Mustafa Özbakir, 1982

Mustafa Özbakir, Turkish painter, was born in Adana. He graduated from the workshop of Cebrail Ötgün in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Mersin University in 2005. In the same year, he won a merit award in the 66th State Painting and Sculpture Competition. In 2006, he received first prize in the Second Painting Competition, which was held in the name of mayor in Ümraniye. In 2008, he received a merit award in the 69th State Painting and Sculpture Competition. Currently, Özbakır continues to paint at his workshop in Adana.

Carl Heinrich Bloch | Post-Romantic painter

Carl Heinrich Bloch (May 23, 1834 - February 22, 1890) was a Danish painter.

He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and studied with Wilhelm Marstrand at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi) there.

Bloch's parents wanted their son to enter a respectable profession - an officer in the Navy.

This, however, was not what Carl wanted.

Kay Ruane, 1956 | Outside the window

Kay Ruane is an American painter.

For years I've been drawing figures inside a room with micro landscapes out the windows. I think of the drawings as dioramas, or tiny graphite worlds.

At first these drawings were formal in imagery, as well as strictly black and white. Recently, I'm paying a lot more attention to details like the kind of flower, the title of a book on the table or a painting on the wall.

I want these details to relate to specific themes in each drawing, with a dose of humor and sexuality.

Kahlil Gibran: "Sulla conoscenza"..

E un uomo disse:

Parlaci della Conoscenza.

E lui rispose dicendo:

Il vostro cuore conosce nel silenzio i segreti dei giorni e delle notti.

Ma il vostro orecchio è assetato dal rumore di quanto il cuore conosce.

Vorreste esprimere ciò che avete sempre pensato.

Vorreste toccare con mano il corpo nudo dei vostri sogni.

Vladimir Kush 1965 | Russian Surrealist painter

Adam Martinakis, 1972 | Surrealist Digital painter

Polish painter Adam Martinakis was born in Lubań. Since 1982 lives and works in Athens, Greece.

Studied in T.E.I. Of Athens, Faculty of Interior Architecture, Decorative Arts and Industrial Design.

Since 2000 has been working on digital arts: digital image, 3D animation, graphics, web design, video and multimedia.

Since 2006 is teaching digital graphics on Hellenic American Educational Foundation, Athens College.

Luci d'Inverno | I paesaggi Led di Giappone

Uno dei posti più belli del Giappone è sicuramente il giardino botanico Nabano No Sato dell’isola Negashima, un giardino fiorito con delle giganti serre, che si trova nel quartiere di Kuwana città.

Durante i mesi invernali, in occasione del Festival Invernale delle Luminarie, il parco ed il famoso tunnel della luce, vengono illuminati da decorazioni, milioni di Led, luci e colori che creando dei spettacolari paesaggi, mentre il cielo si illumina di vari arcobaleni. Quest'anno il festival sarà aperto fino al 31 marzo del 2013.

Xing Jianjian, 1959 | Figurative painter

Xing Jianjian's creations incorporate elements of expressionism and symbolism in the delicate and subtle classical realism, so the presentation of his works is not only beautiful and delicate, but also lyrical and allegorical.

In 1986, Chinese painter Xing Jianjian / 邢健健 graduated from Nanjing University of the Arts majoring in oil painting with a bachelor's degree and stayed on as a teacher there.

Talon Abraxas, 1980 | Surrealist / Symbolist painter

Talon Abraxas, is an British painter🎨, born in South London, England. A self-taught artist, he is known for works that consist of a combination of traditional and digital images, creating surreal landscapes that have a believable dream-like quality.

Inspiration is drawn from mystical artists and thinkers such as Austin Osman Spare, Jean Delville, Hieronymus Bosch, HR Giger, Beksinski and Aleister Crowley.

He considers himself a symbolist painter, writer and occultist committed to spiritual esotericism. His vision is of the artist as a spontaneously developed initiate whose mission is to send light, spirituality and mysticism into the world.