Kira Panina, 1961

Кира Панина is a Russian painter, born in Fryazino (Moscow region).

Kira graduated from the Abramtsevo Industrial Art College named after outstanding Russian artist Viktor Vasnetsov.

Panina is a member of the Union of Artists of the Moscow region.

The Russian artist is engaged in painting, graphics, and interior design.

Diana Malivani, 1976 | Impressionist painter

Diana Malivani was born in the USSR, in the city of Sukhumi (Republic of Abkhazia), in the family of teachers of physics and chemistry.

Graduated from N.P. Ogarev Mordovia State University (1993-2001) in Saransk, she is a Doctor of Medicine by her training and profession (M.D., Ph.D), specialized in obstetrics and gynecology.

She acquired an extensive experience in sports medicine and dietology in fitness industry, with "World Class Club" in Moscow.

Also she is the author and illustrator of children’s books published in Russian, English, French and German.

After many years spent in France, she now lives with her family in Cyprus.

Denis Korobkov, 1982

Contemporary Russian artist Денис Коробков lives and works in Penza.

He graduated from the Penza Art College named after. K. A. Savitsky, Penza in 2006.

He devoted part of his work to the history of this beautiful city.

The artist is engaged in painting, graphics and restoration of old photographs.

Anastasia Trusova, 1988 | Impressionist painter

Anastasia Trusova / Анастасия Трусова is a Russian impressionist artist who has known how to draw and paint in a variety of artistic approaches since childhood.

In a style she calls Graphic Impressionism, she prefers working on the foreground or focusing on the main character in a piece.

She paints with oil, pencils, watercolors, and pens, but now mostly acrylics using brushes and a palette knife.

Ksenia Stekolshchikova, 1991 | Figurative painter

Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Ксения Стекольщикова was born in Moscow in the artist’s family.

2001 - Entered the Moscow Academic Art Lyceum of the Russian Academy of Arts (MAHL RAH).

2005 - Took 1st place in the competition of the Royal Danish Embassy, dedicated to the 200th anniversary of H.H. Anderson (Awarded with a diploma).

Since 2007 - Participant of Russian and Moscow exhibitions (more than 20 exhibitions).

Pablo Neruda / Yuri Krotov | Ode to summer / Ode all'estate

Estate, violino rosso,

nuvola chiara,

un ronzio

di catena montuosa

o di cicala

ti precede,

il cielo

a volta,

liscio, luccicante come

un occhio,

Gregorio Sciltian | Magic Realism painter

"The only true and supreme purpose of the art of painting has been and will always be that of obtaining the illusion of reality" - Gregorio Sciltian.

Gregorio Sciltian / Գրիգոր Շիլտյան (Nakhicevan, Armenia 1900 - Rome 1985) was an Italian-Armenian painter, designer, and medallist.

Sciltian is well known for his portraiture and trompe-l'œil compositions.

Pedro Salinas | Non rifiutare i sogni / Don’t reject dreams / No rechaces los sueños

Non rifiutare i sogni in quanto sogni.

Tutti i sogni possono

esser realtà, se il sogno non finisce.

La realtà è un sogno. Se sogniamo

che la pietra è la pietra, quello è la pietra.

A correre nei fiumi non è un’acqua,

ma è un sognare, l’acqua, cristallino.

Marc Chagall

Gabriele Münter e Wassily Kandinsky | Amore ai tempi dell'astrattismo

Gabriele Münter (1877-1962) è stata una pittrice espressionista Tedesca.

Vasilij Vasil'evič Kandinsky / Василий Васильевич Кандинский (1866-1944) è stato un pittore Russo, naturalizzato francese, precursore e fondatore della pittura Astratta.

Insieme, con Franz Marc ed altri, fondarono il movimento artistico espressionista Der Blaue Reiter (Il cavaliere azzurro).

La Münter era di Berlino e proveniva da una famiglia benestante che aveva vissuto a lungo negli Stati Uniti.

Nel 1901 si iscrisse ad un corso d'arte a Monaco di Baviera.

L'anno successivo, poiché alle donne erano precluse le Accademie, iniziò a prendere lezioni presso la scuola d'arte privata Phalanx-Schule (appena fondata da W. Kandinsky) dove seguì i corsi di Wilhelm Husgen e quelli di Wassily Kandinsky.

Wassily Kandinsky | Ritratto Gabriele Münter, 1903 | Lenbachhaus, Monaco di Baviera

Alexandr Pushkin | Eugene Onegin e la storia d'amore di Tatyana

"Eugenio Onegin" / "Евгений Онегин" è un romanzo in versi di Aleksandr Pushkin, composto dal 1822-1831 e pubblicato completo per la prima volta nel 1833.

Trama

Eugenio Onegin è il nome del personaggio principale della storia: è un giovane già disilluso dalla vita e che sembra aver già provato tutto quello che gli era possibile, provando un certo spleen.

Si ritira in campagna e diventa amico di un giovane poeta, Vladimir Lenskij. Questi è innamorato di Olga con cui si è appena fidanzato.

La sorella di Olga, Tatyana, si innamora a prima vista di Onegin.

Ardendo di questo amore, ella gli scrive una lettera infiammata, ma Onegin la respinge.

Il monumento di Onegin e Tatyana a Kazakistan, Petropavlovsk, Piazza intitolata a Pushkin

Olga Naletova, 1966 | Surrealist painter

Ольга Налётова was born in St.Petersburg.

Finished Ioganson’s Art College at the USSR Academy of Arts.

In 1990 graduated from I.E.Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture at the USSR Academy of Arts.

Faculty of Painting. Neprintsev’s Studio.

Member of the Union of Artists of St.Petersburg from 1992. Member of the Union of Artists of Moscow Lives and works in Moscow.

Pedro Salinas / Chagall | "Per vivere non voglio isole, palazzi, torri.."

To live I don't want

islands, palaces, towers.

What steeper joy

Than living in pronouns!

Take off your clothing,

features, pictures;

I don't want you like that,

masked as another,

always a daughter of something.

Marc Chagall | Over the town / Sulla città, 1918

Aleksandra Ekster | Avant Garde painter

Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster (1882-1949) cubo-futurist, suprematist, constructivist and designer is one of most famous Russian Avant Garde female painters that gained international recognition.

She was a multi talented artist - a painter, ceramist, graphic artist, clothes designer.

Alexandra Ekster would also become a co-founder of the Art Déco.

In Paris, Aleksandra Ekster was a personal friend of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who introduced her to Gertrude Stein.

Marc Chagall | Stained glass windows

One of Chagall's major contributions to art has been his work with stained glass. This medium allowed him further to express his desire to create intense and fresh colors and had the added benefit of natural light and refraction interacting and constantly changing: everything from the position where the viewer stood to the weather outside would alter the visual effect (though this is not the case with his Hadassah windows).

It was not until 1956, when he was nearly 70 years of age, that he designed windows for the church at Assy, his first major project. Then, from 1958-1960, he created windows for Metz Cathedral.

Marc Chagall | Paris through my window, 1913

After Marc Chagall moved to Paris from Russia in 1910, his paintings quickly came to reflect the latest avant-garde styles.

In "Paris Through the Window", Chagall’s debt to the Orphic Cubism of his colleague Robert Delaunay is clear in the semitransparent overlapping planes of vivid color in the sky above the city.

The Eiffel Tower, which appears in the cityscape, was also a frequent subject in Delaunay’s work. For both artists it served as a metaphor for Paris and perhaps modernity itself.

Chagall’s parachutist might also refer to contemporary experience, since the first successful jump occurred in 1912. Other motifs suggest the artist’s native Vitebsk.

Marc Chagall | Paris through my window, 1913 | The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation

Vasiliy Polenov (1844-1927)

Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov /Васи́лий Дми́триевич Поле́нов was a Russian landscape painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist artists.

His contemporaries would call him the "Knight of Beauty" as he embodied both European and Russian traditions of painting.

His vision of life was summarized as following: "Art should promote happiness and joy".

As a painter and a humanist, he would truly believe in the civilizing mission of Art, Culture and Education.

The Wanderers’ movement and the Abramtsevo Circle

During the 1880s, his work was spotted by Vladimir Stassov, a supporter of the traveling exhibition society (the Wanderers), which he joined then.

This artistic movement was born from the desire to break with the themes imposed by the Academy to better represent contemporary concerns. In addition, the members promote the accessibility of art among the people by organizing traveling exhibitions (not limited to the artistic centers of Moscow and St. Petersburg).

Yuri Krotov, 1964 | Landscapes

Yuri Krotov / Юрий Кротов was born in Grivenskaya Cossack Settlement, Krasnodar Territory, located close to the Azov Sea. At the age of 8 he met a local painter G.A. Polugaev who became his mentor.

With Polugaev, Krotov traveled to Moscow and enrolled in Moscow High School of Art under the Surikov Art Institute.

After high school he served in the Soviet Army for 2 years before attending the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov.

His style of impressionist painting blossomed on trips to France, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, Monaco and other European countries.

Serguei Zlenko, 1960 | I ballerini

Nato nella Repubblica di Georgia, Serguei Zlenko / Сергей Зленко si è laureato prima presso la scuola d'arte dell'Accademia d'arte russa, e successivamente ha ricevuto una laurea e un master in belle arti dall'Accademia d'arte Surikov di Mosca nel 1984.

Membro delle associazioni di artisti sia russe che finlandesi, ha è presente in gallerie e collezioni in Irlanda, Finlandia, Svezia, Francia, Stati Uniti e nella nativa Georgia.

Da molti anni Serguei ha un equilibrio vivendo in Irlanda con la Finlandia e viaggiando costantemente per il mondo eseguendo le sue commissioni di ritratti squisite e molto ricercate.

Wassily Kandinsky | VI - Il linguaggio delle forme e dei colori

Lo spirituale nell'arte, 1910

L'uomo che non ha musica in se stesso

che l`armonia dei suoni non commuove

sa il tradimento, e la perfida frode.

Le sue emozioni sono una notte cupa

i suoi pensieri un Erebo nero.

Alla musica credi, non a lui.

Shakespeare

Il suono musicale giunge direttamente all'anima. E vi trova subito un'eco, perché l'uomo "ha la musica in sé".

"Si sa che il giallo, l'arancione e il rosso ispirano e rappresentano un'idea di gioia, di ricchezza" (Delacroix).

Alexander Sheversky | Hyperrealist painter

Striking a harmonic balance between classical composition and modern disposition an original oil painting by Alexander Sheversky speaks to an appreciation for the vocation to contemporary realism.

Each canvas is stately and monumental, extolling the virtues of discipline and emotion styled by the foremost of his teachers - Rembrandt and Vermeer.