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Illustrator Albina Kolesnichenko Promotes Social Change and Ukraine’s Independence Through Her Work

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At National University, she majored in sculpture and fine arts. Since 2016, illustration has been a professional endeavor and a lifelong passion. She was raised in the historic city of Chernihiv, and she considers Ukraine to be her motherland. Albina started her artistic career in the Ukraine.

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F5: Dale Chihuly Shares His Favorite Architect + Beloved Collections

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With the international glass center, he’s led the avant-garde in the development of glass as a fine art. The Boathouse, Seattle, 2016 © Chihuly Studio. There, he observed the team approach to blowing glass, which is critical to the way he works in the studio today. All rights reserved. Photo: Nathaniel Wilson 2.

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Xiangni Song follows her instincts to create paintings of the abstract images in her mind

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Spending her time between Beijing and New York, Xiangni was trained at the School of Visual Arts in 2016. She subsequently transitioned from illustration to fine art by enrolling in the MFA Fine Arts program at Pratt Institute in 2020. This doesn't mean her background in illustration was time wasted, though.

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A Major Retrospective Carves Space for Marisol’s Most Prescient and Under-Recognized Works

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She relocated with her father to Los Angeles as a teenager before moving to New York in the early 1950s, where she saw an exhibition of pre-Columbian clay pieces that prompted an evolution of her practice from painting to sculpture. “Untitled (Marisol with her sculpture ‘The Fishman,’)” (1973), giclee print.

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Anatomical Forms Emerge From Zippers, Quilted Fabric, and Felt by Élodie Antoine

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Felt especially is very interesting for making sculptures because it allows to make forms without sewing, without suture, like the organs of the human body,” she writes. Particularly interesting are her felt sculptures that take on the form of teeth, lower limbs, bones, and other peculiar organic forms.

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Exploring Black Masculinity Through the Lens of Black Women and Non-Binary Artists

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So much of Black history around the continent and across the diaspora has been whitewashed or erased, much like the noses hacked off the faces of Egyptian sculptures to destroy evidence Black power and leadership — but as Malcolm X wisely observed, “Truth is on the side of the oppressed.” Rapper RaCola, 1995.

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Big Chief Demond Melancon Is Rewriting the Definition of Contemporary Art Through Beads

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The massive suits he creates, and wears as a Black Master in ceremonial battles on Mardi Gras day, are sculptural forms based on his own body. ” Bras-Coupé, Demond Melancon, 2016. Bras-Coupé, Demond Melancon, 2016. I branched out to show them that beading can be contemporary art, can be fine art.

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