Pierre-Auguste Renoir | The Rocks of L’Estaque, 1882

This is one of a small series of radiant landscapes that the Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted during a stay with Paul Cézanne in L'Estaque, a small fishing port just west of Marseilles.

Renoir, who was travelling back to Paris having spent the previous months in Algeria and Italy, was immediately captivated by the raw light and rich beauty of the Provençal landscape.

"How beautiful it is!" he wrote to a friend, "It's certainly the most beautiful place in the world, and not yet inhabited… There are only some fishermen and the mountains…so there are no walls, no properties or few…here I have the true countryside at my doorstep".

Alexandr Melnikov, 1959 | Romantic painter

Alexandr Melnikov / Александр Мельников, originally of Russian descent, was born in Moscow region.

He is graduated in the High School of Arts of Odessa and in the National Academy of Kiev.

Aleksandr Melnikov participated in many exhibitions in Geneva (Switzerland), Marseille (France), Yoko Gama (Japan), Frankfort (Germany), Vancouver (Canada).

Il Post-Impressionismo

Vincent van Gogh | The starry night, 1888

Liberandosi dal naturalismo dell'Impressionismo alla fine del 1880, un gruppo di giovani pittori cercò stili artistici indipendenti per esprimere emozioni piuttosto che semplici impressioni ottiche, concentrandosi su temi di simbolismo più profondo.

Attraverso l'uso di colori semplificati e forme definitive, la loro arte era caratterizzata da un rinnovato senso estetico e da tendenze astratte.

Yovka Mechkarova, 1976 | Romantic painter

Bulgarian painter Yovka Mechkarova / Йовка Мечкарова was born in the town of Kalofer, Bulgaria.

She graduated in art education for Applied Arts in the town of Troyan in 1995.

She currently resides in Veliko Ternovo (Bulgaria).

Taeil Kim | Abstract painter

Korean artist Taeil Kim / 김태일 begins his art by thinking, “how will I observe and re-create the figure?”

Influenced by his observations of people's daily interactions with nature, he is able to create moving and unique portraits.

Kim is heavily influenced by the work of such masters as Rembrandt and 19th Century Impressionism.

Camille Roqueplan | Romantic painter

Camille Joseph Etienne Roqueplan (18 February 1802/03, Mallemort - 29 September 1855, Paris) was a French Romantic painter of landscapes, genre and historical scenes.

From an early age, he displayed an aptitude for drawing, and would often correct his classmates.

Around the age of eighteen, he began to take painting lessons.

Pedro Roldán Molina, 1954 | Modern impressionism painter

Pedro Roldán Molina was born in Rute in the province of Còrdoba, Andalucía.

From a very young age he carried out his first drawing studies, obtaining different prizes for painting and other techniques, in his town, and also a national one at eight years.

He continued his studies in Barcelona where he has spent his entire career, surrounded by the modernists and very close to the impressionists, but fundamentally alongside the great creators who took over those lands in the last decade of the last century.