January 8, 2025 6:34 pm

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ENJOYING A QUIET FEMALE SMOKE – When objects are a mix of traditional Chinese culture and Western technology

LEO BAO JUN 1/4 – He is a professional painter from China. His works have been featured in a variety of exhibitions in China (including the Shanghai International Art Fair, Shanghai Music Hall Art Show, first prize in a Liaoning Province film poster challenge, and a ShangHai Art Legend Gallery Solo Show). Born in 1963 in China’s north-east Liaoning province, …

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LEO BAO JUN, CHINESE PAINTER – The typical features portraits of Chinese women

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THE VERY STOUT CHINESE MONK WITH A BROAD SMILE

One of the four great ancient civilizations, China is the size of the USA or Europe (with more people than Europe and North America together). An enormous and beautiful land, China offers you so much to see and explore. Essence of China? Beijing, Xi’an and Shanghai (enjoying China’s cultures and classic beauty, where you won’t miss any important places or …

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CHROMATIC HARMONY – The post impressionist painting culture of Camillo Innocenti

CAMILLO INNOCENTI 1/4 – He was born in Rome, as the son of an architect. He studied at Lyceum, then joined the studios of Domenico Morelli in Naples and Antonio Mancini in Rome. He completed his fine-art studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome. After 1906, he began to focus on painting mainly feminine figures. In 1915-18, as a …

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CAMILLO INNOCENTI (1871/1961), ITALIAN PAINTER – A personal pictorial signs in the late Impressionism

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TIME IS RUNNING AWAY – Hugo Grotius: the man who escaped in chest of books

Hugo Grotius https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmdXusPBF3w was a Dutch jurist that laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law. He wrote most of his works in exile, in France. He was teenage intellectual prodigy, he was imprisoned for his involvement in the intra-Calvinist disputes of the Dutch Republic (but escaped hidden in chest of books). A prodigious learner, he entered the …

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PAINTING IN HIGHLY REALISTIC MANNER – The intense illumination painting of Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller

FERDINAND GEORG WALDMULLER 1/4 – He, born in Vienna was an Austrian writer and painter, one of the most important of the Biedermeier period. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPuLuVOXQoc In 1807, at the age of 14, he left his family to attend the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where studied portrait painting. In 1814 he married Katharina Weidner. He lived in Bratislava, then worked …

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FERDINAND GEORG WALDMULLER (1793/1865), AUSTRIAN PAINTER – The conservative, pleasant vision of middle-class life

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ANDREAS FRANKE, AUSTRIAN ART PHOTOGRAPHER – and his LIFE BELOW THE SURFACE

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The surrealist underwater world of ANDREAS FRANKE

ANDREAS FRANKE 1/4 – He is  Austrian art photographer and a lover of scuba diving. He was introduced to photography at an early age, when he was given a Polaroid camera as a present.  “Everything started with this camera,” he says, but at first he had to become an engineer, as it was a family expectation. When he was 16, …

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