tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56474857236866984592024-03-13T20:25:31.180+02:00Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritage"Art doesn’t have any enemy except ignorance"Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118957471310902577noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647485723686698459.post-70786170238661689742015-08-26T12:52:00.001+03:002015-08-26T15:30:03.559+03:00The New Suez Canal: “Egypt’s miracle and the gift to the world” <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Suez Canal, the fastest link
between Asia and Europe, is even faster since August 2015. Within one year, the
Egyptians added 72 more km: 35 km bypass along the 193 km long canal and 37 km the
deepening and expansion of the existing canal. This enlargement of the waterway
allows, for the first time, for two-way traffic along part of the route, as
well as for larger vessels overall. Also, the ships can transit the Canal in 11
hours, down from 18 hours and their number is expected to increase from 49 in a
day to 97 until 2023. The construction was initially scheduled to last five
years. It was first reduced to three years and finally ordered by the Egyptian
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to be completed in one year only. That’s why the
new waterway is named also after its pioneer “the Sisi Canal”.</span><span lang="RO" style="color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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source of revenue with its $ 5 billion yearly income in the Egyptian economy
weakened by the riot from 2011. The New waterway represents a “Prosperity
Canal” which is a part of a bigger project of expanding Suez seaport in order
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around $ 8.4 billion (60 billion Egyptian pounds) amount which was totally
funded by citizens. The president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi refused to allow foreign
investors to invest in the project, but instead urged Egyptians to participate
in funding the project. By this, the entire turnover returns back to it’s
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source of national pride and it shows the innovation and the achievement of a
great man and a great people, great enough to name the new waterway “the Sisi
Canal” or “Prosperity Canal”. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118957471310902577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647485723686698459.post-57095010503152500462015-08-13T18:32:00.000+03:002015-08-13T18:34:15.630+03:00The new “When you will marry”, by Dr. Nour, 2015 out of Paul Gauguin, 1892<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Did you ever imagine that you can
create an art work from marble, and still not a classical sculpture? Shaping in
marble a portrait of an illustrious personality or reproducing a famous
painting without colors and brushes, but “painted” with gold, silver, crystals,
pearls, gem stones. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1892, the frech post-impressionist
artist, Paul Gauguin, painted “When will you marry?” </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">123 years later, the
canvas is sold to Qatar Museums for 300 million USD. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Now, the painting is
reproduced by Dr. Nour in his special technique. He sculptured the marble in
three dimensions and colored it with agate stones outlining the girl, with gold
for the leaves, with ruby red and emerald for defining the flowers and the
grass. In the sculpture-painting of Dr. Nour you can find also crystals,
pearls, leather, wood, wool and silk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.6666660308838px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">This technique requests a lot of experience. Dr. Nour is expert in marble and jewelry for more then 30 years. The range of precious materials is very wide and it needs skills in selecting. Also, Dr. Nour has good knowledge as art designer. For fixing such materials, he used forceps, special scissors, drilling and cutting machines. </span></div>
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Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118957471310902577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647485723686698459.post-47108668322564778182014-04-06T19:56:00.000+03:002015-06-30T18:08:43.097+03:00Qatar adores Cezanne <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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dedicated to the most famous painters and to Gulf Kings and Queens is done by
the artist Dr. Nour!</span></span><br />
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Paul Cezanne was bought by the Royal family of Qatar for a record of $250
millions. Qatar adores Cezanne!</span> </span><br />
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Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118957471310902577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647485723686698459.post-85848594363786300902014-02-19T20:06:00.001+02:002014-02-19T20:15:08.555+02:00Dr. Nour & Cezanne at the tallest building in the world<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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his art talent and innovation, Dr. Nour continues to create amazing series of
the unique technique “Sculpture Paint”. The second art work is dedicated to
Paul Cezanne. Older and newest art, painting and architectural elements – all
are brought together in an original concept: Dr. Nour & Cezanne at the
tallest building in the world. </span></div>
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of the most influential artists in the history of twentieth-century painting,
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) has inspired generations of modern artists. Generally
categorized as a Post-Impressionist, his unique method of building form with
color and his analytical approach to nature influenced the art of Cubists,
Fauvists and successive generations of avant-garde artists.</span></div>
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Cruchon at Compotier” is a paint created between 1893-1894 by Paul Cezanne and
is considered the most expensive still life ever sold at an auction.</span></span></div>
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elements comprised in Paul Cezanne art work are emphasized by the logo plan of
the tallest building from the world: Burj Khalifa from Dubai, United Arab
Emirates. The building has 828 meters high, 211 floors and is designed with
full and newest architectural technology. </span></span></span></div>
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different series dedicated to the most famous painters as Picasso, Cezanne, Van
Gogh, Klimt or to Gulf Kings and Queens. </span></span></span></span></div>
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unique form worldwide which include marble, precious or semi-precious stones,
crystal, pearls, gold, leather, textile, wood in association with new great
architectural elements. An association of new and old - but never obsolete
symbols - that you would never imagined.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118957471310902577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647485723686698459.post-19223041252025928682013-12-29T04:23:00.000+02:002013-12-29T04:23:40.007+02:00Dr. Nour & Picasso at the tallest building in the world<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The passion for art of Dr. Nour made to be born <strong>a new and
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">This new technique of Dr. Nour make the viewer to look with
different eyes to the art work and discover the mister hided inside of this.
The mister of a technique who wasn’t done before and who waited to be
discovered by a passion creator of art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">A new chapter of a unique art is opened now in different
series dedicated to Gulf Kings and Queens or to the most famous painters as
Picasso, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Klimt. All these are accomplished by Dr. Nour in
an unique form worldwide which include marble, precious or semi-precious
stones, crystal, pearls, gold, leather, textile, wood in association with new
great architectural elements. An association of new and old - but never
obsolete symbols - that you would never imagined. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Dr. Nour does this unrivalled art literally and figuratively:
he joined the tallest building in the world with Picasso’s works in a unique
art. He brought together older and newest art, painting and architectural
elements in an original concept of <strong><em>Sculpture paint: Dr. Nour & Picasso at the
tallest building in the world. <o:p></o:p></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">This great art work refers to two of distinguished Picasso
paintings: “Glass and Pitcher” (“Verre et pichet” in French) created in 1944
and “Head of a Horse” (“Tete de cheval” in French) made in 1962 by Picasso, the
brightest art personality of XXth Century. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In the Dr. Nour’s Sculpture paint, it can be seen on the right
and left wings the glass and pitcher, while on the above wing it is pictured
the head of a horse. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">All these elements are emphasized by the logo plan of the
tallest building from the world: Burj Khalifa from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The building has 828 meters high, 211 floors and is designed with full and
newest architectural technology. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Impressive art work by its beauty and also by its values.
Specialists estimate the two Picasso paintings at 4.3 millions USD. The Burj
Khalifa costed 1.5 billions USD. Great amounts align with great art works which
created further art in the impressive Dr. Nour Sculpture Paint.</span><br />
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Biennale is considered the most important event of contemporary art from
Romania. The event opened its 5th edition on 24th of May
2012 with a press conference at Interncontinental Hotel. The Swedish artist
Klas Eriksson held then his first performance in the frame of the biennale
under the title “Com’on You Reds!”. The Intercontinental Hotel facade was
covered by 100 torches lighted by 100 volunteers. </span><br />
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economy, society and culture - sometimes called "precarious time" -
artists must often negotiate risky positions or dispute territories. In this
context, the creation of Biennial highlights artists whose portfolio, indirect
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Akhavan, Marina Albu, Haris Epaminonda, Klas Eriksson, RuthEwan, Aurélien
Froment, Ciprian Homorodean, Iman Issa, JaniceKerbel, Jill Magid, David
Maljković, Marina Naprushkina, Ahmet Öğüt, Vesna Pavlovic, Anahata Razmi, Wael
Shawky, Alexandre Singh, Mounir Al Solh & Bassam Ramlawi, Rinus Van de
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exhibitions seven locations in Bucharest The Contemporary Art and Culture
Center – PAVILION, The Istitute for Political Research - Bucharest University,
Make A Point – cultural center, Alert Studio – artist-run studio), The House of
the Free Press, Nana – local restaurant, Union Cinema, Tabu – women magazine,
Zeppelin – architecture magazine, Vice – lifestyle magazine. </span></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SScILvCi4Oo/T2nlv75v3wI/AAAAAAAACLk/rNoBJBe5XjY/s1600/P7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SScILvCi4Oo/T2nlv75v3wI/AAAAAAAACLk/rNoBJBe5XjY/s320/P7.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Guilet shared the stage with other designers, united in the theme of celebrating Romanian culture.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/jeUcI3c8lEQ?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://youtu.be/aYeG1AizjW8" target="_blank">High fashion meets the haystack in Romania</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The collection features a chiffon-lined women's suit covered in tufts of wood which evoke a Transylvanian roof and a figure-hugging dress embroidered with an applique design resembling a colorful Romanian Easter egg.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Np8as902hu4/T2nmcamkxAI/AAAAAAAACLw/icZMmDWJY-I/s1600/P10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Np8as902hu4/T2nmcamkxAI/AAAAAAAACLw/icZMmDWJY-I/s320/P10.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Underprivileged Gypsies crafted metal bracelets from tin drainpipes, while Romanian shoe designer Mihaela Glavan created shoes and boots with heels that are a miniature of sculptor Constantin Brancusi's most famous sculpture, the "Endless column."</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e5Lm5GuW_Yc/T2nnFOsWE7I/AAAAAAAACMA/qywhqrRMvE0/s1600/Shoes2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e5Lm5GuW_Yc/T2nnFOsWE7I/AAAAAAAACMA/qywhqrRMvE0/s320/Shoes2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Some of the clothes were simply breathtaking in their intricacy, a core element in Romanian artisan work.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BO6IR4y-YL8/T2nnd9BfDnI/AAAAAAAACMI/_Y56TNDSujo/s1600/photo_1321078781722-1-0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="218" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BO6IR4y-YL8/T2nnd9BfDnI/AAAAAAAACMI/_Y56TNDSujo/s320/photo_1321078781722-1-0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">A Greek-style column dress, weeks in the making, was a vision of 198 pearly grey-green jersey silk ribbons, inspired by the River Danube which runs through Romania.</span></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tMr8EDiolmM/T2noiOfNlwI/AAAAAAAACMQ/3PVKVr5AgXk/s1600/11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="196" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tMr8EDiolmM/T2noiOfNlwI/AAAAAAAACMQ/3PVKVr5AgXk/s320/11.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"></div>Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118957471310902577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647485723686698459.post-50824271001082389082012-03-16T13:57:00.000+02:002012-03-16T13:57:34.118+02:00Alireza Jahani - Black doesn't mean Obscurity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-W2TR4RnVbM8/T2HR599RLFI/AAAAAAAACI0/CveiefFBFOs/s1600/ALIREZA+JAHANI+(4).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-W2TR4RnVbM8/T2HR599RLFI/AAAAAAAACI0/CveiefFBFOs/s320/ALIREZA+JAHANI+(4).jpg" width="218" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">"Strangulate"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" dir="RTL" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"><span dir="LTR" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Since when you start to paint and how you discover your calling for painting?</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" dir="RTL" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><o:p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><em>I began painting from childhood and painting was always considered a part of my life but after finishing college and with a backpack full of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>feel savings, I go into a community that I had no place to supply my works and forced into silence. </em></span></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" dir="RTL" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><em>Here again I found that the only way out of silence is painting for me. After a series of paintings influenced by personal beliefs with the introduction<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of one family members I met with my professors Nosratollah Moslemyan and since the beginning <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of this acquaintance delivered me from the trap of self-imposed and hand over from my just ideological paintings slowly and teached me with his recommendations that how to show my emotions with art.</em> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" dir="RTL" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"><span dir="LTR" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><o:p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><em>Sometimes I only just living for weeks but I try to have impressive and deep conception from events surrounding me. Sometimes just a conversation in a French film is an idea for me to painting. My favorite subject as all know is woman and the whole humanity and its bottlenecks and capacities.</em></span></span></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" dir="RTL" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><o:p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><em>My work symbols are mostly women and men in pain from my homeland Iran. Sometime my symbol is a young girl sometime a crazy woman, sometime a dead man on the cold soil or a girl with great expectations but with regret in her soul. My symbols are the women that following to freedom. It’s the woman who pulled wronged but still growing like a phoenix from ashes.</em></span></span></span></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" dir="RTL" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"><span dir="LTR" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><o:p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Why do you use so much black?</span></strong></span></span></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" dir="RTL" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><o:p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><em>Black color to me is symptoms of frustration, oppression and suffering inside from a super closed society where that head down to oppression known as a value to the system. In my work black known as infestation, bad to the humanity, whatever even in black exist light.</em></span></span></span></span></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: large;">What are the constraints of an artist from your point of view?</span></strong></div><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><em>Note that I am among the general population and in connection with the lower classes of my society and I felt the pain of this grade category with all my person. Woman for me is a symbol of stood up and rebellion and not only as a symbol of sense, but as a semi-lost exist in community that surely the subtlety and reflection and standing.</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><em>In my opinion and according to my taught, the value and validity of a painting is to express inner feelings of the artist and experienced of his life.</em></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><em>The artist can provide an accurate comparison between self and society to achieve, only thinking about art free of any limitations and restrictions governing and taste of society.</em></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><o:p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><em>In the history of art many talents was not recognized in their lifetime. But I have to follow the art without any despair and with my tendency to humanity and biological experienced. Always I am looking for contact with art world and from my experience using it to present my work and performance to the world.</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" dir="RTL" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><i><u><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Short biography:<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I was born in 1980 in the port city of Anzali. I was first child of my family and from childhood my mother with books, crayons and drawing papers helped me a lot. She played a big role in my tendency to booking and painting from early ages. From my childhood, like most of my generation, I have memories of the war and those situations. In school time I was a smart student and I had always high marks although the lesson for me even in college time was of secondary importance after, my books. I success in my education and I was accepted in civil engineering at the university and graduated after 5 years. Studies continued on my country's political past and I was wavering between political activity or expression with my art but by thinking I chose art for the expression of mine and found my salvation way in art. I had all my past that followed and unknown way to future but a chance to introduction with my stand Mr. Nosratollah Moslemyan caused to understanding not only modern painting but also the modern thinking and getting rid of outdated traditions trap. I can honestly say that I was born again.</span><br />
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</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118957471310902577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647485723686698459.post-87271328151220603472012-03-06T20:18:00.016+02:002012-03-15T10:27:41.799+02:00Vitalie Butescu - Painter of Atmosphere<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBB_rDKXi6k/T1EMN09_WDI/AAAAAAAACAI/ThTXhhpoI1I/s1600/DSC_0615-bis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="177" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBB_rDKXi6k/T1EMN09_WDI/AAAAAAAACAI/ThTXhhpoI1I/s320/DSC_0615-bis.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">Tell us about your beginnings in art…</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">I was born in Soviet Union, in small town of 17,000 inhabitants from <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Moldavia</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Republic</placetype></place>, named </span><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">St</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">efan Voda. When I was 10 years old, I had the chance to follow some art courses, extra school. In that time, some Russians specialized in art come to our town looking for talented children. They set up an <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Art</placename> <placename w:st="on">School</placename></place> where I attend about 3 hours weekly for some years. These were my first professors and from them I learnt that I can make a living from art and because I love to paint, I decided I must continue on this way.</span></i></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fzP2xGuhyBA/T1EPdTA2FpI/AAAAAAAACAY/67lXRt3q834/s1600/DSC_0623-bis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="276" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fzP2xGuhyBA/T1EPdTA2FpI/AAAAAAAACAY/67lXRt3q834/s320/DSC_0623-bis.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;"><strong>"Italian Church"</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">You are graduated in Art Faculty from <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Cluj</city>, <country-region w:st="on">Romania</country-region></place>. How did you get in <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Romania</place></country-region>?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><i>My town was 60 km far away from <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Odessa</city></place>. Every studying child used to follow <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Odessa</city></place> courses. My first art teachers advised me to follow a High School in Romanian language and not go <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Odessa</city></place>, which is what I did. My style was full of colour different from the <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Russian</placename> <placetype w:st="on">School</placetype></place>. After, I prepared myself for <placename w:st="on">Art</placename> <placename w:st="on">University</placename> from <city w:st="on">Saint Petersburg</city>, but instead of this, I went <country-region w:st="on">Romania</country-region> thank to 1989’s Romanian Revolution and some scholarships accorded by the <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Romanian</placename> <placetype w:st="on">State</placetype></place> to Moldavians starting with 90’s. I chose Cluj city for my studies. </i></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">You stayed almost 10 years in <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">London</city></place>. How it was the English experience from artistic point ?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><i>In <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">London</city></place> I was not in the same line with the people from there because I just had to gain money for living. There was not time for carelessly artistic life. I had only to work to cover my expenses. So, it could not influence me too much. Anyway, I am too stubborn to be influenced. Since then, I only travel in <place w:st="on">Europe</place> or other continents and I prefer to live in Romania. </i></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">What inspire you?</span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Everything around me inspire me: from the smell of the morning coffee, to people from the street, friends, my workshop, until the evening spend with my family. From an artist 5% is talent, the rest is work and from a painting 20% is inspiration and the rest is reason, the theme. </i></span></div><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-phA8PHGi1FE/T1PQP4yzeEI/AAAAAAAACEY/N7sEiZOxQHE/s1600/DSC_0649-bis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="177" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-phA8PHGi1FE/T1PQP4yzeEI/AAAAAAAACEY/N7sEiZOxQHE/s320/DSC_0649-bis.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;"><strong>“Military Circle”</strong></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-size: 19px;"><br />
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</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How do you choose your themes?</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>I don’t have a special criteria. It is about if I like it or not. For example the harlequins: I paint the first one when I was 16 years old as I wanted to gain more money and I succeeded. Since then I haven’t give up to this theme. The harlequins are characters who can transmit emotions. I prepare a big project with harlequins in the future. </i></span></span></div><div align="center"></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><i>I like very much to paint, I can say that the painting is a hobby for me because I enjoy very much doing it. For example, I liked very much Balcic which was an good to be explored realm, so I painted over 200 paints with landscapes from Balcic. </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 19px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">Did the painter Bogdan Pietris influence you in any way ?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">Yes, he was honest and sincere with me. I will always respect</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">him. Even we had</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">meet</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">rare I consider him my friend. He is a lonely wolf as me. I learned from him plain-air.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iWPOORyrjbc/T1NPDb19TNI/AAAAAAAACCY/M2ShRYqfrn8/s1600/DSC_0608-bis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="251" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iWPOORyrjbc/T1NPDb19TNI/AAAAAAAACCY/M2ShRYqfrn8/s320/DSC_0608-bis.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">“Cotroceni Palace”</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">What do you transmit through your paintings?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><i>A state of mind or a state of things. Spring time looks different from a winter time. Also, the same theme looks different if it is painted in the spring from the winter or afternoon from evening. The works painted in plain-air has a different energy and look from those painted in workshop. All these means state of things. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><i>I like to paint in plain-air, but I use to finish my works in the workshop because the lights are different. After all, the public keeps the paintings in the house, so these must be done accordingly with the interior light.</i></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eafbQVAHv2o/T1PKxfilsjI/AAAAAAAACDo/0i9VidnaSHc/s1600/DSC_0635-bis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eafbQVAHv2o/T1PKxfilsjI/AAAAAAAACDo/0i9VidnaSHc/s320/DSC_0635-bis.jpg" width="186" /></a></div><div align="center" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;"><strong>“Still life”</strong></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritage organized in 2010 a camp at <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Malta</st1:place></st1:country-region> <a href="http://dnfah.blogspot.com/2010/12/romanian-mona-lisaat-malta-2010.html" target="_blank">“Romanian Mona Lisa”</a>. Vitalie Butescu was one of the artists selected to participate. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">You can admire what come out from this hands!<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wXSm3_2uvZs/T1c-bOLazSI/AAAAAAAACIA/x7NMPjLpGRc/s1600/Malta+miere+corectata.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="242" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wXSm3_2uvZs/T1c-bOLazSI/AAAAAAAACIA/x7NMPjLpGRc/s320/Malta+miere+corectata.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><b>"Church in Malta"</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">DNFAH collection</b> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">Personal Exhibitions</strong></div></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 1997 september - "Art" Gallery, Timisoara</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 1997 december – The University Gallery University , Cluj Napoca</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 1998 december - Art Gallery, Timisoara</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 2005 february - Romanian National Committee pentru UNESCO</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 2005 may - FRACCU, Paris - France</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 2006 february –Romanian National Committee for UNESCO</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 2006 september - Gallery Silva Busteni</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 2006 nov.-dec. - City Gallery, Botosani</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 2007 february - ArtJazzClub Bucharest</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 2007 martch - Gallery Artis, Bucharest</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 2007 july - Gallery Artis, National Museum Olt,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">Slatina</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 2007 october - Ambasad SUA at Chisinau, Rep. Moldova</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 2008 august – exhibitional space ACVAL, Ploiesti</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 2008 october - Artis Gallery, National Museum Olt, Slatina</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 2008 december - Atelier Gallery Hanul cu Tei, Bucharest</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 2009 march - Ana Gallery, Bucharest</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 2009 march - Cultural Centre Habitus, Sibiu</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 2009 may-june - Elite Art Gallery, Bucharest</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 2009 september - Bucharest Mayorlaty</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 2009 oct-dec - Ceainaria Greentea, Bucuresti</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 2009 november - Artis Gallery, National Museum Olt, Slatina</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 2009 december – Romanian Atheneum</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 2010 february - Galateca, BCU Bucharest</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;"></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">- 2010 june – Art Museum Prahova "Ion Ionescu Quintus"</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">-2010 december </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">–</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;"> Brâncusi Hall, Parlament Palace</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">-2011 february - Art Gallery of Bucharest</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">-2011 march – Artis Gallery, National Museum Olt, Slatina</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">-2011 april - Hall Romanian Atheneum </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">-2011 september - SCITART Gallery Bucharest</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt;">-2011 december - U Art Gallery Bucharest</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118957471310902577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647485723686698459.post-77608560275256733172012-02-23T15:19:00.000+02:002012-02-23T15:19:13.173+02:00Sorin Adam - Joy of Colour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KMBnBbThzjo/T0VYA5IvvsI/AAAAAAAAB4o/3xVVsAagFOA/s1600/Marrakesh+-+Morocco.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="264" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KMBnBbThzjo/T0VYA5IvvsI/AAAAAAAAB4o/3xVVsAagFOA/s320/Marrakesh+-+Morocco.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt;">Marrakech, Morocco</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">History can be also written through art. Places, people, actions outlined on endless canvas complete a nation’s picture. Sorin Adam’s works reveal a piece of history illustrated by oil colours, graphics, crayon in a perfect way. Under the artist brush, the coldest place comes to life and the people are warm in harmony with the Universe. Sorin Adam’s paintings calm the audience and flood it’s soul into a huge noiseless.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Since when </span></b><b><span lang="RO" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">you start to paint</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">?</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Everything started when I was 18 years old because of a crayon box. My father received it from a painter for another painter. I found this box and I started to draw. I had never drawn or painted before that moment. I made a copy of a paint and so, by the time, I start to love painting. My father took me to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bucharest</st1:place></st1:city> to study. Here, I’ve met the great artist Vasile Grigore who was one of my most important teachers and helped me a lot.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt;">Landscape from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Ciamurlia</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Romania</st1:country-region></st1:place></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">How do you choose your themes? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">I love the traditional Romanian painting. There are still a lot to be done in this direction. I don’t reject the western painting, but it is not my main preference. </span><span lang="RO" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">I had the chance to visit the Big Museums worldwide, but I like the Romanian art more</span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">And the Near Eastern…<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Yes. I start to focus on Near Eastern since 1990 when I was in Balcic. I’d known Balcic from the work of the great masters Nicolae Tonitza, Gheorghe Petrascu, Theodor Pallady, Lucian Grigorescu, Iosif Iser. I was impressed by the gorgeous light of the sky, see, stones, by the beautiful houses. Balcic is a cosmopolite place: there are Romanians, Bulgarians, Turks. And so, I started to see more places from the Eastern side of the world. I was in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Jordan</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Morocco</st1:country-region></st1:place>. The morocco clothes are like a dream because of its colours: red, green, orange, blue. Wonderful. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Do you have any favorite paintings?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Yes. Most of them are Eastern landscapes. I start to do my own collection which comprise not only my works but also paintings of other 35 colleagues. I also use to buy from Art Auction Houses paints of Romanian famous artists: Corneliu Baba, Stefan Constantinescu, Sabin Pop.</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">How hard is to organize an exhibition? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">The effort is more about time then money. Before having an exhibition, I choose a theme and I work on it for 2-3 years before I dare to make an exhibition on that issue. Then, it come the material part. The quality of the tools is very important: canvas (for example, at the beginning I used canvas on cardboard) and frames (these are very important because emphasize the painting).</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">You exhibited abroad. How was the experience with the foreign public? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">I had exhibitions in <st1:city w:st="on">Florence</st1:city> -<st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region>, in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Wales</st1:country-region>, in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>. It was a very interesting experience and unexpected, I succeed to sell part of paintings.</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Starting with 20<sup>th</sup> of February, you started a new exhibition at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Bucharest</st1:city></st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Yes, I launched my second art album accompanied with an exhibition of some of my top paintings illustrating different themes. It’s a “mélange”, a mixture: landscapes, still life, nudes.</span><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Born on 22nd August 1968, Ploiesti </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">1996 - Graduate of the Painting Section of the "Luceafarul" Art Academy, professor Teodor Moraru and licensed of the Art Academy of Bucharest<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">1998 - 2002 - Teaching assistant at "Luceafarul" Art Academy </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Member of Union of Plastic Artists since 1997</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><b>Individual exhibitions:</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2011 Frezia Art Gallery - Dej </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2009 Beldiman Palace - Iasi </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> Art Gallery of Bucharest Municipality </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2008 National Military Circle Bucharest Art Gallery </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2007 I.C.R. - Istanbul ISIK Gallery </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2006 National Military Circle Bucharest Art Gallery </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2004 National Military Circle Bucharest Art Gallery </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2003 Museum of the Art and History of Bucharest </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2002 National Military Circle Bucharest Art Gallery </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">1999 National Military Circle Bucharest Art Gallery </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">1998 Corropoli Abruzzo - Italy </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">1997 Florence - Italy </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">1995-1996 Art Gallery of Bucharest</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">1994 Art Gallery of Bucharest </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">1993 Art Gallery of Bucharest </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><br />
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</span></div></div></div></div>Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118957471310902577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647485723686698459.post-11595764662023440682012-02-14T17:45:00.001+02:002012-02-14T22:53:43.101+02:00The royal family of Qatar purchases Paul Cezanne’s Card Players for a record $250 million<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The work is one in a series of five, but until now was the only one remaining in private collection.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Vanity Fair reported that Qatar's royal family bought one of the 5 existing versions of Cezanne's 'The Card Players' for over $250 million. Forbes published today that it was Josh Baer of BaerFaxt who first broke it in 2011 the purchase of Cezanne's Card Players for $250 million from the estate of Greek shipping magnate George Embiricos.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Paul Cézanne was born on January 19, 1839, in Aix-en-Provence, France. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TpL0BkzfwTA/TzqAayTbXKI/AAAAAAAAB4E/pS7UEHhQx3k/s1600/411px-Paul_cezanne_1861.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TpL0BkzfwTA/TzqAayTbXKI/AAAAAAAAB4E/pS7UEHhQx3k/s320/411px-Paul_cezanne_1861.jpg" width="219px" yda="true" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Paul Cezanne</span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">While in school, he enrolled in the free drawing academy in Aix, which he attended intermittently for several years. In 1858, he graduated from the Collège Bourbon, where he had become an intimate friend of his fellow student Emile Zola. Cézanne entered the law school of the University of Aix in 1859 to placate his father but abandoned his studies to join Zola in Paris in 1861. For the next twenty years, Cézanne divided his time between the Midi and Paris. In the capital, he briefly attended the Atelier Suisse with Camille Pissarro, whose art later came to influence his own. In 1862, Cézanne began long friendships with Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. His paintings were included in the 1863 Salon des Refusés, which displayed works not accepted by the jury of the official Paris Salon. The Salon itself rejected Cézanne’s submissions each year from 1864 to 1869.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1870, following the declaration of the Franco-Prussian War, Cézanne left Paris for Aix-en-Provence and then nearby L’Estaque, where he continued to paint. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Aq60lpvbXMY/TzqBNK8mzgI/AAAAAAAAB4U/pHX5loJgymY/s1600/Atelierul-lui-Cezanne-de-la-Aix-en-Provence1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="251px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Aq60lpvbXMY/TzqBNK8mzgI/AAAAAAAAB4U/pHX5loJgymY/s320/Atelierul-lui-Cezanne-de-la-Aix-en-Provence1.jpg" width="320px" yda="true" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The workshop of Paul Cezanne from Aix-en-Provence</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He made the first of several visits to Pontoise in 1872; there, he worked alongside Pissarro. He participated in the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874. From 1876 to 1879, his works were again rejected for the Salon. Cézanne showed again with the Impressionists in 1877 in their third exhibition. At that time, Georges Rivière was one of the few critics to support his art. In 1882, the Salon accepted his work for the first and only time. Beginning in 1883, Cézanne resided in the South of France, returning to Paris occasionally. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1890, Cézanne exhibited with the group Les Vingt in Brussels and spent five months in Switzerland. He traveled to Giverny in 1894 to visit Monet, who introduced him to Auguste Rodin and the critic Gustave Geffroy. Cézanne’s first solo show was held at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris in 1895. From this time, he received increasing recognition. In 1899, he participated in the Salon des Indépendants in Paris for the first time. The following year, he took part in the Centennial Exhibition in Paris. In 1903, the Berlin and Vienna Secessions included Cézanne’s work, and in 1904 he exhibited at the Salon d’Automne, Paris. That same year, he was given a solo exhibition at the Galerie Cassirer, Berlin. Cézanne died on October 22, 1906, in Aix-en-Provence.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bBQoMJldL50/TzqAm8iAtcI/AAAAAAAAB4M/XpF2qSo6i1A/s1600/599PX-~1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bBQoMJldL50/TzqAm8iAtcI/AAAAAAAAB4M/XpF2qSo6i1A/s320/599PX-~1.JPG" width="249px" yda="true" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> "Selfportrait", Paul Cezanne</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">One of the most influential artists in the history of twentieth-century painting, Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) has inspired generations of modern artists. Generally categorized as a Post-Impressionist, his unique method of building form with color and his analytical approach to nature influenced the art of Cubists, Fauvists and successive generations of avant-garde artists. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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</span></div>Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118957471310902577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647485723686698459.post-78872539581024244532012-02-03T20:22:00.006+02:002012-02-13T21:48:48.102+02:00Ava Serjoie - Harmony of Colours<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt;">"Self biography"<br />
100x100cm, acrylics on canvas</span><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">A self biography, the story of my life, an airplane that connects me to the people I love, my connection to security but also what separates me from all that is close to my heart. The scarf blowing in the wind, with my hair, which is also the branches of the tree. This feeling of being blown away, as if I can never have my feet really fixed on the ground. The cherry earrings, the beautiful childhood, that every small thing was a treasure and source of happiness. My huge necklace, my eastern jewelry, some thing I can not wear in the foreign land, I had to leave it back home, and now there is only the memory of it once on my neck. The gold fish, the Iranian new year. The hope for change, that things will get better. The tulips, 5 a symbol for the People who were killed in the 2009 demonstration in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The apple, so beautiful but </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">which has changed our destiny forever.</span></i></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size: 19px;"><i><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sMMIPoYFfCY/Tyub88MoDqI/AAAAAAAAB1M/wmKaP1MzrUU/s1600/long+lost+memory.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="319" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sMMIPoYFfCY/Tyub88MoDqI/AAAAAAAAB1M/wmKaP1MzrUU/s320/long+lost+memory.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt;">"Long lost memory"</span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Painting and poetry have long been interwoven in the history of Persian art. Poetry has been a source of great inspiration through out the history of art. In my paintings, dream, fantasy, reality and poetry come together. Emotions, aroused by contemporary Persian poetry intertwined with childhood recollections, memories of all that is gone, all that we have lived, experienced; all that is so close to our heart, but so far away out of our reach.</i></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WUwd0ptCvPg/TyuZ1xySiqI/AAAAAAAAB08/4-En4GNJUl8/s1600/home+is+where+the+heart+is.1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="316" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WUwd0ptCvPg/TyuZ1xySiqI/AAAAAAAAB08/4-En4GNJUl8/s320/home+is+where+the+heart+is.1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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100x100cm, acrylics on canvas</span><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Where is my home. The English say, home is where the heart is. But, my heart was never so homeless. So torn apart between the people and places that I love.</i></span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"> </span></div><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QtIGBs3wdE0/Tyuamy-XU4I/AAAAAAAAB1E/hi9ccbVIAQY/s1600/Grandma's+garden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QtIGBs3wdE0/Tyuamy-XU4I/AAAAAAAAB1E/hi9ccbVIAQY/s320/Grandma's+garden.jpg" width="220" /></a></td></tr>
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><i>A world where every cherry was a ruby earring, and grandma’s garden was that sacred place where nothing could shatter your happiness. A colorful memory, of a nostalgia for how every thing once was, or how you remember every thing was combined with the emotions and feelings aroused by the happenings in the society.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><i><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ru9Fipuh3DY/TyuY4vC9frI/AAAAAAAAB00/yvHibycyVx8/s1600/praying+to+nature.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ru9Fipuh3DY/TyuY4vC9frI/AAAAAAAAB00/yvHibycyVx8/s320/praying+to+nature.jpg" width="263" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt;">"Praying to nature"</span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Since when you start to paint and how you discover your calling for painting?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><i>With 12 I knew that I definitely want to become an artist. I used to play the Piano, I loved drama and painted in every single opportunity I got. I had a sketch book that was filled with my drawings. Later I gave Music and acting up for painting.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">How do you choose your themes? What inspire you?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Painting and poetry have long been interwoven in the history of Persian art. Poetry has been a source of great inspiration for many artists through out the history of art. In my paintings, dream, fantasy, reality, and poetry come together. Emotions, aroused by contemporary Persian poetry intertwined with childhood recollections, memories of all that is gone, all that we have lived, experienced; all that is so close to our heart, but so far away out of our reach. Persian and Eastern paintings, such as Indian miniatures, with their vast variety of colors and fine patterns are a great source of inspiration as well as model.</span></i></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">What do you try to transmit to the public through your paintings?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Nature is to be seen in every single of my work. I love trees and respect nature, I admire how such tiny small flowers manage to get through the hardest winter and as April comes suddenly everywhere pop up delicate small flowers as if it had never been winter. I respect their strength, their patience to wait for the right time. That is why I often paint symbols from nature. My pictures tell stories, every element has a meaning for me and there is a reason it is presented in my work.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Is it a paint you care most?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">I love art and live with it every day. Art for me is not just what we create but how we live, our actions, our thoughts, our hopes, fears, our values. Art is not just what we practice or an skill it is what we believe in.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MrZGjRXkl_c/TyufEDg4bOI/AAAAAAAAB1c/kFNRdfus0LY/s1600/cypress.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MrZGjRXkl_c/TyufEDg4bOI/AAAAAAAAB1c/kFNRdfus0LY/s320/cypress.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Cypress”</span><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">The above painting titled, "Where we want to go", is a mixed media, painting with collage from my ticket from my various trips. It shows our search for this ultimate place, where we want to find happiness, or security, or love or success. But in our hearts we kind of keep comparing things to our past, with what we remember from our childhood.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">What can you tell us about your work technique?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">I mostly paint with Acrylics, but also oil and water color. I love to sit and recite to myself, like people who tend to sit and talk about sweet memories, or read poems, I do this visually for myself. For this I use water and poster colour. They lend themselves for small size paintings. My large size paintings are in Acrylic and oil. Acrylic I use more often lately since it dries much faster.</span></i></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fE7M0aOiSxA/TyuiWQY00rI/AAAAAAAAB10/L4BFqPjOHqk/s1600/In+the+darkest+hours+of+the+night.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="313" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fE7M0aOiSxA/TyuiWQY00rI/AAAAAAAAB10/L4BFqPjOHqk/s320/In+the+darkest+hours+of+the+night.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“In the darkness hours of the night”</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">What are the prices of your paintings? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">My painting's prices range from 500 Euros for my small paper size paintings to 5000 Euros.</span></i><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">What are the constraints of an artist from your point of view?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">I believe in this post modern Era there are no real constraints for artists when we look at it from a professional point of view. Artists can decide to work in and with any media they like, they can people or even other artisans to bring out their concepts for them. However, politics and financial situations can still play a very negative role in artists work and artistic expression.</span></i></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CkGJ5KgyKSo/TyukbENG3NI/AAAAAAAAB2E/vVM6VWcL8ZI/s320/Come+to+my+Garden.jpg" width="318" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Come to my garden”</span></o:p></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"><o:p>FOR SALE</o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></o:p></span></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Since the Revolution in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region> in 1979, executions, of active students, intellectual and other innocent people fighting for democracy has been a constant tragic part of the contemporary history of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>. In 2006 once more I was totally torn apart by the news of the death of another student in prison. This news, with the remembrance of the serial murders of the intellectuals in the 90s inspired the following painting 'chained garden'. Ahmad Shamlou (an Iranian contemporary poet) in one of his poems tells to Khomeini, "you spoke with sickle with the jasmines" .</span></i></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><u><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Speaking with my executor<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">The following collages are part of a series of works inspired but the tragic news of executions in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region></st1:place> and also massacre of people because of religion. They are a series of dialogues between the victim and the executor. The texts are in Persian but a short translation has been given for the title.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><b><i><u><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">I wish I could give birth to all who were killed this year</span></u></i></b></div></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">The news of mass executions and torture and rape in prisons, would not leave me in peace and were the inspiration for the above painting. My yearning, my longing as a women artist to be able to give birth again to all the innocent, to all who were killed for fighting for freedom, a word that has become only a graffiti on the wall. My heart bleeds with pain, while the sky cries with me, witnessing all this injustice.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">What does an artist need to become famous? Is it enough talent? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Talent plays an important role, not just for artistic creation but also how to get to know the right people and to do right things to get the right attention. However, a good manager, a good advisor would definitely help to get the artist on the right track.</span></i></div></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">How you would define yourself?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">I am sociable, but also shy, I can be loud and party but need my snake house to get into and sulk. I love poetry and live with it, but enjoy Rock. I am not interested in politics but am disturbed and burdened by social problems and injustice. I can't change the world but like to try to bring to spot light what needs to be changed. I miss hope but can't live in, I love the world but so many things disturb me. </span></i><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">I love my refuge in my home amongst my plants when every thing gets too much.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">BIOGRAPHY</span></b></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Born on 14<sup>th </sup>of April 1975 in Teheran. </span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"><o:p> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><strong>EDUCATION</strong></span></o:p></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"><o:p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2003 Masters of Arts in Fine Arts, Alzahra University ,Tehran, Iran<o:p></o:p></span></span></o:p></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">1998 Bachelors of Arts in Fine Arts, Azad University ,Tehran, Iran</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><o:p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><strong>HONORS & RECOGNITIONS</strong></span></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><o:p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2004 Institute for Promotion of Visual Art – </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Honorable Mention</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2004 Municipality of the City of Tehran – </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Certificate of Appreciation</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2003 Cultural Department of Municipality of the City of Tehran – </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Distinguished </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Service</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2003 Tehran International Fajr Theatre Festival – </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Honorable Mention</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2003 First Conference on Iranian Islamic Art – </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Certificate of Appreciation</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2003 Alzahra University – Valedictorian of Graduate</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> Program and Gold Coin<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2002 Alzahra University – Outstanding Graduate Student</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> Research and Gold Coin<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">1997 Kish Institute for TTC (Teachers Training Course) – </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Certificate of Completion</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">1992 Tehran Youth Painting Competition – First Place<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">1990 Tehran Youth Painting Competition – First Place</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><o:p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2004 a video installation, titled: “The Last Supper”<o:p></o:p></span></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2010 Installation "We are not numbers"</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><o:p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">GROUP EXHIBITIONS HIGHLIGHTS</span></b></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.05pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 180.8pt; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; letter-spacing: -0.95pt;">2011 31 Friedberger Kustausstellung</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; letter-spacing: -0.95pt;">2009 </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">Almere kunstlinier Holland </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; letter-spacing: -0.95pt;">2006</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; letter-spacing: -0.3pt;"> Kunsthall Sweden </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2005 Bahman Cultural Center<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2005 Isfahan Museum of Contemporary Art<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2005 Shafagh Art Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2005 Shirazi Art Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2005 Hilesluis museum Holland<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2003 Institute for the Promotion of Visual Arts – Tehran<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2002 UNESCO “Women, Art and Dialogue among Civilizations” – </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Oman</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2001 Center for Dialogue among Civilizations – Tehran<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2000 Painters Society – House of Artists, Tehran<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2000 Exhibition of Iranian Women Artists –</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> University of California, </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Berkley</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><o:p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">SOLO EXHIBITIONS</span></b></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2011 Archive gallery Germany<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2003 Ibn Sina Gallery Iran <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2001 Tehran Gallery Iran<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2001 Arian Gallery Iran<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">1999 Niavaran Cultural Center Iran</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 38.4pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: center; text-indent: -20.4pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 38.4pt; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"></span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"></span></strong>Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118957471310902577noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647485723686698459.post-37444215986671732672012-01-26T13:18:00.009+02:002012-01-26T21:52:06.740+02:00Eugen Raportoru - world of the outcast<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0rSnl00YiK4/TyCRZFj-6HI/AAAAAAAABqE/NftsruUvIKI/s1600/Eugen+Raportoru.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0rSnl00YiK4/TyCRZFj-6HI/AAAAAAAABqE/NftsruUvIKI/s320/Eugen+Raportoru.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">Eugen Raportoru</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">A fulminatory evolution due to talent, but also to faith that the pure and honest soul and the free spirit can help you to go <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">furth</place></city>er even when life is against you. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">Eugen Raportoru succeed to set himself free through art. Houses from his canvases are not simple landscape evocations. They are true portraits. Each house of Raportoru has soul and call up part of the artist life experience and his feelings <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">gath</place></city>ered over time: shy and quiet at the beginning, then revolted, wept, sad, but still reliable and determined. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0HEMTFy6t2o/TyCSc6jdPQI/AAAAAAAABqU/-97tZwGmB9E/s1600/Casa+cu+etaj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0HEMTFy6t2o/TyCSc6jdPQI/AAAAAAAABqU/-97tZwGmB9E/s320/Casa+cu+etaj.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">“House”, work presented at graduation of <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Art</placename> <placename w:st="on">University</placename></place>, 2009, private collection</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RgyOKOWNO1k/TyCTGqILhSI/AAAAAAAABqc/gRuZN1iZ6Gw/s1600/Raportoru-Case+Balcic.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RgyOKOWNO1k/TyCTGqILhSI/AAAAAAAABqc/gRuZN1iZ6Gw/s320/Raportoru-Case+Balcic.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">“Balcic”, 2009, private collection</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">When did you start to paint? </span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">Since I was 12 years old. The </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">beginning</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">is</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">childish</span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">You</span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"> need the chance of the people </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">around</span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"> to you otherwise is difficult to discover what you can do. The parents usually search talent of their children. I</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"> didn’t have this</span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"> luck, but still I was lucky having a lot of worshops on the street I was living: 3 of painting and one of sculpture. Also, one of my neighbours was the artist Ion Brodeala who used to give me tools to paint. At the beginning I used cooking oil, but by the time I </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">learnt</span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"> what is the difference.</span></i><br />
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</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">So, there were few persons who helped you by the time…</span></b></div><i><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">Yes, the first was the artist Ion</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"> Brodeala</span></i><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><i>, then the painter Mihai Cismaru, who was my mentor. Also, I had the chance to discover the great artist Corneliu Baba. I loved his works! I am still impressed now. I think is one of the deepest painters worldwide. I used to visit all his exhibitions, I saw his works at the Museum. I found out that I could reach him at Art Faculty where he was teacher. I want there, I knocked at the door and I told him: “I saw your works, but you haven’t seen mine”. All presents laught. Since then, he allowed me to visit him at work.</i> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 19px;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XudAvD-qXu4/TyCV_s-SKaI/AAAAAAAABsE/HkQhSKMtCt0/s1600/Licenta+Stalpul.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XudAvD-qXu4/TyCV_s-SKaI/AAAAAAAABsE/HkQhSKMtCt0/s320/Licenta+Stalpul.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">“The pillar”, </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">work presented at graduation of </span><place style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;" w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Art</placename> <placename w:st="on">University</placename></place><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">, 2009, private collection</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">How was your experience with the painter Corneliu Baba?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Very productive. I learnt a lot even he never show or explain something to me. It is not needed. It was enough to be next to him. He has an extraordinary power over his students. Without telling them “do like me”, they did like him. But Corneliu Baba used to advice them that everyone to find it’s own way. </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">Corneliu Baba helped me a lot financial, he gave me colours and money, especially since when he found out that my father died.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"> Not</span><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"> only because he took pitty on me, but because of my talent. I wasn’t just a poor kid from that street to whom you give some money and you get rid of him. Corneliu Baba invested in me. Even now, I sometime dream him. </span></i></div><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><i>In that period I succeed to have my first exhibition. I exhibited 30 paintings and I even sold some of them.</i></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">Serving your apprenticeship with Corneliu Baba was between 1975 -1977. Why so short time?</span></b></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our relation ended undesirable. I was pupil at </span><place style="font-size: 14pt;" w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Nicolae</placename> <placename w:st="on">Tonitza</placename> <placetype w:st="on">High School</placetype></place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. Some of my colleagues and their parents compromised me just because I was gipsy. Parents thought I was ruffian and I mislead their children. I would say they teached me bad habits: as smoking. Me, I used to miss from school sometime, but I was not a ruffian. Who didn’t ever miss from school? This discrimination was unfortunately allowed and even encouraged at that time. This people and the teachers from my High School made pressure on Corneliu Baba to push me away. For fear of a public noise, the painter comply with them.</span></i></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AfYDE_KeV_k/TyCXCN4TvrI/AAAAAAAABtU/ViAy1hkvwoc/s1600/Pod+Sighisoara.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="261" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AfYDE_KeV_k/TyCXCN4TvrI/AAAAAAAABtU/ViAy1hkvwoc/s320/Pod+Sighisoara.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.5pt;">“Bridge from Sighisoara”, 2009, private collection</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">So, you didn’t graduate the High School…</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><i>I didn’t graduate indeed, but I got married at 18 years old and I started to work as a house painter and the real painting remained an weekend occupation. I was a “Sunday painter”. I tried to graduate the High School, but I couldn’t because I used to be expelled because of absences.</i></span></div><i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></i><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For years, I struggled so. People say time heals. Time made me older, but healed my soul of the pain of injustices. So, I had again the power to hope. I took everything seriously and I graduate High School and much more I was admitted at the </span><place style="font-size: 14pt;" w:st="on"><placetype w:st="on">University</placetype> of <placename w:st="on">Art</placename></place><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. After, I manage to get the Master in Art without I pay because I had good marks. Even more, I get scholarship and I graduated the first among my colleagues.</span></i></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">The main theme of your paintings is the house. Why houses?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">When I was kid, urban landscape was at hand. I was surrounded by houses. You stepped out the house and see many another houses. In 60’s I lived in </span><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">a peripheral district and that area had its own poetry: houses, people, gossips. There was life.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> Painting houses, I started to know the houses, to see them different and to notice what is going on beyond its walls. Of course, this need experience of life and painting. Once you understand the issue, you are able to paint it well. The house has a soul because shelter people. In the house, it remains the soul of the human being and this is the beauty.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">What are the other themes? </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Nature. We are moderns, I make a shot and then I remake it in my studio. We are not in the plain-air time, the landscape can be done nowadays only in my studio otherwise it is very difficult to paint in the nature. In the studio you can change, adapt and interpret it. The studio become as a laboratory. </i></span></div><i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></i><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Until I was admitted at the Faculty I follow the <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Romanian</placename> <placename w:st="on">Painting</placename> <placetype w:st="on">School</placetype></place>. I loved it. </span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt;">Andreescu, Luchian, Pallady, Grigorescu, Catargi, Tonitza, Steriadi always inspired me, but I tried to keep my line and style. The school changed me: I had different vision, courage, trust in my own forces. </span></i></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">Regarding your chromatic, I see you preferred grey. Although, we can see darker tones and even black</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Chromatic was somehow constant in my evolution. Grey is my favorite colour. Lately, I start to use dark grey because that’s the way I feel and I find myself. Black is a new proposal for the public. For my point of view, the things are simple, I think to what I know and I paint what I feel. </i></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><i>The approach. I believe that if there is no change, every artist become limited. Now, my approach is more courageous. Before, I was the kid who was afraid of teacher or anyone’s comments. Now, I am not afraid anymore. I can say now I am Eugen Raportoru – painter.</i> </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">How fast do you paint?</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><i>I don’t know. I have a paint started 6 months ago and I haven’t finished it yet. Also, I have paints which I finished in few hours. It is not about luck, but experience and knowledge. It happens to forget some things from what you learn, but they remain stocked somewhere in our mind and instincts. The painting become random. </i></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: RO;">What it would be your future approaches?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><i>I will have a future period when I will choose to paint portraits. I love the portrait, I like to underline </i></span><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: RO;"><i>countenance. Now, I am still working at houses because in May I will have an exhibition only on houses theme. Meanwhile, I explore the boats.</i> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: RO;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">How you would describe yourself? </span></b></div><i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">I am painter. I can admit this </span><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">o</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">nly now even if I paint for almost 40 years . I was serious in school and in painting, I was awarded with prizes and scholarships which I never even dream of. Now, I think I deserved all. I cried of happiness. In autumn of last year I gained the Artists Union Award which surprised me very much. I apply for it just to show that I exist, but I never thought I can win the prize. The paint was sold to a collector who bought it directly from the exhibition</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>.</i> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt;">Do you regret something now?</span></b></div><i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">I am not sorry for anything anymore. I used to regret that I wasted my youth. It was a big difference if I could become student at 20 years old and not at 40. Still I am happy it happened like this because the things are not only random. If I had the normal course, maybe now I would have nothing left to say. So, I am different, I see different, I lived disappointments who make me stronger. The grey tones that I use in my paintings are not in vain, but from my soul. I work with my soul and this can be seen on my canvas.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><b>Biography </b><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; text-align: justify;">Born on 8</span><sup style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; text-align: justify;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; text-align: justify;"> of December 1961, in </span><place style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; text-align: justify;" w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Bucharest</city></place></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Graduated of <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Nicolae</placename> <placename w:st="on">Tonitza</placename> <placetype w:st="on">High School</placetype></place> – painting section </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Graduated of <placename w:st="on">National</placename> <placetype w:st="on">University</placetype> of Plastic Art, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Bucharest</city></place></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Graduated of Master in Art, <placename w:st="on">National</placename> <placetype w:st="on">University</placetype> of Plastic Art, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Bucharest</city></place></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><b>Masters</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Ion Brodeală</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Afane Teodoreanu </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Tatiana and Adina Paula Moscu </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Appentice of Masters: Corneliu Baba and Mihai Cismaru who support him financial and artistic</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><b>Personal exhibitions</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">- The first exhibition at 14 years old at Griviţa Cinema</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">- 1978 at "Cezar Petrescu" Library</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">- 1979-1980 "Twinning between peoples", at House of Culture</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">- 1984 Comedy Theatre</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">- 1990 Very small Theater</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">- 1992 Nottara Theatre</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">- 2000 Art Gallery of Bucharest</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">- 2001 Art Gallery of Bucharest, Museum of Bucharest</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">- 2003 Museum of Bucharest</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">- 2004 Participate in two paints at Romanian Contemporary Fine Art Exhibition from Vatican</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">- 2004 UNESCO Romania</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">- 2005 Museum of Bucharest, National Theatre of Bucharest, the Romanian Embassy in Stockholm, the International Festival of Theatre </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">“</span><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Radu Stanca” from Sibiu </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RO" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">- 2006 The 5th Anniversary Ceremony of Programs "Ready, Willing and Able", the National Theatre Bucharest</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">He provided illustration in:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">- Trilingual vocabulary, Romanian-Hungarian-Gipsy Language, Publisher Vanemonde, Bucharest 2001</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">- Dictionary of Romanian-Gipsy Language, publisher Vanemonde, Bucharest 2003</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">- Biblical texts in gipsy language, published in 2002 with support from Providence Foundation</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">- Handbook of literacy in gipsy language for children, youth and adults, publisher Vanemonde, Bucharest 2002</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Laureate at "Song of <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Romania</place></country-region>" Festival </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Participated in private collections in <country-region w:st="on">Romania</country-region> and abroad: <country-region w:st="on">Switzerland</country-region>, <country-region w:st="on">Sweden</country-region>, <country-region w:st="on">France</country-region>, <country-region w:st="on">Germany</country-region>, <country-region w:st="on">Italy</country-region>, <country-region w:st="on">Netherlands</country-region>, <country-region w:st="on">Spain</country-region>, <country-region w:st="on">USA</country-region>, <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Canada</place></country-region><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><br />
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</span></span></div></div></div>Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118957471310902577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647485723686698459.post-71538018921246571002012-01-11T20:18:00.009+02:002012-01-12T12:17:29.734+02:00"Time will come and time will fly; All is old, but new in kind", Mihai Eminescu - the Romanian National Poet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size: 19px;"> On 15th of January , there are 162 since Mihai Eminescu, the Romanian national poet, named "the great Briton", was born. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size: 19px;"> We celebrate him remembering his poems...</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The evening star</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">There was, as in the fairy tales,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">As ne'er in the time's raid,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">There was, of famous royal blood<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">A most beautiful maid.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">She was her parents' only child,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Bright like the sun at noon,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Like the Virgin midst the saints<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">And among stars the moon.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">From the deep shadow of the vaults<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Her step now she directs<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Toward a window; at its nook<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Bright Evening-star expects.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">(…)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">She speaks with him in sleep and sighs<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">While her heart's swelled veins drum:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">-"O sweet Lord of my fairy nights,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Why comest thou not? Come!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Descend to me, mild Evening-star<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Thou canst glide on a beam,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Enter my dwelling and my mind<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">And over my life gleam!"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">And he listens and trembles and<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Still more for her love craves<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">And as quick as the lightning he<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Plunges into the waves.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size: 19px;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">-"From my sphere hardly I come to<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Follow thy call and thee,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">The heaven is my father and<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">My mother is the sea.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">So that I could come to thy room<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">And look at thee from near<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">With my light reborn from waves my<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Fate toward thee I steer.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">O come, my treasure wonderful<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">And thy world leave aside;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">For I am Evening-star up from<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">And thou wouldst be my bride.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">In my palace of coral I'll<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Take thee for evermore<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">And the entire world of the sea<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Will kneel before thy door."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">-"O thou art beautiful as but<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">In dreams an angel shows,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">The way though thou hast oped for me<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">For me's for ever close.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Thy port and mien and speech are strange<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Life thy gleams don't impart,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">For I'm alive and thou art dead<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">And thy eyes chill my heart."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xf_pTgO1Vwk/Tw3Bh3lkaiI/AAAAAAAABoo/8__XLrlSBoY/s1600/Luceafarul.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xf_pTgO1Vwk/Tw3Bh3lkaiI/AAAAAAAABoo/8__XLrlSBoY/s320/Luceafarul.jpg" width="123" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><i style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">"Evening star", sculpture in wood done by Dr. Nour & Vasile Crisan, 2001</i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size: 19px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Take back my endlessness, the fires<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">That my being devour<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">And in return give me a chance<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">To love but for an hour!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">I've come from Chaos; I'd return<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">To that my former nest...<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">And as I have been brought to life<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">From rest, I crave for rest!"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">(...) </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size: 19px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">-"Descend to me, mild Evening-star<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Thou canst glide on a beam,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Enter my forest and my mind<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">And o'er my good luck gleam!"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">As he did it once, into woods,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">On hills, his rays he urges,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Guiding throughout so many wilds<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">The gleaming, moving, surges.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">But he falls not as he did once<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">From his height into swells:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">-"What matters thee, clod of dust, if<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">'Tis me or some one else?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">You live in your sphere's narrowness<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">And luck rules over you -<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">But in my steady world I feel<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Eternal, cold and true!"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HOrjH_RSyAM/Tw3B5bK5qzI/AAAAAAAABow/O5EpxNyvtG4/s1600/eminescu%2526veronica.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="206" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HOrjH_RSyAM/Tw3B5bK5qzI/AAAAAAAABow/O5EpxNyvtG4/s320/eminescu%2526veronica.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Mihai Eminescu and his love, Veronica Micle</i></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Stay with me, o stay for ever,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">I love you so much, my dear!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">All your longing, all your yearning<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Only I can truly hear;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">In the darkness of the shadows<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">You appear as in the guise<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Of a prince who sounds the waters<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">With his dark and gentle eyes;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Whereas I, through the waves’ roaring,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Through the swaying of tall grass,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Teach you how to hear the secret<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">The great herds of deer that pass.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">I see you enrapt in magic,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Humming a heart-soothing lay,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">While your naked feet touch lightly<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">The bright water of some bay.</span><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">(...) O’ver the valley’s half-hid pathways<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">To the boundless woods she flies<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">When the purple beams of twilight<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Glimmer lifeless in the skies.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">In mid-forest stops the palfrey<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Near the tall and ancient lime<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Where one hears a magic fountain<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Sound like music put to rhyme</span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Hearing the soul-soothing murmur,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">She awakes and by her side<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">She beholds the young Prince Charming<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">On a coal-black steed astride.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">He regards her with his gentle<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Misty eyes in dreamland born,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Linden</span></st1:city></st1:place><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"> blooms in his black hair,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">At his hip a silver horn.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><br />
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</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">He then blew it sweetly, faintly,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">As if bound by some strong spell<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">With the handsome stranger’s yearning<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Her young heart began to swell.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">When his hair did touch her tresses,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Crimson grew at once her cheek,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">And she lowered her long lashes<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">O’ver her eyes, devout and meek.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><br />
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</i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Half concealed and half courageous,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">A smile flitted on her mouth<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">And it parted, e’ver so slightly,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Lips that burnt with amorous drouth.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">She lies down supine beside him<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">And her head is on his breast;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">While the horses graze at leisure,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">In his looks her eyes seek rest.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Save that from the magic fountain<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">The uncanny purling rolls<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">And subdues with its soft sadness<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Their already drunken souls.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">From the woods the Moon emerges<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">To give Night a fairy show –<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">She depicts black, murky shadows<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">On a field as white as snow.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Lengthens them as she is climbing,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Shifts them here and shifts them there,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">But they vanish in the forest<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">And their lives are lost for ever.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">At the castle-gate the palfrey<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Waits, all foaming, the next day,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">But his beauteous, peerless mistress<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">From her home is far away.</span><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Oh mother, my sweet mother, from misty time’s unrest,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">While leaves so gently rustle, you call me to your breast<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Above the crypt so gloomy of your most sacred tomb<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Acacias shed their leafage, with wind and autumn’s brume,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Your sights their branches echo; when waving, woe they pour…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">E’ermore will they be waving, and you will sleep e’ermore.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</tbody></table>Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118957471310902577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647485723686698459.post-14584970030114951632011-12-23T13:16:00.007+02:002011-12-27T09:36:38.863+02:00Christmas through the children eyes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-svOg7d4wpUc/TvRPYK8UjqI/AAAAAAAABg8/i2U2Y9N0eaQ/s1600/SAM_0091.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" rea="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-svOg7d4wpUc/TvRPYK8UjqI/AAAAAAAABg8/i2U2Y9N0eaQ/s320/SAM_0091.JPG" width="222px" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Radu Motas, "Saint Mary with her Son"</span><br />
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<span lang="RO" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: RO; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span lang="RO" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: RO; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> Radu Motas is one of them. He paints since he was little. Despide of the fact that Radu has hearing problems and parents who preffered to not see him raising next to them, he succeed to graduate the Art Highschool „Nicolae Tonitza” from Bucharest beside any other normal child. And much more then this, he was admitted in Theological Faculty, Sacred Art Section. Radu is a very decent person, with a sh</span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">y and kind smile on his face, but sure on his hand. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"> We say their dreams can become true if we don’t forget them and if they won’t give up of hope. </span><span lang="RO" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: RO;"></span></div><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> A good example is an ex colleague of them who succeed in his rough life to make a way through his talent and work: Regept Ialcin. Just listen to his voice! </span><br />
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</div>Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118957471310902577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647485723686698459.post-40445986780469006982011-12-07T18:30:00.011+02:002011-12-07T19:10:05.358+02:00“Who’s afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?” or how Damien Hirst chose Romania’s national colours for a new direction in painting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_YtBxvvoLuI/Tt-T3fF9iqI/AAAAAAAABfM/xqzR9XJSEyM/s1600/HIRST+DAMIEN++Who%2527s+Afraid+of+Red%252C+Yellow+and+Blue.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="308px" mda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_YtBxvvoLuI/Tt-T3fF9iqI/AAAAAAAABfM/xqzR9XJSEyM/s320/HIRST+DAMIEN++Who%2527s+Afraid+of+Red%252C+Yellow+and+Blue.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“Who’s afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue” by Damien Hirst, 2000, Butterflies and household gloss paint on canvas, 180 x 180 cm, Selling price: £ 600 000 </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">And indeed, who might be afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? A Romanian can’t be afraid of the 3 colours because they represent the national flag of <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Romania</place></country-region>. On the contrary, he should love them and especially if the warm and cold colours have been put together by an artist, and not any artist, but by the internationally renown artist, known particularly for his great appreciation of colour, Damien Hirst. </span></span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Damien Hirst, born in 1965 in <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">England</place></country-region>, is the most romantic artist of our time and the first artist ever in the history of art to become a millionaire before he was 40 years old. In 2010 his wealth was estimated at £215m in the Sunday Times Rich List.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I felt that I was in a field in the summer trying to paint these three large canvases, and all the time butterflies kept on flying down and getting stuck in the paint. So I kept painting them in and painting the canvases, and the butterflies kept flying in, and the paint got thicker and thicker as the butterflies kept landing</i>”, said Damien Hirst to his personal friend, the first buyer of the painting. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">The painting was a change of direction for the artist. Up to this point his works had to be perfect and were almost quite clinical. This was a move towards a more painterly, natural and confident approach where the painting became an object in its own right. Later he used this thick paint technique to simulate clouds in other butterfly paintings.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> This art work is currently one of the highlight works in the second exhibition in the <a href="http://houseofthenobleman.com/" target="_blank">House of the Nobleman</a> that opened during <a href="http://www.friezeartfair.com/" target="_blank">London’s Frieze Art Fair</a> in a stunning, Grade 1 listed ambassadorial palace in Cornwall Terrace, a grand sweeping avenue that overlooks Regent’s Park. The work is being exhibited and sold with the collaboration of prestigious English curators, <a href="http://www.englishgardenlounging.com/" target="_blank">English Garden Lounging</a>, who seek out the Romantic and pictursque in art. This is the first time that the work has ever been for sale and is a unique opportunity to purchase the work privately and prior to very high-profile museum and gallery exhibitions of the artist in 2012. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"> Hirst's first exhibition with <a href="http://www.gagosian.com/" target="_blank">Gagosian Gallery</a>, entitled "No Sense of Absolute Corruption," was in 1996 at the now-closed SoHo location in <place w:st="on"><state w:st="on">New York</state></place>. <b>In 2012, “The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011” will take place simultaneously across each of Gagosian Gallery’s eleven locations in <state w:st="on">New York</state>, <city w:st="on">London</city>, <city w:st="on">Paris</city>, <city w:st="on">Los Angeles</city>, <city w:st="on">Rome</city>, <city w:st="on">Athens</city>, <city w:st="on">Geneva</city> and <place w:st="on">Hong Kong</place>.</b> It will include loans from public institutions and private collections as well as from the artist. The exhibition will open in every city on January 12th and continue through February 18th, 2012.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Then in April 2012, <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/" target="_blank">Tate Modern</a> will present the first substantial survey of Damien Hirst’s work ever held in the <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">UK</place></country-region>. Hirst is widely regarded as one of the most important artists working today and has created some of the most iconic works in recent history. Sponsored by the <a href="http://www.qma.com.qa/index.php/en/" target="_blank">Qatar Museums Authority</a>, the exhibition will provide a journey through two decades of Hirst’s inventive practice. It will also form part of the London 2012 Festival, the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad. </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Bringing together over seventy of the artist's seminal works, the exhibition will include sculptures from the early 1990s, such as “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living”, in which he suspended a shark in formaldehyde and “Mother and Child Divided“, a four-part sculpture of a bisected cow and calf. </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">In 2013, the Qatar Museum Authority will host the first exhibition of Damien's work in <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Qatar</country-region></place>. The curator of the exhibition is yet to be announced but will be an entirely different concept to the exhibition in <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">London</city></place> at Tate Modern.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Damien Hirst is one of the most prominent artists to have emerged from the British art scene in the 1990s. Hirst’s exploration of imagery is notable for its strong associations to life and death, and to belief and value systems. </span></div><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Damien Hirst first came to public attention in <city w:st="on">London</city> in 1988 when he conceived and curated Freeze, an exhibition of his own work and that of his friends and fellow <placename w:st="on">Goldsmiths</placename> <placetype w:st="on">College</placetype> students, staged in a disused <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">London</place></city> warehouse. Almost a quarter of a century since that pivotal show, Hirst has become one of the most influential artists of his generation.</span><br />
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</div>Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118957471310902577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647485723686698459.post-52561196864263408682011-11-21T19:25:00.004+02:002011-11-21T19:34:27.309+02:00Nicolae Grigorescu’s paintings exhibited at Brussels!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TIzwv5PWIe8/TsqFWgPyQMI/AAAAAAAABdE/TjM1HYQsFrg/s1600/nicolae-grigorescu-femeie-in-gradina1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="240px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TIzwv5PWIe8/TsqFWgPyQMI/AAAAAAAABdE/TjM1HYQsFrg/s320/nicolae-grigorescu-femeie-in-gradina1.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">"Woman in the garden", Nicolae Grigorescu </span><em><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">From 4<sup>th</sup> of October to 15<sup>th</sup> of January 2012 at "Hotel de Ville", <place w:st="on"><placetype w:st="on">the old City hall</placetype> of <placename w:st="on">Brussels</placename></place>, the visitors can admire the exhibition <em><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">L'Age de l'Impressionnisme en Roumanie. Nicolae Grigorescu (1838-1907) – The age of Impressionism in <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Romania</country-region></place>. Nicolae Grigorescu (1838-1907). </span></em></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Romania</span></country-region><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">'s <placename w:st="on">National</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Art Museum</placetype> opened in <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Brussels</place></city> a big monographic exhibition dedicated to the painter Nicolae Grigorescu. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">It is for the first time that a Romanian painter has such an exhibition in the elegant rooms of the old City Hall from <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Brussels</place></city>.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Partners of this event, produced as part of bilateral cooperation between <country-region w:st="on">Romania</country-region> and Wallonia-Brussels are: Wallonia-Brussels International, Romanian Embassy in <city w:st="on">Brussels</city> and <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Brussels</placename> <placetype w:st="on">City Hall</placetype></place>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The exhibition presents 72 paintings and 20 graphic works from the patrimony of <country-region w:st="on">Romania</country-region>'s <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">National</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Art Museum</placetype></place>, covering all periods of the creative artist, focusing on elements of modernity and national spirit revealed in his works.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-63lwKzRwILw/TsqFoGTXrFI/AAAAAAAABdM/UpUEICWlkbQ/s1600/NG+O+floare+intre+flori.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="320px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-63lwKzRwILw/TsqFoGTXrFI/AAAAAAAABdM/UpUEICWlkbQ/s320/NG+O+floare+intre+flori.jpg" width="193px" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">"A flower among flowers, Miss Millet", Nicolae Grigorescu</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">JOAN VANDENBERGHE, scientific collaborator Hotel de Ville:</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Unfortunately, Grigorescu is not well known here. Now the public come to see his paintings and discover an impressionist painter who come from a country about which we don’t know to many things. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><em>The people are curious. All persons that saw the exhibition were very pleased because they discovered Grigorescu’s landscape and through them a small part of <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Romania</place></country-region>. Grigorescu is considered the national painter of Romanian, a symbol of the national identity. </em></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><em>The famous <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Belgium</place></country-region> newspapers were here and wrote about Grigorescu. All of them were surprised of the beauty of Grigorescu’s paintings.</em></span></div><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">It is very hard to choose among Grigorescu’s works, but I like very much the painting so called by Grigorescu “A flower among flowers”, painting which shows the daughter of Millet, the French painter. Grigorescu loved her, but their love story didn’t end well. I like very much this painting because it is a happy joint between Grigorescu’s Romanian style, I mean the portrait, and the French influences.<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">”</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tP6Kif5Shsw/TsqG5pTa53I/AAAAAAAABdU/5tw9X7BNjbM/s1600/Untitled-1+copy.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="320px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tP6Kif5Shsw/TsqG5pTa53I/AAAAAAAABdU/5tw9X7BNjbM/s320/Untitled-1+copy.png" width="295px" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><em> </em><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">"A flower among flowers, Miss Millet", Nicolae Grigorescu - detail</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><strong>JOAN VANDENBERGHE, scientific collaborator Hotel de Ville:</strong></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“I like also “Cart with oxes”. We see in these paintings how the animal is important for Grigorescu, this being who live near the human being and help him in nature, so dear to Grigorescu.”</span></em></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Let’s admire some more of Grigorescu’s paints from private collection:</span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XiYoEfhowJg/TsqHl5oXNMI/AAAAAAAABdc/TCDiTcYRiDY/s1600/P3-Car+cu+boi-N.G..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="199px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XiYoEfhowJg/TsqHl5oXNMI/AAAAAAAABdc/TCDiTcYRiDY/s320/P3-Car+cu+boi-N.G..jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">“Cart with oxes”, Nicolae Grigorescu, signed below in the right side in red, oil on cardboard, 24.5x45 cm, Dr. Nour collection</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZuYcjm6Zc3w/TsqIZEjj8jI/AAAAAAAABds/EnIta2udsFg/s1600/Ciobanas+cu+rama.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="320px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZuYcjm6Zc3w/TsqIZEjj8jI/AAAAAAAABds/EnIta2udsFg/s320/Ciobanas+cu+rama.png" width="205px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">"Sheper", Nicolae Grigorescu, signed below in the right side in red, oil on wood, 36.5 x 18.5 cm authenticity confirmed by profesor Remus Niculescu collection, genuine frame, Dr. Nour collection</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">The exhibition gives the Belgian public the opportunity to find out Grigorescu art, seeking to present new aspects of the artist activity and original connections with European art.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">The event, along with exhibition <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nicolae Grigorescu (1838-1907) – Itinéraire d’un peintre roumain de l’école de Barbizon à l’impressionnisme (Nicolae Grigorescu (1838-1907) - Itinerary of a romanian painter from Barbizon school to Impressionism) </i>that Romania's National Art Museum organized in 2006 in France, at Agen and Barbizon, contribute to efforts to integrate his painting Grigorescu in the European values circuit.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://tvr.ro/articol.php?id=114537&c=64" target="_blank">The National Television </a>realized a reportage on this issue.</span></div><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">More details about the opening hours and location <a href="http://www.brussels.be/artdet.cfm?id=4843&agendaid=2930" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
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</div>Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118957471310902577noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647485723686698459.post-14221288484330067052011-11-16T15:50:00.005+02:002011-11-16T16:07:28.627+02:00Brâncuşi’s bronze sold for almost $15 millions in New York <br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dize_zw5KLI/TsO9E9VphcI/AAAAAAAABbc/zn4qZTA8aNU/s1600/Le+premier+cri%252C+Brancusi%252C+1917.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="227px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dize_zw5KLI/TsO9E9VphcI/AAAAAAAABbc/zn4qZTA8aNU/s320/Le+premier+cri%252C+Brancusi%252C+1917.bmp" width="320px" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">“Le premier cri”, by Constantin Br</span><span lang="RO" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: RO;">âncuşi </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">(1867-1957), bronze, 26 cm (10¼ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>inches) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">"Le Premier Cri" by Constantin Br</span><span lang="RO" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: RO;">âncuşi </span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">(1867-1957) represents a fabulous polished bronze sculpture and it </span><span lang="RO" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: RO;">was sold for $14,866,500 at the Impressionist and Modern Art at <a href="http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/constantin-brancusi-le-premier-cri/5493659/lot/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5493659&sid=21be0b38-9059-4509-83c6-8ea94e5651c0#features-videos">Christie's</a></span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"> Auction from <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">New York</place></state></span><span lang="RO" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: RO;">. Conceived in 1917, the sculpture illustrate the artist's rapid trajectory from figural art to pure abstraction in the 1920s.</span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">The art work had 4 owners: Henri Pierre Roché from <city w:st="on">Paris</city>, who bought it directly from the artist, <placename w:st="on">Claude</placename> <placename w:st="on">Bernard</placename> <placename w:st="on">Gallery</placename> from <city w:st="on">Paris</city> and Isidore Cohen from <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">New York</place></state> who bought it in 1968 and sold it in 1975 to the family of the present owner. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The sculpture was last displayed during the exhibition “The unfinished century: Heritages from the XXth century” which took place at the <placetype w:st="on">Museum</placetype> of <placename w:st="on">Modern Art</placename> from <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Tokyo</place></city>. Also, the bronze was presented in 9 big events organized in <state w:st="on">New York</state> and Europe: <city w:st="on">Chicago</city>, <city w:st="on">Paris</city>, <city w:st="on">Zurich</city>, <city w:st="on">Philadelphia</city> and <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Vienna</place></city> in 1926. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">On <a href="http://www.christies.com/features/constantin-brancusi-le-premier-cri-1801-3.aspx">Christie’s site</a>, you can watch a presentation of the art work done by Adrien Meyer, Specialist in Impressionist & Modern Art, <place w:st="on"><state w:st="on">New York</state></place>. </span></span></div></td></tr>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">The catalogue provides the following commentary about this work:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">"The genesis of the present bronze dates to 1913, when Brâncuşi carved “Le premier pas”, his earliest free-standing, full-length figure and his inaugural sculptural effort in wood... That work, which depicts a highly stylized figure of a toddler taking his first, unstable steps, was included in Br</span><span lang="RO" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: RO;">â</span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">ncuşi's earliest solo exhibition at Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Session Gallery in New York, March 1914.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Following the close of the exhibition, Brâncuşi appears to have destroyed the body of the sculpture, keeping just the head; the complete figure is known only through photographs... In 1914 or 1915, Brâncuşi re-worked the head of “Le Premier Pas”. In 1917, the sculptor made a series of casts of the head, modeled directly from the wood; four of the casts, including the present example, are polished bronze, while three are plaster and one is black cement... The sculptor's immense confidence in these egg-like works emerged in a remark that he made about them in 1926: “<strong>With this form I could move the universe</strong>.”</span></div></div>Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118957471310902577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647485723686698459.post-67660791968224611422011-11-02T18:07:00.005+02:002011-11-02T18:22:09.299+02:00Over $ 7,000,000 sales at Christie’s Middle East<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j146LBy_lVk/TrFb9DfJINI/AAAAAAAABZc/djMG1WubEVk/s1600/bita_vakili_untitled_d5486842h.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="289px" ida="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j146LBy_lVk/TrFb9DfJINI/AAAAAAAABZc/djMG1WubEVk/s320/bita_vakili_untitled_d5486842h.jpg" width="320px" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Bita Vakili (Iranian, b. 1973), Untitled, signed and dated in Farsi (lower centre of the right panel), oil, paper, sand, encaustic, pen, glitter, threads and cloth on canvas; 199.6 x 219.6cm, executed in 2010</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">The part I sale, from 25<sup>th</sup> October, included modern works and higher-value contemporary works by artists such as Sohrab Sepehri, Farhad Moshiri, Louay Kayyali, Paul Guiragossian Mahmoud<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Said, Charles Hossein Zenderoudi. </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Mahmoud Saïd (Egyptian, 1897-1964), “Petite fille d'Assiout”, signed and dated 'M.SAÏD 1945' (lower left); signed, dated and inscribed 'MAHMOUD SAÏD "PETITE FILLE D'ASSIOUT" -1945-' (on the stretcher), oil on canvas, 78 x 62cm </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Estimated price: $ 250,000 - $ 300,000</span></div><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Realized price: $ 650,000</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size: small;"> Ahmed Askalany (Egyptian, b. 1978), “Kissing”, bronze, Height: 120cm, </span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size: small;">executed in 2011; this work is unique </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size: small;">Estimated price: $30,000 – $40,000</span></span></div><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Realized price: $68,500</span></div>Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118957471310902577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647485723686698459.post-41783157999168719832011-10-05T15:06:00.000+03:002011-10-05T15:06:10.803+03:00Ming vase smashes record at mixed Sotheby's sale in Hong Kong<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Na8a2yFUnKQ/ToxHwNbyCOI/AAAAAAAABZM/MQ7FIrWHwII/s1600/sothk-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213px" kca="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Na8a2yFUnKQ/ToxHwNbyCOI/AAAAAAAABZM/MQ7FIrWHwII/s320/sothk-2.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The biannual Sotheby's sales are considered a key indicator of the Asian art market. While ceramics and classic Chinese paintings performed solidly, the Asian and Chinese contemporary art sales showed signs of strain, with unsold work ratios of over 20 percent as the global economic uncertainty deepens.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Whilst some major lots with conspicuous cracks failed to sell, bidding was strong for a sublime blue and white "meiping" vase of fruit sprays from the Ming Yongle period that went for HK$168.7 million ($21.6 million) to a telephone bidder, a world record at auction for any piece of Chinese Ming porcelain.</span></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yj2qwnskXYU/ToxH5uklUFI/AAAAAAAABZQ/5YlyNmG-GMA/s1600/1_Ming-Blue-and-White-Meipi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320px" kca="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yj2qwnskXYU/ToxH5uklUFI/AAAAAAAABZQ/5YlyNmG-GMA/s320/1_Ming-Blue-and-White-Meipi.jpg" width="242px" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">This "macho" Ming Dynasty meiping vase of the Yongle imperial period (XVth century) was offered by Sotheyby's Hong Kong at an estimated $10.3 million-12.8 million and sold with $21.6 million</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"The Ming was strong this time," said William Chak, a prominent Hong Kong dealer who bought a sky-blue Yongzheng gourd vase at the sale for HK$4.6 million.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ming porcelain (1368-1644), older though often less decorative and ornate than Qing (1644-1911) wares, has in recent years been relatively less desired by nouveau riche mainland Chinese buyers, meaning its prices haven't reached anywhere near the heights of dazzling late Qing trophy pieces.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The Meiyintang collection was built up over more than 50 years by two Swiss brothers, Stephen and Gilbert Zuellig, who were advised by the legendary dealer and connoisseur Edward Chow and the elder statesman of antiquities collectors, Giuseppe Eskenazi. It comprises some 2,000 pieces ranging from the Neolithic period through to the Qing Dynasty and is widely considered to be the greatest collection of Chinese porcelain still in private hands in the west.</span></div></span> </td></tr>
</tbody></table></div>Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118957471310902577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647485723686698459.post-34997611029275347052011-09-28T22:05:00.007+03:002011-09-28T22:17:02.062+03:00FINE ART ASIA 2011<span id="goog_896694914"></span><span id="goog_896694915"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><place w:st="on"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Asia</span></place><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">’s leading international art fair presenting a unique combination of Art and Antiques</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">3-7 October 2011, Hong Kong Convention and <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Exhibition</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Center</placetype></place> </span></i></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">FINE ART ASIA 2011 is unique, the only fair in <place w:st="on">Asia</place> presenting a combination of Fine Art and Antiques. This year FINE ART ASIA 2011 will present its strongest ever international line-up, with 100 renowned, selected dealers from Asia, Europe and the <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">USA</place></country-region>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Now in its 7th edition, FINE ART ASIA 2011 has grown in size and stature, with more participation by leading international galleries and a high level of quality of exhibits never seen before under the same roof in Hong Kong or anywhere in <place w:st="on">Asia</place>. More than 5,000 works of art will be exhibited, with a total value of over HK$2 billion. This indicates a significant turning point in the appreciation of Western and Oriental fine art among many informed collectors in <place w:st="on">Asia</place>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The fair will showcase Asian and Western Art and Antiques, Fine Art Jewellery and Silver, and Modern and Contemporary Art. The outstanding array of museum-quality exhibits ranges from ancient Chinese bronzes and stone wares, Himalayan bronzes, Chinese ceramics and works of art, furniture, textiles and jades, to fine art jewellery, antique silver and exceptional Old Masters, Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary paintings and sculpture from both Asia and the West.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Impressionism and Modern Art</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><strong>Robert Bowman Gallery</strong></span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">, <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">London</place></city>, will present works by the great French sculptor, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). Rodin combined Michelangelo’s mastery of the human form with his own sense of human nature, and expressed emotion through art.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tvB6pcCqf9s/ToNrlLyPWUI/AAAAAAAABYg/nAkSwUpxJjc/s1600/Rodin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" kca="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tvB6pcCqf9s/ToNrlLyPWUI/AAAAAAAABYg/nAkSwUpxJjc/s1600/Rodin.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Eternal Spring</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"> (1884), in which two young nude figures meet in a passionate kiss, is a celebration of love which evokes immense emotional force and vitality. The sculpture is often associated with Rodin’s relationship with the sculptor Camille Claudel and displays a wonderfully sensuous quality of carving.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Gladwell & Company</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">London</city></place>, will display a stunning selection of Impressionist and Modern paintings, including works by Pissarro, Sisley, Monet, Renoir, Picasso and Dali. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Five important works by Claude Monet (1840-1926) are showing his passion for the sea.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F6_YiJ-dsGA/ToNsXv7FMXI/AAAAAAAABYo/dzXkBo4RrQk/s1600/Monet1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" kca="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F6_YiJ-dsGA/ToNsXv7FMXI/AAAAAAAABYo/dzXkBo4RrQk/s1600/Monet1.jpg" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Eglise de Varengeville, e<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">ffet matinal (Varengeville Church, morning effect)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Waterhouse & Dodd</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">, <city w:st="on">London</city> and <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">New York</place></state>, will present an exhibition of outstanding masterpieces of Impressionist and Modern. Feuille d’etudes by Picasso, black chalk and coloured crayon on paper, is an early example of the master’s genius from 1901; while Deux baigneuses is an important example of Picasso’s neo-classical ink drawings from the 1920s.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">After a decade of Cubism and its introverted thinking on the process of painting, Picasso wanted to return to a more romantic approach to art. This was a period of contentment in his life: he had recently married Olga Khokhlova and was starting to enjoy high society both on the <state w:st="on">Riviera</state> and in <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Paris</place></city>. This is reflected in Deux baigneuses which exudes calm, sensuality and the timelessness typical of Picasso in the 1920s.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><strong>Fine art jewellery</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><city w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Siegelson</span></b></city><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">, <state w:st="on">New York</state>, will present fine and precious jewellery including The Vanderbilt Rose, a diamond brooch by Theodore Fester, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Paris</city></place>, circa 1855. Fester, one of the few jewellers entrusted to create the crown jewels for Napoleon III, selected the rose not only for its beauty but also for its symbolism of love.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Lucas Rarities</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">, <city w:st="on">London</city> specialises in jewellery from the Art Deco era and will be displaying a variety of pieces from designers including Verdura, Cartier, Boucheron, Belperron and Boivin, as well as a collection from <place w:st="on">Hollywood</place> celebrity designer Paul Flato and one-time fiance of Coco Chanel, Paul Iribe.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rvOyCVgWTYk/ToNumYZvJdI/AAAAAAAABY8/08iWJapBf1E/s1600/jewellery2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" kca="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rvOyCVgWTYk/ToNumYZvJdI/AAAAAAAABY8/08iWJapBf1E/s1600/jewellery2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Paul Iribe pieces are a stunning sapphire and pearl turban brooch which dates back to 1911 and incorporates a large carved Mughal emerald, and a diamond starburst brooch that he designed in 1932.Paul Iribe was a pioneer of the Art Deco movement and introduced Art Deco to <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">America</place></country-region> in the early 1900s. He and Coco Chanel were collaborators in their personal and professional lives and each piece paints a very interesting story.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">A star exhibit will be an impressive George IV presentation vase, silver-gilt, London 1822 by the great English silversmith Philip Rundell (1746-1827), presented to Sir Henry Russell (1783-1852) 2nd Baronet in gratitude for his service in India. The sculptor Sir Henry Chantrey chose a design from Piranesi for the form of the vase; while the motifs of a tiger, elephant’s heads and a serpent tell the story that led to its presentation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"></span>Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118957471310902577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647485723686698459.post-9482238325758288032011-09-20T19:03:00.002+03:002011-09-20T19:08:56.419+03:00Romania at Art Moscow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RGvUqX-MGRQ/Tni0lErzUjI/AAAAAAAABXo/rpFk2Vciwsw/s1600/ART2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" rba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RGvUqX-MGRQ/Tni0lErzUjI/AAAAAAAABXo/rpFk2Vciwsw/s1600/ART2011.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">For the first time, <country-region w:st="on">Romania</country-region> is present at the most important contemporary art fair from the <place w:st="on">Eastern Europe</place>. Anca Poteraşu Gallery is the only Romanian gallery invited to participate at <a href="http://www.art-moscow.ru/en">Art Moscow</a>. On Russian market will be promoted the works of Romanian artists: Florin Mitroi, Suzana Dan, Zoltan Bela and Donald Simionoiu. </span><span lang="RO" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: RO;"></span></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Florin Mitroi, "Portrait", 1995, oil on canvas, 61x46cm</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JpjnGveVvxQ/Tni03NNIvZI/AAAAAAAABXw/WbuyRojX8iM/s1600/F.Mitroi4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320px" rba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JpjnGveVvxQ/Tni03NNIvZI/AAAAAAAABXw/WbuyRojX8iM/s320/F.Mitroi4.jpg" width="233px" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Florin Mitroi, "Sign", 1990, oil on canvas, 65x50cm</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Florin Mitroi, "Figure", 1997, oil on tin sheet, 97x40cm</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Z8ERiHkjuM8/Tni1FfL4LQI/AAAAAAAABX4/RjFB37P6Bk4/s1600/S.+Dan2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213px" rba="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Z8ERiHkjuM8/Tni1FfL4LQI/AAAAAAAABX4/RjFB37P6Bk4/s320/S.+Dan2.jpg" width="320px" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Suzana Dan, "Black Maria", 2009, acrylic on canvas, 100x120cm</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Suzana Dan, "Miracle Mike", 2009, acrylic on canvas, 120x100cm</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Suzana Dan, "The possible boy", acrylic on canvas, 120x100cm</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eLnK2tkd104/Tni1OHM20MI/AAAAAAAABYE/VIilHRDDA3M/s1600/Z.+Bela1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="197px" rba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eLnK2tkd104/Tni1OHM20MI/AAAAAAAABYE/VIilHRDDA3M/s320/Z.+Bela1.jpg" width="320px" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Zoltan Bela, "Cast shadow on flat surface", 2010, oil on canvas, 50x80cm</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Zoltan Bela, "Breathtaking", 2010, oil on canvas, 85x95cm</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n7HH8TVdzRI/Tni1Pwqz8zI/AAAAAAAABYM/WaFzdrnvTAY/s1600/Z.+Bela3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="285px" rba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n7HH8TVdzRI/Tni1Pwqz8zI/AAAAAAAABYM/WaFzdrnvTAY/s320/Z.+Bela3.jpg" width="320px" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Zoltan Bela, "Dad just passed by", 2010, oil on canvas, 85x95cm</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZM0skhesr1M/Tni1WhC_N1I/AAAAAAAABYQ/jloNbvfz3RY/s1600/Simionoiu1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320px" rba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZM0skhesr1M/Tni1WhC_N1I/AAAAAAAABYQ/jloNbvfz3RY/s320/Simionoiu1.jpg" width="265px" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Donald Simionoiu, Untitled, 2006, oil on canvas, 100x120xm</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Donald Simionoiu, Untitled, 2006, oil on canvas, 90x70xm</span></td></tr>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"> The 15<sup>th</sup> International Art Fair - Art Moscow will be opened between 21<sup>st</sup> and 25<sup>th</sup> of September 2011 and is considered one of the most important events from Russia and is internationally recognized not only through the participation of famous artists, but for the important money spent by the art lovers. Roman Abramovici established a world wide record at this Fair in the past years when he bought an art work with 33.6 millions USD. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The main aim of the Fair is to develop and promote art and to create a space for artists where they can exhibit. More then this, the organizers intend to make people understand the economic value of art. Since its first edition in 1995 and until now, the event was a success having as participants artists from all over the world: <country-region w:st="on">Russia</country-region>, <country-region w:st="on">Italy</country-region>, <country-region w:st="on">Germany</country-region>, <country-region w:st="on">France</country-region>, <country-region w:st="on">Netherlands</country-region>, <country-region w:st="on">Austria</country-region>, <country-region w:st="on">Hungary</country-region>, <country-region w:st="on">Latvia</country-region>, <country-region w:st="on">Sweden</country-region>, <country-region w:st="on">United States of America</country-region>, <country-region w:st="on">Finland</country-region>, <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Serbia</country-region></place>. </span></div></div>Dr. Nour Foundation for Art and Heritagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118957471310902577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647485723686698459.post-54211974251675426732011-09-08T19:36:00.133+03:002011-09-12T14:03:41.564+03:00George Enescu, violin art titan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WrJwzZevb0k/TmjU8Tm9eUI/AAAAAAAABSg/AfPTs-Qj8CY/s1600/Enescu+si+vioara.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208px" nba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WrJwzZevb0k/TmjU8Tm9eUI/AAAAAAAABSg/AfPTs-Qj8CY/s320/Enescu+si+vioara.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Leading them and The New York orchestra too, he plays later (february 1939) two concerts of Romanian music, those programs containing his countrymen's works, he adds the premiere of the</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Let's thank Romania for sending him to brighten our lives" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">with his unique sense of instrumental balance and his great </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">skill to clear even the most complex compositions that he read </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">like a regular book. He was always leading by heart, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">not just to show the audience his perfect knowledge </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">felt by the composer during the creation. Enescu had an </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">unique power of suggestion over the orchestra, that he ruled </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">over with strength and authority, suggesting them </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">all his artistic intentions. His interpretations had a strong personality touch, by the deep respect for the composer's ideas, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">for the opus authentic style. Enescu's composure had all the sobriety, impetuosity or the kindness needed; no exaggeration, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: large;">"All that remains of my force and energy, I devote to my musical creations, by which I intended to serve our Romanian nation”</span></div><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"></span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qqGh938eD98/TmnfurQuqZI/AAAAAAAABWg/jXx07FnwFPI/s1600/094.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="276px" nba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qqGh938eD98/TmnfurQuqZI/AAAAAAAABWg/jXx07FnwFPI/s320/094.jpg" width="320px" /></a> <br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">It was long, undoubtedly, this road. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">George Enescu kept alive in his soul until his last moments.</span></div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nq720uWeE34/TmngLIalDxI/AAAAAAAABXg/iw4uYwEQTLQ/s1600/Tescani.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" nba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nq720uWeE34/TmngLIalDxI/AAAAAAAABXg/iw4uYwEQTLQ/s320/Tescani.jpg" width="223px" /></a><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">The most important Romanian Festival will start tomorrow 1<sup>st </sup> of September at <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Bucharest</place></city>. The 20<sup>th</sup> edition of the “George Enescu” Festival gather important names as Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Antonio Meneses, Isabelle Faust, Katia and Marielle Labeque, Jean Pommier and also famous orchestras from the <a href="http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music-features/for-the-proper-way-to-treat-a-musical-hero-visit-romania-1.1094459">entire world</a>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
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