Elina Bilous

The sky begins behind the clouds

2024

This triptych (150x40cm, 150x75cm, 150x40cm), created in 2013 using oil on canvas, explores the depth of human conscience. At its core is the image of a small child, representing the...

This thought-provoking painting captures the intense moment of an angel under attack by a group of 12 crows. Symbolizing the daily assaults we all endure—whether from information ove...

The project is dedicated to the author's favorite field of painting and art, namely the expression of dynamics in a static object and the specific relationship of colors. The author ...

"Sample of Paper" is part of my series "Pathos of the Bureaucracy," a humorous and satirical exploration of bureaucratic inefficiency. Inspired by personal frustrations with social s...

"30" is a painting by the French artist - designer Hélène Cohen Carricaburu. Through her art, she has a very sharp, abstract and unique style of bright and colorful expression. Abo...

"X2" is a painting by the French artist - designer Hélène Cohen Carricaburu. Through her art, she has a very sharp, abstract and unique style of bright and colorful expression. Abo...

"33" is a painting by the French artist - designer Hélène Cohen Carricaburu. Through her art, she has a very sharp, abstract and unique style of bright and colorful expression. Abo...

John Hultberg Oil on canvas Panorama of pictures. 1998 Hand signed lower right, J. Hultberg ‘98. Artist, date, and title written on verso. Canvas 25.5”H x 35”W, Frame 26”H x 35.5”W. Oil painting depicting a mosaic of photographs overlooking an abstract geometric landscape. John Hultberg (1922 – 2005) was an American Abstract expressionist and Abstract realist painter. Early in his career he was related to the Bay Area Figurative Movement; he was also a lecturer and playwright. John Hultberg was born in 1922 in Berkeley, California. Hultberg attended Fresno State College, graduating in 1943. During World War II, he was a Navy lieutenant. After the war, his education at the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA) (now the San Francisco Art Institute) was funded by the G.I. Bill. His teachers included Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still and he was a classmate of Richard Diebenkorn, who was also a mentor, James Budd Dixon, Walter Kuhlman, Frank Lobdell, and George Stillman, which whom he created a portfolio of 17 lithographs. This 1948 portfolio, titled Drawings, has been acknowledged as a landmark in Abstract Expressionist printmaking. The group has been referred to as "The Sausalito Six," because most, lived in Sausalito, north of San Francisco. Many of the "First Generation" artists in this West Coast movement were avid fans of Abstract Expressionism, and worked in that manner, until several of them abandoned non-objective painting in favor of working with the figure. Among these First Generation Bay Area Figurative School artists were: David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, Rex Ashlock, Elmer Bischoff, Glenn Wessels, Wayne Thiebaud, Raimonds Staprans, and James Weeks. The "Bridge Generation" included the artists: Henrietta Berk, Nathan Oliveira, Theophilus Brown, Paul Wonner, Roland Petersen, John Hultberg, and Frank Lobdell. He was also a contemporary of Clay Spohn and David Park. Hultberg studied at the Art Students League of New York beginning in 1952. Hultberg was first married to Hilary Blech. In 1961 Hultberg met fellow artist Lynne Mapp Drexler...