Read about the troubled life and mosaic-like art of Russia's symbolist painter Mikhail Vrubel.
In Norilsk, Siberia, 250 miles north of the Arctic circle, the average annual temperature is -10C and more than 130 days a year feature snowstorms. This encourages nervousness, anxiety and depression.
The constitutional reform that Vladimir Putin presented on 15th January 2020 was a surprise, especially for those who are not following Russia’s domestic political developments. The possibility of a significant transfer of powers from the president to the Duma (parliament) has been discussed repeatedly over the course of the past year.
Ces hautes structures, que l’on retrouve en République d’Ingouchie et dans d’autres régions du Caucase, ont été érigées en des temps anciens, mais...
"The face and soul of man, the drama of life, the impressions of nature, its life and meaning, the spirit of history—these are our themes," wrote Repin, who was celebrated as a master even during his own lifetime. His works reflect Russian art’s main ideological and formal aspirations in the second half of the 19th century.
London to New York City by car? It could happen if the head of Russian Railways has his way.
"The face and soul of man, the drama of life, the impressions of nature, its life and meaning, the spirit of history—these are our themes," wrote Repin, who was celebrated as a master even during his own lifetime. His works reflect Russian art’s main ideological and formal aspirations in the second half of the 19th century.
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Post-Soviet visual. Correctional facility for women. Photo by Lise Sarfati, Russia, 1990s
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Watercolor and gouache over pencil sketch on Bristol paper; 44.5 x 56.9 cm. Adolf von Menzel, in full Adolf Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel (b. Breslau, Prussia [now Wrocław, PolanD). German painter and printmaker, best known in his own day as a brilliant historical painter, whose patriotic works satisfied the public’s taste, engendered by Prussia’s continual expansion throughout the 19th century, for propagandistic art. In the 20th century he was chiefly esteemed for his sensitive treatment of light and the original compositions of his small genre pictures. Menzel took charge of his dead father’s lithographic workshop and, self-taught, rapidly became famous in this medium by illustrating various histories of Prussia, especially those dealing with the reign of Frederick II the Great. These were followed by illustrations for similar publications, such as a lavish edition of Works of Frederick the Great (1843–49) containing 200 plates. In painting Menzel soon became famous for his glittering re-creations of such scenes as Frederick the Great’s concerts at his palace, Sanssouci, and The Ball Supper (1878), showing the court of King Wilhelm I vigorously enjoying a meal. In later times Menzel was most admired for small paintings and drawings dating from about 1840 onward. These interior, street, and landscape scenes demonstrate Menzel’s unorthodox vision; subjects are viewed from high or low angles, and there are departures from conventions of grouping and framing, as well as innovative excursions into industrial subjects, as in Rolling Mill (1875). In works such as Room with a Balcony (1845) and The Artist’s Sister in the Sitting Room (1847), Menzel presaged later developments of the Impressionist movement in France in his refined feeling for the effects of light and his use of open brushstrokes.
Your extensive library is all vanity: Henry James’s novel The Portrait of a Lady warns against associating our books with status and considering them a marker of “the supposed growth of our intellect advertised in terms of shelf space.” Do you collect books, or do you actually read them? What happened to midrange film dramas? Maybe they […]
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Members of the Gymnastic Society “Polish Falcon” fencing group, Petersburg, 1907.
Roskomnadzor posted the reminder on the Russia equivalent of Facebook.
Şimdiden uyaralım; dünyanın dört bir yanında çekilmiş bu büyüleyici fotoğrafları görünce insanın her şeyi bırakıp yollara düşesi geliyor. Ama merak etmeyin k...
