Land of Milk and Honey Art Gallery

"Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life."

- Pablo Picasso

Welcome to Land of Milk and Honey's virtual art gallery. I am in the hopes it will be a delightful feast for the heart and soul.

All artwork represented here are used with explicit permission of the artists showcased here. Please note all images contained on this page are copyright property of their respective owners. Please do not duplicate these images without explicit permission from the artist.

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Enjoy!

Shani

WALTER GIROTTO

Walter Girotto has called Rovigo, Italy, home for 45 years.

His paintings have an extraordinary ability to capture the nuances of the human experience. Sometimes turbulent, and often times using erotic associations to capture the attention of the viewer. He carefully modulates the lighting using gentle shadows and striking details, always conscious of the audience "the viewer". Using the purity of antique motifs, architectural elements, and varied compositions of the human anatomy, profound and poetic messages are the hallmark of his style and artistic skill.

Walter Girotto exemplifies the graphic strength of his subjects utilizing both the masculine and the feminine, resulting in a deep exploration of human thought and man's place in the universe, compelling you the viewer to attempt to distinguish the obvious with the uncertain.

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Anke Meier

Anke Meier, year 1970, lives and works in Oldenburg. She learned the painting as an autodidact even if she played with the thought on art studies for a short time. So she could keep painting as the kindest hobby, what increasingly more room demands, though and to importance wins. In the main thing she deals with the painting of erotic subjects "portrait", however, makes also much order work from different areas, how e.g. "I have been interested in particularly the painting of erotic subjects for a couple of years because the beauty of the human body fascinates very much and inspires newly again and again me. It is a thrilling matter to capture sensory moments and to take paper to it."...

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Alberto Vargas

One of the true giants of American illustration, Alberto Vargas (1896-1982) has created an art style so sensuous, so exquisite, that for the past six decades his magnificent paintings of women have come to embody the fantasies of three generations of women and men around the world. His work also appeared in "Harper's Bazaar", "Theatre Magazine", and "Tattler". His wide-eyed wonder women rivaled Betty Grable as the ultimate pin-up girl of World War II. Vargas (who signed his Esquire work "Varga") had already achieved some notoriety for his Ziegfeld Follies and movie poster art. Vargas was given a second shot at fame and fortune by longtime fan Hugh Hefner. His regular "Playboy" slot in the 1960s and '70s elevated Vargas to a pinnacle eclipsing that of Petty. He died in December 1982.

Note: When you click on the thumbnail for the larger image; you will find that the piece will look fuzzy. Click on it again and it will enlarge, showing the true beauty of Mr. Vargas' art.

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Craig Morey

Craig Morey was born in 1952 in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, in the Midwestern U.S. He attended Indiana University and studied with the noted Bauhaus artist, Henry Holmes Smith. In 1974, Morey moved to California, where he and a group of other young photographers founded San Francisco Camerawork, the first nonprofit center for photography on the West Coast. Camerawork Gallery was (and continues to be) devoted to showing the newest and most innovative work in contemporary photography. Morey served as Executive Director of SF Camerawork from its founding until 1981.

During the same period, Morey's personal work with abstract and whimsical black & white nudes garnered numerous exhibitions and awards, including a Special Jury Prize at the International Triennial of Photography in Friebourg, Switzerland, and First Prize at the California State Exposition. He was also named one of five worldwide "Discoveries" by the editors of Time-Life' Books.

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