Artur Muharremi, 1958 | Allegorical painter

Artur Muharremi is one of the most important Albanian contemporary painters. Muharremi has started to create before the political changes leading Albania to democracy took place. With his well known painting 'Before Creation' (1989), Muharremi was one of those very few artists, who shook off and warned the Albanian society of nineties against the crisis that was going to break. Artur Muharremi completed university studies of scenography and contributed actively and significantly as a painter and producer for the development transformation and qualitative amelioration of the animated film.

Chin H. Shin | Impressionist Cityscape painter

Korean-born American painter Chin H. Shin has a Master of Art Degree from Long Island University. His past affiliation includes, Oil painters of America, American Society of Marine Artist, Portrait Society of America, member of Huntington Art Council, a judge for Bold Brush International Art Competition and teaches art classes by request.

Даниил Волков/Daniil Volkov, 1974 | Abstract Impressionist painter

Даниил Волков was born in Yalta, the son of renowned Ukrainian artists with an ancestral history of painters going back to the court of Imperial Russia.

In 1989 he entered the Crimean art school named after Samokish and it was here that he met his future wife Elena, also a distinguished artist. He graduated in 1989 and his first solo exhibition was held in Yalta in 1995.

Bénédicte Lacroix | Time travel

Bénédicte Lacroix is a French graphic artist and retoucher, who had the amazing idea of combining her love for art with her knowledge on Pop culture and create a super fun series of work.

Celebrities are morphed and integrated into famous paintings.

In the beautiful paintings, Leonardo DiCaprio takes over Vincent van Gogh's self-portrait, Megan Fox is now the Girl With a Pearl Earring, and Miley Cyrus is Henri-Guillaume Schlesinger's new Spanish Beauty.

Pascale Taurua, 1960 | Mixed media/Fashion painter

French artist Pascale-Miria Taurua is painting since her young age. She was born in New Caledonia and went to Art School in Tahiti. After leaving there for a few years she went to Paris and then the South of France where she lives in both places since 2006.

Taurua's paintings are as beautifully and as aggressively painted as they are sensually erotic. Her girls have a certain glamour that reminds her own life since she has been Miss France 1978 at the age of 18. Her palettes are so lush and vibrant that often you might find yourself getting lost in their smooth ungulations against his heavily textured and gessoed canvases.

Feng Chiang Jiang, 1943 | Figurative painter

Feng Chang Jiang was born in the ancient cultural city of Xian Henan Province.

With his talent and effort, he was awarded numerous times and was recognized as an "Eminent artist".

In 1997, Feng relocated to New York to further develop his artistic career.

His exhibitions in the U.S. were successful and aroused the interest of many foreign viewers and collectors.

Edward Mitchell Bannister | Tonalist painter

Edward Mitchell Bannister (ca. 1828-1901) was a Black Canadian-American Tonalist painter. Like other Tonalists, his style and predominantly pastoral subject matter were drawn from his admiration for Millet and the French Barbizon School.

Bannister was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick and moved to New England in the late 1840s, where he remained for the rest of his life.

Stefano Puleo, 1950 | The Arcane Movement

Stefano Puleo was born in the province of Catania Acitrezza, Italy. His first approach to painting dates back to adolescence, when he saw up close the works of great masters like Guttuso, Migneco, Barbaro, Mirabella and many others who participated in the Acitrezza Award during the early sixties. In 1964, he enrolled at the Art School of Catania. The year 1966 dates his artistic debut in expositions and participation in competitions. At that time, his production mainly included  drawings and small sculptures.