PAINTERS

WILLIAM GLACKENS (1870/1938), AMERICAN PAINTER – The man that introduced a matter-of-fact realistic, into the art of the United States.

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WHEN PAINTIG EXPRESSES PASSION AND CONTEMPLATION – The Lena Gal’s painter experience

LENA GAL 1/4 – Her favorite colors are earth colors, ocher, brown, blue, red and yellow. Her interest in art comes from her childhood, when she felt excited about using color pencils and making clay figurines. In Portugal and abroad, she is a listed artist featured in several magazines and art publications. She likes to explore the borderline between dreams …

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LENA GAL, PORTUGUESE PAINTER – Connecting personal innermost being, with feelings of melancholy, anxiety and emotional intuition

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VIBRANT COLOUR PALETTE – Anjolie Ela Menon: from Modigliani to Amrita Shergil

ANJOLIE ELA MENON 1/4 – She was born in 1940, in the West Bengal (of a mixed Bengal and American parentage). By the age of 15, when she left school, she had already sold a few paintings. At 18, she held a solo exhibition (with fifty-three paintings). She pursued her studies (at the Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai), …

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ANJOLIE ELA MENON, INDIAN PAINTER – Working inside media diversity

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INDIANS COLOURS OF BEAUTY

AMRITA SHER GIL – An exceptional colourist. Called India’s Frida Kahlo, she was a female painter who played an important role in 20th century India. She was born in Budapest, Hungary to Umrao Singh Shergil, a Sikh aristocrat and his Jewish Hungarian wife, Marie Antoniette Gottesmann. She began painting by herself as a five year old. She was very much …

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URGING ANSWERS – Cui Xiuwen: between Chinese tradition and modernity

CUI XIUWEN 1/4 – For some years, we are witnessing the establish itself on the international scene of contemporary Chinese artists. The Chinese avant-garde today, creating interaction with European and oriental patterns, also develops explicit references to famous works of the past. That artist became interested in creating new representations of her work. Her first foray into the world of …

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CUI XIUWEN, CHINESE PAINTER – Making palely female students, haired blacks

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THREE SHADES OF CHINESE CREATIVITY – When the sensitivity walk inside the soul brushes

Why are the Chinese so creative? Maybe you know that the Chinese, are known for skill in carving ornate ivory items, and cutting paper patterns and human hair pictures. Yes, everyone also knows the Chinese use Chinese characters in their language, but maybe the Chinese brain is more geared towards the artistic than the rest of the world. Of it …

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SOPHISTICATED FIGURES, PAINTED WITH PROVOCATIVE REALISM – John Currin

JOHN CURRIN 1/4 – Without boundaries, his way of expressing creativity ranges between reality and fiction, between obscene and refined. His female eros interpretation offers you a panoramic expressive works over almost surreally grotesque. He is a very sophisticated, painter: both the technical level and the visual culture. What he offers you through his works, it is a way to …

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