BIRD 2005 International Art Award Announced Final Winners

BIRD 2005 International Art Award organized by Beijing Nature Culture Center and supported by Beijing Jiayi Art Saloon and Changqing Art Fund, have announced its final winners the recent days. The theme of competition is: Bird—Life and Dream.

It collected planar art works from various materials and painting styles including oil painting, traditional Chinese painting, print painting, comic work, illustration, and charcoal drawing. The judgment of the competition was from art critics, professional artists, culture and nature scholars, and art officers from supporting institutions organized by Beijing Nature Culture Center.

The Best Cartoon Work went to the Holland artist Willem Rasing. Chinese drawer Xiaoqiang Hou and 11 foreign artists gained the Special Awards. And there were 33 Honour Mentions involving Chinese artists Dachuan Xiam, Xuehong Zhou and Guo Liang.

The winner list of BIRD2005 International Art Award (Cartoon section)

Third Place Award( The Best Cartoon work)
Willem Rasing(Holland)

Special Award
GRZEGORZ SZUMOWSKI(Poalnd)
CRISTOBAL REINOSO(Agentina)
ROSS THOMSON(UK)
STANISLAV ASHMARIN(Russia)
Xiaoqiang HOU(China)
ERAY OZBEK(Turkey)
Rumen Dragostinov(Bulgaria)
BILL STOTT(UK)
Stephen Mumberson(UK)
Angel Boligan Corbo(Mexico)
ZELJKO CERIC(Croatia)
KAZANEVSKY VLADIMIR(Ukraine)

Honour Mention
MOJMIR MIHATOV(Croatia)
Xuehong ZHOU(China)
Chervyakov Aleksey(Russia)
Yuriy Kosobukin(Ukraine)
Valentin Druzhinin(Russia)
MOHAMMAD ALI KHALAJI(Iran)
Kustovsky Alexey(Ukraine)
Pyotr KULINICH(Russia)
MUHITTIN KOROGLU(Turkey)
JOZEF JURCZYSZYN(Poland)
ROBERTO MANGOSI(Italy)
RAHIM BAGGAL ASGARI(Iran)
Tae-yong Kang(Korea)
GRZEGORZ SOBCZAK(Poland)
Hadi Tabasi(Iran)
GUO Liang(China)
Dachuan XIA(China)
RADEK STESKA(Czech)
ANDREI PUCHKANIOU(Belarus)
AMORIM(Brazil)
SLOBODAN OBRADOVIC(Serbia and Montenegro)
IRENEUSZ PARZYSZEK(Poland)
READ KHALIL(SYRIA)
PAOLO DALPONTE(Italy)
Andrea Bersani(Italy)
Arsen Gevorgyan(Armenia)
SLAWOMIR LUCZYNSKI(Poland)
Stefan Despodov(Bulgaria)
Oleg LOKTYEV(Ukraine)
Steffen Jahsnowski(German)
Permyakov Michael(Russia)
VILIAM ZIVICKY(Slovakia)
Gulmira Azizora(Uzbekistan)