PAINTERS

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, …

WILLIAM GLACKENS 1/4 – He was born in Philadelphia in 1870, beginning his career as an illustrator for several newspapers, while he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In 1895 he went to Paris, to further the study of European painting. Back in America, he painted landscapes, adding strong colors reminiscent of the works of Manet and Cezanne. …

LENA GAL 1/4 – Her favorite colors are earth colors, ocher, brown, blue, red and yellow. Her interest in art comes from her childhood, when she felt excited about using color pencils and making clay figurines. In Portugal and abroad, she is a listed artist featured in several magazines and art publications. She likes to explore the borderline between dreams …