František Drtikol | Symbolist /Visionary photographer

František Drtikol (1883-1961) was a Czech photographer of international renown.

He is especially known for his characteristically epic photographs and portraits.

From 1907-1910 he had his own studio, until 1935 he operated an important portrait photo studio in Prague on the fourth floor of one of Prague's remarkable buildings, a Baroque corner house at 9 Vodičkova, now demolished. Jaroslav Rössler, an important avant-garde photographer, was one of his pupils.

Federico Beltran Masses | Symbolist / Art Déco painter

Federico Armando Beltrán Massés (1885-1949) was a Cuban-born Spanish artist, renowned as a master of color and the psychological portrait, as well as a painter of seductive images of strong, often scandalous, women.

Federico Beltrán Massés was born in Guaira de la Melena, Cuba.

He studied with the painter Joaquín Sorolla 1863-1923 at l’École des Beaux-Arts de Barcelona and, in 1905, he studied Spanish and European art at the Prado, Madrid.

Margarita Sikorskaia, 1968 | Figurative painter

Margarita Sikorskaia / Маргарита Сикорская was born in St. Petersburg, Russia.

She studied in the Department of Arts and Graphics, at the Hertzen Pedagogical University, in St. Petersburg.

In 1990 Margarita moved to the United States, where she currently lives and works as a fine artist.

During her artistic carrier she has exhibited works from New Orleans to Sun Valley.

In 2000 Margarita was selected to participate in a juried show; the Minnesota Museum of American Art's, Minnesota Biennial: 2D 2000.

Montserrat Gudiol | Symbolist / Figurative painter

Montserrat Gudiol (1933-2015) was an Spanish painter, daughter of the art historian and architect José Gudiol Ricart, curator and promoter of the Episcopal Museum of Vic.

On the mother's side, she is related to Teresa Ametller, sponsor of the Institut Ametller d'Art Hispànic, who founded and directed the father, José Gudiol.

In 1950, she studied restoration of old paintings and focuses specifically on painting on wood and paper.

It sets out in Spain but also in South Africa, the United States, Russia and Canada.

In 1981 she became the first woman admitted to the Real Academia Catalana of Fine Arts of San Jordi.

In 1998 she received the Cross of St. George.

Nicoletta Tomas Caravia, 1963 | Fantasy / Figurative painter

I was born in Madrid in 1963, of a Greek mother, Spanish father, grandmother Austrian. I currently reside in Valencia, Spain.

I am a self taught painter, and started my artistic career in Valencia (Spain) 1990, using in depth the pastel technique.

I concentrated on different themes such as indoor motifs, city views and bullfighting scenes. At this time and since 1998 I have given my paintings a new turn, centered on the human body.

I am in a constant search for new ways of artistic expressions, both in style and means.

The painting has been growing in me and I in it, we go hand in hand because it is an intimate language between my soul and me. I learn with her. I inhabit the realm of form to let speak deep emotions, my world mirrors the world outside-in. My pictorial motifs, the light of man, his fragility and greatness.

Masaccio | Early Renaissance painter

Masaccio, byname of Tommaso di Giovanni di Simone Cassai, (born December 21, 1401, Castel San Giovanni [now San Giovanni Valdarno, near Florence, Italy] - died autumn 1428, Rome), important Florentine painter of the early Renaissance🎨 whose frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel of the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence (c. 1427) remained influential throughout the Renaissance.

In the span of only six years, Masaccio radically transformed Florentine painting.

His art eventually helped create many of the major conceptual and stylistic foundations of Western painting. Seldom has such a brief life been so important to the history of art.

Early Life And Works

Tommaso di Giovanni di Simone Guidi was born in what is now the town of San Giovanni Valdarno, in the Tuscan province of Arezzo, some 40 miles (65 km) southeast of Florence.

His father was Ser Giovanni di Mone Cassai, a notary, while his mother, Monna Iacopa, was the daughter of an innkeeper. Masaccio’s brother Giovanni was also an artist; called lo Scheggia (“the Splinter”), he is known only for several inept paintings.

Gianni De Conno | Surrealist book illustrator

Gianni De Conno (Milan, 1957 - Milan, 26 agosto 2017) is an Italian painter.

In 1990 Gianni received the Gold Plate🎨 of Italian Illustrators Annual, in 1998, 2000 and 2001 the Communication Arts Award of Excellence, in 2002 the Stepan Zavrel prize for Children's Illustrator and the Silver Medal of the President of the Italian Republic for artistic merits.

Gianni De Conno is teaching in the main schools of illustration.

He has illustrated and published numerous books for children.

Gianni De Conno (Milano, 1957 – Milano, 26 agosto 2017) è stato un illustratore Italiano🎨.

Illustratore e presidente dell'Associazione illustratori dal 2005-2007, ha seguito un percorso formativo ricco di esperienze diverse (ha studiato al Conservatorio G. Verdi di Milano) anche se nel solco della creatività applicata al disegno.

Dopo gli studi superiori ha seguito i corsi di scenografia e animazione tenuti presso la Scuola di Cinema da qui ha iniziato la sua carriera di scenografo e realizzatore di storyboard.

Nel suo lavoro di illustratore utilizzava sia tecniche tradizionali (acrylic, olio) sia Pittura digitale, De Conno nel 2008 contribuisce a fondare il gruppo Bandalarga a Milano e cura dal 2009-2012 l'immagine e la grafica del progetto MiMaster di Illustrazione Editoriale, concepito nel 2009 con la produzione della Scuola del Fumetto di Milano e proseguito dal 2010 con l'Associazione OPPI specializzata in formazione e accreditata presso il MIUR e la Regione Lombardia.

Nel 2010 il festival Lucca Comics & Games gli dedica una mostra antologica della sua carriera.

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