Rauf Janibekov, 1956 | Figurative Abstract painter

Raouf Salim Janibekov - a modern Azerbaijani artist, born in Baku. He graduated from Azerbaijan State Medical Institute.

Being a surgeon by profession Dr. Rauf Janibekov is a self-taught artist. He had never attended any lessons of painting or drawing. He was keen on arts from an early age.

Mainly artist gives preference to oil painting and graphic drawings in pencil, however sometimes also is carried in digital art and photography.

Currently, some of the author's paintings and drawings are in private collections.

Mahnoor Shah, 1991 | Ballet dancers

Mahnoor Shah was born in Islamabad, Federal - Pakistan.

'I am a collaborative and driven Freelance Graphic Designer over three years of experience delivering digital and print materials for a variety of client campaigns.

Adept at visual strategy, layout development, and electronic production for print media.

Excels in peer review environments calling for creative brainstorming to bring ideas from concept to execution.

Pursuing a freelance career serving forward-thinking clients with a shared passion for clean design and the latest visual trends'.

Key Skills: Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Digital and traditional Portrait.

Virgil Elliott, 1944 | Classical Realism painter

Virgil Elliott was fortunate enough to have been the first son of Dollye McAlister Elliott, a schoolteacher and amateur artist, who began his art education in the second year of his life. The first lesson kindled a lifelong burning obsession with art, and his talents developed rapidly with constant practice drawing, and, later, painting. The excellent instruction of illustrators Robert Fawcett, Albert Dorne, Austin Briggs, Steven Dohanos, Harold Von Schmidt and others, via correspondence course, helped him tremendously,and by his late teens, he was an accomplished draftsman and competent oil painter.

Nils Kreuger | Paris painting

Nils Edvard Kreuger (11 October 1858 - 11 May 1930) was a Swedish painter.

After studying at the Perséus school of painting, Nils Kreuger came to Paris in 1881. Under the influence of the French plein air style of painting he produced landscapes and cityscapes of Paris and its region, often at dawn or dusk, in the mist, rain or snow. In 1887 he returned home to Sweden and settled in Varberg, where he from 1893 painted together with Richard Bergh and Karl Nordström.

Luigi Bartolini | Colors /Colori

Black, you are Black Hell, its dark portals,
the arch of Styx, the shadow of evening, the breath of night,
the dismal quilt that lastly shrouds our bodies;
black, color and bestower of Death.

Red, you of all colors are the youngest,
before you all sadness fades away and is put to flight;
color of fragrant blooms, of burning lips,
you are the soul of the senses, oh earthly color!

John Burden, 1943

Burden: "In painting my job is to peel away the never ending layers that describe us. Like the archeologist, I use hard won skills. But what I uncover has been waiting – forever. I've been sharpening my skills by drawing, painting, or designing just about every day for the past forty years, or more".

Visual arist P. John Burden is a classically trained Canadian and British subject. Burden's work includes original acrylic paintings, watercolour paintings, and traditional and modern artist’s prints.

His art is symbolic or surrealist, using representational skills from a lifetime of drawing, painting, design. John Burden also illustrates books for all ages and has work in collections worldwide.

Classically trained in printmaking and painting, etc, at City and Guilds, London, U.K. where he was awarded the rare Certificate of Exceptional Merit.

Coco Chanel | Quotes / Aforismi

Coco Chanel and Romy Schneider

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future!

• Where should one use perfume? a young woman asked. Wherever one wants to be kissed.
• It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.
• Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
• In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.

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