Albert André (1869-1954)

A Post-Impressionist artist and painter of 'intimiste' interiors, still lives and Parisian scenes, he was born in Lyon in 1869.

André spent his childhood vacations in Laudun where his family owned vineyards.

Aged 20, he left for Paris where he studied painting at the Académie Julian.

Dominic Davison, 1972

Dominic Davison è nato a Londra ed ora vive nel Buckinghamshire, nel Regno Unito, dove trae ispirazione per le sue scene idilliache e romantiche.

Si è specializzato nell'arte della creazione digitale e pubblica i suoi lavori su diverse testate specializzate.

L'aspetto tridimensionale dei suoi lavori richiama soggetti specifici, principalmente i cottage, inseriti in un mondo che sembra reale nonostante sia dipinto su una superficie con tecnica bidimensionale.

Ha creato arte per molti anni e in questo periodo ha costruito una fedele base di fan, che ora si estende in tutto il mondo.

Prima di entrare in MGL ha lavorato come artista freelance, pubblicando il suo lavoro su riviste come "3D Artist" e "Advanced Photoshop".

Carlo Salomoni, 1956 | Surrealist Painter / Illustrator

Carlo Salomoni is an Italian artist🎨 born in Ferrara, Italy. He is a graduate from the medical faculty with a degree in general surgery, but in 1992 decides to leave the medical activity and becomes a professional artist.

Carlo started his artist career producing art objects (small sculptures and decoration of pottery vases), some of them exposed in galleries in Ferrara and Bologna Italy. He also realized replicas of famous painters in different epoch times and styles from the year 600 to 900.

Juan Muñoz | Storyteller sculptor

Juan Muñoz (1953-2001)was a Spanish sculptor, working primarily in paper maché, resin and bronze.

He was also interested in the auditory arts and created compositions for the radio. He was a self-described "storyteller".

In 2000, Muñoz was awarded Spain's major Premio Nacional de Bellas Artes in recognition of his work; he died shortly after, in 2001.

His first exhibition was in 1984 in the Fernando Vijande gallery of Madrid. Since then, his works have been frequently exhibited in Europe and other parts of the world.

Ben Hammond, 1977 | Figurative sculptor

Ben Hammond was raised in the rural town of Pingree, Idaho, where his love for art was nurtured from the time he was a small boy.

He studied art at Ricks College graduating with a degree in Illustration.

While at college, he found himself dedicating more and more of his time to sculpting. He also gained a great appreciation for traditional art and decided to devote his time to sculpting the human figure. His passion for the beauty of the human figure is exemplified in his art.

Gustave Courbet | Quotes / Aforismi

• "Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it".
• "La bellezza, come la verità, è relativa al tempo in cui si vive ed all'individuo che può afferrarla".
• "Fine art is knowledge made visible".
• "L'arte è la conoscenza resa visibile".
• "I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients".
• "Non sono uno che è nato sotto la custodia della saggezza; Sono uno che ama i tempi antichi e intenso nella ricerca della sacra conoscenza degli antichi".

James McNeill Whistler | Nocturne: Blue and Gold, St Mark's, Venice, 1880

Nocturne: Blue and Gold, St Mark's, Venice is an 1880 painting by James Abbot McNeill Whistler (American Tonalist painter, 1834-1903), now in the National Museum of Wale.

Following his bankruptcy in 1879, Whistler spent a year in Venice where he concentrated on etchings and pastels.

Only three oil paintings, produced largely from memory in the evenings, survive from this visit.