Hilary Hahn and Mark Arian

Enjoy… Music ~ Hilary Hahn … Artist ~ Arian “To me, art is an expression of the rapture of being… hopefully unveiling a fragment of the radiance within all form. I believe that art can awaken the soul to the timeless presence of beauty and truth.” Perhaps the most enduring influence on Arian’s evolving painter’s hand has been American expatriate John Singer Sargent, an American Realist born in Florence in 1856. “My endless admiration for Sargent’s faultless draftsmanship is due, in large part, to the amazing economy of strokes and virtuoso brushwork that all of his paintings so aptly display.” Inspired and filled with the culture and art of Europe, Arian drew from plaster casts, live models, and continued to study color theory. His art was exhibited during the annual festival in the picturesque coastal city of Viareggio, near Florence, Italy. His first painting of a beautiful woman in classical roman garments, “Eternal Mystery”, quickly resulted in a new contract with Masterpiece Publishing Inc., a publisher of fine art limited editions. The paintings that followed were equally compelling, with a spiritual quality that expresses what Arian calls, ‘passive lucidity’. His images themselves are deeply intuitive. According to Arian, “the images create themselves, expressing life’s magnificence through the medium of art.” The appeal of Arian’s work is timeless and global. There is a peaceful and pristine quality in his art, which remains consistent regardless of the …
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