Cecilia Paredes, 1950 | Body painter

A Peruvian-born multimedia artist Cecilia Paredes was born in Lima, Peru and currently lives and works between Philadelphia, PA US and Lima, Peru.

Her primary themes include the power of nature, femininity, and migration, which have been subjects of many of her shows.

She frequently utilizes natural elements, often recycled waste materials and primarily organic ones, in her installations.

One of her best-known works is "Paisajes" in which she camouflages herself and uses her own figure as a canvas for body painting.

Albert Lynch | Belle Époque painter

Born in Lima, Peru, Albert Lynch (1860-1950) settled in Paris, where he studied at l'École des Beaux-Arts.

Lynch worked under the guidance of painters Jules Achille Noël, Gabriel Ferrier and Henri Lehmann.

He showed his artwork in the Salon of French artists which he won in 1890 and 1892 and in the World's Fair of 1900 during which he received a gold medal.

Justyna Kopania | Abstract palette knife painter

- "My name is Justyna Kopania. I am a painter. Art is my asylum, life, poetry, music, the best cigar, tasty strong tea, everything.

My Art reflects the world I perceive with all my senses; people I meet and love; nature I admire, and all the things that affect the way I am.

The Man is my main inspiration and This Man is the principal topic of my project.

I am focusing on Their psyche, attitudes, as well as Their appearance, manners and all the complex processes that take place both outside and inside the Man'.

Alda Merini / Marc Chagall | I do not need money / Io non ho bisogno di denaro..

I do not need money.

I have need of feelings

of words, words chosen wisely

of flowers called thoughts,

of roses called presences

of dreams inhabiting the trees,

of songs that make statues dance,

of stars that murmur to the ear of lovers.

Lorraine Dell Wood | Art déco style painter

Lorraine Dell Wood began her career as an artist in the animation divisions of Columbia, Paramount and Warner Bros., leading her into production and behind the scenes of the Old Hollywood major studio system, marrying a production executive.

As a member of the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ms. Wood served on nine Blue Ribbon Emmy Awards panels.

Extensive travel and being on location for films including “Some Like It Hot”, “West Side Story”, “The Magnificent Seven” and “The Apartment” has inspired the glamour and spice ever present her images.

Kareem Iliya, 1967 | Fashion watercolor designer

Lebanese-born American artist Kareem Iliya was born in Beirut, Lebanon.

He moved to Texas in 1976 and studied fashion design initially at the University of Texas, Austin, USA.

Then he continued his studies at the Institute of Fashion Technology, in New York.

He graduated in 1990. Kareem is now living in New York, USA.

Kareem started his fashion career workjing with Giorgio Armani, and from 1992 also freelanced as an illustrator.

Fidel García, 1960 | Figurative Expressionism painter

Born in Mexico City, Fidel García is a self-taught painter and creator.

At age seven, Garcia’s artistic ability became apparent to his father, an artist himself, who encouraged and supported his passion for creativity.

He developed an unique international dimensional style that is imaginatively imbued with the visual power of Renaissance artists such as Spanish Baroque master Diego Velazquez, American master John Singer Sargent, French master William Bouguereau, Spanish surreal master Salvador Dali, and Austrian design master Gustav Klimt.

Stanislav Aristov, 1982 | Match sticks Art

Russian artist Stanislav Aristov creates miniature sculptures by bending matches and fire, into a desired shape.

A matchstick is something so ordinary and simple that one could hardly imagine it could become an object of art.

Aristov unveils the artistic potential of matches in his his "Спички / matchsticks" series.

This photographer literally plays with fire by bending the matches into the desired shapes as they burn, then uses a macro lens and a studio flash to shoot the fire and the smoke around it.

The artist then moves to Photoshop to finish the image.

Irina Karkabi, 1960 | Romantic painter

Ukrainian artist Irina Vitalievna Karkabi was born in Kharkov, Ukraine.

Her artistic talent was noticed by those around her in early childhood.

In 1982, almost immediately after graduating from the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, she, along with her husband and newborn son, moved to the city of Haifa in northern Israel (occupied palestine), where she settled on the seashore.

There, at the Mediterranean crossroads of cultural ideas and artistic trends, Irina founded her studio.