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Anna Razumovskaya | Romantic Figurative painter

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Anna Razumovskaya /Анна Разумовская🎨 is a graduate of the Russian State University For Arts, where she was awarded🎨 the distinction of high-class artist in 1991. Subsequently, she studied art in Germany, Belgium and Holland. With exhibitions in New York, Paris, Toronto, Amsterdam, Antwerp and Berlin and numerous works in private collections across the globe, she has become one of the most exciting and collectable artists on the contemporare scene.Born at the height of the cold war, Anna was exposed to very different worlds, that of the austere communist regime alongside the sophistication and femininity of her fashion-conscious mother. She excelled at art school, and enjoyed the freedom of learning and perfecting her technique in a variety of different media. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/Rfj7gt

Jakub Schikaneder (1855-1924) | Impressionistic nocturnes

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Jakub Schikaneder came from the family of a German customs office clerk. Despite the family's poor background, he was able to pursue his studies, thanks in part to his family's love of art; an ancestor was Urban Schikaneder, the elder brother of the librettist Emanuel Schikaneder. After having completed his studies in Prague and Munich 1871-1879, Schikaneder, alongside Emanuel Krescenc Liška, was involved in the furnishing of the royal box in the National Theatre in Prague; however, this work was lost in a fire in 1881. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RffGX3

Odilon Redon | Symbolist / Colorist painter

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Odilon Redon🎨 (born April 20, 1840, Bordeaux, France - died July 6, 1916, Paris) French🎨 Symbolist painter, lithographer and etcher of considerable poetic sensitivity and imagination, whose work developed along two divergent lines.His prints explore haunted, fantastic, often macabre themes and foreshadowed the Surrealist🎨 and Dadaist movements.His oils and pastels, chiefly still lifes with flowers, won him the admiration of Henri Matisse🎨 and other painters as an important colourist. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/Rfdvxc

Kay Boyce | Figurative painter

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British painter🎨 and illustrator Kay Boyce was born in Sheffield.As a child she would often spend hours at a time drawing on rolls of wallpaper; this was the beginning of her passion for art.Kay studied illustration at Wrexham College before working as a freelance illustrator. She produced editorial work for Women s Weekly, Bella, My Weekly, Sunday Express and Woman's Own. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RfcML3

Izumi Kogahara / 古河原泉, 1979 | Abstract painter

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Izumi Kogahara / 川原泉 is an Japanese painter🎨, born in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. In 2000 she obtained her artistic diploma from the University with honors.Artist statement"I would like to describe human beings’ original and complex inner mind with my own “words” (the way of presentation) by feeling energy from them.Either they are objective way or abstract way, I continue to describe them with same belief". ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RfbpWr

Vincent van Gogh | Our life is a pilgrim's progress | The Letters

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The Letters of Vincent van Gogh🎨 refers to a collection of 903 surviving letters written (820) or received (83) by Vincent van Gogh.More than 650 of these were from Vincent to his brother Theo.The collection also includes letters van Gogh wrote to his sister Wil and other relatives, as well as between artists such as Paul Gauguin, Anthon van Rappard and Émile Bernard. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RfYlkv

B. Prabha (1933-2001) | Abstract / Figurative painter

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B. Prabha was a major Indian artist who worked mainly in oil, in an instantly recognizable style. She is best known for graceful elongated figures of pensive rural women, with each canvas in a single dominant color. By the time of her death, her work had been shown in over 50 exhibitions, and is in some important collections, including India's National Gallery of Modern Art.Prabha started working at a time when India had few women artists. She was deeply inspired by the work of seminal modernist Amrita Shergil. Prabha was moved by the lives of rural women, and over time, they became the main theme of her work. ... Read more .. » http://dlvr.it/RfYljN