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Francisco Sanchis Cortés & Stendhal
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Karen Tarlton ~ Rainy Romance in the City | VideoArt
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Serge Lutens 1942 | French Fashion and Parfume designer
Serge Lutens is a French photographer, filmmaker, hair stylist, perfume and fashion designer, most well known for his art direction and photography for Japanese cosmetics company Shiseido in the 1980s.
At fourteen, Serge Lutens was taken on as an apprentice by a hair salon in Lille, a period which he described as crucial to his appreciation of beauty in three dimensions. Lutens started to experiment with makeup and photography, using friends to pose as models.
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Hugo Urlacher, 1958 | Argentine Portrait painter
Hugo Urlacher è nato il 30 ottobre 1958 a Buenos Aires, Argentina. Autodidatta, pittore della bellezza classica, ha iniziato a dipingere nel 1982 all’età di 24 anni.
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Victor Crisostomo Gomez ~ Soul of the Forest
Completely self-taught, Peruvian painter Victor Crisostomo Gomez’s approach to art is to portray emotion through intense color and to render the men, women and children in his portraits with a soft, almost dream-like quality. The result is that each painting becomes a beautiful exploration into symbolism, cultural heritage and identity, drawing on a sense of harmony that he tries to instill in each canvas. Victor’s work has been likened to a treasure chest full of mysteries and surprises. Each gem will be revealed the longer you look. Ultimately, Victor seeks to combine the strength and richness of the heritage of the Native Indians of Peru with the rewards and challenges of the urban world. In this way, Victor has become one of today’s most relevant South American portrait artists. He continues to create beautiful paintings in Peru.
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Minjae Lee, 1989
Minjae Lee is a young South Korean painter and illustrator, whose work expresses a semi-disturbing inner tension that is tough to ignore, even if you feel that you’d like to. It draws you in with its powerful colors, halting imagery and clever juxtaposition of beauty, innocence and fragility with brash, loud and aggressive.
What characterizes his work overall is drama. The ethereal females that populate most of his work exude a dark, organic tension, and it seems that even the brightest marker colors do not quite manage to save them from some sort of looming peril.
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Toni Demuro, 1974 ~ Surreal memory of the Trees
Italian painter and illustrator Toni Demuro was born in Sardinia. In 1997 he graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine art in Sassari and since then has worked as a creative in the field of visual arts and design. He won the prize "Acquaviva nei Fumetti" in 1996 and has collaborated as an illustrator with Legambiente, published with Vanity Fair, Carlo Spera Editore, Eli Edizioni, La Peste (Mexico) and Manifesto (Greece). In 2012 Toni has ewhibited the series of illustrations"Trees", realized on the occasion of the international year of forest, in a personal exhibition of his in Cagliari.
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Surreal Self-Portraits by Noell Oszvald, 1991
Hungarian photographer Noell S. Oszvald is a self-taught photographer and visual artist from Budapest. Her black and white photographs resemble mid-century fashion photography as much as it does the work of her surrealist influences. Severe contrasts between light and dark create graceful lines and a definite composition for each piece. In this way each image is intriguing, not only for its dreamy content but also because they are simply pleasing to look at. Perhaps what is most surprising, though, is the fact Oszvald’s relationship with the camera is relatively new. Only twenty-two years old Oszvald has only been using the medium for a little over a year.
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Michael Alfano | Figurative and surrealistic sculptures
American sculptor Michael Alfano has been sculpting for over fifteen years. A native of New York, he now lives and works in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. His major influences are Salvador Dali, Jo Davidson, and Jean-Antoine Houdon, as well as Buddhist, Taoist, Sufi and other eastern philosophy and literature. He first studied at the Art Students League of New York, with an emphasis on life-size sculpture from the model. His formal education continued at Boston University and was augmented by internships with several prominent sculptors.
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Shin Jong Sik ~ Korean Watercolor painter
Watercolorist Shin Jong Sik - Korean painter- is famous for expressing clean, transparent colors and his still life paintings express colorful, dignified and deep feeling. Taking flowers, dishes and hemp cloth as materials, he does not compose as they are seen but recomposes with new ideas. His excellent talent of lighting the hue reaches the vivid expression of emphasizing points of main materials according to hue and the background of his paintings are usually left blank. Delicacy and boldness are coexisting in his composition, raising affections of appreciators. Shin Jong Sik paints exclusively with Mission Gold Watercolors, a new premium line of watercolors distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Martin F. Weber Company.
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Myoe Win Aung, 1972
Burmese painter Myoe Win Aung was born in Yangon and studied under several masters, including U Lun Gywe. He started painting in 1989 and graduated from the State School of Fine Arts in 1992. He now works as a full time artist. As with most painters in Burma today, religious life and Buddhism influence his artistic expression. He has regular shows in Rangoon and has also exhibited in Singapore.
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Michael Creese
American painter Michael Creese was born in Chicago, Illinois, and moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his family at the age of seven. While in school, he developed a keen interest in art and drawing, and was greatly encouraged by his high school art teachers to pursue his passions. Michael’s interest in drawing quickly progressed to a fascination with painting. After being accepted at several different universities, including the Pratt Institute of New York, Michael began his formal art training at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, where in 1981 he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
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Berthe Morisot
One of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt, French painter Berthe Morisot 1841-1895 was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.
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Sir Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [1874-1965] è stato un politico, storico e giornalista britannico. Sulla scena politica per quasi sessant'anni e conosciuto principalmente per aver guidato la Gran Bretagna durante la seconda guerra mondiale, è stato primo ministro del Regno Unito dal 1940-1945 e successivamente dal 1951-1955. Churchill fu inoltre autore prolifico, vinse il Premio Nobel per la Letteratura nel 1953 per i suoi scritti storici.
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Edgar Degas & Mary Cassatt
L'americana Mary Cassattè la protagonista di molti quadri del francese Edgar Degas. Bella, ricca e raffinata, la Cassatt fu modella e probabilmente, anche l'amante di Degas.Fatto sta che per 40 anni, tra i due intercorre un rapporto intenso che durerà fino alla morte. Non ci é dato sapere se l’attrazione reciproca sbocciò in una relazione sentimentale, visto che i due distrussero la corrispondenza privata.
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Eugene Lushpin [Евгений Лушпин] 1966
Russian painter Eugene Lushpin [Евгений Лушпин] born in Moscow, is a celebrated contemporary artist whose work graces private collections throughout the United States, Russia and abroad. Greatly influenced by the Russian Realism School, his inspiring paintings of still life and landscape reflect a complex rendering of texture, illusionistic light and an intricate attention to detail.
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Howard Behrens, 1933
American painter Howard Behrens was born in Chicago. He holds a Bachelors and a Masters Degree in Fine Art from the University of Maryland. He has had over 150 one-man shows from coast-to-coast since becoming a professional artist in 1980. Howard Behrens, the world's most renowned palette knife artist. As a landscape and seascape artist, Howard Behrens has painted the idyllic lakes of Italy to the gardens of New England.
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Nikolai Blokhin [Николай Блохин] 1968
Russian masterНиколай Блохин was born in St. Petersburg. His education in art began very early at the Art School for Gifted Children in 1980, and continued through his postgraduate work and professorship at the prestigious St. Petersburg Academy of Art. With more than 20 years of artistic studies Nikolai is a young master with unequaled genius. His paintings are the embodiment of the classics with a contemporary approach. The unique style of his paintings has not gone without notice.
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Tytus Brzozowski ~ Urban surrealism
Polish painter Tytus Brzozowski is an architect and watercolorist. Passionate of the city, its bustle and mood. Great admirer of Warsaw with its difficult history and spectacular transitions. He's seeking for vibrations in the architecture, being inspired by the decent, consistent design. In his paintings, he's trying to show the noise of the city, playing with its changes and dynamics.
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Nicola Simbari
Italian painter Nicola Simbari [1927-2012] was born in San Lucido, Calabria and this beautiful area greatly impacted his Mediterranean paintings: the blues of the ocean and sky, and the bright hues of the flowers. His family moved to Rome when he was young and his father worked there as a Vatican architect. Rome's art masterpieces so impressed Simbari that, by age 13, he decided to study art and enrolled at the Accademia delle Belle Arti. He opened his first studio in Rome at 22 years of age. Simbari's early works featured scenes from his childhood - gypsies, cafes, fishing villages and the Italian countryside.
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