Despina Papadopoulou:

I paint masks ... because the people around us are running around with masks ... wicked good masks masks Beware of the evil masks .... I paint directly from my life.
With my pictures I want to touch the viewer, is intimate in public,
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Jonah Criswell received his BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA from Pennsylvania State University. He has exhibited in New York, Kansas City, Pennsylvania and Germany. His work is concerned with contemporary domestic spaces as a metaphor for how we construct, on a subconscious level, our

20th-century music, 80s synthpop, Anxiety, Architectural, Atmospheric, Baroque art, Beautiful , Collage, Complex, Contemporary realism, Existentialist literature, Existentialist theory, Figurative, Figurative painting, Flash fiction, Fleeting

Faced with an unforgiving lump of marble, the 80-year-old Michelangelo sent more splinters soaring (and at three times the speed) than three robust stone cutters could produce. Mad with loneliness (his lover, Vittoria Colonna, closest friend, Luigi del Riccio, and lifetime servant, Urbino, were all d

Anxiety, Dramatic, Ecstatic, Intense, Renaissance art, Tragic, Visceral

Vincent Van Gogh's life was one of tragedy, pain, loneliness, and misunderstanding. But it also contained a deep sense of compassion for others, powerful feelings of love, ecstatic reactions to nature, and an abiding passion for beauty. Although he was unacknowledged during his lifetime, very few peo

Anxiety, Figurative painting, Intimate, Polychromatic, Post-impressionism, Self-reflection, Tense