Adam Styka | Under the African Sun

Polish-born French painter Adam Styka (1890-1959) completed his education at the French Academy of Fine Arts, Academie des Beaux-Arts, and painted closely under the tutelage of his father, Jan Styka.

Each year Adam exhibited his paintings in the Paris' most prestigious galleries such as Salon de Paris, Champs Des Elysees and others in Europe and countries of both Americas, where he constantly was awarded highest accolades.

Edna St. Vincent Millay / Edward Steichen | Night is my sister / La notte è mia sorella

Edward Steichen (American🎨 photographer, painter, and curator, 1879-1973)| Greta Garbo

Night is my sister, and how deep in love,

How drowned in love and weedily washed ashore,

There to be fretted by the drag and shove

At the tide's edge, I lie - these things and more:

Whose arm alone between me and the sand,

Whose voice alone, whose pitiful breath brought near,

Could thaw these nostrils and unlock this hand,

She could advise you, should you care to hear.

André Martins De Barros, 1942 | Fantastic Realism painter

André Martins de Barros: "The conflict of man fighting his fellow man, the role of nature, and the struggle for existence are all constant themes in my imaginative paintings: from simple joys and beauty to troubling scenes of apocalyptic proportions.

Yet, in each piece, a sense of optimism and even whimsy is readily apparent".

André Martins de Barros was born in Pau, a small town in the foothills of the Pyrenees near the Spanish border.

He started to paint from the age of 15 and just after completing his military service decided to devote all his time to passion- Painting.

George Hitchcock | Genre painter

George Hitchcock (1850-1913) was born in Providence, Rhode Island. George Hitchcock attended Brown University and then Harvard Law School.

He became disenchanted with the practice of law, however, and at age 29 left for Paris to study at the Académie Julian.

One of a generation of American expatriate painters, Hitchcock travelled extensively throughout Europe, studying in London, The Hague, and Munich.

He finally settled permanently in Holland during the 1880s.

Gyuri Lohmuller, 1962 | Surrealist painter

Gyuri Lohmuller was born in Gataia, Romania.

Self-educated painter, having exhibitions in Austria, Germany, France and Hungary, is willing to share his inner world.

His paintings reflect his deepest emotions.

"The emotion", he says, "Is Art".

He prefers the surrealist themes.

Alexander Gunin, 1969 | Impressionist painter

Russian🎨 Modern Artist Alexander Aleksandrovich Gunin was born in Omsk, and today he lives and continues his career in the cultural capital of Russia - St. Petersburg.

A talented artist does not stop in one direction and tries himself in different genres.

His paintings occupy a worthy place in private collections around the world.

Jim Tsinganos | Surrealist / Conceptual painter / Illustrator

Jim Tsinganos is a Sydney🎨 based Illustrator with over 20 years experience who has had 2 working stints in Amsterdam.

He is the recipient of numerous awards, both locally and internationally and is represented in the UK and the US. Working primarily with pastels and watercolor, he is interested in creating work with a strong conceptual basis.

Camillo Rusconi | Baroque sculptor

Camillo Ruscóni (14 July 1658 - 8 December 1728) was an Italian sculptor of the late Baroque in Rome.

His style displays both features of Baroque and Neoclassicism. He has been described as a Carlo Maratta in marble.

Initially trained in his hometown of Milan with Giuseppe Rusnati.

By 1685-1686, he had moved to Rome and into the studio of Ercole Ferrata, who died within a year or two of his arrival.

Francis Picabia (1879-1953)

From: MoMa - The Museum of Modern Art

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In 1922, Francis Picabia wrote, "If you want to have clean ideas, change them like shirts".

Throughout his audacious and inventive career, which spanned almost 50 years and encompassed painting, performance, poetry, publishing, and film, Picabia lived out that prescription.

Although he remains best known as a Dadaist, his work ranged from Impressionist painting to radical abstraction, from iconoclastic provocation to pseudo-classicism, and from photo-based painting to Art Informel.

He relished courting controversy, making regular engagements with the press a part of the construction of his artistic persona.

Jules-Alexis Muenier (1863-1942) | Genre painter

Jules-Alexis Muenier was a French painter🎨 and photographer.

In 1880, Jules-Alexis Muenier entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts where he studied under Jean-Léon Gérôme🎨, now considered one of the most important academic painters of his age.

In the latter half of that same decade Muenier began exhibiting his work, first at the Paris Salon🎨 with the painting "Le Bréviaire", which brought him much acclaim.

Gianni Strino, 1953 | Figurative / Realist painter

Italian painter🎨 Gianni Strino studied fine art at the acclaimed Naples Art Institute winning the medal for the best graduate artist in 1970. He taught art and art history until the demand for his work allowed him to become a full time artist.

In his striking portraits Strino not only captures the beauty of his sitters but also the reality of the everyday. He does not restrict his models to beautiful young women as many portraitists do.

Francesca Strino, 1979 | Figurative painter

Francesca Strino was born in Naples, Italy. Francesca Strino’s powerful paintings reflect the influence of her father, Maestro Gianni Strino🎨.

She graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli with specialisation in sculpture and portraiture.

She was a pupil of the great master G. Di Fiore. Her potential as an artist was soon recognised and she was invited to submit her work for an exhibition held in 2002 celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli.

René Xavier Prinet | Impressionist / Genre painter

René François Xavier Prinet (1861-1946) was a French painter and illustrator who drew his subjects from middle-class society.

He was born to Henri Prinet, an Imperial Prosecutor in Vitry-le-François.

A promotion led to him being posted in Paris, where they lived in a home not far from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts.

His father painted as a hobby and was supportive of his desire to study art, having him seek the advice of Louis Charles Timbal, a well-known church painter and friend of the family.

René Xavier Prinet | The Kreutzer Sonata inspired by the story by Tolstoy

Pol Ledent, 1952 | Abstract painter

Belgian painter🎨 Pol Ledent, self-taught painter, was born in Wallonie, french speaking part of Belgium.

He came to painting in 1989. He started with watercolor but felt rapidly that oil painting would make him progress more efficient in his search for light.

After a few years, because he was disappointed by the fact that he didn't succeed in painting good watercolors, he went to work again.

Rabindranath Tagore / Pol Ledent | Flower quotes

"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower".

"Strappando i suoi petali, non raccogli la bellezza del fiore".

"Il fiore si nasconde nell'erba, ma il vento sparge il suo profumo..."

Rabindranath Tagore / Dorian Florez

"Il Grande cammina con il Piccolo. Il mediocre si tiene a distanza... "

"The Great walks with the Small without fear. The Middling keep aloof... "

"Ogni bambino che nasce ci ricorda che Dio non è ancora stanco degli uomini".

Gustave Caillebotte | Il ponte dell'Europa, 1876

Le Pont de l'Europe / Il ponte dell'Europa è un dipinto del pittore Francese Gustave Caillebotte, realizzato nel 1876 e conservato al Museo del Petit Palais di Ginevra.

In questo dipinto il pennello solerte e affettuoso di Caillebotte si rivolge alla sua città natale, Parigi, raffigurandone una delle piazze più moderne e vibranti, ovvero Place de l'Europe.

Si tratta di un mastodontico ponte ferroviario, inaugurato nel 1868, che si estende sul parco binari della stazione di Saint-Lazare raccordando ben sei strade, ciascuna delle quali prende il nome di una specifica capitale europea.

La visuale colta dall'opera, in particolare, è quella che si apre da rue de Vienne, guardando verso il centro della piazza.

Dan Beck, 1955 | Impressionist painter

Dan Beck🎨 -American painter- is an award winning artist🎨 and sought after teacher.

His paintings have found collectors in both the private and corporate world on a national level as well as from such diverse places as Canada, Japan and the Middle East.

He is in the permanent collection of the Littleton Historical Museum and has exhibited with the Phippen Museum, Prescott, Arizona.

Sir Edward John Poynter | Classicist painter

Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Baronet GCVO, PRA (1836-1919) was an English painter, designer and draughtsman who served as President of the Royal Academy.

Poynter was the son of architect Ambrose Poynter.

He was born in Paris, though his parents returned to Britain soon after.

He was educated at Brighton College and Ipswich School, but left school early for reasons of ill health, spending winters in Madeira and Rome.

In 1853, he met Frederick Leighton in Rome, who made a great impression on the 17-year-old Poynter.

Lovers Paintings

Howard Pyle🎨 | The mermaid (detail)

"Blessed are those who will kiss always beyond the lips,

crossing the border of the pleasure,

to feed on dreams".

Alda Merini🎨