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Third Space at ICA* University of Pennsylvania (2009) What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart - Raoul Dufy Odili Donald Odita's colors Odili Donald Odita (18/02/1966, Aquarius) is Nigerian-American abstract painter, currently lives and works in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania). His family moved to the US to avoid the Nigerian Civil War. Known for his vibrant, large-scale, abstract paintings, he explores colour both in the figurative historical context and in the sociopolitical sense. Has received grants in 1994 from the Penny McCall Foundation , in 2001 from the Joan Mitchell Foundation , and in 2007 from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation . His famous large-scale artworks in 2011, at the United States Mission to the United Nations (New York) in 2012, at the Savannah College of Art and Design (Georgia) in 2015, at the Nasher Museum of Art of Duke University , Durham (North Carolina) in 2015, at Yale University School of Art , New Hav

Emily Kame Kngwarreye masterpieces

Ntange Dreaming - 1989 - Emily Kame Kngwarreye Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world - André Maurois The contemporary Aboriginal painting Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910-1996) was a famous Australian Aboriginal painter. She was incredibly prolific, painting of over 3,000 pieces in an eight-year period before her passing. Her style is drawn from the traditional body markings used in the Anmatyerre women's ceremony called Awelye . Her inspiration has also come from the country of her father and grandfather, Alhalkere which gained its name from a rock formation. It is a region associated within Utopia , 230 kms northeast of Alice Springs. Considered one of Australian most significant artists, she began to paint in her late 70s but in a few short years became an artist of national and international standing.

Anne-Marie Zilberman masterpieces

Art was an additional emotion applied to skillful technique - Charlie Chaplin The eternal feminine beauty Golden Tears , also known as Freya's Tears' , a famous oil painting with gold leaf, is often attributed to Gustav Klimt but was actually painted by French artist Anne-Marie Zilberman who was influenced by his work. We have little information about her. We know that after studying Graphic Arts in Paris , she designed advertising posters and then became a stylist (Chakok, Gérard Darel, Kenzo, Galeries Lafayette ...). She has also created illustrated posters for the Légendaire, festival du Conte & de l'Imaginaire (festival of tales and legends) for 20 years. She likes to represent soft and nostalgic female figures, the eternal feminine beauty. The magnificent and famous painting Golden tears actually is an inspiration from a mythological goddess, Freya (Njörd's daughter, the god of the wind and sea), the most famous of the Nordic goddesses. She is the goddes

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