Frank Horvat | Pioneer of digital photography

"In almost 70 years of photography, I had the time to photograph many different subjects, with at least a dozen different techniques. But that’s almost beside the point. The point is that I had the time to play many different games" - Frank Horvat

In 2008, Frank Horvat receives the award of La Fondazione del Centenario, in Lugano (Switzerland), for his contribution to European culture.

Retro Postcards / Wolfgang von Goethe | Io penso a te..

Io penso a te.. - Wolfgang von Goethe

Io penso a te quando dal seno del mare
il sole sorge e i suoi raggi dardeggia;
io penso a te quando al chiarore lunare
l'onda serena biancheggia.
Io penso a te quando sale la polvere
lungo il lontano sentiero,
e nella notte oscura, quando al passeggero
sul ponte il cuore balza di paura.

I think of you when sunlight on the ocean

Glimmers at noon;

I think of you when shimmers in the river

Mirror the moon.

I see you in the rise of dust that covers

The distant ridge,

In each deep midnight where the wanderer quivers

On the high bridge.

Igli Jorgo, 1965 | Abstract painter

Igli Jorgo is a modern artist who paints classically in spirit, modern in creation developing a new relation of forms and space.

He gathers an abundance of figure elements from classical images and transcribes them with a descriptive efficacy, which is uncommon to all.

Albanian painter Igli Jorgo was born in Tirana, Albania.

- 1985: Graduate, School of Art in Tirana, with Professor N.Bakalli.

Luis de Leõn, 1950 | Fashion painter

Son of Spanish political refugees, Luis De Leõn was born on July 14, 1950 in Oujda, Morocco.

He arrived in France at the age of 13 and continued his studies at the Ecole d'Art des Tissages in Lyon.

He became a designer, graphic designer and professor of plastic arts.

He has always been a painter...

Numerous solo and group exhibitions have marked his career in France and abroad: Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, the United States, China...

Inspiration principale: The beauty. His work is technically flawless.

Her gesture is sure, and the chromatic palette responds perfectly to her visionary impulses, whose inspiration is obviously the mystery of feminine sensuality..

Love is there but it cannot be seen, it can be guessed.

Adam Licsko, 1979 | Remember yourself

California artist Adam Licsko has been painting professionally since 2001.

Within the first five years of his professional debut, his unique minimalist style attracted an international following and critical acclaim.

He has collections with Nissan, Amgen Cancer Research Institute, Seagate Technologies, Raytheon, Loyola Marymount University, Cisco Systems and State Farm, to name just a few, as well as numerous celebrity collectors.

Paintings he has donated have raised funds for charities, including Make A Wish Foundation-Miami, Central Coast Wine Classic, and The Ventana Wildlife Society [for the California condor] and Greenspace.

Catlin Harrison ~ Abstract artist

A Londoner by birth and inclination, the city provides for me a fresh daily helping of eclectic people to watch and wonder about.
'I'm endlessly fascinated with the human form, especially meta-figures like ghosts or dolls or archetypes. Sometimes I think my work stems from a collectors' sensibility - particularly those Victorian do-gooders who pinned butterflies or measured skulls. Each piece of work is an independent specimen, a set of examples of a particular type.
Presence, oddity, beauty and humour are important elements in all my work, as is colour and aesthetics'.

Cecilia Paredes, 1950 ~ Body painter

Cecilia Paredes was born in Lima, Peru and currently lives and works between Philadelphia, PA US and Lima, Peru. Cecilia builds objects mainly using discarded natural elements and with her work, re creates another language. She also does performances using make up, body painting or any other resource to create her anthropomorphic images, transforming herself into animals, plants or landscapes. These acts are registered on photography, creating her photoperformances.
She studied at the Catholic University Art School in Lima, at the Cambridge Arts and Crafts School in England and at the Scuola del Nudo in Rome, Italy. Cecilia is a Rockefeller Fellow since 1998.

Daniel Ridgway Knight | Genre painter

Daniel Ridgway Knight’s (1839-1924) works represent so many aspects of Nineteenth Century painting, including history, genre, landscape, portrait and floral themes.

In each work, all that is aesthetic is recorded with fine detail and skill.

In order to faithfully record the scenery, night studied the different phases of the day and their effects on the environment.

Knight built a glass studio outside of his home, enabling him to paint outdoors, even in the dead of winter.

Paul Gustave Fischer | Flower market

Paul Gustav Fischer (1860-1934) was a Danish painter.

Paul Fischer belongs to the fourth generation of Fischers to live in Denmark. This Jewish family originally came from Poland.

Fischer was a popular artist in his day for his family scenes, female figures and paintings of city scenes in the harbor and streets of Copenhagen, which he transformed into the 'Paris of the North' in his work.