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Surrealists in Paris in 1933: Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard, André Breton, Jean Arp, Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, René Crevel and Man Ray. Tristan Tzara was a poet and a founder of Dadaism. In early 1930, together with Francis Ponge and Paul Nougé, he supported the first issue of
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The second part of the exhibition project "Belyayevo — Izmaylovo. Nonconformism from the Q-ART Collection", entitled "Green Light for the Underground", has opened at Q-ART Gallery. It is dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the exhibition of nonconformist artists in Izmaylovo Park, held two weeks
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Johann Tischbein is known largely for having painted portraits of his friend Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Before us is one of the most famous portraits of Goethe, by Tischbein himself. The thinker, in the pose of an ancient Roman, has settled on a ruined Egyptian obelisk beneath an ivory-coloured plaid,
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Few people know it, but Émile Zola was a keen photographer. He devoted the last years of his life to this pursuit, creating thousands of remarkable pictures which unquestionably deserve attention as early monuments of the photographic art. Last year the French seaside town of Royan held a large exhibition
The East · Art · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
In Saint Petersburg, the restoration of the celebrated sphinxes by the Egyptian Bridge, which has dragged on for almost three years, is nearing completion. The second stage of the work has brought back the sculptures’ historical colouring. At the start of the first stage of restoration, in the spring of
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Note the appearance of Moscow's fortress walls, more reminiscent of the Western European Middle Ages, in the anonymous French engraving "The French Entering Moscow". I am especially fond of the drawbridge beside the Kremlin
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Nicolas Poussin's "The Shepherds of Arcadia" (1637–38) in an advertisement for Lolita Lempicka's men's fragrance. The first thought on seeing this dreadful advertisement: did the collaboration bring the Louvre, which houses Poussin's immortal canvas, enough money to acquire for
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Подруги милые! в беспечности игривой Под плясовой напев вы резвитесь в лугах. И я, как вы, жила в Аркадии счастливой, И я, на утре дней, в сих рощах и лугах Минутны радости вкусила: Любовь в мечтах златых мне счастие сулила: Но что ж досталось мне в сих радостных местах? — Могила!
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The Substance of Coralie Fargeat, 2024. and The emergence of the substance of Andrey Borisovich Grositsky, 1997.
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I know nothing about this magazine, except that its cover shows a Leningrad Porcelain Factory figurine, "Fire Horse", with its legs chipped off in exactly the same way as on an identical statuette I threw away a couple of years ago. Can such coincidences happen, or has the