Jaime Zapata

Jaime Zapata studied at the School of Plastic Arts of the Universidad Central de Quito. In 1984 he moved to Paris, where he has lived since then, to work at the Centro Cultural de Galerie de Nesle. In 1998 created Jaime Zapata Space Workshop in Quito.

His work developed in the field of figurative painting. He has experimented with different application techniques of representation to create scenes of magical worlds, visually consistent, but disturbingly fantastic atmospheres.

Joan Miró

(Barcelona, 1893, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 1983)

Painter, sculptor, engraver and ceramist Spanish. He studied business and worked for two years as a clerk in a drugstore, until an illness forced him to retire for a long period in a family house in the small town of Mont-Roig del Camp.

Back in Barcelona, he joined the Academy of Art led by Francisco Galí, where he met the latest artistic trends in Europe. Until 1919, his painting was dominated by a formal expressionism Fauve and Cubist influences, focusing on landscapes, portraits and nudes.

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech

(May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989)

Dali was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres.

Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire includes film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani

July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920

Modigliani was born in Livorno, Italy. He belonged to the group of artists called "School of Paris" and was considered one of the best artists of Europe. The alcohol, drugs, women and the illness he had, ruined his life and only after his death did his art become famous. Modigliani was inspired by Paul Cézanne, Cubism and Picasso`s blue period.