Maryam Mughal, 1987 | Figurative painter

- I am Maryam Mughal, born and brought up in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Since a child, the air in front of me was the canvas and I was brushing it with colors of my thoughts.

One day I did it on paper and the world around me said, wow, since than I was titled as a natural artist and my hands itch to create more art to beautify life around me.

Anatoly Metlan, 1964 | Impressionist painter

Anatoly Metlan è nato a Yalta, in Ucraina, vicino al Mar Nero.

Crescendo, Metlan ha sviluppato la passione per le opere degli impressionisti.

Dopo il liceo ha frequentato la Krivoi Rog University, nel sud dell'Ucraina.

Mentre era all'università, Metlan espose le sue opere e pian piano si fece un nome.

Nel 1989, era stato accettato nella Guild Artist in Ucraina.

Shafira Yablonski, 1938 | Impressionist painter

Ukrainian painter Shafira Yablonski was born in the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk.

When Shafira was 3 years old the world war II began and her family was evacuated to Kazakhstan.

When the war was over and the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk was liberated, they returned home to Ukraine.

There Shafira spent her childhood and adolescence and finished high school.

All her childhood she was fond of drawing. When Shafira was 15, she joined the art studio at the House of Culture and began learning to paint.

Zhaoming Wu 吴兆铭, 1955

Zhaoming Wu 吴兆铭 is a Chinese-born painter. Wu grew up in Guangzhou City, China and he received his BFA from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and his MFA from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California.

Wu is known best for his figurative paintings. Inspired heavily by 19th century French painting🎨, Wu describes his work as "representational, but not traditional classical".

This can be seen, as Wu uses modern elements of graphic design in his work.

Mariano Fortuny y Marsal | Fantasy on Faust, 1866

In this work, Mariano Fortuny y Marsal (1838-1874) establishes an eloquent link between painting and music and a clear exposition of what his friend, the Baron Davillier, called his very lively and very pure taste in music.

Fortuny depicts one of the musical evenings that he attended in Madrid during the summer of 1866 at his friend and former classmate, Catalan painter Francisco Sans y Cabot’s studio at no. 13, calle Flor Baja in Madrid.

Shen Hanwu 沈漢武, 1950 | Genre painter

Shen Hanwu was born in Wuhan, Hubei province.

In the 1980s, he became famous as a book illustrator. In 1986, Shen entered Wuhan Art Academy and became a professional artist.

Throughout the 1990s his oil paintings were frequently exhibited in national fine art exhibitions and in 1995, Shen became a member of the Chinese National Artists Association.

Paolo Troubetzkoy (1866-1938) | Impressionist sculptor

Prince Paolo Petrovich Troubetzkoy / Павел Петрович Трубецкой was an artist and a sculptor who was described by George Bernard Shaw as "the most astonishing sculptor of modern times".

By birth, he was a member of the ancient House of Trubetskoy.

He was the son of Russian diplomat, Prince Peter Petrovich Troubetzkoy and his second wife, lyric singer Ada Winans (1831-1917).