John Salminen, 1945 | Abstract Cityscape painter

John Salminen (born January 18, 1945) is an award-winning🎨 American🎨 watercolor painter who is well known for his realistic urban landscapes. His work was described as "compelling street scenes packed with detail" by Watercolor Magic magazine's senior editor, Loraine Crouch.

Salminen was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. He earned his Bachelor's Degree and Master's Degree from the University of Minnesota. He lives in a self-built log cabin surrounded by 40 acres (160,000 m2) of pine forest in Duluth, Minnesota.

Andy Warhol: "I'd prefer to remain a mystery"

• "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself".

• "Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches".

• "People should fall in love with their eyes closed".

• "Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what".

• "Art is what you can get away with".

Quint Buchholz, 1957 | Magic Realism painter / illustrator

Puint Buchholz was born in Stolberg near Aachen and grew up in Stuttgart. He studied history of art for four terms, followed by painting and graphic design at the Munich Academy of Art under Prof. Gerd Winner.

He has worked as a painter and illustrator since 1979, illustrating over fourty books for German and international publishers.

From 1982 onwards his works have also been exhibited in over seventy solo exhibitions in Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Greece and Taiwan.

Camille Corot | The Barbizon school of painters

Of Camille Corot Claude Monet exclaimed: "There is only one master here - Corot. We are nothing compared to him, nothing". His contributions to figure painting are hardly less important; Degas preferred his figures to his landscapes, and the classical figures of Picasso pay overt homage to Corot's influence.

Auguste Suchetet | Figurative sculptor

Auguste Edmé Suchetet, born March 12, 1854 at Vendeuvre-sur-Barse and died in May 1932 in Paris, was a French sculptor**.

Auguste Suchetet's father is a mason at Vendeuvre-sur-Barse.

Léon Moynet, owner of the Christian art factory in the commune 1 notes Auguste Suchetet while working with his father on the extension of the buildings and hired him as an apprentice.

Arc de Triomphe Paris, 1806-1836

Arc de Triomphe, in full Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile, massive triumphal arch in Paris, France, one of the world’s best-known commemorative monuments.

It stands at the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle (formerly called the Place de l’Étoile), the western terminus of the avenue des Champs-Élysées; just over 1.2 miles (2 km) away, at the eastern terminus, is the Place de la Concorde.

Napoleon I commissioned the triumphal arch in 1806 - after his great victory at the Battle of Austerlitz (1805) - to celebrate the military achievements of the French armies.

Vladimir Ezhakov, 1975 | Ballet dancers

Vladimir Ezhakov /Владимир Ежаков is an Russian🎨 artist-teacher - painter, known for working in the Figurative style. Ezhakov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia.

For biographical notes and other works by Ezhakov see:

• Vladimir Ezhakov, 1975 | Impressionist Figurative painter🎨

Jean-Pierre Gibrat, 1954 | Book Illustrator

Jean-Pierre Gibrat is a French🎨 comic artist and scriptwriter. Born on the 14th of April 1954 in Paris, France. His first complete stories were published in the French magazine Pilote. With Jackie Berroyer, he took on le petit Goudard in 1978, a series which he continued in the same year in Charlie Mensuel, then in Fluide Glacial in 1980.

During this time, some of his artwork was also published in the press: l'Evénement du jeudi, le Nouvel Obs, Sciences et Avenir and he also produced work for Okapi and Je bouquine. In late 1982, he pencilled La Parisienne in Pilote, again on a script by Berroyer.