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Serdar Özdemir

Turkish digital artist Serdar Özdemir uses Adobe Illustrator and Midjourney, Artificial Intelligence to create genre scenes and events from everyday life.
Özdemir posts his work on Instagram, where he has built up a good following of admirers.


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Mao Zedong | Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom! / Lascia che mille fiori sboccino!

The Hundred Flowers Campaign, also termed the Hundred Flowers Movement (Chinese: 百花齐放), was a period from 1956-1957 in the People's Republic of China during which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) encouraged citizens to openly express their opinions of the Communist Party.
Following the failure of the campaign, CCP Chairman Mao Zedong conducted an ideological crackdown on those who criticized the party, which continued through 1959.
During the campaign, differing views and solutions to national policy were encouraged based on the famous expression by Mao:
"The policy of letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend is designed to promote the flourishing of the arts and the progress of science".

Anselm Kiefer | Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom, 2000 | Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Carlotta Edwards | Ballet dancers


Carlotta Edwards (1894-1977) was the daughter of the French painter Ferdinand Pourrier. She is well know for her paintings of ballet scenes and exhibited at both the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Paris Salon.
The Medici Society published many pints of her work and these are still widely available.
In the 1950's framed copies of Carlotta Edward's prints were very popular.

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Leonardo da Vinci | Del sole che illumina la foresta

Trattato della Pittura
Parte sesta | Capitoli 868-893


Indice
868. Dell'oscurità dell'albero.
869. Degli alberi.
870. Degli alberi posti sotto l'occhio.
871. Delle cime sparse degli alberi.
872. Delle remozioni delle campagne.
873. Dell'azzurro che acquistano gli alberi remoti.


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Steve Cosentino | Plein Air painter

American painter Steve Cosentino was born in New York City, the place where he continues to call home.
Steven studied at the Art Students League with Rudolf Baranik and went on to teach at the League in the early 1990s.
- "As a child I lived in a building much like the ones depicted in these paintings".