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Russian folk crafts in a new way: The unique Mstera miniature of the Molodkins dynasty
People’s craft in its various manifestations flourished for centuries in Russia, because the people’s desire for beauty was always inexhaustible. And the secrets of mastery, handed down from generation to generation, have reached our days. And today in the village of Mstera, in the Vladimir region live four artists – the father and his three sons, by the name – Molodkina. And they create a unique minster miniature, panels, icons, wall paintings of interiors, book illustrations. Each of them has their own vision, their own style, their own handwriting and their admirers.
By the way, this fishery appeared in Mstera in the XIV century. Continue reading
Painting in games
You rush headlong through the corridors with a shotgun at the ready – and do not pay attention that the blood of defeated enemies splashes on the reproduction of Vermeer, Rembrandt, Monet and Van Gogh. Oil, watercolor or pastels, frozen faces of long-dead statesmen, a set of random objects or an indescribably sad landscape – all this is not for you, not for you, not for you …
But there is a special group of players who can watch the pictures hung on the walls of virtual houses in virtual worlds for hours. Continue reading
