Art Kaleidoscope

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Lace Porcelain Art

Lace Porcelain Art

Figurine of a violin player. Lace Porcelain Art

Lace Porcelain Art
The ease and elegance, as well as the similarity to the woven lace gave the name to lace porcelain. Most often, the figurines appear to us as girls and young women, often ballerinas or dancers in a lush, airy dress, which consists of fine lace with small holes. A specially selected soft colors, such as pink or blue, make these figures even more light, soft and weightless. For its uniqueness and singularity, they are highly valued throughout the world.
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Moss graffiti art

Moss graffiti art on city buildings

A bear in the woods. Moss graffiti art on city buildings

Moss graffiti art
First of all, moss graffiti – a new direction of art and it looks like it has a future. Environmentally friendly picture will just grow on the wall.
The author of these beautiful moss installations of animal figures appeared on the city buildings – a talented Hungarian artist Edina Tokodi. The “living pictures” camouflage outgrowths, attracting locals and visitors. According to Edina, her idea was simple – to show the relationship between man and nature. Meanwhile, such art has become in high demand, and the use of this technology over the last few years is growing. In addition to written “green poem” in London, street artists created numerous wall paintings in New York and Chicago. In fact, moss is a beautiful living material for decorating anything. Even if your garden is in the average square-cluster dacha, or a modest corner of the courtyard of the city, you still have chances. The chances to make a piece of art, like a backdrop for a romantic medieval history.
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Precious stones painting by Alex Mosman

Precious stones painting by Alex Mosman

A tiger. Precious stones painting by Alex Mosman

Precious stones painting by Alex Mosman
A unique Siberian artist from Yakutia, Mosman has created original paintings of gems and precious stones. Gorgeous and enchanting landscapes of mother Russia laid out with a multicolored stone powder without any additional drawing. Sadly, this year, Alex passed away, he was 42 years old. Mosman said about his art: “A beautiful nature that surrounds me, to a large extent contributes to creativity. Yet, the genes speak of themselves, because my mother is Russian and father is German, so I do the painting with a Russian soul and German quality.”
According to the artist, he used multicolored stone chips of various minerals to create his paintings. In particular, chrome diopside (Yakut emerald), Charoite, carnelian, jade, malachite, serpentine, fluorite, jasper, obsidian, Morion, vermiculite, muscovite, phlogopite, biotite, marble, quartz, amazonite, etc.
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Illustrator Lora Zombie

Illustrator Lora Zombie

Bloody heart. Illustrator Lora Zombie

Illustrator Lora Zombie
Born May 30, 1990 in a small town in Russia, Lora Zombie is a Russian conceptual artist. According to Lora, she started painting at a very early age. The self-taught painter first gained recognition in the late 2000s as her work circulated online, reaching millions of people through blogs and social media. And now she is a top seller on the urban art scene and is gaining the attention of the art world. In recent years, Lora has taken the gallery scene by storm with exhibitions in Los Angeles, Toronto, New York and Russia – bringing in the interest of collectors and fans worldwide.
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Chinese silk embroidery art

Chinese silk embroidery art. Reproduction of painting by Gustv Klimt

Reproduction of painting by Gustv Klimt ‘The Kiss’. Chinese silk embroidery art

Chinese silk embroidery art
Fabulous ancient China – country of emperors, porcelain, mandarins, peon trees and of course, silkworm. And an aura of mystery surrounds the weightless finest silk, with the secret of silk production for more than 5 000 years. In fact, it is as old as the Chinese civilization. Considered the attribute of luxury, richness and good flavor, Chinese art of silk embroidery has no equal in the world. Besides, a skillfully embroidered masterpiece is impossible to distinguish from a photograph or a painting at a distance of 2 steps.
Noteworthy, the history of silk embroidery on silk has more than 2000 years. Meanwhile, the three-dimensional image is achieved by using different thickness of the thread of the silkworm, laid in different directions. And the most difficult part – considered embroidery of eyes, face and hands.
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Russian artist Stepan Nesterchuk

Those evening bells. Landscape painting by Russian artist Stepan Nesterchuk

Those evening bells. Landscape painting by Russian artist Stepan Nesterchuk

Russian artist Stepan Nesterchuk
Born in 1978 in the town of Dmitrov, Stepan Nesterchuk is a member of the Artists Union of Russia (2006) and the International Federation of Artists. He graduated from the Moscow State Art industrial University of Stroganov (2002). Nesterchuk is a young artist, expressing himself in different directions of art – painting, drawing, photography and design. However, his favorite form of art is painting. According to the artist, since childhood, he has devoted much time to painting and for him it is the principal means of his expression. The main theme that runs in all directions of his work is interest to the heritage of the past. In particular, the old architecture and the common household items, in which he draws inspiration and new ideas.
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English artist Dan Hillier

Ink drawing by Stoke Newington based English artist Dan Hillier

Gothic portrait of a woman. Ink drawing by Stoke Newington based English artist Dan Hillier

English artist Dan Hillier
To the question where the ideas for surrealism come from, we believe can only be two answers: from the inner and outer world. And the third world, born at the junction of the Worlds, due skill, is no less real than the first two. Heir to the ideas of the surrealist Max Ernst, Hillier creates stunning illustrations, based on his knowledge of biology, anatomy and Victorian prints mixing them into fantasy portraits. Ink, dip-nib pen, pencil and hard work – the main components of his art. Hillier has been working as a full-time artist since 2006. Artworks by Stoke Newington based artist Hillier were exhibited in such galleries as Saatchi Gallery in London, numerous galleries in France, the USA and Italy. Tattoo lovers often use his human-animal hybrids drawings as thumbnails for images on their body.
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