Alda Merini / Howard Pyle | Those like me.. / Quelle come me...

Howard Pyle (American Golden Age Illustrator, 1853-1911) | The mermaid, 1910

Quelle come me regalano sogni,

anche a costo di rimanerne prive…

Quelle come me donano l’Anima,

perché un’anima da sola è come

una goccia d’acqua nel deserto…

Quelle come me tendono la mano

ed aiutano a rialzarsi, pur correndo il rischio

di cadere a loro volta…

Robert Hagan, 1947 | Plein Air painter

Robert Hagan raised in the lush, languorous sub-tropical northern New South Wales, Australia and educated at Newcastle University, he communicates in a typical offhanded Aussie manner.

Widely traveled with studios in Suffolk, England, San Diego, USA, Southport, Australia and Pattaya, Thailand.

Robert goes about his art with confidence, humility and pragmatism.

He explains, "When you look at things you tend to concentrate on one element, a boy or girl at the waters edge, for example".

Edson Campos, 1955 | Post-Romantic painter

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Edson Campos has enjoyed sketching and painting since childhood. He is a completely self-taught artist.

He moved to the United States in 1978 where he quickly established himself as an artist of the highest caliber.

Campos has exhibited his lifelike, passionate paintings and drawings in major cities throughout the country, winning several awards🎨.

Scott Tallman Powers, 1972 | Genre painter

Powers began drawing as a child with his father who was a medical illustrator, photographer and fine artist. While watching and learning from him, his love of art began.

Scott’s education began in high school with two extremely influential and supportive art instructors.

This led to four years of intensive study at the American Academy of Art in Chicago.

There he trained under many important instructors in the fields of Oil painting, Watercolor, Drawing, Anatomy and Sculpture.

Mikki Senkarik, 1954 | A Touch of Greece

Mikki Senkarik, American painter🎨, was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee when her father was working on the Manhattan project. Later her family moved to Florida where she grew up with pet cats and dogs.

At nine she used babysitting money to buy her first horse. The orange groves were an ideal place to ride, which she did almost every day. She continued to own and raise horses until she switched to painting in oils.

Pavel Tchelitchew | Abstract /Surrealist painter

Pavel Tchelitchew /Па́вел Фёдорович Чели́щев (1898-1957), Russian-born painter🎨 and stage designer. Born in Moscow. In early youth made drawings influenced by the macabre Romanticism of Doré and Vrubel. Moved in 1918 after the Revolution to Kiev.

Was encouraged by Alexandra Exter; attended courses at Kiev Academy and received private lessons from Tchakrigine and the painter and stage designer Rabinovitch. Painted in an abstract🎨 style.

Left Russia in 1920 and spent 1921-3 in Berlin, where he had considerable success as a designer for the theatre and opera. Moved to Paris in 1923. Began to paint figures and portraits in restrained colours and with an air of reverie.

Stefano Bruzzi | Macchiaioli painter

Stefano Bruzzi (1835-1911) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes, with children and animals, in a style that recalls Filippo Palizzi.

Born in Emilia, he initially studied in Piacenza under professor Bernardino Massari.

At the age of 19 years, he was sent by his father to study in Rome for four years, becoming a follower of professor Castelli.

The Luminist Movement (1850-1875)

Luminism, late 19th-century painting style emphasizing a unique clarity of light.

It was characteristic of the works of a group of independent American painters who were directly influenced by the Hudson River school of painting.

The term, however, was not coined until 1954 by John Baur, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

The most important painters in the luminist style were John Frederick Kensett, Fitz Hugh Lane, and Martin Johnson Heade; the group also included George Tirrell, Henry Walton, and J.W. Hill.