Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Couples Polish artist Emilii Wilk




Polish artist Emilia Wilk graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. Great influence on the work of the artist by the work of Russian artist Ilya Repin. Her works are in many private collections.


(Background music: Berlin Radio Symphony OrchestraConductor Frank Strobel - Schnittke - Film music - The Story of an Unknown Actor - Waltz

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*** "Love sharpens the senses - hearing, touch, smell. It is this acuteness of perception explains the logical action in voice of a loved one, lover ear sensitively captures the quietest whispers rustling of dresses, the sound of footsteps. "


  
*** "Beauty, intelligence, strength, every notice. But loving eyes will open sea charm in an ordinary mole on her upper lip, in the eyebrows, or curls on his head, only a loving heart will find under the cover of the ordinary gold placers secret virtues. "


*** "Love makes our inner world richer, brighter, more receptive. Call instinct may overshadow the mind and sharpens love it. Instinct can make a person more crudely, to belittle; Love elevates and ennobles. "



  

*** "Love - the highest level of compassion, giving oneself to another person, fear not for myself - for him."


*** "Love is not only a paradise gardens. She has dark and mazes, and a dead end. Love, even without reciprocity makes people richer, cleaner. "





















Monday, December 29, 2014

With love to a woman ... Wonderful watercolor Sokolov Peter Fedorovich


 

Portrait of an unknown in a white dress (S.A.Urusovoy?).
Princess Sofia Alexandrovna Urusova (1804-1889), one of the three daughters of the chief steward of Prince A.M.Urusova.
"... The daughter of Prince Urusova three beauties, is rightly considered a decoration of Moscow society of the time" - wrote French historian Marc Runje.
In the spring of 1827 the house was often Urusovo Pushkin, who is "the beauty and kindness of young housewives acting excitatory, and he had been very cheerful, witty, talkative"

I take your hand and look at it for a long time,
You're in the sweet languor eye lift timidly:
Here in this hand - all your being,
I feel like all of you - body and soul.

I'd have to? Perhaps l be blessed?
But the rebellious angel, the whole storm and flame
Flying over the world that the death passion to destroy,
Already rushes over us!
Ivan Bunin






Portrait of Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna
Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna (1798-1860) since 1817 the wife of Grand Duke Nicholas, the future Emperor Nicholas I. She was the idol of a whole generation, many poets Pushkin's time dedicated to her his poems

Among the undoubted masterpieces is the portrait. Masterfully drawn air pearl pearl outfit of the royal family contrasts with the cold gaze of her eyes, creating a very ambiguous image.



Portrait E.P.Bakuninoy (1795 -1869)

A.P.Bakunina sister, friend of Pushkin at the Lyceum. more info



Portrait of AO Smirnova-Rosset

Alexandra Smirnova (1809-1882), born Rossetti, maid of honor two empresses - Maria Fedorovna and Alexandra, a friend of Pushkin, Gogol, Zhukovsky, Vyazemsky Aksakovs ...
Almost all the poets of Pushkin's time devoted to her poems. Gogol she first read Chapter 2 of the first volume of "Dead Souls".
Left an interesting memories of the secular, literary and spiritual life of the XIX century



Portrait of Elizabeth Vorontsova Ksaverevny


One of the masterpieces Sokolova is "Portrait E.K.Vorontsovoy." St. Petersburg's famous beauty wrote many artists, but no one has depicted her as a charming and feminine. In this portrait Sokolov reveals all the possibilities of watercolor. Volumes face it simulates small, dense mazochki, clothing writes freely transparent watercolor. The artist uses the image surface of the white paper, creating an air background using watercolor easy pouring. Portrait Vorontsova admire the perfection of filigree decoration, elegance subtle color combinations.

AS Pushkin met with Vorontsov in Odessa in September 1823.
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Portrait M.T.Pashkovoy with daughter Alexandra


Portrait of Countess A. Bobrinsk

Countess Bobrinskaya (Baroness Anna Vladimirovna Ungern-Sternberg, 1769-1846) - wife of Alex G. Bobrinsky (1762-1813), a Russian general, the founder of graphs Bobrinskys, illegitimate son of Catherine II and Prince Grigory Orlov

In 1827, because of some supposedly disrespectful comment about Bobrinsk Pushkin was almost the duel. About meetings with Bobrinsk January 25. 1834 in VS Trubeckogo and 18 December. 1834 Anichkov Palace Pushkin wrote in his diary. They met in the house of her son AA Bobrinsky



Portrait S.V.Stroganovoy

Sofia Vladimirovna Stroganoff (1775-1845) - a familiar Pushkin, daughter of the famous N.P.Golitsynoy,, maid, widow of Count Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganov (1774-1817), a pupil of Jacobin J. Romm, general, members of the Napoleonic Wars, one of the educated Nation women of his era. Her Petersburg salon and art gallery (now Nevsky pr., D. 17) attended by representatives of the highest nobility, writers and, presumably, Pushkin.



Portrait of OP Fersen



Portrait P.N.Ryuminoy (1821-1897)
Praskovya Nikolaevna Rumin, Velyasheva in marriage the daughter of a privy councilor, chamberlain of the Imperial court N.G.Ryumina. Portrait ordered for the wedding.
V.A.Sollogub wrote that the groom "is obligated to the most ridiculous extravagance ... Are coming indispensable gifts. Portrait, painted Sokolov, bracelet sensitive, Turkish shawl ... "



Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna.

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Wondrous eyes so clean ... ~ Women's portraits by different artists




Wondrous eyes so clean,
In curls deceptiveness movements.
Sadness artist dropped shadow
Timidly fades from the canvas.

Outside the window softly melts evening
Room transparent and empty.
On chestnuts blaze candles.
Sadness, crying at the artist canvas.

"There is no such palette in the universe" -
Whispered suddenly his mouth -
"The image of thy truth, incorruptible,
Not fit in the canvas callousness. "

Night came, silent and diligent,
Preserving the peace and quiet.
Sadness artist recalls fondly,
Wondrous eyes so deep ...

Their uspokoŠnnost and bliss.
Can only be under the sun it?
Wondrous eyes so clean ...
And elusive perfection.








Thursday, December 25, 2014

EDGAR DEGA.Eskizy pencil or pastel on paper





In the 1870s, Degas became interested in working in pastels, which allows not only the transfer form to the main line, stroke, contour, with only a few tones tint pattern, but also to create complex real painting colors. Degas liked to claim that pastels made him "colorist by line." This technique is ideally suited to the artist who prefers the color line. His free, bold style drawing of broken strokes, sometimes leaving the show through the pastel tone paper or adding oil or watercolor brush strokes, to develop over the years, captivated many painters. Our invention, the experimenter is softening pastels steam, after which it could shade with a brush or your fingers. Degas wrote using this technique fabric of very large size, a lot more has ever produced before him, sometimes stitching for this several sheets together to got the desired surface. But in the days of the first Impressionist exhibition of his views and aspirations were not supported by colleagues who pursued only for the color. "I always tried to encourage my colleagues to pay more attention to the new ways in the drawing that I admire more fruitful field of activity than the area of color. But they did not listen to my advice and chose a different path "- recalled Degas in his diary.