Juan Gris (1887-1927)

Juan Gris, nome d'arte di José Victoriano González è stato un pittore Spagnolo.

Tra il 1902-1904 studiò disegno industriale a Madrid, collaborando anche in alcuni quotidiani locali come disegnatore di vignette umoristiche; questa passione per la satira illustrata lo accompagnerà per tutta la vita, anche dopo essere diventato un pittore famoso.

Nel 1904-1905 studiò pittura con l'artista accademico José Maria Carbonero.

Nel 1906 si trasferì a Parigi, entrando in contatto con gli artisti più importanti del tempo, tra cui Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger ed Amedeo Modigliani.

Zhang Yaxi (Chinese sculptor, 1968)

Zhang Yaxi è una scultrice professionista di Chongqing, Cina. Alcuni dei suoi progetti di "alto profilo" includono il suo pluripremiato "Mother and Child" - una scultura monumentale di 16 m di larghezza x 7 m di altezza x 6 m di profondità per la città di Golmud nella provincia del Qinghai, e la serie Tennis Terracotta Warrior per il ATP / Tennis Master Cup Shanghai 2007 su cui ha lavorato con i colleghi scultori Laury Dizengremel e Shen Xiaonan.

Camille Claudel (1864-1943)

Camille Claudel was a french sculptor and graphic artist. In 1882 the sculptor Auguste Rodin agreed to supervise a small group of young women students, one of whom was the seventeen-year-old Camille Claudel. Auguste and Camille fell in love almost at first sight. Within a few years, however, it appears that Rodin exhausted her, demanding all her time and energy in his service.

By the time she broke off the relationship, in or around 1893, she had become anxious to escape Rodin's overwhelming influence and devote herself exclusively to her own art.

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.