Art

Thomas Benjamin Kennington


Thomas Benjamin Kennington was an English genre, social realist and portrait painter.  He was a founder member and first secretary of the New English Art Club (from 1886), and also founded the Imperial Arts League.

Kennington became known not only for his idealised paintings of domestic and everyday-life scenes but also for his social realist works. Paintings such as "Orphans" (1885), "Widowed and fatherless" (1885), "Homeless" (1890), and "The pinch of poverty" (1891), depicted the harsh realities of life for the poor in Britain in a manner that played on the onlooker's emotions.

He painted in both oils and watercolour.

"Orphans" (1885)

"Widowed and fatherless" (1885)

"The pinch of poverty" (1891)

"Homeless" (1890)

Homeless, 1890, is one of a series of works in which Kennington depicts the plight of women and children who were impoverished or destitute. In Homeless, the square-brush technique used by Kennington in painting the wet pavement and the river, and his focus on subtle tonal variations rather than on colour - as in the soft grey light illuminating this scene - were among the characteristics adapted by British artists from French sources at the time.

In a picture gallery

In a picture gallery
"The Magic Realism" by Rob Gonsalves


And now we are coming to the works of a very interesting painter - Rob Gonsalves. Rob Gonsalves (born in 1959 in Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian painter of magic realism with a unique perspective and style. Gonsalves now has 64 paintings and is working on more.  Gonsalves' works are often categorized as surrealistic. 

Just look at these pictures !

Rob Gonsalves - Ladies of the Lake

Rob Gonsalves - New Moon Eclipsed

Rob Gonsalves - Sun Sets Sail

Rob Gonsalves - Unfinished Puzzle

Rob Gonsalves - Bedtime Aviation

Rob Gonsalves - Candle Power

Rob Gonsalves - The Woods Within

Rob Gonsalves - Carved In Stone

Rob Gonsalves Table Top Towers

If we see his paintings, it’s like in the fairytale where everything is out of our imagination. An artist had a success in presenting wonderful idea based on his imagination through painting. He is like an illusionist in creating a magical painting. Gonzales has shown his talent in art since he was childhood. He was very interest with drawing from imagination using various types of media he began to develop his talent. 

He always used his sense of magic into realistic painting. So, he worked very accurate in presenting the "Magic Realism". But the most interesting from his idea is he tried to be open to possibility. He make everything looks different and beautiful as well.

Rob Gonsalves Into The Labyrinth

The popular pieces of him, like: Light Flurries, Ladies of the Lake, Cathedral of Commerce, Dancing Wind, and Sailing Islands.

Light Flurries

Cathedral of Commerce

Sailing Island

From his work imagination flies to the fairyland where we can found something about “miracle”. It almost unreal but he has success to present between imagination and humanity side into the real world. From example is Sailing Island where the tree was the inspiration for screen of the boats. “Light Flurries”, where the tree as the inspiration of the buildings. Another painting is "Ladies of the Lake", where the shadows of the tree was the inspiration for rows of ladies. That’s why I called this out of our imagination. :) 

Enjoy !!!!!!!!!

Amazing journey

Amazing journey


Hello !!! How do you do? =)
Do you know the town of lions?! I will tell you about it as I'm just here, 
in Lviv =)

Well, you know that Lviv was founded by King Danielof Galicia in the Ruthenian principality of Halych-Volhynia and named in honour of his son Lev. And now I'm staying near the Monument to King Daniel in modern-day Lviv.

In Lviv there are many monuments of famous people. And I got some photoes. Here they are!

The grave of Ivan Franko in the Lychakivskiy Cemetery

Statue of Taras Shevchenko

The tombstone to Krushelnytska at Lychakiv Cemetery

Memorial of Ivan Pidkova

Monument to Stepan Bandera

Monument to Ivan Fyodorov

Look at this picture! It makes me smile))))

It looks like San Francisco sister houses (compare and find 10 differences:)

If you want to see many countries and you don't have the possibility, you can find everything in Lviv!!!!

My first trip to EGYPT

My first trip to EGYPT
Hello everybody!!!
I'm just writing you from EGYPT! I'm very excited. Now I'm near The Great Sphinx and The Pyramids of Giza.

I was told that it was built during the Old Kingdom, is modern national icons that are at the heart of Egypt's thriving tourism.

And now I'm coming to the Pyramid of Djoser and I see the roofed colonnade corridor leading into the complex, with stone pillars carved to imitate bundled plant stems.

The Egyptians were one of the first major civilizations to codify design elements in art and architecture. The wall paintings done in the service of the Pharaohs followed a rigid code of visual rules and meanings. Egyptian civilization is renowned for its colossal pyramids, temples and monumental tombs. Well-known examples are the Pyramid of Djoser designed by ancient architect and engineer Imhotep, the Sphinx, and the temple of Abu Simbel. 

Modern and contemporary Egyptian art can be as diverse as any works in the world art scene, from the vernacular architecture of Hassan Fathy and Ramses Wissa Wassef, to Mahmoud Mokhtar's sculptures, to the distinctive Coptic iconography of Isaac Fanous.

Osiris

And now I will have some rest and than I will visit The Great Temple. The hypostyle hall (sometimes also called a pronaos) is 18 meters long and 16.7 meters wide and is supported by eight huge Osirid pillars depicting the deified Ramses linked to the god Osiris, the god of the Underworld, to indicate the everlasting nature of the pharaoh.

It's a very interesting journey!!!! I recomend you to visit this place!! :))))))))))))))))))))))