Art Kaleidoscope

Cat’s portrait. Nancy Brown animal quilt art

Nancy Brown animal quilt art
According to California based artist of applied art Nancy S. Brown, she has always loved animals. And that was the reason she started making her beautiful quilts more than fifteen years ago.
Fabric art made by internationally recognized quilter Nancy S. Brown features her outstanding quilt artistry. Having exhibited her art works in the USA and abroad she won several awards. Hand applique animal portraits by Nancy S. Brown have been featured in several magazines and books and are in private and corporate collections. She makes animal fabric art because she feels that “animals are important parts of this world and should be celebrated and preserved for future generations to witness”.
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Majestic Seascape. Alfredo Navarro Hyperrealistic Seascapes

Alfredo Navarro Hyperrealistic Seascapes
Painted with oil on canvas seascapes by Spanish artist Alfredo Navarro look like beautiful photographs. Spanish artist Alfredo Navarro Montllor was born in 1965 in Alicante. He is from the family of artists. After graduating from Valencia University and getting an art degree of Circulo de Bellas Artes, Navarro established his own art studio in 1996. His photo realistic paintings of sea are fantastic – striking sunsets, sweeping seas and foaming waves. Inspired by the vastness of both the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, Navarro paints seascapes with great artistic emotion and power. The translucent waves gently rolling into shore as the evening’s sunset pierces through the water are painted in the technique of hyper realism.
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A mother’s love. When flowers meet watercolor – art by Singaporean artist Lim Zhi Wei

When flowers meet watercolor
“I believe that art can be found not only in high-end galleries,” – said about her project Lim Zhi Wei. She has created a wonderful series of watercolor drawings, decorated with flower petals. Lim Zhi Wei, also known under the nickname Limzy – artist from Singapore. The style of her work is very unusual. Because of this unique technique, which, perhaps, was not used by anyone, she has become known not only in her country but also far beyond its borders. Pictures of the artist executed in watercolor, then the drawing is complemented by flower petals. She does it very skillfully, the color and delicately attached to the drawing petals add completeness and greater expressiveness to the whole image. The idea of such unusual patterns came to the artist while she invented an original gift for her grandmother. Then she draw a girl in a dress of rose petals, for the first time.
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Vase with daisies and poppies at auction. 62 million dollar painting by Van Gogh

62 million dollar painting by Van Gogh
One of the most famous paintings of the great artist Vincent Van Gogh “Vase with Daisies and Poppies” – sold at last auction Sotheby’s. Like many other paintings by this artist, the price for a work truly amazed, and once again shows how valued the real art is in the modern world. Sold for 61.8 million US dollars, a record of past trade. Meanwhile, the starting price of the painting was half – 30 mln. Noteworthy, Vincent Van Gogh created this picture in the summer of 1890, just weeks before the artist died tragically. And during the creation of the painting the artist was in a very serious condition of health. At this time he was in Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, in the house of Dr. Paul Gachet. Because of the difficult financial situation, Vincent Van Gogh could not pay for the treatment and gave the painting “Vase with Daisies and Poppies’ to his doctor as a payment. The last 20 years was in a private collection.
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The Niranjana Public Welfare School, Bakrour (Sujata village) Bodhgaya, India. School walls painted with mud

School walls painted with mud
Traditionally, the Niranjana Public Welfare School in India provides its building to the full disposal of artists. And they can demonstrate their unlimited talent, skill and boundless imagination. Accordingly, the walls and ceilings of the school – transformed into the canvas on which appear scenic paintings, landscapes and fantastic creatures. However, the most amazing thing is that these wonderful murals – painted with ordinary mud! The material, which in this poor area has unlimited quantities.
Meanwhile, the Niranjana Wall Art festival gathers artists from India and Japan. They spend three weeks there, not only creating their masterpieces on the walls, but also interacting with the students of the school. In addition, conducting workshops, they share with the students the spirit of creativity and art.
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Black and white photo series ‘And Then It Hit Me’. Unique photo artist Jaap Vliegenthart

Unique photo artist Jaap Vliegenthart
Born in 1965 in the Netherlands, Jaap Vliegenthart, in fact, creates things that nobody did. Look at one of the series of his works, made in unusual techniques, and you will see that the imagination of the Dutch photographer is truly limitless. Jaap Vliegenthart graduated from the Royal School of Art in The Hague. He worked for several years as an assistant at the famous photographers. After the photographer acquired the necessary experience and the desire to create something personal, he became irresistible. First, he started his own career and soon became so famous that surpassed most of his teachers.
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A girl with a goat and an eagle. A mural by street artist Two One, Japan. Erriadh Open-Air Street Art museum

Erriadh Open-Air Street Art museum
Graffiti and the various elements of street art decorate almost every city of the world. And while somewhere street art does not exceed the level of teenage hooliganism, in other cases, street art is more similar to real masterpieces and even recognized landmark. Anyway, street art in our time is very common and of great importance, as a form of modern art.
Erriadh – one of the oldest villages in Tunisia, here Jews, Muslims and Christians have lived together for centuries. The villagers – ordinary people, whose way of life is no different from thousands of other towns and villages. However, after a team of more than 150 graffiti artists from 30 countries visited it, the village has changed radically. Undoubtedly, art has changed life there. In fact, now Erriadh is an open air museum, and one of very popular tourist destinations. The street art project “Djerbahood”, curated by Tunisian-French artist Mehdi Ben Cheikh began in July-August 2014.
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