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Lou Shabner (1917-1981) | Pin-up painter


Born in Enfield, North London, Louis Shabner is a talented British🎨 glamour artist inspired by glamorous female beauty, known as pin-up.
Lou Shabner was already an accomplished glamour artist in his native England for 25-plus years before becoming one of Brown and Bigelow's last pin-up painters.
He often worked in gouache on board (which the examples below show), but was just as comfortable using other mediums.

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Rainer Maria Rilke / Auguste Rodin | Love Song, 1907

Auguste Rodin🎨 - Fugit Amor, 1881

How shall I hold my soul and yet not touch
It with your own? How shall I ever place
It clear of you on anything beyond?
Oh gladly I would stow it next to such
Things in the darkness as are never found
Down in an alien and silent space
That does not resonate when you resound.

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Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927) | Figures


While Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin was an French painter, known for working in the Impressionist style.
Armand Guillaumin is best known for his landscapes and bold colors.
One of his paintings of the river Seine was the basis for his good friend Paul Cézanne's first lithograph. Other than members of the Impressionist group, Guillaumin also formed a strong friendship with artist Vincent van Gogh and his brother.

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Hsin-Yao Tseng 曾新耀, 1986 | Portraits and figure


Hsin-Yao has recognized by the Art Renewal Center as an ARC Living Master in 2014.
Hsin-Yao Tseng is a Taiwan born artist.
Hsin-Yao received his Bachelor of Fine Art degree in painting from Academy of Art University, San Francisco, in 2009 and his Master of Fine Art degree from the same university in 2012.
Hsin-Yao has a curiosity and energy that propel him toward experimentation and innovation; accordingly, he works in a range of genres: from lush evocations of San Francisco and other cities to expressive portraits and finally to lustrous interiors and exteriors in which multiple figures enact a story.

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Bryan Larsen, 1975 | Romantic Realist painter


American painter Bryan Larsen has been drawing and painting since childhood.
As a young person he was also fascinated with math and science and always found creative ways to mix the two worlds.
After acquiring a strong foundation in art while studying illustration, and a greater appreciation for the sciences during mechanical engineering studies, he decided to take the plunge and return to his first love: fine art.

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Hsin-Yao Tseng, 1986 | Impressionist painter


Hsin-Yao Tseng was born in Taipei, Taiwan. Around the age of ten, Hsin-Yao started painting in watercolors, as well as other mediums,out side of school. The early exposure instilled in him the foundation needed to excel at very early age.
After graduated from high school in Taiwan, in 2004 summer, Hsin-Yao came to United State to study aboard. He received B.F.A. of Fine Art Painting from Academy of Art University, San Francisco in 2009.
And he received M.F.A of Fine Art Painting from the same school in 2012.

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Chen Yifei (1946-2005) | Music Player painting


Chen's works considered a unique combination of both Western and Eastern influences. Chen's style combines the realism associated with European art styles, with Eastern subject matter and themes close to the artist's history.
One such example of this unique blend is his painting Poppy which derives its content from a Tang dynasty song about a woman who solemnly questions her fate.


The painting features a Chinese woman in traditional Chinese garb, yet the style of painting coupled with her posture are more reminiscent of ancient Greek artworks than Tang dynasty works.
His Eastern-Western fusion of artistic styles is apparent in another of his famous paintings called Soiree, which depicts Chinese musicians in traditional Chinese apparel, embodying an obvious Eastern theme, but the atmosphere of the painting aligns more with the Western ideal of "carpe diem".


In 1980 he became one of the first artists from the People's Republic of China permitted to study art in the United States.
Wally Findlay Galleries was the first gallery to grant Chen Yifei an exclusive contract. Chen Yifei enrolled at Hunter College and later found work as an art restorer.
In 1983, before he attained his master's degree at Hunter, his solo exhibition at the Hammer Galleries was a great success. Later, he established as a contract artist for the Hammer Galleries.
















Le opere dell'artista Chinese consideravano una combinazione unica di influenze occidentali e orientali.
Lo stile di Chen combina il realismo associato agli stili artistici europei, con temi e temi orientali vicini alla storia dell'artista.
Un esempio di questa miscela unica è la sua pittura Poppy che trae il suo contenuto da una canzone della dinastia Tang su una donna che solennemente mette in discussione il suo destino.
Il dipinto raffigura una donna cinese vestita in abiti tradizionali cinesi, ma lo stile pittorico abbinato alla sua postura ricorda più le opere d'arte greche antiche rispetto alle opere della dinastia Tang.


La fusione orientale-occidentale dei stili artistici è evidente in un altro dei suoi famosi dipinti chiamati Soiree, che raffigura musicisti cinesi in abbigliamento tradizionale cinese, incarnando un ovvio tema orientale, ma l'atmosfera del dipinto si allinea maggiormente con l'ideale occidentale di "carpe diem".

Nel 1980 è diventato uno dei primi artisti della Repubblica popolare cinese ad ottenere il permesso di studiare arte negli Stati Uniti.
Wally Findlay Galleries è stata la prima galleria a concedere a Chen Yifei un contratto esclusivo.
Chen Yifei si iscrisse al Hunter College ed in seguito trovò lavoro come restauratore d'arte.
Nel 1983, prima di conseguire il master in Hunter, la sua mostra personale alle Hammer Galleries ebbe un grande successo.
Successivamente, si è affermato come artista a contratto per le Hammer Galleries.




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Viktor Shvaiko, 1965 | Romantic painter

Viktor Shvaiko was born in Altai, Russia, the son of an economist and an engineer.
He grew up in one of Russia’s most remote villages surrounded by the beauty of the wilderness.
At the age of 12, he didn’t hesitate to choose studying at junior art school.
His natural inclination for the fine arts and his strong urge to share his vision of nature drove him to the Novoaltaisk Artistic School, where he studied for four years.
Shvaiko credits his teacher, Ilbek Khairoullinov, for a true arts education.