Ivan Rabuzin

The magical artwork of Ivan Rabuzin...

Won't it be so nice shall real life be so very fairy-tale like?

Artwork of Matija Skurjeni

Was trying to do mouse over effect for the image files... unfortunately, blogger just won't accept my javascript... >-O

In any case, nice artwork by Matija Skurjeni, another Croatian naive artist!

Please check out the website for more information about the artist (provided that you could understand the language... 8-O lol) and his artwork...

Zu hause sein with Emerik Feješ

The acceptance about my being so daily news somehow makes me feel so very zu hause sein... regardless the specific haus...

The following collage is composed of Emerik Feješ's artwork including Milan Cathedral, 1966.... on exhibition at The Croatian Museum of Naive Art....

Artwork of Edward Hicks

A few of Edward Hicks' paintings... including the Peaceable Kindom where everyone rests happily togather.....


By the way, this is my first attempt to use image map on blogger... seems to work interestingly well...

Love is in the Air @ Gina

Some nice artwork I found at the exhibition called "Love is in the Air" at Gina...

Sunny Side Up by Cruzalegui, Patricia Henricy (Peru)


A Brazilian Scene by Buccini, Lucia (Brazil)

Ivan Generalic's horses

Hope you enjoy them happy horses as much as I do...

You could also find more of Ivan Generalic's artworks at his online gallery.

Man from the moon by Petru Mihut

To the left is the painting titled Man from the moon by artist Petru Mihut.

Loving the purpleness in this picture...

Timberline Lodge by Cindy Mangutz

To the left is the painting titled Timberline Lodge by Cindy Mangutz.

This picture reminds me both of Whistler/Blackcomb and Chamonix.

Christmas by Valerie Mainwaring

For all that I am not and I have not...

I find comfort in others' creativities including arts...

A nice painting titled Christmas by a British painter... Valerie Mainwaring...

Isn't it so very funny that, the longer we live, the more we tend to focus on what we have to lose?

Fluss im Winter by Irene Brandt

Cute picture titled "Fluss im Winter" or "Winter River" by Irene Brandt.

Monica Moser's town

What a beautiful town... like the one you would see in the fairy tale... by Monica Moser...

Adib Fattal's cities

To the left is the artwork by Adib Fattal titled "A Village with a Hanging Bridge.

This picture reminds me of one of the cities mentioned in Calvino's Invisible Cities.

Please check out his website for more his paintings with a splash of middle Eastern style...

Brian Pollard @ The Association of British Naïve Artists

I found this picture with "Milk Cow" (direct translation from Chinese) by Brian Pollard on the website of The Association of British Naïve Artists.

Check out this website for more Naïve arts British style...

As you might be able to tell, what really attracts me in this painting are the resting cows....

Milanden Dolovski @ Vigi Gallery for Croatian Naive Art

So, it was yesterday when I visited the website of Croatian Naive Art gallery. Today, I landed at the Vigi Gallery where I found more artworks by the same Croatian artists and others.

If my guess is correct, this is the newer version of the Croatian Naive Art gallery.... at a new location...

The painting to the left is titled White Snowballs by Milanden Dolovski.

Please check the following link for the story behind the artworks and the gallery.

You could also find more of the nice paintings by many more artists on their website.

Hope you enjoy the pretty and innocent paintings as much as I do!

Franjob Vujcec at Croatian Naive Art

Winter by Franjob Vujcec at CroatianNaiveArt.com..

Check their website for artworks by many other Croatian artists...

Mark Frost

Apple Pond Farm, Winter by Mark Frost, an American Artist...

GINA: Gallery of International Naive Art

I went to visit the Gallery of International Naive Art (Gina) located at the intersection of Columbus Avenue and 82th street today to see an exhibition titled "Naivism: An Ode to Innocence."

The picture in the left is one of the paintings in the current exhibition titled "Good News" by Danielle Bonniol-Ferrus.



On the gallery's website, you could also find pictures of past exhibitions like this one on the left titled "A Winter Wonderland" by Maria Terzi.

I don't know about you... personally, these nice pretty pictures make me feel very happy... :-D 8-O lol

Henry Giroux

The Artwork of Henry Giroux....

Anne Marie Bost

This is the art work of Anne Marie Bost titled Partie de plaisir ou Les ébats sur la glace, on exhibition at the International Museum of Naive Art.

I also found some of her art work at the following locations:

http://www.arttremblant.com/fr/bost.htm

http://www.editionsdevillers.com/artist.php?artiste_id=31

Happy Cows: Slavko Stolnik

Look at the beautiful purple cow... purple fence and purple roof.... in the painting of Slavko Stolnik--- Cows Coming Home, 1957

So I read, even though I don't like to read... 8-O lol

This kind of artistic style, like that of Grandma Moses, could be called.... Naive Art... Primitive Art...