David Burliuk | The Father of Russian Futurism

David Davidovich Burlyuk, Burlyuk also spelled Burliuk / Дави́д Дави́дович Бурлю́к (1882-1967), Russian poet, painter, critic and publisher who became the centre of the Russian Futurist movement, even though his output in the fields of poetry and painting was smaller than that of his peers.

Burlyuk excelled at discovering talent and was one of the first to publish the poetry of Velimir Khlebnikov and to recognize Vladimir Mayakovsky’s brilliance.

It was largely because of Burlyuk’s efforts that the Russian avant-garde became known in Europe and the United States.

Wolfgang Lettl | Surrealist painter

Wolfgang Lettl (1919-2008) was a surrealist painter who was born and who died in Augsburg, Germany.

Success with his freelance art led him to develop his surrealism, and he participated in the 1963 Grosse Kunstausstellung München - the "Grand Art Exhibition Munich", becoming a member of the Neue Münchener Künstlergenossenschaft - "New Munich Artist Cooperative Society".

One-man shows in Germany and abroad followed.

Anne Magill, 1962 | Figurative painter

Anne Magill, Irish-born British painter is rapidly building a strong following amongst an exclusive international audience, with works held in major private and corporate collections worldwide.

After studying at St. Martin’s School of Art and gaining early success as an innovative and award-winning commercial artist, Magill’s iconic subjects and narrative style made an easy transition into fine art, with her first solo exhibition taking place in 1992.

Anne’s style has steadily developed, with exhibitions in prestigious galleries in London, Europe and the United States.

Rich and atmospheric texture, epic silhouettes, timeless context and infinitely subtle tonal notes, have become Magill’s distinctive creative signature.

Anne Magill’s portraits, landscapes and contextual urban and rural canvases evoke a powerful vision unparalleled by her contemporaries.

Marcos Rodrigo, 1957 | Expressionist Figurative painter

Marcos Rodrigo is a contemporary Spanish-born figurative expressionist painter whose work prominently features the female form, sensuality and portraiture.

Born in Old Castile, Spain, his family moved to the Lot region of France when he was four years old.

Heavily influenced by his father, who was a sculptor and craftsman, Rodrigo developed an early appreciation for physical materials, texture, and structural form.

Stanislaw Sugintas, 1969 | Romantic fantasy painter

Stanisław Sugintas (also known as Stanislavas Sugintas) is a prominent contemporary Polish-Lithuanian artist born in Vilnius, Lithuania, known for his expressive, fantasy-infused oil paintings that prominently feature female portraits, figures, animals, and floral arrangements.

His unique style blends textured, abstract backgrounds with highly detailed, classical figurative subjects.

He is widely recognized for his figurative oil paintings, which feature a distinct blend of romanticism, fantasy, and soft color palettes.

Attended the Vilnius Art School for gifted children and graduated from the Vilnius Middle Art School in 1984.

Jeffrey Watts, 1970 | Impressionist painter

Jeffrey R. Watts is an acclaimed American fine artist, illustrator, and educator based in Southern California.

He is best known as a Living Master of classical realism and impressionism and as the founder of the prestigious Watts Atelier of the Arts

Growing up in rural San Diego county with an artist father, Watts demonstrated an early aptitude for the visual arts.

But it was competitive sports that held his interest as a teenager.

After an injury cut short his budding career in professional cycling, Jeff turned his focus back to art, enrolling at the California Art Institute in Calabasas.

Mònica Castanys, 1973 | Impressionist Figurative painter

Spanish painter Mònica Castanys was born in Barcelona.

She graduated from the School of Arts and Crafts of Barcelona in 1993.

In 1990, she assisted a course at the Lorenzo di Medici School in Florence, Italy.

She received several national prizes for young artists.

Mònica’s art has been exhibited at numerous personal and group exhibitions in Spain and abroad.

Egidio Antonaccio, 1954 | Impressionist painter

Italian painter Egidio Antonaccio is an Impressionist whose oil paintings express his love of nature and a man gifted with a rare talent.

Having studied with some of the great Italian masters of fine art, he has developed a brilliant and commanding style.

Born in Castelluccio, Italy, Egidio Antonaccio graduated from the Institute of Fine Art in Castrovillari, Italy, in 1973.

Then in 1978, he graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy.

Claude Monet | The Path through the Irises, 1914-1917

Irises, among Monet's favorite flowers, lined the pathways leading up to the house and Japanese bridge on the artist's property at Giverny.

This bird's-eye view of a garden path belongs to a series of monumental works painted during the First World War that capture the vital essence of these flowers with intensity and breadth of vision.

Late in life, as his eyesight faltered, he dispensed with subtlety and "took in the motif in large masses", waiting "until the idea took shape, until the arrangement and composition inscribed themselves on the brain". | Source: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Claude Monet | The Path through the Irises, 1914-1917 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art