Colour explosions

[Skybird]

By random chanceI stumbled over the paintings of Leonid Afremov today, an Ukrainian born, Israel-living painter. Since I did, I searched his paintings, and many of them leave me stunned and mesmerised. Those colours, those gemütlich glowing lights, that intense moods in his scenes! I have already printed two I like especially well, and they will find a place over my desktop.
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http://www.google.de/images?as_q=leonid+afremov&hl=de&btnG=Google-Suche&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&imgtype=&imgsz=&imgw=&imgh=&imgar=&as_filetype=&imgc=&as_sitesearch=&as_rights=&safe=images&as_st=y
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I wish I just could step right into these scenes and visit the places they show, right with the lights like they are!
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http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/1830/86940x30alleybythelake.jpg (http://img101.imageshack.us/i/86940x30alleybythelake.jpg/)
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http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/1830/1207782430ikvyukk.jpg (http://img91.imageshack.us/i/1207782430ikvyukk.jpg/)

[Skybird]

Correction: he now lives in the US, as Israel apparently has not welcomed him and intruders vandalised his studio there.

Now I know why he reminded me of Chagall.

http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://www.prweb.com/prfiles/2009/03/24/1263324/leonidafremov.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.prweb.com/releases/art/auctions/prweb2261544.htm&usg=__aIXI0VWSuAGabEHFMesFg_9OVwk=&h=232&w=300&sz=27&hl=de&start=48&itbs=1&tbnid=noVnYZONMs5ZpM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dleonid%2Bafremov%26start%3D36%26hl%3D de%26sa%3DN%26as_st%3Dy%26ndsp%3D18%26tbs%3Disch:1


http://www.afremov.com/