Semyon Bilmes (29 August 1955) is an
Azerbaijani American
Azerbaijani Americans ( az, Amerikalı Azərbaycanlılar) are Americans of the Azerbaijani ancestry from the Republic of Azerbaijan and Iranian Azerbaijan or people possessing Azerbaijani, Iranian, and/or American citizenship. Most Azerbaijani A ...
painter and the founder and instructor of
The Ashland Academy of Art
The Ashland Academy of Art was an art school located in Ashland, Oregon, United States. The Ashland Academy of Art was a classically based and independent school. The academy's program was mainly based on the Russian Academic System. This ...
, in
Ashland, Oregon, United States and
Atelier Maui, in Maui, Hawaii United States.
Bilmes has achieved national recognition as an advertising, editorial, and book illustrator. Bilmes has illustrated campaigns for
AT&T,
CBS,
General Mills,
Warner Lambert,
Smirnoff Vodka,
Citibank
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,
Clairol,
Western Union,
Alaska Airlines, and
Philip Morris Phil(l)ip or Phil Morris may refer to:
Companies
*Altria, a conglomerate company previously known as Philip Morris Companies Inc., named after the tobacconist
**Philip Morris USA, a tobacco company wholly owned by Altria Group
**Philip Morris Inter ...
. His work can be found on the covers of books and periodicals such as ''Reader's Digest'' and the ''
New York Times''. His
oil painting, "Lady in a red Turban", was on the cover of the annual directory of top illustrators and designers in the country,
American Showcase
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.
Life
Semyon Bilmes was born August 29, 1955, in
Baku
Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...
,
Azerbaijan SSR
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. His art education started when he was a child in youth classes where he studied fundamentals of drawing. When he reached the age of sixteen he attended the A. Azim-Zade Academy of Art in Baku (USSR) where he was trained in the
Russian Academic System. Bilmes' emigrated to New York in 1980 where he also graduated from the
Parsons School of Design
Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhatt ...
.
As a successful artist, Bilmes founded the Bilmes Art School, where for ten years he taught art with a commercial emphasis.
Blimes later acquired and renovated a large building in Ashland, Oregon, for The Ashland Academy of Art. In 2010, Semyon with his family moved to Maui where they opened Atelier Maui. Semyon is currently teaching at Atelier Maui. .
Bilmes lives on Maui with his wife and one of his four children.
See also
*
Atelier Method
References
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1955 births
20th-century American painters
American male painters
21st-century American painters
Azerbaijani painters
Soviet emigrants to the United States
Living people
Artists from Baku
American people of Azerbaijani descent
People from Ashland, Oregon
20th-century American male artists