José Jiménez Aranda (1837-1903) Genre painter

Luis Jiménez Aranda was a Spanish🎨-born French painter🎨 of genre scenes🎨; many in costumbrista style. His brothers, José and Manuel also became painters.

His first art lessons came from his older brother, José, followed by classes at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría under the direction of Eduardo Cano and Antonio Cabral Bejarano.

In 1868, thanks to a four year stipend from a wealthy patron, he went to Rome to see the Old Masters and complete his studies with Marià Fortuny🎨.

Enrique Serra y Auque | Romantic Landscape painter

Enrique Serra y Auque (1859-1918) was born in Barcelona where he later attended art school. Due to a scholarship, he was able to move to Rome in 1879 where he studied at the Accademia di San Luca. Soon, Serra established himself as a painter in Rome, recorded first sales success and received several commissions for the Vatican.

In 1895 he opened a studio in Paris, which became a meeting point for young Spanish artists🎨.

Roman Frances, 1950

Spanish painter🎨 Jose Miguel Roman Frances was born in Alcoy, Alicante. At The age of fourteen he began to paint in the workshop of Gaspar Frances Rico.

Rico became more of a friend than a teacher, and his work influenced Frances' artistic formation.

Maria Amaral, 1950 | Figurative painter

Exiled from Spain in 1949 after years spent resisting Franco’s regime, her pastor father and teacher mother found refuge in Argentina.

On Christmas Day the following year 1950, in Buenos Aires, Maria Amaral was born.

In 1967, it was her turn to experience exile when she and her family were forced to flee from Argentina.

France welcomed them and they settled in Strasbourg, before she left for Paris and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where she earned an honours degree in fine art, setting up her future as an artist.

Kahlil Gibran | Quotes / Aforismi

Pablo Picasso | Le couple, 1904

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers!".

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart".

“We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side".

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need".

Julio Vila y Prades (1873-1930)

Julio Vila y Prades was a Spanish painter🎨 and muralist who also worked throughout Latin America.

Against his parents wishes, he began his artistic studies at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos with Francisco Domingo Marqués and Joaquín Agrasot🎨.

He then went to Madrid and was an assistant in the workshop of Joaquín Sorolla🎨 from 1893-1904.

Stas Sugintas, 1969

Stanislavas Sugintas was born in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Education:

1980-1984 - Vilnius Middle Art School, Lithuania.

1986-1993 - Academy of Fine Arts of Belarus, Minsk Took general courses in painting, drawing and composition.

Sugintas is member of the "Maison des Artists", France and member of the Union of Designers, Belarus.

Cayetano de Arquer Buigas (1932-2012)

Cayetano de Arquer Buigas🎨 (January 11th, 1932-September 13, 2012) was and stands as perhaps one of the most emblematic inheritors of 19th-century Catalan and French Impressionist style🎨 (seen in artists such as Ramón Casas and Eduard Degás🎨). With his elegant, restrained color palette and compelling balance between composition and subject choices, Buigas’s output has afforded him the status of a beloved, enduring master.