George Augustus Holmes | Playmates, 1875

George Augustus Holmes (British, 1822-1911) was a painter of genre scenes who exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1852-1909. He also exhibited at the British Institution, Grosvenor Gallery and the Paris Salon between 1906-1911; but most of his works were exhibited at Suffolk Street where he exhibited no less than 110 pieces.

Gustave Courbet | La trombe, 1867

Like the waves he so perfectly captured, Courbet's love affair with the sea ebbed and flowed throughout his career. Born a child of the rugged mountainous terrain around Ornans in the Franche-Comté, Courbet's first glimpse of the sea only came in 1841 during a visit to Normandy with his childhood friend, Urbain Cuenot. Courbet's future interest in the sea as subject derived from visits to different coastal towns and can be divided into five distinct phases: 1854 and the views of the Mediterranean he made from Palavas-les-Flots, while visiting Alfred Bruyas in Montpelier, 1865 during a sojourn on the Normandy coast and a period when the sea provided the backdrop for some of his greatest portraits, such as the Countess Karoly (RF 439), 1866-67 in Trouville and Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, where the sea water is predominantly calm, almost in anticipation of the great series of crashing waves that occurred in 1869-70 and finally at Lac Leman, the lake and its shore that represented the final years of Courbet's life, while exiled in Switzerland.

Edgar Degas | Dancer Making Points, 1879-1880

Illuminated by gas footlights in the midst of a performance, a dancer "makes points", or draws forms with her pointed foot.

Edgar Degas’s daring, asymmetrical composition and the angled perspective he produced by the diagonal lines of the floorboards emphasize the sensation of plunging space.

Title: "Dancer Making Points"

Author: Edgar Degas

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Date: 1879-1880

Location: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA

Steven DaLuz (American painter, 1953)

Steven DaLuz was born in Hanford, California, the son of an Air Force officer. From an early age, he was exposed to art in galleries and in publications, which fed his interest in drawing.

DaLuz attended 13 schools in 7 states and 3 foreign countries by the time he graduated from high school.

Throughout, he was inspired by art teachers, and by his own father, who painted recreationally.

The cultures to which he was exposed spawned his varied artistic interests.

After just one semester at San Antonio College, the Vietnam War interrupted his art studies and led to a long stint with the United States Air Force.

Christine Peloquin | Florida

Christine Peloquin è un'artista multimediale mista 2-D che disegna e dipinge volti, figure, paesaggi ed astratti su collage.

Utilizza molti materiali diversi tra cui carbone, acrilici traslucidi, acquerelli, monostampe, oggetti trovati, trasferimenti di foto, tessuti e carte su pannelli di legno.

Christine insegna le sue tecniche multimediali miste dal 2009 ed offre seminari nel suo studio a Orlando e negli Stati Uniti.

Da 30 anni vende le sue opere d'arte in gallerie e festival in tutto il paese.

John Pitre, 1942 | Il pittore visionario

Nato nel 1942 e formatosi nelle belle arti presso la prestigiosa Art Students League di New York City, John Pitre si è evoluto fino a diventare un maestro del fantasy e del surrealismo.

Pitre ha avuto un'influenza significativa nel mondo dell'arte per oltre quaranta anni e porta il primato di essere uno degli artisti più ampiamente pubblicati nella storia moderna.

Come narratore, Pitre usa il suo talento artistico per commentare le questioni più profonde che riguardano l'umanità e per creare un riflesso dei nostri tempi e del mondo in cui viviamo.

Crea mondi immaginari completamente dalla sua mente, usando l'espressione visionaria come veicolo per potenti commenti sociali.

Ben Goossens (Belgian, 1945)

Ben Goossens worked for 35 years in his native Belgium as an ad agency art director. After retiring, he has turned to creating photo montages with a distinctive surrealist style reminiscent of his fellow countryman, René Magritte.

Goossens' images have received awards🎨 in a number of prestigious international photography competitions including gold and silver medals at the Trierenberg Super Circuit, the world's largest annual photography salon.

Goossens has also seen his work widely published, including an in-depth 10 page exposition in the March 2007 edition of Photo Art International. His composite photos are remarkable for their seamless yet painterly renderings of surrealist dreamscapes.