Mel Brigg, 1950 | Exodus

Born in South Africa, Mel is self taught and started to paint full time in 1979.

Mel's paintings are expansive in Australian's vision and yet simple and skilled in application.

Particularly of note are his beautiful paintings of beaches and landscapes with two or three people to give scale.

His skies are famous for the moods they depict.

Alexander Shandor / Шандор Олександр, 1981

Alexander Shandor / Шандор Олександр è nato nella città transcarpatica di Vinohradiv, nell'Ucraina occidentale.

Ha studiato all'Erdeli College of Arts di Uzhhorod, presso il dipartimento di lavorazione dei metalli in studio e sotto la guida dei professori Petretsky, Lukac e Mykhailyuk.

Alex sta lavorando con un olio su tela o con un acquerello su carta, la maggior parte dei suoi dipinti sono tratti dalla natura, all'aria aperta, nei generi di paesaggi e nature morte.

Tutte le sue opere sono uniche ed irripetibili anche da lui stesso.

Valerie Otte, 1977 | Figurative sculptor

Valerie Otte is an award-winning sculptor based in Germany whose work has been exhibited both nationally and in the UK.

Valerie Otte's art can be described as a play of the eyes at distance, which is a classical description for figurative sculpture.

The rule: Close observation.

Antonio Bueno | Modern painter of Reality

Antonio Bueno (21 July 1918 - 26 September 1984) was an Italian painter of Spanish origin, who acquired Italian citizenship in 1970.

He was born in Berlin while his journalist father was posted there by the newspaper ABC of Madrid.

Bueno undertook art studies in Spain and Switzerland. In 1937, he was in Paris, where he exhibited at the Salon des Jeunes; then in 1940 with his brother Xavier, he moved to Italy.

After a post-impressionist experience, immediately after World War II he joined the school of Armenian artist Gregorio Sciltian, painting trompe-l'œil work.

Antonio e Xavier Bueno | La carrozza (Passeggiata alle cascine), 1942

Edmond Jean de Pury | Genre painter

Baron Edmond Jean de Pury (1845-1911) was a Swiss painter and engraver.

De Pury was born on 6 March 1845 in Neuchâtel.

He was a member of a Prussian noble family and was a nephew of James-Ferdinand de Pury.

He trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, studying painting and engraving.

Lytras Nikephoros | The Kiss (1878) at the Louvre

In "The Kiss", the scene is set in a courtyard, in which a slender girl is rising on the tips of her tows in order to kiss her beloved, whose head can be seen through the window high up.

The lily in the pot symbolises purity, while its slender stem echoes the slender girl’s motion. Ochre and white prevail, along with some red on the girl's fez.

The latter colour was a favourite of Nikephoros Lytras'.

The abandoned slipper suggests the girl's rush to meet her beloved, while at the same time marking space, that is, making us part of the scene. | Source: © National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum, Athens

Lytras Nikephoros | The Kiss, 1878 | National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum, Athens

Paolo Veronese | Pittore Rinascimentale

Paolo Caliari (o Cagliari) (1528-1588) prese il cognome Veronese dalla sua città natale, Verona.

Fu un famoso pittore del Rinascimento, il cui lavoro a Venezia fu magistrale.

Insieme ad altri artisti veneziani, come Tiziano (1485-1576) e Tintoretto (1518-1594), Veronese fu uno degli artisti di spicco in città.

Rappresentativo della scuola veneziana, Veronese fu un colorista eccezionale, che dipinse elaborati cicli narrativi in un drammatico stile manierista.