December 11, 2012, 3:11 pm
Arunas Rutkus, Lithuanian painter, was born on September 19, 1961, Vilnius, Lithuania.
- 1980-1985 studied at Vilnius Art Institute, fresco, mosaic and stained glass class. Since then paints, works with stained glass and frescoes, works in graphic and for cinema, in ceramic and metal sculpture. Currently resides and works in Vilnius. Mostly paints in oil on canvas.
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December 11, 2012, 4:35 pm
Agnès Boulloche,
French painter, was born in
Paris, she spent her childhood in Morocco. These young years in North Africa made Agnes a legend and Djinn connoisseur, a lover of the uncanny. Back in
Paris in the Sixties, she was a student at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs, in the followed years, she entirely concentrated on oil painting on wood panels using the old “glaze” technique which consist in superimposing thin transparent layers of
colors and makes it possible to combine fine strokes and luminous tints. She also uses various alchemical formulas to create her own pigments, mediums and varnishes.
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December 14, 2012, 12:32 pm
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December 12, 2012, 7:37 am
Interrogo la tristezza e scopro
che non ha il dono della parola;
eppure, se potesse,
sono convinto che pronuncerebbe
una parola più dolce della gioia...
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December 14, 2012, 12:32 pm
Kal Gajoum,
Lebanese painter, was born in Tripoli. His interest in art was sparked at a very early age. In fact, he was only ten years old when he entered his first art competition. Later on he was introduced to oil painting and
palette knife techniques by friend of the family who were artist in attendance at the Leonardo D’Vinci school of art in
Rome. He held his first exhibition in 1983 in Tripoli.
He moved to
Paris to learn
watercolour techniques and the
Parisian style of painting from a private artist. Then returned to Tripoli in 1992 to give an exhibition. In Malta he spent his time as a professional artist where he spent seven years working for the Royal Fine Art Gallery and also during this time continuing his pursuit of artistic knowledge. He traveled to Tunisia during this time to give exhibitions.
In 2000 Kal found himself in Britain where he ran the Center Of Britain Art Gallery. He started a permanent exhibition in the City Of Carlisle where he steadily developed his
palette knife techniques and put together a set of four limited edition
watercolour prints of the city. Which he sold with the proceeds going to a local charity. 2003 Kal immigrated to Canada where he now resides in British Columbia and Quebec. He now concentrates on
cityscapes and
still life’s using his palette knife techniques in oil on canvas.
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December 14, 2012, 12:32 pm
Yuri Yarosh [Юрий Ярош],
Belarusian painter, was born in Belarus in 1969. He currently lives and works in
Spain. It is without any doubt, also a great artist, a master in the realm of
color. He is an extraordinary artist who knows everything and shows what has always been, because even if studied and practiced a lot, the fact is that birth is an artist, a privileged that has left indelible signs in all over the world. His works are in private collections in Belarus, Russia.
Spain, Holland,
France,
Italy, Germany, USA, Canada and Australia.
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December 14, 2012, 7:53 am
Born near Moscow in 1964,
Russian painter Igor Levashov [Игорь Левашов] entered the School for Young Painters in 1997 and the world-famed Sourykoff Institute in Moscow in 1984. He finished his formal training at the
Royal Academy of Modern Art in the Hague in 1996. In this age he discovered his love and passion for
flowers.
His detailed paintings are done in oil in a one-time-session. They were exhibited at the National State Galleries in
Russia; Museum of the Hague, Holland; Private Art Gallery, Athens,
Greece; International
Flower Exhibition Center in Aalsmeer, Holland; Kunstpassage, The Hague, Holland. A number of Levashov’s paintings have been published as art prints in Europe and North America. They have also been popular on various licensed products.
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December 14, 2012, 12:32 pm
Nasreddine Dinet, born as Alphonse-Étienne Dinet [1861-1929] was a
Frenchorientalist painter.
Compared to modernist painters such as
Henri Matisse, who also visited northern Africa in the first decade of the 20th century, Dinet's paintings are extremely conservative. They are highly mimetic, indeed ethnographic, in their treatment of their subject. Dinet's understanding of Arab culture and language set him apart from other
orientalist artists. Surprisingly, he was able to find
nude models in rural Algeria. Before 1900, most of his works could be characterized as "
anecdotal genre scenes". As he became more interested in Islam, he began to paint religious subjects more often. He was active in translating Arabic literature into French, publishing a translation of a 13th-century Arab epic poem by Antarah ibn Shaddad in 1898.
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December 14, 2012, 12:30 pm
Sono 300 le incisioni di
Marc Chagall dedicate alle favole di La Fontaine, una suite di esemplari a grandi margini, colorate a mano e firmate dall'artista.
La splendida
illustrazione delle Favole di La Fontaine, iniziata da
Chagall nel 1927 e conclusasi tre anni dopo, fu eseguita su commissione di Ambroise Vollard.
Nel lontano 1927
,"
il fatto che Volard avesse scelto Chagall provocò vivaci polemiche... dal fatto che la Fontaine, "
parte del patrimonio nazionale francese", venisse
illustrato da un russo, un ebreo per giunta forestiero...
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December 15, 2012, 5:32 am
Valentine Bartholomew [1799-1879],
British painter, became an early member of the Society of Painters in
WaterColours, which he joined in 1835. He had a special talent for
flower painting, a branch of art which he pursued with much success, his works being chiefly remarkable for the great care and the large scale on which they were carried out. "
Azaleas" and "
Camellias" are in the South Kensington Museum. Bartholomew held for many years the post of
Flower painter in Ordinary to the Queen from 1837.
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December 15, 2012, 8:32 am
Sharon Sprung,
American painter, is a Brooklyn based
award-winning artist who studied at Cornell, The Art Students League in New York and the National Academy of
Design. Apart from her creative practice, Sprung also teaches painting and
drawing at National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts and The Art Students League.
Her work has won numerous awards and is featured in prominent public collections, including the United States House of Representatives, Bell Laboratories, AT&T, Princeton University, Sherman and Sterling and the Chase Manhattan Bank.
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December 15, 2012, 4:27 pm
Juliana Kolesova [Ульяна Колесова] is an
award winning graphics
designer,
illustrator and digital
photographer. She received a master's degree in fine art and design from the Moscow School of Applied Arts. She then began her career as a painter and her pieces were displayed and sold in numerous exhibitions throughout Europe. Since that time she has worked as a graphic designer, illustrator and art director for various companies in Moscow in both the advertising and publishing industries.
After relocating to Toronto, Juliana started her own design and
illustration business. Her artistic abilities have been recognized through numerous national and international
awards for her exquisite
designs and
illustrations. As an
illustrator, Juliana is interested in creating enchanting, curious and captivating art from an emotional, historical and cultural approach. Influenced by the great
classical paintings, historical photography,
Japanese art and costume design, Juliana has added a creative
portraiture to her body of works.
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December 16, 2012, 3:51 am
Art is my asylum, life, poetry, music, the best cigar, tasty strong tea, everything. My Art reflects the world I perceive with all mysenses; people I meet and love; nature I admire, and all the things that affect the way I am. The Man is my main inspiration and This Man is the principal topic of my project. I am focusing on Their psyche, attitudes, as well as Their appearance, manners and all the complex processes that take place both outside and inside the Man.
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December 16, 2012, 3:55 am
Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os [1782-1861],
Dutch painter, was a 19th century
flower painter from the Northern Netherlands.
According to the RKD he was a son and pupil of the
flower painter Jan van Os and a brother of the painters Pieter van Os and Maria Margaretha van Os [1779-1862]. In 1809 he won the first prize of the Society Felix Meritis in Amsterdam for a
still life in which genre he later specialized. Van Os became Ridder in de orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw in 1812. From 1816-1820 he worked in Amsterdam. In 1822 he moved to Paris where he worked for the Sèvres porcelain factory. He painted
landscapes, but was, like his father, best known as a painter of
flowers. Starting in the 1830s he spent his summers in Haarlem, where he continued working on
flower illustrations for the "
Flora Batava" edited by Jan Kops. He is not to be confused with the son of his brother Pieter, also a painter called Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os, but who lived from 1805-1841 and continued the family painting tradition.
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December 16, 2012, 4:16 am
Chi è
Nessuno
E' solo il mio cuore che batte
Che batte troppo forte
Per causa tua.
Ma di fuori
La piccola mano bronzea sulla porta di legno
Non si sposta
Non si muove
Non muove neanche la punta del dito ...
Jean Hildebrant - American Figurative painter
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December 16, 2012, 12:17 pm
Danhui Nai,
Chinese painter, was born and raised in mainland China. As the child of a
sculptor and a painter it is no small wonder that she showed an interest in art at an early age. After college, Danhui Nai moved to New York City where she worked as a textile designer. She studied at the
Fashion institute of Technology at night and also took a summer course in French costume and interior design in
Paris. She has a
flower garden outside her studio and loves to paint in the
garden when weather permits. Her antique roses and other
flowers are among her favorite subjects.
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December 17, 2012, 2:34 pm
Nicole Anne Chew-Helbig, Singaporean painter, was born 1969 in Singapore. Currently working in Austria. Trained as a Biochemist, and used to own businesses in the service industry in Singapore. Now is a full-time artist. Nik's art is
impressionistic, acrylics on canvas. Mostly
figurative, with a spiritual/mystical theme.
The effects are brought together with layers of
colors stacked in gradients to give an ethereal effect. Her paintings brings together a unique blend if asian upbringing and Christianity. Nik is also a techno-enthusiast, and
loves to creat digital art whenever time allows.
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December 18, 2012, 5:40 am
Jonathan Wolstenholme is an
British painter and
illustrator best known for his amazingly detailed works deriving from a love of old books.
Books on Books is a series of
illustrations in which the book world is being described by… the books. Jonathan has had three one-man shows in London and has exhibited at the Singer and Friedlander Exhibition several times, also at the Discerning Eye Competition at the Mall Galleries
winning a prize in 2002. In 1997 an exhibition of Jonathan’s work was shown in New York at the ‘
Works on Paper’ fair. In 2003 he had a joint show with fellow Portal artist George Underwood, this was a great success, Jonathan also took part in an exhibition of Idiosyncratic Portal Artists in Tanglewood, near Boston in 2004 and Portal painters at the Edinburgh Festival in the same year. Wolstenholme regularly exhibits with Portal at all the major Art Fairs in London and Glasgow.
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