Category: Art Rauf Likes

Today marks the birthday of an intriguing Soviet artist, Yevsey Moiseyenko. I’m convinced almost none of you are familiar with him. When the war erupted, Yevsey enlisted in the People’s Militia voluntarily. Along with his comrades near Leningrad, he was encircled and captured by the Nazis. He endured time in a concentration camp in Altengrabow until April 1945, when the prisoners were liberated by Allied forces. After his return to the front, he lived until 1988.

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Another interesting American watercolor artist is Ken Call. He primarily paints children’s portraits. Interestingly, he’s the first talented artist I’ve come across who has a price list for commissioned portraits on his website ($500-$1500). I’m not saying this is bad—it’s just that I haven’t seen it anywhere else.

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Paul Cornoyer is an intriguing American artist from the early 20th century, primarily celebrated for his depictions of New York, although he portrayed other U.S. cities as well. One of his artworks featuring a green house has a “twin” in the gallery, and it is captivating to observe how the scene changes under varying weather conditions. In his creations, people always play a crucial role in the urban landscape. Moreover, it is important to highlight the numerous experiments he performed with his artistic techniques.

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Lindsey Kustusch, an American artist, is known for her infernal cats, ravens, and cityscapes (particularly of San Francisco). Her works predominantly feature ravens and nocturnal urban scenes. Although I haven’t attached all her pieces here (there must be a hundred or so), her paintings are perfect for bedroom decor. There’s something special about her work.

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Denis Krupchatnikov is a fantastic artist! He runs his own drawing and painting school in Moscow, “MasterDraw Studio.” If I were nearby, I would love to learn Denis’s techniques, drawing, and painting. Most of his works are just sketches made in one go, but his technique speaks so loudly about how to paint with oils that it’s hard not to hear it. Here you have perfect color mastery, an understanding of primary and secondary elements, and the creation of form through simplification. In short, it’s pure joy. Best of luck to Denis.

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An interesting Canadian-American artist — Jennifer McChristian. I like how she finds and uses contrast and colors. During my last vacation, I took my DSLR with me (I’m gradually posting photos from the Czech Republic and Germany). In Europe, there are a lot more contrasting colors in everything, more than I see in the USA. I don’t know why this happened. One of the skills of an artist (a skill that I’m also trying to develop in myself) is to notice such contrasting scenes in life, and if they are not there but are needed, to be able to slightly embellish reality by overlaying a kind of filter where the colors become brighter and the contrast stronger. In some ways, this resembles HDR, only done in the mind (by the way, have you noticed that in the last five years at least, there’s been no talk about HDR photography at all?)

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Today, I introduce you to Nikolai Blokhin (Nikolai Blokhin, 1968, Leningrad). He practices contemporary Impressionism applied to various genres. His technique is interesting and offers much to learn from.

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Valeria Duca is a very strange but interesting young Moldovan artist (1994). Her Instagram is valeria_duca. How can her style be characterized? There are abstractions and surrealism, but perhaps the overall word for all of them is “strange.” At the same time, the strangeness is pleasant.

“If there is anything constant in my work, it is that I always use oil paint, from the very first day. Everything else has always changed. I started with abstraction, had periods of landscapes, still lifes, portraits. I even tried my hand at conceptual art installation. I don’t want to succumb to the pressure of ‘defining my artistic style.’ I hope I continue to evolve, I hope I don’t become predictable and defined by one constant.”

The first painting in this series is called “Friday Evening.”

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