Vladislav Nagornov painting Vladislav Nagornov started drawing at the age of six. At sixteen he joined the Savitsky Academy in Penza with the painter German Jakov. In 2001 he graduated at the Ilya Glazounov Academy of Fine Arts. His specialisation in historical subjects requires a strong discipline to recreate the characters, costumes, decoration details and narrative subjects. He has followed the influence of artists like Ilya Repine, Sourikov and Ivanov among others. ...
Come out of the Bone Age, darling....1955 Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York Good thing he kept his head, 1962 In 2008, Thomas put on a similar exhibit that focused on images of African-Americans. His new exhibit is focused on white women — but American attitudes towards other races appear in works like ...
A series of 60 paintings by Jacob Lawrence captures the journeys of millions of African-Americans who left the Jim Crow South in search of better lives elsewhere. There's no historical marker outside Jacob Lawrence's childhood home in New York City's Harlem neighborhood. But Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg ...
Artist Parviz Tanavoli with his sculpture Big Heech Lovers. With his head of silver hair and stylish black blazer, Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli looks younger than his 77 years. He's been called the father of modern Iranian sculpture, but he hasn't had a major museum show ...
In The Shame In Venice 2, Kenyan artist Michael Soi protests the makeup of his country's pavilion at the Biennale. There's something sketchy at this year's Venice Biennale – the international art exhibition sometimes dubbed the Olympics of the contemporary art world. When you come to the Kenyan pavilion, almost ...
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