Art Kaleidoscope

Wildlife artist Andrew Hutchinson
British naturalist has created these touching and wise images of our smaller brethren. Fine, detailed elaboration of pictures, natural and at the same time, the vivid colors. Also, interesting compositions, emphasizing the character of each animal pictured. Andrew is a truly talented and unique artist born in North Yorkshire, England in 1961.
After completing an apprenticeship in joinery, he got a Diploma course in graphics and illustration. While working as an archaeological illustrator 30-year-old Hutchinson met his wife and the couple for some time lived in the Highlands of Scotland. According to the artist, that was the place of unspoilt beauty of nature where he found inspiration for his art. Ten years later the family with their daughter returned to Hutchinson’s native Yorkshire.
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Animated illustrations by Lisette Berndt. Talented and creative artist Thoka Maer aka Lisette Berndt lives in Germany. She is a freelancing illustrator and animator, since 2008 has been studying visual communication at the University of Arts, Berlin, Germany. Her animated drawings are cute, cartoon-like, lovely, just something special, which I’ve never seen before. Some quotes about life are added to these wonderful animations.
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William Blakes mystic art and love. English poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) married Catherine Boucher in 1782. William and Catherine had no children. Writers who knew the couple in their later years describe a very happy relationship, their marriage lasted 45 years until his death. On that day Blake working on illustrations to Dante, turned to his wife, who was sitting on the bed next to him, unable to hold back her tears, he exclaimed “Oh, Kate, please, remain immovable, I’ll draw your portrait now. You have always been an Angel to me”. At 6 pm of the same day, after promising his wife to be with her always, William Blake went into another world. Catherine said: “I have been at the death, not of a man, but of a blessed angel.” After his death she believed she was regularly visited by Blake’s spirit.
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German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker for her short life has created 750 paintings, 13 etchings, 1,000 drawings, which absorbed the main areas of art at the beginning of the XX century. She died at the age of 31, nineteen days after the childbirth. Paula Modersohn-Becker was the first female painter to paint female nudes. Paula Becker was born February 8, 1876 in Dresden-Friedrichstadt where she grew up in cultured and intellectual household environment. She was the third child of seven children in her family. Her father was the son of a Russian university professor, he spoke Russian, knew French and English; her mother was from an aristocratic family. Visual arts, literature and music occupied an important place in the education of children. Paula, along with her brothers and sisters learned to play the piano.
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German illustrator and painter Wolfgang Grünberg was born in 1909 and lived in the city of in Köln till his death in 2001. For his long life he has created realistic oil paintings of still life. The main inspiration for the artist was the image of a rose, he painted this beautiful flower on most of his canvas. His beautiful paintings can be found at art auctions throughout the world. Despite the long creative life and a large impressive gallery of artworks of a talented German painter Wolfgang Grunberg, there is no biography of the artist on the net.
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