Denis Nolet, 1964 | Romantic painter

Canadian painter Denis Nolet preferring moonlight to sunlight.

He paints scenes saturated with the romance of the night.

Denis Nolet was born in Quebec.

Denis Nolet prefers the mystery of the night to the rays of the sun, which explains his penchant for the colors he uses.

Night owl himself, it is while people sleep that the artist works.

Ron Hicks, 1965: "I like to romanticize life"

"I see things very abstractly, so I think of myself as a painter who sees shape, value, edges and texture.

I like to romanticize life.

I love the interaction of people doing...'things' - whatever it is.

It could be the most mundane thing to any passer - by, but I find great beauty in that" - Ron Hicks

Jaime Sabines | I’m not dying of love: I’m dying of you..

I'm not dying of love: I'm dying of you

my love-dying of the love of you,

of my dire need for my skin of you,

of my soul and my mouth of you,

of the miserable wretch I am without you.

I’m dying of you and me, of both

of us, of this-

ripped to shreds, torn apart,

the two of us are dying, dying of it.

Ron Hicks

Frederick Morgan | Romantic / Genre painter

Frederick Morgan (1847-1927), was an English painter of portraits, animals, domestic and country scenes.

He became known for his idyllic genre scenes of childhood.

Morgan was born in London. He was commonly known as Fred Morgan and was the son of John Morgan, a successful genre artist sometimes known as 'Jury Morgan' (after one of his paintings The Gentlemen of the Jury).

Ed Sandoval | Romantic painter

Ed Sandoval was born in Nambe, New Mexico, to a prominent Spanish family.

Hespent the childhood with a foot in two worlds; on his family’s ranch in Nambe and in Los Alamos, where his father worked as an engineer.

Benefiting from a great education both Academically and in the Arts, Ed graduated from Los Alamos High School, before earning his B.A in Fine Arts from Eastern New Mexico University.

He received a Masters Degree in Psychology from the University of Utah and after teaching Art there, for two years, he returned to Northern New Mexico where he headed up the Art Department at Los Alamos High School for almost a decade.

Alois Arnegger | Romantic scene painter

Alois Arnegger (1879-1967) was an Austrian painter.

Arnegger was born in Vienna. He developed his skills training at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under landscape artist Robert Russ (1867-1922) and historical artist August Eisenmenger (1830-1907).

Arnegger established a reputation as a fine portraitist and landscape artist, and was particularly well known for his Austrian snow scene paintings.

Andre Kohn, 1972 | Impressionist Figurative painter

The precise convergence of three dynamic forces, culture, environment and talent, combined to produce one of the most collected figurative painters on the American art scene today.

Raised by an artistically gifted family near the Caspian Sea in southern Russia, Andre Kohn's childhood was marked by the natural splendor of mountains and sea, and by an unfettered access to all the creative arts.

His mother was a symphony violinist and his father a noted linguist, writer and sculptor.

Both were educators trained in psychology who gave their only child unrestricted opportunity to explore the depths of art and his own obvious talent.

Bob Pejman, 1963 | Romantic painter

"There are no people in my paintings, so you can imagine yourself in the scenes", explains the artist.

Born in Vienna, Bob Pejman was surrounded by art and culture from an early age.

The son of an operatic composer and a concert musician, he spent his early childhood in Vienna, and then by way of England moved to the United States in 1976.

Pejman began painting by the age of seven, and by the time he was sixteen he had won numerous awards in group exhibitions.