Art Kaleidoscope

Handcrafted Enamel by California based Jewelry Artists. Mona and Alex Szabados Enamel Jewelry art

Mona and Alex Szabados Enamel Jewelry art
Enamel Jewelry art by Mona & Alex Szabados are beautiful miniature paintings of female faces and animals. They are characterized by rich colors of enamel in combination with precious stones and fantasy of artists. Mona (artist) and Alex Szabados (jeweler) live in California. They are collaborating for over 20 years and have won numerous awards, presented their work in several books and magazines. Each element is formed gradually, using a transparent enamel with gold leaf, silver leaf and gold beads, all about 30 layers. Faces are built with finely chopped transparent and opaque opalescent enamel. The creative tandem of jewelry artists work together at each stage. When Mona finishes with enamel, Alex begins his fine jewelry work packing enamel, adding unique gems, granular gold, reticulation, etc.
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Made from pencils painting by Colombian Multimedia artist Federico Uribe

Multimedia artist Federico Uribe
Born in Bogota, Colombia, Federico Uribe has not created any traditional painting or sculpture. For his entire artistic career this author all the time is inclining to non-standard materials for creativity. He observes them with care, collects them, sets them side by side and combines them. Meanwhile, the everyday objects turn into real piece of art. And we can only admire such a flight of thought and imagination by Federico Uribe. Indeed, not everyone has such ability to go beyond the modest earthly fantasies. However, if you have one and develop it, you can achieve incredible success. According to Colombian artist, this is the purpose of using laces in creative ways, turning them into masterpieces of modern art, not to leave any spectator indifferent.
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Ice castle at 31st Harbin International Festival of ice sculpture, 2015

Harbin International Festival of ice sculpture
January 5, 2015 in Chinese city of Harbin started the 31st annual international festival of ice and snow. Thousands of snow artists and sculptors from around the world have built a city of ice sculptures. At night, the ice city illuminated by LED lamps and lasers, creating a vibrant artistic and architectural images, looks especially beautiful.
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Biology, Botany and Anatomy art by Juan Gatti

Biology, Botany and Anatomy art by Juan Gatti
Anatomy of flowers and birds by Juan Gatti is a series of surrealistic drawings of human body in combination with the taxonomy of plants and exotic animals. Born in 1950 in Buenos Aires, Argentinian artist Juan Gatti is a graphic designer, art director and photographer based in Madrid. His artwork Ciencia Naturales (Natural Sciences) includes gorgeous and detailed drawings of anatomy of human body and illustrations of plants and exotic animals in the tradition of the 19 century artists. The talented artist produced many graphic projects for the movies of a famous director Pedro Almodovar. Meanwhile, his nature illustrations the Encyclopedia of Life the artist created for Pedro Almodovar’s film.
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The famous painting by Russian president ‘Pattern on frosty window’. Who owns the only painting of Vladimir Putin

Who owns the only painting of Vladimir Putin
Natalia Kournikova is that very person who owns the only painting of Vladimir Putin. She is a graduate of Moscow State Institute for International Economics, known for one of the best collections of art of the Russian emigration of the twentieth century. Known also for the gallery “Our artists”, she owns the only painting by Russian President Vladimir Putin “Pattern on frosty window.” In fact, Kournikova purchased it at a charity auction in 2009 for 37 million rubles. Vladimir Putin first took part in the charity event “Christmas Alphabet”, which traditionally takes place in St. Petersburg during the Christmas holidays. Noteworthy, the money was spent for the medical and child care, and for rebuilding the temple.
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Granddaughter of the famous artist is planning to sell Pablo Picasso’s “Motherhood” (1901) among other canvases. Marina Picasso sells art to let the past go

Marina Picasso sells art to let the past go
Granddaughter of the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso sells his paintings from her personal collection worth about $ 290 million. This was reported by the newspaper New York Post on Monday, January 5, 2015. According to the newspaper, Marina Picasso, the daughter of artist’s eldest son Pablito from his marriage to a Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova, sells at least seven canvases painted between 1905 and 1965. In particular will be exhibited paintings “Motherhood” and “Portrait of a Woman” for 54 and $ 60 million respectively.
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Photo by Anastasia Andreeva, models Liliya Abdurasulova, Olga Komarova, Polina Krasavina. Paper fashion by Asya Kozina

Paper fashion by Asya Kozina
Russian paper artist Asya Kozina from St. Petersburg creates very stylish and sophisticated paper sculptures. In her portfolio there are ethnic wedding dresses, white fluttering butterflies, and detailed flowers. In addiotion to paper art, she is a fashion designer. Her paper sculptural installations from the series “Ethnic wedding dress” prove this.
According to the artist, preparing for her own wedding day she found out the huge variety of national wedding dresses in different countries. Unfortunately, the ancient traditions rooted in the past are slowly dying out. The desire to prevent the disappearance of this unique world has become the basis for creating the fragile paper collection of bridal dresses.
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