André MASSON (Balagny-sur-Oise 1896 – Paris 1987) André Masson, versatile artist, dedicated his creativity to the exploration of the irrational world. He studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He fought during World War I and was seriously injured. A large part of Masson’s...
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VIKTOR KONOVALOV
VIKTOR KONOVALOV (Uidol, Vladimir region 1912 – Moscow 1995) Russian painter and graphic designer. He was born into a family of modest conditions in the small village of Uidol. Despite the opposition of his parents, he moved to Moscow with the ambition of becoming an artist. In 1936 he entered the Surikov Art Institute, where...
CAROL RAMA
Carol RAMA, Olga Carolina Rama (Turin 1918 – 2015) A self-taught artist, Rama refused adherence to any one specific style, method, or group during her seven-decade career. Beginning in the 1930s, Rama began to create an aesthetic vocabulary filled with icons that were linked to issues of real-life mental illness, financial ruin, and suicide, woven...
UBERTO BONETTI
Uberto BONETTI (Viareggio, 1909 – 1993) Futurist painter, graphic artist and designer. Very young he began artistic studies in Lucca and then he studied architecture in Carrara. In 1931 Bonetti created the mascot for the famous Viareggio carnival, Burlamacco, still today a mask symbol of the town. A lot of important artists and personalities, such...
LÉOPOLD SURVAGE
Léopold SURVAGE (Moscow 1879 – Paris 1968) Born in Moscow in 1879, Léopold Survage began his career in the piano factory of his father, and became an apprentice piano maker. In 1901, attracted by painting and drawing, he entered the School of Fine Arts in Moscow. He painted his first work Moscow, in 1903 and...
ERNEST GODFRINON
Ernest Jean Joseph GODFRINON (1878-1927) Godfrinon was a very sensitive and refined Belgian painter, born at Elsene in 1878. He received his artistic education at the Academy of Ixelles and at the Royal Academy of Brussels. He was primarily regarded as painter of landscapes, still lifes, interiors and intimate genre scenes in the Impressionist style....
ZHANG HONGMEI
Born in 1973, she graduated in 1996 at the faculty of textile design at the Shangdong Academy of Fine Arts; in 2001, she obtained a second degree in textile design at the University of Qinghua, where she attended a Master’s to qualify in teaching. She taught art from 1996 to 1998 at the Shangdong Trade-Union...
VLADIMIR JOUKOV
Vladimir JOUKOV (Pocrovca, Ussuriysk, 1922) After a difficult and poor childhood, at age of 13, he joined a crew of the Navy in Vladivostok. He spent five years to the front during the Second World War. In 1947 he was admitted to the School of Art Muchina in Leningrad, later he attended the institute Serov...
ANDREA PESCIO
Andrea Pescio was born in Novara in 1972, where he still lives and works. After his artistic studies he works in the high fashion field, specializing in textile decoration. At the same time, he continues and even intensifies his artistic research, then devoting himself completely to it. Main exhibitions: 2009 first solo exhibition, Palazzo Boglietti,...
MARINA USPENSKAYA
Marina Evgenevna USPENSKAYA (Moscow, 1925 – 2007) Marina Evgenevna Uspenskaya was born in Moscow. She graduated from the 1905 Art College, where she studied theatre and decorative arts under professor V.A. Shestakov. In 1947 she entered the graphics department of the Surikov Institute in Moscow, where she studied under professor D.E. Dekhtyaryev in the book...