Nguyen Dinh Dang was born in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 1958. He began drawing at age five and became an outstanding student. He hoped to become a professional painter but the Vietnam war and lack of painting materials restricted his work and made it difficult for Dang to pursue a living as a painter. This did not dampen Dang's passion for painting but the war led him to pursue a career in science.
Dang graduated from the Moscow State University in 1982. He received his Ph.D in nuclear theory in 1985, and his doctor of physics and mathematics sciences in 1990 at the same university. He went to Japan in 1994 as a research fellow and joined RIKEN (the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research) in 1995. Currently, he's an Accelerator Research Scientist at RIKEN's Heavy-Ion Nuclear Physics Laboratory.
For the past two decades, Dang's painting has shifted from impressionism to surrealism, whose most eminent representative, Salvador Dali, remains one of Dang's favorites. Once he gets an idea, he spends nights and weekends painting. A self-taught painter, Dang believes it is not important to explain the literal context of any artwork. "In the creative process of both art and science, the most important thing is intuition. You feel something intuitively. You cannot explain how it comes to you," he says.
Clair de Lune
Born 1964
1995 – graduated from I. E. Repin Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, studio of monumental painting. Prof. A. A. Mylnikov.
1995 -1997 - probationer at I.E. Repin Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
1999 J. Bekhova took part in mural works in rennovated cathedral of the Christ Rescuer.
2001-2003 participant in mural works at the city cathedral in Kursk.
Since 2000 she is teaching at I.E. Repin Institute.
Portrait with Kranah's Madonna
Master landscape photographer James Randklev has diligently pursued his unique portrayals of nature for 30 years. He is recognized as one of America’s finest photographers. After a career in biological science and medicine, he turned to photography concentrating on landscapes as his subject and color as his medium. Photographing primarily with large format cameras Randklev’s explorations have led him to travel throughout America. The richness and subtlety of his images, as well as his unique vision to find and capture vivid patterns of color and forms, has earned him the recognition and esteem of both his peers and publishers. Editor Dan Richards of Popular Photography Magazine quotes: “If photography could be thought of as music, James Randklev’s work might well be considered baroque: thoroughly grounded in traditional elements, but with a further layering of complexity and variety to intrigue us. And for all their lush profusion, there are no superfluous notes”.
The Artist was born in Campania in 1957. Rossana Petrillo inspires in her work the atmosphere of the "rive gauche" of the Seine, and the Belle Epoque of the lunatic parisians, excited by the force of the "chanteuses" with their long lacey skirts which flowed enthusiastically. For her productions, the artist uses a careful choice of silk and brocades instead of cold canvases which makes her work more harmonions and full of charm. Into the damasked grate, that seems to hold her "women" in a precious cage, and in the staticity that is predominantly provocate by the immobility of our own thought, makes those "figures" live reality and they renovate the relation between emotions and near or far memories they restore the climate of intimacy or of vaporous futile talkings; they recall the presence-absence of erotic objects (the sofa, the bed, the mirror, the make-up stuff...) among tables, chairs and above all among walls only apparently innocent and neutral.