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Strongly inspired by the Russian artistic movements of the 15th, 17th and 18th centuries, as well as in the painting of medieval icons, Andrey Remnev’s paintings are ostentatious and oddly hypnotic interpretations.
He wasborn and raised in Yachroma, near Moscow, in 1962. He has always been attracted to nature, people, cities and landscapes. Despite referring to medieval painting, Andrey’s works have a subtle and contemporary touch through the most surreal elements that it includes. Many of his paintings focus on women, elegantly dressed, but with wise looks that add mystery and power to their delicately painted figures.
Andrey carries his further influences by emulating old Renaissance recipes using his own handmade colors with natural pigments mixed with egg yolk. The result gives an intoxicating richness and depth to his works.
These paintings remind me both of Gustav Klimt in their use of gold and in their subject matter of the Newlyn Painter, Thomas Cooper Gotch.
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Fascinating muscular realism -even naturalism portraying the rapid growth of New York.
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UMBERTO BOCCIONI
Like the work but don’t agree with the underlying politics-yesterday’s vote distinctly worrying in Italy!
Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916).
Below: Sculpture destroyed.
Below: Sculpture destroyed.
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KALININGRAD
Perhaps best known for its being the home of Immanuel Kant, the great Enlightenment philosopher whose walks around the city were so regular that it was said citizens could set their watches by the regularity of his perambulations!
Kaliningrad Oblast is a federal state of the Russian Federation that is located on the coast of the Baltic Sea and has the city of Kaliningrad as its administrative center.
Until 1945, Kaliningrad was known as Königsberg, the former capital of East Prussia, but after its World War II victory over Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union annexed the city and the surrounding area.
Kaliningrad’s ultimate strategic value to Russia is that it functions as a warm-water port as well as a staging area for military exercises. Russia has held frequent exercises in the region and Moscow has often threatened to place nuclear weapons in Kaliningrad, which borders multiple NATO states.
Strange, isn’t it?
Paintings on show in the Tate, St Ives
Just recently, a dear friend of mine said to me that Jews always travel with the Holocaust in their suitcase, which is why, I think, I understand what Goldie Goldbloom is trying to do in her most recent novel, Gwen. It’s a fictionalisation of the complicated life of Gwen Johns, (1876-1939) the Welsh artist overshadowed by her flamboyant brother Augustus John, and the novel is set mostly in Paris at the turn of the twentieth century. But there are some surreal elements of the novel that will baffle readers unless they know something of the dark history of Paris under the Nazis.
These days, Paris has marketed itself as the city of love, and tourists flock there in droves to enjoy its light-hearted ambience. I’ve done that too, and will again, I hope. But I’ve never forgotten the shock of seeing this plaque on a wall in…
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I am finding this an excellent read and an interesting and moving cultural experience. Having just seen “Ladybird” which moved me to both tears and laughter, this story is broadly a similar coming of age story. I suppose it could be termed a Bildungsroman but that is a weighty term for the evocative and indeed provocative text which is ideal for someone wanting to learn German. Essentially it is a prose poem in German about a 13 year old girl coming from Poland to Coventry.
Utz is also a brilliant novel by Bruce Cushion-Iwell worth reading. These drawings reminded me of the portrait of Mahler conducting that is in the Belvedere in Vienna. There is another also in NPG in London of the great Jazz vocalist -George Melly by Maggie Hambling-worth viewing both!
Wann wird heute die Hand als Ausdrucksmittel elegant eingesetzt? Wann ist sie Charaktermittel und unterstreicht die Persönlichkeit?
Ich hatte mir vorgenommen, Utz für seinen Musikerkalender 2019 eine Zeichnung von einem Dirigenten zur Verfügung zu stellen. Der Dirigent an sich fasziniert mich schon immer. Er macht lautlos mit den Händen Musik. Er koordiniert und hat das absolute Gehör. Immer wieder zeichne ich beim Besuch von Konzerten neben den Musikern die Dirigenten.
Utz’ Kalender ist so aufgebaut, dass eine bestimmte Person dargestellt werden sollte, also suchte ich mir Karajan aus. Ich stellte aber schon beim Zeichnen fest, dass es nicht so einfach für mich war, Karajan darzustellen.
Also hörte ich mir auf youtube Beethovens Symphony No. 5 von Karajan in der Berliner Philharmoni (siehe und höre hier) an und zeichnete dabei. So sind die Skizzen entstanden.
Danach wollte ich die Energie des Gehörten in eine Zeichnung fliessen lassen und malte…
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UNREADY IN BERLIN
Lovely to sit in the Backerei and read these papers and the Film Review Zeitschrift as well!
According to Karl Scheffler – and what must be the most often used Berlin quotation ever – Germany’s capital is “dazu verdammt, immerfort zu werden und niemals zu sein” (cursed never to be and forever to become).
Scheffler famously voiced this opinion in his 1910 book “Berlin- ein Stadtschicksal” and it was by no means meant as praise. Like the rest of the book, it reflected the paradox of the author’s relationship with the city. He loved it and he hated it at once. One could say, a conundrum faced by every Berliner before or after Scheffler.
Probably never before was Berlin’s typically unfinished, unready condition more visible than today. Modern digital technologies allow people like us to follow its permanent state of flux almost in real time broadcast. And never are those changes as striking as when you compare images from only a short while ago with…
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Ginger Tea
During previous visits to Amsterdam I’ve always liked the way they make mint tea with fresh sprigs of mint rather than a tea bag. This time a new discovery – ginger tea made with slices of root ginger in hot water with a little honey to add according to taste. Delicious – even though it might have looked like somebody had put slices of raw potato into the glass!
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