Yuqi Wang, 1958 | Portrait painter

Yuqi Wang / 王玉琦 was born in China, 1958. He now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

His work has been collected by many public institutions, including: the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. , the Art Museum of Harvard University, China National Gallery, as well as by private collectors all over the world.

His work has been recognized with awards both nationally and internationally, winning the "Grand Prize" at The International Portrait Competition of the Portrait Society of America and "Second Prize" at The Portrait Competition of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C., among others.

Théo Van Rysselberghe and the Neo-impressionism

Théo (Théophile) van Rysselberghe (1862-1926) discovered the pointillist technique when he saw Georges Seurat's La Grande Jatte at the eighth impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1886.

Together with Henry Van de Velde, Georges Lemmen, Xavier Mellery, Willy Schlobach and Alfred William Finch and Anna Boch he "imported" this style to Belgium.

Seurat was invited to the next salon of Les XX in Brussels in 1887.

Giovanni Dalessi, 1964

Giovanni Dalessi undeniably belongs to the upper segment of Dutch realism.

His meaningful works are loved by a large audience.

Because he is able to put his own personal stamp on time-honored themes such as portrait, still life and landscape, he distinguishes himself from his colleagues.

Giovanni takes the subjects of his paintings from his immediate environment.

Nik Helbig, 1969 | Impressionist painter

Nicole Anne Chew-Helbig, Singaporean painter, was born 1969 in Singapore. Currently working in Austria.

Trained as a Biochemist, and used to own businesses in the service industry in Singapore.

Now is a full-time artist.

Nik's art is impressionistic, acrylics on canvas.

Mostly figurative, with a spiritual/mystical theme.

Jacques Prévert / Jean Hildebrant | Bussano...

Chi è

Nessuno

E' solo il mio cuore che batte

Che batte troppo forte

Per causa tua.

Jean Hildebrant - American Figurative painter

Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os | Flower painter

Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os (1782-1861), Dutch painter**, was a 19th century flower painter from the Northern Netherlands. According to the RKD he was a son and pupil of the flower painter Jan van Os and a brother of the painters Pieter van Os and Maria Margaretha van Os (1779-1862).
In 1809 he won the first prize of the Society Felix Meritis in Amsterdam for a still life in which genre he later specialized. Van Os became Ridder in de orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw in 1812.

Juliana Kolesova

Ульяна Колесова is an award winning graphics designer, illustrator and digital photographer. She received a master's degree in fine art and design from the Moscow School of Applied Arts. She then began her career as a painter and her pieces were displayed and sold in numerous exhibitions throughout Europe. Since that time she has worked as a graphic designer, illustrator and art director for various companies in Moscow in both the advertising and publishing industries.

Valentine Bartholomew

Valentine Bartholomew [1799-1879], British painter, became an early member of the Society of Painters in WaterColours, which he joined in 1835. He had a special talent for flower painting, a branch of art which he pursued with much success, his works being chiefly remarkable for the great care and the large scale on which they were carried out. "Azaleas" and "Camellias" are in the South Kensington Museum. Bartholomew held for many years the post of Flower painter in Ordinary to the Queen from 1837.

Marc Chagall / Jean de La Fontaine | Favole a Colori

Sono 300 le incisioni di Marc Chagall dedicate alle favole di La Fontaine, una suite di esemplari a grandi margini, colorate a mano e firmate dall'artista.

La splendida illustrazione delle Favole di La Fontaine, iniziata da Chagall nel 1927 e conclusasi tre anni dopo, fu eseguita su commissione di Ambroise Vollard.

Nel lontano 1927 "il fatto che Volard avesse scelto Chagall provocò vivaci polemiche... dal fatto che la Fontaine, "parte del patrimonio nazionale francese", venisse illustrato da un russo, un ebreo per giunta forestiero...