Volume 2, #52 December 26, 2000    

Welcome to Volume 2, #52 of True Colors, where PaintingsDIRECT.com brings you the latest art deals, news and information.

We also are pleased to present you the second half of the twelve best-selling PaintingsDIRECT.com artists for the year 2000.


Two different teams of academics have presented new research suggesting that the world's first art was produced much earlier than previously thought. New Finds in Search for the World's Earliest Art
The Best of 2000--Clever stories remind us that art enters our daily lives in all forms, from sex to shoes.
All this and more in this week's True Colors. We hope you enjoy it! Please let us know if there is other information you might like to see on our site by contacting Majordomo@PaintingsDIRECT.com with comments or questions.

Six of the twelve best-selling PaintingsDIRECT.com artists for the year 2000.
  Alice Zinnes
Alice Zinnes creates her abstract landscape paintings in the environments she portrays. Her organic, expressive works are like snapshots of the forest, and depict imagery from her trips to northeastern Pennsylvania and the Delaware Water Gap. Although her subject matter is seemingly simple, Zinnes imbues her canvases with great physical energy and a romantic, moody palette that makes her work interesting and original. Several large corporations own her paintings, in addition to many PaintingsDIRECT.com buyers! View artworks still available.
 
  Françoise Carrier
French painter Françoise Carrier is available to an American audience only through PaintingsDIRECT.com, where her work is extremely popular. Her images of lavender fields and magical villages are depicted in the natural light special to the region where the artist spent her childhood. Her South-of-France vistas capture the unique architecture and landscape of the French Mediterranean in an impressionist style that everybody loves. View artworks still available.
 
  Igor Prilutzky
Moscow-based Igor Prilutzky is an artist, architect and designer whose colorful impressionist oil paintings convey the serenity and tradition of the Russian landscape. “The landscape and old Russian architecture have always been an unlimited source of creativity. I am especially charmed by the landscapes of the North of Russia, around the ancient town of Kigi.” A major talent, Prilutzky sells his work only through PaintingsDIRECT.com and has been eagerly sought after over the last two years. View artworks still available.
 
  Christopher Fabbri
California artist Christopher Fabbri creates landscape paintings that fall somewhere between realism and abstraction. Adding to the mysterious quality of the work, Fabbri paints areas of realistic color and heavily brushes them in order to smooth his surfaces, resulting in blurred, dreamlike images that hint at the subconscious. With subjects chosen from his memories of childhood vacations, something in his paintings touches everyone who views them. View artworks still available.

 
  Elizabeth Wolfson
Floral compositions and country scenes are Massachusetts painter Elizabeth Wolfson’s specialty, although her choice of subject is secondary to her obvious love of painting. “I love the process, which to me can be a mystery or a puzzle, and I enjoy the design or fantasy I can create with color, shape and line.” Wolfson has exhibited her work throughout Massachusetts and has sold her work successfully to an international audience through PaintingsDIRECT.com for nearly two years. View artworks still available.

 
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