Artist Valentin Carron from Canton Valais will be representing Switzerland at the 2013 Venice Art Biennale.

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published June 5th, 2013

A Regular stamp issue belonging to the “Il patrimonio artistico e culturale italiano” (Italian and Artistic and cultural Heritage) Series, dedicated to Paulo Paschetto on the 50th Anniversary of his death.

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published March 24th, 2013

Bernese artist Ernst Kreidolf (1863-1956) is regarded as the creator of the modern German-language picture book.

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published March 22nd, 2013

“The work was done with my left thumb, rolled, with professional assistance, on yellow paper in the basement of police headquaters in Copenhagen .

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published December 28th, 2012

Attila Dargay’s illustrations for the cartoon Vuk can be seen on the commemorative covers which will be a special philatelic edition. The first four denominations (1 Ft,1 Ft, 2 Ft and 2 Ft) of the stamps series titled “Figures from the Hungarian Cartoon Vuk 1982” will appear as stamps on one of the covers and the last three denominations (4 Ft, 6 Ft and 8 Ft) on the other.

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published October 10th, 2012

The contrast could hardly be greater: a small-scale postage stamp for Franz Gertsch, the master of large-scale photo realism:

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published October 10th, 2012

Shows the oil on canvas entitled “Battaglia di Cavalieri”

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published September 18th, 2012

The stamp series on Finnish music has reached the 1990´s.

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published September 3rd, 2012

A Painter of Ligurian origin born in nice. Louis (Ludovico) Brea was among the  first to set aside the traditional codes of Gothic art to bring the region of Liguria and the Comté de Nice into the Renaissance.

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published July 30th, 2012

The stamps painted by Frida Zachariassen are available at FACE VALUE on WOPA, For more information please visit the website:

http://wopa-stamps.com/

Frida Zachariassen – a distinctive painter from Klaksvík

Frida Zachariassen was one of the most distinctive artists in the Faroe Islands during the 1950s. She developed her own personal style, characterised by geometric figures in compositions portraying landscapes, towns, villages and people.

Sometimes the colours in Frida Zachariassen’s paintings are clear and strong, but they also often feature blurred and thin colour tones; in some of the paintings, earth tones dominate.

In the 1930s and 1940s, her painting style focused on content and emotions leaning towards the romantic, with replication of the grandeur of nature, the sublime and the eternal. Around 1950, Frida Zachariassen began painting more abstractly. Landscapes and people were dissolved and reconstructed with squares, stripes and triangles. The main works are constructions made of lines and figures in colours such as saturated green and cool blue and grey, sometimes accompanied by black lines.

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published May 4th, 2011

Bergithe Johannessen – watercolour painter from Vestmanna

Bergithe Christine Johannessen (1905-95) was the first Faroese to be admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Born in Vestmanna, she was the daughter of Madgalene and Niels Skaale Johannessen, merchant and grocer. Bergithe Johannessen was 18 years old when she travelled to London to study painting. She went to the Sidscup School of Art from 1923 until 1925 and specialised in watercolour painting. She then moved to Copenhagen, where she attended the School of Painting at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1925 until 1931. After completing her studies, she continued living in Copenhagen, where she worked as a porcelain painter at the Royal Danish Porcelain Factory. In 1939, she married semi-skilled worker Arnold Rönnow Torp – Bergithe Johannessen was her artist name.

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published April 20th, 2011