Mariana Palova, 1990 | Fantasy surrealism painter

Mariana Palova is an Mexican artist🎨. When she was a child simple visions made incursion in her life, such visions she exaggerated or included in elements of living things through drawings.

At 16, counting with a low training in visual arts, as a result of her self-taught formation, she starts to feel an interest for digital photography, thanks to the fascination found in the experience of looking at herself as she really was, even in the most superfluous environment.

Djordje Prudnikov | VideoArt

Russo-Serbian painter Đorđe Prudnikov / Ђорђе Прудников / Djordje Prudnikov (1939-2017) was one of the most original contemporary artists to emerge from the former Yugoslavia.

Prudnikov was born in Užice, Serbia, the 19th of April 1939.

In 1946. the family moved to Belgrade. After completing his grammar school, Djordje was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts. Few months later he left it to enroll at the Academy of Applied Arts where he graduated in the class of Professor Mihailo Petrov.

During his studies Prudnikoff was rewarded several times for graphic design.

Graphic (industrial) design was his preoccupation while staying in Wienna, in 1967.

Gerard David | Northern Renaissance painter

Gerard David (c. 1460 - 13 August 1523) was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color. Only a bare outline of his life survives, although some facts are known.

He may have been the Meester gheraet van brugghe who became a master of the Antwerp guild in 1515. He was very successful in his lifetime and probably ran two workshops, in Antwerp and Bruges.

Like many painters of his period, his reputation diminished in the 17th century until he was rediscovered in the 19th century.

Pierre Carrier-Belleuse | Ballet dancers

Pierre Carrier-Belleuse, French painter was the son of famous painter and sculptor Albert Carrier-Belleuse 1824-1887.

Similarly to his brother Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse, he learned his artistic trade from his father.

He studied under Alexandre Cabanel and Galland at the École des Beaux-Arts and exhibited at the Paris Salon for the first time in 1875.

Yaroslav Gerzhedovich, 1970 | Surrealist / Gothic style painter

Yaroslav Gerzhedovich was born in Leningrad in 1970, later graduating from the Nikolai Roerich Fine School of Arts. Gerzhedovich's works are always masterfully painted with his style echoing those of the old masters.

His graphic works are drawn in muted tones, resemble illustrations to nonexistent fictional novels and have found numerous fans after frequently popping up on the Internet. The World Wide Web became not only a means for sharing his artistic call to escape mundane reality for the world of fantasy but also a source of inspiration for the artist.