ANDREY BELKOV: MEDITATING WITH A CAMERA
Photography for Andrey is a passion that takes up all his time, free from main activity. That's why he loves landscape and still life, because these genres give him the…

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The shell is a symbol in art: the blessed gift of the seas ...
Shells, melancholy collected on the shore under the gentle splashing of the waves - the main souvenir, which is usually brought from the sea. Having become more mature, we appreciate…

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ART-TALK: DIMA MIKITENKO
We continue a series of author interviews from representatives of the newly inspired team of the Odessa Art Museum: the curator Masha Zeloleva and PR-shchika Hera Grudeva. As part of…

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RUN GUNERYUSSEN: THE EASY-SURREALISTIC WORLD
The heroes of the conceptual work of the photo artist Rune Gunerjussen - furniture, electrical appliances and telephones. Lamps arrange revolutions and travel. Chairs dance, debate and admire nature. Phones…

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FANTASY AND REALITY OF JULI DE VAROKIE PHILOSOPHICAL PHOTO WORLD

She has been in the world of photography quite recently, since 2008, but in four years, Julie has already received seven different photo awards. She is only 23 years old. However, all these “only” and “recently” in combination with the French temperament and philosophical education help her create her own world, reflected in the pictures.
Julie de Varokie is a self-taught photographer from France who started her photo career in 2008. She is still a student at the French Ecole Normale Supérieure, where she received a philosophical education, and that philosophy became the main plot of her works. In her photographs, fantasies and reality intertwined, naive children’s dreams and adult conceptualism, a routine of life and fairy tales. When looking at her photographs, it seems as if you are being transferred to parallel worlds.
Julie de Varokie, self-taught photographer, how to become self-taught photographer
“I do not know where all these images come from. Probably from the books that I read in my childhood, from the sounds of sunbeams and people. But the main sources of my inspiration remain the books of Freud, the tales of Perrot and Ségur, the paintings of Magritte. ”
Photography helps Julie fix reality, while allowing her to interpret it in her own way. As a result, the images, which each of us has seen many times, acquire their own fabulous color, while retaining a deep meaning. Nostalgia, mixed with a dream, calls the viewer to happiness.
Julie has won seven awards in various competitions.
Julie admits: “I do not know where all these images come from. Probably from the books that I read in my childhood, from the sounds of sunbeams and people. But the main sources of my inspiration remain the books of Freud, the tales of Perrot and Ségur, the paintings of Magritte. <…> I try to surprise people, not a single artist wants his works to be “silent”. It should be a fairy tale, poetry in a picture, symbolism, something that will speak for itself. With the help of symbolism, I explore everything that is invisible in man – his mind, feelings, thoughts, fears. I seek to wash away where, at first glance, only absurdity and emptiness. ”
“I try to surprise people, no artist wants his works to be“ silent ”
Despite the fact that Julie de Varokie appeared in the world of photography not so long ago, her pictures were already exhibited in many galleries, became covers for books and CDs. Julie has won seven awards in various competitions, including the Talents award for Emergency Artist Award, the Nikon contest for the Promenades Photographiques de Vendôme and others.

TRANSFORMATION OF ART IN THE MODERN WORLD: NO-ART
One of the main features of modern art is the ability to change depending not only on social trends, but also on new technologies that change our world almost every…

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“THE WORLD THAT I HAVE REMOVED, DIED”
Romualdas Pozherskis - Honored Worker of Culture of Lithuania, a member of the Union of Lithuanian Photographers and the International Federation of FIAP, winner of the Alfred Toefler Award for…

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