Abstract geometric painting with vertical and diagonal bands of yellow, green, black and red on a white gallery wall.

Art · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages

“Yesterday, Today, Always” exhibition brings together gallery artists for its first anniversary

It was a great pleasure to mark the fifth anniversary of Alina Pinskaya's gallery in the company of works by Vladimir Andreyenkov (first photo) and Igor Shelkovsky (the remaining three), dreamily picturing them in my own collection. Andreyenkov, incidentally, paid his respects in person. The exhibition "Yesterday,

Art · Monarchies · Observations · Humour

In reality, this is exactly the expression kings wear

Thanks are due to the sixteenth-century Flemish artist Cornelis Massys for capturing the loathsome Henry VIII

Painting of a half-naked red-haired woman raising a mirror as she climbs from a well, while two men in dark and patterned clothes hold her by her garment.

NB! · Art · Museums · Society · Paris

Édouard Debat-Ponsan's painting of Truth, shown at the 1898 Salon in support of Dreyfus

“Truth Coming Out of Her Well”, where a soldier and a prelate would like to hide her. Édouard Debat-Ponsan. The painting was shown at the Salon of 1898, and the artist offered the canvas to Émile Zola in support of Captain Dreyfus

Architecture · Faith · Art · Heritage

Leonardo's fresco “The Last Supper” survived the bombing of a Milan monastery in 1943

Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper" miraculously survived the Anglo-American bombing of the Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan in August 1943. The bombs tore through the roof of the refectory that houses da Vinci's fresco. Fortunately, three walls remained standing,

Black-and-white photo: in a tall window framed by columns and a shell-topped pediment stands a marble sculpture of two embracing figures. A balustrade runs along the bottom.

NB! · Art · Rome

Rome: sculpted pair in a window, photograph by Elliott Erwitt, 1996

Rome. Elliott Erwitt, 1996

A teddy bear on a stand inside a wooden display case with white walls, with a Sortie Exit sign and arrow on the left.

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Bertrand Lavier's teddy bear as an example of contemporary art

Contemporary art comes in this kind too. Teddy bear. Bertrand Lavier

Architecture · Art · Museums · Paris

Auguste Rodin worked for 37 years on “The Gates of Hell”, commissioned in 1880

In 1880 Rodin was commissioned to make the entrance portal for the Museum of Decorative Arts, planned for Paris on the site of the burnt-out Palais d'Orsay. But Rodin failed to finish the work on time and returned the advance. The museum, however, had no need of

Art · Mores · Paris · People

The Blue Room, 1923

The Blue Room, 1923. Suzanne Valadon. Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) was the first woman admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. She fed her cats caviar, kept a goat in her studio, ate her failed paintings, and married a friend of her son.

Coming Up · Art · Moscow

Exhibition of previously unshown paintings on paper by Yury Zlotnikov from three series

From 12 April to 19 May the pop/off/art gallery at Winzavod will host an exhibition of Yuri Zlotnikov. Yuri Savelyevich Zlotnikov (1930-2016) was the creator of a unique abstract painting that crossed the achievements of the avant-garde with the scientific and technical aesthetics of the post-

Two skeletons in military tunics, one wearing a fur hat, pull at a smoked herring against a pink and blue sky, signed Ensor.

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Belgian artist James Ensor and the skeletons in his paintings

Skeletons fighting over a smoked herring and over a hanged man, skeletons admiring chinoiserie, skeletons warming themselves, and skeletons painting pictures. Meet the Belgian artist James Ensor (1860-1949)

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Impromptu, Frank Leopold, 2015

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The White Cat

The White Cat. Pierre Bonnard