Artist Portraits
Gaetano Ligrani: Every artist is unique
May 21, 2024
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4 minutes read
"My background comes, in large part, from my professional-artistic training and architectural studies, when the aforementioned faculties, also artistically trained students with examinations in art history, life drawing and descriptive geometry"...
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Thomas Brémaud (La Pointe): the wire-to-point technique
Jun 18, 2024
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4 minutes read
"My artistic journey began with the wire-to-point technique, exploring my imagination and my thirst for escape. Over time, my daring creativity led me to face the canvas, revealing a remarkable artistic evolution." ..
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Alen Gurovic: Inspiration came from my life
Mar 4, 2025
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4 minutes read
"About 10 years ago, I chose photography as an artistic medium and started photographing nonsense that everyone else was already photographing. Then my goal was just to sell the photography and improve the household budget, but after a while I realized that this way of photography only spoiled my artistic side, and after that I started photographing my life from my early days until today. "
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Shirin Donia, Art and creative work have always been a part of me
Jul 15, 2023
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6 minutes read
Art and creative work have always been a part of me. Growing up in an unconventional, international family, I was surrounded by paint pots, brushes and canvases as a child...
Art History
Art that celebrates love as you've never seen it!
Feb 12, 2022
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5 minutes read
The most famous tradition of love in art, which has immortalized forever kisses, embraces, tenderness and passion between lovers, appears immediately well defined in our mind thanks to the most famous masterpieces of the genre, such as, for example, Cupid and Psyche by Antonio Canova and the Kiss by Gustave Klimt, but are we sure that in the history of art have not been highlighted other types of love?
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Daniel Martínez, highly psychologically charged photography
Aug 20, 2022
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6 minutes read
Daniel Martinez's artistic journey has been one of constant evolution, within which black and white appears to be quite recurrent, as do high contrasts and the use of digital intervention...
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Sergey Sovkov, Color as a reference point
Aug 28, 2022
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6 minutes read
Oil painting has always been the preferred technique of Sergey Sovkov, who, when creating each painting, always tries to improve it in order to find new creative expressions...
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Mister Pablo Costa: My father encouraged me to create works of art
Apr 9, 2024
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8 minutes read
"My father, a computer graphic designer by trade for whom I had great admiration, pushed me to create works of art. I spent the first 10 years of my life in his workshop. He painted in oil surrealist works characterizing his life journey and idolizing Salvador Dali"...
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Michael Cheung, My View on Beauty
Feb 18, 2023
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2 minutes read
"I always liked to fantasize when I was little, I comforted myself with crayons, my grandfather saw in my drawings something different from other children's drawings, he thought I had a talent for drawing, and from that moment on I took private drawing lessons"
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Jérôme Royer, artistic freedom
Apr 30, 2022
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4 minutes read
The gestures that generate Jérôme Royer's paintings, derived from the martial arts, are part of a creative impulse in which the artist plays with unpredictability...
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Yulia Varlamova, journey of art
Dec 17, 2022
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4 minutes read
Yulia Varlamova's path as an artist began suddenly. Perhaps all her life creativity has always been inside her, but she was just waiting for the right moment to manifest...
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Matthias Kreher, I have been painting since I can remember
Sep 23, 2023
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4 minutes read
"I have been painting since I can remember. In my main profession I am a musician (instrumentalist, arranger, composer), but throughout my life I have also been involved in painting."
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Khanh The Bui: simple things bring me creative inspiration
Jan 2, 2024
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4 minutes read
"My artistic foundation is the lullabies of my mother and grandmother. There are two main themes in my art: Ha Long Bay natural heritage and the human body."
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Hu/Lie, seeks differentiation
Jan 11, 2023
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8 minutes read
Hu/Lie was completely fascinated by the culture of skateboarding and hip-hop in the 1990s. He saw in it a lifestyle made up of freedom, self-transcendence, transgression and creativity...
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Olga Volodina, humans and their vices
Sep 10, 2022
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8 minutes read
The subjects that Olga Volodina likes to work with are humans and their vices: stupidity, cruelty, violence, and greed. She is also concerned about the manipulation of the masses, propaganda, nationalism, and all kinds of intolerances and rights inequalities...
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Elena Kraft, art as a cry from the heart
Jul 16, 2022
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8 minutes read
Elena Kraft's work is literally a cry from the heart aimed at revealing the emotional state of the artist, which is expressed both in painting and in sculpture...
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Christophe Verot, the importance of details
Apr 27, 2022
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2 minutes read
Christophe Verot's work finds resonance in Asian arts and particularly in Japanese culture and art of living. He is particularly interested in asymmetry, the ephemeral aspect of things, the taste for detail and the captivating beauty that emerges from scenes plunged into shadow. A chiaroscuro in which imagination and dreams can flourish...
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Barbara Kroll, The Play with Color and Composition
Mar 22, 2023
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2 minutes read
"Following the motto "less is more" - simplicity, expressiveness, composition as well as color."
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Christopher Foster: I am self-taught artist
Sep 10, 2024
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2 minutes read
"As a teenager, I was a big fan of Velázquez, Camille Pissarro, Picasso, and Fernand Léger, among others. In the 1980s, I saw a Raoul Dufy exhibition in London, which had a positive physical impact on me. Again, in 2015, I saw Peter Lanyon’s gliding paintings, which had a similarly powerful but very different effect."...
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Artūras Tamašauskas, metals living a second life
Jun 29, 2022
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6 minutes read
Artūras Tamašauskas, after studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, had the opportunity to work as a metal engraver: it was then that he became acquainted with the subtleties of this material and an understanding of its potential applications...
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Pavel Guliaev: I drew from an early age
Mar 5, 2024
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7 minutes read
"There were no professional artists in my family, but everyone loved to draw. I drew from an early age. At first, it was Indians and horses, but then I started illustrating fairy tales and drawing historical subjects (usually battle scenes)"...
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Virginie Dartois, photography that reveals the inner self
May 21, 2022
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5 minutes read
Each of Virginie Dartois' photographs represents a unique and personal quest, aimed at revealing the deep self of the artist. The photographer's inspiration comes mainly from details and sounds, which stimulate her artistic production...
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María Eugenia Piacentini Veron, it was only in my mind
Jul 1, 2023
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5 minutes read
Since I was very little, I think when I was 4 years old, I loved modeling clay and drawing. I was one of those who stayed hours creating and observing what was happening with the plastic material. I felt an immense illusion to create something that didn't exist before, that was only in my mind...
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Ruben Cukier, the impact of Salvador Dalì
Apr 5, 2023
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5 minutes read
"The exposure to Dalí's works at the age of 5 produced a before and after in my consciousness. The fascination with Dali's images opened the doors of freedom for me, even though I had already discovered the possibility of communicating through drawing".
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Donatella Marraoni, The desire to tell her story
Jul 30, 2022
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5 minutes read
Donatella Marraoni, an artist who mainly uses construction materials, creates with the aim of telling her story, her past, transforming it into a pictorial narrative in constant evolution...
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Valerie Andriantsiferana, experimentation and curiosity
Mar 8, 2023
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5 minutes read
"I remember my first real drawing around the age of 10. Sitting at my little desk, a pencil, a sheet of paper and a mirror, I drew a self-portrait, which I still have"...
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Elina Evstig: oil painting is a pretty traditional thing
Jul 16, 2024
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5 minutes read
"I have no formal education in arts, although I always had a craving for it. Years ago I took private classes of academic drawing by Ukrainian artist Oksana Samoylenko, and later learned illustration basics at Design/Illustration school. So, I tried different styles and techniques and a variety of subjects before I found a few that I am comfortable with. "...
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Armando D'Andrea, art is a gift received from birth
May 20, 2023
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3 minutes read
I studied at the art institute in Venice, earning a diploma in Master of Art and a diploma in Applied Art, and later took the sculpture course at the Art Academy. The techniques I use are: Clay and unfired earth with various materials...
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Tomáš Tisoň, the charm of black and white
May 25, 2022
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3 minutes read
Tomáš Tisoň's photography pursues the goal of providing the viewer with the artist's point of view and thoughts. Usually Tomáš Tisoň's photographic production is marked by one main element...
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Chifart, drawing a new visual perception
Dec 28, 2022
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3 minutes read
Chifart's artistic journey, which began at the age of 10 and turned professional at 20, has taught him a lot. His technique is essentially based on drawing, mixed media and how he incorporates them together to achieve the desired results...
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Jesús (Xuxo) Vazquez, I wish to provoke interest in the spectator
Jul 5, 2023
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3 minutes read
"My training is fundamentally self-taught. I have been in different workshops learning different techniques, from modeling, casting, artistic casting, wood carving, granite and marble carving, as well as iron and steel welding"...
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Young Park, I make works that make you imagine a story
Jul 22, 2023
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3 minutes read
Painting has been a hobby since I was young, and it seems to have become clearer since working as an art director at a fashion company...
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Bogdan Dide, the mystery of a woman's face
Nov 16, 2022
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3 minutes read
Bogdan Dide uses various techniques in his work, the choice of one or another depending on the goals set. The main theme is portraiture...
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Aéro: airbrush and charcoal
Feb 22, 2023
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3 minutes read
"When I work on a portrait, my inspiration comes first of all from the photographer's photos with the poses, the contrasts and the lights that the subject brings, then it comes naturally".
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Jiri Genov: The inner need to create
Feb 18, 2025
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3 minutes read
"I graduated from the School of Arts and Crafts in Turnov. Above all, it is about the relationship with metal, i.e. working with various metals - steel, stainless steel, copper. And to some extent wood and stone..."
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Alex Loskutov, computer collages
Oct 5, 2022
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5 minutes read
Alex Loskutov's figurative investigation, belonging to the computer collage pointillism style, is distinguished by the unprecedented technique resulting from the "assemblage" of car license plates or music albums...