Art Kaleidoscope

Stunning art – Parchment paper art ladies

Parchment paper art ladies
In general, Parchment Craft is the art of piercing and embossing translucent parchment paper with special inexpensive tools to create delicate lace-like designs. Meanwhile, the origin of this art dates back to the Middle Ages, to the cloisters of Spain. And it was the Catholic monasteries of Europe that first began to create paintings on religious themes on parchment paper. Among other parchment paper works were skillfully made bookmarks for the Holy Scriptures. Already used techniques of stamping, punching, painting – an integral part of pergamano technique existing today in its present form.
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Portrait of a beautiful woman. Painting by Russian artist Victor Koulbak

Russian artist Victor Koulbak
“I do not know whether the beauty will save the world, but we can not survive without it”, says Victor Koulbak. His silver-point paintings resemble the spirit of the Renaissance masters. Born 12 March 1946 in Moscow, Koulbak was the second child in the family. His father was a military pilot and his mother looked after the children and the house. In fact, it was she who first noticed Victor’s talent and one day took him to school at the Academy of Fine Arts in Moscow. Koulbak studied in this school for four years and still remembers it with gratitude: “The teachers from the Academy of Fine Arts taught us craft, and methods of teaching were the most classic. They required from us only one – accuracy. I liked it, and was happy”.
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Flying over the city. Beautiful Naive painting by Olga Kvasha, Ukrainian artist

Naive painting by Olga Kvasha
Born in 1976 in Lutsk, Ukrainian artist Olga Kvasha graduated from the Lvov Academy of Arts (1999). Her works are in private collections in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, France, Holland, UK, USA, Canada, Japan, and Brazil.
Currently, Olga Kvasha is constantly working with several Ukrainian publishers creating illustrations for children’s books.
Meanwhile, from 1996 to 2012 she took part in 27 exhibitions, including seven solo and 5 international. With incredible warmth Kvasha depicts urban and rural landscapes, panoramas and corners. Contemplating the scenes of her works you will certainly feel no physical presence of a person, even though shown there or not. Her paintings depict children riding a bike, and shepherds looking after their sheep, where grass is neat and mown. And all is peaceful and romantic in this naive world.
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Improvisation. Ice photo fantasy by Nikolai Fonarev

Ice photo fantasy by Nikolai Fonarev
Macro images of Moscow based photographer Nikolai Fonarev (known as NIK-3332008) reveal the beauty of Winter. Talented photographer sees in Winter Fantasy – the art of sculpture, jewelry designs, abstract paintings. The name of the great artist in all his pictures – Nature. Nikolai takes pictures of ice, snowflakes, icicles, patterns on frosty windows. The photographer titled his series of macro photographs “Vernisage of Snow Queen”. Traveling photographer Nikolai Fonarev is inspired by the beauty of nature in winter. The images are not processed in Photoshop, they are all natural photographed outside, in natural light at sunset. In some of them was used a specular reflection.
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Ama. From the series ‘The Spirit of Sea’. Work by Fine art photographer Angelika Nabokova

Fine art photographer Angelika Nabokova
Born in Vladivostok, the Far East of Russia, the Asian sentiments and mentality were very close to her. According to Angelika, she loves everything related to Asian culture. In particular, art, philosophy of life, way of life, thoughts, travel, literature and movies. Her photo gallery – beauty of seas and sunsets, the life and philosophy of cities, the riot of colors of flora and fauna. Plots of her photographs – bright and warm impressions of travel, everything that she noticed in the everyday life.
Angelika’s statement: “Parents say that the little, I got to my feet and immediately ran. And all my life I go fast, I like to live high and bright. I like open spaces, and waking up to see the sky and the sun. Perhaps this explains something”. Nabokova currently resides in Moscow.
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Jesus Christ. Ecclesiastical embroidery art

Ecclesiastical embroidery art
Despite some differences between various branches of the Christian religion, the embroidery still occupies a leading position in the decoration of both Orthodox and Catholic churches. Known as Ecclesiastical, the embroidery art appeared in ancient times, but preserved only embroidery for church purposes from the tenth century. The embroidery of the beginning of the tenth century is in The Treasury Museum of Durham Cathedral, and fragments of the altar of the same century – in the National Museum in Ravenna.
In fact, beautifully embroidered items appeared in the early eleventh century. And among them – the paintings, embroidered with pure gold, stored in the cathedral of Bamberg; coronation mantle of Hungary, and other samples. Meanwhile, this embroidery shows both costly materials and skills in their performance, and also the deep meaning of the embroidered paintings.
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Ceramic sculpture from the series “Loveable”. Harmonic chaos in sculpture by Sergei Isupov

Harmonic chaos – sculpture by Sergei Isupov
Born in the southern city of Stavropol, in 1963, Russian artist Sergei Isupov graduated from the Tallinn Art Institute in 1990 with a BA/MFA in Ceramics. In 1994 Sergei immigrated to the United States. Isupov calls himself a student of the universe. He is a part of the harmonic chaos of contrasts and opposites: dark – light; male – female; good – evil. Harmonic chaos – sculpture by Sergei Isupov, which consists of contradictions. He finds clay to be the most suited to the expression of his ideas. He considers his sculptures to be a canvas for his paintings. The art work by Sergei Isupov can be found in numerous books, catalogs and magazines, collections and exhibitions, including the National Gallery of Australia, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Museum of Arts and Design in NYC, Racine Art Museum, and Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
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