Christina Major

Oil on Canvas of Billie Holiday II

2021

Quotes within painting: "I'm optimistic about whatever is going to happen. We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that m...

See images for Quotes within painting handwritten by artist This painting is also sold in a diptych combo with a second piece but in this listing sold individually As an undergra...

As an undergraduate Christina Major developed into a portrait painter. Major has been interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a portrait. Major also has a desire to combine portrait painting...

Quotes within painting are in images handwritten by artist As an undergraduate Christina Major developed into a portrait painter. Major has been interested in the ways the identity...

Quotes within painting: George Bernard Shaw (?)26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) “This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being ...

Quotes within painting: "A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you. Do you have to have a reason for loving? It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. I leave before being left. I decide. I left a world in which I was a queen to enter one in which I'm a human being. I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life I never do anything by chance. People are forever finding something wrong with you. I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy. Success is unpredictable and fragile." As an undergraduate Christina Major developed into a portrait painter. Major has been interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a portrait. Major also has a desire to combine portrait painting with writing (inspired from her Graphic Design studies) as well as to develop methods of using paint to express a merging of herself with the individual depicted in the portrait. Her creative research focuses on the traditional form of the portrait as a powerful form of representing an individual and how meaning can be expanded through scale, brushstroke, color, texture, composition and the many variables that portraiture deals with. Major looks to expand on the traditional portrait painting...

"Phantasmagorical 4," is an original oil painting on 2 acrylic panels by Michelle Jader. It is framed and ready-to-hang.

"Phantasmagorical 1," is an original oil painting on 2 acrylic panels by Michelle Jader. It is framed and ready-to-hang.

Yuriy Grigoryan loves to work with symbols, the chain is something, on the one hand, chaining us, on the other, it is something that connects us to something or someone. This is both...

In the work "Out of the Ordinary", Yuriy Grigoryan is talking about geniuses in the crowd, about those who are not afraid of being different from the masses, and may want to be diffe...

Yuriy Grigoryan loves to work with symbols, the chain is something, on the one hand, chaining us, on the other, it is something that connects us to something or someone. This is both...

Yuriy Grigoryan loves to work with symbols, the chain is something, on the one hand, chaining us, on the other, it is something that connects us to something or someone. This is both...