Steve Henderson, 1957 | Romantic painter

About his art, Steve says: "I look for, and paint, beauty, as a counteracting effect of our media-saturated fascination with ugliness.

Yes, the world is a brutal place, but it is also our home.

There is peace, serenity, quietude, thoughtfulness, majesty, grace, joy, and hope in this home of ours -- and that is what I paint".

L'arte surrealista di Gennady Privedentsev, 1955

A surrealist artist Gennady Privedentsev / Геннадий Приведенцев was born in Krasnodar City.

Studied at the Kuban State University at the faculty of technical and graphic arts. Graduated from the University in 1981.

A member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 1991.

A participant of the city, regional, zonal, republican, and international exhibitions since 1980.

Kahlil Gibran | Quotes / Aforismi

Pablo Picasso | Le couple, 1904

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers!".

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart".

“We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side".

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need".

Franz Xaver Winterhalter | Academic painter

Born in the Grand-Duchy of Baden in 1805, of peasant stock, Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873) received early training in Freiburg as a graphic artist.

In 1824 he enrolled at the Munich Academy for further study in painting, while continuing to earn a living with lithographic work.

Moving to Karlsruhe in 1828, he found employment as drawing master to the margravine of Baden and thus entered the world of aristocratic patronage.

A travel stipend in 1833-1834 took him to Italy, where he composed romantic genre scenes in the manner of Léopold Robert (1794-1835).

Barbara McCann (1948-2011) | Impressionist painter

Barbara McCann, American painter, began her artistic endeavors with drawing as a child, and then with painting in her teenage years. Upon graduating from high school, she took a four-year apprenticeship in architectural illustration and design, which set the stage for a career in commercial art.

McCann moved to Florida in 1973, and for the next 20 years ran her own architectural illustration studio.