The main symbol of the element Yang, Symbolic Rooster Chinese painting

Symbolic Rooster Chinese painting
In China, Rooster is considered the main symbol of the element Yang, and a carrier of many advantages. Male principle bird, Bird of Glory, meaning – vigilance, bravery, courage, foresight, and reliability. Rooster – the messenger of dawn, the sun and the symbol of spiritual rebirth. Rooster – the tenth symbolic animal of the Twelve Earthly Branches (Eastern Zodiac) and in the astrological sense – it corresponds to October, when in the ancient times in China made preparations for war.
In the work of Chinese contemporary artist working in the style of Guohua, Feng Yingjie roosters take honorable place. The image of the Rooster includes a number of different symbolic meanings reflected in the Chinese literature and philosophy.
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Bouquet. Yuri Arsenyuk exquisite floral still lifes

Yuri Arsenyuk exquisite floral still lifes

Well-known artist Yuri Arsenyuk has found his own way in art. In 1980s, new significant milestone for him became a study in the studio of Professor Ilya Glazunov, in Moscow State Art Institute of Surikov. Within its walls, and thanks to Ilya Glazunov, students learned the true classical school. There, the world famous artist gave them skills, great spirit of true art, and realism, which, like wings, help the artists fly. Thus, they focused on the great works of the Italian Renaissance, classic Russian and Western European art.
Climbing the stairs of excellence, he, while still a student, creates portraits, landscapes, and exquisite floral still lifes. Yuri Arsenyuk – a member of the International Federation of Artists of UNESCO (1994), and Professor of the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. In addition, he is the head of art studio of Moscow State Academy of Surikov, created by Ilya Glazunov for the Study of Technology of the old masters of Europe and Russia.
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Portrait in Russian tradition. Siberian artist Albertina Fomchenko as a Sirin bird

Siberian artist Albertina Fomchenko
Painter and theater artist, Albertina Fomchenko (01.23.1939, Leningrad – 28.01.2010, Novokuznetsk) graduated from Palekh Art School (1957-1962). Her Diploma work was a casket painted on the themes of Russian folk songs. In addition, she graduated from Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema (“painter and sculptor of Puppet Theater”) in (1971). The diploma work was the creation of sets and puppets for the play “Forest Song” by Lesya Ukrainka.
Albertina Fomchenko lived and worked in Novokuznetsk from 1975 to 2010. She began participating in exhibitions in 1986, and headed the school of lacquer miniature in the city of Novokuznetsk (1994-1995). She worked in folk art traditions. Many of her paintings include mythological Sirin bird, a symbol of national traditions, and a kind of her talisman.
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Autumn. Flowers in the garden. Canvas, oil. Artist Oleg Shtyhno

Russian artist Oleg Shtyhno
Oleg Fedorovich Shtyhno is the head of the department of anatomical drawing of the Faculty of Painting, professor of anatomical drawing and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts. Born in the south-eastern Siberia in 1961, his childhood memories keep many impressions from the village where he spent his summers and drew his first sketches.
The artist cherishes the memory of a place that no longer exists. Then the family left Novosibirsk for Omsk, where he studied in the art school. His path to the future profession was traditional: after school followed art college. Then, he became a student of the famous Moscow Art School in memory of 1905.
After graduation he worked in the Bolshoi Theatre workshops. It was a brief but important period in his life. The world of the theater with its own language of scenography was completely new to him, perhaps, gave him the first impulse towards the phasing out of the realistic likeness toward imaginative world. The following year he entered the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after VI Surikov. He was looking for his own pictorial language.
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Inspired by 19th century scene. Snow painting by Semyon Bukharin, Izhevsk, Russia

Snow painting by Semyon Bukharin
Early in the morning, when school children are still sleeping, school janitor Semyon Bukharin takes a shovel and a broom and starts cleaning the school yard from the new-fallen snow. The result is impressive. The school yard of Izhevsk lyceum # 27 looks like an art gallery with a new art installation. A true artist, who has lived in Semyon since childhood, and his creative nature have made the process of snow cleaning an art. His thankful fans – students of the lyceum have created an account on Instagram where they share his creativity with the whole world. Creativity by Bukharin has made him an Instagram star. It’s a pity these beautiful paintings created on a fresh snow disappear in some hours. Semyon states that the drawings look best in the moonlight, when you can see the penumbra. From snow and ice Semyon also makes sculptures
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Comet, 1900 Painting. Wassily Kandinsky color theory

Wassily Kandinsky color theory
Experiments with color attracted the famous Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky since childhood. In his landscapes reality replaces the game of lines and color accents. In his book “Concerning the Spiritual in Art” (published in 1910), the artist describes his perception, attitude and feelings about color, one by one – from green, white, black to red, brown, crimson, orange and purple.
“When perceiving a color image (pictures, articles) – one feels the direct physical impact. There is a feeling of joy, satisfaction or a sense of irritation, rejection. But there is also another effect of color – mental.
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Floral drawing by Australian painter Paul Jones (1921-1997) Iris Staten Island, Sable Night. Iris symbolism and painting

Iris symbolism and painting
According to belief, the flower got its name from the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, named in honor of the Greek goddess Iris. The patron saint of the rainbow, she descended from Olympus to the people in the seven-colored robe. Known to the people for a very long time, the unusual structure of the flower makes it very attractive for artists.
Iris inspired artists since the most ancient times: on the island of Crete the mural, located on the wall of the palace of Knossos, shows a priest, surrounded by blooming irises.
The 4,000 year-old fresco of iris was found on Crete among the paintings of Knossos palace, built at the end of the III millennium BC. Iris adorned the arms of the city of Florence. The Romans named the town, surrounded by plantations of white iris, Florence, meaning “blossoming.”
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