Pal Fried | La Belle Époque

Pál Fried was a Hungarian-born American painter.

He studied at the Hungarian Academy under the instruction of Hugo Pohl and in Paris under Claude Monet and Lucien Simone.

He was heavily influenced by the French impressionist school of Renoir and Degas.

Pál Fried excelled in portraits of high society Parisian women, ballerinas, Oriental and western scenes, seascapes, primary working with oil and pastels, experimenting with light and movement in his work.

Anatoly Solovtsov, 1957

Hall Groat II, 1967 | Impressionist painter

Hall Groat II was born in Cazenovia, New York.

In 1992 he received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from Brooklyn College.

He currently lives in Endwell, NY, and is an Associate Professor at Broome Community College.

Groat has had one-person exhibitions at Roberson Museum of Art, Everson Museum of Art, Jasper Rand Art Museum, Finger Lakes Community College, Cazenovia College, Lemoyne College, Simon's Rock College of Bard, Tyringham Art Gallery, Tyringham, MA, Westbeth Gallery, NY, NY, Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk, NY, and Austin Harvard Gallery, Rochester, NY.

Katherine Blackwell | Surrealist painter

"For me, art is like breathing. It's a necessity. Some people enjoy art for its inherent statement. I truly enjoy the process of creating that statement". It is this love for her craft that drives Katherine to paint.

Caprice De Meló

Meló lives and works as a painting artist in Berlin/Germany. Education: Art education: Graphic arts and design in the institute of creativity and media in Hamburgo.

....Painting of the heart. This name appropriately characterises the essentials of the works of Meló: They come from her deepest inside and offer to the viewer an amount from astonishing and original approaches of situations, people and moods". This is a part of the text from the art historian Elena Rempel about the artworks of Caroline Caprice de Meló.

Jacob Christian Poen de Wijs, 1948 | Realist painter

Dutch painter Jacob Christian Poen de Wijs born in Nijmegen.

Studied at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in the Hague, 1966-1971.

He lives and works in the Hague.

Poen de Wijs is a contemporary, realistic fine painter.

Victor Tchetchet ~ Pin-up Art

Tchetchet [1891-1974] was one the earliest pioneers of the modern multihull; he also said to have coined the word 'trimaran'. He was born in Kiev, Ukraine and in 1923 became a Russian émigré living in New York. While still in the Ukraine he was building boats and, inspired by South Pacific outriggers, connected two 18 ft (6.3 m) canoes to make a catamaran.

Eugene J. Paprocki, 1971 | Plein Air Impressionist painter

American painter Eugene J. Paprocki was born in Chicago, IL. An avid painter since childhood, he studied Business and Fine Art at Loyola University in Chicago. After receiving his bachelor's degree, Paprocki augmented his formal art studies with extensive travels in Europe, painting and visiting the great museums. Exhibited widely, he has been geatured in 14 one-man exhibitions and many prestigious group shows on two continents.
His work has received critical acclaim and has been featured in several national magazines including Art of the West, Southwest Art, and Gulfshore Life. Paprocki exhibits annually at the prestigious Great American Artists Exhibition. His impressionist paintings hang in more than 1000 public, private and corporate collections in over a dozen countries around the world.