Due to the city conditions, nature beauty and the wisdom of the Art Maestros, in Baia Mare sunt has developed a great art environment.

The painting school from Baia Mare has shortly become another Barbizon where painters from all round the world come to study plain air painting, raising our painting school to a great International level.

One of "the last of the mohicans" and probably the best of our school is Szanto Andrei.