Title of the Exhibition:

Contours of Light

Date of Creation:
2002-2024
Genre:
Still life, Landscape, Figurative
Period Movement:
Neo-Impressionism, Impressionism
Technique:
Painting, Digital Art
Materials:
Original digital artworks, original paintings on canvas
Dimensions:
Variable


Exhibition Description:
This online exhibition features acrylic, oil, mixed media, and digital painting in the styles of Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist works of Art. The works include portraits, nudes, figurative scenes, cityscapes, and landscapes executed in colorful impressionist and pointillist manners. The paintings are produced by loose impressionist brushstrokes and pointillist dots. The artist painted his surroundings in Minsk, Brooklyn, and his relatives and friends. Among his female muses, a Belarus-born friend, Daliah, whose artistic career and lifestyle deeply influenced Chiao. She and other beautiful and characteristic females and males with whom the artist interacted in Belarus greatly inspired many erotically charged works of Art in the Chiao's repertoire. Famed Belarus artists Nicholas Kireev and Alexander Ksendzov were the art Professors whose tutoring at the Academy of Arts in Minsk educated Nicholaas Chiao. Their Art influenced this series alongside the great paintings by Lucian Freud. "Night of Ghosts" and "Violett Sleeping" are most noted here. The composition "Night of Ghosts" depicts pagan rituals with fire related to reaching adulthood. It is a mystic painting with a group of young people, half naked and wearing masks, surrounded by a beautiful glow of firing particles flaming like stars in the black sky. The composition "Violett Sleeping" is a lovely rendition of a young child sleeping on a floral ornamented blanket, reminiscent of the beautiful setups of Gustav Klimt's paintings in a slightly modernized manner.