ALEX BERTAINA 1/3 – Maybe his sky and sea are united (as our existence), between transport towards nature and departure from it, and they shall treat these wounds. At the beginning he met Marco Lattes, who helped him to correct his watercolourist’s gaps. In 2001, he met Jean Louis Droit, a French art dealer, whom opened for him the European …
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She is Princess Hayfa bint Abdullah (daughter of late King Abdullah). Combining passion for art depths with imagination, she made her debut solo exhibition “The Starting Point” in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with art pieces she created in the past 16 years. Her paintings depict the vivid world of her imagination. Born in 1981 and based in Jeddah, she graduated from …
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BRENT LYNCH 1/3 – He spends the coldest month of winter painting in Todos Santos (a small town on the Baja Pacific side). His body of work ranged from large scale murals, books, magazines, event posters and record cover artwork. The energy and poetry of both his figurative and landscapes, are a result of the artist’s passion for direct study …
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PIERRE AUGUSTE COT 1/3 – He woke at dawn, painted while there was good light. His paintings had a strength that magically was mixed with delicate grace. He created several works of lasting popularity (such as Le Printemps and The Storm, both are on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City), but he also was renowned …
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PAL SZINYEI MERSE 1/3 – Now, Chminianska Nová Ves is a village in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia, but historical records of the village was first mentioned in 1248. Pál Szinyei Merse (one of the most well-known rapresentativ of Hungarian impressionist painting), was born here into a Hungarian family. In 1864, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts …
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MARTIN BENKA 1/3 – Searching for forms and colours of Slovakia, he would visit regions where people lived in communion with nature. He was born in 1888, inside a September day, in the family of an carpenter with a small farm, as the youngest of six children living. Modesty and sensitive towards people taught him by his mother (a model …
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