Meeting Benches World art in all forms
WANG YUNPENG, CHINESE PAINTER – The virtual reality of chinese contemporary art
HU JUNDI, CHINESE PAINTER – Where you can find dense Chinese colors and lush atmospheres
RUSSIAN PAINTERS IN THE WINTER
In 1975, this painting was exhibited in the halls of the Union of Artists of Leningrad. In 1994, it was exhibited in France. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u3fCIZ_LTE Russian winter, it is a painting of the Soviet Russian painter Nikolai Efimovich Timkov. Looking at this medium-sized painting (100 x 150 cm), you too can easily imagine a cold winter day, in a small village …
Read More »THE MASTER OF THE UNFINISHED TOUCH – Mikhail Aleksandrovič Vrubel’ and the development of the fragmentary composition
MICHAIL ALEKSANDROVIK VRUBEL 1/4 – He is regarded amongst the Russian painters of the Symbolist movement. He stood aloof from contemporary art trends, so that the origin of his unusual manner should be sought in Early Renaissance painting. He entered the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied by direction of Pavel Chistyakov. He would develop a penchant for fragmentary …
Read More »MICHAIL ALEKSANDROVIK VRUBEL (1856/1910), RUSSIAN PAINTER – The innovator by nature, the painter that rejected tradition
IN THE STRANGE LABYRINTH THAT CONSTITUTES ART – With Jose Manuel Gomez and his horses
JOSE MANUEL GOMEZ 1/4 – For him, the knowledge it’s the only formula to grow in the strange labyrinth that constitutes art. He was born in a small rural town in Spain in 1940. At the age of 17, he moved to the city of Cordoba, to pursue his interest in the arts. In 1964, he visited Paris, expanded his …
Read More »JOSE MANUEL GOMEZ, SPANISH PAINTER – Painting head down
THE IMAGINARY, BEHIND THE APPARENT QUIET OF REALITY – Max Ernst, creative living on the borders of irrationality
MAX ERNST 1/4 – It is considered one of the greatest exponents of surrealism. All his life, he escapes to the conventions and rules, too restrictive for his unlimited brilliance. His works are densely symbolic repertoire of dream images, which made him famous all over the world. He gives a face to the unconscious and the irrational, observing a submerged …
Read More »MAX ERNST (1891/1976), GERMAN PAINTER – When creativity comes into artistically unexplored territories
AROUND THE GREAT EPIC OF MAHABHARATA AND RAMAYANA – Raja Ravi Varma: traveling throughout India, in search of subjects
RAJA RAVI VARMA 1/4 – Most of his paintings, include pictures of mythological characters, from the epics and tales from religious texts and manuscripts. He was a renowned Indian painter, who greatly influenced the future generations of Indian painters. He is one of the few painters who have managed to accomplish a unison of the Indian traditions with the techniques …
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