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Magic in a box with pencils: Anna Yvonne Gilbert’s fabulous illustrations
Beautiful princesses and mysterious princes, Santa Claus and his wife, horses with flowing manes, swans in golden crowns … and all this – with colored pencils! In this cozy, sophisticated and sometimes creepy world invites lovers of fairy tales artist Anna Yvonne Gilbert.
Anna Yvonne Gilbert was born in 1951. The artist’s childhood passed in foggy Northumberland, and, as you know, Great Britain presented the world with many brilliant artists who create their own worlds! Recall Beatrice Potter or Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale … Anna Yvonne Gilbert is in their lineup. Continue reading
Pablo Picasso and his victims: An artist who could not love, but he artistically loved to torment
According to the accepted ideas, women need an artist to inspire: with her beauty, with a word of support, simply with the support of the rear. But the famous painter Pablo Picasso was looking for inspiration in completely different things. If a woman became a muse to him, one could immediately say that she was not lucky.
Here are two artist’s confessions, which immediately shed light on the properties of his nature and on his relationship to his “muses”. “I think I will die, never loving anyone,” he confessed once, and in another he said: “Every time I change a woman, I have to burn the one that was last. So I get rid of them. Continue reading
Riddles of the Tretyakov Gallery: What secrets hide paintings of Kramskoy and Vrubel
The unique collection of the museum has more than 180 thousand works of Russian art from different eras and styles. And behind each masterpiece of the Tretyakov Gallery is its own history, the study of which is like an exciting detective story. However, detectives, too, did not avoid the paintings from the museum. What role did Italian policemen play in the life of the gallery, why did Ivan Kramskoy cut the last lifetime portrait of Nikolay Nekrasov into pieces and how was Vrubel’s forever lost work?
Theft in Genoa
In 1991, the exhibition of the Tretyakov Gallery “Russian Art of the Time of Alexander II” was exhibited in Genoa. Continue reading