François Flameng | Academic painter

François Flameng (1856-1923) was a very successful French painter during the last quarter of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th.

He was the son of a celebrated engraver and received a first-rate education in his craft.

Flameng initially received renown for his history painting and portraiture, and became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts.

He decorated such important civic buildings as the Sorbonne and the Opera Comique, and also produced advertising work.

Pablo Neruda | L'amore..

Che hai, che abbiamo,

che ci accade?

Ahi il nostro amore é una corda dura

che ci lega ferendoci

e se vogliamo

uscire dalla nostra ferita,

separarci,

ci stringe un nuovo nodo e ci condanna

a dissanguarci e a bruciarci insieme.

Moussin Irjan

Caspar David Friedrich | Romantic painter

The German painter Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 - May 7, 1840) was a landscape painter of the nineteenth-century German Romantic movement, of which he is now considered the most important painter.

A painter and draughtsman, Friedrich is best known for his later allegorical landscapes, which feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees, and Gothic ruins.

His primary interest as an artist was the contemplation of nature, and his often symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey the spiritual experiences of life.

Carl Wuttke | Landscape / Architectural painter

Carl Wuttke (January 3, 1849 in Trebnitz, Silesia - July 4, 1927 in Munich) was a German🎨 landscape and architectural painter.

From 1871-1873 Wuttke studied at the art academy in Berlin and deepened his artistic training under the Munich-based painter Angelo Quaglio (1829-1890) in 1873.

In the following year Wuttke underwent a hiking trip to Rome, where he settled until 1876.

He finally became a master student of Eugen Dücker (1841-1916) in Düsseldorf.

From 1885, Wuttke was active in Munich, but he kept traveling around the world, including a trip to the USA and a world tour in 1897-1899.

Carl Wuttke was one of the best known "painters travelers" of the nineteenth century.

Carole Feuerman, 1945 | Hyperrealist sculptor

Carole A. Feuerman is recognized as a pioneering figure in the world of hyperrealistic sculpture.

Together with Duane Hanson and John De Andrea, Feuerman is one of the three artists that started the Hyperrealism movement in the late seventies by making sculptures portraying their models in a life-like manner.

Dubbed ‘the reigning doyenne of super-realism’ by art historian John T. Spike, Feuerman has solidified her place in art history.

Feuerman’s prolific career spans over four decades and four continents.

Through her sculptures, she creates visual manifestations of the stories she decides to tell: of strength, survival, balance.

Elena Arcangeli, 1972 | Figurative painter

Italian painter Elena Arcangeli was born in Florence and graduated from the high school for visual arts in 1991.

After studying graphic arts for a period and working in decorative painting, Ms Arcangeli enrolled in The Florence Academy of Art in 1994 and completed the painting program in 1998.

Ricardo Casal, 1957 | Figurative painter

Figurative painter Ricardo Casal was born in Poitiers-France, of a spanish parents.

At the 9 years age it re-enters to Beautiful Arts where it follows with assiduity the courses for amateurs: drawing and painting academic, ceramic and photograph.

Each painting has a photographic quality that aims to represent people and landscapes as realistically as possible.

Particular attention is paid to facial expressions, with each subject conveying a distinctly human look unaltered by abstract or surreal touches.

The style, explained Casal, added “truth” to his art.

Vasily Perov | Realist / genre painter

Vasily Grigorevich Perov / Васи́лий Григо́рьевич Перо́в (1834-1882) was a Russian painter, a key figure of the Russian Realist movement and one of the founding members of Peredvizhniki.

Life and career

Vasily Perov was born in Tobolsk, Tobolsk Governorate, Russian Empire, as Vasily Grigorevich Vasiliev (Васи́лий Григо́рьевич Васильев). Perov was an illegitimate son of the local procurator baron, Grigory Karlovich Kridener, who belonged to an old Russian-German noble family tree, and Akulina Ivanova, a native citizen of Tobolsk.