Art Kaleidoscope

Balance. 2011. Oil on panel. Painting by Uzbek artist Erkin

Uzbek artist Erkin was born in 1957 in Tashkent, the USSR. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1977. Then he entered All-Russian State University of Cinematography in Moscow. A great source of inspiration for the artist are Dutch and Spanish masters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The favorite theme in paintings by Uzbekistan artist Erkin – Chinese porcelain from his own country . He collects antique porcelain bowls and plates, buying them on the flea markets.
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Illustrated BookBenches project

Illustrated BookBenches project has been recently launched in London. The creative project presented by 50 benches in the form of open books with colorful illustrations can be seen throughout the city. Many artists were drawn specifically to decorate the giant “pages” of iconic books. Benches will be exhibited in the British capital until the 15th of September. The project Books about Town was initiated by the National Literacy Trust. All benches (called BookBenches), presented in the project, illustrate the works that are somehow connected with London: main characters, origin, or author. According to the participants of the event – cartoonist Ralph Steadman (illustrator of “Alice in Wonderland”), and artist and writer Cressida Cowell (creator of the book series “How to Train Your Dragon”), such art objects should open to the general public the joy of reading
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Hyperrealistic drawing by Spanish artist Ruben Bellos Adorna

Ruben Bellos Adorna, a young artist from Seville, Spain, stormed the world of fine art with his incredibly realistic drawings of real and fictional characters, which he creates on wooden canvases using colored chalks. Spanish artist hyperrealist Ruben Bellos Adorna was born in Seville in 1986. He graduated with honors from University of Fine Arts in Sevilla in 2010. For his Honors Thesis at Faculty of Fine Arts he got the University Award “Royal Cavalry of Seville” for the year 2009/2010, the next year – Excellency Award of the City of Sevilla. Ruben Bellos Adorna has participated in numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. He has exhibited individually in Spain, Italy and Portugal. Ruben Bellos Adorna has received several awards among which the 1st Girault Award at the International Biennial of pastel painting in Spain 2011, 2nd Cranes Lozano Award in 2009, and the 1st Award Juan Robles the young talents to Culture in 2010. The works of a talented artist hyperrealist Ruben Bellos Adorna has been featured in numerous newspapers, on radio and TV.
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Cameo, 12th century; frame – the end of the 16th century. Agate, gold, pearls, precious stones

Antique gem carving art is known as Glyptics, and it is the art of carving on multicoloured or precious stones. Glyptic works are called engraved gems. The activity is called gem carving, and the artists – gem-cutters. References to antique gems, and intaglios in a jewellery context, will almost always mean carved gems. Gems with embedded images (intaglio), and with bas-relief images of convex (cameo) are distinguished. They were born of the classical art of antiquity, an art which poeticized and proclaimed as aesthetically pleasing all that was best and most worthy in the ideal of harmonious and perfect man. A craftsman could spend months and even years on the creation of a single cameo. E. Babelon, the French scholar of the early twentieth century and one of the most eminent connoisseurs of glyptics, remarked that it took as long to make a large cameo as to build a whole cathedral.
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Flower beauty in painting by Chinese artist He Si

Chinese painter He Si studied at the Department of Chinese ceramics of the Central Academy of Arts (now Tsinghua University) 1986-1992. While studying, the Chinese artist He Si was a permanent participant and winner of art exhibitions. After graduating from the Academy she moved to the United States. The works of a Chinese professional painter He Si were featured in several magazines and newspapers “Contemporary Women”, “Jiangsu”, “People’s Daily”, “Beijing Daily”, “Wen Wei Po”, “Chinese Culture News” essays “civilian generals” “Japanese Art”, “Chinese Contemporary Art ceremony”, after 1992 in the United States, “World News”, “Daily News”, “International Daily”, “art”, “Art Deco” “Southwest Art”, “Art News” “The American West Airlines”, “Art News”, “art collection”. He Si is a member of China Industrial Design Association, American World Artists Association, the American Association of Contemporary Art, the American Academy, and professor of New Mexico State University.
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Change of Scenery. Painting by Canadian artist Rob Gonsalves

Canadian painter of magic realism Rob Gonsalves was born in Toronto in 1959. He produces original works, limited edition prints and illustrations for his own books. Style in which world-renowned artist Rob Gonsalves draws, some call surrealism. His painting is always a magical union of invisible metamorphosis flow of objects from one incarnation to another, ad if the artist suggests to us – everyone in the world is interconnected. Rob began painting at an early age, since 12 he was interested in architecture, perspective, various designs. A central place in his paintings takes creative architecture, only now he builds illusions. A mixture of Dali, Magritte and Escher – thus can be described the painting of Rob Gonsalves.
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Cowboy on a Horse. Life-sized scrap metal sculpture by South Dakotan sculptor John Lopez

Scrap metal sculptures by John Lopez, South Dakotan sculptor are life-sized bison, a horse plowing a field, or a Texas Longhorn, a bear, all made with a uniquely Western American twist. In his hands, old discarded farm equipment is recycled into sculptures of iconic creatures from the American West. “My favorite part about these pieces is the texture,” explains Lopez. This unusual detour started about three years ago, when his beloved aunt died in a car accident. Lopez moved to his widowed Uncle Geno Hunt’s ranch to build a family cemetery. Uncle Geno opened his welding shop to Lopez, who completed a fence around the cemetery, then ran out of material. After some experimentation, he finished a gate into the cemetery, and then made a small angel peering over the top of the gate. The project gave him much personal satisfaction, and everyone who saw it was amazed at the result. A new career path was born in that cemetery.
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