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Alexandr Radayev
Art · Observations
Arman Pierre Fernandez, a Founder of New Realism, and His “La Fenice III”
How do you like this little fiddle, "La Fenice III " by the French-American artist Arman Pierre Fernandez? Arman was one of the founders of Nouveau Réalisme, the very artist who built a tower of 60 concreted cars not far from Le Perche. He often used ordinary household
Books · Observations
Beware of Things!
Beware of things! They enslave us very quickly and very firmly! So warns his interlocutor Ebenezer Sidney, the hero of Alexander Grin's novella "The Grey Motor-Car", as he reflects on the degree to which mechanical objects (or creatures) may be endowed with life. I recalled
Aristocracy · Art · Monarchies · Ethnography · Humour
Leopold I in ceremonial dress and a gigantic headdress of white plumes, crowned with a peacock: a sign of good news
Prince Gundaker of Liechtenstein with a sail of black feathers on his head: a bad omen
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In the 1960s Tove Jansson illustrated the Finnish and Swedish editions of The Hobbit, and the result was some of the least canonical drawings ever made for Tolkien's universe
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Museum gallery with costumed mannequins and a dragon on a rock
Architecture · Geography · Cinema · Museums
Orava Castle in Slovakia, where “Nosferatu” was filmed, and its film media library
Orava Castle is a medieval fortress in Slovakia, perched on a 112-metre rock above the River Orava. It was here that the 1922 film "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror" was shot. True, in the plot the castle stands in Romania. In 2015, in the castle, where a
NB! · Faith · Art
Saint Mary of Egypt as a Recluse, Boetius Adams Bolswert, after Abraham Bloemaert, c. 1619
Art · Humour
We Have Van Gogh at Home
Van Gogh at home: “Lenin and Krupskaya”, Viktor Andreyevich Pozdnov, 1969
Paris · People · Pop Culture
Elegance is the right combination of distinction, naturalness and simplicity
Christian Dior
Books · People
We are forever passing through the thresholds of initiation
We are forever passing through the thresholds of initiation. Every accident, every incident, every joy and every suffering is an initiation. And reading a beautiful book, or beholding a great landscape, may also be an initiation The French writer Marguerite Yourcenar
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