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Beautiful Wilson’s Bird-of-Paradise

The Wilson's Bird-of-Paradise

Found exclusively on the tiny islands of Waigeo and Batanta in West Papua, The Wilson’s Bird-of-Paradise

The beautiful Wilson’s Bird-of-Paradise
Considered one of the most beautiful birds in the world, it belongs to the family Paradisaeidae. But like an unattainable muse, the stunning Wilson’s bird-of-paradise still remains a mystery. Known also as Cicinnurus respublica, and Diphyllodes Respublica, New Guinea bird is one of the most poorly known species of the family. The Wilson’s bird-of-paradise has a stunningly beautiful plumage. Bright crimson back, yellow cape, shimmering green chest, blue feet, and remarkable turquoise crown. Noteworthy, that turquoise cap doesn’t consist of feathers! Actually, it’s a patch of very brightly colored bald skin. Together with the species’ spiralled twin tail feathers, they play a crucial role in its complex courtship displays.
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Dolce Gabbana beauty triumph

Dolce Gabbana beauty triumph

Dolce & Gabbana Fall-Winter 2014/2015 luxurious collection – Dolce Gabbana beauty triumph

Words can not explain how stunning this show was, just Dolce Gabbana beauty triumph. Fall-Winter 2014/2015 luxurious collection accompanied by stunning music of great Russian composer Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky – ballets Nutcracker, Swan Lake. Traditionally, D&G demonstrates impressive and a very wearable line with lots of yummy hidden details. One of the most inspirational show, a truly amazing collection in detail – Fingerless gloves, embroidered with beads and stones, handbags and shoes in stones and rhinestones, coats and jackets with embroidery, whimsical floral appliques and prints. A dress that looks like a print from afar is actually delicately embroidered. Lots of fantastic textures perfectly working together. The ‘key’ motif was literally the key itself, gold key prints covered beautiful textile.
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Lotus Flower Rafflesia

Lotus Flower Rafflesia

Beautiful Lotus Flower Rafflesia

Beautiful Lotus Flower Rafflesia is a genus of flowering plants, parasites, which includes about 28 species. Its area covers the territory of Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Java and Sumatra. According to unofficial sources, the first Rafflesia was discovered in 1797 on the island of Java, by the French explorer Louis Auguste Deschamps. However, in 1798, when the British captured his ship, all records and illustrations got into the hands of the invaders and were not available to western science until 1954.
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Shining fashion illustrations by Katie Rodgers

Shining fashion illustrations by Katie Rodgers

‘Unlock your wish’ illustration in collaboration with Cartier. Shining fashion illustrations by Katie Rodgers

Shining fashion illustrations by Katie Rodgers. Beautiful American artist Katie Rodgers was born and grew up in in a suburb of Atlanta, GA. The love for art began for Katie at the age of seven, when her aunt first gave her a set of professional watercolors. Thus Katie started creating her own world of art, nature, and fashion. Her wish was to live in a big city and work as an artist. “Having wishes allows you to aspire and often achieve great things that some may have thought to be impossible”. And now Katie lives in New York city, among her clients – Coach, Kate Spade New York, Valentino, Swarovski, Parker Pens, Olay, Alicia Keys, Lucky Magazine, Nabisco, and Cle de Peau/Shisiedo, Elle, and Glamor Magazine among others.
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Salvador Dali bronze sculpture

Vision of an angel. Salvador Dali bronze sculpture

Vision of an angel, or “Finger of God”. Salvador Dali bronze sculpture

Salvador Dali bronze sculpture. Within a few years, from 1969 to 1972, Dali has created a gallery of surreal images embodied in wax. Most of them are familiar to the audience – the artist used in creating sculptures the same images that appear on his canvases. Almost all the sculptures were created in the house of Dali in Port Ligate. According to the stories of Dali biographer, Robert Descharnes, in the afternoons artist used to take the wax out to the pool, and for several hours engaged in modeling, and after dinner returned to the studio for painting. In 1973, Dali made ​​a pact with the Spanish collector Isidro Clot. Clot acquired wax sculptures and designed of them four series of castings in bronze. First of bronze castings remained at a collector’s, the rest were sold and dispersed around the world.
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Beauty queen of 1950s Betty Brosmer

Beauty queen of 1950s Betty Brosmer

Beauty queen of 1950s Betty Brosmer

Beauty queen of 1950s Betty Brosmer started her model career at the age of 13. The result was more than impressive – she has won over 50 beauty contests, has appeared on magazine covers more than 300 times, her image decorated more than a hundred calendars, billboards across the country, and she was the highest paid model. She was a forerunner of such stars as Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. Her phenomenal measurements: 38-18-36 (in inches) and 96-45-91 in centimeters gave her the title “The most gorgeous body of 50s”.
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Ideal of beauty for Renoir

Artist Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Portrait of Jeanne Samara. State Museum of Fine Arts named after Pushkin

Artist Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Portrait of Jeanne Samara. State Museum of Fine Arts named after Pushkin, Moscow

Ideal of beauty for Renoir. “I loved women when even did not know how to walk” – said Pierre-Auguste Renoir. He believed that women bring to the world beauty and joy, and these two phenomena are main in Art. “For me the picture … should always be pleasant, joyful and beautiful, yes – beautiful! In life is enough of boring stuff … I know it is difficult to achieve the recognition that great art can be joyous. ”
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Hyperrealistic speed drawing by Marcello Barenghi

Hyperrealistic speed drawing by Italian artist Marcello Barenghi

Diamond ring. Hyperrealistic speed drawing by Italian artist Marcello Barenghi

Hyperrealistic speed drawing by Marcello Barenghi. Italian illustrator and graphic designer Marcello Barenghi was born in 1969 in Milan. He studied at Umberto Boccioni Art School and the School of Applied Arts, then graduated from the Polytechnic University, specializing in Architecture. Marcello Barenghi has been drawing since childhood, the artist remembers 9-year-old himself inspired by Leonardo da Vinci, and trying to reproduce Mona Lisa. At school he started drawing using red pencil and learning the techniques of tempera, watercolors and clay modeling.
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Painting light Lak Buni

Painting light Lak Buni

Blooming tree in divine Light. Painting light Lak Buni

Painting light Lak Buni
Reviews of the exhibitions of the artist, known under the pseudonym Lak Buni are surprisingly similar to each other. In particular, all certainly use the words “heat”, “kindness”, “harmony” and, of course, the “light”. Viewers often call Lak Buni “the artist of light”, thus indicating the main theme, and the basic idea of his work. Sometimes the light in his paintings concentrated in dazzling sheaf, becomes spatial. The color and light assembling image penetrates the the heart of a viewer. According to Lak Buni, his luminous paintings represent the concept of the soul, expanded consciousness and spiritual life.
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