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Léon Bakst painted this portrait of Vaslav Nijinsky on the beach at the Lido in Venice in 1909.
Dmitry Zhilinsky often manifested his creative aspirations in portraiture. One of the idiosyncrasies of his art was his habit of depicting in the concrete not the fleeting, but the most important ele...
1 января 1970 года, к столетию со дня рождения вождя мирового пролетариата, в СССР выпущена серия почтовых марок. На одной из них (Michel № 3726) фантастический рисунок, а справа от него приведена со...
Timur Novikov often painted urbanscapes of Leningrad in his early period and this haunting image of the River Moika is filled wiith profound and poetic feelings. The uninhabited canal is seen through...
Timur Novikov often painted urbanscapes of Leningrad in his early period and this haunting image of the River Fontanka is filled wiith profound and poetic feelings. The uninhabited canal is seen thro...
Banquet of Kings was painted one year before the outbreak of the First World War and many contemporaries regarded it as a form of prophecy or a frightening vision of the Apocalypse. Submerged in twil...
This canvas belongs to a cycle of twenty-two works painted before the revolution by Pavel Filonov entitled Entry into World Prosperity . The artist created a series of anti-urbanist pictures reflecti...
Pavel Filonov had a pantheistic relationship with the world. He believed that the animal and human worlds were once indivisible, when man and beast lived in harmonic unity. The artist regarded human ...
Pavel Filonov ’s reflections on the malevolent influence of the city on the life of human beings were always present in his art. They were sometimes expressed in such metaphorical compositions as thi...
This painting belongs to a cycle of approximately twenty-two pictures by Pavel Filonov known as the Chant of the Universal Blooming series. This was the artist’s vision of the restoration of harmony ...