Hennie Niemann jnr, 1972

Hennie Niemann jnr’s art career began under the mentorship of his father, artist Hennie Niemann Snr.

The encouragement from Gregoire Boonzaaier and art dealer, Johans Borman, help built the confidence of a young artist early in life.

The inspiration for his unique style stemmed from two years of conscription after school, where he was placed in the Kruger National Park.

Surrounded by bush and wildlife, his love for the great African outdoors was born.

AI, what does the rest of the Mona Lisa look like?

AI Experiment: Full Body paintings of "Mona Lisa" and "Girl with a Pearl Earring"

Using Adobe Firefly, the American Kody Young, asked AI to expand some of the world’s most famous paintings, including Van Gogh’s "Starry Night", Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" and Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring".

One could say that Young was simply playing with a new toy.

He never asserted that he, himself, is an artist, or that these images represent some kind of improved version of the originals.

Motherhood by Pablo Picasso

The subject of mother and child runs through the various stages of Picasso’s artistic production, although it appears more frequently in his early works.

Picasso's Maternities belong to the artist's neoclassical period, during which he developed a style reminiscent of classicism and used mythological images such as centaurs, minotaurs, nymphs, and fauns.

He created at least a dozen pictures inspired by and dedicated to motherhood and the special relationship between mother and child.

Eugenia Gapchinska / Евгения Гапчинская, 1974

Евгения Гапчинская is one of the most famous Ukrainian artists, lives and works in Kyiv, her galleries are located in the capital and in several cities of Ukraine.

Gapchinska was a student at Kharkiv Art College and graduated from The Institute of Industrial Arts in Kharkiv.

Eugenia Gapchinska also had an internship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, Germany.

Barbara Schilling, 1955

Barbara Schilling OPA, AIS is an impressionist oil painter from Michigan.

Her work is loose and fresh, mostly painted alla prima style.

She is known for both her landscapes and her still life/floral paintings.

She has won many awards and shown in many juried competitions.

Luo Li Rong / 罗丽蓉, 1980 | Figurative sculptor

Luo Li Rong is a Chinese artist and sculptor who creates realistic sculptures, primarily in bronze.

Luo was born in Hongqi, Hunan province, China.

In 1998, Luo entered the Changsha Academy of Arts in Changsha, Hunan and studied with Xiao Xiaoqiu.

From 2000 to 2005 she studied sculpture at the CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China) with Sun Jiabo.

Françoise Gilot (1921-2023)

A French artist of the post-World War II School of Paris, Françoise Gilot is perhaps most famous as a muse and lover to Pablo Picasso.

While her story may be inextricably linked to 20th century art’s most towering figure, Gilot’s remarkable life and vast oeuvre deserves recognition on its own merits.

In a career spanning over seven decades, Gilot’s distinct language of form and color reveals an enduring preoccupation with both the personal and universal forces of nature, time, space and mythology.

Evan Wilson, 1953

Evan Wilson remains true to his mission to bring realist painting back into the forefront of American art.

Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Wilson attended the prestigious North Carolina School of the Arts to complete high school, and later went on to the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he met his lifelong mentor, Joseph Sheppard, an internationally acclaimed realist painter in the Old World tradition.

His works are included in many public and private collections, including the Greenville County Museum of Art in South Carolina and the Royal Academy of Music in London, England.