ANCIENT ART AND CIVILIZATIONS

P.202. ART OF VANISHED CIVILIZATIONS: THE GREAT ART OF THE KINGDOM OF URARTU: A FORMIDABLE ANCIENT EMPIRE AND A CIVILIZATION CRADLE. In the early twentieth century, a long forgotten magnificent kingdom and a cradle of civilization was rediscovered in the Anatolian highlands of Asia Minor. Not until 1936 was the first systematic and scientific excavation of an edifice or a fortress of that lost civilization begun. And that was, the ancient Kingdom of Urartu (a name created by the Assyrians) which was centered around Lake Van. Sometimes, historians refer to Urartu as the kingdom of Van. The first Uraturians were called Nairi by the Assyrians and inhabitants of Asia Minor and their homeland was frequently called  Urartu,  while the Uraturians referred to their nation as the Land of Biani.

P.241. ART TREASURES: Saved' Art Treasures Go on Display. An exhibition of 400 art treasures saved from being acquired by overseas buyers is being held at a London gallery. The paintings, sculptures and archaeological pieces were acquired with the help of the National Art Collections Fund. The charity is celebrating its centenary with an exhibition entitled Saved! at the Hayward Gallery. It features works by Picasso, Mondrian, Rodin and Titian, among others.

P.179. Salwa Zeidan is an art phenomenon on the intellectual-evocative abstract art landscape. Although the forms are primordial in her compositions, the esthetical intellect remains paramount in her structural presentation of the mind, the soul and the beauty of the intimate feelings. Her art makes you contemplate and through your contemplation, you discover emerging visions of unseen but felt figures, hidden but revealed materialization of a dialogue between the intelligent meaning of abstract illustration and romantic intimacy...

P.181. Hilda Hiary: Beads of thoughts and complex micro forms in quasi organic and mechanical structure, sometimes autonomous and some other time evolving with precision. Hiary’s style might not reflect lyrical warmth or breeze of romanticism but, most certainly, it makes you think. Would this lead us to assume that Hiary’s style is alert and mature, perhaps intellectual-organic? Possibly.

P.183. Balsamo: Never before and never again, will there be a woman like Marie Curie and Cleopatra, a painter like da Vinci and Raphael, a genius like Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein , a visionary like Picasso, a poet like Victor Hugo, Lamartine, or Dante, a general like Alexander the Great and Hannibal, a composer like Mozart and Chopin, a singer like Caruso, Carlos Gardel and Jacques Brel and an artist like Vincenzo Balsamo!! Vincenzo Balsamo, the last greatest artist of the 20^th and 21^st centuries!!

P.188. Venel: Maitre Venel is an astonishing art phenomenon. He captures the melodic past of our days, nights and passion and throw it over the linens like shadows of lights over a river, to recreate a universe of a more enchanting beauty which would exist in the dreams of a parallel future.

P.188. Peppe Aveni: Aveni is a self-assured artist. Infinite limpid strokes of genius and profound affection for natural beauty drive Aveni to the edge of irresistible magnetic field called Divinity of Art, “L’Arte Divino”. In other words, Aveni brings the traditions of the old Italian Masters to a dinner table, where Champagne and caviar are served not at the tune of Puccini’s La Boheme...

P.189.  Judy Cox: I do not know if those multi-colored, vibrant, intelligently striking, magnificently composed and elegantly appealing paintings are a part of a posterior, anterior, pre-cursor or a new expressive  style of Judy Cox? For, I have never seen before any of them in Judy Cox Washington’s exhibitions...

P.191. Anna: Anna Harutyunyan is the international leading artist of romantic intellectualism in contemporary abstract art. She is a world class artist distinguished by her romantic interpretation of religious themes and philosophical visions, blended with an elegant flair of intellectualism, nostalgia and conceptual artistic avant-garde. Anna’s evocative style elevates your spirit to a firmament where the “fantastic” and the “realistic” unite and blend into rebellious strokes and splashes of lights, metaphoric lines, curves and transcendental intelligence.

P.192. JAMES P. LANGSTON. He  was born in Montgomery, Alabama, October 17, 1944 to a military family. He  lived on several military bases in many different locations and began teaching at Crystal River Primary in 1968, Florida He continued to work in the same county his entire teaching career while serving the community. His professional life has been devoted to teaching young people the skills necessary to succeed in life through a student-centered classroom where creativity, concentration, problem solving, self-efficiency and self-discipline are stressed.

P.196. Marina Kharma: Meet The First Lady of Painting and Neo Romantic Classicism of the Middle and Near Eastern World… Enter the enchanting world of Marina Kharma, a universe of one million rainbows and splashes of lights and colors…a journey into the beauty, the warmth, the magic, the tender sweet moments and nostalgia of dreamlands, gardens of roses, lilac, cyclamens, memories and wild roses blooming in the valleys at each dawn and sunset…warm houses and friends at the door to welcome you…exploding waves on the shores…baskets of flowers and rays of hopes hanging from the balconies…rose, roses, colors, colors, beauty, beauty everywhere…old windows hiding behind bushes of wild flowers and hanging on their own in time...