Hsu Yin-Cheng / 許英正 | Abstract painter

Hsu Yin-Cheng / 許英正 is an Chinese painter, known for working in the Abstract style. Hsu Yin-Cheng live and work in Kaohsiung City.

Leonard Cohen / Tomasz Rut | Il vero amore non lascia tracce...

Come la nebbia non lascia ferite

Sul verde cupo della collina

Così il mio corpo non lascia ferite

Su di te e non lo farà mai.

Nel buio oltre le finestre

Vanno e vengono i bambini

Come frecce senza bersaglio

Come manette fatte di neve

As the mist leaves no scar

On the dark green hill

So my body leaves no scar

On you and never will

Through windows in the dark

The children come, the children go

Like arrows with no targets

Like shackles made of snow

Tomasz Rut

Sydney Long | Art Nouveau / Symbolist painter

Sydney Long (1871-1955) is Australia's foremost Art Nouveau style painter and a major Symbolist. In works such as The Spirit of the plains 1897, Pan 1898 and Fantasy c 1914, as well as in his many versions of Flamingoes, he created magical images.

Long's Art Nouveau paintings are like reveries, an escape from the everyday; they create a feeling of spiritual elevation, of another reality. And yet, seeking imagery which conveyed the 'lonely and primitive feelings of this country', he captured something of the soul and tone of the Australian bush.

Zoltan Molnos | The Transylvanian Dalí

It is now more than 80 years since the Surrealism, in a smoky Parisian café, was officially born, After long decades of peak and slow agony, when the world was still celebrating its most famous master, Salvador Dali, far from the French and Spanish lands, in a small Transylvanian town, inhabited by hard-working people of Hungarian minority, the surrealism had its second birth on the canvas of a that time unknown young Romanian painter, Zoltán Molnos.

It might seem curious that the surrealism, the most spectacular limb of the avant-garde movement, which had its philosophy in protesting against the inhumanity of the “civilised” world, had its renaissance in a city from Romania.

Alan Douar | Quando ti chiedi cos'è l'amore...

Quando ti chiedi cos'è l'amore,

immagina due mani ardenti

che si incontrano,

due sguardi perduti l'uno nell'altro,

due cuori che tremano

di fronte all'immensità di un sentimento,

e poche parole

per rendere eterno un istante.

When you ask what love is,

imagine two burning hands encountered,

two eyes lost in each other,

two hearts that tremble faced

with the enormity of a feeling,

and a few words to

make a moment forever.

Dorina Costras

Leonid Afremov | Romantic painter

Leonid Afremov [Леанід Афрэ́маў] (1955-2019) was born in city of Vitebsk.

Amazingly enough Leonid was born in the same town as Marc Chagall, the famous artist who also founded the Vitebsk Art School along with Malevich Kandinsky.

Tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and palette-knife.

Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world.

Each of my paintings brings different moods, colors and emotions.

Claudia Lucia McKinney ~ Cover artist

American artist Claudia Lucia McKinney is an Digital artist specializing in book covers for best selling authors.
"I've done over 300 covers to date - some of the authors I've done work for you may know -Kami Garcia, Samantha Young, Amanda Hocking, JL Bryan, Maria Rachel Hooley, Aaron Patterson and many more....
I've worked with Publishing Houses such as Random House, Simon & Schuster, Llewellyn, Flux, and others..."

Bertram Bahner, 1959

German photographer Bertram Bahner was born in Germany. He is well known with a pseudonym Kim Anderson, for his work with children. Kim Anderson photography career, now overseen from his home base in a Swiss mountainside village, began the way of many shutter bugs. His early photos focused on fashion and people, as well as photography for advertising agencies.

Christof Monnin, 1968 | Palette knife painter

French painter Christof Monnin was born in Lyon, France. The self-taught artist exposed his works for the first time in the age of 17 years and immediately won recognition and the main prize.

Being an adherent of a bright palette, he masterfully mixes colors, excellently combining almost incompatible red with the golden yellow.

Even more often working with a palette knife, making lines stiffer, he reaches a certain aggression in the transfer of forms which makes his works even more realistic. Peering into his works, it is possible to see, how a warm southern wind hardly sways flowers on a tree branches.

Arthur Schopenhauer: "Chi è amico di tutti non è amico di nessuno"

• Ogni giornata è una piccola vita,

ogni risveglio una piccola nascita,

ogni nuova mattina è una piccola giovinezza...

• Each day is a little life,

every waking and rising a little birth,

every fresh morning a little youth,

every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Igor Zenin

La crisi secondo Albert Einstein

"Non pretendiamo che le cose cambino se continuiamo a farle nello stesso modo.

La crisi può essere una vera benedizione per ogni persona e per ogni nazione,

perché è proprio la crisi a portare progresso.

La creatività nasce dall'angoscia, come il giorno nasce dalla notte oscura.

È nella crisi che nasce l'inventiva, le scoperte e le grandi strategie.

Giorgio De Chirico

Phoebe Anna Traquair | Arts and Crafts Movement painter

Inspired and visionary woman of her time, Phoebe Anna Traquair spent eight years of her life creating the herculean works which earned Mansfield Traquair the title of “Edinburgh’s Sistine Chapel”.
Her vivid, striking and truly beautiful murals interpret religious scenes, inspired by Blake and Renaissance, and reflect her status as an eminent figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement.
Born in Dublin, Phoebe Anna Moss (1852-1936) married Scots palaeontologist Dr Ramsay Traquair in 1873, and moved to Edinburgh the following year.

Nazim Hikmet: Sei la mia schiavitù, sei la mia libertà..

Sei la mia schiavitù, sei la mia libertà

sei la mia carne che brucia

come la nuda carne delle notti d'estate

Sei la mia patria

tu, coi riflessi verdi dei tuoi occhi

Katarzyna Kurkowska

Michael Gorban, 1956

Russian painter Michael Gorban was born in Russia. He studied art for 21 years with the finest of Russian artists and by age 30 his paintings were hanging alongside those of Dali, Kandinsky and Chagall in the prestigious Hermitage museum in Leningrad.
In 1990 Gorban left everything behind and emigrated to Israel. Today he is considered a first-rate Israeli artist, as well as being prominently featured with three of his paintings in the national album of Russian art history as one of the young artists to impact the 20th century between 1960 and 1980.
"Painting is a sensual experience", claims Gorban from his studio near Tel Aviv. "I will not sign my name until I am completely satisfied.... I have never painted under duress or according to order. My success comes from people feeling the same satisfaction that I myself felt upon completing the painting".

Alexandrina Karadjova | La Dolce Vita

Alexandrina Karadjova [Acrista] is a Bulgarian painter, who, for 10 years, charms the art-lovers with her exquisite, magic and feminine paintings, done in soft pastel - one of the most expressive art materials. Called “The artist of dolce vita” Karadjova impresses the admirers with her poetic vision of the world, her tenderness and color, that she also expresses with two other artistic materials - oil and acrylic. Since November 2010 Alexandrina is a member of the Pastel Guild of Europe.

Leaf Carving Art

Leaf Carving Art is a relatively new art form China, that will last for generations to come. This art is already exceeding all expectations in popularity. All our leaves are hand carved from an actual Chinar tree leaf which is put through a 60 step process to ensure everlasting quality and durability.

Addio a Giuliano Gemma !

Roma, 1 ottobre 2013 - L'attore Giuliano Gemma è morto in seguito a un incidente stradale vicino Roma.
L'attore, coinvolto in un impatto frontale mentre era a bordo della propria auto a Cerveteri, è stato trasportato all'ospedale di Civitavecchia e le sue condizioni sono apparse subito critiche. Gli altri due feriti, più lievi, sono un uomo con suo figlio [Ansa].