19800 masterpiece. Antique jewelry watches

Antique jewelry watches

Time is one of the most surprising and incomprehensible concepts in the world. For many centuries, people have tried to find the best way to measure small intervals of time. First a simple device for measuring time was the sundial invented about 3.5 thousand years ago. Time in such watches could be learned only in the afternoon, so it was replaced by sand-glass. Hourglass appeared about a thousand years ago. History has some more lost time indicators, but only allowed the development of glass-blowing skills to create a relatively precise instrument. However, with hourglass only a small period of time could be measured. Mechanical clock appeared in Europe in the XV century. It is curious that instead of the numbers on the dial there were letters.
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Blue bird of happinness. Surrealistic ceramic by Roman Khalilov

Surrealistic ceramic by Roman Khalilov
born on 28 October 1980 in Zaporozhye, Ukraine, Roman Khalilov is a talented and handsome artist. His beautiful gallery of ceramic sculptures of animals and people is filled with fabulous mystery like ancient pottery objects of lost civilizations. Indeed, pottery has been known since ancient times and is perhaps the first man made material. These colorful sculptures of animals, fish, folk characters passed through the prism of the author’s imagination, which made them original and dream provoking. Roman Khalilov’s clay figurines, panels – shaped, decorated by painting, carving, hardened in fire become the real piece of art. The sculptor exhibited his surrealistic clay works in Ukraine and abroad – Germany, Italy, Greece, Russia. Roman Khalilov is currently working in the studio “Art pottery KERAMUS” in Ukraine.
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Portrait of Jacqueline Roque, 1954. Last muse of Picasso Jacqueline Roque

Last muse of Picasso Jacqueline Roque was the seventh muse of a great Spanish artist. Jacqueline Roque (February 24, 1927 – October 15, 1986) became the second wife of Pablo Picasso. For 11 years of their marriage he created more than 400 portraits of her. Pablo Picasso and Jacqueline Roque met the year Francoise had left Picasso. Jacqueline actually saved him from loneliness and old age. When they first met, she was 26, he was – over 70. She was a young divorced woman with a young daughter Catherine.
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Francoise Gilot and Pablo Picasso

Francoise Gilot and Pablo Picasso.
Sixth woman who inspired Picasso, was Francoise Gilot. When they met, she was 21, he was – 62. Picasso’s relationships with Dora Maar were dead. And Francoise – young, beautiful, intelligent, independent and totally fascinated by the genius of Picasso. The young artist And Francoise was full of ambition and hoped that familiarity with Picasso will help her to become a real artist. Picasso was a chance for her to win another top, that’s how she had been taught by her father since childhood. She really was the only woman not destroyed by Picasso, because she was able to stand against him, even at the cost of escape.
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Portrait of beautiful Mother and daughter. Art work by Russian photographer Karina Kiel

Russian photographer Karina Kiel
Born 1 September 1975, Karina Kiel still lives in the southern city of Russia – Sochi. She is the author of these artful photographs, which look like paintings of old masters. Karina shares her skills conducting master classes on photo-art projects in different cities of Russia, from Vladivostok to St.Petersburg, as well as in Ukraine, and Germany. Karina Kiel mostly specializes on children’s photography, working with creative teams of fashion designers, fashion and make-up stylists, and decorators. Her art projects are always thematic, for example ‘Diaghilev seasons’ with design and art concept by Anastasia Kurbatova.
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Painting by hyperrealist artist Damian Loeb

Hyperrealist artist Damian Loeb
New York based self-taught painter Damian Loeb has always been fascinated with photography and cinematography. Damian Loeb as most hyperrealist artists first takes pictures with his camera, painstakingly sorts and edits them, and then retouches those images that will turn into oil paintings. Loeb’s latest collection of works has been influenced by the noir genre of 1960s French cinema with its femme fatales, fallen women in black stockings and high heels and seedy motels. Damian Loeb’s painted masterpieces inspired by cinematography exhibit remarkable attention to detail, with little to no evidence of brushstrokes.
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Dora Maar and Pablo Picasso. Dora

Dora Maar and Pablo Picasso

The fifth muse of Picasso was Dora Maar. She was a different type of woman: smart, thin, nervous, unbalanced. Dora Maar came into the artist’s work as a crying woman. She was known in the bohemian circles as a French surrealist photographer, poet and artist who worked in advertising. Dora Maar and Pablo Picasso had been in relationships for nearly 10 years.
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Marie-Therese Walter and Picasso. Marie-Therese Walter, sketch by Pablo Picasso, 1927

Marie-Therese Walter and Picasso.
Marie-Therese Walter was the fourth muse of Pablo Picasso, and their relations lasted for eight years. Picasso met beautiful 17-year-old Marie-Therese in 1927. He was 45, and he was still married to Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova. The prudent and quite stiff artist’s wife felt that she tied her husband with “lasso of prosperous bourgeois life.” But Olga did not understand what exactly the artist needed, it was freedom, which Olga could not give him. French beauty Marie-Therese became the fourth woman that inspired the free and innovative artist. Period associated with Marie-Therese Walter, was a very special, both in style and in color, compared to the previously created paintings. Masterpieces of the period of Marie Walter, especially before the birth of the child, are the pinnacle of his career. The paintings were full of the energy of love, freedom, joy, and happiness.
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“Yuri Gagarin”. Elena Plekhanova stone paintings

Elena Plekhanova stone paintings.

Elena Plekhanova (Orlova) passionately loves stones. She is a professional geologist, graduated from Mining and Geology Department, Donetsk University, specializing in Minerals and Environmental Geology. Elena Plekhanova lives and works together with her ​​husband, a jeweler, in the city of Vyshgorod of Kiev region. They are both geologists, so they are wizards of stones, which they love and study for a long time. The world of minerals reveals rich color palette, and is able to inspire any creative artistic mind. Creating painting of minerals is similar to creating mosaics, or doing a puzzle. Besides, such creative work with stones has a therapeutic effect. For her paintings Elena uses various minerals – rock crystal, citrine, topaz, carnelian, petrified fossil wood, etc. Alas, no one photograph can fully transmit the beauty and the play of light in the stones. In artificial light they look particularly brilliant.
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