Salvador Dali | Watercolors

Salvador Dalí🎨 produced over 1,500 paintings in his career, in addition to producing illustrations for books, lithographs, designs for theater sets and costumes, a great number of drawings🎨, dozens of sculptures, and various other projects, including an animated short film for Disney.

Praxiteles | The Diana of Gabii | Musée du Louvre

The Diana of Gabii is a statue of a woman in drapery which probably represents the goddess Artemis and is traditionally attributed to the sculptor Praxiteles. It became part of the Borghese collection and is now conserved in the Louvre with the inventory number Ma 529.

Andrew Judd, 1958 ~ Paint The Future

Born in Toronto, Canada, Andrew Judd, Canadian painter and illustrator, graduated from the Ontario College of art in 1979. Since then he has lived in Hamilton, Montreal, Toronto and Vienna working as an Art Director, illustrator and painter.

Along with lecturing at art colleges, art clubs and associations, Andrew also holds workshops and teaches privately. Andrew's Illustrations are used around the world by advertising design and marketing companies.

Alain Choisnet, 1962 | Figurative sculptor

Alain Choisnet, British sculptor: "I was born in Britain at the foot of the magnificent castle of Ferns, but c is in a Paris suburb that I grew up. The benches of the school selected me to the call of working life that took me on a power more attractive than the calculation of the hypotenuse! Nevertheless philosophical studies, parallel university course, gave me a solid understanding of the human being.

Walter Ernest Webster | Impressionist Figurative painter

Walter Ernest Webster (1878-1959) was a British Impressionist - figurative, portrait and still life artist in oil who exhibited at all the major British art institutions.

He was awarded a bronze medal at the Paris Salon in 1912, and won silver medals there in 1913 and 1914, and a gold medal in 1931.

He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Painters in Oils, Royal Institute of Paints in Watercolours, Fine Art Society, Paris Salon and elsewhere.

Works by him are in several public collections.

He lived in London.

Howard Pyle | Golden Age Illustrator

Howard Pyle, (born March 5, 1853, Wilmington, Del., U.S. - died Nov. 9, 1911, Florence), American🎨 illustrator, painter and author, best known for the children’s books that he wrote and illustrated.

Pyle studied at the Art Students’ League, New York City, and first attracted attention by his line drawings after the style of Albrecht Dürer🎨.

His magazine and book illustrations are among the finest of the turn-of-the-century period in the Art Nouveau style🎨.

Van Gogh: "Disegnare a parole è anch'essa un'arte"

""Siamo tanto attaccati a questa vecchia vita perché, accanto ai momenti di tristezza, abbiamo anche momenti di gioia in cui anima e cuore esultano - come l'allodola che non può fare a meno di cantare al mattino, anche se l'anima talvolta trema in noi, piena di timori" - Vincent Van Gogh - Lettere a Theo, Amsterdam, 30 maggio 1877

Van Gogh | Figures study

"And my aim in my life is to make picture and drawings, as many and as well as I can, then, at the end of my life, I hope to pass away, looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking: "Oh, pictures I might have made!"

Theo, I declare I prefer to think how arms, legs, head are attached to the trunk, rather than whether I myself am or am not more or less an artist" - Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Drenthe, The Netherlands, Autumn 1883; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935

Van Gogh: "I call myself a peasant painter"

"When I call myself a peasant painter, that is a real fact, and it will become more and more clear to you in the future, I feel at home there" - Quote of Vincent, Summer 1885