Liu Yi: the heritage of the nation

Watercolors of this Chinese artist can safely be called the art of art. After all, his favorite theme is the images of people who have direct relation to him - for example, ballerinas or classical musicians. Very peculiar way of their filing in the paintings: people seem to come out of the thin mist, emotional and very characteristic. It is hardly possible to thank for this effect watercolor. Undoubtedly: the matter, first of all, in the artist's talent, and long discussions on this matter will be out of place. His work has long been recognized worldwide.

Liu Yi was born in Shanghai in the distant 1958. He graduated from the Faculty of Art of the East China Normal University, and later worked as a teacher at the Shanghai College of Art and Design. Repeatedly the artist was invited to the University of Constance for lecturing and organizing personal exhibitions. His painting "Water Running with Sky" received the highest award of the Seventh National Exhibition of Fine Arts, the canvas "Reflection" (that is, "Reflection") received the highest award of China at the exhibition of watercolor painting. Whispering "(that is," Whispering ") was nominated for a silver award at the Sixth National Exhibition of Paintings Written in Watercolor and Gouache, and a few dozen titles and prizes, the listing of which would be inappropriate here.

Suffice it to say separately that several paintings of Liu Yi were sold at Sotheby's auction, for a price that no one will ever disclose. And a few more will not be exhibited at auctions of any level, because they are stored in the National Museum of China. After all, paintings can also become the property of the nation.

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Vladimir Kush

Nagai Hideyuki: simple drawings with a simple pencil

Of course, digital art has immense opportunities to create volume. But to a young student, Nagai Hideyuki, such methods seem dishonest. A flat image on paper, he despises since childhood, although he considers himself a follower of the school of the early European Renaissance. The worship of the famous masters led the beginning painter to anaformism.

If the picture is distorted initially, it will necessarily become larger, but young talent of this seemed small. He recalled the memory of children's books, pictures in which rose from the pages, if you open the book at a right angle. Turned to the achievements of pop art, if in other words. And I started using an ordinary notepad for "on the spring" recordings. The drawings went to the neighboring pages, the notepad with the completed compositions was worth putting one half to the vertical stop, and the pieces began to come to life.

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And Nagai Hideyuki also did not make much of the paints. As a rule, he uses an ordinary simple pencil with a soft slate. His capabilities are sufficient - and the brilliance, and the saturation of a dark color. Sometimes the artist adds color fillings, but rarely, and single-color, as a rule. Already, we can safely say that one of the main creative goals has been achieved: an individual style in art and a custom manner of drawing have been worked out. And magic notepads with living heroes witnessed it.

Victor F. Retuerto - the creator of watercolor portraits of cities

Returning from long trips and distant countries, people often bring home, first of all, gigabytes of photos. They become the best repository of our impressions, they can refresh them from time to time. And they can transfer what they saw to other people ... To our friends and acquaintances Massa. Pictures belong to urban landscapes, most often - made in the heart of the megalopolis, it is this place that focuses on life and the most pronounced individual features. Spanish artist Victor F. Retuerto performs the same mission, but in. The place of the camera uses a brush and watercolor. Every city in which he manages to visit, he draws a portrait. It should be noted separately that his life goes on traveling around the world. Everywhere he manages to depict watercolor not only what is visible with a simple eye, but also Semrougho chi

The artist pays little attention to architecture, creating, in the main, colorful silhouettes of buildings. But the color impressions are transmitted very clearly :. Landscape is not only a reflection of reality, but also of the sensations that it causes. And never created by the artist city landscapes do not become rough and heavy .. Thanks to the watercolor technique, as well as the filigree fineness of lines, his portraits of megacities become airy, transparent and weightless. Romance and thirst for travel. I want to see with my eyes Mi the same city and compare impressions

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Victor F. Retuerto draws for the same reason that breathes. Watercolor cityscapes have become for him a way of life. He travels the world to see him in his unique perspective, to immortalize him on the canvas and show us.