Born in Nice on the French Riviera, Samy Charnine immigrated to the United States in 1983. He has had shows in San Diego, San Francisco, La Jolla and Newport Beach in California, Lahaina on the Island of Maui in Hawaii and in Denver and Aspen Colorado.
Born in Sydney, Australia, in 1959, Gil Bruvel's French-born parents moved the family back to the south of France when he was 4 years old. While taking drawing lessons at age 9 and learning sculpture basics, Gil made the decision to spend his life creating art. There he found himself inspired by the light and landscapes in this region. He began working with oil paint at the age of 12 and the local environment had an enormous and lasting influence on his palette –giving him luminous colors he continues to use today.
Gil's father, being a cabinetmaker, introduced the budding artist to the inner workings of a wood workshop including furniture design, its practical function, and every aspect of hand crafting each piece. Taking this knowledge and experience with him, Gil began studies at an art restoration workshop 1974, spending the next three years learning the techniques of the Old Masters and modern Masters of fine art. Thereafter he set up his studio in St. Remy de Provence until 1986 when he first made his way to the United States, making it his permanent residence in 1990.
At that time he started to experiment more with sculptures in bronze, mixed media and digital modeling as well as continuing to learn about creative processes in artistic expression.
An artist with the technique of the masters, the style of Fellini and an imagination - with which to dazzle us. His current series of portraits is of highly stylized characters set in a surreal time warp.
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В начале 1990х Рафал Олбински получает заказы на несколько оперных постеров. Это явилось началом целого десятилетия работы над проектом, ошеломившим своими результатами и охватившим весь классический мир оперы. Таинственные, игривые постеры - всегда нетрадиционные, уникальные интерпретации художника, меняющие восприятие этого вида исполнительского искусства. Поэтический юмор - качество, редко встречающееся в подобных произведениях. Олбински несомненно обладает этим даром. Он стремится показать, что наше воображение - это волшебный мир, требующий постоянного обновления, вовлекает нас в иную изумительную вселенную, чтобы мы могли видеть отражения своих истинных мечтаний.