Red hair in Paintings: Redheads read

Samsonov

Russian Contemporary from the St.Petersbough Academy of Art.

It seems there was almost a whole direction or class of students,

who inspired each other and added more fantasy to Art.

They are all very decorative and it is wonderful to see after the years of quit rough and

almost depressing paintings of farmer's and factoryworker's bravery under and after the Stalin era.

I like the use of colours and the combination of details with a strong feeling

for the light and surfaces.There is something illustrative in this kind of painting with

so many details. But that was exactly what made the Jugend period so attactive too!

Samsonov painted many redhaired women.

Igor Samsonov

Esperanza Asensi
Spanish Contemporary

If You look for a book, it's not there, instead what could have been read is now bottled .

Spain has a wonderful painter named Esperanza Asensi.

Her pictures are fabulations over her and her husband Fasto Morilla's lifes filled with flowers, fish, animals ,plants wowen together with humour and knowledge .I love her pictures and each visit to her and her talented husband Fausto Morillas' worshops in Alicante is an enrichment!!!!

When I find a portrait of a redhead painted by Fausto Morillas, it will also be shown in this blog.

Here is what I talk about a Jugend style advertisement .The idea is lines, shapes, repetitions and

fantasy, lots of ornaments often made from a plant or flower shape, or like here from clouds and waves.Her dress have become the stormy sea.

Ellen de Groot

Dutch contemporary. She also has the feeling for materials and I like the order and calmness in her paintings .

Her choice of colours is so beautiful. It is not realism even if some of the materials are painted almost with photographic correctness. The skin is almost without shadows but it doesn't make it illustrative. She doesn't imitate of copy other artists expressions. The composition in all her pictures gives a feeling of Egyptian Symmetry. Look up Ellen de Groot in the Internet.