Happy New Year! | Vintage Greeting Cards

New Year's Day, also called simply New Year's or New Year, is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar.

In pre-Christian Rome under the Julian calendar, the day was dedicated to Janus, god of gateways and beginnings, for whom January is also named. As a date in the Gregorian calendar of Christendom, New Year's Day liturgically marked the Feast of the Naming and Circumcision of Jesus, which is still observed as such in the Anglican Church and Lutheran Church.

Claude Verlinde, 1927 | Fantastic Realism painter

Claude Verlinde is a French painter🎨 who works in the vein of “fantastic realism”, sometimes called “magic realism”, and his work shows the lineage of fantastical art from Bruegel🎨 and Bosch🎨 to the Surrealists🎨 and contemporary magic realism.

I would also suspect that a number of the Surrealists, and certainly contemporary magic realists, were influenced by his work (not to mention the production designers of the Harry Potter movies).

Claude Verlinde found his vocation very early and entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the Academy de la Grande Chaumiere at the age of twenty. Soon, the richness of his painting, its great sensitivity controlled by technique, made Verlinde undisputed master of visionary art of our time.

Distinctions: Chevalier of Arts and Letters 1986, Medal🎨 of the City of Paris.

Beethoven's love letters to his immortal beloved, 1812

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a German composer and pianist.

A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Classical music, he remains one of the most recognized and influential of all composers.

After his death in 1827, the following love letter was found amongst the personal papers of Ludwig van Beethoven, penned by the composer over the course of two days in July of 1812 while staying in Teplice.

Julius Schmid (Viennese painter, 1854-1935)| Beethoven's walk in nature

Richard Macneil, 1956 | Cityscape / Figurative painter

British painter🎨 Richard Macneil🎨 is a self taught artist who has always worked in the creative industry. Born in Worcester, UK in 1958, he started his working life at Worcester Royal Porcelain and has always worked in the fields of sculpture, ceramics and graphics both in the UK and internationally.

Richard spent many years in the USA where his company Bronn Fine Art, produced large, exclusive sculptures of American western art. One of his greatest achievements was seeing his artwork displayed in the Oval office of The White House.

Juliette Aristides, 1971 | Realist painter

American artist🎨 Juliette Aristides is a mid-career artist living in Seattle, Washington. She has studied at The National Academy of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. Aristides is an Elizabeth Greenshields Grant recipient. Juliette Aristides is actively dedicated to rebuilding a traditional arts education in the United States.

She was an original member of the Water Street Atelier and currently teaches at The Seattle Academy of Fine Art, where she founded the award winning🎨 Classical Atelier Program.

Founder and instructor of the Aristides Atelier at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, WA, Aristides teaches workshops both nationally and internationally and is author of:

• Classical Drawing Atelier;
• Classical Painting Atelier;
• Lessons in Classical Drawing with Watson-Guptill, NY.

Serge Marshennikov, 1971 | Realistic figurative painter

Cергей Маршенников was born in Ufa, Bashkiria, Russia. His grandfather was the general manager of a horse breeding company, his father, an electrical engineer and his mother was in pre-school education.

As long as he can remember, Serge was drawing, painting and sculpting from any material he could lay his hands on. His mother encouraged Serge to study and from early childhood he studied with private teachers and attended art studios.

After receiving several awards🎨 for his children’s watercolor and pastel paintings, Serge decided to become a professional painter.

In 1995 he finished the Ufa Art College and then continued education at one of the most prestigious art academies in the world, The Repin Academy of Fine Art in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Camille Pissarro | Autumn at Eragny

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter.

His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.

Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.

Hendrick Goltzius | Mannerist painter

Hendrik Goltzius, (born 1558, Mulebrecht, Neth. - died Jan. 1, 1617, Haarlem), printmaker and painter, the leading figure of the Mannerist school🎨 of Dutch🎨 engravers.

Through his engravings, he helped to introduce the style of such artists as Bartholomaeus Spranger🎨 and Annibale Carracci🎨 to the northern Netherlands.

Goltzius’s great-grandfather and grandfather were both painters, and his father was a stained-glass painter. He was taught the art by his father as a child and was then instructed in copperplate engraving by Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert in Haarlem.

Goltzius’s marriage in 1579 to Margaretha Jansdr., a rich widow, enabled him to set up an independent business in Haarlem, where he spent the rest of his life except for a tour of Germany and Italy in 1590. Owing to his technical facility, he developed into one of the great masters of engraving in Holland.

Vicente Romero Redondo, 1956 | Figurative painter

Spanish painter Vicente Romero Redondo was born in Madrid as the eldest of four sons. Due to the work of his father, he grew up in many different towns all over Spain.

The family moved back to Madrid when he was 15 years old.

During his childhood, his parents thought he would dedicate his life to painting, as his caricatures of schoolmates and teachers were famous in every school where he studied and one would rarely see him without a pencil and a notepad in his hands.

Romero achieved his dream: he began studies at the High School for Art San Fernando, the most prestigious art school in Spain - Salvador Dali studied there from 1922-1926.

Miroslav Yotov, 1977 | Figurative / Surrealist painter

Miroslav Yotov was born in Isperih, Bulgaria. Yotov or Cirk as he is fondly known to his friends is an enterprising and versatile young artist whose work and scope embraces an amalgam of styles that highlight his unique individualism and view of the world.

His style is unique - because of its Bulgarian accent and emotion, the brush strokes are well articulated and on occasions lustful, as if he is trying to seduce the viewer. This particular idiosyncrasy has won him accolades and admiration from his peers, critics and connoisseurs.

He has participated in several exhibitions in Bulgaria including major ones in Shumen, Isperih and Divdiadovo.

His paintings are well sort after by the discerning connoisseurs, young professionals and entrepreneurs with a sophisticated taste for vibrant and captivating colors and that unique Balkan perspective.

Thomas Kinkade | The Painter of Light

Thomas Kinkade, (1958-2012), American artist who built a successful industry on his light-infused paintings of tranquil idyllic scenes.

Kinkade studied art history and took studio classes for two years at the University of California, Berkeley, before transferring to the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. It was there that he began experimenting with techniques to create the effects of light and atmosphere in his paintings.

Thomas Kinkade | Memories of Christmas

The look of Christmas, with its trees and garlands and twinkling lights, is of course well known.

But for Thomas Kinkade, the challenge in painting Christmas scenes was capturing the spirit of the holiday - the warmth, the joy, the good fellowship and family feeling.

He loved the contrast of the cold gleam of moonlight on snow with the warm radiance of golden light pouring through the windows of a festively decorated cottage. That golden glow is truly the light of love.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti | The Day-Dream

The thronged boughs of the shadowy sycamore

Still bear young leaflets half the summer through;

⁠From when the robin 'gainst the unhidden blue

Perched dark, till now, deep in the leafy core,

The embowered throstle's urgent wood-notes soar

⁠Through summer silence. Still the leaves come new;

⁠Yet never rosy-sheathed as those which drew

Their spiral tongues from spring-buds heretofore.

Théo Van Rysselberghe

Théo van Rysselberghe (Gand, 23 novembre 1862 – Le Lavandou, 13 dicembre 1926) è stato un pittore Belga, uno dei maggiori rappresentanti belgi del Puntinismo.

Biografia

Theo Van Rysselberghe era figlio minore di François Vanrysselberghe (1820-1893), carpentiere ed imprenditore di Gand, nonché fratello di Octave Van Rysselberghe, architetto.

Terminati gli studi all'Accademia di Belle arti di Gand e di Bruxelles, sotto la direzione di Jean-François Portaels, nel 1881 partecipò per la prima volta ad una mostra, al Salon di Bruxelles. Due anni dopo, assieme all'amico Octave Maus, fu uno dei fondatori del gruppo d'avanguardia Les XX (I Venti), un sodalizio che aveva sostituito il precedente gruppo di artisti La Chrysalide.

Kenne Gregoire, 1951 | New realism Painter / Sculptor

Dutch artist🎨 Kenne Grégoire has studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam from 1967-1973.

In 1973 he won the Silver Prix de Rome.

At the invitation of the Italian Ministry of Culture in 1976 he made a study trip to Italy. Kennedale is nominated for the project Beacons on the water of the center Visual Arts Ontario i.s.m. HSRO.

Amongst the work of Kenne Grégoire we may find still lifes, but also buildings, landscapes and theatre scenes from the Commedia dell'Arte. There is beauty, but also sadness, decay and deterioration.

Debra Hill | Fantasy painter

Australian artist Debra Hill acquired her art education at Sydney University and Paddington Art School.

She subsequently took to travelling seeking life experience from different cultures, settling for a time in Mexico where the colorful culture brought her imagination to life. Since then her paintings have been infused with an almost carnival quality. Executed in oils, her paintings exhibit her skill as both an accomplished painter as well as a designer.

Since taking up residence in New York in 1994 her work has found its way into the spotlight as the art used for Earth Day 1995, along with Peter Max.

Alicia Brizzio | Figurative painter

Argentine painter Alicia Brizzio was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

Lives in Buenos Aires City since 1992. Attended numerous courses and workshops on different oil, acrylic and pastel techniques.

She received her CPA and in parallel she started painting by herself

She attended intensive seminars to Painters featured both national and international, and then further refined, with outstanding teachers such as Axel Amuchastegui, Marcos Borio, Adelia Dalessandro and Ricardo Celma.

Since 2005 she teaches drawing and painting while continuing dedicated to creating their own works.

Saturno Butto, 1957 | Wine Tasting (Camilla), 2015

Saturno Buttò🎨 is an Italian painter🎨, known for working in the Surrealist, Hyperrealistic and Figurative style.

Saturno Buttò, born in in Portogruaro, Province of Venice.

Figurative rituals, living paintings, Neo-Gothic altarpieces are extremely technical creations that Saturno Butto draws inspiration from, in order to portray fascinating mysteries surrounding a dark and gloomy religion.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Saturno Buttò see:

• Saturno Buttò, 1957 ~ Surrealist painter🎨.

Saturno Butto, 1957 | Surrealist / Hyperrealistic painter

Born in Portogruaro, Venice, Italy, Saturno Buttò🎨 is an Italian artist🎨. Saturno Buttò began his career in 1993 by publishing her first monograph titled "Portrayed from Saturn".

Since then he has been displaying his work in Europe, U.S.A and has published many new monographs from 1999-2007.

Saturno Buttò's work stands out due to his personal interpretation on sacred European art, which remind us of the great masters of our pictorial tradition.

Figurative rituals, living paintings, Neo-Gothic altarpieces are extremely technical creations that Saturno Butto draws inspiration from, in order to portray fascinating mysteries surrounding a dark and gloomy religion. In his works, this influence is transcribed by the juxtaposition of the human body's sensuality and its deep spirituality.

Ira Tsantekidou, 1967 | Pop / Art Déco painter

Greek painter Ira Tsantekidou is the professional and and internationally recognized artist, operate in Spain / Mallorca and in Bavaria in her studios and have numerous exhibitions in prestigious galleries, also participating in art fairs in Austria, Belgium, China, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, USA.

• 1982/1984 - Art School of Painting and Design

• 1984/1989 - Graduated from State Technical University of Architecture;

Peter Philipp Rumpf (1821-1896)

Peter Philipp Rumpf (1821-1896) was a German painter and etcher.

Rumpf was the son of the pastry chef Sebastian Rumpf and the Marianne Rumpf, b. Melzer.

He learned his pastry craft from his father and in 1836 began studying at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt in the sculpture class of Johann Nepomuk Zwerger.

Jacqui Faye, 1956 | Red Shoes

A native Texan, Jacqui Faye works predominantly in acrylics and paints a wide variety of subjects, however her focus is primarily on figurative works.

Recognized for her “Red Shoe” series, Jacqui paints playful, innocent and sometimes provocative compositions using the red shoes to tell the story. Anonymity of her subjects plays an influential role in establishing a strong connection with her audience.

Rooted in realism, the artist challenges herself to depict true-to-life details in her work. She is fascinated with varying shades of color, most notably red, and the way shadow and light play upon patterns.

Taras Loboda, 1961 | Abstract painter

Taras Łoboda was born in Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine, into the family of Iwan Iwanowicz Łoboda (1926-2017), famous ukrainian artist. He graduated from the Institute of Art in Kiev (1979-1985).

In 1979 he attended well-known Zaretsky's Studio. He is a participant of many international, republican, all-Soviet Union exhibitions.

Since 1993 he has been living and working in Prague (Czech Republic).

He is a painter creating thematic compositions, portraits, landscapes, still-lives. Presently living and working in Prague, the artist persistently and purposefully develops three main motives: woman's portrait and act (body with melodious lines, a look with a sad solitude feeling), strict classic still life and a phantom landscape.

Objects painted by the artist intrigue, attract due to their escaping mysteriousness.

Ignat Ignatov, 1978 | Impressionist painter

Ignat Ignatov is a contemporary artist with exemplary talent. His interpretation of the spirit of fine art saturates his paintings with a unique expressive richness. Although each new subject seems to dictate the style and approach, his paintings are always alive with color, light, texture, atmosphere, energy, and emotion.
Ignat was born in 1978 in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria and grew up in Sevlievo, Bulgaria.

At age thirteen, his promising talent in drawing, painting, and sculpting earned him one of only thirty available spots to attend the renowned Secondary Art School of Applied Arts in Tryavna, Bulgaria. Ignat’s five years there established the foundation for his academic art training.

Following graduation in 1996, Ignat attended St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, where he studied under the demanding atelier approach to fine art. In 1997, at the age of nineteen, Ignat financed his move to the United States using proceeds from the sale of his art. He is now a United States citizen residing in California.

Juan Medina, 1950 | Surrealist / Hyperrealist painter

Juan Medina, Mexican painter, was born in Mexico City, 1950. In the beginning it was shape, then came light, afterwards color and finally texture; as in the architectonic creation, the genesis of Juan Medina’s pictorial work rests on a solid structure of techniques and concepts that weave in plastic dimensions his memories made of oil and canvas.

With time, the step from watercolor to oil was the resource that allowed him to approach with mastery the conscience of time encrusted in stone, wood, mirrors and all model object that transfers Renaissance rhetoric without moralizing it.

Bogdan Prystrom, 1972 | Abstract Digital Photographer

Polish artist Bogdan Prystrom lives in a pretty town of Olsztyn in the north of Poland.

He is a member of Union of Polish Art Photographers.

His work is entirely photo-based and he calls it photo-montage.

He says that his digital art is an extension of the traditional photographic methods he used earlier in his career.

Chelìn Sanjuan | Surrealist painter

Chelin Sanjuan Piquero (1967-2012) was born in the city of Zaragoza, Spain.

In 1968, she emigrated with her parents to Chile where she will live for five years.

Later they travel to Venezuela, the country in which she will reside until 1987.

Her artistic vocation began at a very young age.

Tara Juneau, 1981 | Figurative painter

Tara Juneau is an Canadian painter🎨 living and working in Shawnigan Lake B.C. She has studied with world-renowned artist and author Anthony Ryder in Santa Fe New Mexico as well as Jeremy Lipking🎨 in California.

Tara views her work as an ongoing and evolving relationship with herself, the natural world and with God. She prefers working from life whenever possible, using oil paint as her means of expression.
“Art is my passion in life.

Through painting I try to express the power that light and beauty have on my soul.

I am always striving to know more - not only how to paint but also learning about what I paint.

There is beauty and natural order in everything and I hope that through my work I can reveal that truth to others”.

Museum Masterpieces

Albert de Belleroche (Welsh-born French painter, 1864-1944) | Woman with a Yellow Hat | Metropolitan Museum of Art

Albert Gustavus de Belleroche, also known as Albert Belleroche, (22 October 1864 - 14 July 1944) was a Welsh-born painter and lithographer, who lived most of his childhood and his adulthood in Paris and England.

He began as a painter, but at the turn of the century focused on lithography, for which he is most well-known.

He was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre de Leopold by King Albert I of Belgium in 1933.

Bartholomaeus Spranger | Mannerist painter

Bartholomaeus Spranger, also spelled Bartholomeus Sprangers, orSprangerson, (born March 21, 1546, Antwerp, Hapsburg Netherlands - died August 1611, Prague), Antwerp painter noted for his paintings of nudes executed in the late Mannerist style🎨. In his efforts to develop a Northern artistic canon of the human figure, Spranger employed mannered poses, slender, elongated bodies, and a gleaming, brittle texture in his work. The figures smile invitingly, and the influence of Parmigianino🎨 and Correggio🎨 is evident in their voluptuous contours.

Spranger went to Italy in 1567 and during a 10-year period spent in Rome and Parma, he assisted in completing an interrupted fresco project. Later, while working in Paris (c. 1565), he was influenced by the work of Francesco Primaticcio and Niccolò dell’ Abbate.

He returned to Rome in 1567 and became an assistant to Taddeo Zuccari, later working in Vienna for the emperor Maximilian II.

In 1581 he was appointed court painter in Prague by the emperor Rudolf II, and he remained in that city thereafter. The engraver Hendrik Goltzius made popular copies of Spranger’s work, resulting in their becoming widely known. | © Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Hermann Corrodi | Vedutist painter

Primarily a Landscape artist, who became famous as an Orientalist painter, Hermann David Salomon Corrodi was born in Italy (Frascati) in 1844. He died in Roma in 1905.

He was brought up in an artistic family and, from 1860, he studied in the studio of Alexandre Calame in Geneva. In 1866 he entered the Fine Art Academy in Roma, studying with his father, the artist Salomon Corrodi.

He then travelled throughout Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, visiting Egypt, Syria, Cyprus, Constantinopolis and Montenegro, soon building an international reputation as a genre and landscape painter.

In 1872, he studied in Paris, exhibited his works at Munich International Exhibition, and travelled to London where the Royal Family purchased several of his pictures. In 1873, he was awarded a Gold medal at the Vienna Universal Exhibition.

Hermann Corrodi | Notturno sul Monte Athos / Night on Mount Athos, 1905

Hermann David Salomon Corrodi🎨 (July 1844 - 30 January 1905) was an Italian painter🎨 of historical and orientalist scenes.

Corrodi received commissions for history paintings from the British royal family. He was acquainted with most of the European royalty of the time, including a friendship with Queen Victoria, and traveled widely in the Far East, including Egypt, Syria, Cyprus and Istanbul, which provided the subject matter for many of his paintings.

In 1893 he was knighted as an Academic of Merit by the Academy of St Luke, where he had been a professor.

In the last month of his life he made The nocturnal ascent on mount Athos.

Hermann Corrodi died on January 30, 1905. So, this ascent must have been one of his very last paintings.

The hermits hut clung on the steep rock like a birds’ nest is an interesting detail. The seven monks with their lamps and walking sticks lead the viewer to the ascent.

Athos - Άθως, is a mountain and peninsula in northeastern Greece and an important centre of Eastern Orthodox monasticism.

It is governed as an autonomous polity within the Greek Republic. Mount Athos is home to 20 monasteries under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

Mount Athos is commonly referred to in Greek as the "Holy Mountain" (Ἅγιον Ὄρος Hágion Óros) and the entity as the "Athonite State" (Αθωνική Πολιτεία, Athoniki Politia).

 Mount Athos, Greece

 Mount Athos, Greece

Mount Athos, Greece

Mount Athos has been inhabited since ancient times and is known for its nearly 1.800-year continuous Christian presence and its long historical monastic traditions, which date back to at least 800 A.D. and the Byzantine era.

Today, over 2,000 monks from Greece and many other countries, including Eastern Orthodox countries such as Romania, Moldova, Georgia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Russia, live an ascetic life in Athos, isolated from the rest of the world.

The Athonite monasteries feature a rich collection of well-preserved artifacts, rare books, ancient documents, and artworks of immense historical value, and Mount Athos has been listed as a World Heritage site since 1988.

Although Mount Athos is technically part of the European Union like the rest of Greece, the status of the Monastic State of the Holy Mountain, and the jurisdiction of the Athonite institutions, were expressly described and ratified upon admission of Greece to the European Community (precursor to the EU).

The free movement of people and goods in its territory is prohibited, unless formal permission is granted by the Monastic State's authorities, and only males are allowed to enter. | © Wikipedia

Hermann David Salomon Corrodi🎨 (Frascati, 23 luglio 1844 - Roma, 30 gennaio 1905) fu un artista Italiano🎨, che dipinse principalmente vedute e scene orientali.

Nel 1872 si recò col fratello a Parigi, dove i due conobbero Meissonier e Gérôme🎨, e quindi a Londra, ospiti di Alma-Tadema🎨.

Poco dopo furono a Monaco, e nel 1873 a Capri ed a Vienna, dove Hermann vinse la medaglia d'oro🎨 all'esposizione annuale per il quadro Bosco di pini.

Nel 1876 visitò l'Istanbul, la Siria, l'Egitto, il Montenegro e la Corsica. Per anni divise la sua vita fra Roma, d'inverno e Baden-Baden o Homburg in estate.

Nel 1893 l'Accademia di San Luca, dove insegnava, gli assegnò il titolo onorifico di "Accademico emerito".

Nell'ultimo mese della sua vita realizzò la tela i "Notturno sul Monte Athos".

Corrodi morì il 30 gennaio 1905, quindi questa tela deve essere stata una delle ultime.

La capanna degli eremiti aggrappata alla roccia ripida come un nido di uccelli è un dettaglio interessante. I sette monaci con le loro lampade e bastoni da passeggio guidano lo spettatore verso l'ascesa.

Il Monte Athos o repubblica monastica del Monte Athos - in greco Αυτόνομη Μοναστική Πολιτεία Αγίου Όρους Aftónomi Monastikí Politía Agíou Órous- è la penisola più orientale delle tre che compongono la Calcidica, nella Grecia settentrionale, ed è un vero e proprio Stato autonomo all'interno della sovranità greca.

La “terza gamba” della penisola Calcidica ha una superficie di 335 chilometri quadrati e si tuffa nel Mar Egeo per 50 chilometri di lunghezza e per una larghezza che varia tra i 7-12 chilometri.

Questo lembo di terra è ritenuto sacro ed è montuoso, la vetta più alta raggiunge i 2 mila 39 metri sul livello del mare, e di una grande bellezza naturale: qui si trovano 20 monasteri ortodossi, di cui 17 greci, uno russo, uno serbo e uno bulgaro, manufatti e monumenti religiosi di immenso valore artistico spesso edificati sulla sommità di piccole colline.

Solo la comunità monastica, che oggi conta poco più di un migliaio religiosi, può stabilirsi nella penisola.

La storia del Monte Athos ha avuto inizio nel 963 quando Sant'Atanasio istituì il monastero di Grande Lavra, ancora oggi il più importante.

Oltre ai monasteri esistono 12 piccole comunità minori di monaci e vari eremi. Per i laici è possibile visitare il Monte Athos una volta ottenuto un permesso speciale, per le donne, invece, vige il divieto è assoluto d’accesso.

 Mount Athos, Greece

Mount Athos, Greece

La procedura per ottenere il permesso è complicato e lungo, soprattutto per i visitatori non ortodossi che devono specificare in una lettera il motivo della richiesta che può essere solo per pellegrinaggio o per studio. C’è una quota giornaliera di 120 pellegrini ortodossi e 10 non ortodossi.

La richiesta di visita può impiegare mesi prima di essere accolta. La penisola, raggiungibile solo in barca benché sia collegata alla terraferma, ha ripidi pendii, verdi vallate e una vegetazione rigogliosa interrotta qua e là dall'imponente architettura dei monasteri, castelli bizantini fortificati con pareti monumentali tutto intorno e un cortile.

Il monastero di San Panteleimon è stato costruito dai monaci che provenivano dalla Russia, lo stile riflette chiaramente la loro l’influenza, ed è uno dei più grandi e più ricchi del Monte Athos. All'interno dei monasteri e delle numerose chiese c’è una ricchezza inimmaginabile tanto che il Monte Athos conserva la più grande collezione di arte cristiana al mondo: questi tesori unici sono affreschi religiosi che decorano ogni muro, mosaici, biblioteche ricche di pubblicazioni antiche, antiche icone ornate in oro.

Hermann Corrodi | Night on Mount Athos, 1905

Edward Lear (1812-1888) Mount Athos and the Monastery of Stavronikétes, 1857 | Yale-Center-for-British-Art

Dimitar Voinov Junior, 1971 | Figurative painter

Dimitar Voinov Junior / Димитър Войнов-младши - was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 1990 graduated The High School of Fine Arts “I. Petrov” Sofia. In 1997 graduated fresco in the National Art Academy, Sofia.

He has above 22 individual exhibitions. He has a prize “Silver Vazrazdane” for painting.

Lives and works in Sofia. Since 1997 participation in a great number of collective exhibitions in Bulgaria, Switzerland, Turkey, Cyprus, Germany, France, England.

Karol Bąk, 1961 | Illusiveness and surrealism

Karol Bąk was born in Koło in the Wielkopolska Region.

He graduated from the Fine Arts High School of Poznań with a degree in Interior Exhibition Arrangement.

In 1984, he was admitted to the Graphics Department of the State College of Art (currently the University of Arts in Poznań).

He already knew what direction he wanted to take in his studies - painting, graphics and sculpture were perceived as a prestigious pursuit of "searching for pure art".

He was confident he had made the best choice.

He graduated in 1989 with distinction, with two degrees in Graphics, under Prof. Tadeusz Jackowski, and Drawing in the studio of Prof. Jarosław Kozłowski.