PAINTERS

SALVADOR DALI’ 1/4 – He was born on May day, in Figueres, Spain. From an early age, he was encouraged to practice his art. In the 1920s, he went to Paris and began interacting with many artists (such as Picasso, Magritte and Miró). This Spanish artist and Surrealist icon, is perhaps best known for his painting of melting clocks, “The …

In London, there is the Museum of Empathy http://www.empathymuseum.com/ the brainchild of British philosopher Krznaric, with the aim of creating a space of experience and sharing. Almost like putting in the shoes of others. Obviously, entering a museum full of famous paintings, you can also use the shoes (understood as artistic sensibility), of an famous painter. The creative life styles, …

GEORGE TOOKER 1/4 – His works often reveal eerie situations, in a mechanical and hostile society. He was born in an August day, in Brooklyn (where he spent the first six years of his life). He took art lessons as a child, and spent much of his young adult life at the Fogg Art Museum. He graduated from Harvard University …

OWEN SMITH 1/4 – His influences come from the walls paintings artists of the 1930s. While living in New York, he was commission to design a set of mosaic murals – permanently installed in a New York Subway Station at 36th Street Brooklyn – as a celebration of the working people who have made the subway what it is today, …

JUAN NOVICIO LUNA 1/4 – That painter was mostly known for his works as being dramatic and dynamic, focusing on romanticism and realism styles of art. He was born in an October day,1857 in the northern Philippines. He became one of the first recognized Philippine artists, not only as a painter, but also sculptor and a political activist. His most …

Coming into the Spanish Senate hall, you can admire a painting depicting an ancient battle, one that was fought October 7, 1571 in the Gulf of Lepanto, which is between the Peloponnese and Epirus, Greece. Ottoman Turks had fought against a Christian coalition (called Holy League, formed by the Kingdom of Spain and the Papal States, the Republic of Venice, …