Artists Describing Their Art:

Melita Kraus - Melita Kraus A painter, sculptor and writer was born in Bjelovar in 1954. Ms. Kraus is a member of Croatian Association of Applied Arts. From 1990 she participated in more than one hundred group exhibitions in the country and abroad. From 2010 her sculpture aEURoeTravelersaEUR was accepted by Curators of Museum Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel, to be a part of an international permanent collection in the Museum. As a successor of a family of Holocaust survivors, she is devoted to the revival of themes in intellectually liberated manner, transforming the anxiety of nature and a terror of the theme into a sophisticated material of art, which pure and innocent yet bears an attractive stamp of the mystery of world long forgotten. Some of her finest works are also treasured in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia....

Leonid Vidrak - Leonid I. Vidrak Internationally recognised Artist, Designer, Architect, and Graphic Artist. Works are held in public and private collections in the United States, Israel, Russia and Europe. Educated in School of Fine Arts and Academy of Arts and Architecture in Russia. Works in Oil, Tempera, Mixed Media, Watercolor and Graphic Design. Living and working in the New York City metropolitan area, United States. Latest exhibitions and events include participation in X Florence Biennale 2015, publishing in Art- Tour International, works for VIDA Collection and participation in ArtExpo 2016 Milano, Paris - Carrousel du Louvre, 2017 ...

Richard Solstjarna - Richard SolstjA$?rna born in Sweden, lives and works in Berlin. Abstract Painting dominates my artistic expression. In my paintings the Energy and Forces which are immanent in Nature are visualized. Forces at work in maximum self-sufficiency. Primary, undiluted, full of tension. Never at ease always in moment. A pulse in rhythm and rhyme. Emerging from a Void, an emptiness and silent space which is the source of its origin. The theme, the allegories and concepts form the basis of my creations and for the technique I will avail myself of. There are no rules. Any preconceived image are dissolved for that particular artwork to emerge. Installations are made when the theme and work calls for it. ...

Richard Solstjarna - Matei Enric - My art is a combination between easel and wall painting. More pieces which are assembled together, creating a full image, a piece of work. Space, as usual, circumscribes the work, the wall ( the vital space around the picture ) is inserted in the piece of work, becoming in this way an element ( having plastic valences) of the composition. The piece of work, in whose substance is also integrated the wall where it is placed, remindes of the wall painting , having a better comunication with the environment unbeing isolated from it by a frame or a closed shape ( square, rectangle etc). The base of my painting consists of the plastic rhythm ( the whole composition relying on the arrangement of similar elements) and the use of different ways of the elements materialization ( brush-up ) ....

Evgeniy Rodionov - I was born in 1980. I live and create in Vologda, Russia. In the past he received an architectural education and worked as an architect for 10 years. Now Im only engaged in visual arts. The direction in which I work, I define as Rodionovskaya painting. This is a unique combination of Russian folk pictures, medieval miniatures, comics, posters, as well as my childhood memories, passions and hobbies. And the choice of plots for my paintings can be explained by the fact that I try to look at the world around me through the eyes of an adult child. An adult, because there is already enough life experience and knowledge, and the child, because I do not want to stop enjoying what is happening, joke over him, make jokes and naughty. In my work I use tempera and acrylic. Paintings I write on canvases, and various wooden surfaces. In parallel I create painted wooden sculptures in the same style of Rodionovskaya painting. ...

Markus Kruse - In Washington, Trump is mostly seen only when he chooses. At a lectern in the Rose Garden. Saluting as he boards Marine One. Behind the Resolute Desk of the Oval Office signing jumbo-sized executive orders, pushing his red button to summon a butler with Diet Coke or flashing a thumbs up from his high-backed cherry leather chair. But a nine-day, marathon foreign trip that concluded Saturday here in Sicily has offered the first extended aEUR" and often unfiltered, thanks to the steady stream of raw camera footage provided by his host countries aEUR" look at Trump on the world stage. In Washington, Trump is mostly seen only when he chooses. At a lectern in the Rose Garden. Saluting as he boards Marine One. Behind the Resolute Desk of the Oval Office signing jumbo-sized executive orders, pushing his red button to summon a butler with Diet Coke or flashing a thumbs up from his high-backed cherry leather chair. But a nine-day, marathon foreign trip that concluded Saturday here in Sicily has offered the first extended aEUR" and often unfiltered, thanks to the steady stream of raw camera footage provided by his host countries aEUR" look at Trump on the ...