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For the sake of an aesthetically fruitful collaboration between eye and mind:
"Lady with a Birdcage"
Van Ahn Quan is a self-taught Vietnamese artist who has been painting for about ten years.
"Young Lady with Fan"
Quan’s meticulously crafted paintings have been shown in exhibitions in Vietnam and the United States.
"Still Life with Stone Grinder"
No additional biographical information about Van Anh Quan is available, but it is not necessary, since he has expressed himself so eloquently in his art.
"Lady in a Red Dress with Fan"
"Young Lady"
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Norman Dreo is a contemporary Filipino artist whose works often provide masterful examples of socio-realism.
"Kalaro" ("Playmates")
Dreo received the highest grade on the talent test when he entered the College of Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines, and his work has won various prizes and awards.
"Jollijeep"
The colorful, uncommonly energetic paintings of Norman Dreo have been exhibited throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States.
"You're It!"
For the sake of an aesthetically fruitful collaboration between eye and mind:
"Woman with Cup of Tea"
Radish Tordia is a contemporary painter from Georgia. He works primarily with oils, and his preferred subject is women, whom he regards as “the most beautiful creation in the world.”
"Woman in Vintage"
"Girl with Persimmons"
Tordia graduated from both the J. Nikoladze Art Studio and the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts.
"Roosters"
He was proclaimed the “Honored Artist of Georgia” in 1979, was awarded the State Prize the following year, became the “People’s Artist of Georgia” in 1990, and received the “Order of Honor” in 1997.
"Cafe"
"Winter"
The hauntingly lovely paintings of Radish Tordia can be found in museums and private collections around the world.
"Music"
"Evening on Balcony"
For the sake of an aesthetically fruitful collaboration between eye and mind:
"Santee"
Robert Freeman is a self-taught contemporary Native American artist who works in various media, including oils, etching, and sculpture.
"Hold Up!!!"
Some of his most creative impulses find expression in those of his paintings that combine the real and the surreal and which embody his reflections on society.
"Lady in Waiting"
However, those works in which Freeman demonstrates a more traditional approach to his subject matter are also worthy of considered attention.
"Badlands"
For the sake of an aesthetically fruitful collaboration between eye and mind:
"Penang Hill"
Yusof Ghani is a contemporary Malaysian artist who began his career as a graphic designer.
"Taman"
However, Ghani soon became interested in the canvases of Abstract Expressionists Pollack and de Kooning, and their influence upon him is apparent in the bold strokes and energetic use of color in his paintings.
"Siri Topang"
"Keluarga Mak Andih"
For the sake of an aesthetically fruitful collaboration between eye and mind:
"Angel's Flight"
Millard Owen Sheets (1907-1898) was a California artist whose work deserves to be better-known. Among his great paintings is “Angel’s Flight,” his tribute to Bunker Hill, which was a once-thriving neighborhood in Los Angeles doomed by rising real estate values.
"Tenement Flats"
Thanks to revenue generated from his art, Sheets was able to travel, and he took advantage of opportunities to paint local landscapes.
"Ancient Pool Hawaii"
"Mount Hood"
One of my favorite Sheets’ paintings is “San Dimas Station.” In it, the artist has managed to capture the essence of travel in lonely places, particularly through his remarkable use of light, which, amid the encroaching darkness, invests the scene with a gentle melancholy.
"San Dimas Station"
For the sake of an aesthetically fruitful collaboration between eye and mind:
"Bottles and a Pitcher"
Robert Falk (1886-1958) was a Russian painter who, after spending four years at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, was one of the founders of an artistic group called “Jack of Diamonds,” the members of which venerated Paul Cezanne.
"Oranges in a Basket"
After spending ten years in Paris, Falk returned to Moscow in 1938, where he lived and worked until his death in 1958.
"A Backyard"
During his later years, Falk worked in isolation. The commissars of official Communist Party opinion predictably ridiculed his art for being “bourgeois,” but the names of these ignorant bureaucrats have been forgotten, while Robert Falk is regarded as one of Russia’s most important painters.
"Suzani Bakground"
"Ficus Plant"
For the sake of an aesthetically fruitful collaboration between eye and mind:
"Passion"
Khadija Hashemi is a young Afghani female painter. During the time when the Taliban ruled her country, she was unable to obtain paint, and women were strongly discouraged from becoming artists. Now, however, she and her fellow Afghani painters face a different sort of discouragement, about which she spoke at an exhibition in Berlin: “Many people here in the West smile condescendingly at us an think that we are not talented.”
She also has to confront serious cultural misunderstandings involving her work. At one exhibition she asked a Western visitor what he thought about her painting of an enormous caravan of women wearing blue burqas and riding donkeys into the desert horizon, with men accompanying them on foot.
"Life Hardship"
The visitor told her that the painting showed how much respect these men have for the women, letting them ride comfortably on the donkeys as they suffered on foot during the difficult trek. “Not quite,” she said. “They (the women) don’t have any role in the selection of the path. They don’t have the choice to change the path. Instead, they just have to keep on moving where the donkeys are led by the men.”
In addition to being beautifully crafted and aesthetically appealing, the art of Khadija Hashemi affords Westerners the opportunity for cross-cultural understanding, and it is therefore worthy of both respect and study.
Khadija Hashemi
For the sake of an aesthetically fruitful collaboration between eye and mind:
"Santiago de Cuba Street Scene"
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was an American painter and printmaker, who is best know for his canvasses featuring marine subjects.
"The Gulf Stream"
"The Fog Warning"
Homer was largely self-taught, and after years of working for a lithographic firm in Boston, he left to become a freelance illustrator. He studied briefly at the National Academy of Design in New York City, took a few painting lessons, and earned his livelihood producing drawings for weekly magazines. After a brief trip to Paris, he settled into a small coastal village in northeast England for ten months. When he returned to America, he moved his studio to the Maine coast, and spent the rest of his life traveling in the Adirondacks and Quebec in the summers, and in Florida, Bermuda, and the Bahamas in winter. All of these journeys found creative expression in his beautiful paintings.
"Kissing the Moon"
"Snap the Whip"
For the sake of an aesthetically fruitful collaboration between eye and mind:
"Weeping Palms: Stolen Childhoods"
Maysaloun Faraj is an Iraqi painter who has had more than enough experience of the brutalities that frequently attend modern politics: “Given the state of our world, this so-called New World Order, in between intensive bouts of art making, I often find myself questioning whether art really matters. Is it necessary? Does anyone care? Where does it stand in the midst of all the violence, destruction, and despair? Again and again, I find the answers deep within and believe that if there is any chance for hope . . . if there is any chance for humanity, it will be in the hands of artists.”
"Traces of Time . . . and Moon"
George Bernard Shaw wrote, ‘You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.’ The human spirit is resilient, and as long as there is a soul, there will always be inspiration, there will always be art.”
"Fill My Desperate Heart with Sunshine: Iraqi Sunshine"
Maysaloun Faraj is a woman both talented and wise. and her paintings deserve studied attention.
"Earthstone"
