PAINTERS

LIU XIADONG 1/3 – He is a painter of modern life, whose large-scale works serve as a kind of history painting for the emerging world. He lives and works in Beijing but has undertaken projects in Tibet, Japan, Italy, the UK, Cuba and Austria (and closer to home, in Jincheng, in the north-eastern province of Liaoning, China, where he was …

AMRITA SHER GIL 1/3 – She was an Indian painter born to a Punjabi Sikh father and a Hungarian Jewish mother (sometimes known as India’s Frida Kahlo). An exceptional colourist, she was able to achieve special effects with colours that were unbridled and bold, in direct contrast to the pale hues in vogue among her contemporaries. Today she is considered …

VALERIANO BECQUER 1/3 – He died of liver disease. He remains in the workshop of his uncle until 1853, then barely subsisting with doing portraits. Before the date of his marriage, he made some works of great interest, as the Carlist of La Esperanza, now in the Romantic Museum of Madrid. His brief marriage failed in 1862, after producing two …

FRANCISCO GOYA 1/3 – The experience helped him become a keen observer of human behavior. The father of Spanish modern art. Francisco de Goya, painted royal portraits as well as more subversive works in late 1700s and early 1800s. He was born on March day, in Spain. He began his art studies as a teenager (even spent time in Rome). …

SANDRO BOTTICELLI 1/3 – He was born in in Florence, Italy. As a boy, he apprenticed as a goldsmith. By his forties, Botticelli was himself a master. He worked in all the current genres of Florentine art, painting altarpieces in fresco and on panel, tondi (round paintings), small panel pictures, and small devotional triptychs. Botticelli’s first works followed the current …