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Sheffield farmers Art Gallery

Sheffield farmers Art Gallery. Street art in Australian city of Sheffield

Street art in Australian city, Sheffield farmers Art Gallery

Sheffield farmers Art Gallery
The Australian city of Sheffield, located at the foot of majestic Mount Roland in the north-west coast of Tasmania, can rightly be called a museum city. This small town attracts tourists from all over the world because its streets are reminiscent of an exhibition hall with a huge number of paintings, which depict scenes from the plain everyday life of citizens. Each of these paintings – a work of art.
The source of inspiration for artists is quiet and tranquil life of Sheffield. The main occupation of the inhabitants of this city – agriculture. Farmers bred sheep and pigs, grow potatoes and various vegetables, as well as many of them are engaged in the processing of wood.

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Creative photography by Christian Plochacki

Creative photography by Christian Plochacki

Creative photography by Christian Plochacki

Creative photography by Christian Plochacki
29 year-old German photographer Christian Plochacki discovers for us the beauty of the surrounding world. Christian Plochacki – professional male photographer from Bottrop, Germany is the author of these beautiful vanilla photographs. Beautiful world by German photographer Christian Plochacki gives us a happy and safe feeling. His favorite subject for shooting – still life and nature, as well as portraits of people. Christian Plochacki himself said in one of his interviews that he began photography not so long ago, thanks to his friend. Everything happened by chance, just 6 years ago, and he admits “and I’ve been hooked ever since”.
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Aesthetical neo-romanticism by Vladimir Clavijo-Telepnev

Alice in wonderland. Aesthetical neo-romanticism by Vladimir Clavijo-Telepnev

Curiouser and curiouser! Alice in wonderland. Aesthetical neo-romanticism by Vladimir Clavijo-Telepnev

Aesthetical neo-romanticism by Vladimir Clavijo-Telepnev
Russian photographer Vladimir Clavijo-Telepnev is able to transform a single moment of a real life into a piece of art with his stunning romantic photography. The philosophy of Vladimir’s creativity, his elegant, stylish art give you an impression of complicity with aesthetics of the Silver Age after viewing such series as Alice in wonderland. Vladimir Clavijo graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Academy, faculty of graphic art in 1986. Since 1991 he is a member of the International Federation of Artists, UNESCO, a member of the Union of Photoartists of Russia. He worked as the newspaper photographer for «Observator», «Panorama», «Le Figaro», «Hola», «La Vanguardia», «Tribuna d Actualidad», «Antenna Seminal», «Blanco and Negro», «El Tiempo de Viagar», «Bazaar», «Marie Clair», «ELLE», «Officiele», «Foto and Video», etc. Vladimir Clavijo is the patriarch of the Russian advertising photography.
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Painting with stones Ilana Shafir

Peacocks. Painting with stones Ilana Shafir

Peacocks stone mosaics. Painting with stones Ilana Shafir (born 1924)

Painting with stones Ilana Shafir
Yugoslavian born 88 year-old artist Ilana Shafir, originally from Sarajevo, now lives in Ashkelon, Israel. Shafir is a self-taught mosaic artist. Her mosaics are truly inspirational, and Shafir is especially known for her “spontaneous mosaic,” working directly on a piece without sketches. Her different organically-shaped materials include: ceramic pieces, glass fragments, natural stones of all kinds and shapes, corals, seashells. The artist paints with stones and composes with the shapes and lines that are inherent in the found materials. Ilana Shafir has received a lifetime achievement award from the Society of American Mosaic Artists (SAMA) for her many decades of compelling mosaic works.
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Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre

Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre

Beautiful building of the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre

Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre
Located in the largest Siberian city of Novosibirsk, the theater decorates the capital of Siberia. Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre is the largest and one of the most technically advanced theaters in Russia. Its construction was completed in February 1944, and the first performance was held on May 12th, 1945. During these years, over 340 opera and ballet performances have been held here. Today, over 800 people work in the theater and about half of them are performers. Construction works lasted for about 10 years, from 1931 till 1941. Some say that is was built by Germans but it’s not true. During WWII, a lot of exhibits from museums located in the European part of the USSR were kept here, including the Hermitage, the State Tretyakov Gallery, and The Bolshoi Theater.
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Russian artist Marina Zakharova

Vernissage. Painting by Russian artist Marina Zakharova

Vernissage. Painting by Marina Zakharova, Kostroma, Russia

The work of Russian artist Marina Zakharova depicts a special world of plants and flowers. In fact, she works in a synthetic genre, in which is closely intertwined elements of landscape and still life. Contact of still life with a landscape and interior design – it is the style of the Renaissance. Reality and fantasy become alive in her work. Still Life is illusory-realistic, theatrical and elegant, carefully spelled out, with accurate study of details. Zakharova has the ability to feel and transmit the relationship of objects, their material beauty. The unifying harmony and the overall tone – two important things in painting, successfully solved in the works of the artist. All works of the artist have a lovely and charming detail – a sparrow, butterfly, dragonfly, carefully drawn, detailed and refined.
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Chinese Pharmaceutical Factory

Chinese Pharmaceutical Factory

The office of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Factory in Harbin

The office of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Factory has turned into luxurious Palace demonstrating a perfect example of healthy development of their business. According to Ministry of Finance data, state-owned enterprises made profits of nearly 2 trillion yuan. And how much money they have spent on such, so-called Chinese Palace of Versailles is unknown. The impressive gold interior of the palace shines with all its splendor inside of a pharmaceutical company in Harbin, located in the northeast of China. Beautiful gold foil inlaid hallways, corridors, lavish chandeliers are quite in the style of Paris Royal Opera house, and the only difference between them – you can’t visit it.
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3d Button Sculptures by Augusto Esquivel

3d Button Sculptures by Augusto Esquivel

3d Button Sculptures by Augusto Esquivel, American artist

3d Button Sculptures by Augusto Esquivel. American artist Augusto Esquivel lives in Miami. He creates unique three-dimensional sculptures entirely of buttons. For his amazing works he needs thousands of sewing buttons, great patience and talent. And the result – these incredibly beautiful sculptures, and even some iconic faces, for instance, Audrey Hepburn. The creative and talented artist Augusto Esquivel is often obsessed with comparisons of reality and potential and the balance between them, in art: the idea of chaos in perfect order: an object seemingly solid to the eye can also be fragile and inconsistent to the touch; a common object used to create a piece of art becomes transformed into something complicated and intriguing.
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Light Pillars atmospheric beauty

Light Pillars atmospheric beauty

Natural phenomenon. Light Pillars atmospheric beauty

Light Pillars atmospheric beauty
Pillars of light, as it turns out, are not only at the time of rapture of the saints in heaven. When the streets are very, very cold, the ground is subtle, Light Pillars decorate the Earth with its magic beauty. And this amazing atmospheric phenomenon inspires thousands of photographers to uncover the lens. Meet the result of joint creative work of atmosphere, light, and the camera man. The legend says pillar light brings happiness to those who see it. From a physical point of view, these pillars – the result of light refraction in the thinnest ice dust that swirls in the air in frosty weather. Moreover, even in very dim light – from the moon, or from a garden lantern – can ignite an amazing sparkle. And every time the pillars look different: they are like the columns of a heavenly temple, on the disco lights, the light on the rain of light.
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