Frances A. Cox Art

Works of Liene Liepina are full of life and joy because of photography-like, realistic details on the one hand, and intense and slightly artificial color...

Still life with fruits. 2019. Oil on canvas, 74x81 cm

Still life with Chinese vase. 2020. Oil on canvas, 60x40 cm

Still life in kitchen. Oil on canvas, 72x90 cm Kristine Kvitka (1983) Kristine Kvitka is a Latvian artist, born in Riga in 1983, currently lives and...

This light, fresh and airy piece, "Blue Stripe and Lemons" is a 20x16 oil painting on canvas by artist Jill Matthews. Depicted is a simple contemporary painting of two lemons in a c...

Evening still life. 2007, oil on canvas, 60x80 cm Still Life with fruits, eggplant and bottle of wine Kristine Kvitka (1983) Kristine Kvitka is a Lat...

This fresh and airy bouquet piece, "Pink" is a 12x12 oil painting on canvas by artist Jill Matthews depicting a contemporary floral bouquet of pink roses with green leaves against a ...

Still life with onions. 2005, oil on canvas, 60x73 cm Still Life in red colors Kristine Kvitka (1983) Kristine Kvitka is a Latvian artist, born in Riga in 1983, currently lives and...

Zonnige Zee Sunny Sea Still Life Table Beer Wine Party Beach In Stock Juane Xue (Hui Xue, Kaiffeng, China, 1962) has been drawing since her childhood. This helped her to go to the Un...

Caravaggio motif. 2019. Oil on canvas, 40,5x50,5 cm

Bright Still Life with fruits and vase. 2020. Oil on canvas, 70x75cm Nugzar Avtandilovich Kahiani was born in Poti, Georgia in 1952. He studied at t...

Bright colorful Still Life with peaches and man, on the background beautiful sunny landscape with blue sky and mountains Nugzar Avtandilovich Kahiani was born in Poti, Georgia in 1952. He studied at the Art College named after Nikoladze. Then he went to serve in the Soviet Army from1970 to 1972. After completing his military service he entered the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry at the faculty of artistic metal, from which he graduated in 1986. During his studies, he has been actively engaged in painting. His favorite artists are Gauguin, El Greco, Botticelli, Turner and Picasso. Works of artistic stone He worked also with stone, cornelian and onyx. But his soul gravitated to bright and blustery color, and so he has became engaged in painting. At first his paintings were quiet, with muted tonal gamma. The color image was built on the play of hues and halftones. Such a careful elaboration of color educates the taste, sharpness and delicacy of vision. Gradually, the painter became more experienced, and his paintings acquired assurance and power of maturity, blooming in colorful brilliancy. Nugzar's color preferences The color of Nugzar’s paintings is deep and multi-layered. It is woven of infinite number of hues and filled with light. At first sight it may be difficult to recognize the shapes in the play of flickering color dabs. The figures appear gradually, they draw the first breath just before our eyes, crystallizing from the color heap. The painter is attracted by major tonality and motives that years ago could be called “the gallant feasts” - repasts, assiduities, music parties, and airings. After somewhat daemonic, infernal imagery of early paintings, it has appeared the theme of “Le joie de vivre,” the joy of life. Source of inspiration Born in the ancient Kolkhida, he keeps the blissful pagan feel of entirety and completeness of being. It is embodied almost literally in his favorite personage auroral gorgeous-bodied beauty of a girl. He grants these forms even to Olympian inhabitants - Aphrodite, Athene, Arthemide, let alone the Bacchants. I remember unwittingly that Niko Pirosmani similarly painted on his impoverished buckrams the luxurious prince repasts and languid, elephantine beauties. Working style But his style is not bounded by grotesque parody, as well as the irony is not the only aspect of his world outlook. In his landscapes we can catch the ecstatic admiration with Nature. In contradistinction to his favorite impressionists, he never paints from nature and never bears in mind the particular place. It is just a blooming Earth, studied very closely, so that the trees are cut by the edges of the painting, and at the same time it is a bird’s eye view revealing infinite, boundless spaces. Nougzar says that the landscape for him is first of all a color ensemble. He can just leaf through the illustrated journal, nourishing his eye with color in various combinations, and so get the impulse to create a ‘physical’ landscape image. Probably, his landscapes are no less fantastical than his figure compositions, but such is his talent, his mission - to make the world more beautiful and gentle than it is in reality. Exhibitions Nugzar Kakhiani...