The coffee morning was hosted by Marion Smith in her house in Plymouth with all the proceeds going to Meningitis UK. Marion has hosted this event for the past 7 years and this year’s event was the best yet.
“We raised £1100 which was fantastic” – says Marion. Kohgan Art Gallery participated this year by donating an original oil painting “Arctic Tale” by Marina Korkina for a raffle prize.
Meningitis UK is a Bristol-based charity with a national remit and big vision. Our mission is to fund research to find a vaccine to eradicate meningitis.
“We feel that focusing on prevention, as opposed to treatment and cure, is the only way to successfully eradicate the disease and prevent its devastating consequences” – says charity founder who visited this year’s event.
Meningitis affects thousands of people in the UK every year, so developing a vaccine will make a huge difference to countless lives. Registered Charity No. 1076774.
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Claude Cahun went far ahead of her time, and her photo artworks and self-exploring portraits brought her recognition only in nowdays, almost 100 years later. Her work was both political and personal, and often played with the concepts of gender and sexuality. Extremely talented she went far beyound the social boundaries in her photo experiments.
New medium and small size paintings by Lelia Sorokina will make a perfect gift this Christmas. Vivid and full of light these still lifes will bring warmth and positive emotions to everyone, and the prices are trully affordable!
http://www.russianart4u.co.uk/15-artist-Lelia-Sorokina.html
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Still life with an orange
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Still life with a candle
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Still life with a pear
Marina is a young and promising artist born in 1988 in the closed southern town Zarechny where she had her first solo exposition in 2007. She still lives there but plans to move out to a better place soon.
Marina enjoys music by Alfred Schnittke, loves dances by Pina Bausch and loves all the things related to the sea including sea food. Most of all Marina appreciates kind looks and shared smiles and takes love as the most important thing in life. She values openness and honesty in people and dislikes hypocrisy. She loves artists who create a desire to touch.
Marina joined Vladimir Nuikin’s graphic studio in 2003; the artistic freedom and atmosphere of experiment present in Vladimir’s workshop allowed Marina to explorer her artistic abilities with the depth and breadth unachievable otherwise.
http://www.russianart4u.co.uk/24-artist-Marina-Sosnina.html
Born in 1939 Antanus Sutkus started his photographic career as a photojournalist. Since 1969 he has been working as an independent photographer based in Vilnius, Lithunania. Sutkus’s primary focus is man; one of the most important series of his artworks is called ‘People of Lithuania’, a continuing project begun in 1976. His aim, he has written, is ‘to make an attempt at drawing a psychological portrait of contemporary man….because future generations will judge our way of life, our culture and our inner world on the basis of photographs’.
Always try to use the word “project” instead of “art”. Most artists will describe their work as a project and not a piece of art. Using this word will make you sound like you have knowledge of the art world.- Nod your head a lot when talking about various pieces of art. When you nod, others will nod along with you and find themselves agreeing with you, even if they don’t want to.
- If you visit an art exhibition, try not to talk about art too much. These things are usually an excuse for social networking.
- If you are not too sure about what to say about the art itself, talk instead about the gallery and the space the piece is exhibited in. If you talk about how art is presented as opposed to just how it looks, people will think you know your stuff.
- Finally, remember that there are no right or wrong answers. So as long as you believe in what you are saying and can argue your point, people will respect your views.
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/the-baltics-guide-to-bluffing-how-to-become-an-art-expert-in-six-hours-783544.html
Arthur de Pins is one of my favorite illustrators. He is a young artist, he graduated from the Ecole nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris in 2000. He has since worked to numerous projects as animator, illustrator, character designer, and director.
De Pins multi-medium artistic style is fluid; all his works contain a very strong vectorial and clean graphic simplicity that is shared from one medium to the next. His excellent online portfolio contains over 180 illustrations of cartoons, sexy comics, advertising, posters, cute pin-ups, caricatures, and a plethora of other illustrations to see. There is also the animation part with 23 works, composed of very short flash videos, animations for sites and three funny short video to boot. Here is a nice video compilation of his illustrations, that you might want to view.
Info: you can view Arthur’s online portfolio here, the site contains adult material that is not suitable for children and is NSFW .
Source: http://paintalicious.org/2007/07/08/arthur-de-pins-illustrations/
