Elena Vladimir Baranoff Fine Art Gallery and Studio Diary For Fine Art Collectors and Connoisseurs

Autumn Landscape In Southern California -  Day Before Thanksgiving 2012 After a hot, lengthy summer of this year, beautiful autumn has finally taken the lead,   transforming the bountiful land of Southern California.  The sprawling landscapes, beaming in gold, with leaves painted in the light of apricot and pink sunsets, decorate the rolling hills.  Warm, gentle days transform into chilly, deliciously fresh evenings and nights.  The heart is full of joy as the upcoming winter holiday season approaches near. Decorative Pumpkins & Gourds In My Fine Art Studio Decorative pumpkins and gourds, most varied in form and color, embellish my fine art studio, lifting up the spirits with their bright hues of lemon yellows, sunny oranges, extraordinary white-green stripes and bumps.  The autumn celebration of harvest and gratitude, Thanksgiving Day, had officially launched the holiday season yesterday.  On this special day it was...

This wonderful season I am thrilled to be shining the spotlight on one of my limited edition fine art reproductions, entitled “Christmas Eve Is Here At Last”.  Delightful fine art postcards had been especially created, and together with cheerful invitations sent to fine art collectors and connoisseurs. You are all welcome to view beautiful fragments of my painting at http://www.elenabaranoff.com/christmasevelimitededition.html

View of the Los Angeles skyline from The Getty Center Gustav Klimt - An Exhibition At The Getty Center A few months ago, one of my favorite Los Angeles museums, The Getty Center, hosted a wonderful retrospective exhibition devoted to the drawings of Gustav Klimt, a 19th century Austrian artist and key figure of international Modernism. For me, visiting and viewing such exhibitions is a very special event. Being a fine artist, I observe the artworks of my fellow artists through a different prism, studying, evaluating and understanding them in a special way. In our creations, we as fine artists feel, understand and speak in a language of lines, strokes, and this special dialect is understood and spoken between us, in the entirety of all its depth and meaning.  Looking at Klimt's drawings, before me appeared his feelings and thoughts, inserted and told through the expressive dynamic of his graphite lines.  The breath of the art...