Portrait — drawing on paper — pastels

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Venancio Shinki (April 1, 1932 – November 17, 2016) was considered one of the most outstanding Peruvian painters.His work was inspired partly by travels through Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, but in its symbolism it also reflected his admiration for the works of Bosch, El Greco, Klee and Mir; with its subtle range of tones and textures and its undefined forms it also expressed elements of his Japanese heritage. His paintings have a mixture of Eastern, Western, and Andean themes, with a distinctive surrealism that shows an intriguing and unknown universe, set off by a purified technique and a renovated figuration.

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Vasil Dokev ( 22 May 1938 — 23 June 2017) was a Bulgarian artist. He worked in the field of abstract painting, Bulgarian folklore stage and costume design, theater stage and costume design and graphic design.Vasil Dokev was born in Sofia and graduated the National Academy of Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria in 1971.

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Lygia Pape (7 April 1927 – 3 May 2004) was a prominent Brazilian visual artist, sculptor, engraver, and filmmaker, who was a key figure in the Concrete movement and a later co-founder of the Neo-Concrete Movement in Brazil during the 1950s and 1960s.Along with Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, she was a formative artist in the expansion of contemporary art in Brazil and pushed geometric art to include aspects of interaction and to engage with ethical and political themes.

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Frans Krajcberg ( 1921 – 2017) was a Polish Brazilian painter, sculptor, engraver and photographer. Known for his environmental activism, Krajcberg denounced the destruction of the Brazilian forests, using materials such as burnt wood from illegal forest fires in his artworks. Krajcberg’s oeuvre continues to express anxiety and concern about the future of natural environment in Brazil and worldwide

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«Since 2015 I only paint abstract expressionistic inspired of all the fantastic patterns and formations you can see everywhere in Nature.»Ingemar Härdelin

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African contemporary art

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Manabu Mabe (1924 –1997) was a Japanese-Brazilian painter. Mabe worked as a vendor of hand-painted ties in São Paulo before becoming a famous artist.In the late 1950s, Mabe won the top award in São Paulo's Contemporary Art Salon, the top award as Brazil's best painter in the São Paulo Bienal, and the top honors for artists under 35 at Paris's first biennial.On January 30, 1979, after an exhibition in Tokyo, 53 of his paintings were on board a Varig cargo Boeing 707-323C en route from Tokyo — Narita to Rio de Janeiro-Galeão via Los Angeles. The aircraft went missing over the Pacific Ocean some 30 minutes (200 km ENE) from Tokyo. The cause is unknown since the wreck was never found. The paintings were lost

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“Alessandro Kokocinski ( 1948 – 2017) was an Italian-Argentine painter, sculptor and set designer, of Polish-Russian origin.
In September 2015 the Fondazione Roma Museo staged a one-man show on the artist at Palazzo Cipolla, called «Kokocinski. La vita e la Maschera: da Pulcinella al Clown” (“Kokocinski. The life and the Mask: from Pulcinella to Clown”). The exhibition reflects both “the history of a tormented man who has personally experienced exile, political persecution and the cruelty of the world” and the history “of the artist who transforms this into art with paintings, sculptures and installations in which the mask, the clown and Pulcinella become central subjects”. The works “present themselves as the spectacle of human fragility. Restless, suffering figures yet full of hope, always struggling to defend the true sense of existence”, commented the President of the Fondazione Roma Museo»

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