Carolina Landea, 1964 | Pittrice Romantica

Carolina Landea è una pittrice Cilena le cui opere si avvalgono di un uso peculiare di luce e colore, trasmettendo atmosfere costiere, in particolare quelle crepuscolari, con un certo tono infantile e malinconico.

L'artista si è cimentata anche nella moda, nella danza, nella ginnastica e nel teatro, evidenziando il suo lavoro come produttrice di moda e modella per la rivista "Paula".

Membro di una nota famiglia di pittori, inizia la sua formazione artistica all'età di tredici anni.

Ha studiato con José Luis Asparren, professore presso l'Accademia Reale di San Fernando a Madrid.

Diane Leonard | Romantic Impressionist painter

Diane Leonard is an internationally acclaimed Impressionist Artist known for her incredible use of light.

A self-taught artist, Diane began painting in her early twenties while she lived in Boston.

- "Late afternoon is my favorite time to paint!

Whether I am on the beach or painting in my yard, capturing that golden light with colors that are enhanced by the warm sun is exciting!

Sonia Drabkin, 1961 | Romantic Surrealist painter

Israeli painter Sonia Drabkin is an emerging surrealistic and romantic fantasy artist.

Sonia Drabkin’s art is heavily influenced by Surrealism.

As with artists of this style who preceded her, her sources lie in Paris of the 1920s.

Drabkin celebrates a vision of the world in which the imagination is set free.

Julie Heffernan, 1956 | Magic Realism painter

Painter and graphic novelist Julie Heffernan is an American painter whose work has been described by the writer Rebecca Solnit as "a new kind of history painting" and by The New Yorker as "ironic rococo surrealism with a social-satirical twist".

Heffernan has been a Professor of Fine Arts at Montclair State University in Upper Montclair, New Jersey since 1997.

She received a B.F.A., at the University of California, Santa Cruz and an M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art.

Dorothy Spangler, 1928 | Parisienne walkways

Inspired by the great impressionist masters, Dorothy Spangler paints enchanting European scenes.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dorothy Spangler has spent most of her life in Northern California, which provides a perfect environment for her love of color and light.

After graduating from the College of San Mateo with a major in art, she studied for several years under the distinguished California plein-air painter, William Ward of Los Altos.

Kathryn Trotter | Impressionist painter

Having been nurtured by a family deeply immersed in art, interiors, fashion, travel, and other diverse creative pursuits, Kathryn Trotter’s artistry is inspired by a lifetime steeped in beauty and adventure.

Kathryn Morris Trotter, a native Mississippian, claims that painting is her greatest passion.

After graduating from The University of Texas in Austin, Trotter had an innate curiosity about life, travel, and the ineffable creative world.

Her passion propelled her ventures into the corporate world of fashion, interiors and textile design, which have been highly influential in her subject and style of painting.

D. Eleinne Basa, 1967 | Tonalist painter

D. Eleinne Basa is an Award Winning American Landscape painter represented by several Galleries across the United States.

A Classically trained artist, Basa began painting at the young age of 8.

Her early training still influences her as it is when she is painting "en plein air" that she is brought back to a time in her childhood when "painting was pure and comes from someplace deep within".

Danielle Richard, 1954 | Romantic Realism painter

Danielle Richard is a contemporary painter based in Quebec City, Canada, where she was born and educated.

Very early in life, she was fascinated by the world of pictorial art.

For as long as she can remember, she has always been surrounded by the tools “for making works of art": gouache, distemper, pastels, etc.

Upon reaching adolescence, she wasted no time deciding on her future...

"I loved painting and it seemed only natural for me to become an artist!"

M. and I. Garmash | Romantic Impressionist painters

Michael and Inessa Garmash have created beautiful paintings, stained-glass windows, mosaics and drawings exhibited all over Europe.

Michael Garmash began a painting of their daughter for a project at school several years after their marriage.

However, their two-year-old found the painting during his absence and painted her own version of the subject.

Inessa Garmash, not wanting Michael to be upset, fixed the painting, packed it up and gave it to him to submit.

Michael handed the painting over for review and was told it was his best work ever.

Francesca (Fanny) Carlini | Fruttivendolo veneziano

Francesca (Fanny) Carlini (Venezia, 1859-1944), figlia del ritrattista Giulio Carlini (Venezia, 1826-1887), segue con buon successo la strada del padre.

E’ una delle prime donne a diplomarsi all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, intraprendendo poi una carriera che la vedrà vincitrice nel 1884 della Medaglia d’argento del Crystal Palace a Londra.

JoAnn Peralta | Romantic painter

Fine Artist JoAnn Peralta's fine art paintings have captivated collectors with her keen sense of mood and lush brushwork since 2004.

Each painting invokes a timeless romantic flair towards life and sets a tone of intrigue through her use of lighting and color.

The beauty of light with a contemporary, modernist touch is what Peralta describes as her inspiration.

Her passion for the West, historical and romanticized, are what dominate her vision and scope as it pertains to her hispanic and Italian ancestry and it continues to draw Masters of the American West, Autry Museum patrons and collectors.

Elli Michler | I wish you Time

I don't wish you all sorts of gifts.

I just wish you, what most people don't have.

I wish you the time to be happy and to laugh

and if you use it, you can make something out of it.

I wish you the time for your doings and thinking,

not only for yourself, but also to give away.

Anne Sexton | Noi / Us

Ero avvolta nella pelliccia

nera, nella pelliccia bianca

e tu mi svolgevi

e in una luce d’oro

poi m’incoronasti,

mentre fuori dardi di neve

diagonali battevano alla porta.

Joseph Lorusso

Gwenneth Barth-White | Pastel painter

American-born Swiss international artist Gwenneth Barth-White is a Maître Pastelliste of the 150-year-old Société des Pastellistes de France and has served as its Vice President for many years.

She's a Master Pastelist of the Pastel Society of America, and a Signature Member of the Portrait Society of America, where she has served as faculty.

Her work has been exhibited in Geneva, Gstaad, New York, Toronto, Paris, and in many French and American venues.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: "Ridi e il mondo riderà con te. Piangi, e piangerai da solo..."

Ridi e il mondo riderà con te.

Piangi, e piangerai da solo.

Poiché il vecchio mondo triste deve prendere

in prestito la sua allegria,

ma ha già abbastanza guai per conto suo.

Canta, e le colline ti risponderanno.

Rene Magritte | La vie heureuse, 1944

Nicoletta Ceccoli, 1973 | Children's book illustrators

Nicoletta Ceccoli born and still live in her native Republic of San Marino.

She graduated from the Institute of Art in Urbino (Italy) in the section of animation.

Since 1995 Nicoletta has been commissioned as illustrator to create work in the editorial world for several children’s books, magazines, book covers, CDs and posters, advertising.

Selene Salvi, 1976 | Parthenopean painter

Italian painter Selene Salvi was born in Naples in 1976.

After graduating from university with a degree in philosophy, she began her artistic studies in the studio of the realist Neapolitan painter Fulvio De Marinis, through the time-honored ritual of copying the works of the masters.

Raffaello, Rubens, Caravaggio, de Ribera, Ingres, Bouguereau, and the 18th-century Neapolitan school became a solid base from which to launch her own original works and creative impulses.

Coco Chanel creò la nuova Donna del XX secolo

Forte ed ambiziosa, Gabrielle Coco Chanel (1883-1971), sovvertì la moda femminile costretta all’interno di rigidi schemi sociali, rivoluzionò il concetto di femminilità, imponendosi come figura fondamentale del fashion design e della cultura popolare del XX secolo.

Chanel non faceva parte della aristocrazia parigina, né dell’alta borghesia, ma riuscì a rendere à la page gli abiti delle sartine e delle commesse anche tra le ricche signore di Deauville.

Wisława Szymborska | Hatred

See how efficient it still is,

how it keeps itself in shape -

our century’s hatred.

How easily it vaults the tallest obstacles.

How rapidly it pounces, tracks us down.

It is not like other feelings.

At once both older and younger.

René Magritte

Out of Africa, 1985

"If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?

Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?"

Robert Redford and Meryl Streep Shampoo Scene in "Out of Africa"