Hasan Saygın was born in 1958 in the Karamanlı district of Burdur (Turkey). He spent his childhood in primary and secondary school in Karamanlı. In those years, while he was working with his family in the beet, anise, onion and wheat fields during the summer holidays, he was always interested in painting.
Nude | Contemporary art
The depiction of nudity in art has a long history, dating back to ancient times where it often symbolized fertility and was associated with religious beliefs. Ancient Greece particularly embraced the nude as a symbol of ideal beauty. Nudity is not meaningless nor does it always mean the same thing. The nude figure in art has generally reflected, with few exceptions, social standards of aesthetics as well as morality of the certain time period. While nudity in art can be associated with eroticism, it has also reflected social and moral standards of the time. Erotic art has existed in various forms across civilizations, with some cultures incorporating it into spiritual beliefs and others reflecting cultural practices. See also subcategory: sensual art and erotic art.
Serge Marshennikov was born in 1971 in Ufa in the USSR. Serge painted from a very young age, and his mother encouraged his study of art, arranging private lessons and studies in art studios.
Rodrigo Luff is an Australian artist based in Los Angeles. He creates ethereal figurative works of women in beautiful dreamlike settings and explores a feeling of the otherworldly in his paintings and drawings.
Renso Castaneda was born in Lima Peru in 1970 – Graduated from the National Superior School of Fine Arts of Peru.
Anna Dart (Switzerland), is a multifaceted and a largely self-taught artist who promotes ecological, climatic and social sustainability as well as mental health.
Wang Niandong (王念东) was born in Sichuan, China, in 1978. He has studied at Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, and the oil painting department of Sichuan Fine Art Institute in Chongqing, where he is now an associate professor.
Igor V. Volosnikov, better known by its abbreviated name Igor Volos was born 1964 in the Ural mountains at Kirov (Russia). He graduated there from the Schools of Art and of Higher Art before teaching as senior artist at the RKhMC Prior to that he studied monumental art in MGPU (named after Stroganov) as well as Restoration of monumental painting, after which he helped restore a temple in Sao Paulo (Brazil) built bythe Bibikovs, a family of royal nobility.
Janto Garrucho is a self-taught artist from Spain. He was taking painting classes from an early age, stubborn self-taught and studious of the great masters of classical and contemporary hyperrealism. ” I am an artist obsessed with detail and light, with emotions expressed through the human body and with color.
Victoria Selbach is a contemporary artist focusing on women and is best known for her compelling life-size nude depictions of women. Selbach explores the complexity of her contemporaries in relation to our generational feminine legacy.