Once upon a time I worked in a glossy magazine, I tried to promote my own project, a series of articles of St. Petersburg’s artists. One of the first materials, was dedicated to the painter Agile (Georgy Telov, p. 1967). Petersburg and Paris were the main themes of his paintings. Two cities. Two worlds. Two […]
Yves Saint Laurent was the artist, the designer, the genius, the brand. There is the whole world beyond his name. The world of fashion is bustling, glamorous, cruel but attractive and fantastic, where as a scattered bright mosaic, there are catwalks, models, haute couture shows, boutiques, magazines, tortures of creative process, rehearsals and at last after another sumptuous collection […]
То transfer music rhythm, melody, emotions visually is a rather difficult task. But if the artist comes to the right way, it turns out a true masterpiece, combining two fine arts. Before this moment when one brilliant and simultaneously simple idea had came to Alex Steinweiss, a New York graphic designer, music albums packaged […]
Why we find difficult to write about the people or phenomenons that have most inspired or influenced us. The task becomes even more complicated when you want to tell about the artist bright and original. Perhaps because of his own works are so clear, readable and don’t require any explanation. The exhibition Ikko Tanaka, The Future, […]
The painting of Pablo Picasso entitled Women of Algiers (Version O) was sold May 11, 2015 for $ 179.4 million and became the most expensive work of art ever sold at an auction, and the most expensive work of the artist. The buyer wished to remain anonymous. But experts believe that the new owner is […]
I guess it’s so curious to know what do artists think about their works, how they feel our world and how does their imagination transfer into different art objects. And at last how their energy inspires and charges us. Do their ideas come to them accidentally or after deep plunging into philosophical musing? American artist […]
When I was a teen I attended an art school. One day we were sitting and painting a still-life. (It was some composition of fruits, ware and draped fabrics). Everything was as usual. But at one moment our teacher, who was passing by among our easels, had stopped and said to us. – Stop your […]
As everybody knows the most vivid memories from childhood. The most delicious ice cream, the most interesting movies, fun skiing,skating and the most terrible stories were told each other before going to bed, it all seems to have been only then. And of course the greedy «swallowing» of books, especially adventure stories. Looking through these […]
No one comes up here without a damn good reason. It’s the tagline for the new film by Quentin Tarantino.«The H8full 8». There is the game from the begining. Starting with the name. Hateful eight. We hear «eight» in the word «hateful». This is rarely when the process of making a film is concentrated in […]
When an artist creates his own unique visual world, an architect designs of his environment, a playwright plunges us into the world of his characters, a composer sets a certain rhythm, then a theater artist has the global task to unite the creative vision of all participants of spectacle, while staying true to itself and its […]
