Degas and Mary Cassatt | A Love story...

From the moment the American Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) made her debut in 1879 with the group of artists known as the Impressionists*, her name has been linked with that of the Frenchman Edgar Degas (1834-1917). 

Cassatt stated that her first encounter with Degas’s art “changed my life,” while Degas, upon seeing Cassatt’s art for the first time, reputedly remarked, “there is someone who feels as I do”. 

It was this shared sensibility as much as Cassatt’s extraordinary talent that drew Degas’s attention.

Sir Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [1874-1965] è stato un politico, storico e giornalista britannico. Sulla scena politica per quasi sessant'anni e conosciuto principalmente per aver guidato la Gran Bretagna durante la seconda guerra mondiale, è stato primo ministro del Regno Unito dal 1940-1945 e successivamente dal 1951-1955. Churchill fu inoltre autore prolifico, vinse il Premio Nobel per la Letteratura nel 1953 per i suoi scritti storici.

Myoe Win Aung, 1972 | Watercolour painter

Burmese painter Myoe Win Aung was born in Yangon and studied under several masters, including U Lun Gywe. He started painting in 1989 and graduated from the State School of Fine Arts in 1992. He now works as a full time artist. As with most painters in Burma today, religious life and Buddhism influence his artistic expression. He has regular shows in Rangoon and has also exhibited in Singapore.

Shin Jong Sik | Watercolor painter

Watercolorist Shin Jong Sik is famous for expressing clean, transparent colors and his still life paintings express colorful, dignified and deep feeling.

Taking flowers, dishes and hemp cloth as materials, he does not compose as they are seen but recomposes with new ideas.

His excellent talent of lighting the hue reaches the vivid expression of emphasizing points of main materials according to hue and the background of his paintings are usually left blank.

Michael Alfano | Figurative and surrealistic sculptures

American sculptor Michael Alfano has been sculpting for over fifteen years. A native of New York, he now lives and works in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. His major influences are Salvador Dali, Jo Davidson, and Jean-Antoine Houdon, as well as Buddhist, Taoist, Sufi and other eastern philosophy and literature. He first studied at the Art Students League of New York, with an emphasis on life-size sculpture from the model. His formal education continued at Boston University and was augmented by internships with several prominent sculptors.