Il mondo Romantico dell'artista Liudmila Kondakova

Nata in Russia nel 1956, Liudmila Kondakova è immigrata negli Stati Uniti nel 1991.

Diplomata al Grabar Center di Mosca, ha frequentato anche la Scuola Russa di Arti Sacre, l'Istituto Pedagogico di Mosca e l'Istituto d'Arte di Mosca.

Kondakova collega il suo background altamente qualificato alla sua espressione artistica in questo modo: "Nella mia arte, l'essenza e la bellezza hanno sempre riposato nei dettagli".

Andhika Ramadhian, 1996 | Minimalist graphic designer

"Between minimalism and surrealism, inspired by anything around me, a bit my own life, a bit of internet culture, a bit of film I watch, or a visit to the art gallery, I want to express feeling, I wanted to get an emotional response from audience" - Andhika Ramadhian.

Andhika Ramadhian is a multi-disciplinary designer based in Indonesia.

He is known for his iconic artistic approach of creating images that depict surrealism and minimalism, and provoke philosophical thinking through his visuals.

Antonie Boubong | A Little Gardener, 1886

Antonie Boubong (1842-1908) was a German portrait, genre, and landscape painter.

Life

Antonie Boubong was born on 8 June 1842 in Werneck, Bavaria.

She studied at the Stuttgart Art School with Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Younger in Munich.

Antonie Boubong worked in Strasbourg.

Katarzyna Kurkowska | Pittrice di figure

La pittrice Polacca Katarzyna Kurkowska negli ultimi 20 anni ha sviluppato le sue capacità artistiche nella pittura.

Kurkowska dipinge paesaggi realistici, ritratti e nature morte.

E sebbene non si incontrino nei cataloghi di arte contemporanea, i dipinti Katarzyna Kurkowska sono l'orgoglio di molte collezioni private in Polonia ed in altri paesi.

Vincent van Gogh | Paintings of peasants

Van Gogh had a particular attachment and sympathy for peasants and other working class people that was fueled in several ways.

He was particularly fond of the peasant genre work of Jean-François Millet and others.

He found the subjects noble and important in the development of modern art.

Van Gogh had seen the changing landscape in the Netherlands as industrialization encroached on once pastoral settings and the livelihoods of the working poor with little opportunity to change vocation.

Paul Signac | Port-en-Bessin, the Outer Harbour, 1884

Paul Signac | Port-en-Bessin, the Outer Harbour, 1884 | Christie's

In his luminous seascape painting of 1884, Paul Signac (1863-1935) recorded his impressions of the outer harbour of Port-en-Bessin.

The scene is suffused with the golden afternoon sunlight, which casts a benevolent warmth over natural and manmade elements alike.

The choppy, dappled surface of the deep blue water reflects a myriad of other colours: the pale rocks and velvety-green grass of the surrounding cliffs, the colourful houses nestled in the crevice of the valley, and the brilliant blue of the sky above.

Paul Signac | Port-en-Bessin, the Outer Harbour, 1884 | Source: © Christie's

Vincent van Gogh | Country road in Provence by night, 1890

Symbol of Provence

For Van Gogh, the cypress is the ultimate symbol of Provence.

"The cypresses still preoccupy me", he writes to his brother Theo, "I'd like to do something with them like the canvases of the sunflowers, because it astonishes me that no one has yet done them as I see them.

It's beautiful as regards lines and proportions, like an Egyptian obelisk.

And the green has such a distinguished quality".

Vincent van Gogh | Country road in Provence by night, 1890 | The Kröller-Müller Museum