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.

L'Abbraccio | VideoArt

"Ho imparato che ogni giorno dovresti spingerti a toccare qualcuno. La gente ama una carezza affettuosa, o soltanto un amichevole pacca sulla schiena".

Maya Angelou

"Una delle migliori sensazioni al mondo è quando abbracci qualcuno e lui ricambia stringendoti più forte".

Charles Bukowski

"Quando sentiamo il bisogno di un abbraccio, dobbiamo correre il rischio di chiederlo".

Emily Dickinson

Peter Wever, 1950

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].

Vincenzo Cardarelli ~ Autunno veneziano/Venetian Autumn

L'alito freddo e umido m'assale
di Venezia autunnale,
Adesso che l'estate,
sudaticcia e sciroccosa,
d'incanto se n'è andata,
una rigida luna settembrina
risplende, piena di funesti presagi,
sulla città d'acque e di pietre
che rivela il suo volto di medusa
contagiosa e malefica.

Thomas Moran - Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice

Valentin Rekunenko, 1955 | Fantasy painter

"Art is a world of fantasy, where everything is possible. Once I visited it, I understood that it is my house" - Valentin Rekunenko.

Ukrainian painter Валентин Рекуненко was born in Tokmak, Zaporozhzhya region, Ukraine.

Graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk Art College in 1974.

Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1987. Participated in many national and all-union art exhibitions.

Talk Triennale of Painting in Kiev in 1998 and 2001.

His works are in private galleries in Poland, Yugoslavia, Germany, Russia, the United States.