduated from the Wroclaw University of Technology with a BA in Architecture.

She paints in oils and watercolor and she also draws. Her subject matter is wide ranging, beginning with landscapes inspired by the noble sceneries found in the south of France, wild Alpine meadows or the picturesque valleys of the Tatra Mountains. Gardens and park promenades scattered within the trees of ancient forests, landscapes of Silesian lowlands and of Lubelszczyzna (situated in SE-Poland) appear to an equal degree.

Ile-de-France by Claude Monet

Guy de Maupassant, September 1886:

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"Last year... I of ten followed Claude Monet in his search of impressions. He was no longer a painter, in truth, hut a hunter.

He proceeded, followed by children who carried his canvases, five or six canvases representing the same subject at different times of day and with different effects".

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.