Abraham Lincoln’s letter to his son’s teacher, 1830

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), sedicesimo presidente degli Stati Uniti, è rimasto nella storia perché nel settembre 1862, decretò la liberazione di tutti gli schiavi dai territori degli Stati Confederati d’America, ratificando il XIII emendamento della costituzione americana nel 1865.

Il primo giorno di scuola di suo figlio, Lincoln inviò all'insegnante di suo figlio una lettera.

Caro professore,
mio figlio inizia oggi la scuola: per lui, tutto sarà strano e nuovo per un po’ e desidero che sia trattato con delicatezza. È un’avventura che potrebbe portarlo ad attraversare continenti, un’avventura che, probabilmente, comprenderà guerre, tragedie e dolore. Vivere questa vita richiederà fede, amore e coraggio.

Dovrà imparare, lo so, che non tutti gli uomini sono giusti, che non tutti gli uomini sono sinceri.

Però gli insegni anche che per ogni delinquente, c’è un eroe;

Pedro Salinas / Giovanni Prini | Io di più non posso darti / I cannot give you more..

Io di più non posso darti

Non sono che quello che sono.

Ah come vorrei essere

sabbia, sole, in estate!

Che tu ti distendessi

riposata a riposare.

Che andando via tu mi lasciassi

il tuo corpo, impronta tenera,

tiepida, indimenticabile.

E che con te se ne andasse

sopra di te, il mio bacio lento:

colore,

dalla nuca al tallone,

bruno.

Pablo Neruda | Chiedo silenzio / I ask for silence / Pido silencio

Ora, lasciatemi tranquillo.

Ora, abituatevi senza di me.

Io chiuderò gli occhi

E voglio solo cinque cose,

cinque radici preferite.

Una è l'amore senza fine.

La seconda è vedere l'autunno.

Non posso vivere senza che le foglie

volino e tornino alla terra.

La terza è il grave inverno,

la pioggia che ho amato, la carezza

del fuoco nel freddo silvestre.

Victor Nizovtsev🎨

Qiang Huang, 1959 | Impressionist painter

Qiang Huang (pronounced Chong Wong) is an impressionistic, representational artist painting still life, landscape and figurative subjects.

Huang was born and raised in Beijing China and now lives at Austin, Texas.

His interest in art was developed in his early ages, and influenced strongly by his uncle, a professional painter and art educator. Qiang has studied basic skills of drawing and painting under his uncle's guidance.

He won awards in multiple school art shows.

Giovanna Garzoni | Baroque painter

Giovanna Garzoni (1600-1670) was an Italian painter of the Baroque era, considered to be one of the greatest Italian miniaturists of the seventeenth century.

Born in 1600 in Ascoli Piceno, Garzoni's talent was first noticed when she apprenticed with a pharmacist in her home town.

Her parents, Giacomo Garzoni and Isabetta Gaia both came from families of artisans but were not artists themselves.

They could provide no training for their daughter, as was typical for many women artists of the period.

Anastasiya Matveeva, 1988 | Figurative painter

Анастасия Матвеева /Anastasiya Matveeva was born in the town of Kuznetsk, Penza Oblast, Russia. Within seven years she began to engage in art school, from 2003-2008. She studied at the Penza Art College K.A. Savitsky.

In 2009 she graduated with honors from the St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture I.E. Repin🎨.

Matveeva graduated from the studio of easel painting under the guidance of VS Pesikova.

In 2009 -Awarded🎨 the Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts.

In 2016 Matveeva joined the Union of Russian Artists.

At present, she works in St.Petersburg. She is the leading participant of Russian and international exhibitions. Her paintings are in private collections in Russia, Europe and China.

Felipe Eckhardt | Hope / Un messaggio di speranza attraverso la scultura

A shining example of using art to channel a powerful message elegantly and distinctly.

Brazilian artist🎨 Felipe Eckhardt was hired to work on this image for the Salvation Army. The goal of Art Director Felipe Gomes was to convey the practice of working together to create change and help one another using the imagery of a human pyramid.

Giancarlo Vitali | Concerto in D minor

Giancarlo Vitali (29 November 1929 - 25 July 2018) was an Italian painter🎨 and engraver.
Vitali was born on the 29th of November 1929 in Bellano on the Lake Como from a family of fishermen. He began painting when he was fifteen.

For more biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Vitali see:
Giancarlo Vitali | Expressionist / Genre painter⏭

Giancarlo Vitali | Expressionist / Genre painter

Italian painter🎨 Giancarlo Vitali (1929-2018) was born in Bellano on the Lake Como from a family of fishermen. He began painting when he was fifteen, after having worked for the Institute of graphic arts (Bergamo).

- 1947, he exposed his first work at the Angelicum in Milan, on the occasion of the biennial exhibition of sacred art.

-1949, he came to perform in the biennial exhibition two of his works: "Visitazione" and "Cena in Emmaus” receiving enthusiastic appreciation from Carlo Carrà. He awarded🎨 a fellowship from the Brera Academy but because his family couldn't afford to maintain him in Milan he renounced it. Thus his concerned decisive moment will result in a long period of silence in his striving to fulfillment.

Kris Kuksi, 1973 | Rococo Style / Surrealist sculptor

Born in Springfield Missouri and growing up in neighboring Kansas, Kris spent his youth in rural seclusion and isolation along with a blue-collar, working mother, two significantly older brothers, and an absent father.

Open country, sparse trees, and alcoholic stepfather, all paving the way for an individual saturated in imagination and introversion.

His propensity for the unusual has been a constant since childhood, a lifelong fascination that lent itself to his macabre art later in life. The grotesque to him, as it seemed, was beautiful.

Kris Kuksi garners recognition and acclaim for the intricate sculptures that result from his unique and meticulous technique.

A process that requires countless hours to assemble, collect, manipulate, cut, and re-shape thousands of individual parts, finally uniting them into an orchestral-like seamless cohesion that defines the historical rise and fall of civilization and envisions the possible future(s) of humanity.

Anna Vinogradova, 1975

Анна Виноградова was born in Krasnodar. In 1994 she entered the Yaroslavl Art School, which she left one year later and entered the preparatory course of Graphic faculty of Repin Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.

Already in the year 1996 she became a student of Graphic faculty of Repin Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where she was taught from 1996-1999 in studios of V.Starov, I. Razdrogin and V. Vetrogonskij.

After the third course, Anna Vinogradova decided to withdraw from the Graphics department and moved to the third course of the faculty of Painting in the studio under the direction of V.Pimenov, where she continued her studies, guide by such masters as N.Blokhin, N. Lysak.

Martin Johnson Heade | Still Life

From: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Martin Johnson Heade (originally Heed) was born in Lumberville, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania on August 11, 1819.

He received his earliest artistic training from the painter Edward Hicks (1780-1849) and perhaps had additional instruction from Hicks' younger cousin Thomas, a portrait painter.

The influence of these two artists is evident in Heade's earliest works, which were most often portraits painted in a rather stiff and unsophisticated manner.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Academic painter

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, (1825-1905), French painter, a dominant figure in his nation’s Academic painting during the second half of the 19th century.

Bouguereau entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1846 and was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1850. Upon his return to France from four years’ study in Italy, he attracted a wide following with his mythological and allegorical paintings, although his portrait paintings are perhaps held in higher esteem today.

Thomas Reis | Figurative painter

American Award winningv painter Thomas Reis began work as senior art director for JP Morgan Chase in New York City, shortly after receiving his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993.

Two years later, he was illustrating for nationally-known publications, including Time magazine, Rolling Stone, the Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated, Business Week, TV Guide, Barron's, Forbes and Smart Money.

Corporate clients have included MGM, Dupont and Colgate. Throughout his career, Reis has also worked as a fine artist, producing work with all the refinement that one would expect from a classically trained painter.

His paintings are represented in numerous permanent and private collections throughout the United States. Tom currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. (Text provided courtesy the Museum of Arts and Sciences.)

John Keats | La dolcezza di quel viso

Lo sfavillio del suo sguardo splendente

E quel seno, terrestre paradiso.

Mai più felice sarà la vista mia,

Ché ha perso il visibile ogni sapore:

Perduto è il piacere della poesia,

L'ammirazione per il classico nitore.

Michael Wilkinson - British sculptor

Mostafa Keyhani, 1954 | Cityscape painter

Mostafa Keyhani🎨 is an Iranian-born Canadian painter, known for work in the Impressionist style🎨. Born in Iran, Keyhani now lives in Toronto with his family.

For biographical notes and other works by Mr. Keyhani see:

• Mostafa Keyhani, 1954 | Impressionist | Plein air painter.

Frédéric Soulacroix | Academic painter

The son of the well known painter and sculptor Charles (Montpellier, 1825-Firenze, 1899) and of Giacinta Diofebo, Charles Joseph Frédéric Soulacroix (1858-1933) lived until spring 1863 in Rome and later in Boulogne-sur-Mer (where his father Charles was painting the frescoes of the local cathedral), in Paris and, since 1870, in Italy in Firenze.

In 1873, at 15, Frédéric enters the “Accademia di Belle Arti” of Firenze and in Octobre 1876 is admitted to the “Scuola di Pittura”.

1890: June the 6th, he marries in Florence Julie Fernande Blanc. They live in Piazza Donatello, 21 in a charming house with rear garden they acquire. Firenze sees the birth of four boys: Olivier, George, Gabriel and a girl, Amélie Florence.

Chen Yongle / 陳永樂, 1944

Chinese painter🎨 Chen Yongle is a leading artist of what is today called the Yunnan Art School. He is among the few contemporary Chinese printmakers who can claim a series of international exhibitions.
The artist works in the technique of reduction woodblock prints - printed with thick oil-based colors.
Chen Yongle's works remind in technique and style of Hao Ping, another Yunnan Art School representative.

Zoey Frank, 1987 | Figurative painter

American painter Zoey Frank was born in Boulder, Colorado. Her early inclination to create was developed by a primary and secondary education in the Waldorf school system.

After studying Renaissance art at the age of thirteen she knew she wanted to pursue a career as an artist, and began to daydream about being an apprentice in Raphael’s🎨 studio in the 1500s.

Zinaida Serebriakova | Realist painter

Зинаида Евгеньевна Серебрякова 1884-1967, was the first female Russian painter of distinction, as a master of portrait, genre scenes from the life of peasantry.

She was born near Kharkov into one of Russia's most refined and artistic families.

In 1900 she entered the art school founded by Princess M. K. Tenisheva.

She studied under Repin in 1901, and Braz between 1903-1905.

Between 1902-1903 she spent time in Italy, and from 1905-1906 she studied in Paris.

At the outbreak of the October Revolution in 1917 Serebriakova's life suddenly changed.

Zinaida Serebriakova | Self-Portrait in a Scarf, 1911

Hugo Urlacher, 1958 | Portrait / Figurative painter

Hugo Urlacher was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

He is considered a very accomplished portrait painter.

During his career as a plastic artist, instead of focusing on art shows and exhibitions and depending on a middle person, he concentrated on commissioned works, while developing his own personal art.

Douglas Hofmann, 1945 | Ballet dancers

Douglas Hofmann🎨 is an American🎨 award winning🎨 painter, known for work in the Figurative realist style.

The paintings of Douglas Hofmann are critically acclaimed for glowing surfaces, detail and softly lighted forms.

Hofmann was born in Baltimore.

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

Douglas Hofmann, 1945 | Figurative painter➥

Douglas Hofmann, 1945 | Figurative painter

Douglas Hofmann🎨 was born in Baltimore. Hofmann originally attended business school but only lasted a few short months, realizing it wasn’t for him.

He began working in a department store as a window trimmer, learning about design and color theory, which inspired him to try his talent at fine art.

He enrolled at MICA (the Maryland College Institute of Art) which, at the time, was his local art school. He received his BFA from MICA and moved to the International Fine Art Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Gary Benfield, 1965 | Figurative / Wildlife painter

Gary Benfield, British painter🎨, studied art at Stourbridge College of art and at Wrexham College of Art. In 1986 Benfield became a professional freelance illustrator. After leaving the academic world he set up his own studio near London and concentrated on drawing and painting figures.

Within a few years his work was collected throughout Europe and his reputation firmly established. Benfield has a natural talent for depicting things as seen. His work is spontaneous and is reflected by his drawn lines and dashes of color.

Sandro Botticelli al servizio dei Medici

Le frequentazioni di Botticelli nella cerchia della famiglia dei Medici furono indubbiamente utili per garantirgli protezione e le numerose commissioni eseguite nell'arco di circa vent'anni.

Nel 1475 dipinse il gonfalone per la giostra tenutasi in piazza Santa Croce raffigurante Simonetta Vespucci, musa dalla bellezza epica per tutta la carriera dell'artista, che fu vinto da Giuliano de' Medici.

Nel 1478, dopo la congiura dei Pazzi in cui morì lo stesso Giuliano, a Botticelli fu chiesto di effigiare come appesi i condannati in contumacia su cartelloni da attaccare sul Palazzo della Signoria, lato Porta della Dogana, come anni prima aveva fatto Andrea del Castagno nel 1440 per il complotto antimediceo degli Albizi, che aveva valso all'artista in soprannome di "Andrea degli Impiccati".

Chiaro è come Sandro avesse pienamente abbracciato la causa dei Medici, che lo accolsero sotto la loro ala dandogli la possibilità di creare opere di grandissimo prestigio.

Angelo Batti, 1933 | Genre painter

Italian painter Angelo Batti, was born in Sora - Frosinone in 1933.

After art school, he attended the studio dell'acquerellista German, John Brasch, graduated from the Academy of Berlin.

Knowledge with teacher Michele Giordano, the favorite pupil of Striccoli Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, refines the technique that is successfully its youthful expression in the first exhibition at the gallery "Vanvitelli" of Naples.

Aaron Westerberg, 1974 | Figurative painter

Aaron Westerberg is an American painter whose graceful work has earned him a quietly passionate yet well deserved following.

His work is constructed in the language of the coolly sensual aesthetics of late nineteenth century American painting, the somber gilded beauty of James McNeill Whistler, what we see in Westerberg is a similar way of working with luminous vibrant color, and tonality contrasted with matte areas of pigment.

The contemporary artist notes his adoration of John Singer Sargent.

Nello Iovine, 1935 | Genre painter

Nello Iovine was born in Cava dei Tirreni (Salerno), Italy in 1935. He lived in Salerno and Verbania on the shores of Lake Maggiore.

After many years he returned to Battipaglia, Italy.

Iovine specialized in figurative and portrait paintings. A classic style painter he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples where he was a pupil of Professor Guido Casciaro.

His artistic career started in 1954 at the age of 18 when he held his first solo exhibition in Salerno. In the 1960’s he was discovered by Arnot Gallery, who commissioned a long series of paintings.

Fongwei Liu | Impressionist Figurative painter

Fongwei Liu received his BFA degree from the prestigious Fine Art Academy of Yunnan, China in 1994. For more than a decade after graduation, Fongwei has ventured in various fields, but didn’t touched his paint brush.

Until 2007, he finally realized that art is his true passion, and resumed his art education in the United States.

Fongwei received his MFA degree from Academy of Art University, San Francisco in 2009.

Jean-Gabriel Domergue | Pin-Up painter

Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962) was a French painter specialising in portraits of Parisian women. He went on to paint approximately 3.000 portraits.

Domergue invented a new type of woman: thin, airy, elegant, with a swan like neck and wide seductive eyes which gaze upon the world with longing.

Laurie Kersey, 1961

La vita dell'artista di Laurie Kersey è iniziata nelle zone rurali dell'Ohio. È cresciuta in una famiglia artistica e ha sempre amato disegnare e dipingere.

Sua madre amava dipingere a olio quando Laurie era giovane e poi passò agli acquerelli. Suo padre era un cavaliere, addestrava e correva cavalli finiti, e trascorreva le sue estati aiutando nella stalla dell'ippodromo.

Dopo una prima educazione artistica presso l'Art Institute di Pittsburgh e poi una carriera di 15 anni nell'arte commerciale come Art Director ed Illustrator sulla costa orientale, Kersey si è trasferita a San Francisco, ha studiato pittura all'Academy of Art University e ha fatto il passaggio alle belle arti.

In seguito ha insegnato pittura e disegno al Dipartimento di Belle Arti dell'Accademia.

Ivan Slavinsky, 1968 | Fantastic realism painter

Ivan Efimovich Slavinsky / Иван Ефимович Славинский is an Russian🎨 contemporary artist born in Leningrad. As a son to an art historian mother and a well-known Leningrad painter Dmitry Oboznenko, it could be said that Ivan was destined to be an artist from an early age.

Ivan began to paint with 5 years professional skills was the at school at the Academy of Fine Arts.

The first exhibition of Ivan Slavinsky in St. Petersburg took place in the gallery "Association of Free Artists" in 1991.

Francisco Goya | Drawing

Francisco Goya (1746-1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era.

Immensely successful in his lifetime, Goya is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns.

Panayiotis Beldekos, 1962 | Abstract Figurative painter

Panayiotis Beldekos / Παναγιώτης Μπελντέκος was born in Athens. He studied Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1987‑1992) under Demosthenis Kokkinidis, Tassos Christakis and Michalis Manousakis.

In 1995 he was awarded a two‑year scholarship from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation, and continued his studies in painting with Panayiotis Tetsis.

Since 1992 he has been active in art education.

From 1995-1998 he taught painting at the Athens College educational programs.

William Merritt Chase | Pittore Impressionista

William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) è stato un pittore statunitense, noto per il suo impegno a favore dell'Impressionismo e per le sue doti di insegnante.

Formatosi in America, conclude l’istruzione a Monaco di Baviera, ma schiarisce poi i colori a Venezia.

Rimpatria ed inizia ad insegnare istituendo una scuola a New York e la Summer School a Shinnecock, Long Island, fondata sulla pittura En plein air (1891-1902).

In Europa organizza corsi estivi d’istruzione: tre a Firenze, dove acquista Villa Silli.

Alberto Pisa | Genre painter

Alberto Pisa (1864-1936) was an Italian painter, often painting ruins, landscapes, and garden views in bright watercolor.

He initially studied in Ferrara with Gaetano Domenichini. He later studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence.

His first work was a Church Interior, displayed at the Promotrice. In 1887, he sent to the Exposition of Venice, the canvases depicting the Church of Santa Maria Novella, and the genre painting Donne e Madonne.

Parmigianino | Mannerist | Paintings

Parmigianino, byname of Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Mazzola also spelled Mazzuoli (born Jan. 11, 1503, Parma, duchy of Milan [Italy] - died Aug. 24, 1540, Casalmaggiore, Cremona), Italian painter* who was one of the first artists to develop the elegant and sophisticated version of Mannerist style* that became a formative influence on the post-High Renaissance* generation.

There is no doubt that Correggio was the strongest single influence on Parmigianino’s early development, but Parmigianino probably was never his pupil. The influence is apparent in Parmigianino’s first important work, the Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine (c. 1521).

William Merritt Chase | The Impressionist Still Lifes

William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), American painter, was born in Williamsburg, Indiana, to the family of a local merchant.

Chase's father moved the family to Indianapolis in 1861 and employed his son as a salesman in the family business.

Chase showed an early interest in art, and studied under local, self-taught artists Barton S. Hays and Jacob Cox.

After a brief stint in the Navy, Chase's teachers urged him to travel to New York to further his artistic training.

He arrived in New York in 1869, met and studied with Joseph Oriel Eaton for a short time, then enrolled in the National Academy of Design under Lemuel Wilmarth, a student of the famous French artist Jean-Leon Gerome.

Michelangelo Buonarroti | Quotes

• A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
• Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
• The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
• My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

Peder Mork Mønsted | Poetic views of Nature

The landscape painter Peder Mørk Mønsted (1859-1941) was famous for the clarity of light general to the painters of the 'golden age' of Danish painting, his pictures of beautiful naturalistic scenery made him the leading Danish landscapist of his age.

Born at the end of the "Golden Age" of Danish painting (from around 1800 to 1860), Peder Mønsted established his reputation primarily as a naturalist landscape artist-especially admired for his poetic point of view.

His first artistic training was at the Prince Ferdinand School of Art in Aarhus, Denmark where he studied with the landscape painter Andreas Fritz, who influenced the young artist’s development.

Paul Cadmus | Life and artworks

The American artist Paul Cadmus (1904-1999) was a Thirty year old unknown, outside of his own New York bohemian circles, painter in 1934, but then he became famous, or should we say, infamous almost overnight when a major artistic scandal erupted over his risqué, and much publicized painting, The Fleet’s In!

The painting depicts US sailors on rowdy and lecherous shore leave and it aroused the anger and ire of US Navy top brass, not only for its depiction of the Navy but also its obvious sexual connotations that fed into the myth of naval life.

Pietro Annigoni | Realist painter

Pietro Annigoni (7 June 1910 - 28 October 1988) was an Italian portrait and fresco painter. He is best known for his portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, 1956.

Life

Born in Milan in 1910, Annigoni was influenced by the Italian Renaissance. From the end of the 1920s on, he lived mainly in Florence where he studied at the College of the Piarist Fathers.

In 1927, he was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, where he attended the courses given by Felice Carena in painting, Giuseppe Graziosi in sculpture, and Celestino Celestini in etching.

Ann Hardy | Impressionist painter | Figures

Ann Hardy, American painter*, is an accomplished artist, winning numerous prestigious awards*. She has had three paintings accepted to Art for the Parks and has received the merit award at the Salmagundi Club as well as many other awards.

Painting is a way of life. It keeps me constantly growing, connected with the world, and provides a purpose in life. Paint like I live life--with gusto and enthusiasm.

Vladimir Kush, 1965 | The Surrealist sculptures

Vladimir Kush, Russian painter and sculptor, was born in Russia, in a one-story wooden house near the Moscow forest-park Sokolniki. At the age of seven Vladimir began to attend art school until late evening where he became acquainted with the works of great artists of the Renaissance, famous Impressionists and Modern Artists.

Vladimir entered the Moscow Higher Art and Craft School at age 17, but a year later he was conscripted. After six months of military training the unit commander thought it more appropriate to employ him exclusively for peaceful purposes, namely, painting propagandistic posters.

After military service and graduating the Institute of Fine Arts, Vladimir painted portraits on Arbat Street to support his family during the hard times in Russia.

Seth Haverkamp, 1980 | Portrait | Realist painter

Seth Haverkamp has been drawing since forever. Even in his early school days Seth turned upon his desire to draw. One instance of note was a 5th grade science fair in which Seth turned in detailed drawings of hawks instead of a more typical (and acceptable) project.

He continued with his art and graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Carson Newman College after a year each at Cleveland Institute of Art and Memphis College of Art.

In 2005 he studied with internationally known artist Nelson Shanks at Studio Incamminati. Upon leaving Incamminati he moved to northern Virginia where he could focus on both studying painting and his career.

Cesar Santos, 1982 | Figurative painter

Cesar Santos, Cuban-American, studied at Miami Dade College and the New World School of the Arts before travelling to Florence, where he trained at the Angel Academy of Art under the tutelage of Michael John Angel, a student of Pietro Annigoni.

He returned to Miami, where he developed his philosophy of marrying both the classical and the modern juxtaposed within one painting.

His influences range from the Renaissance to the masters of the nineteenth century to Modernism.

Alex Shubin | Figurative painter

Russian-born Canadian painter🎨 Alexander Shubin expresses his creative mind using a unique style and techniques which he has developed living and painting in Europe, but he is always in search for a new and original manner to express himself in art.
In his works Alex often uses contemporary and surreal ideas and combines them with his extraordinary style. Quite in early age Alex has shown a talent in art. Having Master degree in Science, Alexander has always felt that his heart belongs to art, so he made a decision to become a fine art painter and now he is a self-representative artist.

Nelina Trubach-Moshnikova, 1960 | Impressionist painter

Born in Belarus, where Nelina Trubach-Moshnikova / Нелина Трубач-Мошникова, attended art college, and now living and working in Ukraine.

Nelina Trubach-Moshnikova is an artist working mainly with oil and canvas, however she also dabbles in mixed media, such as drawing and oil on canvas.

An aspect of Nelina’s work that always manages to fascinate is the success she has in creating refined emotion across all of her work.

Jonas Kunickas, 1978 | Palette Knife painter

Jonas Kunickas was born in Lithuania.

Have been studying architecture and got Master's degree of architecture in 2002.

For ten years used to work as an architect and interior designer in Lithuania and United Kingdom.

However, my biggest passion has always been painting.

In 2012 active painting superseded my previous occupation - now it‘s the only work I do for a living as well as for a pleasure.

Odd Nerdrum, 1944 | Postmodern artist

Od Nerdrum is a Swedish-born, Norwegian figurative painter whose work is held by museums worldwide. Themes and style in Nerdrum's work reference anecdote and narrative.

Primary influences by the painters Rembrandt and Caravaggio help place his work in direct conflict with the abstraction and conceptual art considered acceptable in much of his native Norway. Nerdrum creates six to eight paintings a year.

They include still life paintings of small, everyday objects (like bricks), portraits and self-portraits, and large paintings allegorical and apocalyptic in nature. The subjects of Nerdrum's paintings are often dressed as if from another time and place.