Paul Hitter: Cossack camping

Paul Hitter, Cossack camping, 2012
pencil on paper
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Paul Hitter: The Accordionist

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Paul Hitter's New Painting: Django Reinhardt, Minor Swing

Paul Hitter: Django Reinhardt, Minor Swing
oil on canvas, 2011
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Enjoy!

Minor Swing, Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli
(video by DjangoReinhardtJazz)

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Paul Hitter: Me and Frida Kahlo

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Paul Hitter: Portrait of a Gypsy Woman with Baby and Ciggy

DamenPorträt mit Baby and Zigarette
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There is a movie that comes to mind, it's Makhmalbaf's Gabbeh, and of course all those stories by Gorky, Макар Чудра and all that good stuff.

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Paul Hitter: East Meets West

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I dedicate this post to Pola Rapaport, who had once in mind to turn one of his movies into a dark comedy, East Meets West. Actually I haven't talked too much here on the blog about her movies. It's my mistake. She has some very challenging movies.

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Paul Hitter: Maria Tanase

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Paul Hitter takes great inspiration from Roma culture and insists you call him a Gypsy not Roma even although he is neither of the two. That he has no Gypsy blood flowing through his veins does not diminish the strength of his vision. Hitter's Gypsyness is a transfusion of Gypsy spirit.

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Paul Hitter: Taras Bulba

oil on canvas, 100/80 cm, 2011
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Paul Hitter and Balkan Expressionism

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Paul Hitter (born 1982) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. His style is known as Balkan Expressionism: a mix of folk art- inspired by Gypsy culture, Jewish culture, Romanian culture, Slavic culture, and pure expressionism. Says Paul Hitter, because I am coming from Balkan ground, because Balkan is encapturing such a variety of cultures, because Balkan is a sort of modern Jerusalem.

You can see his amazing works by following his blog: One and Only Paul Hitter. A Paul Hitter exhibition is scheduled at the Balkanik Festival (Bucharest, September 23-24).

• Taras Bulba
• Maria Tanase
• East Meets West
• Portrait of a Gypsy Woman with Baby and Ciggy
• Me and Frida Kahlo
• Django Reinhardt, Minor Swing
• The Accordionist
• Cossack camping

(Contemporary Art)