Nazim Hikmet | Sotto la pioggia camminava la primavera..

Sotto la pioggia camminava la primavera

con i suoi piedi esili e lunghi sull'asfalto di Mosca

chiusa tra gli pneumatici i motori le stoffe le pelli

il mio cardiogramma era pessimo quel giorno

quel che si attende verrà in un'ora inattesa

verrà tutto da solo

senza condurre con sè

coloro che già partirono

suonavano il primo concerto di Čajkovskij sotto la pioggia

Hamish Allan | Surrealist Landscape painter

Hamish Allan is a Christchurch artist working mainly with the New Zealand landscape as subject matter.

Having completed two health-related degrees, Hamish worked as a physiotherapist before embarking on his artistic career in 1999 - initially concentrating on sculpture, then moving his attention to painting.

Hamish’s style is characterized by clean precise imagery, depicting stylised representational New Zealand landscapes and incorporating distinctive architecture.

Jack Vettriano | Love Story

Jack Vettriano (1951-2025) was born in Fife, Scotland.

After leaving school at 15, he followed his father down the mine, working as an apprentice engineer.

He later moved on to white-collar jobs in management services.

Vettriano took up painting as a hobby in the 1970s when a girlfriend bought him a set of watercolours for his birthday and from then on, he spent much of his spare time teaching himself to paint.

Paul Fischer | Belle Époque painter

The son of the artist Phillip Fischer, Paul Gustave Fischer was born in Copenhagen. One of a rich vein of Danish painters working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Fischer was a contemporary of amongst others, Carl Vilhelm Holsøe (1863-1935), Peder Mørk Mønsted (1859-1941) and Peter Wilhelm Ilsted (1861-1933).

Juan Bayón Salado | Paris painter

Spanish artist Juan Bayón Salado (1913-1995), also known as Jean Salabet or Bay Sala, was a School of Paris painter, know for his Parisian cityscapes.

He settled in Paris between 1950-1969 and when using the pseudonym Jean Salabet between 1950-1957 he was mainly selling his works through Mr. Reynald Forgeot's gallery initially, and Mr. André Roussard later.

Faithful to the Post-Impressionism style, he exhibited in Montmartre in the gallery of rue Norvins, which would become that of Claude Bussière, then at André Roussard) during his long stay in Paris.