Draft:Lena Snow

• Comment: Content like "best known for her sensual and expressive female portraits which have been exhibited and published around the world" is entirely inappropriate for an encyclopaedia. Please find independent sources and remove the primary ones, galleries, Instagram, Blurb etc Theroadislong (talk) 13:48, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: You need to look very hard at the quotes attributed to Snow. Look though the lens that we are not the least bit interested in what Snow has to say about herself. Instead we need to know what others have said about Snow.
  Reputations are not made in Wikipedia. We only report on what others have said n secondary, independent, reliable sources.
  The more I look at this draft the more I feel you need to start again, from scratch 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 10:12, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: Please remove Facebook and Instagram sources they are not reliable. Theroadislong (talk) 21:18, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: I have checked the first six references. One is 404 error, a couple do not mention Snow, two are sites selling her books. One s Snow speaking about her own work. This does not meet the criteria for referencing you were furnished with earlier. Please examine all the other references. I know you wish to have this article published. Please follow the advice you are given.
  The tone is that of a magazine article, not an encyclopaedia. Add the tone to the sites flogging her stuff and you will be able to see why I consider this to be an advert. We require flat, neutral, dull-but-worthy prose, with no frills or fancies.
  An example is "Due to some stressful years, she had almost given up on art. However, in March 2020 when the Corona Crisis struck the world, she could focus more on herself and started to paint again. Since then, she has devoted her life fully to art. Creativity has helped her through adolescence and traumatic life events. Yet, it was equally the process of emancipation and self-reliance that contributed to an elevation of her creativity." No citation and overblown prose. I chose purple on purpose.
  Please scour this for other examples and cut, cut, and cut again. Lose the inappropriate references. If necessary lose any facts you are unable to cite. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 20:51, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: For a living person we have a high standard of referencing. Every substantive fact you assert, especially one that is susceptible to potential challenge, requires a citation with a reference that is about them, and is independent of them, in multiple secondary sources which are WP:RS, and is significant coverage. Please also see WP:PRIMARY which details the limited permitted usage of primary sources and WP:SELFPUB which has clear limitations on self published sources. Providing sufficient references, ideally one per fact cited, that meet these tough criteria is likely to make this draft a clear acceptance (0.9 probability). Lack of them or an inability to find them is likely to mean that the person is not suitable for inclusion, certainly today. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 07:14, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: Not clear how they would pass the criteria at WP:NARTIST? and Facebook is not a reliable source.Theroadislong (talk) 07:02, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

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Lena Snow (born in 1989) is an award-winning fine artist based in Germany. She is also the founder and editor of the international art platform and magazine Goddessarts Magazine.... The artist is best known for her sensual and expressive female portraits which have been exhibited and published around the world.

Lena Snow

Biography

Lena Snow earned a master's degree at the University of Mannheim (1st state examination) and a teaching degree at the SSDL Karlsruhe (2nd state examination).

Due to some stressful years, she had almost given up on art. However, in March 2020 when the Corona Crisis struck the world, she could focus more on herself and started to paint again. Since then, she has devoted her life fully to art. Creativity has helped her through adolescence and traumatic life events. Yet, it was equally the process of emancipation and self-reliance that contributed to an elevation of her creativity.

Lena Snow amidst her paintings

In 2021 she founded the art platform "Goddessarts Magazine" which is an online and print magazine, features an art blog and hosts virtual exhibitions since 2024. The message of emancipation and self-expression is also a vital theme of her magazine and its wide community.

Lena Snow has exhibited nationally and internationally. Notable successes include the participation in the art fairs Art Karlsruhe in Germany, Art Basel and Art Kaunas in Lithuania, as well as the Biennale Austria. The artist has also exhibited at the MEAM (European Museum of Modern Art) in Barcelona and at the Museo dell'imprenditoria Femminile in Muravera, Italy. Lena has appeared in numerous international art and lifestyle magazines, such as The Best Address Magazine, CREATIV Magazine, and Art Market Magazine. She was also given the cover story by Imirage Magazine, Artmagazineium and Moevir Magazine, among others, and her portfolio is listed at Artist Talk Magazine

Snow is a member and supporter of several organizations and groups like Where Are the Women Artists, Brushes with Cancer, Terre des Femmes and Women. Life. Freedom. With her magazine she regularly donates to humanitarian or non-profit organizations and raises awareness about their causes.

She is also listed in the Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek and wrote for the international Shunga Erotic Art Magazine

Work

Lena Snow mainly works with acrylic on paper and paints figurative, female portraits. Her female entities are often depicted in a sensual, mythical, and elevated manner. Topics of spiritual enlightenment, connectivity, and female identity are always present in her art. Essential sources of inspiration are not only impressions of nature, but also intriguing female characters, goddesses and nymphs.

Snow's ideas are strongly influenced by American Transcendentalism, especially the concepts of self-reliance and higher consciousness.

She describes her art in her own words as follows:

Lena working in her studio

"I explore various aspects of femininity and female identity in my paintings. My inspiration are personal stories of women I encountered, but also female characters in mythology, film, and literature. They are a new, powerful, and emancipated approach of one's identity and sexuality, and at the same time they stand for empowerment for all women.

For a long time only men have painted women, neglecting their personal stories of ambivalence, trauma and multifaceted nature, but it is time that women change the narrative and capture their unique stories by contributing to a new, empowered expression of elevated femininity."

Snow's paintings often show nudity as an expression of freedom and naturalness, as she expresses in an online article with the Warriors Within Collective:

"Nudity is a central element in my art and sometimes seen as quite controversial. However, the expression of nudity means liberation and freedom, and is merely a depiction of a natural state given by nature. As a woman living in a country where you are allowed to express nudity, it is not only a privilege to do so, but is an urge."

In her earlier years as an artist, Snow created artworks out of recycled materials like used paper and plastic waste, underlining the importance of a responsible usage of natural resources.

She is represented by notable international online art galleries and art platforms such as Artio Gallery, Singulart, Saatchi, TriCera, KaleidoArt and ArtMajeur

Exhibition selection

Lena Snow has exhibited around the globe, including famous art fairs and museums, which include:

07/2024 to 11/2024: Exhibition at the Art Park Rhodes, Greece

04/2024 to 07/2023 "Citrus" International Contemporary Art exhibition, Museo Dell' imprenditoria Femminile, Muravera, Italy

04/2024: Art Fest Bremen, 'Through the Kaleidoscope - A Journey into Dreams, Memories, and Chaos.', Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

04/2024: The Brushes With Cancer Spring 2024 Art Exhibition, at the Writer's Theatre in Glencoe, Illinois, USA

03/2024: International Women's Day exhibition, Marvelous Art Gallery, Poole, UK

01/2024: Salon de Refusées, Krautart, Berlin, Germany

11/2023: rt5 Round Table, Art Auction, Berlin, Germany

10/2023: People over Profit exhibition at the PSI World Congress, Geneva, Switzerland

09/2023: Art Kaunas, by invitation from the art critic Gabrielė Kuizinaitė

08/2023 - 10/2023: Faces and Figures exhibition, Arts to Hearts project, Delhi, India

08/2023: International Group Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MEAM), Barcelona

06/2023: Art Basel, Artbox Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

05/2023: Art Karlsruhe, Galleria Anquins, Reus, Spain

11/2022: Contempora 2, group exhibition, Makeart Gallery, Rome

10/2022: Hexe - group exhibition, Kunsthaus RoZig, LA, California

07/2022 - 08/2022: Love is Love (pride month exhibition), Marvelous Art Gallery, Poole, UK

03/2022 - 04/2022: Femina group exhibition, gallery Gallerium, Ontario, Canada

12/2021 - 02/2022: New Years Exhibition, Israeli Art Market, Israel

11/2021 - 01/2022: participation in the group exhibition Neo Naivism, invitation from Prof. Künnapu, Artist Union Estonia, Tallinn

08/2021: Biennale Austria, Another Day in Paradise at the Arcitect Expo in Venice, Italy

05/2021: finalist of the Colors exhibition at the Grey Cube Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

02/2021 - 03/2021: group exhibition Ad Astra, at Divulgarti Art, Genova, Italy

Publications

Lena Snow has been published in international media, including art, fashion and lifestyle magazines - and her art has been chosen as a cover many times:

06/2024: Le Désir, Fashion & Lifestyle Magazine

06/2024: MVIBE Magazine, issue 6.1, Cover story

02/2024: The Warriors Within Collective, Vol. 16

01/2024: Salon de Refusées, Krautart

05/2023: Phoebe Journal Vol. 52.2

03/2023: Delirium Magazine, Issue 45, Paris, France

03/2023: Marvelous Art Magazine, issue March 2023, Poole, UK

02/2023: Quadro Magazine, Fantasy February, Vol. 52, New York, USA, cover story

02/2023: Boudoir Inspiration, February Issue Sensuality, Miami, USA

02/2023: Feature Magazine, Issue 22, Auckland, New Zealand

02/2023: The Style Researcher, Anniversary Issue 29, Rome, Italy

01/2023: Looker Magazine, cover story

10/2022: Suboart Magazine, Artist Blog

09/2022: 6x Fashion Magazine, Vol. 45, San Diego, USA

08/2022: Imirage Magazine, Art edition, Ontario, Canada, cover story

08/2022: Untold Magazine, nude & boudoir edition, Athens, Greece, cover story

08/2022: Artells Magazine, Fineart August, Vol. 314, New York, USA

07/2022: Marvelous Art Magazine, issue 5, Leicester, UK

04/2022: Art Magazineium, issue 14, cover story, Istanbul, Turkey

03/2022: Art and Cake Magazine, Art of Poetry, Los Angeles, USA

01/2022: Art Market Magazine, issue 66, Tel Aviv, Israel

12/2021: Covos lifestyle magazine, issue 5, Dallas, UK

12/2021: Moevir lifestyle magazine, cover story, issue 28, Paris, France

11/2021: Marika lifestyle magazine, issue 1622, cover story, New York/Moscow

10/2021: Swanky lifestyle magazine, fashion forward, issue IV, London, UK

10/2021: published in the award winning CREATIV Magazine, Milestone Issue, 46, Miami, USA

09/2020: special feature in the Make Sense LGBT Magazine, front + back cover, Vol. 7, New York; USA

09/2021: MVIBE Magazine, back cover, Art Issue 28.2, Athens, Greece

06/2021: The Best Address Luxury and Lifestyle Magazine, New-Delhi, India

10/2020: Artist Talk Magazine, Issue 13

Awards and nominations

07/2024: Selected for the Gold List as "Top Artists of Today" by the respectable jury panel of the Art Market Magazine Eric Smith (President & CEO, Redwood Media Group), Jörgen Golz (Chief Director Discovery Art Fair), Jacopo Celona (General Director Florence Biennale)

08/2023: Talent Prize Award, figurative art competition, Teravarna Gallery, LA, USA

07/2023: Art talent prize, Museum of European Modern Art (MEMA), Barcelona, curated by Artio Gallery Canada, 3rd place winner

06/2023: Merit award of the June competition, Helvetart, Switzerland

09/2022: selected top 30 artist in the Fall Bruxelles Art Vue Prize, Bruxelles, Belgium

01/2022: 3rd prize at The Virtual Art Exhibition, Würzburg, Germany

12/2021: awarded with the Olympic Art Prize, Rome, Italy

12/2021: Certificate of Artistic Merit by the Luxembourg Art Prize, Luxembourg

External links

• Entry of Lena Snow in Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek
• Website of Lena Snow
• Lena Snow represented by Saatchi Art
• Lena Snow represented by ArtMajeur
• Lena Snow represented by Artio Gallery
• Lena Snow represented by Singulart
• Lena Snow at LinkedIn
• Lena Snow at Shunga Erotic Art Magazine
• Lena Snow at Artist Talk Magazine