Jacques Volpi, 1948 | Expressionist painter

Jacques Volpi is a very famous painter from southern France, of the school of painting cévenole and Provençal.

He is born in the town of Ales in the Gare.

Winner of numerous awards and medals.

He paints by using the technique of the "knife".

The subjects are animated by persons, the colours are lively.

It is famous for his persons in the rain of noon of France.

Oswald Achenbach | Düsseldorf school of painting

Oswald Achenbach (1827-1905) was a German painter associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Though little known today, during his lifetime he was counted among the most important landscape painters of Europe.

Through his teaching activities, he influenced the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

His brother, Andreas Achenbach, who was twelve years older, was also among the most important German landscape painters of the 19th century.

The two brothers were humorously called "the A and O of Landscapes" (a reference to their initials matching a common German reference to the Alpha and Omega).

Eliseu Visconti | Impressionist / Art Nouveau painter

Eliseu Visconti (born Eliseo d'Angelo; July 30, 1866 – October 15, 1944) was an Italian-born Brazilian painter, designer, and educator widely celebrated for introducing Impressionism and Art Nouveau to Brazil.

Spanning a highly transitional era between academic traditions and early modernism, he remains one of the most versatile and influential visual artists in Brazilian history.

He entered in 1884 the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios do Rio de Janeiro, where studied under Victor Meireles.

Julien Stappers | Still life with Flowers painter

Julien Stappers (1875-1960) was an Belgian flower painter, celebrated for his radiant and technically superb floral still lifes.

Part of the traditional Belgian school, his signature style is defined by a cool, delicate palette and a highly diffusive, luminous management of light that gives his floral arrangements an energetic yet soothing quality.

Training at the The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in Juliaan De Vriendt (1894-1899) and at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp (1899-1901). First exhibition in 1903.

A presentation to the "Rubens" Gallery in Brussels in 1959 and 1960, the "Jordaens" gallery in Ghent in 1957, 1959 and 1960.

Tan Chun Chiu | Watercolor painter

Tan Chun Chiu (commonly professionally known as T.C. Chiu) was born in China and developed an interest in art when he was a young child.

He began his art studies in China and continued when he came to America in 1974.

His delicate work is the combination of the essential qualities of traditional realism and contemporary painting techniques.

Accomplished in a wide range of media, he incessantly challenges his mastery of watercolor, oil and printmaking.

David Renshaw, 1973 | Romantic painter

David Renshaw (born in Southport, England) is a contemporary British artist celebrated for his romantic oil paintings and nostalgic landscapes.

He is best known for his popular "Northern Romance" series, which captures the enduring love story and travel adventures of two iconic characters, Ted and Doris.

Renshaw discovered his love for art early in life and went on to study graphic design, developing a foundational mastery of diverse mediums.

While fulfilling early watercolor and sketch commissions, he spent years working as a picture framer for a local art gallery.

Michel Rauscher, 1957 | Abstract painter

Michel Rauscher painter and photographer, born in Alsace is a passionate autodidact.

Great traveler, he takes his endless curiosity in regions, on land that fascinated him in search of color, light and authenticity, with a predilection for the African continent.

His need for discovery and the interpretation of dreams become sources of inspiration for his painting.

It evokes the beauty of the everyday magic of ordinary, the emotion of the moment.

Liseth Visser, 1960 | Classical Realist painter

Dutch artist Liseth Visser a.k.a. ElisabethV paints her pictures in a classic realistic way using oils.

She paints on panels and works both on a commission and non-commission basis.

She uses a traditional labour-intensive technique with under-layers, under-paintings and lots of (half) transparent to create softness, depth and glow within the final layers, this to achieve a natural and realistic skin tone in a poetic ambiance.

Vito Gaarin, 1980 | Surrealist artist

Vito Gaarin is a self-taught, multi-disciplinary artist, sculptor and musician -born in Teschen, Poland, who has been based in Berlin.

He explores multi-disciplinary works intersecting fine art, installations and sound/musical compositions.

His painting and visual portfolio highlights a unique combination of traditional techniques, digital painting and mixed media.

Antoine Jossé, 1970 | Surrealist sculptor

Antoine Josse is a French artist, born in 1970.

His paintings and sculptures express an irrepressible desire for lightness, escapism and to be able to dream the impossible.

The use of captivating and revealing motifs, along with the presence of human beings immersed in a dream-like landscape, convey a unique charm to his work.

His paintings are alluring for their atmosphere, evocative colours, and tumultuous skies.

The minuscule beings are settled in a desolated and dangerous world where the vegetation rapidly spreads, bringing to life dramatic reds, blues and greens, creating spectacular yet enigmatic feelings.

L'Impressionismo romantico di Pino (Giuseppe Dangelico)

Giuseppe Dangelico (1939-2010), noto universalmente con lo pseudonimo di Pino (o Pino Daeni), è stato un celebre pittore ed illustratore Italiano naturalizzato statunitense, considerato uno dei più grandi maestri dell'arte figurativa e della copertina editoriale del XX secolo.

Nato a Bari l'8 novembre 1939, è scomparso nel New Jersey il 25 maggio 2010.

È celebre per lo stile unico che unisce un realismo romantico a pennellate fluide ed impressioniste, focalizzandosi prevalentemente sulla bellezza femminile, l'intimità domestica e la nostalgia.

Dang Can, 1957 | Watercolor romantic painter

The Vietnamese painter Đặng Văn Cần was born in An Duc commune, Long Ho District, Vinh Long Province, the place is located along riverside of Mekong river in Vietnam.

He showed an early talent in drawing and painting.

He commenced to art works since 1976 with main job as a illustrator for local newspaper and magazine.

Dang Can is a member of Vietnam Fine Arts Association.

He has many paintings in Private Collection in many countries.

Francesco Gioli | Macchiaioli painter

Francesco Gioli (June 29, 1846 - February 4, 1922) was a prominent Italian painter associated with the Macchiaioli movement and Tuscan Naturalism.

Born into a wealthy family in San Frediano a Settimo (Pisa), he became celebrated for his elegant depictions of rural Tuscan life, atmospheric landscapes and intimate portraits.

Gioli initially trained under academic masters like Antonio Ciseri and Enrico Pollastrini, starting his career with traditional historical paintings.

Wisława Szymborska | Allegro ma non troppo, 1972

Sei bella - dico alla vita,

è impensabile più rigoglio

più rane e più usignoli,

più formiche e più germogli.

Cerco di accattivarmela,

di blandirla, vezzeggiarla.

La saluto sempre per prima

con umile espressione.

Love Letter from Auguste Rodin to Camille Claudel, 1886

"My ferocious friend".... "Mia feroce amica"...

Thus begins Rodin’s desperate cry of love to Camille Claudel in the early years of their relationship.

Rodin was soon captivated by this pupil who became his assistant, mistress and muse, while Claudel outwardly remained in complete control of her feelings.

Consumed and tormented by an obsessive love, he implores her - “on his knees” - to ease his suffering from beginning to end of this letter, written in a muddled style, with erroneous syntax and imperfect spelling.

Vilhelm Hammershøi | Interior painter

Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) was a Danish painter. He is known for his poetic, subdued portraits and interiors.

In 1997, Denmark issued a postage stamp in his honour.

Vilhelm Hammershøi was born iin Copenhagen, Denmark.

The son of a well-to-do merchant, Christian Hammershøi, and his wife, Frederikke (née Rentzmann), Hammershøi studied drawing from the age of eight with Niels Christian Kierkegaard and Holger Grønvold, as well as painting with Vilhelm Kyhn, before embarking on studies with Frederik Vermehren and others at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Pia Erlandsson, 1961 | Abstract Watercolor painter

Pia Erlandsson is a professional Swedish painter best known for her expressive, ethereal human portraits primarily created using watercolors.

Born in southern Halland, she has been living and working out of Gothenburg, Sweden since 1986.

After completing her artistic training - notably studying under Kerstin Sandbaum between 1995 and 1999 - she committed to painting full-time in 2007.

Her work heavily explores human emotions and states of mind.

Rainer Maria Rilke / Rodin | Love Song, 1907

How shall I hold my soul and yet not touch

It with your own? How shall I ever place

It clear of you on anything beyond?

Oh gladly I would stow it next to such

Things in the darkness as are never found

Down in an alien and silent space

That does not resonate when you resound.

Auguste Rodin - Fugit Amor, 1881

Rainer Maria Rilke | La sera / The evening

Come una indefinibile fata d'ombre...

Vien da lungi la Sera, camminando

per l'abetaia tacita e nevosa.

Johan August Malmström (1829-1901) | Dancing Fairies, 1866

Hans Jochem Bakker, 1948 | Abstract painter

Dutch Conceptual Artist Hans Jochem Bakker as a self taught undergone remarkable development.

He was initially inspired by the mystical world of Salvador Dali with his talent was not trained for that of his fellow artists.

Even celebrities like Miró and Picasso influenced the early work of Jochem.

Between 1980-1990 took place a sensational change.