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On 15 October the Tretyakov Gallery will screen Giovanni Troilo's documentary "Frida. Viva la Vida", which reaches general release on 20 October. Before the screening, Tatyana Pigareva, head of the cultural department of the Instituto Cervantes in, will give a lecture on Frida Kahlo, her ties
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Save it as your phone wallpaper. “Pissing Death” or “Death at the Water” by Max Klinger, the founder of the gloomy school of graphic art and a neoclassicist, 1880, Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig.
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Self-portrait of Carel Fabritius, founder of the Delft school of painting, killed on this day in 1654 in the monstrous explosion of the gunpowder magazine at Delft, where he had settled four years before his death. The artist lived to be only 32, yet managed to win renown as
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If loyalty, then canine. So vivid a characterisation that the subject of a dog lying at its master's grave needs no explanation. A little-known painting by the animalier Alfred de Dreux, 1850, acquired by the Louvre in 2001.
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Paul Cadmus's painting "Jerry" is probably the first painted image of Joyce's "Ulysses", which was at that time banned in the United States. The portrait of the artist Jared French (1905-1988), by his lover Paul Cadmus (1904-1999), was painted during
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Hypertrophied sexuality, a homoeroticism that pervades every sphere of life, drunken revels, debauchery, primitive amusements, a satirical view of the vices of society, the new America in all its colours: all this found expression in the work of Paul Cadmus, who painted in egg tempera, inspired by the Italian Renaissance.
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In the 1930s a scandal broke out in the USA over the depiction of sailors in Paul Cadmus's painting The Fleet's In. It became the subject of official proceedings after the retired Admiral Hugh Rodman found the canvas, with its drunken and carousing sailors, insulting to
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Among the interesting exhibitions currently on, I would visit "Avant-Garde. By Cart into the 21st Century" in Yekaterinburg. It is a joint project of the Yeltsin Centre and the "Encyclopaedia of the Russian Avant-Garde", devoted to displays of contemporary art in the provincial towns
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Went to the Photobiennale 2020 at MAMM, sharing my photographic impressions. Photographs of photographs are a genre of their own, and one that, I think, would be far more successful were it not for the glass between the viewer and the object of art. The first thing you see on
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Kolomna's Streets in Faces and Fables: a most agreeable piece of street art in the historic centre of Kolomna. A note for the negligent devotees of Sobyanin
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