Edouard Vuillard | Les Nabis Group

Édouard Vuillard, in full Jean-Édouard Vuillard (born Nov. 11, 1868, Cuiseaux, France-died June 21, 1940, La Baule), French painter, printmaker, and decorator who was a member of the Nabis group of painters in the 1890s.

He is particularly known for his depictions of intimate interior scenes.

Vuillard studied art from 1886-1888 at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Plinio Nomellini | Divisionist painter

Plinio Nomellini (Livorno, 1866 - Florence, 1943) was an Italian painter. Nomellini was born in Livorno in 1866. In 1885 he enrolled at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under Giovanni Fattori and formed friendships with Telemaco Signorini and Silvestro Lega as well as Giuseppe Pellizza some time later.

He took part in the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889 and moved to Genoa, where he adopted Divisionism, the following year.

He exhibited a piece inspired by the Genoese workers’ strikes at the 1st Brera Triennale in 1891 and was arrested on charges of anarchism in 1894.

Regina Hona, 1956 | Seascapes painter

Regina Hona is an Australian artist, art show judge and tutor who's speciality is painting portraiture and water subjects.

Regina has held many group and solo exhibitions and has been winning many major awards since 1999. Her works have been printed in several issues of the Australian Artist Magazine and a feature article published in the International Artist Magazine.

Although she is predominately known for her seascapes and landscapes, she is equally at home painting portraits, still life and other subjects.

Raj Chaudhuri | New Orientalist painter

Raj Chaudhuri describes himself as one of the "New Orientalists", a traveling painter in the modern world.

Storytelling is his focus, creating exotic imagery from ceremonial camel races to paintings utilizing bright flashes of color such as "Rajasthani Women Waiting for a Bus" which recently won Raj an Honorable Mention Award at the 15th Annual American Impressionist Society National Juried Show.

Gaetano Cellini | Humanity Against Evil / L'umanità contro il male, 1908

L’umanità contro il male /Humanity against Evil, now at Rome’s National Gallery of Modern Art (GNAM), was one of the first works by Ravenna-born sculptor Gaetano Cellini (1873-1937).

Cellini presented the plaster model at the Milan Expo of 1906, for which he won the prestigious "Premio Fumagalli dell'Accademia di Brera".

On the base, he inscribed the title of the work and a couplet explaining its meaning:

"Thus I’ll extirpate using my teeth and nails

the eternal pain that stings my heart".

André Rieu, 1949 | King of Waltz

André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu is a Dutch violinist and conductor best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra.

Together they have turned classical and waltz music into a worldwide concert touring act, as successful as some of the biggest global pop and rock music acts.

For his work, Rieu has been awarded such honours as the Order of the Netherlands Lion by the Netherlands, the Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France, and the Honorary Medal by his native Province of Limburg.

Lyudmila Agrich | Ballet dancer

Ukrainian-born Lyudmila Agrich moved to Denver almost 20 years ago and has made a name for herself in the Colorado art scene with her unparalleled palette knife mastery.

For biographical notes and other works by Agrich see Lyudmila Agrich | Impressionism Expressionist painter.

Lyudmila Agrich | Impressionism Expressionist painter

Lyudmila Agrich was born in Russia. After changing her place of residency several times, her family finally settled down in the beautiful city of Odessa in Ukraine by the Black Sea. As a child she got all attention and love from her parents. They were always encouraging in all of her creative expressions. As a result she spent several years in musical school and the school of fine arts for children.