Pleated fabric. Draperies as a symbol in art
Folded fabric as a visual code accumulates a powerful expressive power. Since the beginnings of classical sculpture, drapery has been a powerful visual tool. In the Middle Ages, it appeared…

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SVETLANA POZHARSKAYA: MASTER OF SPIRAL PHOTO
Svetlana Pozharskaya has always been attracted to art, and to art, not large-scale and official, but to her own, personal, sincere. As a child, she literally fell in love with…

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Rococo - gloss of the XVIII century
Rococo is called the most frivolous and thoughtless of all styles in art. Why then is rococo so significant for Russian visual culture? Why does the definition of the word…

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Alexandra Exter: Amazon, carried away by the whirlwind of the revolution
Malevich, "inventing" Suprematism, did not let anyone into the workshop. The only exception was the avant-garde artist Alexandra Exter. Once a resident of Kiev, having moved to France, she taught…

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“WITHOUT PAIN IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CREATE ANYTHING DEEP”

Zewar Fadhil is a talented photographer from Iraq, a country that in recent decades is not the best place for a photo artist. Nevertheless, he is an example of the fact that photography does not recognize restrictions.
Fadhil himself assures that with his creativity only shows what his inner voice, inspiration and dreams say. In his works you can see the huge and seemingly empty world of an endless city, which the author travels alone.
The photographer tells about the beginning of his career as follows: “I turned to photography as a child. My grandmother had a pretty decent library of books on philosophy and art and travel magazines. I spent a lot of time studying all this. Continue reading

LIGHT AND SHADE MARIA’S SPARROW

Both in painting and photography one of the most difficult genres is still life. The author here has to deal with a closed space, a relatively poor set of expressive means, the absence of explicit dynamics in the plot. In the genre of still life, finds are rarely found, even less often – discoveries. The more valuable every luck. One of them is still lifes of photographer Maria Vorobyeva, who managed to find a new approach to this classic genre. Continue reading

PORTRAITS as a mirror of the soul
Portrait is a realistic genre depicting a person or a group of people existing in reality. The portrait - in French reading - portrait, from the old French portraire -…

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“RUKOGRAFIKA”: THE PHILOSOPHICAL PROJECT OF STANISLAVA ARISTOV
The new project of photographer Stanislav Aristov is dedicated to hand language. What is it - the author ponders: an image folded by hand? Drawings on the wall of eternity,…

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