Blanka Kyselová - Matragi is czech academic painter and fashion designer, living in Orient.

She is a symbol of fine elegant fashion for the world, with its perfest designs, colour harmony and innovation of an artist, a sumptuous collection that plays on warm colours. The energy of those creates new emotions with delicate tones and richness of painting, with the combination of precious materials.

Josef Čapek was a Czech painter, printmaker and writer. He studied decorative painting at the School of Applied Arts in Prague, where he was influenced by the highly decorative art of the Secession. During this period he wrote stories with his brother, the famous novelist Karel Capek (1890–1938). In 1910 they went to Paris for nearly a year, where Josef Capek studied painting at the Académie Colarossi and became a friend of Apollinaire. In 1911 he and his brother co-founded the Cubist-orientated Group of Plastic Artists.

Capek attempted to modify Cubism by introducing elements of Expressionism and Symbolism. From 1915 he began to achieve a synthesis of Cubism, Neo-classicism and a personal symbolism. In the 1920s his paintings and prints became more densely woven, more expressive and more concerned with issues of civilian and suburban life. He also undertook theatre design, journalism and book illustration as well as publishing his own theoretical essays. In the late 1920s he became greatly influenced by folk art, painting simplified images of houses and countryside in bold strokes of bright colour.

In 1938 he painted the first pictures of his cycle Fire, whose large, gesturing figures played out a warning against war. On 1 September 1939 he was arrested by the Germans and taken to Dachau, and later to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he died.

Considered one of Mexico’s greatest artists, Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón began painting after she was severely injured in a bus accident. In 1926, Frida painted her first self-portrait: "Self-Portrait in a Velvet Dress", her first serious work and the first of many self-portraits to come.

In 1928, Kahlo connected with Diego Rivera. He encouraged her artwork, and the two began a relationship. In 1929 they married - She described the marriage as being: "… the marriage between an elephant and a dove." Despite all of the physical and emotional pain in Frida’s life, she was an outgoing person who used many 4 letter words in her conversations. She loved to smoke, drink tequila and sing off color songs to guests at the many parties she hosted. She loved telling dirty jokes just to shock her guests. On the night of July 13th, 1954, Frida died in the "Blue House" where she was born 47 years earlier. The cause of death was officially reported as "pulmonary embolism". Her ashes were placed in a pre-Columbian urn which is on display in the "Blue House" that she shared with Diego.