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Harbin Snow Sculpture Festival, 2012

In frigid northeastern China, in the city of Harbin is hosting its 26th annual International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival. Massive buildings built of ice from the frozen surface of the nearby Songhua River, large scale snow sculptures, ice slides, festival food and drinks can be found in several parks in the city. At night, visitors who endure the bitter cold will see the lights switched on, illuminating the sculptures from both inside and outside.


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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Still life

The Impressionism, a movement, first in painting and later in music, that developed chiefly in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Impressionist painting comprises the work produced between about 1867-1886 by a group of artists who shared a set of related approaches and techniques.
The most conspicuous characteristic of Impressionism in painting was an attempt to accurately and objectively record visual reality in terms of transient effects of light and colour.
In music, it was to convey an idea or affect through a wash of sound rather than a strict formal structure.


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Kate Lightfoot - Pop Surrealism painter


I'm a self-taught Aussie artist who lives in a quiet Melbourne town-house with my lovely boyfriend, two demanding cats and a bright blue Siamese fighting fish called Jet Li.
During the day, I work in the creative department of an advertising agency. At night, I draw my girls.
I like to work in pencil as I have absolutely no patience and I hate waiting for paint to dry. Watercolour is also great fun (and dries quickly!) - it has a mind of its own and I love the surprise results you can get from it.
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Italia Ruotolo | Pop Art painter

Italia Ruotolo born in Naples, Italy.
After Classic Literature studies graduated at the Fine Arts Academy of Naples.
For many years she worked as goldsmith and jewel designer.
Ruotolo's work is a broad range of pop art and Art Nouveau.


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Lennette Newell ~ Fashion photographer

Naturalist fashion photographer Lennette Newell channels a lifelong passion for Earth’s biodiversity and the magical wonder of the natural world into compelling animal portraits that afford viewers an intimate glimpse of creatures large and small.
Lennette Newell | Naturalist fashion photographer
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Franco Puliti, 1945

After completing art school in Lucca, Tuscany, he immersed himself in the new generation of artists, post-Macchiaioli Toscani, the Italian equivalent of French Impressionists. In the late 1960’s, he opened a studio in Livorno, Italy where he had permanent exposition until the mid- 1970’s.  He moved to the United States in 1980, continuing his art career and showing his work from coast to coast.  The careful geometric design and harmonious distribution of color throughout his work reflect his excellent artistic schooling and passion for his craft.
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Rembrandt | Periods, themes and styles

Throughout his career, Rembrandt (1606-1669) took as his primary subjects the themes of portraiture, landscape and narrative painting. For the last, he was especially praised by his contemporaries, who extolled him as a masterly interpreter of biblical stories for his skill in representing emotions and attention to detail.
Stylistically, his paintings progressed from the early "smooth" manner, characterized by fine technique in the portrayal of illusionistic form, to the late "rough" treatment of richly variegated paint surfaces, which allowed for an illusionism of form suggested by the tactile quality of the paint itself.


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Nicoletta Tomas, 1963 | Figurative painter | VideoArt

Nicoletta Tomas was born in Madrid, Spain. A self taught painter, started the artistic career in Valencia (Spain) 1990, using in depth the pastel technique. I concentrated on diferent themes such as indoor motifs, city views and bullfighting scenes. At this time and since 1998 I have given my paintings a new turn, centered on the human body. I am in a constant search for new ways of artistic expresions, both in style and means.

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Manolo Valdés,1942

Valdés is a Spanish artist residing in New York, working in paint, sculpture and mixed media. He introduced to Spain a form of expression that combined political and social obligations with humor and irony.
Manolo Valdés was born in Valencia. He entered the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Carlos in 1957, where he studied two years.
In 1964 he established the artists' group Equipo Crónica with Joan Toledo and Rafael Solbes in which he remained until Solbes' death in 1981.
He now lives and works in New York and Madrid.


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Caravaggio | Art in Detail

Michelangelo Merisi, detto il Caravaggio (1571-1610) è stato un pittore italiano. Formatosi a Milano ed attivo a Roma, Napoli, Malta e in Sicilia fra il 1593 e il 1610, fu uno dei più celebri pittori italiani di tutti i tempi, dalla fama ancora oggi universale.


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George McNeil | Abstract expressionist painter

A pioneer Abstract Expressionist of the New York School, George McNeil (1908-1995) had over forty solo exhibitions during his lifetime.
Between the ’40s and until the mid ’60s his art was decidedly abstract but it was always joined to metaphor. George McNeil had a career that spanned the entire postwar American art era.
McNeil attended Pratt Institute and the Art Students’ League, where he studied with Jan Matulka.


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Ben Nicholson | Abstract painter

Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM (1894-1982) was an English painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscapes and still-life.
He was one of the leading promoters of abstract art in his country.
Born in Denham, Buckinghamshire, Nicholson was the son of the painters Sir William Nicholson and Mabel Pryde, and the brother of artist Nancy Nicholson, architect Christopher Nicholson and Anthony Nicholson.


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Arturo Souto Feijoo [1902-1964]

Arturo Souto Feijoo was an important spanish painter who studied in Seville and Madrid and then traveled to Paris in the 1920s where he was influenced by the avant-garde. Prior to his exile from Spain following the Spanish Civil War, Souto exhibited throughout Europe. While living in Havana, Mexico, and the U.S. during the 1940s until his death in 1964, Souto continued to exhibit and developed a reputation as one of the outstanding spanish painters of the twentieth century.
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Angelica Privalihin

Angelica Privalihin was born in a small village called Uzlovaja in the Tula region of Russia. She attended the Special School for Gifted in Arts for children in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. She was taught to see the beauty of the world, and to depict it not realistically, but through her own feelings and vision. When not with her family Angelica devotes all of her time to painting, participating in exhibitions in both Russia and abroad. Her works are held in the Art Museum of the city of Krasnoyarsk and Art Museum of Divnogorsk and other museums in Siberia and the Far East and in private collections in Russia, Israel, Germany, USA, China and now, UK.
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Anatoly Dverin, 1935 | Impressionist painter

Anatoly Dverin was born in Ukraine, studied in St. Petersburg and earned wide recognition and success before leaving the Soviet Union in 1976, eventually settling in Massachusetts.
Since that time, he has amassed numerous awards and created a breathtaking body of work.
He is a popular demonstrator at the major pastel societies.
He recently published a book of his life and work, Anatoly Dverin - American Impressionist.