Madeleine Gross, 1993 | Abstract artist

Madeleine Gross is a Toronto-based artist who combines photography and painting to represent how we live in both reality and fantasy.

She photographs idyllic scenes from across the world - beaches, lakes, snow-covered mountains and medieval cobbled streets - and paints vibrant strokes over selections of the people, objects, and landscapes.

The result is a unique aesthetic: part photo, part painting, photorealism and abstraction in one frame.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Tête de jeune fille, 1882

Painted in 1882, "Tête de jeune fille" dates from a key period of transition within Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s career.

It was at the beginning of that year that the pioneering Impressionist dealer Paul Durand-Ruel had begun to purchase Renoir’s work, granting the artist a new level of professional and financial security, which in turn enabled him to travel abroad for the first time.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Tête de jeune fille, 1882 | Christie's

Nikita Busyak | Urban sketcher

Nikita Busyak comes from Ukraine, the city of Kharkov, and it is this city that he depicts in his incredible illuminated architectural sketches.

In each architectural drawing, he digitally manipulates the windows so that they glow with golden light, making it seem as though someone is home.

Nikita is an inventor of Glowing Archisketch technique.

Elizabeth Jane Gardner | Academic painter

Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau (Exeter, New Hampshire, 1837 - Paris, 1922) was an American academic and salon painter, who was born in Exeter, New Hampshire.

She was an American expatriate who died in Paris where she had lived most of her life.

She studied in Paris under the figurative painter Hugues Merle (1823-1881), the well-known salon painter Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911), and finally under William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905).

Marie Wunsch | Genre painter

Marie (Mizzi) Wunsch (1862-1898) was an Austrian artist.

As a little girl, she took part in drawing classes where her keen sense of observation was already evident.

However, her talent was not encouraged until 1880 when she was admitted to the Austrian Museum's preparatory school to study.

She kept drawing and painting and eventually moved to Venice where she received further instructions from Eugen v. Blaas.

Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)

Newell Convers Wyeth, known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American painter and illustrator.

He was a student of Howard Pyle and became one of America's most well-known illustrators.

Wyeth created more than 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books - 25 of them for Scribner's, the Scribner Classics, which is the body of work for which he is best known.

Marisa Prete | Crazy Museum

"Images are not just objects to contemplate: they are presences that speak to us, question us, seduce us, take us, grasp us, act on us and we on them" - Marisa Prete.

Marisa Prete from Milan has a degree in philosophy and deals with image and photography, writes for some magazines and manages a blog that deals with art, photography and cinema.

As the author says: "To better understand how generative TTI (text-to-image) models work, there is nothing better than starting to use them".

Darius Hulea, 1987 | Metal Wire Sculptures

Darius Hulea is a Romanian contemporary artist born in Alba Iulia, who is specialized in metal sculpture.

He graduated the University of Art and Design from Cluj Napoca, Sculpture section, and in 2012 he become member of the Artists Union.

In 2013 he won the price "Grigore Bradea", a distinction given only to the most talented Romanian sculptures.