Walter Ernest Webster (British, 1878-1959)

Walter Ernest Webster RI ROI RP (17 November 1877 - 30 April 1959) was a British figure and portrait painter. He also worked as an illustrator.

Webster was born on 17 November 1877.

His parents were Robert Walter Waithman Webster (born c. 1853), a salesman, and Mary Lowe (born c. 1856), the daughter of bookkeeper Edwin Lowe.

He was baptised in Manchester Church of England Cathedral on 10 January 1878.

Paul Delvaux (1897-1994) | Surrealist painter

Paul Delvaux (23 September 1897 - 20 July 1994) was a Belgian painter🎨 noted for his dream-like scenes of women, classical architecture, trains and train stations, and skeletons, often in combination.

He is often considered a surrealist, although he only briefly identified with the Surrealist movement🎨.

He was influenced by the works of Giorgio de Chirico🎨.

Hjalmar Munsterhjelm | Moonlight paintings

Magnus Hjalmar Munsterhjelm (19 October 1840, Tuulos - 2 April 1905, Helsinki) was a Finnish landscape painter.

Munsterhjelm was born at Toivoniemi Manor of Tuulos, Finland.

He was the son of Gustaf Riggert Munsterhjelm (1806-1872) and his wife and Mathilda Charlotta Eleonora von Essen (1818-1895).

His father first sent him to the Turku Maritime School.

In the early 1860s, he studied art at Düsseldorf with Werner Holmberg (1830-1860) and Oswald Achenbach (1827-1905) and at Karlsruhe under Hans Gude.

Jaroslav Seifert / Vladimir Volegov: "Prima che asciughino quei due o tre baci"

Prima che asciughino quei due o tre baci

sulla fronte

e qui e lí,

ti chinerai per bere

acqua d’argento dallo specchio,

e se nessuno ti starà a guardare

ti toccherai le labbra con la bocca.

Henry Bacon | Orientalist painter

Henry A. Bacon (1839-1912) was an American painter, author, illustrator, and translator.

Before his formal training as an artist, he served as a soldier and war artist during the American Civil War, and was badly wounded in the Second Battle of Bull Run.

He then studied in France, and became a member of the Pont-Aven School, painting genre subjects of French country life, many sold back in America.

He first traveled to Egypt in 1897, and then developed an interest in Orientalist painting, soon spending his winters in the Middle East, dying in Cairo.

Adam Scott Rote | Hollywood legends

Adam Scott Rote is a uniquely American painter, and his work draws equally on american architecture and classic cinema to create an enduring sense of aesthetic timelessness. Rote’s work throughout the last decade has been influenced by architecture, fashion, and classic cinema.

He is a self-taught artist who studied early icons including pinup legends Vargas, Robert McGinnis, and master photographer George Hurrell. setting the stage for the elegant and realist styles his figures would garner.

Wassily Kandinsky | Lend your ears to music../ Presta le tue orecchie alla musica..

"…Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking!

Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to “walk about” into a hitherto unknown world.

If the answer is yes, what more do you want?"

Sergey Shenderovsky, 1964

Riccardo Galli (Italian painter, 1869-1944)

Riccardo Galli was an Italian painter and illustrator.

Riccardo Galli was born in Milan in 1869, as well as a painter he was also a poet and illustrator for well-known magazines of the time and for the publisher Ricordi and musician. He was a pupil of Giuseppe Bertini (painter) at the Brera Academy.

His painting at the beginning was inspired by life and which found its themes in peasant and countryside life. A painting built with color superimposed in dense brushstrokes and which was directed by patriotic ideals towards Lombard naturalism.

Olivier Lamboray, 1968 | Surrealist painter

Internationally award winning🎨, Olivier Lamboray is a Belgian🎨 Surrealist painter🎨 who currently lives in Indonesia with his daughter.

He has been painting since 1992 and has, to date, had many successful exhibitions in Belgium, USA, Monaco, Italy, England, France,Thailand, Netherlands, Indonesia and Guinea.

"Painting is my Life"...

Would really define who I am.

Surrealism is very present in Belgian culture and I have been fascinated by it since his early years..

"The magical feeling of the surreal dream..."