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Date: 2010-01-12

Ivan Pinkava Added: 2010-01-12 Category: Photography Ivan Pinkava makes portraits that have a strange tension between attraction and repulsion. He chooses models that are androgynous and awkward, yet stately and mythic, and then heightens this strangeness with a subtle layer of paint and oil. His print quality is beautiful and so specific that the hairs on the face or the texture of the skin become a big part of the content of the picture, because they attest to the condition of this creature, which is what Pinkava is concerned with. "They are beings from the end of the century…beings of the universe: sexless, disowned and powerfully expressive." Ivan Pinkava "They bear the traces of timeless conflict: scarred, heavy-lidded, emotionally frayed. They are hardened yet also vulnerable and tender." David Chandler, London 1993 Pinkava was previously working on a group of pictures of people with their eyes closed who were personifications of the works of different authors. This was also an effective series-a model whose eyes are closed is a source of great curiosity because they are unreadable and private-what are they thinking? It reminds us that photography by nature deals only with the exterior of things-if we use the exterior to make assumptions about the interior, it is our interpretation.

Debi Hubbs Added: 2010-01-12 Category: Painting

Xue Yanqun Added: 2010-01-12 Category: Painting Mr Xue is a professional artist and portraitist. More than 220 pieces of his works were collected by galleries and individuals, include some pieces sold at the auctions of Christie's Swire. The style of his works are elegant,realistic and oriental.

Slava Groshev Added: 2010-01-12 Category: Painting 41-year-old Russian Slava Groshev uses photographs to help create stunningly beautiful paintings of young women. Crisp, vibrant and sharp, Slava's figurative work is so realistic-looking that you could easily be fooled into thinking that he uses digital photography in its creation, but this is not the case. All his paintings are, in fact, created with the old-fashioned paint brush and not digital computer software.

Alexei Harlamoff Added: 2010-01-12 Category: Painting Alexei Alexeivich Harlamoff, Russian Academic Painter, 1840-1925