Painting

Chinese painter Chen Chong Ping

Painting by Chinese artist Chen Chong Ping
Painting by Chinese artist Chen Chong Ping

Chinese painter Chen Chong Ping. Chinese painting – not necessarily quiet, traditional tranquil watercolors depicting trees, bears, pandas, blooming lotus, and snow-capped mountains on the horizon. It is also a bright, sunny paintings of anything that comes to mind of the author to portray on canvas. Famous Chinese artist Chen Chong Ping paints exclusive, unique female portraits of girls dressed in colorful national costumes. Chen Chong Ping’s works are distinguished by boundless imagination in a sea of sunshine and vibrant colors. Every girl in the paintings of the artist is beautiful in her own way, each has her own unique charm. They are representatives of high society and ordinary girls, working women and settled down to stay young ladies, mothers and sisters, sophisticated ladies and warlike Amazons. Works by Chen Chong Ping give an aesthetic pleasure, rest to the soul.
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Architecture Mosaics

Museum of Byzantine mosaics in Istanbul

Museum of unique Byzantine mosaics in Istanbul, Turkey
Museum of unique Byzantine mosaics in Istanbul, Turkey

The Museum of Byzantine mosaics in Istanbul is actually a large part of the peristyle of the Imperial Palace in Constantinople, which was discovered in the 30s of the last century. The palace literally resurrected from the ashes of the burned buildings of outright market and the former stables of the Ottoman army, which were located on the site of once majestic Imperial Palace. As is often happens, the unique Byzantine mosaics of V-VI centuries were discovered quite by accident, during the construction work in the area Arasta Bazaar in 1933. In the excavations were discovered and removed from the ground about 2 thousand square meters of priceless mosaics made ​​with the greatest art of lime, terracotta and glass 5mm cubes, which number per 1 sq.m. reached 40 thousand.
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Books Painting

Antique botanical drawings with moralizing instructions

Antique botanical drawings with moralizing instructions
Antique botanical drawings with moralizing instructions

Antique botanical drawings with moralizing instructions. In the XVI century in Germany and the Netherlands appeared the most popular publications: books posters. They were allegorical (in our case, on botanical subjects) drawings with captions containing moralizing instruction. These figures were collected in the collections of books, which have become a kind of synthesis of wisdom and beauty. A perfect example of two trends of the time – the predominance of botanical subjects and passion epigrams – we can see in the works of the Flemish engraver and publisher Johann Theodor de Bry (1561-1623).
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Photoart

Photoart by Nadima Shibina

Photoart by Moscow based photographer Nadezhda Shibina
Photoart by Moscow based photographer Nadezhda Shibina

Moscow based photographer Nadima Shibina (Nadezhda Shibina) is a well-known fine art photographer in Russia. In 2008 she graduated from the Financial University, and in 2011 from Moscow State University, Fine Art department. Images of a professional photographer Nadezhda Shibina are extremely beautiful, filled with fabulous scenery and stunningly beautiful models. The result is impressive. Photoart by Nadima Shibina – gorgeous female, children portraits in mystic atmosphere of fairy tale kingdoms. Nadezhda Shibina works in creative tandem with the photographer Alexander Vishnyakov, with the team of talented costume designers, stylists, makeup artists. Fabulous photographer Nadima Shibina organizes and conducts workshops on photo art, teaches amateur photographers and shares her experience with Russian and foreign colleagues. She is a participant of regional, national and international exhibitions on photo art.
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Applied Art Books Miniature

Medieval Miniature books by Ericka VanHorn

Medieval Miniature books by Ericka VanHorn
Deliberately made old pages, gilded images and time consuming work. Medieval Miniature books by Ericka VanHorn

Medieval Miniature books by Ericka VanHorn is a real piece of art. American artist of applied art Ericka VanHorn is from Denver, Colorado. She has been creating miniatures of various kinds since 1997, but became known for her Books. All these fabulous collectible books are handmade in miniature 1″ to 1′ dollhouse scale, or in 1/12th scale. Books are aged and stained to give an ancient medieval look. So there may be some burnt or stained spots for effect. Ericka VanHorn’s collection consists of handmade leather bound books with a steam-punk, a wizard, a vampire, or religious theme.
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Applied Art

Decorative wood art by Anatoly Obelets

WINDOW (first snow). Decorative art by Ukrainian artist Anatoly Obelets
WINDOW (first snow). Decorative art by Ukrainian artist Anatoly Obelets

Decorative wood art by Anatoly Obelets. WINDOW (first snow). The work is done in the technique of marquetry, material – a monolith pine. Ukrainian artist Anatoly Obelets was born in May 1960, in the German Leipzig (his father was a military). Among Anatoly’s many serious hobbies are military history, the search operation in the wake of World War II hostilities, regional studies, journalism, but passion for wood carving was favorite. Technique – slotted bulk mosaic. Preference is given to not not quite traditional classical wood carving – pine and larch.
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Applied Art Painting

Brass door handles Starry Night by David Goldberg

Starry Night by David Goldberg
Brass door handles “Starry Night” made by American craftsman David Goldberg

Starry Night by David Goldberg, the owner of a hardware store in Bethesda, Maryland, just proves that a creative person can make art of anything. David Goldberg created a copy of the famous painting “Starry Night” from brass door handles. “Starry Night” – is one of the most famous and quoted picture in the world. David Goldberg is the owner of the shop that sells and repairs doors. Several decades, he kept the old brass handles, without knowing why. But recently, he came up with the idea of ​​using them to draw a picture “Starry Night.” David decided to solve the problem of utilization of door accessories creatively. From a distance impossible to determine what material David Goldberg used for a copy of the famous painting.
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