World Leaders Captured in Art - 08.12.2022, Sputnik International

Artist's Day is an informal professional holiday celebrated on December 8. Although it is sometimes referred to as International Artist's Day, this holiday is virtually unknown outside of Russia, where it was established in 2007.

Art of the Nations of the World, an international association founded by the Russian artist and philanthropist Nikolay Kornilov, who devoted his life to supporting the arts, initiated Artist's Day. In 1998, Kornilov founded the Art of the Peoples of the World and the NIKOR gallery. In 2007 his association established Artist's Day. The first official celebration of Artist's Day was held at the Mytishchi Art Gallery.

On the occasion of Artist's Day, museums, galleries, and other cultural institutions throughout Russia hold exhibitions, installations, performances, master classes, open-air events and many other activities where artists can show off their work and receive proper appreciation and recognition. And even if there are no events dedicated to Artist's Day nearby, you can celebrate the holiday by visiting an art gallery or museum, buying a painting or placing an order with an artist.

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Sri Lankan clay artist Upali Dias poses with the handmade busts of former US President Donald Trump (R) and current President Joe Biden (L) ahead of the 2020 presidential election which Biden won.

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Indian artist Sudarshan Pattnaik, 65, finishes a sand sculpture depicting US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un at Puri beach, some 65 km away from Bhubaneswar on June 11, 2018, ahead of the US-North Korea summit. Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump met on June 12 for an unprecedented summit in an attempt to address the last festering legacy of the Cold War, with the US president calling it a "one time shot" at peace.

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An artist draws a portrait of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on tiles with chalk at Trafalgar Square in London on September 11, 2022.

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An artist dressed as former French presidential candidate for the far-right National Front (FN) party Marine Le Pen (R) walks ahead of a float depicting the then-French candidate for the left-wing French Socialist (PS) party Benoit Hamon and candidate for the right-wing Les Republicains (LR) party Francois Fillon in the streets of Nice during the 133rd edition of the Nice Carnival on February 19, 2017, in Nice, southeastern France.

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Kosovo artist Alkent Pozhegu works on the final touches of an image made with grain and seed depicting the portrait of former-German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the town of Gjakova on September 26, 2021.

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An artist gives the finishing touches to a wall mural depicting prominent figures of the Indian freedom struggle in New Delhi on February 13, 2022. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP)

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An artist works on a giant caricature of the head of French President Emmanuel Macron created for the upcoming 2022 Nice Carnival, in the French riviera city of Nice on February 9, 2022. (Photo by Valery HACHE / AFP)

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An artist paints a portrait of Kofi Annan at the entrance of the Accra International Conference Centre in Accra on September 11, 2018, where the coffin of the Ghanaian diplomat and former Secretary General of United Nations who died on August 18 at the age of 80 after a short illness lays. (Photo by CRISTINA ALDEHUELA / AFP)

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An artist gives the final touches to a painting of French President Emmanuel Macron after his victory in France's presidential election, in Mumbai on April 25, 2022. (Photo by Punit PARANJPE / AFP)

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A boy rides a scooter next to graffiti depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin on the embankment of Yalta.

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Commuters pass a 1965 mosaic portrait of the Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin by Soviet artist Grigory Opryshko at a metro station in Moscow on October 27, 2017.

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A graffiti artist paints a portrait of the late South African anti-apartheid campaigner, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, ex-wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela, on April 7, 2018 in Soweto. - Winnie Mandela died on April 2, 2018, at the age of 81.

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Men carry posters of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev down a Baku street after a military parade.

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The famous Austrian artist and caricaturist Gerhard Haderer stands in front of a giant poster he created featuring Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, during a media event titled "Refugees by Initiative Courage" near the Naschmarkt market in Vienna, Austria on March 9, 2021.

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Artist Alex Sanker, 51, paints a picture of Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine, in a street of Belize City, on March 18, 2022, the day ahead of their visit.