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Marc Chagall

Chagall, Marc (1887 – 1985). Russian artist of a devout Jewish family, born in Vitebsk. In 1907 he entered a minor art school in St. Petersburg while working as a sign painter. Throughout his work a foundation of Russian art and the sign painter’s technique was evident. In 1910 he went to Paris where he came in contact with the Cubists where his work began to show Cubist influence, but subjects generally remain of life in Vitebsk. In 1914 he returned home. He was drawn back to his Jewish heritage and his marriage resulted in a series of exuberant painters of lovers. After the revolution in 1918 Chagall was appointed director of Vitebsk Art School, which became a center of avant-garde ideas. From 1919-1922 he worked as a theatrical designer for the Jewish State Theater, executing murals. In 1922 he went to Berlin executing etchings for Vollard. In 1925-1926 he completed a set of illustrations for an edition of La Fontaine’s Fables and held a one-man show in New York. In 1930 his autobiography, Ma Vie, was published and Chagall began to prepare illustrations for the Bible, traveling to the Middle East. He went to the U. S. in 1941 producing the décor of the Ballet Theater. He returned to France after the war. Of his later work, his designs for stained glass windows should be mentioned, and his paintings for the ceilings of Paris Opera.

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish painter, born in Malaga. He studied principally in Barcelona where he lived from 1895 to 1904. He showed prodigious artistic ability from his youth. His paintings of 1901-4 (his blue period) are mainly of poor and suffering people. Settling in Paris in 1904, his home until 1945, he began to meet artists and writers and his early patrons, the steins, Uhe and Shchukin. The pessimism of his earlier work gave way to the so called “rose period” lighter in mood and palette. All of his early work exemplifies his extraordinary power to assimilate a variety of influences and his uninhibited will to experiment in order to arrive at a more satisfactory mode of expression. “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) was a conscious attempt to complete his research, this painting in retrospect was the vital step in freeing the artist from traditional obligation to natural appearances. Picasso’s works from 1914 when his partnership with Braque was ended by the outbreak of the war, can all be seen to derive in some way from Cubism. He exhibited in the 1st Surrealist exhibition (Paris,1925) and contributed etchings and writings to official Surrealist literature. Picasso’s most original sculpture includes Cubist bronzes. Leaving Paris in 1946 he subsequently lived in Antibes, Vallauris (1948-58) and Vauvenargues. His post-war work includes family portraits and several variations on works by other artists as well as a prodigious volume to graphic work and ceramics. Prolifically productive to the end of his life, he was one of the most versatile and influential artists of the century

Salvador Dali

Dali, Salvador (1904 – 89) Dali experimented with nearly all known media from sculpture to literature to painting. Dali’s oeuvre shows a constantly changing evolution of style. From his earliest impressionist works, through Cubist, Surrealist, and Purist influences all the way into his Classical art, Dali continued to integrate a plethora of styles into his own work, creating a wondrous and eclectic whole. His appetite for creation was vast, and over the years Dali spawned a multitude of works from a vast array of media. Amongst them oils, watercolors, graphics, drawings, jewels, sculpture, his own writings and many objects’d art. From his earliest works to his most astounding achievements, Salvador Dali showed a genius uniquely his, one that was translated into the world of art for all to behold. There can be no doubt that Dali stands amongst the most acclaimed and talented artists of all time. His own vision and determination have set in motion an entire movement of thinking and will continue to set high standards in art for many generations to come.

Joan Miro

Miro, Joan (1893 – 1983). Born in Barcelona and studied at the Barcelona School of fine Arts and the Academia Gali. Miro moved to Paris in 1920, where under the influence of surrealist poets and writers, he evolved his mature style. Miro drew on memory, fantasy, and the irrational to create works of art that are visual analogues of surrealist poetry. The forms of his paintings are organized against flat neutral backgrounds and are painted in a limited range of bright colors, especially blue, red, yellow, green and black. Miro later produced highly generalized, ethereal works in which his organic forms and figures are reduced to abstract spots, lines and bursts of colors. Miro also experimented in a wide array of other media, devoting himself to etchings and lithographs for several years in the 1950’s and also working in watercolor, pastel, collage, and paint on copper and Masonite. Miro died in Mallorca, Spain in 1983.

Tarkay

Tarkay was born on in1935 on the Yugoslav-Hungarian border. The vitality and flexibility of ambiance as exemplified in Tarkay’s work places him as one of the most important new-classic artists in Europe today. At age 9, Tarkay and his family were sent to the Mathausen Concentration Camp, until Allied liberation freed them a year later. In 1949 his family immigrated to Israel, living in a kibbutz for several years, and by 1951 he had received a scholarship to the Bezalel Art Academy where he studied under the artist Schwartzman. The inspiration for his work clearly lies with French impressionism, particularly the paintings of Matisse and the drawing style of Toulouse-Lautrec. After exhibiting both in Israel and abroad, he received recognition at the international Art Expo in New York in 1986 and 1987 for works in several forms of media, including oil, acrylic and watercolor.

Jane Wooster Scott

Jane Wooster Scott. Raised in Eastern Pennsylvania, Jane Wooster Scott grew up between picturesque Bucks County and the surrounding Dutch communities. Her earliest recollections go back to the section of that country which, even in the 1940’s retained glimmerings of the era in which she paints. She photographs what she sees to recapture them later on canvas. However, few of her paintings are real, existing scenes. They are compositions drawn from her personal thoughts and emotions. She has been exhibiting her work in Los Angles and New York and most of her shows have completely sold out on opening night. Among her collectors are Aaron Spelling, Sylvester Stallone and Marlon Brando. Her works hang in American embassies around the world and are part of the permanent White House collection.
Currently she resides in homes in Los Angeles and Sun Valley, Idaho, and creates images for limited edition prints published through her own business. Her work appears on Christmas cards, calendars, puzzles, plates and more. Of her life and work, she says: “I’m a very happy person, and I think it shows in my work. One thing everyone said to me without fail is that ‘whenever I look at your work it makes me happy.’ And that’s good; we have enough stressful things in the world. We don’t need it hanging on our walls.”

Guillaume Azoulay

Guillaume Azoulay was born in Casablanca. His parents took him to Paris when he was ten.Azoulay is a self-taught artist who began making a living on the streets sketching and selling his drawings by the age of 13. His encounters with travelers from all walks of life ignited a passion for travel that saw him hitchhike from Paris throughout Europe and the Middle East at the young age of 14. Azoulay has made the world his training ground and uses his memory and imagination to draw his subjects with a fluidity that has garnered international recognition. His drawings of dragons, horses and dancers evoke graceful movement in the line-work of art without lifting his pen from the paper. In 1978 two of his pieces were accepted in the permanent collection of the Louvre Museum in Paris. At the time the chief curator said,“He is an artist whose varied works let us predict a very bright future.” He is the youngest artist to have his work featured in the archives of the Louvre. Azoulay has also been able to count many heavyweight international figures outside the art world among his collectors, from President Ronald Reagan, President Sadat of Egypt and President Francois Mitterrand to Prince Rainier and Prince Karim Aga Khan. His works can also be found in the Nelson Rockefeller Collection.

Jean Michel Basquiat

Je n‑Michel Basquiat (1960 – 1988) was one of the most important American artists of the 20th century. He first achieved notoriety as part of an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, post-punk, and street art movements had coalesced. By the 1980s, he was exhibiting his neo-expressionist paintings in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992.

Basquiat’s art focused on dichotomies, such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, etc. He appropriated poetry, drawing, and painting, and married text and image, abstraction, and figuration, and historical information mixed with contemporary critique. Basquiat used social commentary in his paintings as a “springboard to deeper truths about the individual”, as well as attacks on power structures and systems of racism, while his poetics were acutely political and direct in their criticism of colonialism and support for class struggle. He died of a heroin overdose at his art studio at age 27.

Amand – Durand after Rembrandt

Amand-Durand, born in Paris, France, 1831, became a master engraver early in his career. He deeply admired the 15th, 16th and 17th century Old Masters’ engravings and saw how they lost quality and faded from the ravages of time. This realization, combined with in-depth research throughout public and private collections of these masters, inspired his dedication to recreate their images and preserve the original quality for future generations.
References to Amand-Durand indicate that his work was well known to experts of the early 19th and 20th century etchings. George Duplessis, Conservator of the Cabinet Estampes in 1855, so appreciated his skill that he published this matter in books which now belong to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and his own work, Histoire de la Gravure. This, an historic study of European engravings, is a book so valuable in its reproductive quality that it is kept under lock and key at major libraries.
Soon after Amand-Durand’s death in 1905, his original copper plates were obtained by the prestigious French book publisher, DOMINIQUE VINCENT et Cie. They mainly published the work for book illustrations, but sporadically sold it to private parties interested in this unique creation. And now, over a century after Amand-Durand painstakingly recreated Rembrandt’s etchings, the benefits of his devotion to quality and beauty are again being felt throughout the entire art world.

Zinovy Shersher

About the Artist:“I want people to hear the music in my paintings,” says Zinovy Shersher. Born and raised in the former Soviet Union, Zinovy Shersher began his artistic life in his early youth. Already attending music school, he began to study art at the age of 9. Once he had finished high school, Shersher began his studies at the University of Fine Arts in Russia. After being awarded the Master of Arts degree in 1970, he enrolled in the College of Music, graduating in 1976. Zinovy immigrated to the United states from Russia in 1980 after years of struggling to keep his own artistic vision. Upon arrival he enrolled in New York’s prestigious School of Visual Arts. Today, his work is featured in significant collections throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. In 1993 he was commissioned to do a painting with the portraits of First Oscar winners for the 65-th anniversary of the Oscars. One of Shersher’s most important works has drawn considerable attention. Artist installed a 2,000 square foot mural entitled “We have a future” which earned him numerous awards and the Certificate of Appreciation from the City of Los Angeles. In addition to galleries, he is also represented by the R&S Gallery of The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Hollywood Entertainment Museum. Zinovy Shersher is an award winning member of The Oil Pastel Association. More then 100 articles, TV and Radio interviews devoted to Zinovy Shersher. His biography is in the “Encyclopedia of living artists in America”, “Who is who in Art” and “Who is who in the West”.

Anatole Krasnyansky

Anatole Krasnyansky Ukrainian American Artist: b. 1930-2012 Born in 1930, Anatole Krasnyansky, was a prominent architect and watercolorist when he left the U.S.S.R. for the United States in 1975, where he found fertile ground for his aesthetic growth. Krasnyansky’s traditional cityscapes, much admired in Europe, have grown richer, freer and more expressive; and in recent years he has evolved a second, wholly new style with which to render the experience and ideas of his new life in the United States. Krasnyansky’s awareness of the interdependence of architecture, sculptures, painting and applied art, and his knowledge of these diverse disciplines have shaped his career and found expression in his art. Through experimentation Krasnyansky has developed his own artistic method, one that has freed him from the constraints of traditional watercolor techniques.The artist’s innovative inclusion of paper texture into the creative process is a dynamic component of his art, resulting in an expansion of the medium’s potential. Krasnyansky is one of the first artists to elevate the watercolor medium to the expressive possibilities usually associated with oil painting.

Alan Aldridge

Aldridge was born in 1943 in east London, he died in Los Angeles in 2017. Aldridge first worked as an illustrator at The Sunday Times Magazine. He was hired in March 1965 by Penguins chief editor Tony Godwin to become the art director of Penguin Books. As art director, he especially focused on science fiction book covers and introduced his style which resonated with the mood of the time. In 1968 he moved to his own graphic-design firm, INK, which became closely involved with graphic images for the Beatles and Apple Corps. During the 1960s and 1970s he was responsible for most Beatles & Elton John album covers. He helped create the graphic style of that era. His work is characterized by a flowing, cartoony style and soft airbrushing – very much in step with the psychedelic styles of the times.

Robert Copple

Copple’s works are exquisite in details and dynamic in form. His subject matters are always well executed. Robert Copple was born in Los Angeles and graduated from Cornell University with a major in both painting and photography and a minor in ornithology/biology/fields studies. He has since devoted himself full-time to producing original art including sculpture. Robert’s art is an advocate for nature-and has passion for the importance of the natural world and its preservation.

Arina Sleutsker

Arina Sleutsker shows fanciful, ornate paintings that are almost Bosch-ian in their depiction of a world that seems, vaguely, to be dismantling itself. LA Times Jan 2000

“The works of Arina Sleutsker magnetize, fascinate and stun. They are meant for the beholder’s participation and for one, who truly understands art. A masterful command of the drawing, delicate and yet picturesque palette, generous abundance of details compose her unrepeatable artistic manner. Most important is, perhaps, the passionate, sometimes even tragic, but always subliming spirit of her art, profundity and elaboration of which are revealed with every artistic encounter. New Outlook” July 1999

Her works possess passion, something very rare in our cold, cruel and greedy time… What are they – dreams, vision, prophecies? For me the answer is crystal clear – this is real art! ”Panorama” July 16, 1997

It was a revelation. A dreamer’s confession. An epic, nuclear power. And an aspiration for perfectionism “Friday-Express” Dec 13, 1996

In Russia Arina Sleutsker participated in many new avant-garde movements, which bloomed during “Perestroika”. She had a chance to work as a set and costume designer in “Theater – experiment”. Arina was a member of the group “Fellowship of Independent Artists”. Her works have been displayed at several galleries and sidewalk shows in Kiji, St.Petersburg, Sochi, and Prague. Now her paintings and graphic works are in numerous private collections of Russia, Europe and America .In 1990 Arina immigrated to United States. She worked in the film industry, on TV, “Disney” Set design “Alison in Wonderland” and in Rock & Roll industry. Arina created 3 album covers for Tom Petty, “Outfield” and “Emerson, Lake and Palmer”. She participated in the Lollapalooza rock-festival in America and Canada. Her sculptures were displayed at “01 Gallery” in Los Angeles. In 1995, Arina exhibited her new paintings and graphic works on the City Walk in the Universal Studios during the festival of Russian culture “Firebird” in Los Angeles. In 1999 she had an exhibition in Westside Jewish Community Center, in a group show “Obscurity to freedom” in Finegood Art Gallery, in West valley JCC. Art Show “Affaire in the Gardens”, Beverly Hills, October 1999, and May 2000, May 2001 ART 21 Production, Las Vegas, November,1999. “Diversity 2000” at VIVA Gallery and Solo exhibition at cultural center “Dolina”/ January 2000. “Madrid” theater/February 2000 and ART EXPO NEW YORK, March 2000 and 2001. ”Adam & Eve” M.Studio Gallery New York. Auction on “Queen Mary” May 2003.

She won 2^nd place in Valley Artist Guild Annual Show June 2000.

She currently exhibits in Il Prato Gallery, Venetian Hotel Las-Vegas.

Arina participated in Russian –American Group Show in Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, 2004, 2005,2006. She has 2 successful solo shows in Finegood Gallery West Hills, CA..“Dragonfly Gallery” Monrovia , CA. Recently she participated in Art Shows: Rocky ‘s Art & framing, Placerville, CA., Parkhearst Gallery San Pedro, CA Hallmark Galleries La Jolla, CA, Armenian Cultural Center, Glendale, CA. 25^th anniversary city of West Hollywood, CA.

Russian artist received her Masters Degree in Fine Art in St. Petersburg State University. Classically trained for nine years by one of the best art schools in Russia, she combines traditional and contemporary styles and creates unique compositions. Arina’s favorite motives are figures in movement, nature in an extreme, portraits, biblical and ancient legends.