Red abstract Stone paintings by Min Klementiev

Stone paintings by Min Klementiev.
By cutting and polishing variegated stones – jasper, marble, porphyry, layered chalcedony or agate, master stone-cutters reveal the amazing world inhabited by real and fantastic images of bizarre lines and spots. Lilac winter morning and red autumn sunset, blue silhouettes of snow-capped mountains and olive expanses of the steppes. Russian artist Min Klementiev from an early age loved the beauty of a polished stone. Original compositions, images, stories were constantly before his eyes. Gradually the idea to create a painting of the stone from the beginning to the end by himself took possession of him.
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“On the Valaam Island”, the first artwork, which Pavel Tretyakov acquired for his art gallery. Russian landscape painter Arkhip Kuindzhi (January 27, 1842 – July 24, 1910)

Russian landscape painter Arkhip Kuindzhi
Born in 1842, Arkhip grew up in a poor family, and his father was a Greek shoemaker Ivan Khristoforovich Kuindzhi. Arkhip was six years old when he lost his parents, so he had to make his living, working at the church building site, grazing domestic animals, and working at the corn merchant’s shop. He studied painting in St.Petersburg Academy of arts. He was co-partner of Russian realist artists “Peredvizhniki”. During this early period Kuindzhi felt Ivan Aivazovsky’s influence.
Almost every painting of Kuindzhi inflamed passions: he was accused in the pursuit of cheap effects, the use of covert techniques like hidden illumination for paintings. In the prime of his years, the artist suddenly abandoned the exhibition activity, falling silent for almost 30 years, but continued to work alone on new paintings. It is possible that the reason for this sudden and strange act was the very grand, unprecedented success that hit him a little earlier. And for fear of being crushed by just this unnecessary fame, this noise and general worship, Kuindzhi decided to leave.
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Unique Icons by Angelica Artyomenko, beautiful Moscow based artist

Unique Icons by Angelica Artyomenko.

Beautiful young artist Angelica Artyomenko creates Orthodox icons of great beauty. She works in her own technology with the use of some techniques of old Russian pearl embroidery (the same as in the imperial Russia when the royal robes were embroidered and decorated with beads). Faces of Saints Angelica paints herself on a thin canvas, by episcopal blessing. Then hand embroiders and decorates Saints Images with Japanese beads, pearls, natural stones (carnelian, amethyst, lapis lazuli, garnet, pearl, etc.), church spool cords, metallic gold thread, sequins and stones of jewelry faceting.
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Orange sunset. Arthur Chartow beautiful landscape painting

Arthur Chartow beautiful landscape painting

Professional American artist Arthur Chartow got his education in High School of Music & Art, New York City in 1965 – 1968. Then he graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh in 1972 and Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI in 1974. Arthur Chartow is one of 89 artists featured in the new release Art Journey America Landscapes. Painting of Arthur Chartow is based on his sketches, photographs, memory and imagination and made in traditional technique – oil on canvas or pastel on paper.
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Ring set with white and brown diamonds, blue and purple sapphires, cabochon pear shaped blue and purple sapphires and cabochon black sapphires, in white gold. French jewellery house Boucheron

French jewellery house Boucheron was founded 155 years ago. Then the young adventurer Frederic Boucheron went in search of precious stones. The thirst for beauty and adventure never left him until his death. The first eponymous boutique Boucheron opened in 1858, in the Galerie de Valois, at Palais-Royal. Boucheron was a pioneer among jewelry “technicians” of Paris. In 1893, Frederic Boucheron became the first jeweler to move to Place Vendome, where Boucheron remains to this day. He believed that the diamonds in the windows at the sunniest corner of the square would sparkle more brilliantly. In 1893 French jewellery house Boucheron also opened a store in Moscow.
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Extra large and impressive Weiss butterfly pin. Albert Weiss vintage jewelry

Albert Weiss vintage jewelry

Born and raised in New York, Albert Weiss is a famous American jeweler. He learned his craft working at the famous costume jewelry companies, such as Coro and Marvella Jewelry. In 1942 he opened his own business on Fifth Avenue in New York. The earliest works of Albert Weiss had ‘WEISS’ signature (block capitals, then ‘Weiss’ (in script). Later pieces, from the late 1940s onwards often had marks ‘Albert Weiss’ or A W Co. And the latter the W had a crown symbol. Weiss jewelry designs of 1940s and 1950s are valued today for their astonishing style. Many of Weiss’ pieces are collectibles, and all embody unmistakable style. Well known for the use of high quality Austrian rhinestones with excellent clarity, he started using rhinestones that looked like the German Smokey quartz “Black Diamond”. Like most of the other pieces designed in this era, Weiss jewelry aimed to stand out and augment a women’s beauty with shine and design.
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Never send to know for whom the bell tolls. Nizhny Novgorod cathedral

Never send to know for whom the bell tolls
“For Whom the Bell Tolls” is one of the best novels of American writer Ernest Hemingway, published in 1940. The title of the book is taken from the early poem of John Donne (1572 – 1631), an English poet and a cleric in the Church of England. “No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee”.
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The beauty of Trifari jewelry. Great Trifari water bird on lily pond brooch pin. Crane pave set with rhinestones plus one large green rhinestone

The beauty of Trifari jewelry
Appreciated for generations, the Trifari jewelry brand thanks to 20-year-old Italian immigrant Gustavo Trifari, who arrived at Ellis Island from Napoli in 1904. Originally, their company had name “Trifari and Trifari”, as it was founded by Gustavo Trifari and his uncle, in 1910. Then, his uncle left the company, and Gustavo renamed it to “Trifari”. Later such talented jewelers joined it. They were Leo Krussman (in 1917), and Carl Fishel (1925). The company changed its name to “Trifari, Krussman and Fishel” with the logo “kTf” (The capital letter “T” in the center reminded who was the founder and the main figure in the company). Trifari Jewelry pieces from this era are extremely rare. The real success came to the company after 1930, when Trifari had hired Alfred Philippe, a head designer. Alfred Philippe was an experienced jewelry designer, who worked for such firms as Cartier and Van Cleef and Arples. Designs he created using hand-set stones won such acclaim that the partners become known as The Rhinestone Kings.
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Northern cardinal made of red gerberas and deep purple chrysanthemums with dill. Colorful flower birds by Hong Yi

Colorful flower birds by Hong Yi
Beautiful and creative artist and architect Hong Yi was born and raised in Sabah, Malaysia. She is also known under the nickname “Red”. Hong Yi became known as an artist who ‘loves to paint, but not with a paintbrush’. Recently she has unveiled her new project – colorful birds made from flower petals, herbs, twigs and other greenery. In the unusual creative collections of the Chinese artist are also art work of edible food on the plate, “Never Fall in Love” portrait with tabs, Mark Zuckerberg portrait of books, Adele portrait of melted candles, Lucio Dalla portrait with Coffee Cup Stains, and many others.
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