Rossin has just returned from Bulgaria where he was recently honored by Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov with an honorary medal of merit. Parvanov presented Rossin the medal in the National Coat of Arms Hall. A native of Bulgaria, Rossin donated his portrait of Vasil Levski to the Presidency of the Republic of Bulgaria. The portrait now hangs next to the National Coat of Arms. Rossin’s wife and children accompanied him to the ceremony.
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Rossin’s new portrait of former U.N. Ambassador Andy Young was recently displayed at a private reception and covered by the Business Chronicle. Rossin and his oil portrait of Young are pictured in the article with Young, and Jane and John Portman. Read more…
Is bragging allowed? My portrait of Ambassador Andrew Young was accepted yesterday in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washigton, DC. Kinda cool! So visitors to the capital will have a chance to admire it…
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Hello and apologies for the break in blog posts. Rossin has so many amazing opportunities right now and we want to take the time to tell you about each and every one!
Can you believe the greatest home run hitter of all-time was in Rossin’s studio?! That’s right, Hank Aaron visited Rossin’s studio recently. The portrait will be more than fitting for someone of hammerin’ Hank’s magnitude.
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As an artist I do believe that an image is worth a thousand words. But what makes an image, a portrait better than another? Where do we find a distinct difference? The physical likeness is naturally important. Capturing the character of the sitter is, of course, essential. In my work, however, the likeness is not the objective. This is merely the starting point of my journey into one’s psyche.
While working on Mrs. Sullivan’s portrait, I almost immediately recognized the distinct aspects of her character: a person of integrity, personal charm, self-confidence, remarkable presence.
On Saturday, August 22, The Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, celebrated their sixth birthday in Presidential style. A new 13 by 20 foot painting by the famous portrait artist, Rossin, featuring full length portraits of all the 20th century presidents, was unveiled. This masterpiece, entitled “ A Meeting in Time,” pleased the crowd with a few onlookers even tearful as they studied this magnificent work. Read more…
I am looking for the people’s Jackie and I want to make her mine.
I am trying to commune with her elegant spirit and I find myself lost in her magic.
I am looking for answers and I find myself enchanted by her mystery. Read more…
I’d like to introduce you to The American Royalty Collection. These are complex characters. They are remarkable in the sense that they don’t fit any stereotypes and have nothing to do with the pop culture clichés.
Even more, each character represents a certain aspect of the bigger picture – the essence of the American Spirit.
Together, they portray the American soul as a far more complicated mechanism, in its many aspect and diversity. Always unique and somewhat unpredictable.
It is a journey into the American psyche.
It is definitely not a slideshow of celebrities. Nor is it a portrait gallery of “Who’s Who.”
The American Spirit is free, original, complex, dramatic, controversial….
These characters, including Lincoln, Washington, Jackie Kennedy, Marlon Brando, Britney Spears, an inspiring woman named Jessica, and paintings of genuine American iconic objects – Barbie, Cowboy Boots, and Coke Zero, all inhabit a special place where time does not exist. Their energy transcends not only their reality but all types of limits or standard categories.
The American Royalty Collection is not a sightseeing tour. I see it as in intellectual journey. Read more…
Quality portrait art is very much a celebration of the uniqueness of the human visage, as refined in paintings by such celebrated portrait painters as Atlanta’s Rossin.
Long a leading name in the world of art, his truly striking study of Abraham Lincoln, discussed in a Newsmax Magazine February 2009 cover story, is in fact a beautiful and awe-inspiring case in point. “I wanted to go beyond the well-known image and take a journey into his psyche,” relates Rossin in the Newsmax article. And how Rossin has succeeded in doing just that! The stunning effect of paint and canvas so expertly rallied to a noble cause — is something which astonishes with its powerful, and yet subtle, grandeur.
This is a previous interview of Rossin with CNN from December, 2008.
