Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

Gustav Klimt was one of the most innovative and controversial artists of the early twentieth century.

The son of an engraver, he studied at the State School of Applied Arts in Vienna.

In the 1880s and 1890s he produced murals for public buildings - including Vienna's Burgtheater and new Kunsthistorisches Museum, in the prevailing classical-realist style.

Klimt's style grew increasingly experimental, however, and his murals for Vienna University, commissioned by the State in 1894, were roundly attacked by critics for their fantastical imagery and their bold, decorative style.

Partly in response to this reaction, in 1897 Klimt helped form the Secession, a group of artists dedicated to challenging the conservative Academy of Fine Arts.

Influenced by European avant-garde movements represented in the annual Secession exhibitions, Klimt's mature style combined richly decorative surface patterning with complex symbolism and allegory, often with overtly erotic content.

John Jude Palencar | Fairview Park, Ohio

Palencar was born in Fairview Park, Ohio.

He developed an interest in the subject matter of horror and science fiction early in life; dressing up as an alien with a homemade custom latex masks and exhibiting a fascination in both scaring others and being scared himself.

In the third grade, his family would move to Middleburg Heights, Ohio.

He would win his first award in art in fifth grade with a three-colour block print for the Cleveland’s Plain Dealer newspaper calendar contest.

He went on to attended Midpark High School. It was in high school that the artist came under the art training of Frederick C. Graff, who up until today is a established award winning artist, primarily in watercolor.

Emily Dickinson | If you were coming in the Fall

If you were coming in the Fall,

I'd brush the Summer by

With half a smile, and half a spurn,

As Housewives do, a Fly.

If I could see you in a year,

I'd wind the months in balls

And put them each in separate Drawers,

For fear the numbers fuse -

Leonid Afremov | Lovers in the park

Vijender Sharma, 1962 | Delhi, India

Vijender Sharma è un pittore Indiano che ha ricevuto un MFA in Pittura dal College of Art, Nuova Delhi, nel 1990.

Fantasie, personaggi mitici ed epopee sacre hanno sempre fatto parte della sua ispirazione.

Le sue opere surrealiste raffiguranti uno scenario suggestivo ed espressivo sono come un velo trasparente tra la realtà umana e la fantasia spirituale.

Ha partecipato in numerose mostre artistiche tenute in paesi tra cui Malesia, Danimarca, Norvegia, Svezia, Turchia e Francia.

Le sue opere artistiche sono presenti in molte importanti collezioni tra cui quella del Presidente dell'India.

Vive e lavora a Delhi.

Jean-Claude Dresse, 1946

Il pittore Belga Jean-Claude Dresse è nato a Charleroi in una famiglia di artisti.

Suo nonno era un artista dilettante, suo padre - scultore e pittore, e suo cugino, primo violinista al Conservatorio.

Ha studiato all'Académie des Beaux-Arts di Charleroi dove ha lavorato principalmente Marcello Gibon.

Nel 1985 tiene la sua prima mostra personale a Bruxelles.

Da allora espone regolarmente in Belgio, in Francia e in Paesi Bassi.

Katia San Millan, 1952 | República Dominicana

L'artista Dominicana Katia San Millan è una pittrice visionaria spirituale la cui opera spazia dal realismo, l'impressionismo, il surrealismo all'astratto.

Artista di origine haitiana con oltre 37 anni di esperienza come artista visivo e insegnante d'arte.

"Sono la figlia del maestro artista, Roger San Millan, che ha toccato, plasmato e colorato la mia vita come se fosse stato uno dei tanti mezzi che ha usato per esprimere la sua passione per la riflessione profonda e la bellezza.

Jean de Gaigneron | La marchesa Casati, 1922

Benjamin Lacombe, 1982

Benjamin Lacombe è nato a Parigi. Nel 2001 ha frequentato la scole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs di Parigi dove ha proseguito la sua formazione artistica.

Oltre ai suoi studi, ha lavorato come artista pubblicitario e di film d'animazione prima di completare la sua prima serie di fumetti all'età di 19 anni, insieme ad alcuni altri libri illustrati.

William Bouguereau | Jeannie, 1868

"Jeannie" is an 1868 oil painting by French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905).

In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body.

As the quintessential salon painter of his generation, he was reviled by the Impressionist avant-garde.

To many, he epitomized taste and refinement, and a respect for tradition.

Man Ray (1890-1976)

Emmanuel Rudnitzky, pseudonimo Man Ray, è stato un pittore, fotografo e regista statunitense, esponente del Dadaismo.

Ray rivoluzionò l'arte fotografica. Grandi artisti dell'epoca come James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau e molti altri posarono di fronte alla sua macchina fotografica.

Giovanni Dupré | Figurative sculptor

Giovanni Dupré (1 March 1817 - 10 January 1882) was an Italian sculptor, of distant French stock long settled in Tuscany, who developed a reputation second only to that of his contemporary Lorenzo Bartolini.

Biography

Born in Siena, Dupré began in his father's carving workshop and that of Paolo Sani, where he was occupied with producing fakes of Renaissance sculptures.

In an open contest run by the Accademia di Belle Arti, he won first prize with a Judgment of Paris and made his reputation with the life-size figure of the dead Abel, which was purchased for Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, Duchess of Leuchtenberg (now at the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg) and was replicated in bronze, c. 1839, (now in the Galleria d'arte moderna, Palazzo Pitti, Florence).

Albert Bierstadt | Boats Ashore at Sunset

"Boats Ashore at Sunset" was created by the American Hudson River School painter Albert Bierstadt in Luminism style.

Albert Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Prussia, on January 7, 1830, but he spent his early years in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where his parents settled two years after his birth. Henry Bierstadt, the artist's father, found work as a cooper in the capital of America's whaling industry.

Vincent van Gogh | Outskirts of Paris, 1886

Outskirts of Paris are paintings that Vincent van Gogh made in 1887, while he was living in Paris with his brother Theo.

Van Gogh liked to explore the outskirts of Paris, searching for pastoral settings in parks and the wooded areas of the suburbs.

His goal was to find scenes that would allow him to explore techniques he learned in Paris.

Jean-François Millet | Bird's Nesters, 1874

Known for his realistic portrayals of French peasants, Millet produced this painting at the very end of his life.

He based the scene on stories from his childhood that told of great flights of wild pigeons.

When the birds settled in trees at night, the peasants blinded them with light from torches and then clubbed hundreds to death.

Alfred Thompson Bricher | Sunset