Anwen Keeling, 1976 | Figurative painter

Anwen Keeling is an Australian portrait painter.

Working primarily with oil paints, her artworks have often focused on introspective women in private settings.

She has "always been influenced by Caravaggio".

Her artworks prominently contain areas of deep shadows.

Gabriele d’Annunzio | Aprile

Socchiusa è la finestra, sul giardino.

Un'ora passa lenta, sonnolenta,

ed ella, ch'era attenta, s'addormenta

a quella voce che già si lamenta,

che si lamenta in fondo a quel giardino.

Non è che voce d'acque su la pietra:

e quante volte, quante volte udita !

William Brymner | In the orchard spring, 1892

Salvatore Quasimodo: "19 gennaio, 1944"

Ti leggo dolci versi d'un antico,

e le parole nate fra le vigne,

le tende, in riva ai fiumi delle terre

dell'est, come ora ricadono lugubri

e desolate in questa profondissima

notte di guerra, in cui nessuno corre

il cielo degli angeli di morte,

Pablo Picasso | Guernica, 1937 | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

Wisława Szymborska | Ogni caso / Could have, 1972

Poteva accadere.

Doveva accadere.

È accaduto prima. Dopo.

Più vicino. Più lontano.

È accaduto non a te.

Ti sei salvato perché eri il primo.

Ti sei salvato perché eri l’ultimo.

Rene Magritte

Patrizia Cavalli | La primavera / The spring

You arrive like this, as always,

To spread the suspicion of paradise,

And before I open the window

I know you from the gentler light,

From the dust that hangs in the air,

From the bird’s obsessive performance,

Charles Courtney Curran | Summer, 1906

Salvatore Quasimodo | Dammi il mio Giorno / Grant me my Day

Dammi il mio giorno;

ch’io mi cerchi ancora

un volto d’anni sopito

che un cavo d’acque

riporti in trasparenza,

e ch’io pianga amore di me stesso.

Antonio Nunziante | Cometa

Jane DeDecker | The Women's Suffrage

By Jane DeDecker / The concept of this proposed women’s monument was inspired by a letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Lucretia Mott in which she wrote about the power of words and deeds:

"Every word we utter, every act we perform, waft unto innumerable circles, beyond".

I wanted to capture the collective energy from all women who have made this happen, as well as acknowledge that we still need to keep moving as we strive for equality.

When a water droplet impacts a body of water it pushes waves outward and rebounds upward as a smaller droplet. This droplet, called the daughter droplet - gains height - then falls back to the water in what is called a coalescent cascade.

This describes the height, breadth, and lasting impact of the Suffragists’ work.

Mitsuru Ichikawa, 1983 | Magic Realism painter

Mitsuru Ichikawa 市川光鶴 is a Japanese painter, born in Nagoya-shi, Aichi Prefecture.

She has been aspiring to be a painter since he was a child, and has been exhibiting mainly at group public exhibitions.

He completed the oil painting course at Musashino Art University Graduate School of Art and Design.

Currently is an associate member of the Independent Art Association.