А, впрочем, каждый сам себе судья.
Feng Changjiang was born in 1943 in the ancient cultural city of Xian Henan Province. He developed an interest in painting at a young age and is a self-taught artist. He first practiced Western painting and the Chinese ink-and-wash technique, and has specialized in the traditional meticulous brushwork painting. In 1974, Feng studied traditional meticulous brushwork heavy-color painting and replication of ancient frescoes under a famous art historian. He also applied his skills of replicating frescoes at Yung-li Palace (Rui city), Qing-long Temple, Fan-zhi Rock, Kai-hua Temple, and Lou-rui Tomb (Taiyuan). The experience has benefited his artistic development and formed a solid foundation for the maturation of his style. Feng specializes in portraits but has also created other subjects such as landscape as he is especially skilled in handling pictures with a huge scene. The female portraits he created are graceful, charming, and full of oriental elegance. These characteristics reveal his solid techniques and outstanding performances in art. Feng’s works integrates the rhythm of the traditional lineal approach and the spectacular color approach of the West, with a strong sense of modernity.
Famous painter Du Yongqiao, 1934-2007, professor of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts and the member of the Chinese Artists Association, was born in Yuechi country of Sichuan. He was graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1956 and then taught there. The majestic and dignified oil paints by Du Yongqiao melt the painting language of authentic western style and the literary Chinese with grand vigor together, especially the expression of light color in French Impressionism and strict shape in Russia School. Du Yongqiao was thought to be "the Great Minds With Expression and Touches" and his works were characterized by strong expressive and emotional features. In the past few decades, he was especially noted for his techniques in colors in the world and was considered to be "The Painter Who Effects Several Generations" with a great number of followers. Almost all famous Sichuan oil painters in 1970s and 1980s benefited from him. His life introduction was collected in books such as the Yearbook of Chinese Fine Art from 1949 to 1989 and the Chinese Artists while his works was widely collected in collection area in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, U.S., Canada, Greece, etc.
Professor Di Lifeng, born 1958 in China, is a Chinese artist in oil painting. He graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts of China with a postgraduate degree in 1990 and is currently working at Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts. He is also a member of the China Fine Artist Association. Professor Di has held many art exhibitions in China, Hong Kong, and Singapore. and his works have been given the highest awards at the exhibitions. His great works "The Qing Dynasty's Imperial Family" and "The Orient without Evil" made him a star in Beijing and in Hong Kong. Professor Di's works are remarkable for their special expressions. They are well skilled, simple and deep, serious and beautiful. They show us what had happened in China's past and China's splendid course of history. His works are now being collected in Asia and throughout the world, creating their own unique language of art. His remarkable skills and his felicity in the representation of the grace, dignity and beauty of the Chinese people quickly brought him to the attention of art collectors outside china. His oils have been exhibited extensively in New York and Los Angeles
Художница Annick Bouvier родилась в 1964 году в Nevers, France. Ее отец, врач-педиатр и любитель искусства, привил ей с самого раннего дества вкус к живописи. В 1982 году закончил школу искусств, она отказывается от семейной традиции медицинского исследования с целью поступить в школы моды "Berçot - Marie Rucki", где в течение двух лет, Annick Bouvier прошла обучение в качестве стилиста. Ее творения, сделанные в Париже и Вилла Медичи (Рим), получают высокую оценку среди профессионалов и являются предметом многочисленных публикаций в прессе. Однако, Annick Bouvier пошла дальше, чем модные показы и направила свою деятельность в сферу кино и рекламы. Художник по костюмам, она часто работает в студии Cinecitta в Риме. Ее пребывание в Италии, помогает ей оттачивать свой вкус на цветовых тонах - теплых, чувственных, глубоких: солнечной охры, глухого красного, интенсивный блюз, глубокая зелень. В начале 1990 года Annick Bouvier решила посвятить себя исключительно живописи. После двух лет самостоятельного изучения искусства живописи Annick Bouvier становится студенткой с 1992 по 1996 год в классе художника Pierre Ramel и ученицей мастера маслянной живописи Mac'Avoy. Annick Bouvier рисует в онсовном женщин, которые одни или вместе, находятся в почти пустой квартире со скудной мебелью, но они все чудесно смотрятся на фоне света и тени. Красивые, молодые, они живут своей жизнью, очень женственные, безложной скромности и равнодушные к постороннему взгляду, но каждая из них имеет свою историю, которая для зрителя остается недосказанной.
Марина Захарова родилась в Костроме. Окончила Ярославское художественное училище в 1987 г. Член союза художников России с 1998 г. Принимает участие в Российских и зарубежных выставках, международных пленэрах в Германии, Польше и Греции.
Govinder Nazran (1964-2008) was one of Britain's most promising young artists. Born in 1964 in Birmingham to Kabel and Dhan Kaur, Govinder spent his childhood in Bradford. It was at Bradford University that Govinder first received formal training in art. After completing his course in Graphic Design with distinction in 1983, Govinder moved to Lincoln Art College and secured a Higher Diploma in Graphic Design, again with distinction. He then worked in London and Cambridge as a freelance illustrator, mainly for children's books. Govinder married Sarah Welton in 1992 and settled in Saltaire, West Yorkshire. In 1993 their daughter Eden was born. He then worked as a designer of greeting cards and as photographic art director. It was six years later in 1999 that Govinder seriously considered painting. It was the beginning of a fruitful relationship with the leading fine art publisher, Washington Green, whom he approached. Part of the Halcyon Fine Art Group that has been representing painters and sculptors for 25 years, Washington Green would be just the support Govinder needed to be successful in a field he entered only recently. It would also serve to increase Govinder's popularity among collectors worldwide. The fruit of this relationship was "Cat Walk", Govinder's first commercially successful painting. It was widely appreciated and its prints were sold out on release. This was the green signal Govinder had been waiting for to branch out full-time into fine art. Success and popularity would follow Govinder through his works. The existence of good and evil has been a recurring theme in many of his paintings. "The world is a place where the innocent pay the heaviest price. It affects me deeply. It's like living in the garden of 'Good and Evil'." His paintings depict this, but he calls them "innocent pictures". The observer can take any meaning from his pictures in that they could represent either good or evil, as the viewer sees it. Govinder stated that "I am, and always will be, an eternal optimist." His paintings, in short, are a result of the two opposing feelings of concern over the rise of evil and the faith that the world would eventually turn out to be a better place. His popular works include "Cat Walk", "Leopold", "Spider", "Hungry For You", "Benny No Balls", "Le Chat Parisien", "Scratch & Sniff", and "The Patriot". Govinder was the Best Selling Published Artist in the Fine Art Trade Guild Awards in 2004. That year he also held two popular tours in Japan where his paintings were a sell-out. The news of his death on 30th December, 2008 at age 44 following a seizure on Christmas Eve was a deep shock to his fans and publisher Washington Green.
