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Salvador Dalí at Cap de Creus in Catalonia
Faith · Art
Christ of Saint John of the Cross
Salvador Dalí, 1952
Faith · The East · Art · Books
Pyotr Vyazemsky’s poem to Alexander Ivanov on “The Appearance of Christ to the People”
I have seen the ancient Jordan. Full of holy love and fear, Into its gospel waves, The font of baptism of Christians, I plunged three times, Praying that my soul too Might be washed, graciously, by the wave Of the sores and stains of existence. Literal translation Of those thoughts,
Art
A Staircase at Capri, John Singer Sargent
📖 Parnassian Mockingbird
Art · Observations · People
A wheat field painted by Van Gogh in the summer of 1888, when he left Paris and set off for Arles
Sometimes we all need to go to Arles
NB! · Archive · Art · Nature
A Drawing of an Elephant, 1550
Coming Up · Art · Observations
June issue of RBC Style comes with a Lev Povzner cover and launches the RBC Visionaries project
I do so love the tradition of RBC Style appearing in print with art covers conceived and realised together with contemporary artists. In this issue the series continues with a painting by Lev Povzner, a visionary painter and a master of setting riddles and seeking answers to them. RBC marks
Art · Mores · Society
Presidential portraits in the Oval Office and Trump's choice of Andrew Jackson
There is a tradition in the USA of presidents staging a demonstrative dialogue with their predecessors by invoking their historical images or the trends characteristic of their era. Every new president rearranges the Oval Office and adds a few details, down to changing the colour of the carpet, but chiefly,
NB! · Art · Observations · Paris · People
French Post-Impressionist Édouard Vuillard becomes the author's new favourite artist
I officially have a new favourite artist. Allow me to introduce the French Post-Impressionist Édouard Vuillard (1868−1940)
Art · Mores · Humour
A young man in very strange breeches points at his unfaithful sweetheart in the company of another man
Czech engraver Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646
Art · Observations · People
Painting after the Ovruch cathedral frescoes, set beside Matisse's “Dance” and Ivanov's study
Boys at Play, Kuzma Sergeyevich Petrov-Vodkin, 1911. Dedicated to the memory of Mikhail Vrubel and Valentin Serov. The painting was made after the frescoes for the Cathedral of St Basil of the Golden Roof in Ovruch, among which was the biblical subject of Cain and Abel. Note the stone