WORLD’S BEST CUBISTS: SAVOSTIANOVA, SHCHUKINA, CHEN, ROWAN, BRENNAN, AVLAMIS, KLINTMAN, AGUILAR, VALETOVA, KAPLAN & SKUGINNA

Thom Bierdz
4 min readSep 30, 2018

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Cubist artists from Russia, Taiwan, Germany, Greece, Sweden, Mexico and USA win highest scores in Category 9 of the 2018 AMERICAN ART AWARDS.

This year the American Art Awards (www.AmericanArtAwards.com), juried by the 25 Best Galleries & Museums In America (listed below), had online art images in 50 categories submitted from artists in 59 countries: Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, El Salvador, England, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Great Britain, Greece, Haiti, Iceland, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Serbia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, UK, Ukraine, USA, Venezuela.

The 1st Place to 6th Place winners in all 50 categories will be revealed in the news about a category a day — stretching into November, making this one of the longest winner announcements of any art competition in the world.

CATEGORY 9. CUBISM

1ST PLACE ELENA SAVOSTIANOVA RUSSIA sava6261@mail.ru “Chukotka” 50x70cm Oil on canvas.

2ND PLACE-TIE EUGENIA SHCHUKINA RUSSIA http://eugeniashchukina.com “23 Inch Max Crazy Swiss” 100x70cm Pastel.

2ND PLACE-TIE LYNN CHEN TAIWAN http://www.celesteprize.com/member/idu:96810/ “Heart In A Bottle” 45.9x35.8” Oil, Canvas.

3RD PLACE-TIE WILLIAM ROWAN SPAIN www.william-rowan.com “Las Lineas Del Amor / The Lines Of Love” 100x150cm Acrylic on canvas.

3RD PLACE-TIE WILLIAM FRANCIS BRENNAN GERMANY www.william-francis-brennan.com “On The Subway-Train” 100x100cm Acrylic and oil on canvas.

4TH PLACE-TIE ELENA SAVOSTIANOVA RUSSIA sava6261@mail.ru
“The Shaman” 35x48cm Oil on cardboard.

4TH PLACE-TIE ALEXIS AVLAMIS GREECE www.alexisavlamis.com
“Lovers Fighting” 28x28" Acrylic on canvas.

5TH PLACE-TIE ROSE-MARIE KLINTMAN SWEDEN www.rmk.nu “Spacing” 38x46cm Acrylic and oil on canvas.

5TH PLACE-TIE JORGE PRADO AGUILAR MEXICO www.jorgepradoart.com
“Gallo Mexicano” 4x2.5m Spray and acrylic on wall.

5TH PLACE-TIE NINA TOKHTAMAN VALETOVA USA www.valetova.info
“Constraint” 76x60cm Oil, linen on board.

6TH PLACE-TIE NINA TOKHTAMAN VALETOVA USA www.valetova.info
“Obscure Games” 68x91cm Oil, linen on board.

6TH PLACE-TIE RUDOLF KAPLAN GERMANY www.studio-beverast.de
“Divorces — One Of Human Miseries” 100x70cm Oil, beaver board.

6TH PLACE-TIE LENA SKUGINNA GERMANY lena.skuginna@gmail.com “Broken Faces” 1000x100cm Acrylic.

This year’s 25 Best Galleries & Museums asked to vote on art were:

BEST IN ALABAMA — ALABAMA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
BEST IN ARKANSAS — FORT SMITH REGIONAL ART MUSEUM
BEST IN CALIFORNIA — REVOLVER GALLERY
BEST IN COLORADO — COLORADO FINE ARTS CENTER AT COLORADO COLLEGE
BEST IN FLORIDA — LIK FINE ART MIAMI + LIK FINE ART KEY WEST
BEST IN ILLINOIS — TRICKSTER ART GALLERY
BEST IN KANSAS — BIRGER SANDZEN MEMORIAL GALLERY
BEST IN KENTUCKY — E&S GALLERY
BEST IN LOUISIANA — NEWCOMB ART MUSEUM
BEST IN MASSACHUSETTS — BOSTON SCULPTORS GALLERY
BEST IN MISSISSIPPI — THE OHR-O’KEEFE MUSEUM OF ART
BEST IN MISSOURI — UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI MUSEUM OF ART AND ARCHEOLOGY
BEST IN NEBRASKA — KIECHEL FINE ART
BEST IN NEVADA — THE METROPOLITAN GALLERY OF LAS VEGAS ART MUSEUM
BEST IN OHIO — LEE HAYDEN GALLERY
BEST IN OKLAHOMA — JOSEPH GIEREK FINE ART
BEST IN OREGON — JORDAN SCHNITZER MUSEUM of ART
BEST IN PENNSYLVANIA — JAMES A. MICHENER ART MUSEUM
BEST IN SOUTH CAROLINA — MARY MARTIN GALLERY OF FINE ART
BEST IN SOUTH DAKOTA — SOUTH DAKOTA ART MUSEUM
BEST IN TEXAS — ART ON 5TH
BEST IN UTAH — THE LEONARDO
BEST IN WASHINGTON — MARYHILL MUSEUM OF ART
BEST IN WEST VIRGINIA — WEST VIRGINIA STATE MUSEUM
BEST IN WISCONSIN — MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART

Enter art at www.AmericanArtAwards.com

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Thom Bierdz

One of Medium’s TOP ART CONTRIBUTORS, award-winning author, actor, film-maker, painter. 12 books: 6 on art. President of WAA & AAA & ACCA.