Marc Chagall: "Un quadro deve fiorire come qualcosa di vivo"

• "I am working in Paris. I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something essential, some immutable reality, and now that I have lost everything else (thank God, it gets lost all on its own) I am trying to preserve this and, what is more, not to be content. In a word: I am working".

• "I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more".

Marc Chagall: "Love and fantasy, go hand in hand"

• "I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors".

• "Love and fantasy, go hand in hand".

Egisto Lancerotto | Genre painter

Egisto Lancerotto (August 21, 1847 - May 31, 1916) was an Italian painter**, mainly of genre scenes of Venice.

He was born in Noale. His father, a bureaucrat in that town, was transferred to Venice when Egisto was young. Lancerotto attended the Venetian Accademia di Belle Arti, where his professors were Napoleone Nani, Michelangelo Grigoletti, Federico Moja and Pompeo Marino Molmenti. The latter was likely his strongest influence.

Carmen Giraldez, 1976 | Conceptual painter

Carmen Giraldez was born in Barcelona, Spain.

Carmen acquired her interest in art, and especially painting, from her father who is an avid collector and also a painter.

Her early childhood training was “at his knees” as she likes to say.

Toshio Ebine 海老根俊雄, 1978 | Romantic Fantasy painter

Japanese painter Toshio Ebine** creates vast, windswept scenes full of balloons, lone animals, and a sense of odd foreboding in what should, by rights, be sweet illustrations for children's books.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Ebine see:

• Toshio Ebine / 海老根俊雄, 1978 | Romantic Fantasy painter ⏭