Ben Goossens, 1945 | Il "Magritte della fotografia"

Ben Goossens was born in Liezele, Belgium and attended the St Lucas Art School in Brussels where he studied Illustration and Photography.

After four years in Art School, illustration and photography became his obsession.

He worked in advertising for 32 years, mostly as an Art Director, where he gained 15 years of Photoshop experience.

His source of inspiration in advertising came from surrealist paintings and still does in his work now.

His hobby and passion now is creating ‘experimental / surreal photomontages’, these images are very seamless yet painterly dreamscapes.

Bob Stroody | Fantasy painter

Stroody (Bob) is a British digital painter, graphic designer, photographer and illustrator of the UK.

Pictures Bob's full of magical beauty and fabulousness and performed at the highest professional level.

Stroody's signature portfolios focus primarily on surreal, atmospheric landscapes.

His work frequently features vibrant color play, seasonal transformations (especially autumn and winter themes) and mystical wonderland aesthetics.

Richard Ramsey, 1954 | Portrait photographer

Richard Ramsey is a highly celebrated, award-winning portrait photographer based in Memphis, Tennessee, who is best known for his mastery of digital portrait painting.

Spanning a career of over four decades, he blends traditional portrait photography with classical painterly aesthetics.

He has been honored eleven times with the prestigious title of "Photographer of the Year".

Svetlana Bobrova, 1960 | Surrealist painter

The surreal world, created by Svetlana Bobrova / Светлана Боброва, is full of strange creatures.

In this world everything is possible.

Her artworks are full of energy, passion and grotesqueness.

Like dreams, they are born from real anxieties and experiences, taking the spectator far into the depths of sub-consciousness.

They have a hypnotic internal glow, which penetrates the eyes with tonal transitions of neon, green, yellow and blue.

Carlos Alberto Quintero | Magic Realism painter

Colombian painter Carlos Alberto Quintero is a Art Investigator, Professor and Mix Media Artist.

Quintero’s passion and strength on investigation and exploration is captured on his Artwork, which covers a vast journey in the dimension of the roots of the Latin-American magic realism.

Quintero has a long trajectory exhibiting his artwork nationally and internationally with great results.

He possesses extensive knowledge of Aesthetic Education, Graphic Design and Master in Art Education: National University of Colombia (Bogota), plastic arts and extensive work experience within the country and overseas and during his career he has received various awards such as recognition from the Florida’s Governor Charlie Christ for his artistic contributions to the community.

Stanislav Aristov, 1982 | Match sticks Art

Russian artist Stanislav Aristov creates miniature sculptures by bending matches and fire, into a desired shape.

A matchstick is something so ordinary and simple that one could hardly imagine it could become an object of art.

Aristov unveils the artistic potential of matches in his his "Спички / matchsticks" series.

This photographer literally plays with fire by bending the matches into the desired shapes as they burn, then uses a macro lens and a studio flash to shoot the fire and the smoke around it.

The artist then moves to Photoshop to finish the image.

Catlin Harrison | Abstract artist

"A Londoner by birth and inclination, the city provides for me a fresh daily helping of eclectic people to watch and wonder about.

I'm endlessly fascinated with the human form, especially meta-figures like ghosts or dolls or archetypes.

Sometimes I think my work stems from a collectors' sensibility - particularly those Victorian do-gooders who pinned butterflies or measured skulls.

Each piece of work is an independent specimen, a set of examples of a particular type.

Presence, oddity, beauty and humour are important elements in all my work, as is colour and aesthetics'.

Zerone Birti, 1988 | Abstract painter

Zerone Birti was born in Brussels, Belgium where he now lives.

From his early observations of life around him as a child to the now ever developing artwork, the same drive and focus animates his swift hand and sharp stance.

Movement interwoven into a knot that loosens before the eyes.

Those words seem to encapsulate his art.

Silvia Cordedda, 1991 | Fractal Garden

Italian artist Silvia Cordedda was born in Carrara, Italy.

Cordedda attended Chemical Engineering in University of Pisa and took Japanese lessons in her free time.

She creates extraordinarily beautiful fractal flowers that look like they could only exist in our dreams or in a wonderfully magical world.

She has been fractalist since January 2012.

Tina Cassati | Surreal fashion

Berlin based artist Tina Cassati, makes costumes (sculpture le mode and giardino di arte), ruffs, hats-, bags - and shoes-, jewelry objects into modern surreale digital-photo-art worlds and illustrations.

She paints, sews, draws, photographs, digital collage - mixed media, collage, illustration.

She does not care about genres.

Her work is influenced by Renaissance, Baroque, Traditional Clothing (Folk Costumes) fairy tales. To her, fashion is fine art.

Daria Petrilli, 1970 | Pop-Surrealist Illustrator

Daria Petrilli is an award winning illustrator, born in Rome, Italy.

After graduating with an MA in Communication and Design at the Università La Sapienza, she took on various agency roles as a graphic designer and illustrator in Rome.

Later she moved to London, where she completed a Diploma in Experimental Illustration at the LCC - part of the University of the Arts London, achieving the highest possible grade.

Richard Nadler, 1987 | Generative art

Richard Nadler is a contemporary digital artist based in Munich, Germany, whose innovative work explores the dynamic interplay between tradition, Artificial Intelligence, and digital media.

With roots in the Bavarian countryside and formative experiences from extensive travels in Japan, his artistry is deeply infused with personal narrative and cultural resonance.

Nikki Marie-Smith | Mixed-media painter

Nikki Marie Smith is an artist, mother,and entrepreneur. She creates themed art, including a music-inspired series, and received the FAA Artistic Merit Award.

"- I am an artist, a mother, and an entrepreneur. I'm passionate about music and color and seek to convey the transformative power of music through my paintings.

My artwork and tutorials have been regularly featured in Cloth Paper Scissors and Cloth Paper Scissors PAGES magazines.

Mark Ashkenazi | Pop Art painter

Mark Ashkenazi is an Israeli photo artist based in New York City.

He loved art since childhood and everyone around him, including himself, knew that he would become an artist.

Starting artwork at such a young age provided him with the opportunity to learn a lot from other renowned artists.

Oleg Oprisco, 1987 | Surrealist / Conceptual photographer

Ukrainian Fine Art photographer Oleg Oprisco is born in the small town of Lviv, in western Ukraine.

Oprisco is known for his conceptual shots that involve elaborately constructed props and scenes that capture his distinct sense of surreality.

Relying on neutrals and subdued tones rather than a bold color palette, the mysterious, dreamlike images tend to center on a single figure within a quiet and unoccupied landscape.

James R. Eads, 1989 | Love Forgetting Time

Los Angeles-based illustrator James R. Eads primarily works in acrylic and on a Wacom tablet to create high quality screen-prints and giclee prints that imitate traditional painting and printmaking.

James R. Eads was born in Los Angeles, CA.

He spent his childhood making art and eventually went to a liberal arts school in New York where he studied printmaking, painting and graphic design.

Iban Barrenetxea, 1973 | Fantasy writer / illustrator

Iban Barrenetxea is a Spanish graphic designer and writer.

Iban lets his imagination run lose in his work, and creates hilarious and fantastic scenes overflowing with unique details and characters.

Iban Barrenetxea is one of the most internationally-acclaimed illustrators and authors in the field of children’s and young adult literature in Spain.

He has received numerous awards and has exhibited in Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, Portugal and Japan and his books have been translated into several languages: French, Russian, Japanese and Korean.

Ben Goossens, 1945 | Surrealist photographer

Goossens worked for 35 years in his native Belgium as an ad agency art director.

After retiring, Goossens turned to creating photo montages with a distinctive Surrealism style reminiscent of his fellow countryman, René Magritte.

Pascal Campion, 1973 | Conceptual illustrator / animator

Pascal Campion is a French American prolific illustrator and storyteller. He has worked decades in the field of animation, illustration and commercials.

Born in River Edge, New Jersey, Pascal began his art career at a very young age of seven when his older brother Sean, gave him the task of "copying" comic books covers in exchange for Pascal to read the comics!

At the age of three, his family relocated back to the south of France, where he spent hours sketching and drawing both comics and the beautiful landscapes of Provence.

In 1998 Pascal began his studying narrative illustration at Arts Decoratifs de Strasbourg, in France.

Come rilevare i contenuti AI / How to detect AI-generated content

Con la diffusione della Intelligenza Artificiale (AI) si levano molte voci preoccupate sul fatto che l'AI potrebbe sostituire il lavoro dei professionisti, quelli umani.

Come nell'Ottocento, quando era stata inventata la fotografia: gli artisti si erano preoccupati, vedendo la novità come un'invasione di campo che avrebbe reso inutile la loro ricerca di riproduzione della realtà, mentre altri l'avevano vista come un'occasione.

Vincent van Gogh | The Bedroom, 1888 | Van Gogh Museum and the Vincent van Gogh's bedroom by AI Art