ELENA ILKU is a native of Ukraine, where she earned a Masters degree in History of Art and Design. She currently lives and works in British Columbia. She started her career as a professional artist in 1985, and since then has been extensively travelling, working and exhibiting her work throughout Europe and North America. She continued her artistic education in France and the United Kingdom, which helped her to develop a unique style of painting.
Elena produces highly original work, in which there is a release of emotion and a strangely captivating balance between abstraction and figuration. The signs and symbols of Slavonic Icon, one of her favourite subjects in early works, continue to evoke the feeling and memories of old times. Elena is a master at depicting familiar surroundings but by way of suggestion. She succeeds in expressing a deeply felt sense of unity and wholeness, balancing colour, form and composition. The consequences of this process are powerful yet elusive.
Red Chair
Позвольте продолжить разговор об английской живописи XIX века и, в какой то мере, о прерафаэлитах.
Альберт Джозеф Мур (1841-1893) был одним из пяти сыновей английского художника Уильяма Мура; все пятеро стали художниками.
В начале 1860-х гг. А. Дж. Мур предпринял поездку в Рим, где зародился го интерес к классической скульптуре, получивший оригинальное преломление в его картинах. Художник хорошо был знаком с коллекцией античных статуй Британского музея.
Альберт Джозеф Мур относится скорее к сочувствующим прерафаэлитам. Он был одним из ведущих художников "эстетического движения" в живописи, провозгласившего тот же принцип "искусства для искусства", что и знаменитое литературное направление того времени. Вместе со своим другом художником Джеймсом Уистлером он разработал теорию, согласно которой живопись подобна музыке, только вместо звуков цвета.
Поэтому писал Альберт Мур в основном сидящих в покойных позах прекрасных дев, стремясь с помощью композиции и колорита создать идеальную красоту. Некоторые современные критики даже считают, что Мур предвосхитил идеи, высказанные позже Василием Кандинским и Питом Мондрианом. Его "Жасмин" (1880 год) написан в неприемлемых для академической живописи сочетаниях жемчужных, розовых, коралловых и бордовых тонов.
А эклектические "Грезы" (сидящая на индийском троне с японским веером в руке девушка в античных одеждах) — все из оттенков золотого (1892 год). Надо заметить, что художники использовали специфическую технику, когда краски чистых цветов наносили без подмалевка — по слою белил, которые просвечивали изнутри и создавали род сияния. Эта техника ко всему прочему оказалась очень долговечной, и картины сохранили всю свежесть цвета.
Грезы
DANNY McBRIDE was born in 1951 in Toronto, Ontario, and has spent all of his working years in the arts as a musician, composer, singer and artist.
First as a musician, composer and songwriter, Danny made world tours with the likes of David Hasselhoff, Chris de Burgh and Joe Cocker. His illustrious music career has netted him several gold and platinum records and a profile that still keeps him newsworthy. In 1996 he wrapped up a US and Taiwan concert tour and began to slow his pace.
Danny, now a painter, moved to British Columbia and began a new phase in his life. He is a self-taught artist whose unique figurative style soon emerged. His acrylic images come alive on canvas in textured still-lifes and smoothly finished ladies in hats. His art is always exciting as he creates scenes that are light-hearted and fun. His images are frequently sculptural in form, with layers of paint built up on the canvas, creating a very textured and bold composition.
His paintings have made a large impact with collectors across North America and Europe.
On the Terrace
[380x267]Claude JAMMET was born of French parents in Zimbabwe. She grew up and was educated in Kenya, India and Japan and moved to South Africa at the age of 19. She is entirely self-taught as an artist and was a director of the Tait Gallery in South Africa from 1983-1986.
More than 200 of his works have been shown in China and overseas exhibitions since 1984. He won a silver medal, two bronze and some honorary rewards in these exhibitions. Six pieces of his works were shown and sold in the auctions of Christie's Swire in Hongkong and Taipei. About 220 pieces of his oil paintings have been collected by Chinese National Art Gallery and overseas art galleries and private collectors.
The Sound of Ancientry