Norman Rockwell American Artist: b. 1894-1978. An enormously popular illustrator, American artist Norman Rockwell specialized in warm and humorous scenes of everyday small-town life. The cover of The Saturday Evening Post was Norman Rockwell's showcase for over forty years, giving him an audience larger than that of any other artist in history. Over the years he depicted there a unique collection of Americana, a series of vignettes of remarkable warmth and humor.
New York is a city teeming with landmark architecture and nuances of detail that are often overlooked by its inhabitants. Sometimes, it takes the eye of an outsider to put these elements in their proper perspective and, by doing so, recapture our imagination and bring the city back into focus. Victor Shvaiko paintings do just this.
A recent immigrant from the remote Ukrainian village of Altai. Shvaiko’s painterly realism describes New York with the freshness of an immigrant's eye and the exhilaration of a man filled with an intoxicating blend of passion and hopefulness. Storefronts we would ordinarily pass without note are captured by Shvaiko with gentle patience and even a bit of joyful reverence. Are we so jaded as not to see this ourselves, or are we just a bit overwhelmed by our myopic routine? Whatever the case, viewing one of any number of paintings from this young artist can be a revelation. Each one shows us that New York is indeed a beautiful place, full of character and with a flavor unlike any other city a place where the sun still shines within its walls just as brightly as anywhere else.
Shvaiko got his start early on when he was a boy in Altai. Fortunately for the young artist, this remote mountain village possessed a wealth of subject matter and he took full advantage of its rich and diverse landscape. Later as a young teen, he enrolled into one of the Soviet Union’s two most respected fine art institutions, the Novoaltalsk Art School, where for four years, he painstakingly learned correct academic technique and traditional methods of painting.
After a number of shows, Victor was invited to take part in a traveling exhibition that toured throughout Hungary. Upon tasting life outside the Ukraine,Victor made a decision to continue along this road and traveled to Rome where he did further studies at the U.S.S.R.’s Rostropovich Cultural Center. This path continued until he reached New York City which is where this story begins, and the paintings of Victor Shvaiko speak only of more beginnings to come.
Guillaime Azoulay Moroccan Artist: B.1949. Guillaume A. Azoulay was born in Casablanca, Morocco in 1949.
Guillaume Azoulay, a self-taught artist. His parents settled in Paris when Azoulay was ten and by the age of thirteen, he was sketching and selling his drawings on the streets and planning his career as an artist.
Azoulay made the world his university, people were his main subject with their joys and pains and ways of life. Guillaume became fluent in five languages.
His unique self-taught style conveys strong illusions of fluid motion. His subjects appear to be caught in a vital moment of life. He does not use models, preferring to rely on his imagination
Azoulay’s art centers on his ability to convey the purity of line to create strong illusions of fluid motion and life. Line is the key element of design in Azoulay’s artwork. He creates balance, harmony, contrast, and the illusion of depth and movement in each one of his compositions.
Guillaume Azoulay was presented with the Yehuda Halevi Award on February 12, 1986.One of his most notable accomplishments is the fact that Azoulay is the youngest artist to be accepted in the permanent archives of the Musee du Louvre, in Paris.
Martin Roberts began his artistic career as a boy with a brownie box camera. His works capture the rustic detail and atmosphere of Mediterranean landscapes.
Martin’s work is visually appealing with a detail unimaginable because he is a mixed-media artist. The result is exquisite, three dimensional, extremely informal and relaxing, with cascading flowers, foliage and textured colored walls.
Mediterranean, Provence and Tuscany subjects are his specialization with series featuring Venice and quaint English Cottages as well. His exhibitions have included the Leica Gallery in Manhattan; a distinction so rarely given to American artists.
Not long after the beginnings of photography in the mid-1800s, hand-tinted colors were applied to black and white photos to enhance the image and create the appearance of color. This process continued to grow in popularity until the emergence of color film. A renewed interest in hand-tinting came about in the 1960s and appears, once again, to be gaining popularity.
While some people indulge in photo tinting for fun these days, adding color to black and white photos has been a passion of Orange County artist/photographer Martin Roberts for more than 25 Years.
"I'm the only person I know who shoots black and white film in the tropics," he said.
Roberts describes his work as hand-painted, rather than hand-tinted. He uses acrylics, watercolors, gouaches and oils--often on the same piece to create different shades and textures.
"I consider my work hand-painted since I use a variety of paints, layering and adding color until the work becomes an art itself," he said. "The colors vary between the different mediums. That's
"Essentially, hand-tinting is a process that attempt to turn black and white photo into a color photograph,” said Roberts."
Some people go for the surreal look; neon green grass, purples, sky colors that aren't found naturally."
Most beginning hand-tinters use photo oils, specially prepared colors (available in most art supply stores) designed to tint photographs, rather than the paints Roberts prefers.
However, he says, no amount of hand-tinting or painting can "save" a poor quality photo. The strength of the work comes from the strength of the image.
"The image is only as strong as the photograph," he said. "You want something that will emotionally move people. The photo has to be able to stand on its own without any paint on it. I don't just pop out of a car and shoot a cow and paint it purple. I'm trying to shoot the perfect image. Something magical. No amount of paint or effort will save an image that's not substantial."
Why no faces? Vicki Porter believes there is something in the ‘incomplete’ where the mystery resides and then it is left to the viewer to make their own significant bond.
For the past 25 years Porters’ work has been found in National and International collections. Born on the North Shore of Chicago, studied Art at the State University of Iowa & following a year in Europe & many exhibitions, fine art gallery representation , a collection of awards and 4 daughters later... a move to Buffalo Creek, in the mountains of Colorado.
The paintings allow one to get lost in the past... children can belong to anyone in the world... they make connections without language barriers... they speak to us as if we have translated art... just as we would poetry.
V. Porter has been represented, by many select fine art galleries in Aspen, Vail, Breckenridge, Harbor Springs Michigan; Sarasota Florida; Chicago & Winnetka Illinois; Glenwood Spgs, Denver & Evergreen Colorado; Carmel, California & Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Prompted by a periods of personal challenge, her art became the expression of a very private healing process. She experienced a rebirth and renewal and emerged from this experience as an accomplished, passionate painter.
Her love of art began at an early age in England, where family gifts were always created, rather than purchased, so that the true spirit of giving of one’s self was expressed. This early practice developed into a lifetime of charitable work. Seymour continues to give through her artwork to charities which help children in need.
Visiting museums was also a favorite family pastime. A profound early experience which influenced Jane as a colorist was her discovery of Matisse’s stunning motifs, and Chagall’s magical palette. Her lively studies of floral patterns were inspired by the vibrant watercolors of Raoul Dufy. The influence of these artist continue to define her work.
Yvaral Vasarely known as the Artist Yvaral. 1934-2002
Was a French artist working in the fields of op-art and kinetic art from 1954 onwards. He was the son of Victor Vasarely.
Yvaral studied graphic art and publicity at the École des Arts Appliqués in Paris between 1950 and 1953. In 1960, Yvaral co-founded the Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visual (GRAV) with Julio Le Parc, François Morellet, Francisco Sobrino, Horacio Garcia Rossi and Joel Stein, seeking to develop a coherent abstract visual language composed of simple geometric elements.
In 1975 he coined the phrase 'Numerical Art' to describe artwork composed (or programmed) according to numerical rules or algorithms. From this time onwards he used computers to digitally process and manipulate images, although the final images were always hand painted. He used this technique to produce several series of portraits starting from instantly recognizable images, such as the face of Marilyn Monroe, and processing them to the point where they become abstract compositions, while the original image remains recognizable.
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Vitold Smukrovich was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. Early on in his childhood there was never a question of Vitold following in father’s and grandfather’s steps, painting beautiful works was a tradition handed down from his grandfather.
Smukrovich's father was Pytor P. Smukrovich (1926-1998). He was a well-known artist, and member of the prestigious Union of Soviet Artists. Vitold's grandfather, Pytor I. Smukrovich (1878-1942) was also a well-known artist in both Poland and Russia, and was a professor in the 1930's at the St. Petersburg Academy of Art. He was a student and friend of famous Kuingy and Kardovsky.
At a young age Smukrovich attended the Loganson Art School, a specialized school for gifted children between 1979 and 1986. He started his formal art education in 1986 and in 1994 graduated from the prestigious Repin Art Academy in St. Petersburg. He studied there under V. Reihet.
Smukrovich’s has exhibited his works in several galleries outside of Russia, however he always returns to his Russia to keep his artistic inspiration.
Smukrovich holds true to his style of lyrical treatment of his subjects, especially landscapes, flowers and romantic figurative paintings. He combines influences of the Russian realistic school and French Impressionism with Art Deco and Art Nouvea. His works carry characteristics of Austrian Gustav Klimt and Russian (later American) Nikolay Fechin.
He has been featured in several international exhibitions since 1994.
Exhibitions include:
2004 Art Expo, New York
2002 The Russian Art - New Generation, Museum Exhibition Het Slot Zeist, The Netherlands
2001 World Art, Art Centre, Delft, The Netherlands
1999-2000 Moscow International Salon, Central House of Artists
1996-1999 Annual Exhibitions, St. Petersburg Union of Artists Association, St. Petersburg
1995 Solo Show, private galleries Finland
1995 Imatra Cultural Centre, Finland
1994 Solo Show, German Cultural Centre, St. Petersburg
You Yong was born in the northern part of China to parents who were art professors at Sichun Art Institute.
During the 10-year Culture Revolution he did not have the chance to go to school. However, he did meet the famous artist, Lipeng Wen. Lipeng Wen is the chairman of the Chinese Art Association, an art professor at the Center Art Institute in Beijing. Under his earnest guidance, he started painting even though he could not get direct education from the school.
Yong loves traveling and painting from his real-life experiences. Yong is an avid botanist, gardener and musician. His love of nature is seen in the distinctive atmosphere in his paintings. It is as if the viewer can almost feel the sunshine and fresh air. Yong paints with oil on canvas, sometimes the size of murals.
Yong has painted for 30 years. His works have been collected in America, Japan and Taiwan.
Notable Exhibits:
1983, Art Show in Hebei Province
1999, Art Exhibition in Beijing (First Place Award)
Emillio Greco was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1959. In 1979, he graduated from South Seoul High School and in 1983 graduated from Kyung-Ki University with a major in traditional art. He also served in the military from 1984 until 1986. He and his family live in the country, and this locale and his strong family ties influence his work. Although he was raised in the city, he fell deeply in love with the rural areas of South Korea, often visiting his grandfather who encouraged his artistic development. With inspiration from the land and encouragement from his family, Greco decided to pursue art as a profession.
He initially started painting traditional flower and fruit still life, concentrating on the style's formality. However, in 1999 he decided to change his formal style to a more free impressionistic style, focusing on the gardens, flowers and fountains found in his rural area.
Greco's work has been privately collected throughout Korea and he has exhibited in domestic galleries. Group exhibitions and work include:
1998 Specially Selected Prize, Korea Art Exhibition (Seoul)
1996 Selected Prize, Korea Art Exhibition (Seoul)
1990 Travels in Korea and China to sketch and photograph
1988 Nuri Gallery of Association Artists show to commenmorate the Seoul Olymipic Games
Born on Cape Cod, Katherine Ann Hartley began her artistic studies at Scottsdale Community College. She then studied privately with John Court in Arizona and in Portugal.
At the recommendation of Court, Hartley moved to New York City to study still life painting with David Leffel at the Art Students League. She rented a studio and remained in N. Y. for ten years before returning to the Cape to continue painting and to eventually begin to teach at the Cape Cod Museum of Art.
Hartley’s paintings are not attempts at exact renderings of the elements before her. With the use of obvious brush strokes and exposing the delicate under painting, she purposefully stops short of photo realism. Her paintings depict familiar objects that serve to remind us of the beautiful harmonies that can be evoked by simple groupings of every day objects.
She is affiliated with Oil Painters of America, Allied Artist of America and is a life time member of the Art Students League and is the recipient of many awards. She has been featured in Cape Cod life magazine, American Artist and American Art Collector Magazine.
Katherine recently relocated back to Scottsdale, Arizona after twenty five years where she continues to paint.
Vladimir Ivanovich Singaevsky (1933-2007) was born in Shatrische, Zhitomir Province of Ukraine in 1933. He was chosen as the Ukrainian Official Painter of the State in 1992. Mr. Singaevsky studied at Kiev Art Institute until 1966. Mr. Singaevsky remained active in Kiev, and enjoyed a prestigious career as a professor in the Kiev Art Institute from 1966 to 1988.
Born in Gorodnya, Chernigov province of Ukraine 1922. Studied at St. Petersburg Art Institute 1948-1951 and taught in Institute of painting, sculpture and architecture since 1954. Member of the Arts Academy of USSR. Russian artist, national painter of USSR since 1977. Died in St. Petersburg in 1979.
Born in Paris, France in 1962. Jean-Francois Bourgeat is a French landscape artist whose background in art 'graphiques' immediately attracted him to the Impressionist school of painting.
He tutored under the great French Landscape Artists, then took his easel to Nature. He paints on location and captures the changing light and reflections in the water along the Seine. His boats and landscapes typify the splendor of lie de France, du Bretagne, and d'Alsace in the south of France. He is indeed worthy of the praise to be amongst other noble artists in the Kevorkian school of art.
This is Bourgeat's inaugural exhibit in the United States.
Jean-Pierre Dubord was born in Rouen in 1949, and after spending years in the French countryside, he returned to his native city to portray the surroundings of his youth. While Rouen is a favorite subject for his paintings, he often depicts Paris, the Norman countryside, the beaches of Deauville and Houlgate, the Cliffs of Caux and Etretat and scenes along the Seine. He is known for his ability to capture the subleties of light and color unique to each season.
In 1970, he had his first exhibition of approximately thirty paintings in Rouen, a show which was highly praised by art critics. In addition to an annual show in Rouen, he has also exhibited in Bourdeaux, La Havre, La Rochelle, Osaka, Quebec and in major, famous salons of Paris.
Dubord has his own original approach to paintings. His palette is rich in its tones, and is fresh and uplifting. His work is so highly regarded that he is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards. Dubord's canvases reveal his own intense joy of life and his love of artist's mastery of his secrets of imprisoning light on canvas and the very delicate poetic strain in his painting may be traced to the impressionist manner, but it bears a very personal touch as well. One critic remarked that Dubord is guided solely by his heart and emotions.
Russian, Natalie Rozenbaum, born in Russia in 1981, grew up in the picturesque and historic Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Steeped in history, the city also is a powerful industrial center. Situated along one of the most beautiful rivers of Siberia, the Enisey, Krasnoyarsk is surrounded by mountains, giving an interesting flavor to the city views, and no doubt inspiring Rozenbaum to later specialize as an artist in cityscapes.
For five years, she studied fashion and textile design at the prestigious Omsk State Technological Institute in Russia where she excelled, graduating with honors in Design.
It is clear, too, to see the influence of the French Impressionists in her control of color tones and the joined-up modulation of paint that is a trait of the French tradition. Rozenbaum’s style is truly expressive, characterized by a refined use of color and texture that richly embellish her paintings.
Born in Paris, France on June 29th, 1954.
Art studies at the "Lycee Technique de Sevres"
Tapestry Design for Atelier "3," Paris, France
Interior Designer for Christian Dior, Paris, France
WATER COLOR EXHIBITIONS, SHOWS & GALLERIES:
Chaumont en Vexin, Pont St. Maxence, Crepy en Valois, Donville, Coutances, Eu, Gisors, Jullouville, Granville, L'Isle Adam, Pontoise, Versailles, Raverny, Vaison la Romaine, Beauvais, Montmorency, Foucarmont, Le Mans, Rouen, Vire, Paris, Aix en Provence, Carnac.
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:
Cameroon, Douala, 1983
Galerie de la Geole, Versailles, 1984 & 1985
Tourist Center, Abbeville, 1985
Galerie Jungers, Granville, 1985 and yearly.
PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS:
Galerie Jungers, Granville
Galerie Dore, Rouen
Galerie de Matteo, Vire
Galerie des Arcades, Aix en Provence
Galerie Arlequin, Carnac
AWARDS, 1983-1985
Price of the Public, Versailles
Price of the Best Water Color (Artists & Journalists Association)
Price of the Thema
Price of the Public
Price of the Public, exhibition of Pont St. Maxence
Price of the Public, exhibition of Pontoise
Price of the Young Artists, Granville
Price of Watercolor, St. Pair sur Mer
Price of the Rising Artists, Galerie du Musee, Paris
Price of the Lyon's Club, Eu
Price of the City of Donville
Sandra believes that while formal training is important for development of technical skills other factors are of greater importance. Becoming a part of the art world, meeting and observing other artists and painting painting- painting are the vital components in perfecting one’s own style. Painting a variety of subjects, influenced by travel in Europe and North America, her style emphasizes a brilliant marriage of color and texture.
Receiving technical training from Flathead Valley Community College in Montana and various workshops, Boschet works primarily in oils and pastels.
Boschet also received an Associate of Arts degree in Graphic Design from Milwaukee Area Technical College. She feels this gave her the needed discipline to pursue her career as a fine artist. After working for eight years as a graphic designer and calligrapher, Sandra went on to pursue her first love- painting. Native of the Bitterroot Valley in Western Montana, Sandra currently resides with her husband in Aspen, Colorado.
Seth Vandable began his career as a commercial artist and painter in central Texas. He has served as art director for the Alert Texan magazine while completing numerous commissions ranging from portraits to murals. His background in painting combined with many years of studying human anatomy have contributed to his international success as a sculptor. The art of Seth Vandable is truly unique, capturing the intensity of human emotion in compositions that are both innovative and timeless. Vandable pushes the figure to its limit, combining modern concepts with classical elegance. His detailed working knowledge of human anatomy is so extensive that the need for models is eliminated, making each sculpture a truly original creation, limited only by imagination.
COLLECTIONS - Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Hong Kong
Switzerland USA Indonesia Italy
AWARDS - 1997 FIRST PLACE, National Art Exhibition and Sale.
N.C.A.A. Ft. Collins, CO.
EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNER: Affaire in the Garden
Beverly Hills, CA.
1996: BEST SHOW: Manitou Springs Sculpture Show
WAKITA AWARD WINNER: National Art Exhibition
BEST OF SHOW: Sedona Sculpture Walk. Sedona AZ.
1995: DUAL AWARD WINNER: Winter Works Art Show
1994: CRITC’S PIX: Manhattan Arts International N.Y.
ARTIST ACHIEVMENT: Revue Magazine Loveland CO.
EXHIBITIONS: 1997: SAUSALITO ARTS FESTIVAL, CA.
LA JOLLA ARTS FESTIVAL, CA.
LA QUINTA ARTS FESTIVAL, CA.
1996-97: SCULPTURE IN THE PARK, CO.
DANADA SCULPTURE SHOW, IL.
COTTONWOOD ART FESTIVAL, TX.
AFFAIRE IN THE GARDENS, CA.
SCULPTURE IN MANITOU, CO.
1995-97: NORTHERN COLORADO ARTISTS SHOW, CO
1993-95: LOVELAND SCULPTURE INVITATION, CO.
1994-95: SEDONA SCULPTURE WALK AZ.
1995: PARADE OF SCULPTURES, CO.
ORMOND BEACH SCULPTURE SHOW, FL.
Jacquie Vaux’s paintings always demonstrate her deep love of wildlife. “I represent the animals I paint as sincerely as possible. With each painting, I strive to capture the individual personality of a special animal at a particular moment.”
Vaux grew up with a keen appreciation of nature. “I have always lived in the West. My grandmother encouraged my love of nature and painting during my childhood.”
Jacquie and her husband have traveled all over the world to obtain the photos she uses for her paintings. Their trip to Africa was a life-changing experience for Ms. Vaux. To the present day, her paintings of African wildlife reflect her first-hand adventure.
Now a full-time resident of Fort Collins, Colorado,she hikes the Front Range regularly carrying her camera to capture the local wildlife. Although she has worked in several different painting media including oils, acrylics and gouache, transparent watercolors remain her favorite. During her career, Jacquie Vaux has had more than 50 paintings reproduced into limited edition prints, all of which have sold out.
© Jacquie Vaux Art
Born in France in 1936, Claude Pissarro is widely exhibited in Europe and has developed an enthusiastic following in the United States. Living and working in the verdant countryside of Normandy, France, Pissarro continues the legendary artistic traditions of his grandfather, Camille, and his father Paulemile. In works that incorporate the romantic past with the conceptual art of today, Pissarro infuses impressionistic scenes with his own contemporary philosophy.
Pissarro transports the viewer to the personal countryside of France with images of rural tranquility far removed from the hectic pace of contemporary living. With the artist we savor small moments of the day and marvel at the simple beauty of sun dabbled landscapes. When included, figures appear to be part of the harmonious whole of nature, content to live simply in their bucolic environment.
OIL PAINTINGS
Claude Pissarro’s use of oil paint to build textural richness rivals any modern masters. Complex patterns of layering and cross hatching create a sculptural, tactitle effect in the painted surface that is essentially an abstract relief of dazzling color.
PASTELS
Pissarros pastels are as texturally rich and complex as his oils, with intricate patterns of tiny strokes that blend magically to form the image. Bold in conception and execution, the pastels are the work of a mature artist, secure in his vision and eager to explore new insights into time honored artistic traditions.
HISTORICAL PRESPECTIVE
Through his grandfather, Camille, and his father, Paulemile, Claude Pissarro is a direct link to the original Impressionists, the revolutionary artists who developed a fresh, new approach to artistic theory and techniques of painting.
G.H. Rothe German Artist: b. 1935-2007. Born as the daughter of a master goldsmith, G.H. Rothe grew up at Wiedenbrück a small town in the heart of Germany. G.H. Rothe is renowned as master of the mezzotint, which is centuries old, skillfull and rarely used. She combines technical mastery with imagination. Impressive is G.H. Rothe's zeal; she has completed over 70,000 mezzotints. Her first training was of a technical kind consisting of the drawing and goldsmithery practiced in her family. Shortly after finishing her studies of painting and art history she was awarded with the Villa-Romana-Prize which enabled her to live and work in Florence, Italy for a year. Her study trips included Paris, London, Vienna, Moscow, Madrid and Uruguay before she settled first in New York and later in Carmel, California. Museums all over the world appreciate her work.
VIKTOR IVANOVICH KOSHEVOY (KOSHEVOI)
Born in Ukraine 1924. Studied at Voroshilovgrad Art College until 1956. Active in Voroshilovgrad/Lugansk, Ukraine.
VLADIMIR GRIGOREVICH VEISBERG:
Born in Moscow 1924. Studied in ART STUDIO OF VTsSPS, Moscow, 1942/1943-1946/48?;
attended lectures at Moscow ART INSTITUTE. 1946; visited privately studios of I. Mashkov, A.A. Osmerkin, both Moscow.
Active in Moscow. Behan exhibiting 1955(?) Member Of Group of Eight. Painted still-lifes and nudes in near-monochrome
tones. Taught in USSR Architects; Union Studio for raising qualifications, Moscow, 1959-1984 (known as the 'Veisberg School') Leading NONCONFORMIST ARTIST 1960s - 1980s. Died in Moscow
LITERATURE:
A Dictionary of Twentieth Century RUSSIAN AND SOVIET PAINTERS 1900-1980's
Koshevoi, Artist Reference, p.159
Veisberg, Artist Reference, p.338
Artist, Urgy Pavluk, Original Oil painting 'Boy Hero', part of Vail Fine Art Gallery collection.
Thomas Pradzynski, famed modern realist artist of Paris cityscapes, tragically passed away on December 21, 2007.
In 1977, at the age of 26, Thomas Pradznski left his native Poland for Paris, with the goal of becoming a renowned artist. Pradzynski's interests centered around a strong knowledge of architecture and a love of art.
The art he was about to create would not only echo his surroundings, but also communicate his passion for their preservation. Pradzynski's works explore and wander the streets of Paris like a solitary lover for whom every window, doorway and cafe are filled with meaning.
Much of Pradzynski's mood is created upon the stage of old Parisian buildings and storefronts. His windows, chairs and doorways become actors whose interplay between light and shadow perform for the audience of our memories and dreams.
"Apart from his illustrious career, he will be most remembered for his warm smile and kind heart. We lost a Renaissance man whose presence certainly filled whatever room he was in; his demeanor always alluded to the great artistic luminary that he was. He never complained and was genuinely grateful for all he had, the admiration from his collectors and the love of his devoted wife."
Much has been written about the classical training received by members of the Artist Union. The youth of Semen Rotnitski illustrated the years these artists dedicated to their profession. By the time he was eight years old, Rotnitski was studying art in Minsk, Byelorussia, where he was born. Further study followed at the Factory Palace of Culture Art Studio in Tula, where his family had relocated. Four years later he was accepted at the Russian National Academy of Arts Institute in Leningrad for another four years of preparatory classed before becoming a student.
Mr. Rotnitski was a foremost portrait painter from Russia, and became a professor of art at Kazan Art College between 1948-1960; Leningrad Higher Arts and Crafts College from 1965-1981.
Information from "A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Russian And Soviet Painters" 1900-1980's. Photo of work on page 262, plate number 246.
Evgeny Mikhailovich Pozdniakov was born July 9, 1923 in Petrograd.
In years 1933-1938, Evgeny Pozdniakov studied drawing and painting at Art studio of the City Palace of Young Pioneers, then in the Secondary Art School at the All-Russian Academy of Art in Leningrad, pupil of Vladimir Gorb.
In 1955 E. Pozdniakov graduated from the V. Mukhina Institute. Since 1955 he has participated in Art exhibitions. Member of the LCRAU since 1985. He painted landscapes, portraits, genre paintings, sketches from the life.
In the years of 1950-1970 the leading genre of Evgeny Pozdniakov works was a landscape, the main theme - the picturesque neighborhood of town of Maloyaroslavets and Krasny Kholm town in the north-east of Tver Province. Evgeny Pozdniakov drawn to the panoramic landscape with wide distances and a lot of clearly legible plans. Stylistically his works based on the experiences of Russian landscape painting of the 19th - early 20th century.
Evgeny Mikhailovich Pozdniakov died in Leningrad in 1991. Paintings by Evgeny Pozdniakov are in art museums and private collections in Russia, USA, France, England, Japan, and other countries.
Victor Alexandrovich Otiev was born on February 24, 1935, in the city of Vladikavkaz, Northern Osetia, USSR. In 1955 he comes to Leningrad and entered at the painting department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin where he was a student of Boris Ugarov, Andrei Mylnikov, Nikita Medovikov, Vladislav Anisovich.
In 1961 Victor Otiev graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Victor Oreshnikov workshop. His graduation work was genre painting named "A Herdsman".[2]
Since 1950, Victor Otiev has participated in art exhibitions. He painted landscapes, portraits, genre paintings, scenes with horses, sketches from the life.
Victor Alexandrovich Otiev died on June 7, 1999 in Saint Petersburg. Paintings by Victor Otiev reside in art museums and private collections in Russia, France, England, USA, Japan, Italy, and other countries.
References:
1. Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.186, 192, 367, 395-397, 400, 404-406, 417, 418, 420, 422, 423.
2. Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915 - 2005. - Saint Petersburg: Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007. p.87.
Luis Pantigoza was born in Arequipa, Peru in 1958, Pantigozo studied at the "Escuela de Bellas Artes" in Arequipa and has had more than fifty solo and group exhibitions in Peru, Italy, the U.S. Of America, Venezuela, Chile and Bolivia.
These exhibitions include:
"Campo y Cosecha", Galeria de Arte Alianza Francesa, Lima (1994)
"Luces y colores del Peru", Galeria Ada Negri, Milan, Italy (1990)
"The Charlotte Sister Cities International Art Exhibition", Charlotte, NC (1990)
"La Puerta del Soll", La Paz, Bolivia (1990)
"Noche de Arte", U.S. Embassy, Lima, Peru (1980-1990)
J Melberg Gallery, Chalotte NC (1987)
"Campo y Cosecha", Galeria Trapecio, Lima, Peru (1986)
"Raices peruanas en el arte contemporaneo", Casa de Espana, New York, NY (1984)
"Homenajeal Libertador Simon Bolivar", Caracas, Venezuela.
And many more important exhibitions.
Most of his subject emanate from the farm of his brother in Arequipa, where Pantigozo was born. His main interest is the relation of the man of the Andes with the "MAMAPACHA" or land. The spirituality of the paintins, on the other hand, originate in the dual culture (the western and the andean cultures) that the man of the Andes confronts.
Emilio Payes was born in Alicante, Spain . He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in his hometown. Numerous studying trips led him first and foremost to the North in his own country (Asturias and Galicia), but he perfected his artistic education also on journeys to France and Italy .
Pay's began painting professionally when he was 28 years old. Primarily he depicted the typical landscapes of Northern Spain and the precarious life of her inhabitants, as well as marine scenes from the stormy Gulf of Biscaye . However, since about 1980 the artist directs his main interest to painting city views and he shows highly impressive scenes from his favorite cities, Paris and Venice.
Born in 1961 in Kiev, Ukraine, Anna Popova is a graduate of the Kiev State Institute of Fine Arts (1981). She is a member of the All-Union Artist Association. Most of her paintings can be found in private collections in the former USSR territories and in Japan and Italy.
Popova has presented her art works in various regional, national, and international art shows and exhibitions throughout Kiev, Moscow, Rome, Tokyo, and New York.
1990 - Exhibition of Ukrainian Artists - Canada
1992 - Group Exhibition of Contemporary Ukrainian Artists - Winnipeg, Canada
1993 - Personal Exhibition - Kirovograd, Ukraine
1996 - Personal Exhibition - Kiev, Ukraine
1998 - Group Exhibition - Kiev, Ukraine
1999 -Traveling Group Exhibition - Kiev, Harkov, Yalta, Ukraine
2000 - Group Exhibition - Kiev, Ukraine
2002 - International ArtExpo, New York, NY
Irina Poltavskaya was born in 1960 in Simferopol, Ukraine. She is a graduate of the Republican Art school (1978). She then graduated with a diploma or honor from the Kiev State Art Institute (1983). She is a member of the All-Union Artist Association. In 2000, she was given the title of honored artist of Autonomous Crimean Republic. She participates in regional, national, and international art shows, exhibitions, and art auctions: Kiev, Moscow, Winnipeg, and Baltimore, Many of her art works can be found in private collections in the former USSR territories and Germany, Canada, and the USA.
Exhibitions:
1990 - Vilnius/Lithuania Group exhibition of Ukrainian Artists
1993 - Personal Exhibition - Kiev, Ukraine
1996 - Personal Exhibition - Kiev, Ukraine
1998 - Group Exhibition - Kiev, Ukraine
1999 - International ArtExpo - New York, USA
1999 - Annual Summer Open-Air Exhibition - Yalta, Ukraine
2000 - Personal Exhibition - Simferopol, Ukraine
2000 - Group Exhibition - Baltimore, USA
2004 - Group Exhibition in ArtExpo - New York, USA
Born in Rogizna, Kiev Ukraine, 1923. Studied at Kharkov Art Institute until 1953. Active in Voroshilovgrad/Lug - Ukraine. Specialized in thematic pictures. Also a monumentalist.
Valerian S. Nesterov was born in 1923 in the town of Dmitriev, in the Kursk region of the central Russia. He lived in the Ukraine and worked in his own art studio in Kharkov, Ukraine. From childhood he loved to draw, and he began attending an art studio for talented youth at the age of ten.
In 1941, when Valerian was 18 years old he wanted to enter Art college. But, instead he was recruited into the Soviet army. He was a bomber pilot for four years during World War II. After the war ended Valerian wanted to leave the air force to study art. But his commander did not want to let him go, because he was a good pilot. Valerian painted a large portrait of his commander and presented it to him. The commander was very impressed with the picture and said, "I don't want to take the sin on my soul by keeping you in army; you really have to be an artist."
Valerian graduated from Kharkov College of Art in 1951. After graduation he traveled through the many republics of the Soviet Union. Landscape is the primary subject matter of his art. The painting media he uses most of the time are oil and tempera. His first one man show took place in Kharkov, in the Ukraine in 1978. The show was successful and Valerian Nesterov was distinguished by being admitted into the Ukraine Union of Artists. A few years later he had the honor of becoming a member of Union of Artists of the Soviet Union. He had one man shows in Kharkov in both 1991 and 1997.
Mr. Nesterov'is works have been displayed in the museums in Kharkov, Kiev, Moscow and other towns of the former Soviet Union. Valerian Nesterov has received world recognition, as well. His paintings were shown in art galleries in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, as well as in private collections in the USA, Israel, Poland, Italy, and Japan.
Georges-Henri Pissarro, better known as Manzana, was born in Louveciennes on November 22, 1871, the third of Camille Pissarro's seven children. Like his siblings he was, from an early age, enveloped by the world of painting with many distinguished artists, such as Monet, Cezanne, Renoir and Gaugin, frequenting the Pissarro household.
At his father's side, he learned not only to handle brushes and pencils but also to observe and to love nature.
Manzana was a prolific and versatile artist. Working not only in all the recognized media, he progressed beyond those in the search for other means of expression via the design of furniture or decorative objects: chests, screens, sofas, armchairs, glassware and plates.
Like all the second generation Pissarro artists, he initially worked under an assumed name. In 1894 he began using "Manzana," the family name of his maternal grandmother. In the same year he participated, along with his brothers Lucien and Felix, in the second exhibition of the Neo-Impressionists, but it was not until 1910, out of respect to his then deceased father, that he employed his own family name when signing his work.
In 1898, on his return to Paris from his long and frequent trips abroad, Manzana took a studio in Montmartre with his brother Rodo, and there they met Picabia, who had recently discovered Sisley's paintings. In 1901 he exhibited ten paintings at Durand-Ruel, and in March 1903 exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Independants, showing seven works.
In 1906 Manzana advanced his career greatly when he exhibited sixteen works at the Salon d'Automne and and eight at the Salon des Independants. It was also the year during which he evolved towards decorative Oreintalism. The following year he exhibited decorative works at Vollard. Manzana regularly exhibited works from then on, including at the Salon des Independents, Durand-Ruel, and Musee de Arts Decoratifs.
Both the "Animalist" and the Orientalist styles show in Manzana's work. Also Art Nouveau is reflected, to which he was introduced in England by Charles R. Ashbee, a pupil of William Morris.
Two of Manzana's three wives - Amicie Brecy, and Blanche Moriset (Roboa), were recognized artists in their own right.Manzana remained dedicated to his craft until his death in January, 1961, at the age of ninety. His career spanned seventy years, even longer than that of his father, Camille, who was active for over half a century.
Was born October 5, 1918 in the village of Second Sosnovka, Saratov Province. In 1946 Mozhaev graduated from the I. Repin Institute in the B. Ioganson workshop. Since 1936 he has participated in art exhibitions. A member of the LCRAU since 1946. Painted a portrait, landscape, and subject pictures. Personal exhibitions in Leningrad in 1985 and 1989. Paintings by Alexey Mozhaev are in art museums and private collections in Russia and throughout the world.
Marcel Mouly was born in Paris in 1918. Like numerous painters of genius, he starts in life with a variety of little jobs before discovering a real profession. After primary school, he began work as a beach vendor, he then worked as a dental technician, next a cellar man. Although he had an interest in drawing as a youth, he never pursued a career in art until the hand of destiny reached into his life. It was 1942 and Mouly was arrested by the Germans who mistook him for a spy, and was placed into a solitary confinement in the Fresnes prison for one year. It was during this confinement that he made the decision to secure his creative freedom forever through a career in art. In 1943 he made friends with Pignon and was given his first showing of two paintings at the Salon d'Automne in Paris. From there his professional career took shape, fostered and encouraged by some of the greatest artists of this century. In 1948, the French Government acquired Mouly’s painting “La Femme a la Lampe.” At this point Mouly international career began with an exhibition in Florence, followed by others in Sweden, Denmark, Cairo, Geneva, Palm Beach, even Lapland.
The genius of his artistry took form in the smoky nights and brilliant shadows of an era influenced by the art of Braque, Matisse and Picasso, with whom he walked as a young man in the halls of the French art academies. Mouly was befriended by the great sculptor, Jacques Lipchitz, who became his mentor and an influence on his work through his approach to cubism.
Mouly closely studied the master colorist, Matisse, and uses that knowledge and appreciation to create his harmonious and balanced compositions with juxtaposed elements of warm and cool colors in heavy blocks.
Mouly has achieved monumental acclaim and is exhibited in prominent museums around the world including the Musee Nationale d'art Moderne, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and the Musee de Geneve in Switzerland. He has been honored with two of France's highest awards, the Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in 1957 and the Premier Prix de Lithographie in 1973.
Auguste Moreau was born in Paris in 1834, the youngest son of sculptor and painter Jean-Baptiste Moreau. He studied with his father and also under Aimé Millet, Augustin Drumont and Jean Thomas. Each of the three Moreau brothers - Hippolyte, Marthurin and Auguste - have become renowned for the quality and the beauty of their figurative sculpture.
In 1861, Auguste made his debut at the Salon where he would exhibit regularly until 1913. His subjects were primarily young maidens sensuously clad in swirling diaphanous dress and usually decorated with flowers and birds or allegorical and genre scenes incorporating cupids and young children. His style was realistic and graceful, revealing his relation to the other members of the Moreau family.
Yvonne Mora, painter, Peru, Abstraction, Matissean, Vail Fine Art Gallery, Uncrated, Colorado, Jim Tylich
Yvonne Mora was born in Lima, Peru in 1959. In 1980 she was accepted at the Excuela Nacional de Bellas Artes and soon developed a reputation for her originality. This originality was rewarded when she graduated with honors in 1986 and married the renowned painter William Rengifo.
Although her work was excellent, Mora had difficulty getting art dealers interested in her work because of her unique style. However, by 1987 the growing interest of Japanese and American art dealers established her place in the art world. In 1988 she spent three months in Japan completing commissions after the success of her solo exhibition at the Tsukuba Gallery.
Mora now lives in California where she actively pursues her artistic career.
In the history of this century’s art, Joan Miro is without parallel for the energy, sense of fun, the gift of metamorphosis, the implicit violence and the darting, imperious, unballasted imagination which he has been putting to multifarious uses for well over fifty years. From a formal point of view, he is the major Surrealist painter, although his influence on later Abstraction entirely transcends the Surrealist program, to which he actively adhered only from 1924-1929.
His work, while direct and child like in quality, is nevertheless highly sophisticated, and a note of perversity as well as a haunting primitivist aura often belies the optimistic Matissean color and gaily floating forms. Miro has insisted that his work is never abstract, that a form is that of an illustrator; Rather than setting out to paint something, I begin painting, and as I paint, the picture begins to assert itself or suggest itself under my brush.
He is a one- man repository of so many things which in others might seem contradictory, high art and the vis comica, a virile color sense and a liking for the fine drawn exploratory line, pioneers work with the color field and a sharp eye for biomorphic form, subversion and the taste for a remote, unchanging way of life. He came to know Picabia in 1917, Picasso in 1919, and Max Ernst, Anotonin Artaud, Michel Leiris, Paul Elauard and Alexander Calder in the 1920’s, a time when he experimented with automatism.
Miro has a virtue which both Matisse and Braque exemplified throughout their long careers, he knows just where to direct his energies. He knows just when to drop a certain medium, a certain kind o imagery, a certain predictable format. He knows when to go slow and when to go fast. He knows when to let the international art world into the work and when to keep it out.
Spontaneity and freshness in expression are characteristics one immediately associates with Miro’s work: the ability to strip his art of apparent intellectual sophistication in direct proportion to the degree in which he develops it in technical terms. Once asked whom he liked best among contemporary artists, Matisse replied, Miro yes, Miro because he may well represent anything on canvas but if, on a certain point, he has placed a red spot, you can be sure it is there and no where else that it had to be.
My personages have undergone the same process of simplification as the colours. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and more alive than if they had been represented in all their details. Had they been represented in all their details, they would lack that imaginary life which amplifies everything.
And that is the creative process of Joan Miro, of that art which has been considered one of the most original and revealing of this Century. Its purity, its expressive strength and its forcefulness also help to place it on a par with the greatest creations of all time, side by side with the works of the great masters. And thus its significance also lays bare the yearnings and preoccupations of contemporary thought and sensitivity.
Alvaro Mendoza Garcia was born February 3, 1952. He is basically self-taught, though he has taken art studies with the master, Jose Samano and is an alumnus of El Taller de Grafica Popular (1997). Since 1971, he has exhibited extensively in Mexico in banks, private collections, universities, hotels, salons, and cultural centers.
Solo exhibitions include the Palacio Munipal in Chiapas, Galeria Art Colonial, and Lago de Siraguen.
His work reflects the subtleties of light shadow, the wonder of architecture at its simplest, the beauty of a balcony imbued by the magic of sunlight.
Nikita Petrovich Medovikov lived from April 29, 1918 to April 19, 1982, and left a legacy of beautiful artworks from the Soviet Era.
Ms. Medovikov is on The Register of Professional Artists of the Russian Empire, USSR, Russian Emigration, and the Russian Federation and The Republics of Former Soviet Union.
Her education and skill show in strong and bold contrasts and blending of colors in an Impressionistic approach handed down from the French Impressionists, to the Russian Impressionists. Her love of the outdoors and the lifestyles of the working class, and country folk are idealized and reach the heart of any viewer of any time or place.
Ms. Medovikov's artworks are proudly represented in the United States by Vail Fine Art Family of Galleries. Gallery Owner James G. Tylich acquired the paintings from Russia, and has made sure to offer these and many other noteable and collectible Russian paintings to his international clientele.
Camille Pissarro is one of the world's leading Impressionists. He was born to French parents in 1830 in the West Indies. In 1855 he went to Paris, where he studied with Corot.
Pissarro met Monet in 1859, and again in 1870-71 in London, where they were introduced to the dealer Durand Ruel. In London he studied Turner and Constable and painted atmospheric views of the areas in which he lived.
An anarchist, he enthusiastically helped to establish the revolutionary Impressionist exhibitions and exhibited art at all eight exhibitions. His Red Roofs is characteristic in its rural subject matter, solidity of form and high horizon line. At the last Impressionist exhibition in 1886 he presented Pointillist Works Clearly Influenced By Seurat, but by about 1890 he felt that this methodical approach was not suited to his temperament and he returned to a freer style, though it was more subdued in colour than his earlier Impressionist paintings.
He was a kindly father figure who greatly helped younger artists such as Gauguin and Cezanne and introduced them to his Impressionist friends, among whom he had an important role as a peacemaker.
Melnikov was an excellent landscape painter from the last 60 years of the Soviet Era. He painted many state sponsored themes, and has his work in many Soviet Era office and factory buildings. He painted the beautiful countryside scenes mainly in early Summer to memorialize the beauty of the land he loved. He painted these for himself and his family.
He followed the lead of Vassiliy Petrovich Kossenkov (1919-1992) and painted what he liked, thus he did not always find good favor from the government. He was born in the "breadbasket" are of central Ukraine. He did not seek fame, but loved painting. He was not promoted well by the government but he was known as a qualified painter.
1916 - 1995
Alexander Maksimenko was born on November 18, 1916, in the Vilhovatka Poltava region, Ukraine. He died on March 15, 1995, and is buried in Kiev. After a life and career of rendering notable and widely recognized masterpiece artworks, he had achieved the official status of Honored Artist of Ukraine.
Mr. Maksimenko was a Ukrainian artist, a master of still life, landscapes, genre paintings, and of numerous portraits. From 1933 to 1938 he studied at the Dnepropetrovsk Art College. In 1947 he graduated from the workshop of K. A. Shovkunenko. He remained a Member of Artists since 1947. He earned the title of Honored Artist of USSR in 1972.
One of the most collected figurative bronze sculptors at work today, Richard MacDonald has achieved this stature through a consuming passion for his work and an unrelenting dedication to its quality and integrity. A native Californian, MacDonald was educated at the prestigious Art Center College of Design and received a Bachelor of Professional Arts, Cum Laude.
In the 30 years of his artisitc career, MacDonald has achieved international distinction for his sculpture, paintings, and drawings, and is the recipient of many national and international awards. He has also held numerous one-man shows and exhibitions throughout the United States, Euorpe and the Orient. His fascination with the human figure and human emotions has led MacDonald to focus on sculpting figures of mimes, dancers and athletes, each of which conveys a sense of joy and pays tribute to the beauty of the human form.
Aldo Luongo Argentine Artist: B. 1940 - Argentine and California Impressionist. Since as far back as he can remember, Luongo had two great passions: art and soccer. After his athletic career was cut short due to an injury, he arrived in New York City with a dream to pursue his artwork full time.
From his acrylics to his fine art prints, all of Aldo Luongo’s pieces embody the same sense of fluidity and intensity, the result of a true artist engaged in the passionate process of creation. His bold, impressionistic style has often been referred to as “Romance on Canvas”. Central to all of Luongo's paintings is the balance between memory and hope, sorrow and humor, freedom and control.
Accolades
1988 - Seoul Olympics Artist
1989 - Commissioned by the White House to paint Easter eggs for the annual Easter Egg
Hunt (permanently displayed in the Smithsonian)
1992 - Barcelona Olympic Artist
1996 - US Olympics Artists & International Olympics Committee Artist
1996 - MDA Man of the Year
1998 - France World Cup Soccer Artist
1999 - US Women's World Cup Soccer Artist
1999 -Named Sports Artist of the Year by the US Sports Academy
2002 - Salt Lake City Winter Olympics Artist
2010 - Whistler, Canada Winter Olympics Artist
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lubimov was a Russian Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, illustrator, and art teacher, professor of Repin Institute of Arts and Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Industry, who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists and regarded as one of founder and the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his portrait paintings and satirical drawings.
Born in Paltsevo, Kursk pr., 1879. Studied at SHTIGLITS TECHNICAL DRAWING COLLEGE 1895-98, Moscow COLLEGE OF PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE and Drawing School of OPKH; Imperial ACADEMY OF ARTS 1901 (02?)-09. Active in St. Petersburg; Kharkov (Ukraine) 1912-19; St. Petersburg/Petrograd/Leningrad (spent some time in Frunze, Kirgizia, and Transcaucasus). Member of COMRADESHIP OF INDEPENDENTS from 1910 (founder member); AKHR/R 1928-32. Exhibited with AKHRR 1926 (ex. 8). Important shows include 'Fifteen Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army', Moscow, 1933; 'Twenty Years of the Workers' and Peaseants' Red Army', Moscow, 1938; 'INDUSTRY OF SOCIALISM', Moscow, 1939; 'All-Union Art Exhibition', Moscow, 1947. Taught at Kharkov Art College 1910s; INSTITUTE OF PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE 1932; Leningrad HIGHER ARTS AND CRAFTS COLLEGE from 1944. Also a graphic artist. Died in Leningrad 1959
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At a very early age Nydia Lozano felt the inclination to capture on paper her impressions of the fields and towns of Valencia, which were of course the cradle of many important Spanish painters. Her first tutor, Pepe Espert, introduced her to John Singer Sargent and this left an indelible impression.
At first she was interested in the language of landscapes but now it is the human figure of woman which inspires her. She tries to transcend mere appearance by focusing on what is alive in the female form: her skin, her clothing, the plants around her, the light on the walls which are her backdrop, personal moments like her hand to her chest.
"I have a mysterious impulse which I don't understand: I try to capture the mystery of light in everything I paint. I'm not, however, interested in the type of light found in Sorolla's style. I'm interested in the intimacy of interiors, in shadings and the games which light and color always play. I always try to have my paintings reflect the passions of my life. However, I always find that my wisdom about how to achieve this passion is something akin to a beginning."
She has always sought to express herself in painting, even as a young girl growing up. She realized now that she is engaged in the alchemist's long time pursuit of seeking knowledge in order to create magic.
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Oleg Leonidovich Lomakin was born August 29, 1924, in the town of Krasny Kholm, Tver Province, USSR. In 1930s after the death of his father a family moved first to Bezhetsk, then in Leningrad.
In 1937-1939 Oleg Lomakin studied in Art studio at the Leningrad Palace of Young Pioneers. In 1940 he entered the Leningrad Secondary Art School at the All-Russian Academy of Fine Arts. In February 1942, together with the Secondary Art School, he was evacuated from besieged Leningrad to Samarkand, Central Asia.
In June 1942, Oleg Lomakin was drafted into the Red Army and took part in the German-Soviet War. As anti-aircraft gunner he participated in the Battle of Kursk, was wounded and marked by military awards. After demobilization Lomakin returned to studies and graduated from the Secondary Art School in 1946.
In the same year Oleg Lomakin was adopted at the first course of the Department of Painting of the Repin Institute of Arts, there he studied of Boris Ioganson, Alexander Zaytsev, Mikhail Bernshtein, Piotr Ivanovsky, Vladislav Anisovich, Sergei Mikhailov.
In 1952, Oleg Lomakin graduated from the Repin Institute of Arts in Boris Ioganson workshop, together with Sergei Babkov, Leonid Baykov, Irina Baldina, Dmitry Beliaev, Abram Grushko, Marina Kozlovskaya, Boris Korneev, Elena Kostenko, Boris Lavrenko, Piotr Fomin, Vladimir Chekalov, and other young artists. His graduated work was historical painting named "Mikhail Kalinin among their fellow villagers".
Since 1952, Lomakin has participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted portraits, genre and historical paintings, landscapes, still lifes, sketches from the life. A Portrait of a contemporary had become a leading genre in his creativity.
Oleg Lomakin's style distinguish a broad painting, energetic brushstroke, artistic transfer of tonal relations and states of lighting and air. He was acknowledged master of drawing and plein air painting.
In 1952 Oleg Lomakin was admitted as a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists (since 1992, named as Saint Petersburg Union of Artists). In 1981 Lomakin was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.
Oleg Leonidovich Lomakin died on March 25, 2010 in Saint Petersburg at the eighty-six year of life. His paintings reside in State Russian Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, in art museums and private collections in Russia, France, England, German, Italy, in the U.S., and others.
Maria Liberti was born in 1948, Naples, Italy. She attended courses at the local Art Institute in Naples.
She has taken part in numerous group exhibits and has staged various showings, among which are:
Napoli 2002 - Marco Gallery
Florence 2008 - Tuscany Prize
Paris 2010- French Collective
Sergey Liahovich was born in 1961 in Leningrad region, in a small town. As any child in his childhood he liked to draw, but this fascination for drawing did not go far. Sergey could not imagine his life without painting, without art.
He entered the Repin Fine Art Institute and in 1991 he graduated. Studying at department of painting, in professor Fomin's workshop he was very diligent and a hardworking student. He worked constantly on improving his style.
His first exhibition was held in 1991. It was a great success and in the same year he became a candidate to be a member of St. Petersburg Artists' Union.
Liahovich concentrated on the elements in nature and mankind: the mountains, the forests and particularly the sea. His central theme is man's relationship to nature.
Since 1996 he has been a member of St. Petersburg Artists' Union. Lianovich's style has been polished by many years of work and numerous exhibitions in Russia and abroad.
He works traveled to private collections in Russia, Germany, Finland, Sweden, France, and the United States.
Her parents were not artists, but they have influenced her with their love for arts. She fondly remembers family trips to art galleries and exhibits, visiting theaters and the ballet. As a child, she loved to play with multi-colored buttons, re-arranging them into different patterns. Her mother noticed her daughter's favorite activity and signed her up at the Art School for gifted children. Lena was unconditionally happy, already knowing then that this was her destiny.
After Art school she was admitted to the Easel Department of the Kiev Academy of Fine Arts where she studied under Professor Storozhenko. Being highly driven and able to work for 12 hours a day, Lena quickly became one of the best students. She graduated in 1987 and Professor Storozhenko remembers her to these days.
In 1993 Lena Leus became a member of the prestigious Union of Ukrainian Artists. Lena Leus is equally skilled in all genres - landscapes, interiors, still lives, figurative. Her favorite subject matter is the cityscape. She is able to convey the subtle splendor of scenes often overlooked by others.
Lena's trips to Paris and Venice in 2003-2005 were the inspiration for her new series of city scenes. Leus’s paintings are always in a great demand because they exude her constant fascination with the beauty of the world around her.
Many of her art works can be found in private collections in the former USSR territories, France, GB and USA
Repin Institute graduate. Member of the St. Petersburg Artist Union.
Born in 1951 in Korea, the sensitive Jung (who now paints under the pseudonym Lejean) grew up in a world of conflicting ideologies and violence. This environment became the catalyst that opened Jung to the comforting world of his imagination. His fertile imagination was instantaneously rewarded the day he discovered drawing. He could now recreate his world, as he liked; however, true happiness did not come until he discovered that he could manipulate the colors of his universe through paint. Through the violent destruction of the Korean War, Jung discovered his ablility to create and develop his true passion-art.
He graduated from the Seorabul Art College, where he honed his techniques and discovered occidental art. The result of this discovery are apparent in his paintings. From the Impressionists he developed his field palette and his desire to paint "light" itself. Jung combined these elements with his love of drawing. The result is distinctly contemporary paintings saturated in light with a strong linear, sometimes almost cloisonne, quality executed in a heavy impasto.
The portraits of American Indians by Popo and Ruby Lee are the products not only of their mutual artistic talents, but also their different backgrounds.
Popo is of Russian and Indian ancestry and first studied the philosophies and arts of the Orient in New York. Ruby Lee, whose parentage is Chinese, Austrian, English and Japanese, traveled from Hong Kong to London and Paris to study classic Western Art. They met and were married in San Francisco. They spent five years in the small town of Ojai, between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. There, away from the social pressures and distractions of a major city, they matured in both their techniques and temperaments.
What forms of expression do human beings make which merits him/her most worthy of being human? Answers to this type of question are various. For instance, one being capable of laughing, playing, etc., I believe the quintessential characteristic of being human is that he/she can understand the arts. I also believe among the arts, a picture is a shared way human beings express themselves. I would like to say, "A picture is the act by which humans create and express meanings laid inside us, by which I use line and color."
I was born in Seoul, Korea in 1955. From my early youth to the present, I spent the majority of my time creating pictures. When I was a child, I drew anything without any intent or purpose. I just liked to draw! Not until I entered junior high school did I realize my passion. I was just moved by Claude Monet's paintings that I remember reading in school. Interpreting the beauty in light, the way Claude Monet has created in his style of painting, was my goal. My life after enlightenment from Claude Monte freed the agony the magic of light can have on colors of objects. I observed the world in a new light and strongly felt that I should accept my fate with painting.
Since the 1970's, I regularly enter painting exhibitions in Korea, Japan, France, and the United States. The Korean Art Exhibition in 1974, Mok Woo Hol exhibition in 1990, Shinkihoi Exhibition in 1991, Choryu Art Association Exhibition in 1994, Korea Art Exhibition 1998, Korea & France Cultural Exchange Exhibition, the Exhibition Commemorating Yeo Myun Hoi Foundation, Artexpo.
I like to duel with colors. Colors comfort me. My deepest human expression is reflected in all my works with tones that travel from one side to the other side by brush and knife.
Konstantin Alekseevich Krylov was born in St.Petersburg pr. 1910. Studied at Kiev Art Institute until 1941. Active in Kiev, Ukraine. Important shows include #8216; All Union Art Exhibition #8217; Moscow, 1949; #8216; All Union Art Exhibition #8217; Moscow, 1951.
Rudolph Carl Gorman (July 26, 1931 - November 3, 2005) was a Native American artist of the Navajo Nation.
Referred to as "the Picasso of American Indian artists" by the New York Times.
R. C. Gorman is a renowned artist throughout the world. Well recognized, Mr. Gorman paintings are primarily of Native American women and characterized by fluid forms and vibrant colors.
Victor Ivanovich Koshevoi was born on the 19th of July, 1924 in Vodyanoye Village in Lugansk Region, Ukraine. He saw many changes in the world, including the end of Communism, before his death in 2006. His love of art and the outdoor landscape remained, unwavering.
Victor seriously began drawing at the tender age of 7, and had his first art exhibit when he was just 24.
In 1956 Victor Koshevoi graduated from Lugansk State Art School. After that in 1960 he became a member of the National Union of Ukrainian Artists. His paintings are part of National Museums and private art collections. His works were exhibited in Europe, USA and Japan.
Victor Koshevoi used multiple layers of colors and a fine brushstroke to capture the infinite nuances of nature. The viewer feels the wind rushing over and around the forests, meadows, and rivers. The clouds are reflecting the atmosphere of the moment: Either moving rapidly and changing the light as they go, or gliding slowly and peacefully above and behind the landscape. His love of people and the simple but satisfying "good life" are revealed in this scenes of picnics accompanied by wine and music, a walk on a country road, swimming and sunbathing at the river on a hot summer day, a stroll in the park, or the still, quiet path in deep, winter snow. Sometimes we can even glimpse the birds of heaven or the creatures of the field breathing life and freshness into the scene.
Victor Koshevoi reaches the heart of the viewer, taking us to places we all feel a part of. Rich or poor, young or old, we feel humanity and meaning and a true sense of self just being in the presence of his paintings. He will inspire generations to come, and that is why his paintings are especially valuable and collectible.
Vail Fine Art Family of Galleries is proud to represent Victor Ivanovich Koshevoi, with a large, notable Original Oil on Canvas: "River Bank Party, 1968" (50.5" x 70"). It encompasses the best elements of the artist's lifetime collection of masterpieces. Please inquire within.
Joseph Brown started his art career at a young age. As a teenager he moved to New York City to advance his art.
Initially he enrolled at the Art Students League and studied with Daniel Greene for one year. During this same period, Brown also studied with Nelson Shandler and David Leffel. After this phase of his education, Brown left New York and enrolled at Boston University to continue his art studies there. Later Joseph moved to Connecticut to study privately with the well- known portrait artist Robert Brackman.
Brown has exhibited in the Salmagundi Club in New York, and the Francesca Anderson Gallery in Boston. A prolific artist, Joseph builds on his accomplishments of the past and continues to produce works of varying sizes and display applications, ranging from portraits to large murals. Some of these murals have been over 60 feet in length. In addition, he has painted works custom tailored for corporate accounts as well as dozens of historical scenes for other clienteles.
He has worked as a mural painter for several large companies in Boston including Leonard Silver, and Town and Country Jewelers. In addition, Brown has done hundreds of private portraits for various clienteles.
During the past decade Joseph Brown has been continually working as a fine artist, portrait painter and muralist. Recently, Brown completed a large painting for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., depicting the experiences of those who were interred during the Holocaust for their religious stand and neutrality during the war in defiance of the Nazi regime.
Eric Galopin was born in a small city of lower Normandy on the 5th day of September in 1955.
Galopin's passion at the early age of 12 for the cinema inspired his early works as an artist. His paintings were characterized by action, battles, and the stars of the fifties, including Marilyn Monroe. His collections of early movie posters are currently in the thousands along with his own paintings.
At the age of 18, Galopin studied at the "Ecole des Beaux-Arts" in Caen. He then worked in the advertising field as a designer up until 1984, finally letting himself have his first gallery exhibit. From then on his exhibits have included: Galerie Electrochoc, in Caen; Salon de Bas-Normands; Hotel d'Escoville, Caen; Annual festivals of Flers, Argentan, Brecey; Medallist of the General Council of the Orne County.
One can feel Galopin's sense of humor and his tenderness throughout his work. His love of Paris in his painting "La Belle Epoque," the circus, the fantastic depicting people who cannot be true, yet so real, giving the animals such a soul you wish you could listen in to what they are saying. Every common thing inside his paintings given a considerable role, every image so full of life
Galopin has followed in the footsteps of Van Dongen and Henri Matisse, admiring their work, striving along with his love for music and art, to become another master.
The character of an artist is often visible to the discerning eye, in the elements of the artist’s work. The style, subject matter, use of color, and technique all offer considerable insight to those who wish to know the person behind the painting. Upon meeting Howard Behrens, the correlation between artist and artwork quickly becomes apparent.
When away from a painting, Behrens pursues his other interests with equal fervor …thoroughbred horse racing, model trains, and of course, his trips to the shore. You will rarely find Behrens away from the sea.
On these trips, he can be seen snapping away with his 35mm camera. On his celluloid sketchpad, he is recording the images that will later be transformed, through his creative process and considerable facility, into paintings and serigraphs, works of art that are like the artist, energetic, enthusiastic, sunny and exciting.
To fully appreciate the work of Howard Behrens, there is another personality, besides that of the artist, which is crucial to understand that of the palette knife. It is stubborn, and when compared to the brush a rather inflexible instrument a diamond of metal with a handle affixed to one end. It lends itself to boldness rather than subtlety. It reveals its secrets slowly and only to those with patience and persistence. Although it is familiar to most artists, who utilize it in its traditional role as a mixing tool, it becomes rather intractable when drafted for the purpose of actually painting on canvas. However, for the few intrepid artists willing to see the learning process through, it will deliver the most thrilling of results. Behrens in one of those select few.
Howard Chesner Behrens is born in Chicago.1933
The Behrens family moves to a suburb of Washington D.C. 1940
Now seventeen, the young Howard breaks his leg in a sledding accident. Bedridden, he turns to painting to pass the time. 1951
Behrens receives his BA from the University of Maryland, and goes on to study medical art at John Hopkins University. He becomes disillusioned, and returns to the University of Maryland to obtain a Masters degree in painting and sculpture.
1952 Behrens is hired by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C. where he is to until 1981, serving as chief artist for ten years. He continues to paint on weekends and nights. It is a period of experimentation and development, reaching a turning point in 1976, when he adopts the palette knife.
1961 First one man show at the Phillips Gallery in West Palm Beach. Paintings sell for $1,500. 1980
First one man show at the Findlay Gallery in West Palm Beach. Paintings sell for $1,500-$3,200. 1982
Fifth one man show at the Findlay Galleries, New York. Paintings sell for $10,000.
1985 Behrens serigraphs first published by Soho Editions.
1986 Eighth one man show at the Findlay Galleries, New York. Paintings sell for as much as $20,000.
Born in New York City in 1916, Eyvind Earle began his prolific career at the urging of his father, Ferdinand Earle, a professional artist. At age 10, his father gave him a choice: to read 50 pages in a book or paint one painting each day.
From the time of his first one-man showing in France when he was 14, Mr. Earle’s fame had grown steadily. At the age of 21 he opened at the Charles Morgan Galleries, his first of many one-man shows in New York. Two years later at his third consecutive showing at the gallery, the response to his work was so positive that the exhibition sold out and the Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased one of his paintings for their permanent collection.
Eyvind Earle has a totally original perception of landscape. He successfully synthesizes seemingly incongruent aspects into a singularly distinctive style: a style which is at once mysterious, primitive, disciplined, moody and nostalgic. His landscapes are remarkable for their suggestion of distances, landmasses and weather moods.
Born in 1949 in a small village of Northern Brazil. Dalva Duarte appreciated the European classical masters and combined that with her own style of creativity.
Dalva Duarte has lived and worked in many European countries and the United States.
Born in Cajamarca, Peru, Luis Daniel is a largely self-taught artist who is renowned for his realistic still life and landscape masterpieces. Drawing inspiration from the exotic and varied natural surroundings of his native Peru, Daniel has managed to produce a wonderful body of work that is evocative of days gone by. Daniel’s compositions, often featuring mountains, chirimoyas or mountain girls, or Peruvian flowers, are a testament to his rare imitative skill. The subtle, nuanced work of the artist is unparalleled in its level of detail and range of color. Luis Daniel is truly a modern master. He employs the techniques of today with a style reminiscent of some of the Renaissance’s finest imitative artists.
The work of Luis Daniel has been featured in both solo and group exhibitions in his native Peru as well as Bolivia, Colombia, Denmark, and here in the United States.
Mark King was born in India in 1931 of British parents. He lived most of his life in Europe, including eight years in Paris. He had an extensive classical education and apprenticeship in both theater design and fine art. Since Mark King moved to New York in 1969, he has emerged as one of the worlds leading contemporary impressionists.
Impressionism is the most popular style of painting worldwide. The original Impressionists are now out of reach for all but the wealthiest corporate and individual collectors. The Van Gogh, which sold for $53,900,000 in November 1987, was widely publicized. Today even relatively minor paintings by Van Gogh, Monet, and Manet are priced above 10 million. It is no wonder that the popularity of the contemporary Impressionists is booming. Leroy Neiman’s top paintings are now priced at $700,000. Nicolai Simbari’s paintings are up to $100,000, Eva Makk’s paintings are up to $100,000, Aldo Luongo’s are up to $50,000. Many collectors and dealers, consider Mark King to be the best artist in the group. Why then are Mark King’s magnificent paintings priced in galleries below $20,000? All of these other artists have been represented by major art companies for many years. Mark King achieved a worldwide reputation and a fair degree of success on his own. For the past several years Mark has been represented by one of the nation’s premier art companies. From here on his prices will increase steadily and he will achieve the fame and success he deserves. We believe Mark King paintings will prove to be superior investments as well as well as great works of art.
Vladimir Klemazov was born in 1956 in the Ryazan region. After his studies in Simferopol Arts School, named after Samokish, Klemazov participated in expositions of young artists of Crimea and created design projects for Artek.
With the beginning of Perestroika, Klemazov participated in many exhibitions abroad. His works were exhibited in the famous Roy Miles Gallery and during Fairfields Festivals in London, in Italy, and in Venice. His works can be found in many collections of Europe, America, China, and Japan. He has participated in Central House of Artists Exhibitions for 12 years and from 1993 in the Collection Yakimanka Gallery.
Klemazov's Russian landscapes are rich in color, forms and expression, and because of it they attract even the most demanding spectator.
Klemazov is also very well known as a master of child portraiture.
Faithful to the traditions of Russian Romanticism and Realism, Vladimir Klemazov is always in search of contemporary image solutions as he expands his repertoire.
Jae Jae Jou paints the harbor and canal scenes in Venice. He paints panoramic views including the sky, sea and everything that lies between. In Jou's paintings, the vast colors of the sky are well reflected in the open expanse of water and set a hazy but luminous atmosphere to the composition. The gondolas are an important signature motif in his paintings and provide an idled sense of leisure. Jou displays many details in all aspects of his work and the view is tied in harmony.
Hee Jae Jou was born in In-chon, Korea in 1951. He was educated in Korea and also studied in Academies Grande Chaumiere in France. He has been very productive showing his art works and receiving many awards both in France and Korea. He currently lives and works in Seoul, Korea.
EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS:
1. Dan-Won Art Peformance Gold Prize Winner
2. Solo Exhibition at Public Commercial Convention Center in City of In-Chun
3. Invitational Exhibition Cabourg Arts de Pierre
4. France La Ville du Havre Exhibition Award
5. France Salon de Deauville Exhibition
6. Korea-France Invitational Fine Art Artist Exhibition at Blue Hill Department Store Hall in Seoul
Nile Jade was born in India in 1945 and started to paint only when she was 27 years old. Nile Jade is very much a self-taught artist. Although her main academic discipline was in Fashion Design, her passion and talent lies in painting.
The technique that Jade employs is very unique and unusual. She paints on wood using brushes and knife which produces a special kind of "copper-tooling" texture effect.
Like a lace-maker, the artist recreates refined yet warm bourgeois interiors. Her feminine figures, always solitary, occupy their leisure in an atmosphere of serenity.
Nile Jade mainly painted for her own private pleasure and amusement at first. Her interest in exhibiting her art works started only when she was 38 years old upon the strong encouragements from close friends as well as reliable appraisals and confidence given by other art admirers who have seen her artworks.
Joanny, an artist of international acclaim is well recognized for his paintings of the Provence region of Southern France. It is not by accident that he chose to live and raise his family in this area, but by the lure of an artist for the sun soaked landscape that creates colors so vibrant and surreal that it drew such great artists of vision as Van Gogh, Matisse, Cezanne, and Gauguin. Joanny steps out of his front door and the world around him becomes a painting waiting to unfold. Through his paintings we can visualize the lavender fields of Vacluse, the sunflower fields on the road to the village of Gordes, the poppy fields of Provence in spring, the regal beauty of the olive and cypress trees, the stoic stone pine trees; and his inviting roads which lead to the small farmhouses in the country or to the deep blue-green of the Mediterranean Sea.
Joanny, (Jean Tierant), was born in Paris in 1931. His father was a master calligrapher and his mother worked as an architectural designer. The rich creative influences of his parents instilled in Joanny an uncanny passion and talent for drawing. In his early teens, he headed off to the stimulating environment of the Montmarie area of Paris. He spent long afternoons in the studios of artists and friends where he was able to study their techniques. They gave him brushes and canvases to use and encouraged him to develop his career. These mentors recognized the talent in one so young and were thrilled when he sold his first painting.
But the money didn't come in fast enough after Joanny met and married the love of his life, Roseline. With two small children and a wife, Joanny set aside his love of painting for the security of a career in sales. It wasn't until many years later that he would be able to turn his attention back to his passion for painting.
Painting in oils, Joanny uses 2 palettes, separating the warm and the cool colors. He first preps his canvas then begins the painting. As he paints to capture the colors of Provence, he relies on the contrast between the vibrant warm colors of the sun exposed landscape and the cool transition of shadow. The waters of the Mediterranean beckon with the deep blues and teals that reflect the mood of the sky and the depth of the sea. He reveals the rural beauty of an old road that leads to the provential farmhouse. He captures the very essence of the beauty of the South of France.
Born in 1947 in MokPo. Graduated from the Graduate School of Education of Kun-Kook University. Had his first solo exhibition in 1989 at the Sei-Jong Culture Center.
Most people would describe Roy Cho's work as being Impressionistic. This does not do justic to his abilities nor to his paintings. He borrowed the field palette of the Impresisonist, as well as their quest to render light as realistic and accurate as possible. Yet his work is rooted in realism. Not the Photo or Hyper-Realism of today. Philosophically, his work returns to the realism of the 18th century; a realism that was concerned with the ideal and absolute beauty. Still, this does not accurately describe a painting by Roy Cho, since his paintings are also dinstinctly contemporary. His art is about being truthful to the medium, paint, accurate when depicting light, precise when rendering nature, and selective when conveying beauty.
In Roy Cho's work, one can find the idealism of a Watteau, the same concern for the medium and accuracy that one would find in a Courbet or a Corot, the saturation of light common to Impressionism, and a perspective that is clearly situated in the present.
GROUP & PREVIEW EXHIBITION
1985, 6-17 Specially Selected of Contemporary Art Exhibition (Sei-jong Culture Center)
1986, 4-27 Excellent Prize Korea Japan Exchange Art Exhibition (Dong Yong Gallery)
1987, 3-27 Japan Art Association Exhibition (Kyoto International Culture Museum)
1987, 4-20 Korea Art Exhibition Recommendation Artist
1988, 11-14 Selected Prize, Korea Great Art Exhibition (National Museum of Contemporary Art)
1989, 11-18 Selected Prize, Korea Great Art Exhibition (National Museum of Contemporary Art)
1990, 10-8 Selected Prize, Korea Great Art Exhibtion (National Museum of Contemporary Art)
1991, 11-29 Il-Gam Association (Back-Sang Anniversary Hall)
1992, 11-24 IL-Gam Association of Exhibition (Back-Sang Anniversary Hall)
1993, 8-21 Invited Exhibit International Public of Art Contest Exhibition (Japan Culture Promoting Association)
1996, 7-22 Exhibition of Korea Fine Arts Today
1996 30th Korean Fine Arts Association Exhibition
1997, 5-23 The Chung-Nang Fine Art Exhibition
1998, 10-9 Selected Prize, Korea Great Art Exhibition (National Museum of Contemporary Art)
1999, 3 Arts Association Exhibition
1999, 11 Invited Seoul Art Exhibition
Peter Hulsey was born in 1969 in the South Florida area and is primarily self taught. He entered the Armed Services directly following High School. He was stationed in Spain for a period, where he discovered a fascination with art and was enthralled by the richness of the Spanish countryside, villages and coasts. He also traveled widely in Germany and France where he undertook the study of art. When retired from the Service, he returned to the United States. He determined that his talent lay in the use of his creative abilities and began experimenting with the use of color and texture to create depth in his work.
"I try to capture the harmony between shade and light. It's always been a challenge for me to determine the color of things. I try to concentrate on other objects around things and analyze the reflected light. I experiment a lot."
He uses sweeping brushstrokes to create a sense of involvement in his paintings. He then applies and reapplies paint with his palette knives in order to create just the right effects.
Dali best described the complex state of his genius mind, and the creative nightmare in which he has dwelled for the last eight decades of his life, when he said, The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad
Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904, in Figueras, Spain. He was a rebellious youth, dissatisfied with the world around him, and frustrated with himself. He fought a lifelong battle against conformity, rationality and inhibition, which transformed into a prolific and immensely creative artistic career.
He entered the School of Fine arts in Madrid when he was 17, but was expelled in 1923, and spent a brief time in jail for political activity. After gaining re-admittance in 1925 he was permanently expelled again that same year.
In 1927, while traveling to Paris for the first time, he met Picasso, who Dali felt was the most destructive genius of modern times. Dali considered Picasso his greatest rival, but felt he was less of a painter than himself.
Also in 1927, Dali was introduced to Andre Breton who was the founder of the surrealistic movement in Paris. He joined the surrealistic movement in 1929, the same year that he met Elena Deluvina Diakanoff, known simply as Gala. Gala became his lifelong love and inspiration, and was present in hundreds of his works. Dali once said, I love Gala better than my mother, better than my father, better than Picasso, and even better than money. They were inseparable until she died in 1982.
In the late 1980’s Dali created Persistence of Memory introducing the image of the soft watch, symbolic of the disintegration of matter and typical of the symbolic usage he soon became renowned for. This became one of his most productive periods. Throughout the 1930’s Dali achieved worldwide recognition through his surrealistic visions, and in 1939, he made the cover of Time Magazine.
During the 1940’s Dali’s visions reflected his despair and hope for a world brutalized by war. He also wrote two novels, Hidden Faces and the best seller, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali.
In the 1950’s Dali’s public personality flourished as he created his greatest religious masterpieces. In 1955, at a lecture at the Sorbonne in Paris, he arrived in a Rolls Royce filled with Cauliflowers, publicly reaffirming his eccentricity. The following year he wrote Dali on Modern Art.
Throughout the 1960’s he illustrated books, choreographed ballets, designed surrealistic jewelry and wrote more books. In 1966 one of the greatest retrospective shows of any living artist was mounted in New York by the Museum of Modern Art. The Dali Museum opened in Figueras in 1973. Seven years later, another retrospective exhibition was held, at the Pompidou Center in Paris, where 800,000 people gathered to view his work.
Throughout the life of Salvador Dali, each decade reveals new and imaginative works, which include thousands of paintings, drawings, etchings, lithographs, sculptures, and illustrations. The quality, quantity, and subject matter continue to stretch the imagination of an audience striving to understand the mind of an artist who compared himself to a madman.
David Hagan was born in 1943 in the small Country town of Murwillumbah in New South Wales, Australia. He grew up in a subtropical area of beautiful beaches and rainforests. While at high school he painted numerous watercolors and pastels of the lovely environment that surrounded him.
He graduated from Newcastle Teacher's College in 1962 and taught in high schools until 1967. Wanting a change in lifestyle, he traveled to Papua New Guinea, where he managed coconut plantations and taught in vocational centers. During his stay, the lush tropical landscape inspired him to capture the sunsets and island scenes in watercolor.
On his return to Australia in 1974 he began painting professionally in watercolors. His subject matter was mainly floral and street scenes. He had a joint exhibition with his brothers Robert and John in 1975 in Sydney, Australia. This proved to be very successful.
In 1976, David began painting in oils, finding it less restrictive than watercolors. After a number of years he developed certain techniques in the treatment of light. He concentrated mainly on beach scenes and country scenes. Since then, David has sold more than one thousand paintings and has exhibited in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and the Gold Coast. In 1991 he advertised a six-week instructional painting course which was so popular it lasted for three years.
David moved to California in 1997 and was impressed with the watercolors he saw in California and Colorado galleries. He tried watercolor again and produced "...watercolors painted like oils." His subject matter is again beach scenes, in which David shows his mastery of light and atmosphere. He also depicts the country life of cowboys, their animals, and life in the great American west.
Born June 22 (July 5), 1910, in Lugansk, present-day Voroshilovgrad. Soviet painter. People’s Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1951). Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1958). Member of the CPSU since 1941.
Grigorev studied at the Kiev Art Institute (1928–32) with F. G. Krichevskii. Later, he taught there (1934–60), becoming a professor in 1948. His paintings, which are carefully executed, with accurate, lifelike details, are concerned with problems of Soviet morality, the upbringing of young people, and the world of children. Grigorev’s works have had an appreciable influence on the development of Soviet genre painting. His paintings include At a Meeting (1947, Kharkov Art Museum) and Admission to the Komsomol (1949, Museum of Ukrainian Fine Arts of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev) and The Goalie (1949, Tretiakov Gallery), both of which received the State Prize of the USSR in 1950. Grigor’ev also painted Discussion of a “Poor” Grade (1950, State Prize of the USSR, 1951) and He Has Returned (1954), both of which are in the Tretiakov Gallery. He has been awarded three orders as well as medals.
REFERENCES
Afanasev, V. A. Sergei Alekseevich Grigor’ev. Moscow [1967].
A Dictionary Of Twentieth Centruy Russian and Soviet Painters 1900-1980's
Grigorev, Sergei Alekseevich, Artist Reference, p. 107
Socialist Realist Painting, by Matthew Cullern Bown, Yale University Press, 1998, Illustrated p. 255 / No. 284
"Children In Ukrainian Painting" Iluustrated p. 102 / No. 87
VASILIY NICHOLAYEVICH GRIBENNIKOV WAS BORN AND LIVED MOST OF HIS LIFE IN THE CITY OF ROSTOV ON THE DON, RUSSIA. AT A VERY EARLY AGE, HE DISPLAYED HIS ARTISTIC TALENT BY PAINTING EXQUISITE MARINE AND STILL LIFE SCENES. IN 1970 HE WAS ACCEPTED IN THE PRESTIGIOUS KUBANSKY ART AND GRAPHIC UNIVERSITY, AND UPON GRADUATING WITH HONORS, HE WAS INVITED TO JOIN THE STAFF OF THE MOST ELITE AND WORLD RENOWNED N.E. REPIN ART INSTITUTE. IN 1980 VASILIY BEGAN TO EXHIBIT HIS PAINTINGS IN EUROPE AND THROUGHOUT RUSSIA.
IMPORTANT EXHIBITS:
1980 - YOUNG ARTISTS OF RUSSIA, ROSTOV ON THE DON
1980 - YOUNG ARTISTS OF RUSSIA, MOSCOW, RUSSIA
1996 - RENOWNED RUSSIAN ARTISTS FAIR, BRUSSELLS, BELGIUM
1996 - ART EXPOSITION OF ELITE RUSSIAN ARTISTS, SAN OVETAIN, FRANCE
1996 - ONE-MAN EXHIBIT AND SALE, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
1999 - CONTEMPORARY ELITE RUSSIAN ARTISTS, VENICE, ITALY
2000 - ART FAIR "GOLDEN BRUSH OF RUSSIAN ART", MOSCOW, RUSSIA
2000 - CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN ARTISTS SHOW, BREST, FRANCE
2002 - GRAPHIC AND CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN ART, BARCELONA, SPAIN
PRSENTLY MR. GRIBENNIKOV IS WELL KNOWN IN EUROPE, CANADA AND SAUDI ARABIA WHER MANY OF HIS PAINTINGS WERE ACQUIRED BY PRIVATE COLLECTORS AND ART BROKERS. DURING HIS EXHIBITS IN FRANCE, HE ADMIRED THE WORKS OF THE FRENCH IMPRESSIONISTS LIKE GALIEN LALOU AND EDUARD CORTES, AND WHILE IN ITALY, HE WAS FASCINATED WITH THE BEAUTY OF THE COUNTRY SIDE, VENICE CANALS AND STILL LIFE WORKS IN THE MUSEUMS BY ITALIAN MASTERS.
AS AN ARTIST OF GREAT DILIGENCE, HE CAPTURES THE BEAUTY WHICH IS ALL AROUND AND WITHIN US AND FORMULATES HIS GOAL IN TERMS OF TRANQUILITY AND CALMNESS, WHICH IN TURN GIVES HIM A SENSE OF STABILITY AND SATISFACTION. IN HIS OWN WORDS "WHAT I PAINT MUST NOT ONLY PLEASE ME, BUT THE PUBLIC AS WELL". GRIBENNIKOV ALSO MANIFESTS A BROAD ARTISTIC RANGE IN PAINTING ROMANTIC AND NOSTALGIC SCENES AND VISIONS OF THE PAST. HIS CANVASES REFLECT IMPRESSIONISTIC AND FLEMISH STYLES, YET MAINTAINING HIS OWN COMPOSITION. HIS TECHNICAL SKILLS AND INTUITION FOR COLOR AND LIGHT ALLOWS HIS CANVAS TO CAPTURE THE SPIRIT OF THE THINGS AS THEY WERE IN THE PAST.
Gleb Goloubetski was born in Omsk, Russia, a Siberian town, in 1975 into an artist's family. His father, who died when Gleb was 6, was a Merited Artist of the Soviet Union who painted mostly historical events and his grandfather was an architect. His mother currently owns a gallery in Omsk.
Gleb's talent was discovered during his early childhood and he began selling his work at the age of 15. He studied at an Art Academy in St Petersburg and from 1989-1995 continued as a student in the Master Class of Valerij Kulikov, a famous academic artist in Russia.
Traveling is a favorite pastime of Goloubetski, especially to the sunny countries such as Greece, Italy, Egypt, Thailand, Maldives and Brazil. He visits these countries for weeks at a time so that he can feel the colors, forms and the spirit of the country. To capture these impressions he makes hundreds of drawings and upon his return to his studio, he translates them into paintings. During these visits he paints a lot, conccentrating on interesting houses, flowers, interiors and the contrast of light and dark.
To relax, Goloubetski spends time in the mountains of Baikal Lake to be with nature.
Golubetski shows his work in Prague, where he currently lives, as well as Germany and London. His paintings are also kept in private collections in many countries around the world.
Born in Provence, France, Luce Geas is an Associate Professor, Agrégée de l’Université, at Paris' Sorbonne. She also has an MSc from The London School of Economics and Political Science Graduate School, where she lectured until she retired to concentrate on her painting, working in both Provence and her London studio. Luce Geas is a highly qualified and experienced university lecturer.
In 2010 Luce Geas was awarded the Legion d'Honneur, France’s highest honour, following her distinguished career in professional, social and artistic work in France.
Luce Geas has been painting since she was twenty-six years old, living and working at her Chelsea studio in London. She has exhibited widely in London and worldwide in Paris, Hong Kong, Washington DC and Tennessee. Since 1990 the Art Committee of UNICEF have published eleven of Luce Geas's paintings as UNICEF greetings cards in Europe, USA and Australia.
Rich ochre earth, twisted ancient olive trees, clear blue skies and purple lavender are all images which conjure up Provence in the south of France. It is a place which has been depicted in so many ways by artists throughout time. This sun-saturated region offers a visual assault of colour, piercing light and dramatic shadows that continues to inspire.
EXHIBITIONS at at Highgate Contemporary Art in London, United Kingdom
Christmas & New Year Group Show , 2001 - 2002
LUCE GEAS - 2006 - March 1st - March 18th 2006
Luce GEAS 2007 - 24th October - 17th November
NOEL, NOEL 2007 -Presenting 80 works by Gallery artists - December 12 to January 12
Luce Géas 2009
Luce Géas 2010
Luce Géas 2013
22 April -- 16 May 2015
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
Royal Institute of Oil Painters
Royal Watercolour Society
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2004, 2010 Galeria 3 Voutes, Vaison la Romaine
1999 ? 2010 Highgate Contemporary Art, London
2005 Erik Schaix, Paris
2003 Lucy B Campell Fine Arts, London
2002 Savage Gallery, Nashville Tennessee
1946 Born in Junbook, Korea
1965 Member of the Ducksoo Students Art Association
AWARDS
1963 Received the Special Prize at the Competition of Fine Art, Seoul National University
1964 Received the Grand Prize at the Competition of Fine Art, the College of Fine Art, Hongick University
1965 Received the Special Prize at the competition of Fine Art, Sejong University
EXHIBITIONS
1964 Displayed for the Exhibition of "Mokwoo" Artists of Korean Oil Paintings Association
1965 Displayed for the Exhibition of "Sinsung" Korean Fine Art Association
1966 Displayed for Korean Arts Grand Exhibiton, Seoul, Korea
1988 Selected for Five Artists Exhibition in Seoul, Cosmo Art Gallery
1993 Selected for Dunksoo's senior Artists in Seoul, Duckwan Art Gallery
PRESENT
Member of the Korean Fine Art Association
Member of the Korean Oil Paintings Association
Nikolai Nikolaevich Galakhov was born May 29, 1928 in Kazan on the Volga. In 1953 Mr. Galakhov graduated from I. Repin Institute in the elite R. Frenz workshop.
Since 1949 Mr. Galakhov participated in art exhibitions. Member of the LCRAU since 1955. Paints landscape, genre scenes and subject pictures. He was named Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation in 1984. Mr. Galakhov was featured in a personal exhibition in Leningrad in 1988. Paintings by Nikolai Galakhov are in the State Russian Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery and in art museums and private collections in Russia and throughout the world.
Born in 1947 in the city of Vladikavkaz, Russia. Studied at an art school. In 1968 graduated from an art junior college in Moscow, Russia. Member of Russia's Union of Artists. Participant of numerous art exhibitions in Russia. From 1989 worked and exhibited in Hungary, Greece, Austria, Switzerland and France. Since 1993 has been living in the United States. Participated in ARTEXPO in 1995-2000. Has exhibited at many art galleries in the US and Canada. Has had one-man shows at: Revel Gallery 1996, 1999 also at Ambassador Gallery 2001.
Born 1959 in Ukraine. Graduate of Moscow State University.
1979 - Exhibition "Modern Moscow" at Kuznetsky Most
Particiated in many other All-Union and republican exhibitions of amateur artists. Actively participated in the decoration of the Olympic Games 1980.
1990's began his own creative works. His works are in galleries, private collections and the collections of banks, corporations and offices
in Moscow and other Russian Cities and abroad.
Dgerdger from Dniprodzerzhynski, Ukraine
From Sevastapol, Ukraine, near the Caspian Sea. Painter of theater and film. "Red Letter Dance" was painted circa 1960's. This was in celebration of 60 years under Soviet rule since the revolution.
Soon Ju Choi's paintings illustrate common European street corner scenes and villages. They possess vital characteristics, revealing his well-cultivated skill of light distribution and its effects on color tonality and perceptive interpretation of depth. Choi is a meticulous painter who contributes considerable effort to the detailing of the composition. Details in the brightly colored flowers and stone built structures hint radiating warmth. Each painted scene is visually delightful and charming.
Soon Ju Choi was born in Korea in 1955. He studied at Hong Ik Fine Art College in Seoul where he currently resides and works. Choi has displayed his art works in many personal and group exhibitions.
Even though Randall Case is not an new artist, he will tell you he feels like one. The reason? Only recently has he realized his lifelong dream to paint full time. Case’s decision to trade in his coat and tie for a paint dappled sweatshirt happens to coincide quite nicely with his steadily developing popularity among collectors across the country.
Exploiting this new found time, Case is quickly adding to his already impressive body of large-scale oil works. Although capacious landscapes have long commanded his primary devotion, he has lately expanded his interests to include bravely colorful florals and an in progress series of striking situational studies.
Inventive by nature, Case has long been intrigued with creating, either by the imaginative use of color, contrast or scale, drama in subjects that otherwise might be regarded as rather ordinary.
Case delivers his perspectives in and increasingly unique style which is the result of his relying more and more on his artist instincts. I used to fret too much about content. Once I made those laborious layout decisions, I would worry much too little about what colors to use to fill the premeditated spaces. These days I consider little else but color and its interaction; form and content are all but left to lookout for themselves notes Case.
Perhaps it’s this preoccupation with color which explains the exceptional ( and regular) diversity of Case’s palette. From his detonation of color within florals to the muted tonal quality of his quiet pieces, Case seems to relish the challenge of using color to create specific moods across a wide spectrum. I’m always a little defensive when people comment about the concededly sizable variances between my loudest and quietest pieces. When it happens, I point out that the colors are dictated solely by conditions of light. In the sun they are bright. In the shade they are not. Since Nature uses a broad palette, so must I, explains the artist.
Case will tell you he takes his art very seriously. I worked awfully hard to get to where I am now. For maybe the first time ever, I feel that I’m seeing the world as it really exists. This clarity, this new personal reality, is what I try to capture in my work. Most would say I’m anything but a realist painter. However, I believe I am. Not because I paint the realism everyone else see. My art, in essence, loans my eyes. Each work is a single snapshot from my life filtered through my own sense of preferred reality.
Randall Case currently resides in Texas with his wife and two daughters. Besides art and family, his passions are golf , travel and books.
Slava Brodinsky was born in Birovigan, Russia in 1955. His artistic talent was noticed from a young age and he was sent to an art high school to hone his craft. After serving in the Soviet Army, he came back to his hometown and studied at the Fine Art Academy of Birovigan. He finished his studies in 1979 with distinction, working primarily in large-scale art while participating in one-man and group shows throughout Russia.
In 1991, Brodinsky immigrated to Israel with his wife and son. After becoming acclimated to the country, he started painting again. The unfamiliar light and colors in Israel dramatically affected his paintings. Along with the landscapes of the Galil and the regions of northern Israel that inspire him, he also travels to Europe, especially to the South of Trace, Tuscany and Umbaria in Italy in search of the unique light found in the Mediterranean.
Brodinsky's works are unique in the structure of the color, which is raised and built up above the canvas. His original style is created by mixing colors with sand and plaster, then applying it to the canvas with coarse paintbrushes. The range of his color palette reflects the play of light and shadow as affected by the transitions of the seasons of the year.
His works have been shown in many one-man and group shows in America, Canada, France, England, and Japan.
Alexei Bolshakov was born in the Russian city of Petrograd in 1922. Before the Great Patriotic War of 1941 he studied at the Leningrad Intermediate Art School from 1935- 41. After surviving the war years he returned to school at the Repin Institute in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). After graduation the quality of his art was judged so highly he was appointed as an instructor, an extraordinary honor reserved only for those whose work was of the highest caliber. During the course of Bolshakov’s career as a painting instructor at the Repin he was responsible for nurturing the most talented painters of several generations of Soviet Artists. Among his close friends and colleagues are the celebrated painters Nikolai Timkov (1912-1993) and Vladimir Krantz (b.1912). An inspiration and father figure to many aritsts, Bolshakov creates flat, broad color with both knife and brush, and great depth with his skillful color choice. As with Timkov and Krantz he is an adherent of the naturalist school of painting, infusing emotion and a personal view of the world into his subtle work. Today he spends his time in semi-retirement from teaching, choosing to mentor a few chosen students while focusing on his own work. Never a commercial painter, Bolshakov’s art is private, emotional, and genuine. A living link to the great Russian painters of the Soviet Era he is a product of and now an instrumental force behind the rigorous classical training that defines and sets apart the quality of Russian art when compared to the contemporary school of Western Europe.
Anatoly Belkin was born in 1953 in Moscow, but studied, lives and works in Leningrad, St. Petersburg. Studied at art school by I. E. Repin institute of painting, a sculpture and architecture (1963-1970) and at I. E. Repin institute (1970-1972). Being one of the youngest representatives of nonconformist movement, participated in the majority of exhibitions of "informal" artists. His first personal exhibition took place at Dzerzhinsky Culture Club (1977).
Already since 1976 his works take part in foreign expositions of "resistant" art in New York, Sent-Luis, Washington, San Francisco, Bochum, Paris, New Jersey, Mongeron and other cities.
Belkin is a member of the St. Petersburg organization of the creative Union of artists of Russia. He is one of the most expensive modern artists of St. Petersburg. Last years he is engaged in literary activity. He is the founder and the editor of magazines "Sobaka.ru " (2000), and "Veshch.doc" (2005). The work presented by Gallery "Dressing" is painted in 1975 and consequently has not only artistic, but also a special historical value.
Collections:
The state Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
The state Russian museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
The state museum of history of St. Petersburg, Russia
Museum of Dramatic and Musical Art, St. Petersburg
Stedelik Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Institute of the East Europe, Bochum, Germany
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
Norton and Nensi Dodge's collection, USA
Deutschebank, the New York branch, USA
Museum of Russian art, Mongeron, France
The state gallery of Vladivostok, Russia
Personal exhibitions
1977 – Dzerzhinsky Culture Club, Leningrad, USSR
1988 – "Suomi Bank", Stockholm, Sweden
1989 – Nachamkin Gallery, New-York, USA
1990 – Leleko Art Gallery, London, UK
1991 – Leleko Art Gallery, London, UK
1991 – Le Vew Manor Gallery, Paris, France
1992 – Cesar Gallery, Göteborg, Sweden
1996 – The state Russian museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2004 – The state Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
Vsevolod Andreevich Bazhenov was born February 18, 1909, in Serdobsk, in the former Saratov Province of the Russian Empire. Mr. Bazhenov's own father was an art teacher, and was the first to teach young Vsevolod to paint. His mother was a pianist and instilled in him a love of music from an early age. Vsevolod continued his higher education at the art studios of painters A. Gofert and N. Kuzmin, graduating from the local art school in Serdobsk.
Mr. Bazhenov greatly advanced his studies from 1927 to 1930 at the Tavricheskaya Art School in Leningrad, under such Masters as Mikhail Avilov, David Kiplick, and Vladimir Fedorovich.
Mr. Bazhenov lived and worked in Leningrad, and became a member of the Leningrad branch of the Union of Artists of Russian Federation, the Leningrad Commonwealth of Artists, in 1952.
Beginning in 1934, Mr. Bazhenov worked at the Leningrad mapping factory. This enabled him to be included in expeditions to the North and the South Urals, Armenia, Kurdistan, in Khibiny, Karelia. He was even able to travel to Europe and Asia. Mr. Bazhenov took advantage of this privilege and gathered a wealth of material for his famous landscape artworks, which display a profound understanding and love of nature. These experiences, along with his innate abilities, and vast education, make him one of the most outstanding landscape painters.
While famous for his small-format etudes done from nature, he also painted genre scenes and seascapes.
Four personal exhibitions of Vsevolod Bazhenov artworks were in Leningrad in 1959, 1963, and 1982. Additional exhibits were held in Saint Petersburg in 1994 and 2009. He participated in the All-Union Exhibition in 1951.
A major grouping of Mr. Bazhenov's artworks were painted in 1962 during the voyage on the ship "Eugene Nikishin", while traveling from Leningrad to Vladivostok around Europe and Asia with stops in ports of Gibraltar, Suez, Singapore and Vietnam. During this same 3-month adventure of eleven of the seas and oceans, Mr. Bazhenov created nearly two hundred sketches, paintings, and drawings. These works were first exhibited in 1963 at the Personal Exhibition of Vsevolod Bazhenov in Leningrad, and later in other cities.
From the latter half of the 1950's through the early 1960's Vsevolod Bazhenov was a head of small group of Leningrad artists who created works of art created for the war room companies of the ocean ships and submarines. He helped develop technology that protects oil paintings from high humidity during a long voyage.
Vsevolod Andreevich Bazhenov died in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in 1986. His paintings reside in State Russian Museum, in Art museums and private collections in Russia, Japan, France, England, in the U.S., China, and throughout the world.
Major paintings by Vsevolod Andreevich Bazhenov:
Mstinskoye Lake
Ploughed Field 1950
Black Birds, 1952
Breaking of Spring
After 1961:
Lights on the Angara River
First Flush of Grass
Spring, 1971
Dark Clouds
Vail Fine Art Gallery, Inc. is honored to represent this Soviet Era Master Russian Impressionist.
Irina Baldina was born May 18, 1922 in Moscow. In 1952 Baldina graduated from the I. Repin Institute in the M. Bobishev workshop. Since 1952 she has participated in art exhibitions. She has been a member of the LCRAU since 1957. She paints landscape, portrait, still life, and subject pictures. Paintings by Irina Baldina are in the State Russian Museum, in art museums and private collections in Russia and abroad.
Carl Ortman's affinity for art began at an early age when he was accepted into Western Reserve Academy boarding school to study fine arts. And though his next step was to go to college, he knew from his initial moments there that he would not end up with his ideal life if he followed the predetermined degree outlines. He viewed college as a means to help sharpen who he was as an artist and person, not a place to follow a systematic course schedule en route to receipt of a degree. He proceeded to take an assortment of college classes dealing with psychology, design, and traditional art skills.
After he finished his formal education, he pursued career paths in graphic, interior, and conceptual design and fulfilled entrepreneurial interests by starting two businesses. Carl also sought out mentors and life coaches over the next several years in an effort to continue bettering who he was as both an artist and a human being. These people’s gracious efforts and time investments have forever molded and shaped his life. His background in art and psychology, through formal education and mentored apprenticeships, has helped to form the artist you see now.
In 2004, Carl had an epiphany that came when he found that he could couple all of his earlier pursuits into a single rewarding career by producing gallery quality art. The years since that breakthrough have demanded tremendous faith on his part that his work could succeed and that the path he took to follow his heart’s desire would be the right one. Looking back, Carl can honestly say with confidence that he made the right decision. His life has never been richer or fuller now that he has allowed himself to do what seems to be intrinsically a part of who he is.
Born in Bortnoe, Ryazan reg., 1921. Studied at 1905 ART COLLEGE 1937-41; REPIN INSTITUTE 1946-52. Active in Leningrad. Began exhibiting 1952. Important shows include 'All-Union Art Exhibition'. Moscow, 1952; 'All-Union Art Exhibition', Moscow, 1955; 'SOVIET RUSSIA', Moscow, 1960. Laureate of the State Prize of Repin. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. St. Petersburg government award in field of literature, art, and architecture. Museum and Private Art Collections.
Dmitri Vasilievich Belyaev was born November 18, 1921 in the Village Bortnoe, Rybnovskij District of the Ryazan Province, 18 kilometers from Ryazan City.
Mr. Belyaev was a Russian and Soviet painter, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad). He was an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, a member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists, and was regarded as one of esteemed representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting.
In 1929, after the death of his mother, Mr. Belyaev moved to Moscow together with his father and his siblings. In Moscow he first studied in a children's art studio, then at the Moscow Art School of the Memory of Revolution of 1905.
Just after his last course in the Moscow Art School, he was drafted into the Red Army. A Member of the Great Patriotic War, he fought in the Southwestern Front and 2nd Ukrainian Front as a tank operator. He has wounded, and decorated with military awards.
In 1952 Mr. Belyaev graduated from the Department of Painting of the Repin Institute of Arts, where he studied under Boris Ioganson, Genrikh Pavlovsky, Alexander Zaytsev, Semion Abugov. His graduate work was a genre picture entitled "For Peace!"
In 1952 Mr. Belyaev began participating in art exhibitions. He painted portraits, genre and historical compositions, landscapes, and still lifes. Also In 1952, he was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists. In 1998 he was awarded the honorary title of the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.
In 2004 Dmitri Belyaev was awarded the Prize of the St. Petersburg government in the field of literature, art and architecture for his paintings of recent years. In 2005 he was named a Laureate of the State Prize of Repin. He was a full member of Peter's Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dmitri Vasilievich Belyaev died in Saint Petersburg on September 25, 2007 at eighty-six years of age. His paintings reside in Russian museums, and private art collections in Russia, Finland, the U.S.A, Japan, Germany, France, and other countries.
Vail Fine Art Gallery, Inc. is proud to represent Mr. Belyaev as an important and collectible Russian Master Impressionist.
References
1. Directory of Members of the Union of Artists of USSR. Vol. 1. - Moscow: Soviet artist, 1979. P.116.
2. Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.9, 389, 393, 395, 397—401, 403—407, 445.
Graeme Hagan is the younger son of famous Australian artist Robert Hagan. Graeme started painting in the Southport School, Queensland, Australia. His early talent for painting was recognized when he was awarded a scholarship for art in his final year of school in 2005. That year, and the 2 years previously, he had entered a number of small figurative oil paintings in the well recognized Annual Art Exhibition at Trinity College, Southport. All found keen buyers.
Graeme is following in his father’s footsteps, Robert Hagan, who has a strong international career based on a broad impressionist style. Graeme’s early talent has been recognizes by two high profile Colorado based galleries who have offered support and guidance.
To learn and progress Graeme is hoping to spend time with other experienced artists around the world over the next few years as well as study at the Chicago Institute of Art and with the renowned and powerful impressionist school in St. Petersburg, Russia.
When he is not painting, Graeme enjoys music and rugby.
Berc Ketchian creates a special aura with a masterful play of light on canvas. His complex compositions immediately engage the viewer. The canvasses burst with people talking, laughing, singing, drinking, and relaxing. The mood in these paintings is set by the magnificent flickers of light illuminating parts of the canvas. There is a tension in the brush strokes that is reflected in the drama presented to the viewer. We feel the warmth of the night, the gentle breeze from the sea, and the heavy scent of coffee in cup or the flowers in the air.
In the midst of these inviting settings. Berc paints fascinating character studies. The faces, indeed the entire figures, of his men and women, capture a range of emotions, a careful look reveals that in spite of the relaxed bohemian settings, the cares and worries of life are not completely forgotten. It is part of Berc’s brilliance that he captures these complexities for his audience. In the midst of a crowd, we see isolation and loneliness, friendship and sympathy, reflection and thoughtfulness, sensuality and excitement, anticipation and sorrow. However, Berc is never merely a dispassionate observer. His connection and sympathies are obvious and account in no small way for the success of these paintings. Is he, perhaps soon to occupy one of the empty chairs placed in all his paintings?
The compositions are strong and direct. The result of endless studies and sketches, they are highly personal and reveal Berc’s love of people and his deep understanding of them. The portraits offer a glimpse into their souls and invite the viewer to create their own biographies. Thus, while the paintings may appear simple and straightforward they reward the viewer who gives them more than a superficial look and appreciation of the universality of human needs and emotions as well as a window into a world which may soon vanish.
Selected Exhibitions:
1998-1997 Bon A Tirer Gallery Plermont, NY
1994 Turkish Consulate Art Center, NYC
1992 Turkish Consulate Art Center, NYC
1991 Gallery Vaucher, Toronto Canada
1990 The Armenian Art Association Montreal Canada
1990 Rabinowitz Gallery Tel Aviv, Israel
1989 Arica Gallery Chicago, IL
1988 Turkish Water Colorist Group NYC
1988-1968 Numerous Solo and Group Turkey
Exhibits
1968 Municipal Art Center San Remo Italy
Jardin Albert Premier Nice, France
Gallery Le Valloir Cannes France
Gallery Panache Moniparnass Paris, France
1967 Gallery St. Andre Rouen Paris, France
1966 Arsonvalle Library Paris, France
Municipal Art Center Antibes
St. Palu De VenceNice, France
Selected Awards and Achievements:
Silver medal / Short Film Festival Brussels Belgium for direction of Les Moment Sacree
Gold Medal award of Excellence for oil painting Millburn, Short Hills. NJ
Assistant set Director Billancourt Paris
Topkapi Museum, Istanbul Turkey, Restoration of the 16th Century Floral Panels
Art Published in magazines Pilote Paris, Rouen, and Journal Kheton Paris
Lewis Strauss Commission, Monaco France
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
Arsonvale Museum, France
Museum of Istanbul Turkey
Museum of Armenia Turkey
Houvanian Collection
Collection of Charles Aznovour
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Vladimir Fechyk (Fecik) was born on August 25, 1970 in Mukachevo, Ukraine. He began painting early, and he began attending the Children's School of Art at 10, and continued there for 4 years.
At the age of 15 he attended the State School of Art in Charkov, Ukraine, also for 4 years. The State School was established for the most talented pupils and only every 15th candidate is accepted. At the age of 15, Fechyk had the best grades at examinations and during his 4 years of study, won many competitions in painting and drawing.
After finishing school, Fechyk taught at the same Children's School of Art that he had attended in his youth. Since 1993, Vladimir has lived and exhibited in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He is married and has one daughter. As a hobby, he is interested in Eastern philosophy, mainly the cultures of India.
1916-1995
Piotr Nikolaevich Andrianov is an outstanding example of the best type of Soviet Era painting. He was born in 1916 to the family of a workman. He finished elementary school and went to vocational college at an engine factory where he later became an engine repairman.
His family of six depended on young Piotr and his father to be the breadwinners. But Piotr was eager to draw and began attending painting courses in the evenings. Once his tutor visited Piotr’s mother and told her that her son was a gifted painter and his talent needed to be nurtured. He advised her to let him go on studying art.
At Piotr's last school exhibition, his work drew the attention of Igor Grabar, rector of the Moscow Fine Art Institute and one of Russia’s greatest painters in his own right. Igor Grabar invited Piotr Andrianov to join his first year students at their practical work session in Troitskoe Village near Moscow. The young artist did so and began a period of fruitful and difficult study.
In 1948 Piotr graduated with honors from the Art Institute and joined the Moscow Painter’s Union as a professional. Everything portended a brilliant career. However, he chose a different path led by his innate “inteligentnost” and became known as a dissenter, stunting his career for the sake of principle.
At this time he turned his attention to nature and the study of landscape apart from the political world. Harmony, love of family, nature and life became the most important things in the life of the artist. He built a house in the country near Moscow and became so attached to the place that he had little interest in the hectic life of the city.
Since the fall of Communism, Piotr Andrianov's art has risen in stature and is now placed in the front rank of painters from the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Mr. Andrianov is listed in the book "A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900's - 1980's" by Matthew Cullerne Bown.
Alexander Mikhailovich Semionov was born February 18, 1922 in Torzhok, the former Soviet Union.
In 1940, Alexander Semionov graduated from the Art School in Leningrad 1940. Aleksandr Semionov became a member of the prestigious Leningrad Union of Artists in 1957.
He painted cityscapes, landscapes, genre scenes, ancient Russian towns. His mastery of color combinations and very accurate portrayal of depth, work very well with the immediacy of his impressionist brush strokes. He is a powerful, emotional painter.
At the age of two, Alexandra was absorbed with her coloring books. It was at age four that her parent's noticed Alexandra's abstract and Picasso-like styles with four eyed, two faced figures.
In the summer, after third grade, Alexandra began taking formal art classes. Elmira Adamian, her drawing teacher at Barnsdall Junior Art Center in Holly wood, was speechless when she saw her sketchbook. Recognizing her distinctive style, Adamian encouraged Alexandra's parents away from formal training and urged them to let her develop naturally and innocently.
Alexandra's career was on the verge of taking off as soon as she appeared on "CBS Sunday Morning" and became the youngest artist to sign with International Art Publishers. Alexandra has appeared on countless programs around the world including CBS Monday Morning, NBC Today, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Rose O'Donnell Show. NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, and the David Letterman Show.
At Age 11, Alexandra's list of accomplishments speaks for itself. Her commissions include the 39th Annual Grammy Awards, Polaroid for its 50th Anniversary, and the Andre Agassi Foundation. Alexandra has also had solo exhibitions across the United States and Australia.
Alexandra Nechita will continue to dazzle people around the world with her brilliant color combinations, startling compositions and her simple, moving narratives about the daily inspirations to express herself through painting.
Yolande Ardissone was born in Normandy in 1927. She painted her first painting at the age of 14. At the age of seventeen, she left for Paris to begin her art studies at the Ecole des Arts Appliques and the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere. Two years later, she transferred to Ecole des Beaux-Arts and studied in the atelier of Unterstellar.
Though she has traveled throughout the world, Ardissone is primarily a painter of Brittany. Her vivid, impressionistic style was strongly influenced by Renoir, Gaugin and especially Van Gogh. She is a true colorist who captures the life, movement and excitement of her subjects.
Today, Ardissone enjoys an international reputation and her paintings are included in private collections around the world. In addition to exhibitions in her native France, her works are displayed in the United States, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, England and South America.
Awards
Priox Greenshields, Paris
Societe des Amateurs d’Art, Paris
La Peinture Francais, Vichy
La Vigne et le Vin, Chateau Lascombe
Silver Medal - City of Paris
Museums & Public Collections Ile-de-France Museum
Marine Museum
Saint-Cyprien Museum
Sain-Maur Museum
The French Government
The City of Paris
Exhibitions
Salon des Artistes Francais
Grand et Jeunes d’Aujord’huid
Salon de la Jeune Peinture
Salon du Dessin et de la Peinture a L’leau
Salon de la Society Nationale des Beaux-Arts
Les Peintres les Temoins de leue Temps
Salon des Independants
Salon de la Marine
Salon Comparaisons
Terres Latines
Salon d’Automne
Growing up in Soviet Armenia, Arbe (Ara Berberyan) was son of a well-known artist and professor of art & design.
Arbe received his Masters degree from the University of Art and Design in Yerevan, Armenia in 1981. While he was there, it was difficult to find books on the western artists he loved. However, he managed to find books on his favorite inspirations: Dalí, Picasso, Titian, Rembrandt, and especially Klimt.
As a scholar of art and design, books on Klimt particularly motivated Arbe. He earned a Master's Degree in 1981 and quickly began his career as a fine artist by accepting government commissions for murals at the Yerevan Airport, theaters, hotels and other government projects. Always working with his hands, whether in carpentry, painting, or graphic arts, Arbe always steadily improved and expanded his artistic talent, eventually able to devote his time to the creation of fine art. Today he is married with two children and based mainly in California, Arbe’s creation process is quite fascinating. He starts loosely sketching without any intent or design while listing to the works of Mozart, Verdi, Bach, and other various classical musicians. He will move on with the work based on his mood, often switching back and forth from piece to piece based on how he is feeling.
Alvar Suñol Muñoz-Ramos, (Alvar) was born on January 20, 1935 in Montgat, a nearby fishing village to Barcelona. Since his youth he showed great artistic talent. Alvar attended to the school Art of Sant Jordi in Barcelona for 16 years.
At 18 he won the Alhambra in Granada scholarship, which allowed him to travel and paint throughout Spain. This was the birth of Alvar style and placement of the foundations of his way of painting, technical base with you for the next few years. Upon returning home he participated in the Young Artist Award sponsored by the City of Barcelona, winning and having the satisfaction that his work was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona for its permanent collection.
In 1957, to 22, Alvar made his first solo exhibition in Barcelona Layetana Galleries. The exhibition was a great success and Alvar received many invitations to exhibit in other Spanish cities. It was presented to the annual painting contest which organized the French Institute of Barcelona, winning and with it, a study trip to Paris.
In 1962, the Monede Gallery in New York showed Alvar's work in his first exhibition in the United States. In the early 2000s, Alvar began creating public mixed media murals. In 2001, he designed a mural of the four seasons for Tiana, a suburb of Barcelona, and in 2003, he designed an 18-foot sculpture in the Plaza de Mallorquines in Montgat, Spain. In 2008, he also created a sculpture of Catalan cellist Pablo Casals, in the Boulogne Billancourt of Paris.
Alvar works in watercolor, oil, ceramics, engravings, sculpture, lithography, muralsand monuments. For Alvar the flute, the mandolin, the fruit, the flowers, the dove, the lace, the tiled floor, the table, the checkered tablecloth, and the window are not only references to the world he wishes to recreate but also forms intriguing in themselves. He likes the symmetry and the color of the sliced watermelon, with its regularly spaced seeds, the comparable symmetry of the sliced apple and the cut flowers, the geometric pattern of checks, the graceful shape of musical instruments, and the elegance of the dove. The windows provide a visual echo of the frame of the entire image, and Alvar frequently plays with both.
His works have been on display in galleries and museums throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. Various works have been produced about Alvar’s career.
Davor Zilic was born in Petrinja, a small town between two rivers in the heart of the Republic of Croatia. His artistic talent was recognized from childhood.
In 1989 he started attending the School of Applayment Art, in the Fine Art Painting section of the capitol city Zagreb. Soon after he was enrolled, the war in Croatia broke out. His calm childhood a thing of the past, Zilic became a refugee. His family and his art helped him to overcome the hardships of war.
Zilic had 51 exhibitions throughout Croatia and Europe where he already made his reputation and had his loyal audience. He painted and gave sacral icons to war-devastated churches in Jasenovac, Vukovar, Gospic and Petrinja. Also during his military service in 1998, he led a construction of St. Nikol Tavelic's Chapel in Pula for which he painted all 14 stations of the Way of the Cross and portraits of three Croation saints.
Zilic's vision of the world is defined, clear and strong. His paintings are surprising because all their motives are known and intimated. At the same time, he has the ability to awaken feelings for nostalgia, pride, great joy, and warmth.
Professor Petr Alekseevich Basanets was born April 23, 1926 in the village Burimka, in the Cernigiv Region, Ukraine.
Mr. Basanets is reknown as a portrait artist, and his skill is seen for example in one of his several masterpieces: Our Class, 1975. He is also a lyrical landscape artist.
After having fought in World War II, Mr. Basanets studied at the Odessa Art College and graduated in 1952. He then attended the exclusive Kiev Fine Arts Institue, studying in Karp Demyanovich Trokhimenko's studio. Other teachers included V. Puzyrokov and V. Kostensky, both of whom have works hanging in the Kiev Art Museum.
Professor Basanets is a prominent teacher at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. He served as the Chair of Painting in 1961 and the Chair of Drawing in 1962. He has continued working as a professor since 1983.
Artist Siri Hollander was born in New York in 1959 and lived most of her childhood in Andalusia, Spain. Influenced by a family of artists, she began sculpting at the age of seventeen. Seemingly isolated from normalcy, Siri established a connection with the horses and other animals that surrounded her in her youth. By apprenticing with several accomplished sculptors both in America and Spain, she developed her own sculptural form based on her unique subjects, horses and figurative forms.
Hollander’s sculptural medium combines steel and cement creating her trademarked texture, which when cast in bronze bring her sculptures to life. The freestanding sculptures range from monumental to smaller tabletop works. With extraordinary focus and conviction, Hollander works independently of the trends in art movements. Her art flows naturally from her daily life, without dependence on outside factors. She has become a master of three-dimensional images of horses and more recently has developed her figure sculptures, greatly influenced by the emotional impression in the sculptures of modern masters. Hollander’s self-taught process constructs the sculptures with no sketches or maquettes, working directly with steel and recycled metal to combine realism and abstraction, emphasizing the rough essence of the subject.
Leonid Petrovich Baikov graduated from the Academy of Arts (Leningrad) in 1952. He became a member of the Commonwealth of Artists in 1953.
Besides his creative work in St. Petersburg, the artist spent much time working and living in his country house on the beach of Mstino Lake, the academic town area.
Mr. Baikov lived among other such adored Soviet Master Painters such as Tokarev, Pomanichev, Kugach, the Tkachev brothers, Nicolai Timkov, who were his close neighbors.
1913 - 1994
Taisa Kirillovna Afonina was born in Nikovaev, Ukraine. She wa painter and watercolorist, lived and worked in Leningrad, was regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting. In 1931 Taisia Afonina graduated from nine-year school in city Taganrog, and came to Leningrad to obtain art education.
In 1946 Afonina graduated from the Repin Institute of Arts in Igor Grabar personal Art Studio of monumental painting. Her graduate work was a historical painting named "Girls of Donbass", dedicated to the memory and heroism members of Anti-Fascist underground.
Taisa Afonina was an advanced pupil, and her instructors included Mikhail Bernshtein, Victor Oreshnikov, and Pavel Naumov.
Beginning in 1947, Afonina participated in public art exhibitions. She was a Member of LCRAU since 1946.
Since the beginning of 1950s she was constantly involved in art exhibitions of Leningrad artists. She painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and genre compositions. She worked in oil painting and watercolors and was most famous as a master of landscape and still-life painting. In 1946 Taisia Afonina was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists.
Taisia Kirillovna Afonina died on April 19, 1994, in Saint Petersburg. Her paintings reside in Art museums and private collections in Russia, Finland, USA, England, France, and others.
Honors include:
Still Life paintings, 1940 to 1990, Exhibited at the Leningrad School of Art
Exhibition Catalogue of St. Petersburg, 1997
Exhibition Catlogue: L'Ecole de St. Petersburg Drouot Richelieu Catalog, Paris, 1994
Petras Lukosius was born in 1956 in Lithuania. At the age of fourteen, he began attending the Klaipeda Children Art School, followed by Telsiai Applied Arts Technical School.
In 1979 Lukosius graduated from the Klaipeda Branch of the Vilnius Academy of Arts. He began participating in national and international shows when he was a teenager.
He has held personal shows around the world in places such as Germany, England, Spain, and Sweden. He also exhibited in Chicago in 2004.
Robert Hagan is one of Australia's best known accomplished contemporary impressionistic artists. His presence is firmly established in Australia, England and the United States.
"Painting is tough to tie down. It's hard if not impossible to put into words something that speaks on its own", says Hagan of his oil paintings. An artist with humility, he approaches his art with spontaneity and robustness.
Although he paints varies subjects, landscapes, seascapes and figurative he insists his paintings are beyond the recognizable. He says, "Make the painting like the recognizable subject rather than execute a literal representation. It's better to paint the effect of what is there. That is impressionism, and that is how I paint".
Robert Hagan was born in 1947, educated at Newcastle University, New South Wales. He holds a degree in economics with a diploma in education. Hagan left his teaching profession in his late 20's to try his hand at painting - something in which he had absolutely no training
"Knocking about Australia for a couple of years taking on any job that came along indelibly imprinted the back of my brain with the essence of what Australia is and was.
From 1979 through to 1991 he painted these mainstream subjects while taking "sabbaticals" to the US, the UK and Thailand. In 1991 he moved to San Diego, USA to record the America's Cup, but confesses, "I was so staggered by the beauty, majesty and diversity of what I saw during my intermittent travel of the States that I forgot to go back."
Robert Hagan has been painting professionally for over 20 years; has had 12 one-man exhibitions, participated in numerous two-man and group exhibitions and as an aside, won the Australian Derby with his champion horse, Research.
In the United States, Hagan's paintings have been featured in International Fine Art Collector 1992 and 1994, he was awarded the America's Cup International Artist Medal 1995.
Robert Hagan's America Cup paintings are on display at mystic Seaport museum.
Gantner was born in 1948 in Seoul, Korea. He was instantaneously attracted to color and form. By the age of 12 he was attempting to recreate his universe through the medium of paint. Gantner is primarily a self-taught artist. His passion for the Impressionists and the Post-Impressionist was responsible for his move to France. This allowed him to freely study their works and to explore their universe.
The majority of Gantner's paintings are set in Province and the Midi. The artist's fascination of quaint mountain villages with their narrow, winding streets, becomes a perfect vehicle for the true subject of his works--solitude. Gantner's paintings are visual records of absence. This theme is reinforced through the artist's use of confined luminous and shadowed spaces that are defined and contained by vertical walls of stone.
Even when the painting is not of a narrow village street, solitude and absence are still present. Trained in the Impressionist vein, Gantner has resolved the age old Poussiniste--Rubeniste conflict by combining the strengths and qualities of line with color.
This is apparent in Gantner's return to Giverny to repaint Monet's Japanese bridge and water lilies. The spontaneous quality that defined the Impressionism of Monet had given way to a painted drawing that is a controlled application of color structured within a strong linear composition.
"The good paintings" like Baudelaire used to say "is faithful to the dream that…" The dream, that’s to say the imaginary creation, of the representation of a subject appears in a form that is both real and metamorphosis.
Painter of flowers and landscapes, Gantner makes us enter into his imaginary world and invites us to share his joy of painting. Painter of happiness, of luminosity, of softness, Gantner makes us discover a new facet of his talent through his floral compositions, of transparencies and subtle harmonies, full of charm and freshness. Painter-poet, Gantner, transmits his emotion, his sincerity in his own interpretation of nature, of the beauty of beings and things and in a personal style that is the mark of a true artist.
Irina Aleksandrina's sentiments about her native city of St. Petersburg, Russia, are reflected in this poem:
"My city maiden, spectral... Forever,
Like a marvel, in my heart I bear
Your gentle face and incomparable air,
Your gardens, vistas and canals,
Your winter, as a dream sublime
Of other-worldly harmony..."
Vladimir Nabokov
Cities are like people. They have their own characters, habits and inclinations. They feature their own tastes and passions, lifestyles, advantages and drawbacks. Especially those that were opted for by time and history.
The art of Irina Aleksandrina is that of the brightest multifaceted arts of city landscape painting. And that is not surprising because Artist Irina Aleksandrina’s biography is closely connected with Saint-Petersburg, that is considered to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world. This is a city that features both unique history and unique architectural ensembles.
After graduation from the Academy of Arts, Irina Aleksandrina was actively mastering the painting. She was deeply involved in studying different techniques, materials and themes. As a result of her long creative quest, she found her main and favorite theme - cityscape. But today Irina Aleksandrina is more and more turning to other themes in her art - portraits, historical scenes and still life painting.
The Artist has had more than 10 personal exhibitions. Among them numerous exhibitions held in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Prague, Barcelona, Florence, Beverly-Hills that can be considered as part of her artistic treasury. The paintings by Irina Aleksandrina were presented to several politicians of European countries. Moreover, her paintings are on display in corporate collections of some leading banks and are enjoyed by some private collections all over the world.
EXHIBITIONS:
1996 - Dix gallery» Helsinki. Finland
1997 - Personal exhibition in Prague. Czechia. Magazine «Word»
1998 - gallery Burgerhouse. Chella-Melis. Germany
1999 - gallery «Marabello». Barcelona. Spain
2000 - Personal exhibition in Florence, Italy. Gallery «The Old Bridge»
2001 - Irina Aleksandrina. Painting» the Russian house. Berlin. Germany
2003 - Exhibition «Moscow-Petersburg» the Central house of the artist. Moscow. Russia
2004 - Petersburg-Dresden» Institute of the literature. Dresden. Germany
2004 - Exhibition «Ecology» the Central house of the artist. Moscow. Russia
2006 - Personal exhibition in Beverly-Hills. USA
2007 - Personal exhibition «Empial Petersburg». Grand Hotel Europe. Saint-Petersburg. Russia
2008 - Personal exhibition in Aspen. USA
2009 - Personal exhibition «Petersburg views». Gallery «Elena». Moscow. Russia
2010 - Personal exhibition in gallery «Anna». Grand Hotel Europe. Saint-Petersburg. Russia
Sergey Grigorash, Honored Artist of Ukraine, Honored Artist of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, Member - International Academy of Art and Culture. Grigorash Sergey was born April 22, 1963. Since 1987. Began to actively engage in creative activities. In 1989, he graduated from art-graphic faculty of the Kursk Pedagogical Institute.
He participated in more than 200 exhibitions at various levels held 48 solo exhibitions. Works are in the Supreme Council of Crimea in Simferopol, in Parliament and in the State Museum of Ukraine in Kiev, Chekhov Art Theater. Chekhov, in the Russian Black Sea Fleet Museum and the Municipality of Moscow. And also in the collections of Presidents of Ukraine , Belarus, Tatarstan , Bulgaria, Chairman of the meeting of China Li Peng , in private and corporate collections in Russia , Ukraine, Belarus, Tatarstan, Poland, Czech Republic , Turkey, Germany, China, UAE , Switzerland, USA .
Sergey Grigorash, paintings can take you to the picturesque Crimean valleys and will bring you into a world of magnificent seascapes, where you can discover beautiful places you`ve never been. The master creates a unique atmosphere, a great feeling and true excitement. The Crimean Landscapes inspired many outstanding poets and artists, such as I. Aivazovsky and A. Green, M. Voloshina, M .Tsvetaeva, N. Gumilev, O. Mandelshtam, K. Paustovsky, V. Nabokov. It was also a favorite place of A. Pushkin.
Sergey Grigorash appreciates the magnificence of these places. And his love for native land is manifested in each painting.
Evgeny Ivanovich Danilevsky (1928 - 2010) was a Russian-born Master Soviet Era painter.
He was known to paint with fellow Master, Venjamin Mikhsilovich Sibirski.
The book "Hidden Treasures: Russian And Soviet Impressionism 1930 – 1970’s" by Vern G. Swanson, says “Danilevsky worked on three dioramas depicting the strength and courage of Russian and Soviet soldiers.”
Danilevsky had the unique ability of capturing the determination and resolve of the Soviet worker in their work setting. While doing this, he was also able to capture the human and even happier side of the work force of the Soviet Union. This pleased the Soviet Officials greatly and thus he received numerous commissions to paint particular scenes involving daily life and work in Russia. The military scenes he painted likewise have strong human interest, resolve and dedication to the motherland as recurring themes. Often, his workers have happy grins of contentment and at times, frivolity on their faces. Mainly, Danilevsky was chosen to paint these works because he was considered a master painter and his epic artworks spoke for themselves.
In 1970-80 years - the battle scenes dioramas "Liberation of Budapest", "Storming the Reichstag" (co-authored with VMSibirskim), "Taking the fortress Osa E. Pugacheva." In these large-scale historical paintings manifested his special gift picturesque "directing" the compositional skills to convey the essence of a historical event, saturate it interesting, historically aware details. (ARTInvestment.RU)
Danilevsky worked mainly in Kiev, Ukraine and Moscow, Russia. He also traveled to many places to paint on-site and plein-air as well.
Vladimir F. Chekalov was one of the greatest Master Portrait Artists to emerge from the Soviet Era. He captured body language and expression, stopping moments in time. At first glance, viewer connects with subject in various settings fishing on the banks of a river; farmers harvesting fields of hay, student, and teacher painting en Plein Air, soldiers, and villagers.
Chekalov created battle scenes, portraits and landscapes that have made their way into art museums and private collections in Russia, United States, England and throughout the world. He is published in various books and catalogues.
Chekalov was born July 6, 1922 in the Kostroma Region, in Soviet Russia. The chief rivers of the region are the Volga and the Kostroma. It is a heavily forested area, making it one of the principle timber producing regions in Europe. Also, the textile industries have been active there since early 18th Century.
In 1952 Chekalov graduated from the Ilya Repin Institute, where, after completing his second-year course, he was assigned to a master workshop under Professor B. Ioganson. This prestigious institute was established first as the Academy of Three Noblest Arts, in 1757. It is now the Russian Academy of Arts, in Saint Petersburg. When Chekalov attended the institute, education of future painters was already based on an exhaustive study of drawing, composition, painting, and art history. Requirements for applicants were very strict.
Chekalov was a pupil of Alexander Zaytsev, Boris Fogel, Genrikh Pavlovsky, Lija Ostrova, Semion Abugov, Mikhail Platunov, and Josef Serebriany. He became a member of the LCRAU in 1953.
World War II suddenly interrupted academy life, and Chekalov became a field engineer when he volunteered for the Red Army. Fascist Germany attacked Leningrad on June 22, 1941, and many artists found themselves fighting for their lives, their country, and their hope to return to the academy.
Despite the tragic chaos of the first days of the siege, city and national governments provided the evacuation of a million artworks from the collections of Leningrad museums as quickly as possible. On September 8, 1941 the city was cut off by the first enemy blockade, and over a hundred Leningrad artists perished. In February, 1942 the Academy of Arts and its Secondary Art School were evacuated through the lifeline across the Ladoga Lake eventually arriving in Samarkand. Students and teachers continued their work under very difficult conditions until their return to Leningrad in 1944.
Thematic artworks were integral to the Leningrad school of painting. The cathartic process of painting motifs such as wartime battle scenes, soldiers receiving letters from the home front, and the rebuilding of cities and villages is reflected in many artists’ works during the 1940’s and 1950’s. Chekalov too, painted these historic themes, at times in monumental works.
Chekalov lived to see the drastic political and economic changes that took place during the 1980’s and 1990’s. The Soviet Union collapsed, in 1991 Independence of the Russian Federation was declared, Leningrad regained its initial name of Saint Petersburg, and it is there that Chekalov died in 1992.
Some details taken from Unknown Socialist Realism, The Leningrad School, by Sergei V. Ivanov.