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Jean Gouweloos (1868-1943) | Genre painter


Jean Léon Henri Gouweloos was a Belgian genre and portrait painter as well as poster artist and lithographer.
Jean Gouweloos studied, like his brother Charles (1867-1946) from 1887-1890 and from 1893-1894 at the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles.
He was also a student of the painter and decorator Charle-Albert.
Before studying, he made a living in Paris by drawing posters, then he worked in the family's printing house, which specialized in artistic printing.

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Francois Rivoire (1842-1919) Flowers painter


French painter François Rivoire was born in Lyon in 1842. A pupil of Regnier, Rivoire made his debut at the Salon of 1866 and in the same year was made a Societaire des Artistes Français.
In 1883, 1886, 1889 and 1900 Rivoire was awarded prizes for his work and in 1906 was made a Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur.
Rivoire painted paintings of flowers especially roses in watercolour, gouache and pastel.

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Billy Kidd, 1980 | Fine art Photographer


Billy Kidd is an American self-taught photographer born in Panama City, Florida.

- "When I was six years old we sold everything in a garage sale.
I made an impressive $20 selling my He-Man action figures, Castle of Grayskull, G.I. Joe's and every little thing I had.
I thought it would be fun to put my money in a small wooden box and bury it with a long white string tied to it coming out of the dirt, it would be my buried treasure. I never found the money".

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Annibale Gatti | The Master Light of All Our Seeing, 1887

Annibale Gatti | The Master Light of All Our Seeing, 1887

Brilliantly composed by the Italian fresco painter Annibale Gatti (1827-1909), the painting depicts a sweeping view reminiscent of Raphael’s The School of Athens. Gatti’s figures are similarly sprawled across his canvas, displaying the same symmetry and careful placement as Raphael’s composition.

The works even share a handful of figures, from the Renaissance architect Donato Bramante and philosopher Pythagoras of Samos to Michelangelo and Raphael himself.
Though Gatti’s work follows in the classical spirit of Raphael’s fresco, "The Master Light of All Our Seeing" takes on a grander meaning than the Renaissance composition. Depicted at the center is the figure of Jesus, symbolically positioned as "The Master of All Our Seeing" as his light shines on the multitude of figures who surround him.

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Annibale Gatti (1827-1909) | Fresco painter


Annibale Gatti was an Italian painter, known for history painting and fresco decoration in Tuscany.
Son of a decorator, Gatti moved from Forlì to Florence in 1830.
He studied in Florence, enrolling in 1843 in the Academy of Fine Arts. Around the 1850s he achieved his first successes, choosing historico-religious themes for his works.
In 1861, he decorated the Throne Room in the Pitti Palace.

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Dino Buzzati | Un amore | Capitolo XI


Perché se la prendeva tanto? Perché continuava a pensarci? Di che cosa aveva paura? che Laide scomparisse? Figurarsi. Bastava un colpo di telefono e lei correva a prendere un tassì; e lui l'aveva a sua disposizione, con la biancheria in ordine, tutta ben lavata da poter baciare impunemente in ogni parte del corpo.
No. Aveva un bel fare questo ragionamento.
Non bastava. Lei sarebbe accorsa, è vero, alla chiamata della signora Ermelina e sarebbe venuta in letto con lui ma tutto in fondo si riduceva a mezz'ora un'ora al massimo, questo era per lei solo un breve intermezzo di lavoro, da risolvere con gentilezza ma anche con la maggior celerità possibile (Dorigo si era ben accorto di non farla godere, quando le baciava il sesso la Laide teneva chiusi gli occhi, le labbra socchiuse tutto lì, ma per il resto non un vero palpito, un sospiro, un gemito, meglio così comunque piuttosto che le disgustose commedie di certe prostitute convinte che in amore tutti gli uomini senza distinzione debbano essere completamente cretini).

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Daud Akhriev, 1959 | Symbolist painter


Daud Akhriev / Дауд Ахриев was born in the former Soviet Union.
He studied classical painting and drawing for 14 years, graduating with honors from the Repin Institute (Russian Academy of Fine Art) with a masters degree in fine art, under the tutelage of the late painter and Academic, Piotr Fomin.
In 1991 he emigrated to Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Akhriev, now a U.S. citizen, shares his time between Andalusia, Spain and Chattanooga, Tennessee with his artist wife.