Cai Yushui / 蔡玉水, 1963

Nato a Jinan, provincia di Shandong, Cina, il pittore professionista Cai Yushui è vice preside dell'Accademia di pittura di Pechino, vice direttore del Comitato artistico ed artista nazionale.

Cai Yushui ha ottenuto risultati eccezionali in dipinti, sculture, film e dipinti cinesi con materiali integrati.

È uno degli artisti più completi della Cina contemporanea.

È specializzato nella pittura cinese con inchiostro, varietà pesante e schizzo, una tecnica pittorica utilizzata molto nell'estremo Oriente, in particolare in Cina e Giappone.

Montse Valdés, 1959

Born in Barcelona, Spain, Montse Valdés began drawing at an early age and spent four years in Paris and one year in Asia during her youth.

Her travels back then have had an effect on her art, and following a brief sojourn in the world of theater, she decided to pursue painting at age 21 and began to create the wealth of generously sized, ethereal and peaceful portraits, figurative works for which she is known.

From 1981-1984, Valdés studied drawing, painting and pastel techniques at the Isidre Vilaseca Studio in Girona and the Artur Aldomà Puig Studio in Barcelona.

Dan McCaw, 1942 | L'impressionista romantico

Il pittore Americano Dan McCaw è cresciuto nel Montana e durante la sua carriera artistica accademica ha frequentato il Montana Institute of Technology, a Butte Montana; l'Università dell'Accademia d'Arte, a San Francisco; l'Art Center College of Design, a Pasadena, California; e la Bongart School of Art, a Santa Monica, in California.

Una solida base di design, colore e valore contraddistingue i dipinti espressivi di McCaw e fornisce un punto di partenza per un'entusiasmante esplorazione di nuovi modi di guardare gli oggetti familiari.

Eliseo Meifrén y Roig | Pittore Impressionista

Eliseo Meifrén Roig (1859-1940) è stato un pittore Impressionista Spagnolo.

Appassionato di pittura, abbandona la laurea in medicina e si iscrive alla Scuola di Belle Arti di Barcellona.

I suoi maestri furono gli artisti Antonio Caba e Ramón Martí Alsina.

Completò la sua formazione a Parigi, dove si recò per la prima volta nel 1879, in compagnia dei pittori Ramón Casas e Santiago Rusiñol, e dove sopravvisse vendendo piccoli dipinti ed appunti, con temi prevalentemente urbani.

Shinji Nakabori, 1956 | Figurative painter

Shinji Nakabori is a visual artist who was born in Tokyo, Japan.

He graduated from Japanese Painting Department at Tama Art University in 1978.

He also studied at the Art Art Students League of New York.

Several works by the artist have been sold at auction in Tokyo.

Victor Hugo | Depuis six mille ans la guerre / For six thousand years the war

For six thousand years the war

Pleasing the quarrelsome peoples,

And God wastes his time doing

The stars and the flowers.

Francisco Goya | Third of May, 1808 | Museo del Prado

Emily Dickinson | L'estate è finita / The Summer is dying

The morns are meeker than they were,

The nuts are getting brown,

The berry's cheek is plumper,

The rose is out of town.

Igor Medvedev

Vera Kober, 1986 | Abstract painter

Vera Kober was born and raised up in difficult periods of collapse during the former USSR in family of musicians.

She studied fine art in school in Ukraine and end it in 1999 but her wish to pursue art education in college was not possible due to challenges of moving to another country with the family.

But Kober continued painting where her soul breathes and love flourishes in the face of difficulties.

André Lombardi, 1959 | Cityscape painter

André Lombardi was born in São Paulo.

He began his activities in 1977, participating in painting and drawing courses.

In 1981, he entered the Faculdade Armando Álvares Penteado, where completed the Fine Arts course in 1986.

During his university period he studied with several artists - Nelson Lerner, Ubirajara Ribeiro, Vlavianos, Antônio Carelli and J. Moraes - also participating in several collective exhibitions on the FAAP campus.

Zhao Xiaoli, 1990 | Pop Surrealist painter

Zhao Xiaoli 赵小黎 is a trend artist based in Xiamen who has attracted widespread attention on social media platforms both in China and internationally.

Using short video as an innovative way to communicate the creative process to a mass audience, she is the first female art influencer in the world to reach over 10 million followers.

Her work mostly explores the emotions and confusions of growing up as a woman, and seeks a unique form of self-expression through the fusion of oil painting and moving images.

Joseph Henry Sharp | Tao Society artist

Joseph Henry Sharp (September 27, 1859 - August 29, 1953) was an American painter and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists, of which he is considered the "Spiritual Father".

Sharp was one of the earliest European-American artists to visit Taos, New Mexico, which he saw in 1893 with artist John Hauser.

He painted American Indian portraits and cultural life, as well as Western landscapes.

Clodoaldo Martins, 1987 | Genre painter

Clodoaldo Martins was born in Agulha, a small town in the Fernando Prestes district, in the state of São Paulo - Brazil.

While still young, at the age of nine, Clodoaldo was already very aware of his vocation: painting.

He started drawing and, at the age of 13, encouraged by his parents, Clodoaldo took up a course with drawing teacher Luis Dotto in the neighboring town of Catanduva.

It was there that the young local talents concentrated.

Elisabeth Chaplin | Post-impressionist painter

Élisabeth Chaplin (17 October 1890, Fontainebleau, France - 28 January 1982, Fiesole, Italy) was a French/Tuscan painter in the Nabis style.

She is known for her portraiture and Tuscan landscapes, most of which reside in the Pitti Palace’s Gallery of Modern Art collection in Florence.

She has two self-portraits in the Vasari Corridor collection.

Oleg Aradushkin, 1951 | Impressionist painter

Oleg Afanasievich Aradushkin / Олег Афанасьевич Арадушкин is known in Russia and abroad as a distinguished and original master working in easel painting and graphic art.

He was born in Podolsk, Moscow Region in 1951.

He graduated from the Moscow State Academy Art College in Memory of the Year of 1905 and Gerasimov State Institute of Cinematography.

As an artist-director Oleg Aradushkin was involved in the creation of a number of feature films.

In 1977 he became a member of the Union of Artists.

Teresa Wilms Montt: "È difficile essere donne in questo mondo"..

Sono Teresa Wilms Montt

e anche se sono nata cento anni prima di te,

la mia vita non è stata tanto diversa dalla tua.

Anche io ho avuto il privilegio d’essere donna.

Julio Romero de Torres | Portrait of Teresa Wilms Montt, 1920

Joseph Zbukvic, 1952 | Maestro acquerellista

Il maestro dell'acquarello Joseph Zbukvic è nato a Zagabria in Croazia. A diciotto anni si è trasferito in Australia.

Le sue impressionanti realizzazioni e l’enorme successo è dovuto alla sua capacità di trasformare qualsiasi oggetto in un linguaggio poetico visivo.

Su una varietà infinita di soggetti, i suoi dipinti sensibili, lirici ed atmosferici hanno catturato persone e gallerie da tutto il mondo.

Fernando Botero: "Nell'arte, il segreto per crescere è confrontarsi!"

• "Un grande artista nasce da una profonda conoscenza della tradizione e dei problemi della pittura. Ci sono però molte opere in cui la freschezza e l'audacia sorprendono, come si può vedere nell'arte popolare e in certi esempi di arte moderna".

• "A great artist is born from a profound knowledge of the tradition and problems of painting. However, there are many works in which freshness and audacity surprise, as can be seen in popular art and in certain examples of modern art".

Il Realismo Magico di Louise Camille Fenne

L'artista Danese Louise Camille Fenne è nata nel 1972 a Copenaghen, in Danimarca, da padre danese e madre inglese.

È cresciuta e ha studiato sia in Danimarca che in Inghilterra.

Incuriosita dalla possibilità di studiare tecniche tradizionali di pittura e disegno, Louise C. Fenne ha studiato disegno ad Aix-en-Provence, in Francia, ed al The Glypotek di Copenhagen prima di iscriversi nel 1995 alla The Florence Academy of Art, dove ha studiato disegno di calchi e figure.

Queen María Isabel of Braganza | Founder of the Museum del Prado

María Isabel of Braganza was born in Lisbon on 19 May 1797, daughter of John VI of Portugal and Carlota Joaquina of Spain.

She became queen of Spain when she married her uncle, Ferdinand VII, on 28 September 1816 and became his second wife.

She died during childbirth in Aranjuez on 26 December 1818.

It must be noted that this is a posthumous portrait.

The artist was the son of Vicente López and his most faithful disciple.

Bernardo López Piquer (1801-1874) | Maria Isabel of Portugal in front of the Prado in 1829 | Museo del Prado

Tanya Chuvasheva, 1977 | Figurative painter

Born in Moscow, Татьяна Чувашева graduated from the Moscow Art Lyceum and the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow (faculte of monumental painting, studio under the guidance of professor E. N. Maksimov).

Member of the International Federation of Artists and National Artist's Union of Russia.

Refinement of colour with simple, but finely constructed composition of a canvas is a characteristic feature of T. Chuvasheva's art.