Itzchak Tarkay (1935-2012)

Itzchak Tarkay was an Israeli artist. Tarkay was born in Subotica, on the Yugoslav-Hungarian border.

In 1944, Tarkay and his family were sent to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp, until Allied liberation freed them a year later.

In 1949, his family emigrated to Israel, living in a kibbutz for several years.

Henri Matisse: Creativity takes courage!

• "There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted" - Henri Matisse.
• "Penso che nulla sia più difficile per un vero pittore che dipingere una rosa, perché per dipingerla deve dimenticare tutte le rose che ha dipinto prima" - Henri Matisse.

Joseph Désiré Court (1797-1865)

Joseph-Désiré Court was a French painter🎨 of historical subjects and portraits.

Court was born at Rouen. He became a pupil at the École des Beaux-Arts under Gros, and after carrying off the principal honours there pursued his studies still further at Rome.

Wilhelm von Gegerfelt | Skagen painter

Wilhelm von Gegerfelt, also Vilhelm von Gegerfelt (1844-1920) was a Swedish painter.

Born in Gothenburg, Gegerfelt was the son the architect Victor von Gegerfelt (1817-1915).

From 1861-1863, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy, at the Royal Swedish Academy from 1864-1867, and thereafter in Düsseldorf until 1872.

Johann Till the Younger (1827-1894) Genre painter

Johann Till the Younger was an Austrian🎨 19th Century painter.

Johann Till the Younger trained in Vienna under his father Johann Till the Elder (1800-1889).

His father’s predominant interests were historical scenes.

Johann Till the Younger studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna under Leopold Kupelwieser (1796-1862) and Christian Ruben (1805-1875).

Cafiero Filippelli | Macchiaioli painter

Cafiero Filippelli (1889-1973) was an Italian painter.

Born into a family of modest income in Livorno, Cafiero Filippelli started working at a very young age, but still managed to gain his diploma at the Scuola d’Arte e Mestieri.

Thanks to a scholarship he then went to the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, where he got to know Giovanni Fattori and Galileo Chini.

Lino Selvatico (1872-1924) | Belle Ѐpoque painter

Lino Selvatico was an Italian painter🎨.

His father, Riccardo was a lawyer, poet, comedic dramatist and politician, who intended his son to become a lawyer and legislator.

Lino's brother, Luigi Selvàtico (1873-1938), was also a painter.

Luigi was nicknamed il gobbo Selvatico due to his physical ailment.

Jerrard Gems | Vintage flower

"Perfumes are the feelings of flowers".
"I profumi sono i sentimenti dei fiori" - Heinrich Heine

"I paint flowers so they will not die".
"Dipingo i fiori così che non moriranno" - Frida Kahlo

"A flower blossoms for its own joy".
"Un fiore sboccia per la sua stessa gioia" - Oscar Wilde

Stojan Milanov, 1963

Stojan Milanov è nato a Belgrado, in Serbia.

È un pittore professionista dal 1985 e membro di ULUPUDS dal 2005.

I suoi temi sono la figura umana ed il paesaggio urbano, la tecnica: olio su tela.

Laureato presso l'Università di Architettura di Belgrado.

Ha partecipato a numerose mostre collettive e incontri d'arte.

Nel 2005, è stato premiato "Artista dell'anno" dalla Simic Galleries, California.

Annick Redor, 1952

For over 35 years Annick Redor has accumulated awards🎨 and exhibitions, both in France and abroad.

French painter🎨 Annick Redor was born in Nantes.

She graduated from the School of Fine Arts, she studied the technique of old masters in the Paris studio, the year she lived in Russia, where interested in iconography, and then there was a period of travel in Europe and America, a six-month trip to Africa, more than a year lived in a remote village in Gabon, and finally decided to go own way in art and find your own handwriting brush.

Joseph Bail (1862-1921) | Genre painter

Joseph Bail was born in Limonest in the Rhone region of France. His father, Jean-Antoine Bail, was a genre painter influenced by the Dutch masters, and he focused his attention on depicting scenes from domestic life.

Bail received his early training from his father and later studied in the studios of Jean Léon Gêrome and Carolus-Durand, two of the leading figures of the Parisian Academy of Fine Arts.

Victor Gilbert (1847-1935)

Victor Gabriel Gilbert was a French painter🎨 mostly known for their Parisian scenes and portraying market scenes there.

He studied with Victor Adam (1801-1866) and subsequently with the Charles Busson (1822-1908).

In 1889 he was awarded🎨 a silver medal in the Societe Artistes Français, and a Bonnat prize in 1926, at the end of his career.

Susan Rios, 1950 | Romantic designer

Serene settings, gentle harmonies, soft, inviting rooms, lush, floral gardens, quiet seas that evoke tranquility - artist Susan Rios’ distinctive style is evident in every image she paints.  

Susan resides in Southern California, amidst rooms very reminiscent of the images she paints.

Paul Bond, 1964

Award-winning artist Paul Bond was born in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Bond’s art lives in the spaces between dreaming and reality.

Drawing from the Latin American genre of Magic Realism, his paintings merge symbolic, surreal and allegorical elements with realistic atmospheres.

Jarek Kubicki, 1976 | 32nd day of Covid-19 Quarantine

"In recent days", says Polish painter Jarek Kubicki, "in Poland there have been many reports of police abuse in connection with quarantine, people are punished for ordinary cycling or jogging, even if they are alone and away from residential areas.

This provoked me to create a series of 32nd day of Quarantine, which refers to this situation in a light way, based on well-known works of art, while allowing to channel social frustration".

Mostafa Keyhani, 1954 | Modern impressionist painter

Mostafa Keyhani is an Award winning🎨 painter who lives and works in Toronto. His works are collected both in Canada and United States.

• Artist statement:

His work is essentially in be field of modern impressionism.

Light plays an important role in his work, as well as movement of colours.

Maurice Leloir (1853-1940) Rococo painter

Maurice Leloir was a French🎨 illustrator, watercolourist, draftsman, printmaker, writer and collector.

Leloir was the son, and pupil, of painter Auguste Leloir and watercolorist Héloïse Suzanne Colin, daughter of painter Alexandre-Marie Colin.

Leloir married Céline Bourdier, with whom he had a daughter, Suzanne Leloir, who married Philippe, the son of Pauline Savari in 1912.

Pierre Grisot (1911-1995) | Belle Époque painter

Pierre Grisot was a French🎨 post-Impressionist artist who was a member of the Parisian School of art. Grisot painted in a light hearted style that was all his own.

Whether he was painting fashionable ladies of the day or flowers, his work was always full of colour and life and was very different from the styles of his contemporary painters.

Karl Kaufmann (1843-1901)

Karl Kaufmann was an Austrian landscape and architectural painter.

Karl Kaufmann was a student at the Vienna Academy. His studies in the European North (Norway), to Holland, Germany (Franconia, Danzig, Königsberg) and often to Italy (Naples, Rome, Venice) gave him the motives for his numerous landscapes, including a remarkable number of views of Venice.

From 1900 Karl Kaufmann constantly lived in Vienna. He often signed his works using pseudonyms.

Bernard Charoy, 1931

Bernard Charoy was born to a family of artisans, in the Lorraine region on the East of France.

Bernard Charoy is a brilliant talented figurative artist, who has continued to follow and develop his creativity instincts for nearly half a century.