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In my paintings, I work to leverage color and contrast to abstractly interpret songs that have had a meaningful impact or have helped me gain perspective throughout various points of my life. The paintings are my way of transcribing the enthusiasm, inspiration, and conceptual aspects I receive from this music, and the work then evolves as I continue to explore new techniques and approaches.
As a longtime car and motorcycle enthusiast, Chris O’Rourke’s journey from metal fabricator to sculpture artist is a shining example of how materials typically reserved for mechanical applications are equally suited to art when in the right hands. In this two-part series, World Art News has the pleasure of interviewing a unique artist whose pursuit of perfection has resulted in his work being appraised at valuations that just might surprise you.
An Italian artist has sold an invisible “sculpture” for €15,000 ($18,000). The World Art News is the first to obtain exclusive photographs of this non-existing artwork!
Annamaria Johansson has always been a painter at heart, with a particular focus on capturing the essence of people and portraits in her artwork. With a loyal client base spanning the globe, she offers unique insights into her artistic journey and the strategies behind her successful art business as a painter. Throughout this two-part series, we delve into her ideas, philosophies, concepts, and approaches that shape her distinctive artistic vision.
Czeslaw Znamierowski, an artist who died forty years ago, is gaining fame in the 21st century. His artwork recently sold for $120,000 in China, setting a personal record.
Znamerovsky’s paintings began to be bought up by oriental auctions, galleries and collectors, according to the Chinese news agencies.
In a relatively short time, the cost of Cheslav Znamerovsky’s paintings increased from several hundred to tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Annamaria Johansson has always been a painter at heart, with a particular focus on capturing the essence of people and portraits in her artwork. With a loyal client base spanning the globe, she offers unique insights into her artistic journey and the strategies behind her successful art business as a painter. Throughout this two-part series, we delve into her ideas, philosophies, concepts, and approaches that shape her distinctive artistic vision.
Thomas González has always had a passion for art. Today, he arranges art loans and has committed himself to the art loan business. He has developed a trusted cadre of financial partners, responsible for successfully brokering art loans above $133 million. We, at The World Art News, have had the pleasure of interviewing Thomas to learn the ins and outs of being an art banker. In this two-part series, you will discover his secrets to running a successful art loans business. This time, in Part 2 of our exclusive interview, Thomas González will talk about the differences between the art and financial worlds, share with us how art loans change lives, and tell our readers how to get started as an investor in the global art market.
Thomas González always had a passion for art. So today, he arranges art loans and has committed himself to the art loan business.
He has developed a trusted cadre of financial partners, responsible for successfully brokering art loans above 100 Million Euros.
We, at The World Art News, have had the pleasure of interviewing Thomas to learn the ins and outs of being an art banker.
In this exclusive two-part series you will discover his secrets to running a successful art loans business. Let’s begin!
“I can tell you that loans up to $25 Million aren’t a problem for us.”
“For him there were no boundaries between nationalities. He readily made friends with the natives of any country…. He was no stranger to Latvians, Lithuanians, Jews, Tatars, Karaites, Russians. He was ready to help everyone if possible.”
At a time of great division in the Eastern European community a lesson in multiculturalism, unity and brotherhood can be learned from an unusual person, a Soviet Lithuanian artist Czeslaw Znamierowski (23 May 1890 – 9 August 1977). He was born in Imperial Russia on Latvian territory into a Polish family. At the age of 32 he became a citizen of the Soviet Union and soon after moved permanently to Lithuania, where he lived until his last day.
Although lately Western scholars have begun to pay attention to various manifestations of the rise of ethnic Russian nationalism as distinct from official “Soviet patriotism” they have virtually ignored the phenomenon of Il’ia Glazunov, a Soviet painter who is also a foremost protagonist of that nationalism. The chief reason for this lack of scholarly interest lies in the fact that not only has Glazunov been a controversial figure but he was also accused of Russian chauvinism, anti-Semitism, and of being a KGB agent.
