Takeji Fujishima | Romantic painter

Fujishima Takeji / 藤島 武 (1867-1943) was a Japanese painter, noted for his work in developing Romanticism and Impressionism within the Yōga (Western-style) art movement in late 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese painting. In his later years, he was influenced by the Art Nouveau movement.

Fujishima was born to an ex-samurai class household in Kagoshima, Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, where his father had been a retainer of the Shimazu clan daimyō.

Andrey Aranyshev, 1956 | Abstract painter

A painter who is a philosopher costs dear, but it is double as costly if he is a truly master of art. Andrey Aranyshev / Андрей Аранышев carries rare conviction in combining the methods of creating conditional decorativeness, colour surface and figuraly-spatial reality.

His objects are bright and delicate; his images are not flesh but emotion. However the artist doesn't create antropomorphous phantoms.

His actual "characters" are energy of light, colour, an exquisite line and harmony of composition.

Michael Mao | Figurative painter

Michael Mao, Chinese-born American painter, was grown up in Shanghai, China. He began teaching himself drawing and painting at the young age of seven.

He also learned painting through many workshops during the weekends when he was in middle school and high school.

After graduated from Tongji University, one of the most prestigious architecture schools in China, Michael did many architectural renderings while working as an instructor in School of Architecture and Urban Design at Tongji University.

In 1992, Michael moved to the United States to advance his architecture career by pursuing his Master of Architecture at University of Texas at Arlington.

Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky | Genre painter

Hикола́й Петро́вич Богда́нов-Бе́льский (1868-1945) was an Russian🎨 academic, portrait and landscape painter.

Nikolay Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky graduated from Petersburg Academy of Arts where he studied at J. Repin🎨.

At the beginning of the XX th century the pictures of N. Bogdanov-Belsky are exhibited at the established museums of Russia and obtained by them.

He also had a flair for portrait painting-he painted the Russian tsar Nikolay II, prince Sergey Alexandrovich and Emperess Maria Fyodorovna.

Duong Quoc Dinh, 1967 | Body painter

Vietnamese painter and Fine art photographer Dương Quốc Định was passionate in drawing when he was a little boy.

He graduated from Industrial Graphics of Dong Nai Fine Arts University in 1989.

After 4 years being photographers, Dương Quốc Định achieved 10s of national and international rewards.

In March, 2007, Duong Quoc Dinh was one of the 10 excellent artists rewarded and highly appreciated by Dong Nai People Committee.

Cristina Troufa, 1974 | Surrealist / Symbolist painter

Cristina Troufa is a Portuguese based artist, working predominately in figurative painting. In recent works, she uses her own image in autobiographical paintings that explore her livings and spiritual beliefs. As a form of self-knowledge and self-questioning, her work explores, in a symbolic and surrealistic way, an inner world, which remains inaccessible to the voyeur, who can only guess what each painting represents.

Cristina Troufa holds a masters degree in Painting since 2012 and a degree in Painting since 1998 bout in FBAUP (University of Fine Arts of Porto).

She has exhibited trough Portugal, in solo and group exhibitions since 1995 and international exhibitions, Italy, Spain, France and Australia.

Lidia Wylangowska | Figurative painter

Polish painter Lidia Wylangowska - born in Polen, Poland - works from her workshop in Illinois, and holds regular exhibitions at the Polish Museum of America, Chicago.

"My art tells my story. It's a story of my world, of my thoughts and emotions entwined in an internal dialogue. And some of it can be expressed only through painting. It is incredible, how fairy-tales I heard once-upon-a-time, in my childhood actually influenced my life and defined who I am. As an adult, I still believe in happy endings and that good will prevail".

Ramon Casas | Modernist painter

Ramón Casas i Carbó (1866-1932) was a Spanish artist.

Living through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, he was known as a portraitist, sketching and painting the intellectual, economic and political elite of Barcelona, Paris, Madrid and beyond; he was also known for his paintings of crowd scenes ranging from the audience at a bullfight to the assembly for an execution to rioters in the Barcelona streets.

Also a graphic designer, his posters and postcards helped to define the Catalan art movement known as Modernisme.

Bruno Bruni, 1935 | Surrealist Lithographer

Italian-born German painter🎨, sculptor and lithographer Bruno Bruni🎨 has become one of the most famous contemporary artists in Germany. He shot to fame thanks to a representational art with mass appeal. He is famous not only as an artist but also as a Hamburg character: He's almost a work of art himself.

Admired as one of Germany's top ranking artists, Bruno Bruni🎨 was born in Gradara - Pesaro, a small Italian town near the Adriatic Sea.