Victor Sheng Wang | Symbolist / Figurative painter

Victor Sheng Wang is a Chinese-born American painter and Professor of Arts at Fontbonne University.

He is best known for his blend of luminous color and buttery texture that evoke the enigmatic environment where moments of meditation originate. He uses profusely colored, thickly texturized, monumental portraits of expressive western women invariably accompanied by sunflower plant motifs representing memories from his rural upbringing.

Wang was born and completed high school in Qiqihar, excelling in visual creativity.

Victor Sheng Wang was forcibly confined by by the Maoist's Cultural Revolution to the northernmost region of Manchuria to cultivate sunflower fields for two and a half years, after which he was admitted to the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts (Shenyang, Liaoning province) where he graduated in 1983.

Hasan Saygin, 1958 | Abstract Realist painter

Hasan Saygin was born in Karamanli, Turkey. He spent his childhood and followed his primary education in his native town, Karamanli.

In 1977, he entered the School of Fine Arts in Istanbul.

In 1982, he decided to come to Paris and settled permanently.

He organized personal exhibitions in many Parisian galleries: 26 Gallery (Place des Vosges), Vendôme Gallery (rue de la Paix) and Michèle Boulet Gallery; in the Draguignan Museum, in the castle of Gordes, in Salerno in France, in the castle of Vascoeuil in France, as well as in Belgium (Gevaert Gallery in Bruges, castle of Ingelmunster, etc ...), in Almeria, Spain and in the U.S (in Vero Beach, Florida).

RetroAtelier / РетроАтелье | Historical reproduction photos

We deeply appreciate the compelling individuality of that and try to do it justice through our own work.

As far as the figure element is concerned, we make a point of keeping it fairly subtle, with the emphasis being on referencing the more risque side of vintage beauty standards as opposed to letting bare flesh speak for itself.

We’re a team of vintage photography aficionados based in Ukraine, however unlikely that may sound.

Salvador Dali | Surrealist painter and sculptor

This is part 1 of 3-part post on the works of Salvador Dali.

• Salvador Dali | Surrealist painter and sculptor🎨.
• Salvador Dali | Surrealist painter and sculptor | Part. 2🎨;
• Salvador Dali | Self-portraits🎨;
• Salvador Dali | Watercolors🎨;
• Salvador Dali | Drawing🎨;
• Salvador Dali | Quotes / Aforismi🎨;
• Gala, la passione surreale di Salvador Dali🎨;
• Salvador Dali | Zodiac signs🎨.

Corine Ko, 1962 | Abstract Mixed Media painter

Corine Ko's artistic process fuses photography and painting. Reworking her photos with the eye of a painter, she integrates heterogeneous elements to generate original digital collages.

At the same time, photography is literally embedded in her canvases, lending the work a soul and substance that is adorned by the colors of the painting.

She also sometimes uses shreds of torn paper - either lace or printed paper - which add relief to the work and animate the surface with splashes of bright color, embellishing silhouettes that do not have a clear outline; instead, it is the color that defines the shapes and gives them life, liberating them to escape and spread, apparently dissolving the provisional form.