William Schneider, 1945 | VideoArt

William Schneider - American painter - has received awards in exhibitions including those of: Academic Artists, The Degas Pastel Society, Oil Painters of America, The Pastel Society of America, Pastel Society of the West Coast, Portrait Society of America, and Salon International.

Igor Mitoraj (Polish, 1944-2014)

Igor Mitoraj (1944-2014) was a Polish artist and sculptor.

Known for his fragmented sculptures of the human body often created for large-scale public installations, he is considered one of the most internationally recognized Polish sculptors.

Biography

Mitoraj was born on 26 March 1944 in Oederan, Germany.

His Polish mother was a forced labourer, while his father was a French officer of Polish extraction.

Robert Coombs, 1970 | Figurative painter

As a young boy, Robert Coombs had received one of the most exciting presents he could remember - a set of watercolor paints.

He was so anxious to use them that he quickly grabbed a pad of paper and sat down to paint anything he could find.

It ended up being a bowl of fruit and he applied the paint straight out of the tube as thick as toothpaste.

Tamara De Lempicka | The Dream | VideoArt

"...I live life

in the margins of society,

and the rules of normal society

don't apply to those

who live on the fringe".

- Tamara De Lempicka (1898-1980)

Jose Royo, 1941 | La luce del Mediterraneo

Jose Royo: "Mi piace credere che i miei quadri raggiungano luoghi lontani e persone che non hanno mai visto la luce del Mediterraneo.

È una bella idea che i miei dipinti possano permettere loro di sperimentare la luminosità di questa parte del mondo".

Si possono tracciare paralleli impressionanti anche tra il lavoro di Royo e quello del maestro spagnolo Joaquin Sorolla.

Entrambi sono nati a Valencia, entrambi hanno avuto una formazione classica, entrambi sono "maturati" in stili di pittura che catturano la drammatica essenza visiva della loro terra natale, Valencia e del Mar Mediterraneo.