PAINTERS

HONORE’ DAUMIER 1/4 – He, son of a glazier who loves poetry, was born in Marseille on a day in February. Also in his work as a painter, are the characteristic features of his work as an engraver: stretch and recorded net, expressionistic deformation and satire of manners. He lived in an age of dramatic political, economic, and social upheaval. …

ROB GONSALVES 1/4 – His surrealism is magical. Already at age 12, he began studying architecture, fostering a sense of perspective, what you can see in every painting. Nothing is as it seems: watch carefully what he paints, and you can see visual poems. ROB GONSALVES 2/4 – Dali, Magritte, Escher and Tanguy, they are his constant source of inspiration. …

ANDREW WYETH 1/4 – He was born July’s day, and its family was always close, spending time reading and fostering a closeness with nature. He painted in a realistic way, as a son of art, by the father. For a long time, he was snubbed by the official critics as an eccentric and solitary painter, plagued by a sentimental attachment …

VLADIMIR KUSH 1/4 – He was born near the Sokolniki forest, loving the great artists of the Renaissance. Elephants with giant tubas for faces, and white sailing ship approaches harbour on a calm sea, they are its personal way to the metaphorical realism. VLADIMIR KUSH 2/4 – Graduating the Institute of Fine Arts, traveling in Hong Kong and Hawaii, Germany …

Each painting has a meaning, and what the artist creates – in a figurative or abstract – wants to communicate something, to those gazing. In creative language, what is written expresses the complexity of thought. In painting, form and meaning buy – similarly – creative expression. Painting the human body, its meaning collects expression (on canvas, on walls or paper), …