Chen Yifei (1946-2005) | Music Player painting

Chen's works considered a unique combination of both Western and Eastern influences. Chen's style combines the realism associated with European art styles, with Eastern subject matter and themes close to the artist's history.

One such example of this unique blend is his painting Poppy which derives its content from a Tang dynasty song about a woman who solemnly questions her fate.

The painting features a Chinese woman in traditional Chinese garb, yet the style of painting coupled with her posture are more reminiscent of ancient Greek artworks than Tang dynasty works.

His Eastern-Western fusion of artistic styles is apparent in another of his famous paintings called Soiree, which depicts Chinese musicians in traditional Chinese apparel, embodying an obvious Eastern theme, but the atmosphere of the painting aligns more with the Western ideal of "carpe diem".

In 1980 he became one of the first artists from the People's Republic of China permitted to study art in the United States.

Wally Findlay Galleries was the first gallery to grant Chen Yifei an exclusive contract. Chen Yifei enrolled at Hunter College and later found work as an art restorer.

In 1983, before he attained his master's degree at Hunter, his solo exhibition at the Hammer Galleries was a great success. Later, he established as a contract artist for the Hammer Galleries.

Le opere dell'artista Chinese consideravano una combinazione unica di influenze occidentali e orientali.

Lo stile di Chen combina il realismo associato agli stili artistici europei, con temi e temi orientali vicini alla storia dell'artista.

Un esempio di questa miscela unica è la sua pittura Poppy che trae il suo contenuto da una canzone della dinastia Tang su una donna che solennemente mette in discussione il suo destino.

Il dipinto raffigura una donna cinese vestita in abiti tradizionali cinesi, ma lo stile pittorico abbinato alla sua postura ricorda più le opere d'arte greche antiche rispetto alle opere della dinastia Tang.

La fusione orientale-occidentale dei stili artistici è evidente in un altro dei suoi famosi dipinti chiamati Soiree, che raffigura musicisti cinesi in abbigliamento tradizionale cinese, incarnando un ovvio tema orientale, ma l'atmosfera del dipinto si allinea maggiormente con l'ideale occidentale di "carpe diem".

Nel 1980 è diventato uno dei primi artisti della Repubblica popolare cinese ad ottenere il permesso di studiare arte negli Stati Uniti.

Wally Findlay Galleries è stata la prima galleria a concedere a Chen Yifei un contratto esclusivo.

Chen Yifei si iscrisse al Hunter College ed in seguito trovò lavoro come restauratore d'arte.

Nel 1983, prima di conseguire il master in Hunter, la sua mostra personale alle Hammer Galleries ebbe un grande successo.

Successivamente, si è affermato come artista a contratto per le Hammer Galleries.

Viktor Shvaiko, 1965 | Romantic painter

Viktor Shvaiko was born in Altai, Russia, the son of an economist and an engineer.

He grew up in one of Russia’s most remote villages surrounded by the beauty of the wilderness.

At the age of 12, he didn’t hesitate to choose studying at junior art school.

His natural inclination for the fine arts and his strong urge to share his vision of nature drove him to the Novoaltaisk Artistic School, where he studied for four years.

Shvaiko credits his teacher, Ilbek Khairoullinov, for a true arts education.

Chen Yifei (1946-2005) | Romantic Realism painter

Chen Yifei 陈逸飞, famous Chinese🎨 classic painter, director and fashion designer, is a central figure in the development of Chinese oil painting and is one of China's most renowned contemporary artists.

Although he was denounced for 'capitalist behavior' Chen's obvious talent and mastery of oil painting techniques won him recognition by the authorities.

Chen soon became one of the leading painters of the cultural revolution, he was famous for his big Mao portraits and depiction of grand heroic events of the modern Chinese nation.

Zinovy ​​Sydoriv, 1971 | Romantic Realism painter

Зиновий Сыдорив was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Western Ukraine. Since 1987 lives and works in Tver. Graduated from Tver art College named. A. G. Venetsianova, at the Department of decoration.

Participant of a number of art exhibitions in Moscow, Tver and abroad.

Sydoriv is a member of the Union of free Artists of St. Petersburg.

Many works of Zinovy Sydoriv are in galleries and private collections in England, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Germany, France, USA.

Zinoviy Sydoriv / Зиновий Сыдорив è nato a Ivano-Frankivsk, Ucraina occidentale.

Dal 1987 vive e lavora a Tver.

Laureato al Tver art College di nome. A. G. Venetsianova, presso al Dipartimento di Decorazione.

Partecipante a numerose mostre d'arte a Mosca, Tver e all'estero. Sydoriv è membro dell'Unione degli artisti liberi di San Pietroburgo.

Molte opere di Zinovy ​​Sydoriv sono in gallerie e collezioni private in Inghilterra, Austria, Svizzera, Norvegia, Germania, Francia, Stati Uniti.

Spartaco Lombardo, 1958 | Ballet dancers

Spartaco Lombardo🎨 is an Italian🎨 modern figurative painter. His occupational activity in the pictorial field began in 1981.

He has displayed his works in personal and collective exhibitions in Italy and abroad and he has entered many national and international contests. His works are in private and institutional art collections.

Igor Maykov, 1966 | Magic Realism painter

From 1994 Игорь Майков constantly exhibits paintings in Latvia and other countries.

"I have been drawing since the early childhood, multi layered oil painting - play of colours, light, a shadow on a canvas bewitches! Portraits to write - pure pleasure, especially if work has gone right!

I constantly exhibit my work since 1994 in Latvia and abroad. Many of my works are in private collections: Canada, the USA, Germany, Finland, Russia, etc".

Hermann Hesse / J. W. Waterhouse | Rosa purpurea

Ti avevo cantato una canzone.

Tu tacevi. La tua destra tendeva

con dita stanche una grande,

rossa, matura rosa purpurea.

E sopra di noi con estraneo fulgore

si alzò la mite notte d'estate,

aperta nel suo meraviglioso splendore,

la prima notte che noi godemmo.

Annick Bouvattier, 1964 | Figurative / Fashion painter

Annick Bouvattier is born in the mid-sixties in Nevers, France.

Her father, a pediatrician and art lover, instilled a taste for painting from the earliest childhood.

Annick Bouvattier captures seemingly insignificant gestures in the everyday lives of beautiful women, trivial moments, fleeting glances, words unspoken, speechless stories.

She is a painter of silences, silences that many a beholder and collector has heard and savored.

Sekhar Roy, 1973 | Figurative painter

Life is a river, starts from the hilly area, it flows down on plain, collecting the stones, soils and some dirt, making all to fertilizing others but burden for itself.

Sometimes it gets fresh water from rain or by any other small stream, which makes the river strong and powerful.

His life is also the same; it started on 17th August 1973. It was not so smooth for him in his childhood days due to some political and socio economic reasons.

Lee Bogle, 1946 | Native American Art

Collector's know him for his images of Native Americans, often solitary figures of women.

• "I try to convey a spirituality in my art that the viewer must interpret for himself. I want my paintings to show a peaceful contemplation and express a depth of serenity that comes only with quiet inner peace".

Drawing, painting and picturing life are among Lee Bogle's earliest memories. A native Northwesterner, his art has always been more than a pastime. For many years he has described his art as a passion. Bogle continues to live in the Northwest, where he is surrounded by the beauty of nature.

Shakespeare / Yves Pires | Tu sei per la mia mente, come cibo per la vita...

Yves Pires - French sculptor

Tu sei per la mia mente, come cibo per la vita.

Come le piogge di primavera, sono per la terra.

E per goderti in pace, combatto la stessa guerra

che conduce un avaro, per accumular ricchezza.

Prima, orgoglioso di possedere e, subito dopo,

roso dal dubbio, che il tempo gli scippi il tesoro.

Prima, voglioso di restare solo con te,

poi, orgoglioso che il mondo veda il mio piacere.

Alphonse Mucha | Art Nouveau painter

Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist, Alphonse Maria Mucha (1860-1939) is most often remembered for the prominent role he played in shaping the aesthetics of French Art Nouveau at the turn of the century.

He produced illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels, and designs, which became among the best-known images of the period.

È tempo di Carnevale | La storia della festa

Il nome Carnevale deriva dal latino carnem levare, togliere la carne, privazione della carne, ha un origine altomedievale che designa il giorno od i giorni che precedono il principale periodo di penitenza previsto dal cristianesimo: la quaresima.

Data l'eminenza di un cosi' lungo periodo di privazioni, che investono tutti i campi, quello alimentare, sessuale, giochi, diventa presto un periodo di durata variabile, da pochi giorni a molte settimane fra gennaio e marzo.

In questo periodo si cerca di esaltare tutto cio' che in quaresima non sarà piu' possibile fare: abbondanza alimentare, sospensione di una serie di divieti, in alcuni casi violenza gratuita contro terzi.

Hans Thoma | Glade meadow, 1876

German symbolist painter Hans Thoma was born on 2 October 1839 in Bernau in the Black Forest, Germany.

He was the son of a miller and was trained in the basics of painting by a painter of clock faces.

He entered the Karlsruhe academy in 1859, where he studied under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Ludwig des Coudres – the latter of which had a major influence on his career.