Art Kaleidoscope

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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Talented and beautiful Russian artist Julia Gorina

Russian artist Julia Gorina
Born January 24, 1988 in Novogireevo, Moscow region, Julia Gorina (Sevastyanova) is a talented Russian artist of applied art. Julia enjoyed drawing in her childhood, but didn’t study at art schools. Instead, she graduated from Moscow Finance and the Humanities Academy, Design faculty. Currently, she creates fabulous miniatures, brooches, dolls, jewelry, which she sells online. According to a young and beautiful artist Julia Gorina, she is a happy person! “I set myself the goals, they are small but important steps: participation in certain exhibitions, socializing with certain people that I respect, and even some of the decisions and actions. I have lots of creative purposes… Small victories that have happened to me so far, give me confidence that I’m on the right track and I will succeed”. Julia is specializing in Jewelry, Embroidery, Decoration, Design, Painting, Dolls and toys, plastic, painting, photography, Sewing
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Chinese figurines Coral jewelry art

Coral jewelry art
Natural material, coral polyps (“bioherm”), in large concentrations become reefs and coral islands. Traditionally, people use ordinary corals as raw materials to produce lime. And some rare species, as a precious raw material used for the manufacture of jewelry. Among the variety of marine resources in nature, there are real deep water treasures – pink, black, “gold”, blue and bamboo coral. In particular, the Mediterranean Sea and off the coast of Japan are rich in red or precious corals – gorgonians. From their calcareous skeleton of red and pink, purified from polyps, even in ancient times, at least 25 thousand years ago, produced expensive necklaces, bracelets, brooches, cameos, and other products.
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