William Whitaker | Academic painter

The only son of an artist father, William Whitaker (1943-2018), American painter, grew up in the special world of the working artist.

He had access to the finest art materials and was painting in watercolor and oil at the age of six.

His fondest early memories are of the sights sounds and smells of the art studio.

Whitaker loves to paint from life in an old fashioned studio. No matter what direction his art takes him, he always comes back to the model in the studio, the form bathed in the beautiful quiet cool light coming down from a high north window.

Legge di Murphy: "Dentro ogni grande problema ce nè uno più piccolo che sta lottando per venir fuori"!

Della Murfologia Applicata alla Ricerca | Capitolo Quinto

Prima legge di Gordon

• Se non vale la pena fare una ricerca, non vale neanche la pena farla bene.

Legge di Murphy sulla ricerca

• Una ricerca abbastanza lunga tenderà a confermare ogni teoria.

Legge di Maier

• Se i dati non corrispondono alla teoria, vanno eliminati.

Corollari:

• Più vasta è la teoria, meglio è.

Un esperimento è da considerarsi un successo

se non più del 50 per cento dei dati ottenuti

deve essere scartato per ottenere i risultati previsti con la teoria.

Maurits Cornelis Escher (Dutch graphic artist, 1898-1972) | Drawing hands, January, 1948 | Gemeentemuseum Den Haag The Hague the Netherlands

Nikolay Ninov, 1973

Nikolay Ninov is a Bulgarian artist, born in 1973. He graduated from SSHU for PI. Tryavna, and later VTU "St. st. Cyril and Methodius", specialty Sculpture by prof. Konstantin Denev and prof. Velichko Minekov.

Since 2009 he is the Associate professor at Varna Free University in Sculpture. Winner of prizes for contemporary arts, including the award for Young Artist from the National Biennial of Small Forms, Pleven (2004).

He has participated in numerous national and international festivals and symposiums for contemporary arts and sculpture.

Lucio Olivieri, 1934 | Figurative sculptor

Lucio Oliveri is a contemporary Italian sculptor who lives and works in his native city of Milan.

For some year now, he has identified himself in a personalized figurative that aims to express states of mind and human attitudes through the synthesis/essential of the human figure.

Lucio Oliveri's artistic vocation was sparked in 1954 at the age of nineteen at the time of his father's death, when he decided to make a plasticine portrait of him.

In the 1970s he attended a sculpture course at the Centro Artistico Culturale Milanese for seven years under the guidance of Franco Zazzeri, completing his self-taught training.

Truong Buu Giam, 1948 | Abstract impressionism painter

Vietnamese-born American painter Truong Buu Giam was born on Christmas Eve, in the province of Bên Tre, South Vietnam.

His parents felt grateful on the birth of their fifth child.

They named the infant Buu Giam with a fateful meaning: Preserving the Precious and the Beautiful.

Already in elementary school, his teachers loved to have him come to the chalkboard and draw pictures so other children could copy.