Moongift, 2026, oil and acrylic on canvas

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Geometric abstraction symbolizing the idyllic concept of Sun City - an urban haven, where immortality and harmony intertwine.

Nicholaas Chiao
Sun City II
Mixed media on canvas

This geometric abstraction is inspired by the idea of an idyllic urban environment, where solar energy supplies all energy needs of immortal inhabitants, engaged in lives in real and virtual simulations of invented realities.

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Jan Vermeer, The Concert, 1664, oil on canvas

Never enough of Vermeer

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Neo expressionist portrait

Nicholaas Chiao
Variation in Yellow
2026
Oil on canvas

I'm working on a series of variations of the same composition in colors

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Photorealist painting of a museum audience.

Presence VI, 2024, oil on canvas, painting those who admire art is my long-time interest

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Abstract painting with orange, green, and blue

This is a small abstract painting from 2023. Acrylic and spray paint on canvas

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Oil painting depicting group of children at the museum

This is my oil painting from about 2014, titled Presence V. Old masters, old masters
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Photorealist oil painting of a crowd of viewers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is my largest painting to date, titled Presence, 2012, oil on canvas

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Painting of a group of museum visitors on a dark background

Watchers in the Darkness, 2012, oil on canvas. Figurative painting I've created for British art collectors

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Photorealist painting of a mirrored gallery of silverware at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Glass Room, 2012, oil on canvas. This painting is based on a photograph taken at the Met museum and stylistically influenced by Gerhard Richter

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Oil painting of a young woman in the gallery of medieval art. Evidently influenced by Jan Vermeer.

Daliah in Rudolstadt, 2007, oil on canvas, was a part of a series of my paintings of museum visitors. The series was my only commercial success to date, selling at the NY and London AAF for $1400-5000

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Realist oil painting of a woman before mirrors. Year 2006.

This painting is titled Impressions, it was initially created in Minsk, Belarus and later in New York I've painted few more versions.

#art #realism #fineart #contemporaryart #painting #femaleportrait #impressionism #year2004 #photopainting #womanbeforemirror #newimpressionism #artinamerica

Painting of a woman on the couch reading book

My oil painting of a woman in a couch reading book. This was part of a series of figurative paintings I've created upon relocation to NYC in 2006.

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Cityscape depicting a Prada storefront filled with female mannequins

This study of a Prada storefront in Soho was among my first paintings produced in America. About 2006. Oil on canvas

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Sunny impressionist cityscape painted in Minsk, Belarus

This is another painting of mine from Minsk, created in 2003. Painted in plein air from life.

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Plein air study of a cafe in Crimea

This is a small one-hour plein air painting of a Crimean cafe executed in 2002. This was more than 20 years ago. It was happy, happy times then.

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Seascape with the cliffs in Crimea, painted in 2002.

I've painted this cliffs in Crimea in 2002, at summer.

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Plein air painting Sunny Day in Village, impressionism, Belarus, positive mood

My painting of the yard of a village house in Belarus. Year 2002. Sunny day, happy life

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Impressionist oil painting of a field with the haystacks in Belarus

My old impressionist plein air painting of a field with haystacks in Belarus. About 2002.

#art #landscape #landscapeart #oilpainting #impressionism #pleinair #study #belarus #year2002 #newimpressionism #nicholaschistiakov #paintingstudy

Landscape with the rain. Oil painting of a rainy day at sea.

Plein air painting of a rainy day at sea in Crimea. Painted in summer of 2002 or 2003.

#art #contemporaryimpressionism #impressionism #pleinair #seascape #oilpainting #rainatsea #rainyday #oilstudy #study #contemporaryart #year2002 #blacksea #apolianorvs

Academic drawing of a nude model. 2002. Pencil on paper

This is my academic drawing of a nude model from about 2002.

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Painting of an apple orchard in Belarus.

This painting was created in Belarus, just a few months before I left for the USA in 2003, and is currently in a private collection in Florida.

#art #landscape #painting #impressionism #applegarden #yellow #contemporaryart #contemporaryimpressionism #realism #pleinair #belarusamerican #landscapeart

Lady in Green, 2002, oil on canvas

This is my painting from the Academy of Arts. More than 20 years ago.

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War art, medieval battle, monumental composition

Become My Mirror, Follow After Me, 2018-2024, Digital painting

#art #fineart #digitalart #warart #battleart #neoexpressionism #expressionism #brooklynartist #artinamerica #newyorkart #galleryart #museumart #digitalpainting #darkart #apolianorvs

Neo Expressionist painting

Deconstructivist portrait

Neo Expressionist Portrait

Expressionist painting of dragon

Some of my Neo-Expressionist and Deconstructivist art

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Abstract composition

Abstract painting

Contemporary abstract painting

My abstract series Sun City
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Perhaps it's too dark for the title 'Sun City,' but it marks the beginning of a large series of abstract paintings featuring urban motifs. Maybe it is dark, but playful and full of color and rhythms