The theme of appearing visions on the edge of dreaming and wakefulness has long occupied the minds of mankind. In these transitional moments, a person can come to an insight not only how to solve some long-thinking task, an unexpected artistic image or plot, or motive of a music , but also visual and even […]
David Hockney, Nichols Canyon, 1980, photo artsy.net David Hockney’s 1980 Nichols Canyon Landscape will go on sale at the next Phillips Evening Sale on December 7. The painting is valued at around $ 35 million, according to a press release from Phillips, and is touted as “by far an artist’s most important landscape in a […]
When is there the light of hundreds of candles, diamonds flash, rubies and spinels gently flicker, sapphires and emeralds contrast with them with the cold brilliance. The precious stones, skillfully inserted into gold and silver, like the stars, sometimes the whole constellations shimmer on the surfaces of heavy silk, rich velvet and finest lace. […]
The retrospective of the artist’s creative path is always an interesting phenomenon, when time, events, searches, experiments, masterful searches are passing before your eyes. it creates some unique opportunity to live and feel, or just watch and embrace the whole lifeof the artist, even if difficult, but in general rich and harmonious. In the autumn […]
The smooth lines attract us to the depths of her paintings, set by contrast, but at the same tim, soft shadows and foggy blurred boundaries of objects envelop the viewer as a southern night with her warm air and exotic plant flavors, where beautiful creatures of nature in her work are committed sensual and mysterious […]
The end of May is a wonderful time when the sun still warms softly and affectionately, without thinking of burning, when the green of grass and foliage is bright and fresh, and the sky is blue, and in the morning in a gentle haze, the day wakes up. The time when, in anticipation of the […]
Diaghilev … There are figures in the creative world, without which, art undoubtedly existed and developed in its own way, but perhaps not so rapidly and brightly and may be would not embrace so many people from different countries and would not become such inspiring and exciting phenomenon. The life and work of Sergei Pavlovich […]
Have you ever wanted to look inside the crystals? Perhaps,there is special world is lying behind the edges of pink quartz or blue corundum or any crystal is the prism through which you could see inside something more. Wenzel Hablik, Self-Supporting Cupola with five Mountain Peaks as Basis, 1925 Wenzel Hublik is one of the […]
There is nothing new, except only that we aren’t tired to repeat for the hundred and fifty-first time : “St. Petersburg is an amazing city!” Sometimes we walk along the same streets in the center, seemingly, for an eternity and stop noticing much, getting deeper into your thoughts and worries. But it is worth at […]
To create patterns on fabrics, these endless masterpieces, a repeating ornament, to wrap it in rolls and to put on many people own art is a real fascinating task. And the beginning of the 20th century is unique in that not only the forgotten masters who remained in the shadow (as it was at other […]
