Khalid Nadif Art

I have lived through different stages of my life, and each stage has come with its own challenges, struggles, and fears. The three figures represent my childhood, my teenage years, a...

Daddy’s Girls is a personal reflection on softness within fatherhood. I wanted to capture a quiet moment where masculinity is stripped of performance and allowed to exist gently. The...

United in Bloom is a deeply personal reflection of how I see Nigeria, a land blessed with beauty, strength, and endless possibilities, yet one that can only truly flourish when its p...

This haunting abstract portrait of several figures in muted earthy colours is by Fiona Ackerman. Under a gray-blue sky, a central figure, an older man stands on the earth as fragment...

"All you ever saw were the changes that happened to my body, but you never know what happens inside that brings about the changes, or maybe you knew but just didn't care what it did ...

Pachamama Glósóli 008 Portrait closeup of a woman with blue hair. Vibrant and powerful stare. Technique: oil, acrylic, and ink on large canvas 116x89cm ■■ 46.7 x 35.3 inch ⏩》R E A ...

An Original Painting on Canvas of the Village of Richmond England, Framed, 2007 Art measures 19.5 x 27.5 inches Frame measures 30 x 22 inches Richmond, North Yorkshire Angela Wak...

Painting Study on Canvas of Street in City of Bath, with Figures & Cafes, 2007 Bath Café Street Art measures 19.5 x 27.5 inches An original urban landscape study painted by Br...

“I paint the human figure and explore further till I reach the Beauty of Being, the Soul.. the part of Human Being where everything is in total Serenity, Goodness and Harmony, where ...

“I paint the human figure and explore further till I reach the Beauty of Being, the Soul.. the part of Human Being where everything is in total Serenity, Goodness and Harmony, where ...

Victor Wang's subject is a female seemingly caught in a contemplative moment yet a war rages behind her. She dons a hat shaped as a boat and carries and oar as if to "Dream Away" these other thoughts. Wang uses a blend of luminous colors and buttery textures to evoke these enigmatic moments of meditation. Influence by the Renaissance Masters Titian and Rembrandt for their glazing and layering techniques respectively, the artist builds the surface using heavy paint, swirling and mixing the color on the canvas. The end result is a poetic and emotionally powerful representation of the human form. Victor Wang Dreaming Away, 2017 oil on canvas 42h x 56w in 106.68h x 142.24w cm VWG009 My path through life has been adventurous, exciting, and dream-like. My experience of settling into America in search of better opportunities has been both challenging and inspiring. I use the human face as a vehicle to paint human experiences - worry and wonder, sadness and pleasure - which reflect the emotional stage directly tied to my immigration experiences. I grew up amongst the sunflower fields in northern China. In my childhood years, I played under the bright, yellow sunflowers with my brothers everyday. China’s Cultural Revolution played an important part in my life. During that time, sunflowers were used as political allegories to depict how citizens of China should follow Mao who represented the sun, since sunflowers follow the sun’s movements. People eventually inferred the deception that this symbol masked. After graduating from high school, I was sent to a labor camp in the country for ‘reeducation’ during China’s Cultural Revolution. There, I was subject to grueling farm work. Often, I worked in corn and sunflower fields from sunrise to sunset. Thus, for me, sunflowers evoke both personal joy and sadness. Therefore, to deliver my complex feelings, I use sunflowers as a metaphor to connote my background and emotional stage. My incorporation of collages of figures from China’s Tang Dynasty represents my Chinese heritage and is a constant reminder of where I came from. The texture and earthiness on the canvas’s surface are inspired by the texture of the soil on the farm where I worked in China. Although I often gain great pleasure from the process of painting, it is most important to unfold expressively those feelings within myself. Wang belongs to a generation of immigrant painters from China, whose artistic background was defined by socialist realism but took advantage of their skills and broke away from that tradition to create new subjects in the U.S. “When I was a student during Cultural Revolution, Soviet realism art was among the dominant source of influence and it grabbed us like lightening rod...

Joe Waks There's No P in Our ool. . . 2010 Oil and mixed media 36 X 24 in.

“I paint the human figure and explore further till I reach the Beauty of Being, the Soul.. the part of Human Being where everything is in total Serenity, Goodness and Harmony, where ...

Joe Waks Roller Games 2012 Oil and mixed media 24 X 24 in.

“I paint the human figure and explore further till I reach the Beauty of Being, the Soul.. the part of Human Being where everything is in total Serenity, Goodness and Harmony, where ...