Noè Bordignon | Genre painter

Italian painter Noè Bordignon (1841-1920)  was born in Salvarosa near Castelfranco, Veneto.

He began studies in 1859 at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice, where he was a pupil of Michelangelo Grigoletti, Carlo De Blaas and Pompeo Marino Molmenti.

In 1865, he won a stipend to study in Rome. He later formed a strong friendship with Tranquillo Cremona.

Tran Nguyen, 1987 | Surrealist painter / illustrator

Tran Nguyen is an award-winning illustrator and fine artist. Born in Can Tho, Vietnam, she currently resides in the peachy state of Georgia.

Nguyen's paintings are created with a soft, delicate quality using colored pencil and acrylic on paper.

She’s most known for her paintings of whimsical women and their melancholic landscapes, which often possess an air of fantasy and surrealism.

She creates illustrations for published media such as magazines, books, wine and beer packaging, animation, advertising, and mural work. Her clients include VH1, Tiger Beer, World Wildlife Fund, and she has showcased with galleries across the world.

Claude Monet | The Parc Monceau, 1878

Monet painted six views of the Parc Monceau: three in 1876 and three in 1878.

In this canvas, the disposition of light and shade in the foreground, the patterns of the leaves, and the broad contours beginning to develop in areas of strong contrast suggest that Monet had already begun to experiment with the boldly two-dimensional motifs that would characterize his work of the 1880s and 1890s. | © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Claude Monet | The Parc Monceau, 1878 | Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ginette Beaulieu, 1954 | Hyperrealist painter

Ginette Beaulieu was born in Amqui, Quebec. She was always passionate about drawing and in particular, was drawn to the techniques of the Renaissance masters, of which she completed formal training from 1979-1980.

She has shown an interest in various mediums but she prefers to use charcoals and oils.

She studies the old techniques and integrates in its art the use of the natural pigments and the oils elutriated while undertaking a search deepened on the technique of the funds.

John Keats's Love Letter to Fanny Brawne

A Fanny Brawne, 13 ottobre 1819

Mia cara ragazza,

In questo momento mi sono messo a copiare dei bei versi.

Non riesco a proseguire con una certa soddisfazione. Ti devo dunque scrivere una riga o due per vedere se questo mi concede di escluderti dalla mia mente anche per un breve momento. Dentro la mia anima non so a pensare a null'altro.

Tempo fa avevo la forza di ammonirti contro la poco promettente mattina della mia vita.

Il mio amore mi ha reso egoistico.

Tomasz Alen Kopera

Thomas Couture | History / Genre painter

Thomas Couture (21 December 1815 - 30 March 1879) was a French history painter and teacher.

He taught such later luminaries of the art world as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Karel Javůrek and J-N Sylvestre.

Couture was born at Senlis, Oise, France.

When he was 11 his family moved to Paris, where he would study at the industrial arts school (École des Arts et Métiers) and later at the École des Beaux-Arts.

Cesar Pattein | Les blés, 1891

Nato a Steenvoorde, nel nord della Francia, César Pattein (1850-1931), figlio di un contadino, è cresciuto tra gli agricoltori e ha mantenuto uno stretto legame con la regione rurale per tutta la vita.

In primo luogo ha studiato incisione sotto Guillaume Alphonse Cabasson.

Nel 1878 entra all'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lille negli atelier di Alphonse Colas, ritrattista e pittore di scene religiose nato e cresciuto a Lille ed un certo Mr. Bascoppet.

Raramente ha viaggiato molto più lontano di Lille, con il viaggio occasionale a Parigi quando espone al Salon.

Caro Guarinos, 1963 | Surrealist painter

Caro Guarinos is an Spanish painter, born in Alcoy (Alicante).

If we talk about artists, we think, is it born or made?

Well, the artist is born, but the environment where he lives configures his training. This is the case of Caro Guarinos, in which we enter into his surroundings and meet her paternal grandfather who was already a good painter and cartoonist, and much appreciated by Alcoyana society.

Her father, a great artist of wood and creator of innovations and forms of great quality and personality, so on the basis, they influence Caro.