Contemporary art is a complex phenomenon, the closer it is to us, the harder it is to understand its philosophy or lack of ideology, contemplation or the call to act, in sensuality or the dispassionate evidence of reality. We can talk a lot about “how the rapid rhythm of life and the struggle for a […]
Walking in the subconscious of the artist is a kind of adventure. To get into secret alleys, to peer on the inhabitants of those places, strange, sometimes creepy, but still beautiful, mystical, to be attracted by their inexplicable magic is an amazing journey. Remedios Varo….. the name itself sounds like a singing, like a spell […]
Masks. Masks. Masks. Even the most ordinary of them seems as something of mysterious, perhaps because thanks to them, we can become someone else, be reincarnated, protect themselves from the outside world, try yourself in the boldest personation. There is a certain magic. Probably, there isn’t a cult did not do and don’t do without […]
One could expected more from the exhibition of Kandinsky in the Russian Museum … But no, it’s not a stone in the direction of the organizers, they did an excellent exposition, real retrospective. Here are the works of different periods of his life, sources of inspiration, searches, experiments with diverse techniques, porcelain, books, poetry, his […]
Today we would like to represent new categories in our magazine about some design project or idea that makes us be astonished, excited, admired and inspired. And first of all,that we want to recount, may be not the newest idea, but one of the most original and useful thing. Created by US design company Eone, […]
«I’m always treading the line between fine art and commercial work,» artist and designer Rex Ray once said. «It’s an ongoing conversation and experiment to figure out how to balance fine art with more commercial graphic design.» Indeed, the relationship between art and design is the topic that does not have any clear opinion. And arguments about where the […]
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 […]
Nuremberg, Augsburg, Frankfurt, Antwerp, Paris, London and Barcelona were the most important centers of production and trade in jewels. Urban wizards created the true masterpieces in miniature. Many prominent artists worked on sketches of jewelry – Salviati in Italy, Durer in Germany. Even, Hans Holbein the Younger, went down in art history as the great […]
Time is the notion ephemeral. It is draining away, escaping without stopping. How we could keep it. Since antiquity people have learned how to calculate it, to watch it, to spend it, save it, feel its rhythm, to clothe it in the form and call this shell – timepieces. Mankind can not live without time […]
