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Contemporary paintings

³At the Club´Royal Azim

About The Artist

Roya Azim was born in September 1964 in the rural city of Tehran, Iran. The daughter of a well-off military general,Roya and her family had the opportunity to move toAtlanta''s Dobbins Air Force base in 1979. In the Americansystem, Roya was raised with a broad liberal arts education.At the college level, she complemented the humanistic studyof art history and literature with the practical skills of 

  business administration. She excelled in both areas.Although discouraged by family and friends, art became acentral focus in Roya''s life when she began working as anapprentice and assistant Babak Emanuel, a renowned artist

sharing her Persian heritage. At first she learned onlyfundamental artistic techniques with Emanuel, and much of her time was spent in an administrative role. However, her natural and unique talent became quickly self-evident, andher title was changed to Artistic Assistant. After five yearsof working with Emanuel, Roya decided to focus exclusivelyon developing her own style. As a beginning, Roya haschosen to explore the theme of golf in several of the seriesshe has produce thus far. The sport represents much of theAmerican customs that simultaneously fascinate her - suchas masculinity, wealth, nature, recreation, and competition.The sport also provides a source of identification for Roya,as it displays the same nuances as many of her own culturaltraditions. Moreover, the meticulous skill and diligencefound in this leisure activity are mirrored in Roya''s ownapproach to her work. Like the sport of golf, Roya''s imagesindicate that a precision of detail and an attention to form areas important as the easy grace and melodious balance of theoverall composition. Although Roya''s series have been onlyrecently exhibited, her works have already beenenthusiastically collected by several private and publicinstitutions across the country.

Afternoon StrollPino

Pino is a famous contemporary realism artist in the world.His original paintings usually are priced at over $78,000. Afternoon Stroll is one of Pino's classic artworksvery well known and popular in US. In the market, there aremany kinds of reprints of this painting, either printed on

 paper directly or printed on a canvas then finished up withadded color paints to mimic the oil painting effect. Thesereprints normally are sold at around $3,200.

Show Of Splendor Richard Brandon

About The Artist

Richard Brandon (a studio name for artist Richard Hall) was born in 1952 in Bradford, Yorkshire, the industrial heart of northern England. He attended both the Sheffield College of Art and the Kingston-upon-Hull College of Art, receivinghis Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting in 1976. After earninghis Master of Fine Arts from Sussex University, he leftEngland for warmer climates, ending up in the SouthwestUnited States where he pursued the arts of painting andsculpture. In addition to creating his own artwork, he hasworked as an Art Director for the last few years, therebyaffecting the careers of young artists under his tutelage andreaping the fulfilling rewards of close interaction with theseartists. This has proven to be a catalyst for his own artwork,

 propelling it in new and wholly unexpected directions. As a  boy growing up in England, Brandon spent many hourswatching his grandfather create fine furniture. The man wasa master craftsman, employing traditional tools and working

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methods handed down through generations. He passed on tome to joy of creating something unique. I carry on thesetraditions in my own work. Today as an adult, he viewshimself as actually building a painting, in perfect analogy tohis grandfather building furniture. As I ''build'' a painting or sculpture, it is often the actual working methods that I ammost drawn to. As I learned to finish fine furniture withlayer upon layer of polish and wax, so I now find myself working with layer upon layer of texture and color. This

method of working triggers memories and feelings that Ichannel into my art, and it enables me to give form to myideas.

Charge Of The Flower Bottle BrigadeGuy Buffet

About The Artist

"I am not trying," says Guy Buffet, "to convey a message inmy work. Instead, each painting is an invitation to a worldwhere my dreams and fantasies become reality." Since hesold his first watercolor at the age of thirteen to an Americantourist who was visiting the Buffet family restaurant in Paris,that reality has included, among other things, landscapes of 

Polynesia, dreamscapes of Hawaii, several battalions of quirky French culinary workers, historical scenes of theFrench Revolution, and a few dour Scotsmen on wind-

 blasted moors unaccountably trying to play golf. His sublimesense of the burlesque is unparalleled and infectious.Buffet''s father was sixty-three years old when his son was

 born in 1943 and died before Guy was a teenager. For histwelfth birthday Guy''s mother gave him a set of paints and

 brushes, which he passionately put to use. In 1957 he and his

mother moved to a town in Provence near the Mediterranean port of Toulon, where she enrolled him in the Beaux Arts deToulon Art School. The following year he began to studyadvanced painting at L''Academie de Peinture de la Ville deParis, and his studies continued there until he was draftedinto the French Navy in 1961. While serving on the cruiser De Grasse as gunner''s mate, Buffet had his first one-manshow. Organized by the Mayor of Papeete, Tahiti at theGallerie Mourareau, the show was a sellout. As the cruiser 

made calls on other ports in the Pacific, Guy continued hisone-man shows. In this way, a certain young French sailor 

  began to make a name for himself in the world of international art. Today he is world famous for hiswhimsical humor. Considerations of space precludementioning more than a fraction of Guy Buffet''s artisticaccomplishments. He has assembled countless one-manshows in literally every part of the globe and served asofficial artist for numerous advertising campaigns, includingChampagne Perrier-Jouet, Absolut Vodka, Aloha Airlines,and the Tour De France. His works are displayed in severalmuseums, including La Musée de la Monnaie in Paris, theMuseum of the French Navy in Toulon, the Honolulu

Academy of Art, and the John Deere Museum. They are partof more than twenty corporate collections, includingSeagrams, IBM, Bank of America, Grand Marnier, WestinHotels, and American Isuzu Motors. His art has been chosen

  by thousands of private collectors, among whom areMaurice Chevalierk, Jackie Stewart, Rory Calhoun, Kirk Douglas, Rod Stewart, John Harrison, Edgar Bronfman,John McVay, Charles Feeney, Van Cliburn, Paul Bocuse,Wolfgang Puck, and the former American Vice-PresidentDan Quayle. "Art should be something to enjoy and helpyou forget your worries. I invite the viewer to share myexperience; I take you into my world like a guest into myhome. I want you to be comfortable and relaxed. When

  people take a painting of mine into their home because itmakes them happy and they like it, it has accomplished its

 purpose."