Good morning

Gigino Falconi painting

Zou Chuan'an

He is now a member of the Chinese Artists Association, and a visiting professor of the Art Department of Hunan Normal University. He was also an honorary president of the Loudi Literary Association of Hunan, president of the Loudi Artists Association and director of the Loudi Painting Institute. In addition, he is rated as a national first class artist.

Zou was fond of painting when he was young. Throughout the last few decades, he has dedicated his time to the study and creation of Gongbi paintings. He is solidly cultivated in traditional painting theory and brushwork in chorus assimilating the essence from the modern masters. Thus his works are marked by virtuosity and elegance with powerful vitality. He has captured the charm of expressionistic brushwork and meticulous details. Zou’s paintings are highly appreciated by home and abroad. He is the prominent representative of the Gong-bi style in flower-and-bird.

His publications include “Techniques of Meticulous Flower-and-Bird Painting” and “Paintings by Zou Chuanan”.

Joseph Farquharson (1846-1935)
A Winter's Morning

Gustave Caillebotte, French, 1848-1894, Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877

Gustave Caillebotte, whose personal works were forgotten until recently, was all together a recognized painter and a generous patron of the Impressionist movement.

He was born in 1848 in a very rich family which made its fortune in textiles industry then in real estate business as Baron Haussmann was rebuilding Paris.

Engineer by profession, but also former student of the Fine Arts School of Paris where he studied with Léon Bonnat, he met Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, and Pierre Auguste Renoir in 1874 and helped them organize their 1st group exhibition in Paris this same year.

In 1875, as he wishes to make his public beginnings as a painter, he submitted a work to the Official Salon which was refused, thus encouraging him to exhibit in 1876, with the aid of Renoir, at the second exhibition of the Impressionist group. His works and in particular the "The floor scrapers " were noticed and appreciated. Consequently he will take part in the subsequent exhibitions of the Impressionist Group.

Chul-Hwan Park is a Korean
Still Life painter of flowers.
Each has beauty in the movement captured like a photograph . Born 1964 in Korea.

Natalia Goncharova
Winter

Adolf Schweitzer (German, 1847 - 1914)
Winter Landscape with Fox

Ivan Olinsky (1878 – 1962)
Red - Headed Woman

Paris in the snow
Alix Bancourt painting

Aleksandr Volkov painting.
(August 31, 1886, in Fergana – December 17, 1957, in Tashkent)

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