Dürer is coming

Herr Dürer is on his way to our blog, watch for the news this week.

Albrecht Dürer, Self portrait

Lieutenant Bunners shot down (????)

Before we present our this week story we want to ask you whether you can recognize a painter yourself first. 

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Lieutenant Bunners shot down

Poet Hazori guarding his Segun - (a la Katsushika Hokusai)

This week we went to the far east to Japan. Japanese painting is still to be discovered, we just did one little step today. I believe Alexandra did an excellent job capturing the style of Japanese painting of the Edo period and reproduced lithography printing style using watercolors. Enjoy a thriller painting of the late samurai era:

Alexandra, Poet Hazori guarding his Segun

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Cigarette (a la Alphonse Mucha)

The second "victim" had to be Alphonse Mucha as a most vicous Art Nouveau painter. XX century, first railroads, factories, the century of discovery, new architecture, new art, new art life - it is all Art Nouveau for me. It remains unknown owhere in our smoke-free apartment Alexandra found an inspiration for the painting, but watching it makes me want to have a nice long menthol cigarette in my hand and may be a glass of absinthe in the other one and jump to the next train to Paris - paper, watercolor, nice music, enjoy:

Cigarette, Alexandra, 2010

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Summer in Toscane (a la Van Gogh)

This week, as a pilot project I have selected my favorite one ear painter Vincent Van Gogh.

He is not only my favorite painter but also a great artist who started or developed new concepts in painting. His "rough brush stroke" style made his paintings very recognizable and sort of "easy" to follow.

Summer in Toscane

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