A girl with a hen. The world of childhood in painting by Russian artist Sergei Rimoshevsky

Russian artist Sergei Rimoshevsky with child soul a
Born in 1964, in Grodno, Belarus, Sergei Rimoshevsky is a talented artist. Due to his high level of professionalism in his portraits, paintings, allegories he appears before the judges as a director and playwright. His paintings, woven from real life experiences keep secrets, awaken the imagination. The artist reveals the world of the individual, but reading this world is only available to thoughtful viewer, ready to plunge into the world of childhood.
Once, painfully homesick for Russia, Nabokov admitted that nostalgia for him – primarily in his memories of “the ultimate, happy childhood”. Indeed, the same feeling appears when one looks at the painting of Rimoshevsky. The talented artist reveals the most secret corner of the child’s soul in each of us.
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Portrait of a Young Man by Master of the View of St Gudula dated probably early 1480s. Heart shaped books of the XVth century

Heart shaped books of the XVth century
Portrait of a Young Man by Master of the View of St Gudula dated probably early 1480s. This young man has a Heart shaped books in his hands, popular in the later Middle Ages. Such miniature books contained texts, prayers and psalms, often with appropriate decorations, for Christian devotion, etc.
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Lace patterns of Elegant Paper Cut Art by Eric Standley, American artist

Elegant Paper Cut Art by Eric Standley
Fabulous collection of paper art by American artist Eric Standley represents his individual style. Meanwhile, in order to achieve such peacefully meditative forms, he applies several layers of lace cut paper. Brillant technique, great craftsmenship and glorious color of these three-dimensional works remind the work of jeweler. Undoubtedly, exquisite artworks by Eric Standley look classic and precious.
Meanwhile, Standley graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art and Savannah College of Art and Design. An Associate Professor of Studio Art and the Foundations of Art and Design, he is Coordinator for the School of Visual Arts at Virginia Tech. According to Standley, he sleeps on rare occasions and dreams through hard work and concentration, one day to become a modernist. Also, he holds allegiance to a faith of his own construction, reinvented on a daily basis.
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Our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary. Maria Yantovskaya bead embroidered icons

Maria Yantovskaya bead embroidered icons
Embroidered icons is traditional Russian crafts, and here are the orthodox christian icons of our Godmother. Since ancient times, in Russia has lived the tradition of embroidering icons, and decorating them with rich salaries. As a rule, the material for such crafts – mother-of-pearl, gems, precious stones, and of course, beads. Russian artist Maria Nikolaevna Yantovskaya from the city of Ryazan, began to embroider more than 30 years ago. Besides, she came up with her own technique of icon embroider, which she teaches others. Each bead is sewn separately and together, as in the Byzantine mosaics, form the whole picture. Although these icons are made strictly according to the Orthodox canon, but still, within it there is a place for creativity – patterns of crystals, stones, and pearls or amber. In addition, such creativity makes every icon unique, just one of a kind masterpiece.
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One-of-a-kind miniature sculpture created from watch parts. Dmitry Khristenko and his motorcycles

Dmitry Khristenko and his motorcycles
According to Robert M. Pirsig, the study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.
Made of vintage timepieces, motorcycles created by talented craftsman are truly works of art. All I have learned about the artist (from his deviant art page) that he is a male living in Toronto Ontario, Canada. However, originally he is from the Ukraine. Inspired by different steampunk artists, Dmitry Khristenko makes his incredible miniatures of motorcycles and automobiles using watch parts. In fact, such kind of art is the same as jewelry art. According to Dmitry Khristenko, he has been sculpting these miniature motorcycles since 2010. As a result, since that time various mass media featured his works. In particular, Ultimate Motorcycling Magazine and Motorcycle Mojo Magazine.
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Highly realistic sweet sculpture of a deer. The art of cooking by Sylvia Weinstock

The art of cooking by Sylvia Weinstock
Can you believe this deer is a cake? It is. Talented artist and cook Sylvia Weinstock has been creating such fantastic celebratory cakes for more than 30 years. Undoubtedly, these highly realistic cakes are the same delicious as they are beautiful. According to Sylvia Weinstock, she uses traditional ingredients – butter, cream, fresh fruit, chocolate and of course, unlimited fantasy. However, to create such cakes – talent of an artist and a sculptor is needed more than ingredients. And Sylvia Weinstock obtains such qualities.
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Decorative painting, Naive art by Maria Prymachenko, Ukrainian village folk art artist

Naive art by Maria Prymachenko
Self-taught artist Maria Prymachenko (1908–1997) is a bright representative of Ukrainian village folk art. Meanwhile, she worked in different genres of art and crafts – drawing, embroidery and ceramic painting. Maria has never studied art, her pictorial flair for bringing to life ideas, feelings and impressions gradually ripened into true mastery. Noteworthy, Pablo Picasso visited the exhibition of paintings by Prymachenko in Paris. According to him, she was a miracle. ‘I bow down before the artistic miracle of this brilliant Ukrainian.’
Noteworthy, a self-taught, Prymachenko is an Honored Artist of Ukraine and a Taras Shevchenko Prize Winner. Her art works decorated exhibitions all over the former Soviet Union, in particular, Ukraine and other countries. Also, in Poland, Bulgaria, France and Canada. Her albums were published widely all over the world.

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Double portrait of Van Gogh. Oleg Shuplyak optical illusion Paintings

Oleg Shuplyak optical illusion Paintings
Ukrainian artist Oleg Shuplyak is well known because of his illusory oil paintings. Through carefully placed objects, characters, coloring and shadows, there is a second image in his surreal world of painting which creates an optical illusion. Van Gogh, Sigmund Freud and Salvador Dali…Go through the gallery below and see how many of them you can recognize.
Born September 23, 1967 in a village of Bishche of Ternopol region, Oleg Ilyich Shuplyak is a talented painter and teacher. Besides, he is a Member of the Union of Artists (2000). He graduated from the Department of Architecture of Lvov Polytechnic Institute in 1991. From 1997-2001 worked as a teacher of fine arts in his native village. From 2000 he was a teacher of drawing and painting at Berezhany children’s art school. Besides school work he was engaged in easel painting, restoration, church painting. Since 1990 he has become a member of national and international exhibitions, personal – in Nottingham (1993, UK), Bershad (2004), National Museum of Taras Shevchenko (Kiev) 2012.
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Pseudo-retro black and white photo. Vintage project by Grand Ole Bestiary

Vintage project by Grand Ole Bestiary
The Grand Ole Bestiary is a project that contains many pseudo-retro black and white photos. You can’t see any human heads because they all are replaced with the heads of animals. Every picture and every character is unique and has his/her own name and story. Though this project seems very fantastic, it is actually not far from being real, as such mythological curios existed in different periods of time in different corners of our planet (cat-woman, elephant man, wolf-man, etc.).
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