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 […]
People seem to fear art. Art has always been a word for this thing that can’t be rationalized; when you see or hear something that you struggle to explain. But that’s its strength, of course, that’s what the word “art” is for. —Urs Fischer The conceptual work of the Swiss artist Urs Fischer, who lives […]
The last month of the autumn… I won’t write of some splin, nostalgia , of politics or virus, “that haunting the planet” and etc. let’s think positively. Let’s disperse the frown around with bright spots or graphic contrasting ones or all together and mix futuristic forms with classicism, conceptual objects with neo-Gothic. And the background for […]
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 […]
February. The time when the winter will play for a long time with us in “to leave or to stay” and the thaws will be replaced by gusts of winds, but thoughts run inexorably in the direction of spring. Plans, hopes, travels, meetings, impressions. It’s ahead, but now you can just dream about flights, […]
Paul Sontag (1987-2012) Cravingbird I 2010 oil on canvas, this very picture made me stop at the exhibition of Estonian artists in the New Tretyakov Gallery. In the dark depths of the picture there is a similarity of grids like a cage, a girl is on the foreground surrounded by people in white bird […]
Have you ever wondered what will remain after us, a trace in art, in science or in the memory of our loved ones, whether memories of our life will be handed down from generation to generation, and your things be carefully kept as a family heirloom. Whether you wanted to find freedom and happiness, […]
Mikhail Shemyakin together with the jewelry company SASONKO developed decorations and miniatures (the images of the characters of the Nutcracker ballet). They carry a certain magic, same of what the artist created for the theater. Now these jewelry can be part of the image of the wearer, bringing him/her a little magical mood […]
Any art has a deep meaning in it, even if it seems senseless and irrational to you. Art is always a message to all mankind or a particular person. It can be ironic, often veiled and not always readable, but this does not become less significant. Simply, the energy message of the creator and the […]
In honor of the 75th anniversary of the artist Mihail Chemiakin, a retrospective of his work has been opened at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (#mmoma). Ambiguous, rebellious spirit of the creator is presented at all stages of creativity from the 60-70s to the present day. A complex life and career takes several halls, […]
