Taras Loboda, 1961 | Abstract painter

Taras Łoboda was born in Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine, into the family of Iwan Iwanowicz Łoboda (1926-2017), famous ukrainian artist. He graduated from the Institute of Art in Kiev (1979-1985).

In 1979 he attended well-known Zaretsky's Studio. He is a participant of many international, republican, all-Soviet Union exhibitions.

Since 1993 he has been living and working in Prague (Czech Republic).

He is a painter creating thematic compositions, portraits, landscapes, still-lives. Presently living and working in Prague, the artist persistently and purposefully develops three main motives: woman's portrait and act (body with melodious lines, a look with a sad solitude feeling), strict classic still life and a phantom landscape.

Objects painted by the artist intrigue, attract due to their escaping mysteriousness.

Ignat Ignatov, 1978 | Impressionist painter

Ignat Ignatov is a contemporary artist with exemplary talent. His interpretation of the spirit of fine art saturates his paintings with a unique expressive richness. Although each new subject seems to dictate the style and approach, his paintings are always alive with color, light, texture, atmosphere, energy, and emotion.
Ignat was born in 1978 in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria and grew up in Sevlievo, Bulgaria.

At age thirteen, his promising talent in drawing, painting, and sculpting earned him one of only thirty available spots to attend the renowned Secondary Art School of Applied Arts in Tryavna, Bulgaria. Ignat’s five years there established the foundation for his academic art training.

Following graduation in 1996, Ignat attended St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, where he studied under the demanding atelier approach to fine art. In 1997, at the age of nineteen, Ignat financed his move to the United States using proceeds from the sale of his art. He is now a United States citizen residing in California.

Juan Medina, 1950 | Surrealist / Hyperrealist painter

Juan Medina, Mexican painter, was born in Mexico City, 1950. In the beginning it was shape, then came light, afterwards color and finally texture; as in the architectonic creation, the genesis of Juan Medina’s pictorial work rests on a solid structure of techniques and concepts that weave in plastic dimensions his memories made of oil and canvas.

With time, the step from watercolor to oil was the resource that allowed him to approach with mastery the conscience of time encrusted in stone, wood, mirrors and all model object that transfers Renaissance rhetoric without moralizing it.

Bogdan Prystrom, 1972 | Abstract Digital Photographer

Polish artist Bogdan Prystrom lives in a pretty town of Olsztyn in the north of Poland.

He is a member of Union of Polish Art Photographers.

His work is entirely photo-based and he calls it photo-montage.

He says that his digital art is an extension of the traditional photographic methods he used earlier in his career.

Chelìn Sanjuan | Surrealist painter

Chelin Sanjuan Piquero (1967-2012) was born in the city of Zaragoza, Spain.

In 1968, she emigrated with her parents to Chile where she will live for five years.

Later they travel to Venezuela, the country in which she will reside until 1987.

Her artistic vocation began at a very young age.

Tara Juneau, 1981 | Figurative painter

Tara Juneau is an Canadian painter🎨 living and working in Shawnigan Lake B.C. She has studied with world-renowned artist and author Anthony Ryder in Santa Fe New Mexico as well as Jeremy Lipking🎨 in California.

Tara views her work as an ongoing and evolving relationship with herself, the natural world and with God. She prefers working from life whenever possible, using oil paint as her means of expression.
“Art is my passion in life.

Through painting I try to express the power that light and beauty have on my soul.

I am always striving to know more - not only how to paint but also learning about what I paint.

There is beauty and natural order in everything and I hope that through my work I can reveal that truth to others”.

Museum Masterpieces

Albert de Belleroche (Welsh-born French painter, 1864-1944) | Woman with a Yellow Hat | Metropolitan Museum of Art

Albert Gustavus de Belleroche, also known as Albert Belleroche, (22 October 1864 - 14 July 1944) was a Welsh-born painter and lithographer, who lived most of his childhood and his adulthood in Paris and England.

He began as a painter, but at the turn of the century focused on lithography, for which he is most well-known.

He was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre de Leopold by King Albert I of Belgium in 1933.

Bartholomaeus Spranger | Mannerist painter

Bartholomaeus Spranger, also spelled Bartholomeus Sprangers, orSprangerson, (born March 21, 1546, Antwerp, Hapsburg Netherlands - died August 1611, Prague), Antwerp painter noted for his paintings of nudes executed in the late Mannerist style🎨. In his efforts to develop a Northern artistic canon of the human figure, Spranger employed mannered poses, slender, elongated bodies, and a gleaming, brittle texture in his work. The figures smile invitingly, and the influence of Parmigianino🎨 and Correggio🎨 is evident in their voluptuous contours.

Spranger went to Italy in 1567 and during a 10-year period spent in Rome and Parma, he assisted in completing an interrupted fresco project. Later, while working in Paris (c. 1565), he was influenced by the work of Francesco Primaticcio and Niccolò dell’ Abbate.

He returned to Rome in 1567 and became an assistant to Taddeo Zuccari, later working in Vienna for the emperor Maximilian II.

In 1581 he was appointed court painter in Prague by the emperor Rudolf II, and he remained in that city thereafter. The engraver Hendrik Goltzius made popular copies of Spranger’s work, resulting in their becoming widely known. | © Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Hermann Corrodi | Vedutist painter

Primarily a Landscape artist, who became famous as an Orientalist painter, Hermann David Salomon Corrodi was born in Italy (Frascati) in 1844. He died in Roma in 1905.

He was brought up in an artistic family and, from 1860, he studied in the studio of Alexandre Calame in Geneva. In 1866 he entered the Fine Art Academy in Roma, studying with his father, the artist Salomon Corrodi.

He then travelled throughout Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, visiting Egypt, Syria, Cyprus, Constantinopolis and Montenegro, soon building an international reputation as a genre and landscape painter.

In 1872, he studied in Paris, exhibited his works at Munich International Exhibition, and travelled to London where the Royal Family purchased several of his pictures. In 1873, he was awarded a Gold medal at the Vienna Universal Exhibition.