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Marie Claude Archambault de Vençay
Clair de lune sur le lac Titicaca | Oil | FRANCE
Mingan Guo
First light of morning | Watercolor | MALTA
Art Description
The work created in watercolor during Covid expresses my hope for the end of Covid and return to normal life, as well as the importance of cherishing the happy times brought by peaceful eras the flowers in the picture, represent unity and peace, and the light in the lower left corner represents “hope”.
Bio
My name is MingAn Guo, also known as Geoffrey. I am a Chinese artist. currently live in Malta, Europe. I have a passion for watercolor painting and specialize in creating works featuring flowers and still life. I have prepared a piece for this exhibition titled " FIRST LIGHT OF THE MORNING" the work created in watercolor during “COVID” which expresses my hope for the end of “COVID” and return to normal life, as well as the importance of cherishing the happy times brought by peaceful eras. My art is often inspired by nature, and I try to what is beautiful in my watercolor paintings. In my flower paintings, I pay particular attention to detail and atmosphere. My work is also influenced by traditional Chinese art. I have participated in numerous exhibitions in both China and internationally, receiving praise from both audiences and critics. Through my art, I hope to bring joy and inspiration to people and remind them of the importance of peace and harmony.
Art Description
The work created in watercolor during Covid expresses my hope for the end of Covid and return to normal life, as well as the importance of cherishing the happy times brought by peaceful eras the flowers in the picture, represent unity and peace, and the light in the lower left corner represents “hope”.
Bio
My name is MingAn Guo, also known as Geoffrey. I am a Chinese artist. currently live in Malta, Europe. I have a passion for watercolor painting and specialize in creating works featuring flowers and still life. I have prepared a piece for this exhibition titled " FIRST LIGHT OF THE MORNING" the work created in watercolor during “COVID” which expresses my hope for the end of “COVID” and return to normal life, as well as the importance of cherishing the happy times brought by peaceful eras. My art is often inspired by nature, and I try to what is beautiful in my watercolor paintings. In my flower paintings, I pay particular attention to detail and atmosphere. My work is also influenced by traditional Chinese art. I have participated in numerous exhibitions in both China and internationally, receiving praise from both audiences and critics. Through my art, I hope to bring joy and inspiration to people and remind them of the importance of peace and harmony.
Tania Stupnikova
Cactus Anton and fishing | Acrylic | SLOVAKIA
Art Description
The painting "Cactus Anton and Fishing" showcases the artist's perception of forced emigration. The worm symbolizes the plight of refugees, who are compelled to leave their homeland and settle in unfamiliar surroundings, leaving them feeling helpless and absurd. Conversely, the cactus represents a piece of home that refugees carry with them, despite being in a foreign land. These symbols emphasize the disconnection between individuals and their homeland. The painting's underlying message is that refugees may find themselves in seemingly hopeless and absurd situations, but they still carry a significant part of their homeland with them, and their aspirations and actions are meaningful. The artwork invites the viewer to contemplate the refugee crisis in a captivating and insightful manner.
Bio
Tanya Stupnikova was born in Kyiv and started painting at the age of 42. Throughout her life, she has always been fascinated with science fiction, often seeing fantastical moments in her own life or imagining them when they weren't there. Countless magical worlds live in her imagination, and the inhabitants of each one clamor to be put on her canvases. "Cactus Anton and Fishing" is a somewhat melancholic painting in which the artist has seemingly depicted herself in a parallel world. For her, it represents a world of forced emigration. She and her family escaped a great calamity and arrived in a beautiful and welcoming country, but it was not their home. They can't feel the same as they used to, and everything seems pointless and incomprehensible. Cactus Anton, incidentally, is her daughter's actual cactus, which really exists. To her, he's like a piece of their home that they carry with them, but he also doesn't feel at home. Even when the artist is very sad, she still sees the world through the prism of fantastical worlds and works. For her, emigration is a journey to another world. She regrets that she doesn't enjoy this experience more, but she hopes for the best.
Art Description
The painting "Cactus Anton and Fishing" showcases the artist's perception of forced emigration. The worm symbolizes the plight of refugees, who are compelled to leave their homeland and settle in unfamiliar surroundings, leaving them feeling helpless and absurd. Conversely, the cactus represents a piece of home that refugees carry with them, despite being in a foreign land. These symbols emphasize the disconnection between individuals and their homeland. The painting's underlying message is that refugees may find themselves in seemingly hopeless and absurd situations, but they still carry a significant part of their homeland with them, and their aspirations and actions are meaningful. The artwork invites the viewer to contemplate the refugee crisis in a captivating and insightful manner.
Bio
Tanya Stupnikova was born in Kyiv and started painting at the age of 42. Throughout her life, she has always been fascinated with science fiction, often seeing fantastical moments in her own life or imagining them when they weren't there. Countless magical worlds live in her imagination, and the inhabitants of each one clamor to be put on her canvases. "Cactus Anton and Fishing" is a somewhat melancholic painting in which the artist has seemingly depicted herself in a parallel world. For her, it represents a world of forced emigration. She and her family escaped a great calamity and arrived in a beautiful and welcoming country, but it was not their home. They can't feel the same as they used to, and everything seems pointless and incomprehensible. Cactus Anton, incidentally, is her daughter's actual cactus, which really exists. To her, he's like a piece of their home that they carry with them, but he also doesn't feel at home. Even when the artist is very sad, she still sees the world through the prism of fantastical worlds and works. For her, emigration is a journey to another world. She regrets that she doesn't enjoy this experience more, but she hopes for the best.
Rzyski Christian
C.F.V. 3V. IV | Gouache | BELGIUM
Art Description
THE 3 VALLEYS STEAM RAILWAY (White Water - Black Water - Viroin Rivers) is a tourist line that crisscrosses these rivers and crosses the bucolic landscapes of the NATIONAL PARK. Artwork on display depicts a scene captured by me at an Annual Steam Festival and is part of a collection of 5 miniatures on this subject and represents 95 hours of work out of a total of approximately 430 total hours for the series.
Bio
My major concern was, from childhood, to want to faithfully represent the subjects for which I have a lot of administration of fascination. Resulting in a hyper-realistic style with a GOUACHE technique personally developed around the age of 17. This Planet EARTH, of which, we have the immense privilege of being residents, conceals a diversity of invaluable biotopes. The south of Belgium now has a NATIONAL PARK (2022) in the heart of which I reside. This magnificent region is home to deep forests, lakes, rivers, and in particular two of the most beautiful village in Belgium, a region that I have highlighted throughout my paintings.
Art Description
THE 3 VALLEYS STEAM RAILWAY (White Water - Black Water - Viroin Rivers) is a tourist line that crisscrosses these rivers and crosses the bucolic landscapes of the NATIONAL PARK. Artwork on display depicts a scene captured by me at an Annual Steam Festival and is part of a collection of 5 miniatures on this subject and represents 95 hours of work out of a total of approximately 430 total hours for the series.
Bio
My major concern was, from childhood, to want to faithfully represent the subjects for which I have a lot of administration of fascination. Resulting in a hyper-realistic style with a GOUACHE technique personally developed around the age of 17. This Planet EARTH, of which, we have the immense privilege of being residents, conceals a diversity of invaluable biotopes. The south of Belgium now has a NATIONAL PARK (2022) in the heart of which I reside. This magnificent region is home to deep forests, lakes, rivers, and in particular two of the most beautiful village in Belgium, a region that I have highlighted throughout my paintings.
Carmen Heidi Kroese
Gleichberechtigung | Acrylic | GERMANY
Art Description
Equal rights. To this day, this is no more than wishful thinking for many women around the world.
Bio
Carmen Heidi Kroese has been living in the gemstone town of Idar-Oberstein since 2019. She previously worked in Switzerland as an interior designer, managing director, and painter. She received her artistic training at the Neue Kunstschule Zürich, Switzerland, as well as from some outstanding artists. For her, painting is a vocation, obsession, passion, and fulfillment. The variety of techniques and experimenting with materials inspires her again and again. Carmen does not strive for an individual style and does not paint in a specific direction, preferring figurative representation, slightly abstracted or integrated into an abstracted background. She finds inspiration in nature, and in events around the world. Her favorite subjects are animals and again and again people with all their feelings and destinies. She tries to create images that trigger emotions in the viewer, that stimulate, provoke, and also give pleasure. To this day, the word Gleichberechtigung, equality for men and women is no more than wishful thinking for many women around the world. Carmen has received many prizes and awards for her work. She takes part in many national and international exhibitions and art fairs. Her works are in public and private collections in Switzerland, Germany, Holland, France, Austria, Italy, and Poland
Art Description
Equal rights. To this day, this is no more than wishful thinking for many women around the world.
Bio
Carmen Heidi Kroese has been living in the gemstone town of Idar-Oberstein since 2019. She previously worked in Switzerland as an interior designer, managing director, and painter. She received her artistic training at the Neue Kunstschule Zürich, Switzerland, as well as from some outstanding artists. For her, painting is a vocation, obsession, passion, and fulfillment. The variety of techniques and experimenting with materials inspires her again and again. Carmen does not strive for an individual style and does not paint in a specific direction, preferring figurative representation, slightly abstracted or integrated into an abstracted background. She finds inspiration in nature, and in events around the world. Her favorite subjects are animals and again and again people with all their feelings and destinies. She tries to create images that trigger emotions in the viewer, that stimulate, provoke, and also give pleasure. To this day, the word Gleichberechtigung, equality for men and women is no more than wishful thinking for many women around the world. Carmen has received many prizes and awards for her work. She takes part in many national and international exhibitions and art fairs. Her works are in public and private collections in Switzerland, Germany, Holland, France, Austria, Italy, and Poland
Sean Anthony Winn
Clandestine Oil USA
Art Description
A man questioning his relationship and why it's taking place behind closed doors. He dreams of being out in public with his partner.
Art Description
A man questioning his relationship and why it's taking place behind closed doors. He dreams of being out in public with his partner.
Yu Xiaodong
Misty rain in the curtain | other | China
Art Description + Bio
This work is mainly due to my fascination with symbolic literature and poetry. The most important point of symbolic poetry is the "metaphor", which disrupts the experience of vision, taste, and touch, and leads people to the mysterious spiritual world in a suggestive way. I used the space and scene of the theater to try to slowly present a slowly open story to the audience. In fact, the original intention of this work comes from a well-known opera song "Wujiapo". I have studied Peking Opera for many years under the influence of my family since I was a child, and I am particularly impressed by the opening statement of Xue Pinggui in Wujiapo. But because of time, in my incomplete memory, these clothes, clothes, and singing have become some vague shadows. They are intertwined with the color memory shape of my childhood and have become completely unrecognizable. I can only rearrange the story according to the hazy memories in my mind. Watch the upcoming drama from a children's perspective. The picture uses a red old curtain, the rough pixel mountains in the background and the pagoda in the distance, the shadow image of China, and the huge projection of chaotic time and space, trying to present a fable story between reality and illusory, absurdity, legend and history
Art Description + Bio
This work is mainly due to my fascination with symbolic literature and poetry. The most important point of symbolic poetry is the "metaphor", which disrupts the experience of vision, taste, and touch, and leads people to the mysterious spiritual world in a suggestive way. I used the space and scene of the theater to try to slowly present a slowly open story to the audience. In fact, the original intention of this work comes from a well-known opera song "Wujiapo". I have studied Peking Opera for many years under the influence of my family since I was a child, and I am particularly impressed by the opening statement of Xue Pinggui in Wujiapo. But because of time, in my incomplete memory, these clothes, clothes, and singing have become some vague shadows. They are intertwined with the color memory shape of my childhood and have become completely unrecognizable. I can only rearrange the story according to the hazy memories in my mind. Watch the upcoming drama from a children's perspective. The picture uses a red old curtain, the rough pixel mountains in the background and the pagoda in the distance, the shadow image of China, and the huge projection of chaotic time and space, trying to present a fable story between reality and illusory, absurdity, legend and history
Melinda Fehér
Danaidák / Danaids | Oil | HUNGARY
Art Description
My painting was inspired by the Greek mythological story of the "Danaids". The punishment of the 50 women symbolizes useless, monotonous, never-ending work. This phenomenon is still valid today: most women perform the "invisible" work, while in the world of "visible" work, they are just as competent as men. Society - including women themselves - has high expectations of women in fulfilling stereotypical gender roles. With my painting, I reflect on this oppressive phenomenon of women, as the constantly moving, translucent, faceless figures are trapped within the frame. The facelessness symbolizes the common fate that every woman faces in some form, while the uniqueness of every woman lies within the fluctuations, colors, golden glow of the figures, and diversity of shapes.
Bio
My name is Melinda Fehér, Hungarian artist, I have been painting for 7 years. My goal in my creative work is to express emotions and thoughts and evoke them in the viewer. I am interested in the current social issues of our present, such as the position of women and the mysteries of relationships - with ourselves, with each other, and with our environment.
Art Description
My painting was inspired by the Greek mythological story of the "Danaids". The punishment of the 50 women symbolizes useless, monotonous, never-ending work. This phenomenon is still valid today: most women perform the "invisible" work, while in the world of "visible" work, they are just as competent as men. Society - including women themselves - has high expectations of women in fulfilling stereotypical gender roles. With my painting, I reflect on this oppressive phenomenon of women, as the constantly moving, translucent, faceless figures are trapped within the frame. The facelessness symbolizes the common fate that every woman faces in some form, while the uniqueness of every woman lies within the fluctuations, colors, golden glow of the figures, and diversity of shapes.
Bio
My name is Melinda Fehér, Hungarian artist, I have been painting for 7 years. My goal in my creative work is to express emotions and thoughts and evoke them in the viewer. I am interested in the current social issues of our present, such as the position of women and the mysteries of relationships - with ourselves, with each other, and with our environment.
John Steffen
After the Argument | Oil | HUNGARY
Art Description
This painting was done as a quick gestural sketch following an argument between my wife and me. It is rare I use such fluid strokes, but the painting was a cathartic process for me to move from my own anger and pain, and to capture that of my wife.
Bio
I am a retired American living in Budapest. I come from a tiny village in the USA. It was my dream as a child to see the world. As a result of being my dreamer and spawning artist, my life has been quite rich. I’ve lived and worked in Asia and Africa and the Persian Gulf. Primarily I am self-taught. My predilection for realist representation has been satiated through admiration for women and now I can see this method of painting was simply to prove to myself I could do it. Being sufficiently satisfied in rendering likeness for about the past year I have been dabbling in Surrealism.
Art Description
This painting was done as a quick gestural sketch following an argument between my wife and me. It is rare I use such fluid strokes, but the painting was a cathartic process for me to move from my own anger and pain, and to capture that of my wife.
Bio
I am a retired American living in Budapest. I come from a tiny village in the USA. It was my dream as a child to see the world. As a result of being my dreamer and spawning artist, my life has been quite rich. I’ve lived and worked in Asia and Africa and the Persian Gulf. Primarily I am self-taught. My predilection for realist representation has been satiated through admiration for women and now I can see this method of painting was simply to prove to myself I could do it. Being sufficiently satisfied in rendering likeness for about the past year I have been dabbling in Surrealism.
Wolfgang Graue
Deep in the Forest | Oil | GERMANY
Bio
My name is Wolfgang Graue, I'm from Germany, and greetings from the beautiful small town of Celle, the southern gateway to the Lüneburger Heath. In 2006 I realized a long-awaited dream - with my early retirement I live my "old love" oil painting intensively. I am largely self-taught, have learned with every picture and it has become my own style of painting, and I can now say: "Painting is my life"
Why with oil paints –Brilliance, intensity, flexibility, and durability have always fascinated me, and I also love the pictures of van Gogh, Monet, Rubens, and Leonardo da Vinci - all absolute masters of oil painting. My paintings can be characterized as "naturalistic" / "realistic". I try to present the motif in my pictures as realistically as possible. The shapes and perspectives have to be right, the proportions and colors have to fit, and the highlights as well as light and shadow. The most important thing for me is that I can realize my wishes and dreams on screen - with a lot of passion and love. With this I create “my little ideal world” – and I would like to take the viewer into it. Since 2010 I have been showing my paintings in regular exhibitions at home and abroad. Numerous paintings are in private and public ownership.
Bio
My name is Wolfgang Graue, I'm from Germany, and greetings from the beautiful small town of Celle, the southern gateway to the Lüneburger Heath. In 2006 I realized a long-awaited dream - with my early retirement I live my "old love" oil painting intensively. I am largely self-taught, have learned with every picture and it has become my own style of painting, and I can now say: "Painting is my life"
Why with oil paints –Brilliance, intensity, flexibility, and durability have always fascinated me, and I also love the pictures of van Gogh, Monet, Rubens, and Leonardo da Vinci - all absolute masters of oil painting. My paintings can be characterized as "naturalistic" / "realistic". I try to present the motif in my pictures as realistically as possible. The shapes and perspectives have to be right, the proportions and colors have to fit, and the highlights as well as light and shadow. The most important thing for me is that I can realize my wishes and dreams on screen - with a lot of passion and love. With this I create “my little ideal world” – and I would like to take the viewer into it. Since 2010 I have been showing my paintings in regular exhibitions at home and abroad. Numerous paintings are in private and public ownership.
Renata Maroti
IF I WERE A ROSE | Mixed Media | HUNGARY
Art Description
RENATA MAROTI: IF I WERE A ROSE
A beautiful woman is sitting alone, lost in her own thoughts, with a glass of wine and a cigarette, at a table covered with a white lace tablecloth. Her hair is adorned with a white rose. Another white rose appears in the slowly swirling cigarette smoke. The melancholy "rose smoke" permeates her entire body. Roses weave through her whole being, covering every inch of her skin. It is a dream come true: she is a rose herself.
Bio
RENATA MAROTI ars poetica:
My main goal in art is to help people see not only the tangible things but much more: to be able the see the invisible. I would like to make people think in a different way: to see what is beyond reality. I would like to make people use their imagination and fantasy world. Art is one of the most fundamental keys to developing emotional intelligence and empathy skills. And these are the most important factors for accepting, understanding each other. We are surrounded by negativity everywhere. Therefore I want to show the beauty of life and give positive energies through my paintings.
Art Description
RENATA MAROTI: IF I WERE A ROSE
A beautiful woman is sitting alone, lost in her own thoughts, with a glass of wine and a cigarette, at a table covered with a white lace tablecloth. Her hair is adorned with a white rose. Another white rose appears in the slowly swirling cigarette smoke. The melancholy "rose smoke" permeates her entire body. Roses weave through her whole being, covering every inch of her skin. It is a dream come true: she is a rose herself.
Bio
RENATA MAROTI ars poetica:
My main goal in art is to help people see not only the tangible things but much more: to be able the see the invisible. I would like to make people think in a different way: to see what is beyond reality. I would like to make people use their imagination and fantasy world. Art is one of the most fundamental keys to developing emotional intelligence and empathy skills. And these are the most important factors for accepting, understanding each other. We are surrounded by negativity everywhere. Therefore I want to show the beauty of life and give positive energies through my paintings.
Oysten Jacobsen
I`m gonna live forever | Mixed Media | NORWAY
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