Aureliu Prodan, 1968

Aureliu Prodan was born in the family of the paintings conservator, Serafim Prodan from Chisinau, Republic of Moldova.

He received his first art lessons from his father.

Since he was a child, he loved going to the Art Museum where his father worked, to admire the exhibited paintings.

Andre Dluhos, 1940 | Abstract Palette Knife painter

Andre Dluhos was born in eastern Czechoslovakia, which is now Slovakia. Andre began to paint at eight years old.

At fourteen he won his first art competition from the region’s 400 entries.

He studied under celebrated artists and mentors at the Bratislava Art School and School of Fine Arts in Uherski Hradiste.

Favoring portraiture, figure and landscape painting, his professional career as a painter began.

Traveling and showing throughout Europe, in 1969 he decided to seek new opportunity and a new home in the United States where he now resides.

Clarence Gagnon | En plein air painter

Canadian painter Clarence Gagnon 1881-1942 is best known for his rural Quebec landscape paintings and the illustrations for Louise Hémon’s novel Maria Chapdelaine. Gagnon was also an award winning printmaker, a passionate outdoorsman, and an active promoter of Quebec handicrafts.

Clarence Gagnon was born in a small village in rural Quebec. Although he trained and maintained a studio in Paris for much of his career, he never lost his love of the Laurentians and the Charlevoix region of eastern Quebec which inspired many of his paintings. Gagnon’s mother fostered his early interest for drawing and despite his father’s wishes that he enter business, he began studying drawing and painting in 1897 at the age of sixteen under William Brymner at the Art Association of Montreal.

Carlo Dolci | Baroque Era painter

Carlo Dolci, byname Carlino (25 May 1616 - 17 January 1686) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence, known for highly finished religious pictures, often repeated in many versions.

He was born in Florence, on his mother's side the grandson of a painter.

Although he was precocious and apprenticed at a young age to Jacopo Vignali, Dolci was not prolific.

Miklós Ligeti | Impressionist /Realist sculptor

Miklós Ligeti (May 1, 1871 - December 10, 1944) was a Hungarian sculptor and artist.

His sculptural style integrated elements of Impressionism and realism.

First a pupil of Alajos Stróbl in Budapest, later Ligeti learnt in Vienna.

He produced mainly memorials and portraits.

Igor Bitman, 1953 | Figurative painter

The Russian-born painter Игорь Битман, winner of the Prix Spécial du Jury van de Académie des Beaux-Arts and the Médaille d’Or of the Salon des Artistes Français surprises with a diversity of techniques in a special collection of paintings.

Few artists are able to master such a wide range of painting techniques as Bitman does. In doing so, he not only achieves a high level of artistry, but he also conveys his outstanding skills.

Besides working with oil-paint he also uses an ancient technique called encaustique in which pure pigments are dissolved in wax, and are applied on the carrier with heated utensils.

The many layers of condensed wax create a palpable surface and at the same time give the colours a unique velvet shine.

Cornelis de Vos | Children portrait, c. 1600

Cornelis de Vos (1584-1651) was a Flemish Baroque painter, best known for his portraiture. He was born in Hulst near Antwerp, now in the Dutch province of Zeeland. Little is known of his childhood. Cornelis and his younger brothers Paul and Jan studied under the little-known painter David Remeeus (1559-1626). De Vos joined the guild of Saint Luke in 1608 at the age of twenty-four, later serving as its dean in 1628. When he became a citizen of Antwerp in 1616 he listed his occupation as an art dealer.

The legend of Aci and Galatea

Metamorphoses, from the greek transformations, is a latin narrative poem in fifteen books by the Roman poet Ovid, describing the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework.

Completed in AD 8, it is recognized as a masterpiece of Golden Age Latin literature.

The most-read of all classical works during the Middle Ages, the Metamorphoses continues to exert a profound influence on Western culture.

It also remains the favourite work of reference for greek myth upon which Ovid based these tales, albeit often with stylistic adaptations.

Statue of Acis and Galatea in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris

Stanislav Brusilov, 1976 | Landscape painter

Станислав Брусилов was born January 6, 1976 in Moscow.

From 1987-1994 S. Brusilov studied at the Moscow Academic Art Lyceum. Graduated High School with honors. 

From 1994-2000 he studied at the Surikov Moscow State Academic Institute, the faculty of painting in the studio of Professor Zabelin. During studies at the Institute S. Brusilov was awarded first prize in painting competition conducted Surikov Moscow State Academic Institute . Drawings of the artist published into the album, "The best drawings of students Surikov Moscow State Academic Institute".