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1 | Mark Maggiori
Mark Maggiori is a French painter who captures the romance and grandeur of the American West with modern cowboys and dramatic landscapes.
Trained at Paris’s Académie Julian, he traded a career in music and film for painting after visiting a Western museum in 2014, creating scenes with vast skies, golden clouds and lone riders that evoke nostalgia for the frontier era.
2 | Hiroshi Nagai
Hiroshi Nagai is a Japanese illustrator who defined the visual aesthetic of City Pop music with his dreamy paintings of sun-drenched California.
Self-taught and inspired by David Hockney and American pop art, he created imagined landscapes of pools, palm trees and ultramarine skies from Tokyo, using magazines and travel brochures rather than visiting the places he painted.
His iconic album covers from the 1980s captured Japan’s economic boom era, and his nostalgic style has found new life with vaporwave culture and online audiences.
3 | Mulgil Kim
Mulgil Kim is a South Korean artist celebrated for her serene, dreamlike landscapes that beautifully merge nature with emotion. Her paintings often showcase flowing forests, delicate grass, and soothing green hues, evoking a sense of calm and reflection.
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4 | Léo Gausson
Léo Gausson was a French painter who embraced Neo-Impressionism and Synthetism during a brief but innovative artistic career from 1886 to 1900.
An early adopter of pointillist techniques, he studied color theory and simplified his compositions with bold colors, while also gaining recognition as one of Paris’s finest poster artists of the era.
