Vladimir Kush

Magic!!!!!!!!
It's possible to see a magic show and be tricked. But magic shows in general are performed live or can be watched on T.V.
But this artist - Vladimir Kush is a magician who performs his magic on a piece of paper!!!
Kush was born in 1965 in Moscow, Russia. After study at the Surikov Moscow Art Institute, he was conscripted into the Soviet Army for two years where he was assigned to paint murals. In 1987 he began exhibiting with the USSR Union of Artists but earned a living drawing portraits on the streets of Moscow and caricatures for a newspaper. In 1990, following his first foreign exhibition in Germany with two other Russian artists, he emigrated to the United States, initially living in Los Angeles before moving to Hawaii where he also worked as a mural painter for the Whaler's Village Museum on Maui. While based in Hawaii, his works received several exhibitions in Hong Kong galleries. Gallery shows followed in Seattle, Pittsburgh, and other American cities, and he eventually opened his own gallery, Kush Fine Art in Lahaina, Hawaii.

He later opened Kush Fine Art galleries in Las Vegas and Laguna Beach, California. Many of his original oil paintings are also sold as giclée prints which initially contributed to his popularity. In 2007 Kush sued the pop singer Pink and her record company for copyright infringement when imagery from his painting (and later giclée print), Contes Erotiques,was used without his authorisation for her 2006 video U + Ur Hand. The case was settled the following year when the singer agreed to pay him undisclosed damages. Prints and an original oil painting by Kush are held in the NaPua Gallery collection at the Grand Wailea Resort on Maui in addition to works held in private collections. In July 2011 his works were shown at the Artistes du Monde international exhibition in Cannes where he won the American First Prize in Painting. He also has a resident show in Las Vegas, Nevada at Caesar's Palace.

Kush predominantly works in the medium of oil painting on canvas or board, with many of the original paintings also sold as limited editiongiclée-on-canvas prints. His bronze-colored sculptures are small-scale and usually based on imagery from his paintings, such as Walnut of Eden and Pros and Cons. Although his style is frequently described as surrealist, Kush himself refers to it as "metaphorical realism" and cites the early influence on his style of Salvador Dalí's surrealist paintings as well as landscapes by the German romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich. Another influence on his work has been the 16th century Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, known for his fantastic imagery and sometimes characterised as "the pre-Surrealism Surrealist". Wings, ships, and color-saturated seacapes are frequent themes in his paintings, exemplified in the companion pieces, Arrival of the Flower Ship and Departure of the Winged Ship. Flowing water is another recurrent theme, exemplified by Breach and Current. Other works such as Three Graces and African Sonata merge human and animal forms with inanimate objects.
Let's have a look at his famous works:

To know more about him....visit his website:

vladimirkush.com/

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol. Ever heard about him?

He was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives. It is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist.

Let's have a look at his works:

                                                                Eight Elives
                                             

                                                         Campbell's Soup cans

                                                      Marylin Dipytich

                                                          Men in her life

                                                          potrait of seymour h knox

marilyn monroe

Reema Bansal

Painting. This word is stored in the genes of this painter. From a very young age she started painting.
Born in Chandigarh, India, Reema Bhansal took up painting at the age of three when she was encouraged by her family and enthused by her teachers. She persisted with the brush despite her neuropathy - a disease which entails weakening of hands, arms, feet and legs. She has many awards and certificates to her credit obtained from various drawing and painting competitions. 
Now she is of 29 and has accomplished a great career in the field of drawing.

to know more about her you can view the following link

http://www.reemabansal.com/

Jamini Roy

Jamini Roy, son of a landowner of a small village in India, is one of the best painters India has produced.He was one of the most successful pupils of Abandrinath Tagore.

He was sent to study at the Government College of Art, Kolkata. With time, he realized that he needed to draw inspirations from his own traditions.

His new style was a reaction against the Bengal School and Western tradition. His underlying quest was threefold: to capture the essence of simplicity embodied in the life of the folk people; to make art accessible to a wider section of people; and to give Indian art its own identity. Jamini Roy's paintings were put on exhibition for the first time in the British India Street of Calcutta (Kolkata) in 1938. During the 1940s, his popularity touched new highs, with the Bengali middle class and the European community becoming his main clientele. In 1946, his work was exhibited in London and in 1953, in the New York City. He was awarded the Padma Bhusan in 1954. His work has been exhibited extensively in international exhibitions and can be found in many private and public collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He spent most of his life living and working in Calcutta. Initially he experimented with Kalighat paintings but found that it has ceased to be strictly a "patua" and went to learn from village patuas. Consequently his techniques as well as subject matter was influenced by traditional art of Bengal. He preferred himself to be called a patua. Jamini Roy died in 1972. He was survived by four sons and a daughter. Currently his successors (daughters-in-law and grand children and their children) stay at the home he had built in Ballygunge Place, Kolkata. His works can be found in various galleries across the globe as well as in his home.It is evident that his followers and successors copied many of his works with a minor variations intentional or unintentional. So, the basic problem lies with the identification of the originality of his works.

In 1934, he received a Viceroy's gold medal in an all India exhibition for one of his work. In 1955 he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India,this was the third highest award a civilian can be given. Also in 1955, he was made the first Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi, the highest honour in the fine arts conferred by the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Art, Government of India.

In 1976, the Archaeological Survey of India, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India declared his works among the "Nine Masters" whose work, to be henceforth considered "to be art treasures, having regard to their artistic and aesthetic value"

His top works include:

                                              

                                       bride and the two companion

Gopini

                                                                          Cat Plus

                                                        Mother and child

                                                              Bengali woman

His work is remarkable and his contribution reproducing Indian art in modern art technique is really appreciable 

franz marc

Franz Marc. 
He was born on February 8, 1880, Munich, Germany and passed away at the age of 36.He had a short lifetime but a great carrier. He was one of the key figures of the expressionist movement in Germany. 
Franz was the son of a professional landscape painter Wilhem Marc and a strict Calvinist Sophie Marc. In 1900 Marc began to study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where his teachers included Gabriel von Hackl and Wilhelm von Diez. In 1903 and 1907, he spent time in France, particularly in Paris, visiting the city's museums and copying many paintings, a traditional way for artists to study and develop technique. In Paris, Marc frequented artistic circles and was able to meet artists, including the actress Sarah Bernhardt. He discovered a strong affinity for the work of Vincent van Gogh.

Marc was fond of experimenting and trying.....In 1912, Franz Marc met with Robert elaunay, who used color and design methods, in a futuristic manner; this led to the futurist movement. Marc became fascinated in this futuristic style, as well as in cubism, and it became a major influence for the work which he produced during this year, as well as the work which came forth following this period as well.During his career, Franz Marc created about 60 pieces in lithography and woodcut. Many of his pieces depicted animals, in their natural setting and habitat.He also gave meaning to the colors that were used in his pieces; blue was used to depict masculinity and a spiritual style; while yellow and lighter colors depicted femininity and joy. Red tones were often used to depict violence or some serious under toning in his work.

The spread of expressionism would have almost be impossible in Germany without Franz Marc .....he said 

"Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them. ”

He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it.

Although he died at the young age of 36, many of the pieces created by Franz Marc were influential, and well ahead of his time

Let's have a look at his paintings 

                                                               animals in landscape

                                                             the tower of Blue horses

                                                               deer in the forest

                                                                 the fate of the animals

                                                                      The bewitched mill

                                                                  fighting forms

Dru Blair

Dru Blair is photorealist artist and instructor. Many of his earlier paintings dramatically portray subjects that salute Man's greatest technological triumphs. His realistic aircraft paintings are often mistaken for airplane photos. While Dru's helicopter and airplane paintings focus primarily on high technology aviation and military aircraft, he has also been selected to portray many Star Trek novel covers, as well as such diverse subjects as the well known Budweiser Bullfrogs, and dozens of magazine covers. 
After looking at the man's painting you would be hardly interested in photographs!!!!!
If you love to be tricked then you must visit his website
 http://www.drublair.com/

What do you want???

Hey there what sort of painters are you looking for????
You can comment and let me know...... I'll try my best to research about the painter and post it
tx:-)

frederick frieseke

Frederick Carl Frieseke was one of the most important impressionist painter of his time.He spent most of his life as an expatriate in France.He is especially known for painting female subjects, both indoors and out.In 1858, Frederick Carl Frieseke's grandparents, Frederick Frieseke and his wife, emigrated from Pritzerbe (near Brandenburg, Germany) with their sons, including Herman Carl. They settled in the small central Michigan town of Owosso.
In 1893, Frieseke graduated from Owosso High School, then began his artistic training at theArt Institute of Chicago, studying with Frederick Warren Freer and John Vanderpoel. After moving to New York in 1895, he resumed his art education at the Art Students League in 1897. He worked as an illustrator, selling cartoons he had drawn to The New York Times,Puck, and Truth. He claimed that he might have curtailed his art education if he had been more successful in that endeavor. The following year, he moved to France, where he would remain, except for short visits to the United States and elsewhere, as an expatriate for the rest of his life. He did continue his education, enrolling at the Académie Julian in Paris, studying under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens, and receiving criticism from Auguste-Joseph Delecluse His studies also included some time at Académie Carmen under James Abbott McNeill Whistler Frieseke visited Holland, including the Katwijk and Laren artist colonies, in the summer of 1898. During this time he sketched and painted in watercolors, and he initially planned to make that his specialty but he was encouraged by Académie Carmen instructor Frederick William MacMonnies to work in oils.
Frieseke discounted his formal art education, referring to himself as self-taught; he felt that he had learned more from his independent study of artists' work than he had from his academic studies. 
Frieseke had established a superb reputation during his career. A 1931 book refers to Frieseke as "one of the most prominent members of our self-exiled Americans." He died in his Normandy home on August 24, 1939, of an aneurysm.

                                                                lady in garden

                                                                breakfast in the garden

                                                                        the garden parasol

                                                              In the boudoir

                                                    lilies

                                                                  woman with a mirror

                                                     Afternoon - yellow room

Vija Celmins

Vija Celmins is an important Latvian-American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and drawings of natural environments and phenomena such as the ocean, spider webs, star fields, and rocks. Her earlier work included pop sculptures and monochromatic representational paintings. Based in New York City, she has been the subject of over forty solo exhibitions since 1965, and major retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and Centre Pompidou, Paris.
I noticed that most of her paintings include simple objects. Her simplicity makes it look more beautiful.

the list of her awards are:

• 1961 Fellowship to Yale University Summer Session
• 1968 Cassandra Foundation Award
• 1971 & 1976 Artist’s Fellowship from National Endowment for the Arts
• 1980 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1996 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art
• 1997 Skowhegan Medal for Painting^[
• 1997 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship
• 2000-2001 Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation Award
• 2004 Elected into the National Academy of Design
• 2006 RISD Athena Award for Excellence in Painting
• 2008 Awarded the $10,000 Carnegie Prize
• 2009 Roswitha Haftmann Prize
• 2009 Fellow Award in the Visual Arts from United States Artists

Painters

I have always written about different painters. Today after writing about one painter I asked myself why do I write about painters????

After thinking for a while I understood. I write about painters 'cause I love paintings. Painting itself is a very precious art. I believe it is rather the most evolved art on earth. The reason behind is  that it started ages before man learned to read and write.Yes. You may not agree with this statement.But I do strongly believe in it.

Now for example you went to a hill station.A beautiful hill station.When you were back your friend asked you" where have you been? how was your trip?" 

"I went to a hill station! oh friend you wouldn't believe me how beautiful it was! I mean my words cant express its beauty!!!" 

Well this a very common answer.But did you notice something?

The words, in many cases are never enough to express what you want to tell but if you rather paint your emotions one can get a smell of what a person wants to express.

And if you succeed in doing that then you're an amazing painter. Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and so many could  express their emotions through paintings. This way they developed and evolved the art of painting. I believe that nowadays anyone can be a good painter for few great painters have helped us do that. In the field of painting or drawing there isn't anything right or wrong until and unless one can express emotions. Few great artists have given this generation the space for modern art, impressionism and many. Now, besides of concentrating only on detailing one can do many things. If this isn't evolution then what is it?

The field of painting or drawing is so large and extended that every sort of drawing is acceptable. This is what I love most about painting and that is why I write about different painters to look at different styles of paintings!!!!

adeline goldminc-tronzo

Adeline Goldminc-Tronzo, born and educated in Paris, is a famous artist who has exhibited her work across US and Europe.
Over the past 35 years, she has frequently exhibited her work across the US and Europe. Her work is held in numerous private collections both here and abroad. She currently lives and works in Eliot ,Maine with her husband the painter Michael Tronzo.
Her paintings are based on woman, while she has an interest in still life also.
When I look at her paintings I feel that they express an emotion. They maybe sadness, boldness, happiness and many. This is why I like her paintings. I feel that her paintings are an ocean of different emotions and that is what I like most about painters.