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Judith Linhares is an American painter, known for her vibrant, expressive figurative and narrative paintings. She synthesizes influences including Expressionism, Bay Area Figuration, Mexican modern art and second-wave feminism, in work that flirts with abstraction and balances visionary personal imagery, expressive intensity, and pictorial rigor. In the early 1970s, Linhares created narrative drawings and assemblages that appropriated commonplace or "craft" materials and feminine imagery (flowers, eggs, swan feathers, domestic scenes). After 1980 she developed a Symbolist allegorical world of enigmatic, bulbous-headed creatures, narcoleptic nudes, phantasms, figures in boats, and human metamorphosis. Her fantastic imagery was balanced by lush color, painterly sensual surfaces, and sure design. Through the 1990s, critics noted in her work a sunnier palette, increasingly abstract and ambiguous imagery, and a growing facility with a naïve drawing style. In the 2000s, Linhares has turned to female nudes (often monumental), visionary landscapes, floral still lifes and animals. Linhares has been recognized with more than forty-five one-person exhibitions and major awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Ernesto Tatafiore is an Italian artist, one of the forerunners of the Italian Transavantgarde that emerged in the early 1980s.
Naples, where Tatafiore's studio is located and which is a favorite place for his work, has a decisive influence on his work. Vesuvius is an obsessive image of the artist and a source of his inspiration. The theme of the French Revolution is also a recurring theme in his work.
Hu Yungkai is a Chinese artist known for his figurative paintings depicting scenes of traditional Chinese life and culture.
Hu's paintings are characterised by bright colours, delicate brushwork and attention to detail. He often depicts women in traditional Chinese clothes surrounded by objects and symbols related to Chinese culture, such as flowers, birds and calligraphy.
He is currently a member of the Chinese Artists Association. He previously taught at the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Hu Yongkai is an artist with a unique style that blends and expresses characteristics of the East and West in his paintings, and skillfully blends the beauty of the lines of traditional Chinese painting with the colours of modern painting.
Hu's paintings have been exhibited internationally and are part of major collections around the world, including the National Art Museum of China in Beijing and Guangdong Art Museum in Guangzhou.