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10 Artists you need to Know 👀 #1

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Sep 20, 2025
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1 | Laura Makabresku

Laura Makabresku, also known as Kamila Kansy, is a Polish visual artist.

Her series The Anatomy of Melancholy is explicitly inspired by Vilhelm Hammershþi’s interiors and muted light.


2 | Guy Buffet

Guy Buffet was a French painter celebrated for whimsical, brightly colored scenes of restaurants, chefs, waiters and seaside life.

He worked internationally, undertook corporate commissions for brands such as Grand Marnier and Absolut Vodka, and served as an official artist for the French Navy.


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3 | David Roberts et Louis Hahge

David Roberts was a Scottish painter who travelled in 1838–1840 through Egypt and the Near East and turned his field sketches into the landmark lithograph series Egypt and Nubia and The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia.

Louis Haghe was a Belgian born lithographer who co founded Day and Haghe in London and engraved, printed and hand colored the plates after Roberts’s drawings, producing the editions sold across Victorian Britain.

Their collaboration from 1842 to 1849 made Roberts’s visions widely visible and established lithography as the principal medium for mass circulating travel imagery.

4 | Young Lee (ì˜ëŠŹ)

Young Lee, known as ì˜ëŠŹ, is a South Korean painter who works mainly in acrylic on canvas and produces series such as FLOW and Love is in the Air.

Her recent paintings use vivid color fields and rhythmic motifs to suggest movement and everyday emotion, and several works are shown and offered online. She updates new series and available works regularly on her website and Instagram.


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