Texts on the history of art: painting, architecture, sculpture and the figures of each age. The same subjects we film — but in words. Each one a separate plate in a single display.
#AllQuestionsAboutArt Antiquity Test 5 questions that will make it clear that we are dealing with an antique style. 1. Is there an order? Columns, portico, pediment, entablature, and capitals are key features of classical architecture. Es…
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#AllQuestionsABoutArt The Sound of Byzantium Along with faith, Rus' received from Byzantium a whole order of church construction and decoration. It was the masters of Byzantium who brought the laws by which our church is organized to this d…
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#AllQuestionsAboutArt: The Style of Power in 10 Seconds How can you read power in columns? Architecture is power frozen in stone. And the column is its most visible symbol: by its order, you can understand how power wanted to appear. Ther…
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#AllQuestionsABoutArt Memes of Antiquity Imagine: instead of Telegram - clay tablet , instead of stories - drawing on a vase , and instead of comments - writing on the wall . The ancient Greeks and Romans made fun of gods, heroes, and the…
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Researchers believe that Salvador Dalí preferred to fall asleep in a sitting position, holding a heavy iron key or, according to other sources, placing a metal tray next to his bed and holding a spoon. When he fell asleep, his hand would re…
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#AllQuestionsABoutArt "What's the most popular work of art in the world?" someone approached me on the street with that question. The answer was obvious: "The Mona Lisa." But one question always nagged at me: where are her eyebrows? Myth:…
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#MasterpieceCode Here is an 18th century trend, romantic and at the same time scandalous – the lover's eye. It is believed that the first such eye was ordered as a sign of love by the Prince of Wales, George IV, for Maria Fitzherbert, who…
Read#MasterpieceCode Here is an 18th century trend, romantic and at the same time scandalous – the lover's eye. It is believed that the first such eye was ordered as a sign of love by the Prince of Wales, George IV, for Maria Fitzherbert, who…
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Want to develop your own taste in art? Putting it off? Don't know where to start? Try starting with us! Find #AllQuestionsABoutArt here every Friday. So, today, walking through the park, I noticed children drawing flowers and smiley faces…
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⚡️ Urgent This morning, works of art were stolen from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer on the Côte d'Azur. According to AFP and France Télévisions, at around 5:48 AM, two thieves broke into the museum and cut four paintings from their…
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#ScreenArt Welcome to Pan's Labyrinth Guillermo del Toro's film "Pan's Labyrinth" draws on the canons of traditional folk tales, where the hero must pass three trials, but in the eerie vein of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Charles Di…
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#mysteriousincredible What does flat top mean? Why did ancient civilizations on both sides of the Atlantic, unaware of each other, stubbornly stack stones in a pyramidal shape? The Egyptian pyramids are not only the smooth giants of Giza,…
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#learnaboutusartefact 🇧🇷 Lina Bo Bardi is an architect who transformed concrete and simple forms into space for people. Born in Rome, she spent most of her professional life in Brazil, where she moved after World War II. It was here that…
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Fyodor Lopukhov was one of the leading reformers of 20th-century Russian ballet, a choreographer, theorist, and teacher. Born in 1886 in St. Petersburg, he graduated from the Theatre School and headed the Mariinsky Theatre Ballet for many y…
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#onthestreets of cities Broken Glass McCartney On a London night in August 1968, Paul McCartney, inspired by a studio session, wrote the magical name "Hey Jude/Revolution" on the whitewashed windows of the closed Apple Boutique – as a publ…
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#mysteriousincredible Plots worthy of Wonderland Jacek Yerka is a Polish neo-surrealist whose paintings resemble intricate dreams, where the medieval architecture of his native Toruń is intricately intertwined with pastoral landscapes and…
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#learnaboutusartefact 🇯🇵 Taro Okamoto is a sculptor who turned art into a symbol of energy and freedom. Born in Tokyo, he grew up in an artistic family. As a young man, Okamoto traveled to France, where he studied painting and became acq…
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#OneNameSoManyDifferences The Cathedral of St. Boniface is a name associated with one of the most important missionaries of the early Middle Ages. Boniface, an 8th-century Anglo-Saxon monk, became one of the most important Christian preache…
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#ScreenArt: Staying honest in an unfair world. "Major Grom. Plague Doctor" A film about the eternal struggle between good and evil, law and banditry. The film's central theme is the debate over whether it's possible to defeat lawlessness t…
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#ScreenArt A Thirst for a New World "The Savage" is not simply a biopic about Paul Gauguin, but an almost meditative journey into his world of color, solitude, and search for freedom. Édouard Deluc presents Tahiti as a space where the arti…
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#mysteriousincredible I can't help myself Science art is a movement where art meets science, creating new images using technology and modern materials. One of the most impressive works in this field is Sun Yuan and Peng Yu's installation "…
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#ScreenArt What's Happening at the Grand Budapest Hotel A film in which exquisite form, subtle humor, and a touch of sadness combine to create a story about memory, loss, and a world inexorably changing. Wes Anderson constructs each scene…
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#mysteriousincredible What will happen to Notre-Dame de Paris? The fire of 2019 shook the world as the symbol of France began to burn. The cathedral officially opened in December 2024, with finishing work scheduled to be completed by 2030.…
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#learnaboutusartefact 🇫🇮 Hugo Simberg is the greatest representative of Finnish symbolism. Born in Finland, he received his art education in Helsinki, where he studied under the renowned Finnish artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Instead of t…
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#citystreets Architecture and its features One of the most remarkable optical illusions of modern times has appeared in central London: a building hovering in mid-air above Covent Garden. This installation, titled "Take my Lightning but Do…
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#ИскусствоСЭкрана Искусство может свести с ума, не так ли? Вернувшись к истокам истории о Ганнибале Лектере, фильм «Красный дракон» (2002) предлагает зрителю не просто рядовой триллер, а мрачный психологический детектив, где само искусство…
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#таинственноеиневероятное Портал в 4 измерение в сердце Санкт-Петербурга Мы говорим о Ротонде в доме на углу Гороховой и реки Фонтанки. Некоторые мистики считают, что Ротонда с шестью бирюзовыми колоннами, изящной чугунной лестницей и купо…
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#познаемсartefact 🇦🇺 Робин Бойд – архитектор, изменивший представление об австралийском доме. Он родился в Мельбурне в семье, тесно связанной с искусством и архитектурой. Получив профессиональное образование, Бойд быстро стал одним из ве…
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#ОткройБалет Вахтанг Чабукиани — легенда грузинского и советского балета, один из величайших танцовщиков XX века. Родился в 1910 году в Тифлисе, блистал на сцене Мариинского театра в Ленинграде и произвёл настоящую революцию в мужском танц…
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#ОдноНазваниеСколькоРазличий Церковь Святого Августина – название, которое можно встретить в самых разных уголках мира. Святой Августин Блаженный – один из величайших христианских богословов и философов, чьи труды оказали огромное влияние н…
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#познаемсartefact Джо Фафард – скульптор, прославивший повседневную жизнь в бронзе. Он родился в Канаде и получил художественное образование в Университете Манитобы, а затем продолжил обучение в Пенсильвании. Большую часть своей жизни Фафа…
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