Camille Pissarro | Quotes / Aforismi

‣ "Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing".

‣ "Beati coloro che vedono le cose belle in luoghi umili dove invece altre persone non vedono nulla".

‣ "Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes".

‣ "Non aver paura della natura: devi essere audace correndo il rischio di rimanere deluso e di commettere errori".

Carlo Brancaccio | Genre painter

Carlo Brancaccio (1861-1920) was an Italian painter, active mainly in an Impressionist style.

While he initially had studied mathematics, he abandoned this to study painting by age 22 years.

He was mentored by Eduardo Dalbono.

His main subjects were city streets, sea and landscapes, mostly vedute of Naples.

Andrei Tsoy / Андрей Цой, 1971

Андрей Цой was born in Murmansk, northern Russia.

He is the son of a korean father and ukrainian mother.

From 1986-1990 Tsoy attended the Dnipropetrovsk art school, before moving to the prestigious Ukrainian National Academy of Fine Arts where he completed his undergraduate education in 1997.

In 1993 the young Tsoy held is first solo exhibition at the Tychyna museum.

Sir Frederic William Burton | Victorian painter

Irish painter🎨 Sir Frederic William Burton RHA (8 April 1816 in Wicklow - 16 March 1900 in London) was the third director of the National Gallery, London.

• Artistic career

Educated in Dublin, he was elected an associate of the Royal Hibernian Academy at the age of twenty-one and an academician two years later.

In 1842 he began to exhibit at the Royal Academy. A visit to Germany and Bavaria in 1842 was the first of a long series of trips to various parts of Europe, which gave him a profound knowledge of the works of the Old Masters.

Eduard Zentšik, 1975 | Surrealist painter

Eduard Zentšik is a contemporary Estonian genre-busting artist.

In his creative work, he has managed to unite localness with globality, to shatter one’s hope for the result awaited from the artist, to put up a serious façade with ease whilst playing an ironical game with unknown rules and to deceive the spectator in such a way that nobody has noted that.

It is only at first perusal that his self-positioning as "Unknown Artist Zentšik" is an offer for the spectator to believe into the primacy of the art object over the art source.

Henri Martin | Post-Impressionist painter | Part.2

French painter🎨 Henri Jean Guillaume Martin (1860-1943) was an Post-impressionist painter trained at the École des Beaux-Arts under Jules Joseph Garipuy (1817-1893) - the Director at the Toulouse Museum and a Beaux-Arts Academy professor.

The first painting showing his new technique was Fête de la Fédération, exhibited in 1889, which earned him a gold medal.

Martin was commissioned in 1895 to decorate several rooms of the new Paris town hall for which he was awarded🎨* the Medal of the Légion d’Honneur, the highest honor that can be awarded to a civilian.

Martin was also awarded🎨 a major prize at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris and decorated the capitol building in Toulouse.

Jonathan Ahn, 1977 | Figurative / Cityscape painter

Korean-born American painter🎨 Jonathan Jungsuk Ahn was born in Seoul, South Korea and immediately displayed talent in fine arts.

At age seven Jon moved to the Boston area, where he began studying under and studied under Mrs. Angell-Rickenbacker for over a decade until Jon left for Paris, France.

Jon continued studying art in Paris within the hallow Parisien Museums.

During this time, Jon produced a substantial body of work all the while studying the works of Old Masters.

After several years of traveling the world, Jon settled in San Francisco where he has received his MFA at the Academy of Art University.