Lev Tchistovsky / Лев Чистовский | Classical painter

Лев Чистовский [1902-1969] was born in Pskov, Russia. Laureate in 1924 of the Fine Arts Academy of Leningrad with Savinsky and Eberling as professors, he left the Soviet Union in 1925.

He studied two years at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome where he met Irene Klestova🎨 who was also studying there. She became his companion until his death. They came both to Paris in 1926, settled there and worked together. Tchistovsky kept out of all the pictorial trends appearing in the twenties between Montparnasse and Montmartre.

The art historian Lukomsky called him an authentic resistant of the classical painting. His work and especially his figures and his large size watercolors attained a remarkable technical perfection. They include portraits of celebrities, figures, still-lives, mythological scenes, flowers and icons, these last ones being his passion.

Chagall / Khalil Gibran | Farò della mia anima../I will do a casket of my soul

Farò della mia anima uno scrigno

per la tua anima,

del mio cuore una dimora

per la tua bellezza,

del mio petto un sepolcro

per le tue pene.

Henry Asencio, 1972 | Essence of Woman..

Henry Asencio is an award-winning🎨 contemporary American painter who works largely in the medium of oil on canvas.

Asencio is widely known for his paintings of the female form on abstract backgrounds.

His works’ “personal investigations of femininity, spirituality and abstraction possess the power to transform today’s ideals of contemporary sensuality and simple elegance”.

Asencio’s painting style is loosely defined in a contemporary format, combining elements of expressionism and realism with abstract painting techniques. Asencio’s art has been described as “Abstract Expressionism” and “Abstract Realism”.

Henry Asencio, 1972 | Abstract Realism painter

American painter Henry Asencio🎨 has emerged as one of the most intriguing young artists working today.

His work blends the classical ideals of figurative painting with a unique style. Merging introspection and visual spectacle, Asencio's🎨 personal investigations of the figure, spirituality and abstraction possess the power to transform todays ideals of elegance and sensuality.

Henry Asencio, 1971 | Flamenco dancers

Henry Asencio⏭ is an award-winning⏩ contemporary American painter⏭ who works largely in the medium of oil on canvas. Asencio was born in Los Angeles.

For biographical notes and other works by Asencio see:

• Henry Asencio, 1972 ~ Abstract Expressionists painter
• Henry Asencio, 1972 ~ Essence of Woman.