◄ Contemporary Art by Pojar Calin ►

► Romanian contemporary art painter ( 1939-2010) . Studied at ‘Ion Andreescu’ Academy of Visual Arts Cluj-Napoca.

Since 1969 ,he has frequently participated in numerous groups exhibitions , anniversaries, celebrations, mostly held at the National Museum of Art from Cluj-Napoca. His works were included in the ‘Cluj 70 ’ exhibition , held at Dalles Hall from Bucharest(1970) , in the exhibitions of the ‘Lucian Blaga’ International Festival ( 1991) , also in museums and state collections in Romania and private collections in Italy, Germany, Spain, Norway, Austria, England, Greece, Israel, U.S.A.

Dominant colors of his paintings are the well-known red , blue and yellow alloy. He lived for a long time in the fascinating privacy of Transilvania’s rural universe, especially Maramures and therefore expression in speech naturalness of these realities has established itself as a pure breath.

Themes his works evoke openly the city of Maramures : Monumental Gate, Trinity as sign of pious rememberance for the known or unknown heroes, Dowry chest. In other words, a world full of splendor and subtle symbolism, legends and myths, which transpires a strong sense of existence.



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◄ Awesome Paintings by Gabi ►

► Gabi was born in Hungary, but moved to Canada in 1989. She always had good imagination and a creative side but only in the her early 20′s she found her inspiration to start painting and only in the last 7 years she found herself, and her own style of painting. She thinks she is a late bloomer. Partly because she was so busy raising her 3 children. She loves a variety of things to paint and uses vibrant colors that pop.

Painting is her way to relax, to be creative and to escape to another world. When she paints she gets so lost in the moment that she doesn’t notice anything around her, not even the hours passing by.

Her mind is constantly thinking about the next project ahead. She is never out of ideas. At present, she is working at marketing her art through art galleries and different internet sites.


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◄ Paintings by Leo Königsberg ►

► Artist Statement :
I live and work in an old industrial area of Berlin, wich was the place where the German Electric Industry started, A E G. This might be a forgotten Place, but here it is full of energy and that is what i need to make my artwork. My studio is placed midden of old factory buildings I live in the former battery laboratory house wich I developed in the beginning of 2003 in myneighborhood there are a lot of former factory’s. The most of them are closed and that is what it makes it so exiting to me as an artist.The smell and the sound of emtyness, mixed with the rest idea of former production and productive energy, it goes into me and break through in the transforming process of my artwork. Music is an important part in my life and music inspires me and my art production.Since I was a child from 5 or 6 years, I always saw any kind of music in colors and later the symphonies became colorful landscapes in my mind.I was inspired first of all by wolfgang a. Mozart, gustav mahler, anton bruckner and later of the russian composers segej rachmaninov and later a few others. In the 80ties was it john cage, lary anderson and steve reich.Aswell there was a few writer like jack kerouack, charles buckowsky, allen ginsbourg and william bourrouse and then the wonderful bob dylan and later tom waits.2it all influenced my work and the fascination of waste lands gives distinction to my work as an artist.The most interesting thing for me is in such a transforming process when nature start to destroy and takes back all buildings in there own system of life and organic structures.My paintings open a window and you become a citizen of my world of light, colors and transparence. just fly ………


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◄ Paintings by Raphael ►

► Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520), better known simply as Raphael , was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.
Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop, and despite his death at thirty-seven, a large body of his work remains. Many of his works are found in the Apostolic Palace of The Vatican, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career.
The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome, much of his work was designed by him and executed largely by the workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality.
He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael’s more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models.
His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (from 1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates.


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◄ Art by Oleg Zhivetin ►

► Oleg Zhivetin Biography :
Oleg Zhivetin was born on March 8, 1964 in Tashkent, Capitol of the Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan, to a family of Russian painters. He started to paint at a very early age under the supervision of his father’s severe and demanding eye. When he was nine years old he began an art program where he learned to work with watercolors. While still young, his family resettled in Moscow, where Oleg began his studies at age fifteen at the Moscow Academy of Art. At the academy he continued to learn how to paint and draw as well as study traditional subjects such as history, of which Oleg is extremely fond. He earned his Fine Art degree with honors, in 1982. Oleg decided to apply to the Surikov Art Institute, which is known by many to be the Soviet Union’s most prestigious school of art. Unfortunately, Oleg was not accepted to the school on his first try and this prompted him to go back to Uzbekistan to earn a degree in art education. He was accepted to the Surikov Art Institute after applying for a second time. Only those talented enough to gain admission to the Surikov were able to study under esteemed Soviet artists such as Yuri Karilov. Oleg eventually obtained the coveted Master of Fine Arts degree in 1990.

After graduation, Oleg grew beyond his academic focus of Dutch, Flemish, Renaissance old masters, and Soviet social-realism to develop a much more individualistic and contemporary style. Oleg decided to hire one of his neighbors to sell his art on the street in order that he could earn some money to live. The artwork began to sell after a few months, and eventually, his neighbor asked him if he wanted to go to America. Oleg was given a phone number to call to arrange for this opportunity. It turns out that the telephone number belonged to a man who was looking for exceptional artists to sponsor. Needless to say, the sponsor liked what he saw in Oleg’s work. This sponsorship allowed Oleg to work in the United States under a three-month visa. He arrived in California and took some of his paintings to a Russian art dealer.



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◄ Art by Piet Pedersen ►

► Artist Statement :
” I am an artist living in Aarup at Fyn in Denmark and I am born in 1960. I have been drawing and painting my entire life and I am so lucky to have room in my life to paint, with family and all. To me it means stability, joy, peace and lots of colors.

For some years I have been working with commercials as a sign writer. It doesn’t mean much for my painting style, but it provides me some discipline in my work. I love to tell a story and I am seeking the motif in the motif. Therefore you can often recognize it and see what it looks like. If people can recognize the shape, you can put almost anything in it, and get away with it.

I am always trying to renew myself from time to time, but I am stuck with certain figures and colors or they are stuck with me. Often I have been painting the rhinos. It s almost extinct, but then again, it has a protecting armor. The similarities to my own life exist in everything. Sometimes we need protection against the world. The pictures of a bull and a woman I see as if I am the bull pressing on while the woman is a expression of my inner vulnerability. The toucan is a self-portrait from my soul, representing my soul. As a bird, I have the big view at the world and thereby the sense of happy colors and happy moments. I see the toucan as a symbol of freedom and good values and my direct contact with my inner soul as a painter. The toucan is always with me in my work, monitoring my work and securing it is well done. A free bird with happiness in colors and expression…..it should appear as often as possible in my work.

Sometimes I pick up my inspiration in the darkness of my soul. It often appears as (brightness) clarity of colors. At other times I catch a glimpse of something, and it gets reworked until it shows who I am and what I want. It all goes through a process where I am exploring it and if I can approve it, its end up with my signature. There is at all times an inner connection and drive to keep on painting. I don’t paint to be famous or to receive recognition. I paint because the urges demand me to, and therefore I just keep on painting. “



► Source : Acrylic paintings , Ink drawings

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◄ Fine Art by ARTHEO ►


► Theodora – ARTHEO – is a fine artist from Romania, graduated in 2005. She had personal and group exhibitions in Romania during the period 2005-2010.
In 2010 she moved to London, had her second child and in 2011, she started to paint again. She was searching for a studio, till she found HATCH SPACE.
She is painting abstracts using acrylics , she loves textures, transparencies , bright colours and strong contrasts . Theodora is sending a message to all artists wherever they are :

Love it is all it is matter ,Find your dream and follow it , Enjoy your life, it is too short, make this world better, more love means less war.


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◄ Paintings by Donna Steel ►

► artist statement :
” I am a Contemporary artist based in Christchurch, with a fascination for creating things. I love to paint and also love to sculpt, so have managed to combine these two passions with my Oil, Acrylic and mixed media artworks.“A Total Texture Junkie” is a good way to describe me. I enjoy incorporating many different types of texture and resin in my artworks. “



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◄ Hyperrealistic Paintings by Caroline Chariot-Dayez ►


► Caroline Chariot-Dayez (b. Brussels, 11 September 1958) is a Belgian hyperrealistic painter.Although interested in painting from a very early age, she studied philosophy in order to understand what painting is.

She was deeply influenced by the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who wrote extensively on perception, vision, embodiment, and painting.Her life has been an ongoing interaction between philosophy, which she teaches, and painting.

Until the age of forty, she was reluctant to show her paintings in public (with the exception of an appearance on the Belgian Broadcasting Corporation programme “The Arts at Large” in 1995).She lives and works in Brussels..chariot-dayez.com.


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◄  Paintings by Edward Halpern►


► Artist statement :
” After raising a family and working as an entrepreneur, I have gone back to my first love (besides my lovely wife) of painting. I enjoy creating quality art inspired by the world around me and making it available to all at a reasonable price.

I enjoy painting giclee oil paintings on canvas using the world around me as my subject and inspiration. “


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◄ The Artwork by Rachael Smith ►


► Artist statement :
” I paint for leisure, taking inspiration from photographs I’ve taken or images I’ve seen.

This is a small collection of artwork I’ve painted over the years and some more newer pieces I’ve put together for 2012. You can see more about these paintings on my blog: http://somewritingspace.wordpress.com/art/ “



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◄ Art by Yucel Donmez  ►


► Yucel Donmez is Turkish-American artist live and works Chicago_İstanbul and his art representing in Norway-Oslo. Donmez is one of important artist for Today’s art and his paintings- Protest Art-Digital works and Land Art specially his Snow Paintings (His the first artist work in snow large scale paintings one of his paintings in snow over than 10.000 meter square)



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◄ Fantasy Art by Michael Whelan ►

► Michael Whelan (born June 29, 1950) is an American artist of imaginative realism. For more than 30 years he worked as an illustrator specializing in science fiction and fantasy cover art.
Since the mid-1990s he has pursued a fine art career, selling non-commissioned paintings through galleries in the United States and through his website.
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Whelan in June 2009, the first living artist so honored.
According to his Hall of Fame citation,Michael Whelan is one of the most important contemporary science fiction and fantasy artists, and certainly the most popular.
His work was a dominant force in the transition of genre book covers away from the surrealism introduced in the 1950s and 1960s back to realism.
His paintings have appeared on the covers of more than 350 books and magazines, including many Stephen King novels, most of the Del Rey editions of Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series, Piers Anthony’s Incarnations of Immortality series, the Del Rey edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars series, Melanie Rawn’s Dragon Prince and Dragon Star series, the DAW editions of Michael Moorcock’s Elric books, numerous DAW editions of C. J. Cherryh’s work, many of Robert A. Heinlein’s novels including Friday and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, the Ace editions of H. Beam Piper’s Fuzzy novels, and Tad Williams’s Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Otherland, and Shadowmarch series. Whelan provided covers and interior illustrations for Stephen King’s The Gunslinger and The Dark Tower, the first and last of his Dark Tower books.
Cover art by Michael Whelan has graced many music record albums including The Jacksons’ Victory; Sepultura’s Beneath the Remains, Arise, Chaos A.D., and Roots; Soulfly’s Dark Ages; Obituary’s Cause of Death; and every album by the Elric-influenced metal band Cirith Ungol.
He painted original works for the covers of Meat Loaf’s Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell and The Very Best of Meat Loaf albums and several of his older paintings illustrate the liner notes of the former. Recently he painted the cover art for thrash metal band Evile’s album Infected Nations.
He has also illustrated cards for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game.


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◄ Abstract Art by Olli Grey ►

► Artist’s Statement :

” Hello and welcome to my page,let me introduce myself, my name is Oliver i am a part time self taught painter. I was born and currently live in lovely South Gloucestershire UK. Been interested in many art forms for a while now and been painting for a few years which i feel i love doing and feel a passion for.

I enjoy painting a variety of paintings mainly abstract, and creating artwork using many software. I also like to draw tribal art.
My paintings and digital art are i feel got lots of energy, expression, passion and colourful, enjoy looking around!! “

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◄ Surreal Landscape Oil Paintings by James McCarthy ►

► James McCarthy (surrealseasons ) is originally from Kalamazoo, Michigan in the 1950s, and was part of the first generation of kids raised on television. Besides cartoons and comedies, he enjoyed the fantasy and sicence ficition shows. He also has fond memories of having multiple seasons, and has a special love for the snow and ice of winter, which he sees little of in his current home in Brandon, Florida.

He cites those childhood memories to be a great source of inspiration now, especially when listening to music: prog rock, classical, fusion jazz, new age, electronic and medieval. He has been seiously painting sin 1999, and has exhibited artwork in galleries in the Tampa Bay area.

Education/Employment: Graduated from Tampa Catholic High School and majored in painting at the University of South Florida. After school, he worked at Design/Art, a commerical art studio in Tampa which was run by his father, for 25 years until it closed in 2001.


► Source : Surrealism and the Landscape


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