Oil Paintings (21,560)

Artists Describing Their Art:

Stasia Fisher - Art is a color in my life. With art I can leave the world without leaving the room. Through color and form Im in perpetual connection with places and beings that I love. This is my driving force to create the art that is uniquely my visual expression. About my self as artist I would say that Art which I create is threefold skillful meditation. My art recluse the mind of viewers to one object of contemplation- my composition is zen simple only one subject on the canvas at the time. Secondly it locks the glance of viewers to one point of focus - my canvas has the center where all colors and shapes descend to. Lastly my art leads viewers to goal of meditation- awakening. The burst of colors, the decisive shapes and bold form create personal and strong feeling in viewers. From there questions emerge, and the circle of perpetual communication between inner and outer world starts all over yet new again. From me, the artist, to canvas, from canvas to viewers - the circle ripples across colors and forms, meditative, void of words, yet perpetually communicating. ...

Aharon April - The art style of Aaron April moves from contemplative figurativism to expressive symbolism. AprilaEURtms paintings impress with their colorful, temperamental riot of colorsVictoria Khan-Magomedova. However, within this chaos, one can find subject and content. CriticsVictoria Khan-Magomedova, Mathy Fishernoted that Aharon April is one of those artists who can tame the chaos, prompting viewers to formulate answers to the questions posed by the artistic work, and solve the mystery of it. There lies the leading value of the artwork.Salvator Daly and others. From the seemingly erratic pulsating strokes, one can discover crop faces, figures and even biblical characters.Efgraf Kontchin. Color in AprilaEURtms paintings has special meaning largely because of extensive experience in watercolor, which combines the finest nuances of color combination of Mideteranian nature and compositions involving biblical and universal themes.Wladimir Prokhorov, Mathy Fisher....

Anna Shchelochkova - My work is an attempt to understand and depict the concept or phenomenon of interest to me using the expressive properties and beauty of the line, color and geometric shape, which enable the expression of the idea at a high abstracted level. I strive for simplicity of expression without loss of aesthetics, conciseness of compositional and technical techniques, maximum use of the possibilities of pure color and simple geometric shape. I am interested in finding my own interpretation and understanding of pure color, working simultaneously with different textures of oil and acrylic paint. The purpose of my work is to create works that have a beneficial effect on a person, causing interest in self-knowledge and understanding of the world order. I hope that the lack of familiar images in my work will interest the viewer and draw his attention to the meaning, not the visible, familiar side of the phenomenon or concept, as well as cause interest in the visual language of artistic creativity....

Vladimir Volosov - I was born in 1937 in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia). My way to art was a lengthy one. Before becoming an artist, I studied for thirty years at the forefront of modern physics as a PhD scientist and professor, author more than 150 scientific articles in contemporary laser physics. Thirty years of strenuous scientific work on the front edge of modern physics gives me a deep feeling for the anxiety and unprotectedness of the world's beauty. The formula, "beauty saves the world" fits my own attitude. My creed is also embodied in the statement: "to have time to realize everything given to you by Nature." At the threshold of my fifties, I decided to live one more life, a new, alluring life of the free artist. I walked away from my established scientific career and completely devoted myself to painting. In 1991 I founded and headed the association "Light, Color and Art" to connect with scientists engaged in the arts. The main directions of my paintings are lyrical realism and abstract compositions. My paintings are about light, color, atmosphere and space. For me, the most important elements are light and color and their juxtaposition/nexus/meeting of...

Dave Martsolf - Dave Martsolf Dave Martsolf was born in 1949 in Kansas, moved to Western Pennsylvania in early childhood and at age 12 moved to New Hampshire where he resides today. MartsolfaEURtms father and grandfather were architects and his mother a professional photographer. Martsolf attended MIT and later UNH where he earned a degree in Fine Arts. His early work was influenced by the great masters and others such as the post-impressionists Miro, Matisse, Kandinsky, Klee, Picasso, and the surrealist Salvador Dali. Architectural instincts developed due to his close association with architecture in his youth. DaveaEURtms focus has been in visual arts his entire life. His style extends from realism to surrealistic to fantasy and abstraction. His work uses the mediums of oils, watercolors, inks and pencils, to the more technically-oriented media of computer-based art. Beginning in the late 80aEURtms Martsolf spent productive time with the tools of Bryce, Poser, KaiaEURtms Power Tools, and similar photo editing and photo manipulation products. He was creator, owner and artistic director of Damsel Software Group in the 1990aEUR2s as a producer and manufacturer of original content screen savers. Today, Dave has returned to handmade art. He continues ...

Ivan Pili - Following in the footsteps of the great masters of the past, the tradition of classical and romantic nineteenth-century painting that evolves into a figurative language relives in the beautiful works of art of master Ivan Pili , whilst the segno runs fast and decisive in the graphic ability from suffused values aEUR