Girel Oleg | Minimalist portraits

These Minimalist portraits by artist Girel Oleg eliminate all but a few colors to tell their story.

Oleg Girel is a Belarusian cinematographer, director of photography, and visual artist known for his work in film production and digital photography.

Each image (originally a photograph) was digitally remixed, removing layer upon layer of detail to leave just contour lines and patches of richly textured color.

It’s a simple, yet effective effect.

Denis Oktyabr, 1977 | Neo-Romantic painter

Son of a popular Siberian artist Valery Oktyabr / Валерий Октябрь, Денис Октябрь was born in a Russian city Novoaltaisk to continue the family artistic tradition.

In 1992 Denis finished Artists School and in 1997 graduated Artistic College of Novoaltaisk.

Oktyabr paints portraits, landscapes, genre pictures.

In his paintings Oktyabr tries to abstract his mind and brush from shapes and stereotypes to reflect feelings, emotions and to illustrate the sacred process of perception and meditation.

Shapes and colors of his paintings are perfect instruments to explore and embody ideas and sensations.

Roman Romanov, 1966 | Romantic painter

Roman Romanov is a contemporary Russian realist painter known primarily for his romantic landscape oil paintings.

Born in 1966 in Kemerovo, Siberia.

Graduated from the Kazan Art College in the Republic of Tatarstán, and later completed a higher technical education.

Organized his first exhibition while serving in the military.

He initially worked as an industrial and automotive designer before dedicating himself entirely to professional painting in the year 2000.

Has exhibited his work internationally, including the "Romantique Russe" exhibition in Orléans, France.

Ivan Aivazovsky | Romantic painter

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky / Ива́н Константи́нович Айвазо́вский (1817-1900) became the most prolific Russian painter of his time.

Early in his career, he was elected a member of five Academies of Fine Arts, including those of St. Petersburg (his Alma Mater) Rome, Florence, Stuttgart and Amsterdam.

He was an Academician at 27 and Professor of Marine Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, at the age of 30.

Vladimir Fechyk, 1970 | Cityscape painter

Vladimir Fechyk (Fecik) was born in Mukachevo, Ukraine.

He began painting early, and he began attending the Children's School of Art at 10, and continued there for 4 years.

At the age of 15 he attended the State School of Art in Charkov, Ukraine, also for 4 years.

Timur Tsaku,1972 | Surreal / Hyperrealist painter

Timur Tsaku was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

After graduating from art school in 1987, he continued his education in the P.P. Ben’kov College majoring in theater decoration and taught painting and sketching in the Tashkent Academy of Art and Theater.

In 1991, Tsaku left for Israel, where he began working on Chayot HaKodesh (The G-d’s Angels) paintings, that were later combined into one of his most significant art series.

This series made Tsaku famous in the art world, and especially among the American artists of the realism genre.

He returned to Israel in 2001 to create biblically-inspired Israeli art.

Svetlana Bobrova, 1960 | Surrealist painter

The surreal world, created by Svetlana Bobrova / Светлана Боброва, is full of strange creatures.

In this world everything is possible.

Her artworks are full of energy, passion and grotesqueness.

Like dreams, they are born from real anxieties and experiences, taking the spectator far into the depths of sub-consciousness.

They have a hypnotic internal glow, which penetrates the eyes with tonal transitions of neon, green, yellow and blue.

Gennady Privedentsev, 1955 | Surrealist painter

Russian painter Gennady Privedentsev was born in Krasnodar City.

He studied at the Kuban State University at the faculty of technical and graphic arts.

He graduated from the University in 1981 and has been a member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 1991.

He has participated in city, regional, zonal, and international exhibitions since 1980.

The first prize winner of the International Exhibition of Caricatures in 1995.

Awarded the diploma of Biennale-2003.