Jean-François Millet | The Barbizon school of painters

Jean-François Millet (1814-1875), French painter, who came of a peasant family, was born on the 4th of October 1814 in the hamlet of Gruchy, near Greville (La Manche), in the wild and picturesque district called La Hague.

His boyhood was passed working in his father's fields, but the sight of the engravings in an old illustrated Bible set him drawing, and thenceforth, whilst the others slept, the daily hour of rest was spent by Millet in trying to render the familiar scenes around him.

Odile de Schwilgué, 1952 | Surrealist figurative painter

Born in Alsace, she spent the first sixteen years of her life in a small town near Strasbourg. "She did not become a painter by chance".

She owes her talent to her maternal great-grandmother. At a time when a woman did not fulfil herself in a professional capacity, the latter - despite a premature death - left a varied collection of her work behind, including some superb frescoes in the family home.

Odile has certainly inherited her passion. Everything was a pretext to draw and paint, to the detriment of classes at college which bored her.

Franz Marc | The Blue Rider Group

Franz Marc (Monaco di Baviera, 8 febbraio 1880 - Verdun, 4 marzo 1916) è stato un pittore Tedesco.

Nacque dal pittore Wilhelm Marc che gli impartì una severa formazione calvinista insieme a suo fratello Paul.

Per breve tempo coltivò l'idea di diventare pastore.

Nel 1899 iniziò gli studi nella facoltà di filosofia all’università Ludwig Maximilian di Monaco ma nel 1900 decise di iscriversi all’accademia delle Belle Arti di Monaco e di darsi alla pittura. Compì diversi viaggi.

Ugo Riva, 1951

Ugo Riva nasce a Bergamo nel 1951. Sin dall'inizio della sua carriera sperimenta diversi materiali, dal cemento alla pietra, dal marmo al egno, ma sarà con l'argilla che incontrerà la sua maggiore affinità. Questo materiale grazie alla sua malleabilità gli consentirà di rappresentare i segni, le vibrazioni e le passioni dei soggetti che ispirano le sue sculture. Ugo Riva ha tenuto, dal 1973 ad oggi, oltre trenta mostre personali in Italia e all'estero.

Anita Kreituse, 1954

Born in Riga, Latvia, Anita Kreituse graduated 1972 J. Rozentals Art School in Riga and admitted Latvian Academy of Arts in the same year.

Already since 1973 she participates in art exhibitions.

After Academy diploma 1980 she starts working as an art director in the "Zilite" magazine, where she is active until 1997.

Anita is member of the Latvian Artists Union since 1992 and has participated in numerous important art exhibitions in the country.

Siegfried Zademack, 1952 | Surrealist / Visionary painter

Siegfried Zademack, German painter, was born in Bremen, Germany. Freelance artist since 1980. Several artshows of his work in and outside his homecountry. Siegfried Zademack's surrealistic visionary paintings make recipients and reviewers wonder.

The arrangement of his pictorial thoughts immensely exceeds a realistic reproduction. His pictures allow us to slip in metaphysical dimensions, between humorous irony and the unfathomable deepness of our souls.

The semantic sources of this art are equally past and present.The quotation from art history stands alongside the Coca-Cola bottle. His true teachers were the masters of the earl and late Italien Renaissance up to the Mannerists.

Michail Kudinow, 1961

Michail Kudinow painter and graphic was born in 1961.
Education:
1977-1981 Lugansk Fine Art School, Faculty of Painting.
1986 -1993 Academy of Fine Arts Saint-Petersburg, Faculty of Painting.
Lives and works in Saint-Petersburg.

Mélanie Bourget, 1972 | Ceramic sculptures

Mélanie Bourget’s work focuses on the human being. She creates Figurative sculptures in a contemporary yet a little offbeat style, oscillating between Realism and Fantasy.

Then she subjects them to the raku technique. Big busts of women with crazy hairstyles, mysterious and dreamy little characters are in a few words the poetic and fragile characters that live in her world.

Raku is an enamelling technique of Korean origin, that was further developed in Japan in the sixteenth century.

These creatures are alive; they transmit deep and mixed feelings.

And through the cracks of glaze we can see with accuracy the human soul…

Mélanie thinks of her mysterious characters as poetic, fragile creatures that transmit deep feelings.

Through her art they come alive and through the cracks of their glaze we see the human soul.

Pablo Picasso / Alda Merini | Alla tua salute, amore mio

Sono folle di te, amore

che vieni a rintracciare

nei miei trascorsi

questi giocattoli rotti delle mie parole.

Ti faccio dono di tutto

se vuoi,

tanto io sono solo una fanciulla

piena di poesia

e coperta di lacrime salate,

io voglio solo addormentarmi

sulla ripa del cielo stellato

e diventare un dolce vento

di canti d'amore per te.

Pablo Picasso 1881-1973

Kacper Kalinowski

Jean-Claude Dresse, 1946 | Visionary painter

Jean-Claude Dresse was born in Charleroi on 8th September 1946. He studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi where he mainly worked with Marcel Gibon. In 1985, he held his first personal exhibition in Brussels. Since then, he has regularly been exhibiting in Belgium, in France and in the Netherlands. In 1990, he made, for the Belgian State, a 90 m2 monumental fresco in the entrance hall of the new administrative area of the city of Charleroi.

Evgeni Gordiets / Евгений Гордиец, 1952 | Surrealist painter

Евгений Гордиец is a Russian* trained contemporary surrealist phenomenon. Scouted at the age of five as a child prodigy, Evgeni attended the National School of Fine Arts: received his Masters Degree from the State University of Fine Arts and his Ph.D. from the State Academy of Fine Art, all in Kiev, Ukraine.

After concluding his studies, he joined the National Art University as a Professor of Art.

Natalia Vetrova

Natalia began exhibiting professionally after graduation in 1995 from the Stroganov Academy of Art, she was qualified with a Master of Art Criticism and as a Designer. Her longing for inspiration and fresh ideas took her through Asia as a member of geological expedition. Ultimately, Natalia’s travels led her to the natural beauty of Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1997. Natalia opened her Studio of Art and Design, where she teaches and works.

Meruzhan Khachatryan, 1980

Meruzhan Khachatryan was born in Yerevan, in the family of the artist. In 2001 he graduated from the Painting Department, School. P. Terlemezian. He actively participated in numerous exhibitions, both individual and joint, thereby starting their productive way. His works are in private collections in many countries: Russia, Greece, Cyprus, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Holland, England, Ireland, India, Egypt, Japan, China, Turkey, Lebanon, Brazil, USA, Canada, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Argentina, Iran, Venezuela, Israel, Australia, New Zealand and several other countries, and of course Armenia.

Daniel Anaka