Nguyen Thanh Binh, 1954 | Minimalist Romantic painter

Nguyen Thanh Binh is an exponent of the increasing popularity of Vietnamese art.

After graduating from art institutes in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, he achieved international recognition for his graceful paintings.

His work frequently being exhibited around Asia, America and Europe.

Alex Alemany | Magic realism painter

Alex Alemany (1943-2021) was an Spanish painter, born in Valencia.

He studied Fine Arts between 1961-1966 at the “Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos” in Valencia.

Francisco Lozano, Enrique Ginesta, Genaro Lahuerta and Felipe Mª Garin, among others, were his teachers.

Peder Mønsted | Romantic painter

Danish master Peder Mørk Mønsted (1859-1941) was one of the leading landscape painters of his time.

Born in eastern Denmark, Mønsted received his initial training at the Academy in Copenhagen.

Throughout his long career he travelled extensively, through Switzerland, Italy and North Africa.

Mønsted's landscapes have been described as the 'romantic, poetic painting of nature'.

His style, assimilating academic naturalism with realism, working on a grand, monumental scale while maintaining a remarkable eye for detail, won him great acclaim during his lifetime.

Maya Angelou | Quotes / Aforismi

Roberto Kusterle (Gorizia, 1948) Fotografo italiano

• Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
• Success is loving life and daring to live it.
• There is no failure as long as you learn from your experience, continue to work, and continue to press on for success.
• Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
• When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
• If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.

Małgorzata Chodakowska, 1965 | Figurative sculptor

Polish artist Małgorzata Chodakowska was born in Lodz, Poland.

1980 - Art School Lodz.

1985 - Sculpture studies with Prof. Jan Kucz, Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Poland.

1988 - Sculpture studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria.

1991 - Diploma thesis with Prof. Bruno Gironkoli, master student.

Since 1991, freelance sculptor in Dresden.

Dương Quốc Định, 1967

The work of the Vietnamese artist Dương Quốc Định has won many awards including, gold medals and trophies at the 68th International Photographic Salon of Japan; the 61st Hong Kong International Photography Festival; the International Federation of Art Photographers (FIAP) competition; the 7th Giuliano Carrara, and many others held in India, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Argentina, Spain and Italy.

Colors Quotes

Vincent van Gogh

Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance

I am crazy about two colors: carmine and cobalt. Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing so beautiful for creating atmosphere. Carmine is as warm and lively as wine... the same with emerald green.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and orange too, mustn't you? Oh well, you will tell me that what I write to you are only banalities.

Eliot Hodgkin | Modern Still Life painter

Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987) was an British painter, born in Purley Lodge, Purley-on-Thames near Pangbourne, Berkshire.

Although he began with oil painting, most of his best known works were highly detailed still lifes executed in tempera.

Curwen Eliot Hodgkin was born on 19 June 1905, the only son of Charles Ernest Hodgkin and of his wife Alice Jane (née Brooke). The Hodgkins were a Quaker family and were related to Roger Fry. Eliot, a cousin of the abstract painter Howard Hodgkin (b. 1932) was educated at Harrow School from 1919-1923.